By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group
Remember, the relevant answers are received only at the time when we ask relevant questions.
So, let’s make our list as follows (or whatever format you like).
The information about you that you know and people also know
| Question | Positive | Negative |
| Liking | What do I more like. | What do I more dislike. |
| Happiness | Under what circumstances am I very happy? | Under what circumstances am I very depressed? |
| Energy / enthusiasm | Under what circumstances do I get many energy and enthusiasm? | Under what circumstances do I get very frustration or despair? |
| Interest | Which tasks are very enjoyable and do not experience fatigue | Which work involves extreme dislike and tiredness |
| Relation | Personal involvement with all relations, friends and colleagues and enjoy new relationships | No interest in relationships with friends and colleagues, and even new relations. |
| point of view | Repairs are necessary in life | No necessity of repairing in life |
| Learning | Nobody is perfect and everything is going to learn | Know everything and there is no need to learn anything new |
| Fear | Fear is only a sign of ignorance and it can be eliminated | Fear is the natural element of our personality and it can never be eliminated |
So far, we did not ask these questions to ourselves that what are those weaknesses or demerits within us which have become obstacles in the path of success. Remember, the relevant answers are received only at the time when we ask relevant questions. It is similar to the process of self-examination neutrally. The above questions are just examples. Each person’s qualities and abilities are different then the questions for each person will also be different.
The only thing is to say that we are underlining our weaknesses which we know and after they are underlined, you will find that there is a negative or a group of negative thoughts is behind each of your weaknesses. Then the rest is very simple – when we recognize our enemy, we have to have freedom from it, and its simplest solution is to assimilate more and more positive thoughts. Initially, this process may be appeared to be very complex, but through continuous practice, you can get rid of your well-known negative thoughts forever.
This process was adopted by one of my acquaintances Manuj Mukherjee, and he prepared a list of his well-known demerits and weaknesses. On the top of the list, there was a lack of concentration or brain-centricity. He could never have been interested in any work for a long time and used to make new beginnings in almost every field of life, and the result was that when he had to just get water out of his hand pumps, he would leave operate it and used to complain of having no water in said hand pump.
He had left many jobs in the past few years and even tried to do some small businesses, in which he could only get a loss. His weakness also showed the lack of confidence. When he recognized his weakness well enough, I had just told him – “The lack of confidence tells us that we do not have enough information about the area in which we are working, and this lack of information has created a fear inside us and our dislike tells us that the area in which we are working, is not in the field of our talent.
Firstly on the basis of this list, through the first four positive questions, he identified the field of his talent which was ‘teaching’ and then, with studied more and got him updated all the techniques developed in this field and finally, he started a “training / coaching institute” in just three months on a rental place and only in three years, his Institute not only became very popular in the city, but now he has purchased an entire floor himself in a commercial building, and at his institute, about seven to eight teachers are working on the basis of salary. Today, he takes full interest in that area, and he is earning more money and honor than his imagination. Keep in mind- your fears always push you back but if you push your fear back once, they will end forever.
Tarun Prakash Srivastava
The writer is the author of book ‘Science of Money’ available on Amazon.com in English at http://bit.ly/Science-Of-Money
