Topic started by subramanian (@ 203-195-200-5.now-india.net.in) on Sat Apr 19 06:31:56 .
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How Many individuals enjoy their profession ? and balance their Work-Life ? What is the Road to Success

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• From: ugk-fan (@ dclient80-218-20-252.hispeed.ch) on: Sat Apr 19 07:44:22 EDT 2003
  
  There is no such thing called "success". It is only a mirage and imagination. There is no such thing as "road to success".
  If somebody is saying that he is enjoying his profession he simply means that he gets a lot of money from it. If somebody is saying I love this profession not for the money but for "mental satisfaction", then he is plain lying!
  
  
• From: subramanian (@ 203-195-200-5.now-india.net.in) on: Sat Apr 19 08:16:20 EDT 2003
  
  what is not imagination ?
  
  
• From: ugk-fan (@ dclient80-218-23-75.hispeed.ch) on: Sat Apr 19 12:17:25 EDT 2003
  
  "Success" is some point (or points because there is no one absolute success) defined by the society, for each one to thrive to reach. Only people who have tried to reach there know that after reaching there, there is some other point defined as "success" for them!! So it starts all over again! (Ask any so called "successful people")
  
  
• From: Shakthi (@ 203-195-199-246.now-india.net.in) on: Sat Apr 19 13:50:40 EDT 2003
  
  "If somebody is saying I love this profession not for the money but for "mental satisfaction", then he is plain lying!"<<<<
  
  why not? when doing the work itself is happiness..then why not?
  
  remember its not important where we reach or how fast we reach
  
  its HOW WE REACH
  
  that matters
  
  
• From: ugk-fan (@ dclient80-218-20-252.hispeed.ch) on: Sat Apr 19 14:01:23 EDT 2003
  
  Shakthi,
  If you find any such guy in any such "profession", tell him to stop taking any money for it! (Then it ceases to be a profession but service!)
  
  
• From: No body (@ dhcp-161-62.cslab.unf.edu) on: Mon Apr 21 20:32:05 EDT 2003
  
  I don't really have a "profession", but I already know I won't "enjoy" any of the choices---doctor, lawyer, dentist, or manager. Who knows, maybe sometimes I may be spoiled in the practice with a few smiles.
  
  
  
• From: Roshan (@ 203.115.13.90) on: Tue Apr 22 01:42:18 EDT 2003
  
  ugk-fan, you are correct to a considerable extent.
  
  
• From: Lakshmi (@ 61.1.211.208) on: Wed Apr 23 13:47:18 EDT 2003
  
  Success is a relative term.Successful men usually find themselves a step before success!Enjoying your profession is a part of self-satisfaction.So soon you'll be satisfied that you are successful in your life!
  
  
• From: ugk-fan (@ dclient80-218-23-75.hispeed.ch) on: Wed Apr 23 14:29:09 EDT 2003
  
  Sorry Lakshmi,
  One is never "satisfied" and never "successful". All these words are just some mirages constructed by our society from time immemorial. Somewhere down the line of human evolution, some mad guy started thinking this way, and all his generations evolved these "thoughts". A "satisfied" person (if any) is not successful and vice-versa!
  
  
• From: Ellen (@ c-66-177-115-58.se.client2.attbi.com) on: Wed Apr 23 14:47:48 EDT 2003
  
  Isn't this all about a certain attitude about life in general? I mean, suppose there is man who believes he is successful. Although multifaceted life is not perfect, he has a good careers, makes him enough to support his livelihood and interests, finds that his relations with family are generally good, and his relations with coworkers are good. Success is determined by one's own view.
  
  How much one is satisfied with is dependent on that person. One person may meet success way below the ladder, if he is content, than another who wants to climb the ladder and rise to the top and he has yet to see his own "success". I think success is therefore, relative.
  
  Truly, some people are happy at a different level than others. Not all must have the porsche, 6 figure income, beautiful wife with a genuine heart, and obedient kids--an unrealistic and picture perfect life to be happy. A man can be happy in his own imperfections, if he accepts himself. He can be happy with what he defines as his personal success.
  
  So everyone, make a statement about yourself. What is your definition of personal success? I think it would be different for all.
  
  
• From: Hemant (@ 203.195.208.26) on: Thu May 8 07:17:12 EDT 2003
  
  Hello there,
  Just happened to notice this thread.I want to share that throughout my life I have enjoyed what ever I have worked for.
  But after retiring from corporate type work, I adopted my true love of Astrology as my vocation.
  I think , for the first time in my life, I feel contended and really happy.
  This might be due to the fact that people seek the paramatma in you for guidence and not you yourself.
  It is a great feeling to be a witness to an union of Great spirit and the solace seeker .
  How ever the credit for successful predictions should not be attributed to self .
  Then you feel blissful at such a sangam of God and the Bhakta.
  This same feeling should be felt by religious teachers Gurus and attribute their power to God and not think and let self be treated as God.
  
  
• From: Jez (@ cache-loh-af03.proxy.aol.com) on: Thu May 8 10:22:14 EDT 2003
  
  Hemant, God bless you!
  
  Ellen too. Ellen, I'm being careful not to make more promises as to when I return to all the active threads between us but I definitely will at some point. Whatever my input's worth I'm sorry I'm sporadic. Anyway I'm doing what you said here.
  
  ugk-fan, you're right and wrong in my view. I have numerous options ahead of me - and I admit I've been odd-jobbing - that are ambitious, and stacks of other projects to embark on once I'm underway, and I'm committed to those for better or worse (but better). Let me tell you, I was in a job for over a year, with the main intention being to try a job for that time, but I was uncertain at the outset (mainly in a sales role), because I've so greatly enjoyed other work in the past. I quit (I'd have worked a bit longer, shouldn't have given a period of notice but you learn) and I'm very excited now; I've lined up more of what I was doing before and I'm confident about it. And when you love what you do, it's reflected in getting up bright and early, humming on the way to work, knowing you're in your element even when you're surrounded by the most unhappy-looking commuters. It's an opportunity thing and I think, when one is ready, one is able to spot them, and when you have the guts to take them you spot even more. Sure, when the chips are down I get depressed, but once the ideas are brewing or the plan is underway I can't stop smiling. That's my happy path to success.
  
  
• From: Ellen (@ c-66-177-115-58.se.client2.attbi.com) on: Thu May 8 10:49:38 EDT 2003
  
  Jez, am I powerful? I make you feel guilty without even fluttering an eyelash! P.S. I want your responses! ;))
  
  
• From: iLanchEral (@ cache-mtc-ah06.proxy.aol.com) on: Fri May 9 02:07:35 EDT 2003
  
  ugk-fan :
  "Shakthi,
  If you find any such guy in any such "profession", tell him to stop taking any money for it! (Then it ceases to be a profession but service!) "
  
  But don't you think that person need money to support his family and himself! For eg. A person I heard of was offered a high paying job in Microsoft in his field, but he turned that job down and chose to work as a professor in a Univesity in the same field, although with much less money than the one offered by the Microsoft. Now if he ONLY wants the money wouldn't he have accpeted the job offred by Microsoft? You do need money in this moder world to make a living (food, shelter, hobby, family, kid's education, etc)
  
  

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