It’s tough to define greatness. Achieving greatness is an attitude; it is about achieving your goals and dreams.
Here are some steps to achieving greatness.
· Visualization
Visualization is a powerful tool that helps to plan our life. How? The brain processes images faster than anything. For centuries, scholars and philosophers agree to the statement that we become what we think.
It so happens that when we really immerse ourselves in our mind visualization, we are automatically charting out a path to achieve those things. It’s like adding fuel to the mind.
Therefore, visualize your greatness. How do you want to achieve greatness?
- Do you want to write a bestseller?
- Do you want to become a world famous athlete?
- Do you want to make a scientific discovery?
…and so on!
You’ve to define your greatness. What do you want to feel great about? Write it down.
· Identify the Problem
Now that you realise your way of achieving greatness, it’s time to lay the foundation. The first step to this foundation is to analyse the reason stopping you from achieving greatness.
Identify the hurdle or problem area. For instance, if you want to write a bestseller, what’s stopping you? It can be writer’s block, lack of a publisher, lack of proper marketing channel, lack of motivation and so on.
Don’t give in to the problem and quit; that will the worst thing you can do to yourself. Fight it out.
Take the example of Stephen Hawking, an eminent scientist and a household name. At the age of 21, he was diagnosed with motor neuron problems and doctors gave him a maximum of two years to live. Rather than giving in to the problem and doctor’s proclamation, he chooses to fight and look at where he is today! He used his handicap nature to work specifically on his scientific endeavors and help the world.
Once the problem is identified, the next logical step is to sort out the problem.
· Positive Manifestation
Visualizing greatness won’t simply work unless you match it with desired actions and manifest the greatness. The road from visualization to manifestation is fruitfully achieved with positive thought process.
At this stage, you have visualized your greatness and identified the reasons stopping you from achieving them. All you need to do is take action and manifest your goals.
Begin by visualizing what achieving greatness feels like. Every night, before going to bed, imagine that you have already found greatness and what it feels like, and hold on to that thought. Some people might call it wishful thinking but what it is essentially is that you’re training the mind to think in a certain way. As such, the mind will automatically direct you towards actions necessary to achieve your visualizations.
This brings to the other point, which is that you need to work towards getting what you want. There no miracle wand that will turn you into a bestseller writer or an eminent scientist. You have to work towards it, and the sooner you train your mind and start, the better.
· Find Inspiration
Add an external note of motivation by reading inspirational stories. The inspirational stories add fuel to our thinking and inspire us to move forward. Often, you find similarities between your life and the life of successful people and it adds to your belief that you can achieve greatness too.
Did you know that Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly into space was actually a factory worker in the textiles industry? She had an acute interest in sky-diving and this is what made the authorities choose her over 400 other applicants. An intensive training, followed by the trip to space, earned her the doctorate in engineering award.
Take another example. Jesse Owens is a famous athlete. He was one of 10 children and right from childhood, he showed deep interest in running. He would practice running before school as he had to work after school. In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he won 4 gold medals. He had to face excessive racism from both Germany and USA but he managed to set it all aside, destroy the Aryan supremacy propaganda and win Olympic medals.
In short, if they can achieve greatness, you can too.
Endnote
Greatness is a frame of mind, a sense of achievement and a feeling of purpose. Like other great people before you, you too can work towards achieving greatness. Are you ready?
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