Keep Moving…

Within each and every one of us is a tremendous potential to overcome obstacles and achieve success; to face difficulties and overcome them. There is just one thing we have to do to tap this vast potential, this tremendous power, we must believe in ourselves, and we must keep moving

Whatever be the circumstances, in which you are placed, whatever the conditions around you, keep moving! Get on with your work! Leave the rest to God!

The Chinese proverb tells us, does it not, that even the journey of a thousand miles begins with one first step? So let’s take one step at a time; let’s keep moving towards our goal.

May I tell you, I learnt this lesson from an ant which I came across on the seashore, a long time ago. I was relaxing on the beach when I saw this tiny ant hurrying past me. My attention was on the majestic rolling waves at that time; but this tiny creature, scurrying about on the sand, caught my attention. In a playful mood, I decided to get to know this ant better.

I made a tiny little heap of sand on its path I say ‘tiny little heap’ from our human perspective; for the ant, it must have been a little hillock! I created this little hill on the ant’s path. But she quietly came to the base of the hillock, climbed up the slope, climbed down the other side and went on her way. Now I created a valley, that is, dug a deep trench on her path. Quietly, she went down the trench, crossed it and continued her journey.

Not one to give up my experiment, I placed a large pebble on her path. She reached the stone, considered climbing it, realised that she could not; she struggled for a while, fell down a couple of times; she stopped a while to reconsider the situation, and then took the longer route around the stone and moved on! My next obstacle for her was a long twig. She saw the twig, struggled with it, found a way around and kept moving!

Keep moving! Whatever be the problem, whatever be the obstacles on your path, keep moving! Not once did my ant allow herself to ‘get stuck’ as we put it. Not once did she call upon her companions for help and I am convinced quite a few of them were available in the vicinity. She just kept moving on!

Within each and every one of us is a tremendous potential to overcome obstacles and achieve success to face difficulties and overcome them. There is just one thing we have to do to tap this vast potential, this tremendous power, we must believe in ourselves, and we must keep moving.

You are unique. God made you for a special purpose. Discover that special purpose. You must keep moving steadily towards your goal

Keep moving on! Keep moving on and the potential that is within you will be unfolded. The tremendous shakti within you will be released.

I am well aware that you must fulfil your business concerns and your profit motives. But my point is this while you are working, while you are implementing your strategy to succeed, any thought of profit must be a source of distraction for you. Even management pundits would say to you, that your focus in the crucial strategy must be on planning and execution, not on the party you will throw when you have succeeded!

So, keep moving….

I said, let’s keep moving towards our goal, our desired destination; for when I insist on moving, I do not mean drifting aimlessly.

So many of us today, are just drifting through life. We do not know where we are going; we do not even know what we want out of life. We work like machines, going through the same routine day after day. We forget that each of us is unique. They say that there are a hundred million people in India today. Just imagine, among those hundred million people there is no one exactly like you!

Why, amongst the billions of people, who inhabit the earth, there is no other person who is like you! You are unique. God made you for a special purpose. Discover that special purpose. Make it your goal and once you have fixed that goal, you must keep your eyes fixed always on that goal.

You must keep moving steadily towards that goal. When you have set a goal before you, when you have set out to accomplish something, you must never, never, never give it up. If you are sure that you have chosen the right goal if you are confident that it is the right thing to do, that it will not hurt or harm anyone keep moving towards your goal.