What's the top 1 secret of successful folks

What if, God forbid, tomorrow you’re thrown in the prison for 27 years?

Not for killing people, not for looting banks, not for passing out any super classified information of your country…but you’re jailed just because you demanded the rights you’re entitled to.

Would you feel that the cruelty of life has slapped you on your face?

Most unfair huh?

Well, this is exactly what happened with a lovely man whose name was Nelson.

Yes, Nelson Mandela.

Of South Africa.

Who stood up against tyranny, against slavery, against injustice.

And grabbed success.

Who made the soil of his motherland so hot for the invaders that they eventually had to flee.

Want to know one mind-quickening secret behind his success?

You may be disappointed to know it.

It was thinking, as he revealed in many of his interviews. Answering what he did in the vast time available to him in the prison, he said of thinking about the plan of action he needed to pursue. He said that introspecting about the past mistakes and in that light drawing the future map of action is of prime import for everyone, politician or not.

When he said that he devoted great time to thinking, I connected it with slowing down. Because if we want to think clearly, the prerequisite is that we ought to be in a calm and unhurried state of mind. And to have a clear mind, I feel that we must learn the craft of purging it of clutter, which is best done by slowing down – call it meditation if you wish.

Important, Mandela’s silent thinking enabled him to chart his future course and to know which direction the people of his nation are heading to. How else had he got successful in offering freedom to his country?

Ask folks about thinking in solitude, they would say that it’s meant for folks who A: Have a lot of time on their hands and B: Who’re lazy to take action.

If you want to feel (and more important) if you want to show yourself productive, you have to check your emails and messages every 2 minutes, you have to frequently receive and make phone calls, you have to tie yourself up with meetings and appointments etc. Yeah, this is cool, fashionable, the in thing!

But if our efforts aren’t producing the work that can take us on the top, then isn’t it worth pausing and pondering?

Mahatma Gandhi said, “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”

Gandhiji himself went on meditating and pondering for weeks.

Bill Gates regularly takes weeks off for thinking in his Water Cottage where no press or co-workers are permitted.

Are we too busy to think? But what we require most is thinking, slowing down and cutting cruch activities which we indulge in to feel busy.