There are moments in life when we look at someone and say, “He is what I wanted to be.” Be it Sachin or Elvis or your class topper. It is very natural and healthy to feel so especially when our career grounds are to be laid. Everybody assays, but not many make it to the top.

Success is more of a journey than a destination, demanding time, tide and talent. The secret of success is practically unveiled in all motivation books and seminars. While the formulae are different, the results converge at perspiration and perseverance. What go unsaid are the simplest, yet the most efficient tips of all.

That 1-degree separation between the men who land on stars and those on the moon, is the small, unseen compromises that they readily make. Going to the top does not mean sleepless nights, but conquering the 5 minutes of sleep after the alarm. Success is not the harvest of doing nothing else but working, it takes doing everything else with work as the backdrop. Ideas and solutions need not be necessarily be devoted as table work, but should be allowed to flash anytime, while we eat or walk or bathe. It is even said that the greatest of ideas spark in the lavatory! Living the dream realizes it.

Achievers were not trouble free; personal, pecuniary and social, they had it all. Just that they shed it before envisioning their purpose. Problems are a handicap only to those people who do not know the meaning of a hurdle. And most essentially, as Vivekananda stated, “concentrate on the game, not on the trophy.” The trophy may be tempting, but it is the game that requires a strategy.

Success is an attitude of mind. When the mind is the aggressor, it certainly commands caliber. While the big secrets get focused, the small ones often go unnoticed. Mastering these basics is one definite prodigious step. It is true, big men make small, yet judicious compromises.

PS : The ‘Gyaan’ shared above is not something I follow myself….I have read the saying ‘Practise what you preach’, but have myself not been able to conquer those 5 precious minutes of sleep after the alarm. My parents have been highly unsuccessful in teaching me this(or lets just say, I have been highly reluctant to accept it), and they till date have to mercilessly kick me out of bed. The most challenging job that my parents indulge into in any single day ranges every morning from 5:30 to 5:45 am when I am supposed to be woken up…...