Introduction: Have you ever looked within? Have you realised your mistakes in time. If you want to be an officer develop this essential quality which could lead to success in life. Start introspecting.
Part 1
Introspection should be one’s own way to know where a person is good, what all works for him and what all is needed to lead the world. Looking within gives a sense of satisfaction for whatever you have done and gives the real image of your personality. No one except you knows much better about you. It is rightly said that “you are the best judge to yourself”. But then why people look outside asking others to point out on them and tell if they were wrong. It is so because this makes their task easy as they don’t want to know their faults to the extent that they need to improvise on, but in this process they forget that this could bring about a change in them and they will become better in every bit. People are afraid of peeping inside their life but enjoy knowing the faults of others and make and spreading stories of others life. They don’t introspect their lives. We need to have it in us and this is utmost requirement in the Indian youth else they will also become the part of the culture and start doing what their earlier generations were enjoying. We need to learn that if we realise that we are wrong we should accept it internally and find ways to improve our mistake instead of ignoring it and later crying for doing so. The present scenario makes me write this article where a party who was ruling for last ten years was thrown out because of the lack of this quality. They were enjoying their positions and power and had forgotten that they are responsible for something. They had forgotten that with power and position comes responsibility. And now after losing everything they are calling meetings daily for doing the same thing which they missed out early. This quality has such power that we people ignore else few of our mates might have never thought of not going to SSB as they lose hope. I would suggest even if you are not selected don’t you feel spending five days is worth it. Anyway the person who loses at SSB and comes out after five day battle is a changed personality. But yes we feel all sorts of things that the board was tough, we did well but the person who made mistakes was selected but forget to introspect which is a blunder for a youth who aspires to be a defence personnel. How to do it … simple look within and have the courage to realise your mistakes else you will also feel you were never wrong but the conditions were not in favour. The board panel at SSB is so experienced that the blink of their eye is sufficient to judge people like us. So never ignore and always try to mend your mistakes in time else crying and losing out is the only way left to walk. Get up and introspect.
Part 2
Introduction: Do you feel the energy within you which boosts you to move ahead in life? Do you have the energy that makes other run for their goals even if they are not willing to do so .If yes you are on the right track to pursue your goal and help others achieve their? In this second part I will tell you the secret to excel in life. Clearing SSB might be a dream for the aspirants but if you have this quality, you will always achieve whatever you want in life. This special quality is Motivational ability. Motivation is the inner energy to perform any task. It is a sense of positive vibration that a person feels and these vibrations generate positive energy that forces you to move ahead. Not only you but the people that come in touch with you, this quality of yours will transform them and might generate positive vibrations in other person’s body too. Motivation is the constant source of inner energy, which should never die in you. Inner strength generation, inner power and satisfaction is the bi – product of this quality. If you have this quality you can never go wrong and think negative. Motivated people are always happy and carry smile on their faces .They have an easy solution of the toughest problems of their lives, and they are always ready to help others. They are seen as socialable by others because they are known to be extroverts and want to socialise with others. They are constant source of ideas and want people to benefit from them. They can never think wrong for anyone and feel happy if their friends, relatives and others do well. Jealousy keeps a distance from these people, and they are source of smile for all.
So do you have the inner fire to perform, the zeal to achieve your goals. Do you have the power to charge other who have lost their path and have been deviated by the negative forces? If yes you have this quality which is a desired one for defence aspirants because you will be in the field where life shows the toughest colours and our soldiers have to face it. There are extreme situations where one has to survive. You need to have the zeal else you might run off the field anytime. You need to feel motivated and motivate others. Be it your juniors or seniors each one standing in the field can rest upon the other one because you will have no one else to bank upon. You all will form the family and you have to only take care of each one. Though the tough training at you dream station after being recommended will teach you all this but still you need to show to the panel members at SSB that you have the spark of this quality which can be ignited later during training. Because it’s not easy to be the part of defence life, you need to be filled with ‘n’ number of qualities to withstand that status and live the officer life.
Part 3
Experts say failure is integral part of life. Life doesn’t seem to be moving if failure does not touch you. It is necessary to avoid life stagnation. But does life end there. Do we need to leave all things because of failure? Should we leave all hopes and leave dreaming. If we do not get success should be not try again. Failure is a simple part of life where we do not get the desired results. This is the simple definition where hope word is not there. We should not leave hope of winning, we should constantly desire for achieving our goals, dream badly seeing what we want to achieve then only it could be converted in reality. Getting back to the right track after getting taste of failure just requires a bit of courage, because there will be people who will try to close all doors for you, but there will be few who will be constantly motivating you to move ahead and achieve our desired state. Failure is the best time for a person according to me because it gives the real picture of who are your closed ones, who are your real friends and who thinks good for you. Apart from all this you get to know about your flaws and could improve your personality. No one is perfect in this world. You have to constantly evolve from the difficulties and learn a lot. Learning is a constant process which begins when one is born. So what’s bad in getting failure? Simple welcome it in your life but remember to learn from what went wrong so that the same mistake is not replicated later in life. Learning from mistakes is a bit difficult, because the body flow of liquids is disturbed in this stage. We need to be controlling all this. Always have a habit of sharing things and thoughts with someone special, so that you have nothing left in your mind and heart .Eject the bad thought s that house in your heart. You will feel light. Involve physical work and maintain your fitness. A perfect body is definitely a house for perfect heart and brain functioning.
So get ready to fail and retard from it because failure is good.
Part 4
There are numerous situations in life where you have to take control of different people along with yourself. I am not talking of parenting or taking care of dependents. I am talking of taking responsibilities of those who are not related to you anyhow. Who are not having any blood relation nor share anything with you. Today’s era is the era where working in isolation is not possible. Though it’s an era of nuclear families on one hand but when the same person goes to the organisation he tends to be with people, he works a s a team member. The irrelevance of thought is that a person cannot entertain his family members but is ready to work along with people not related in blood. But this is the need of time. All organisations prefer people having quality of team work. You should have this quality if you are a defence aspirant. I know you will shout loud that I have the quality of finishing all work alone but when you are surrounded by lot of people or say enemies, will you be able to handle the situation. Will you not ask for help? Or take other situation where people are between gherao and you are asked to go and solve the situation. I know you will utilise you intelligence, but you are performing a team work activity. Working in teams always makes the work easy and it helps bringing out quality work from the individual. Team work is the quality where you have to gel along with people. Helping in team, helping people , utilising your capability , to solve the problem of others while utilising your knowledge for the benefit for others. Though you will ask at the end that will get the credit. How will I claim that I am efficient enough to handle the situation? Don’t worry; you will get the due credit. And there are lot of other things to prove your mettle. Anyways start doing welfare of others and see the magic how people are ready to help you in adverse situation. So do or die and get everyone to your side!!! Beware you will always be benefitted by this quality as people will always be ready to help you and would love to be at your side.
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Jayendra Singh, Editorial TeamJayendra is pursuing MBA from IIM Ranchi and is a die heart counsellor for defence aspirants. He was recommended in the first attempt for Indian navy UES entry and is willing to help aspirants to make use of his experience in this field.
