All of us at some point:
- Heard a great advices from friends & relatives
- Read inspirational or self help books
- Listened to some motivational talk
It gave you a mental high for few days and then the excitement slowly
vanished. Has this happened to you?
Did you dismiss such incidence saying, well that was too ideal hence I
could not implement it in my life. That was impractical in real world and hence
dropped it. Yet internally, some where you felt you should had have given it
shot or tried to hold on to it for little longer. But yet there was this
mysterious force preventing you from doing that.
Why does this happen and happens repeatedly? Have you
thought about it?
I know, it’s brings up some painful memories. It’s
disturbing. So, forget about it for a moment.
Now think of your most favorite dish. The memories of which
makes your mouth water. Now try to
imagine how it was prepared. While preparing recipe for that dish, different
ingredients were mixed in right order and right proportions. That’s when you
get the delicious and mouth-watering dish.
Just imagine what would happen if you added only salt to
your favorite dish because some one told you salt gives the great taste. It’s
not very hard to imagine that dish would be ruined. At the same time its true
that salt does provide a great taste.
Life also needs to be lived like recipe, mixing different advices
and what we learn from others in different proportions matching our taste. Finding
the right proportion is like discovering ones taste. One might have taste for
spicy food while other might prefer it little sweet. It’s an individual choice. Advices, self help books, inspirational
talks are all like pure ingredients. Taking them as is like making dish full of
salt.
Be it a weight reduction, be it diet or be it advice from
Peter Drucker on how to be effective executive. Whatever it might be figuring
out the right proportion is key to success.
This is easier said than done. Life is a journey of building
right sense of proportions in everything.
