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You need to push yourself to achieve. You need to connect within to achieve. The greatest achievers of this world be that in the realm of sports or in the realm of medicine or in any other domain are those that pushed themselves, their frontiers and indeed connected with their entirety.
Sports men when they push themselves to excel, call that “peak performance” area - The Zone. Sadhu’s and sanyasis when they push the mind to the peaks of Meditative Quiet, touch what is known as the “God Head”. This is the Zone where the body, mind and soul meet. That is why you need to have Physical and Mental discipline to successfully attain The Zone. Achievement is not a fluke and Luck is as man made as Burgers, Boeings and Bricks.
Peak Performance is also about the coming together of all the gifts that you personally have like everyone on this Earth is possessed of but who don’t really see it in a Lifetime – simply because no one really pointed to within – after all for most “Normal Folks” isn’t Life all about the education that we either have or don’t have, the parents that we were born to (were they rich / could afford a lifestyle etc) the school we went to, what our teachers taught us – and so the I Within has hardly been attributed any importance worthy of mentioning. Peak Performance is the Ultimate in Personal Mastery – The Mastering (Coming Together) of all the Blessings that we are rendered within us.
Thus – The Zone, the Peak of our Achievement and Complete Personal Mastery – is beyond us most times.
The Zone is the edge of where our limits are, it’s just beyond this Zone that our entire hope, aspiration and our future lies. Take a look around – Sachin Tendulkar, Maradona, Ronaldo or indeed the entire football fraternity in the West – anyone who is successful beyond normal yardsticks has touched upon something that is beyond ordinary. They are called Extra Ordinary. True. Extra-Ordinary what? You see this which is within us – it is amazing. It is part Genius, it is part Extra-Ordinary, and it is part God and most importantly is part of all of us. Partner with that – and what is evident that it’s nothing but stupendous. Material Success is its offspring. How does one touch it? Don’t we touch it when we make a decision based on “Gut Feel” or “Instinct” – the resultant action sometimes saves Lives, sometimes it is a stroke of Genius – That Eureka Moment? This Instinct or Gut Feel is a raw energy source. It is not schooled. It is not taught. And yet its wisdom is phenomenal.
Have you touched your wealth yet?
For it is here that our best of our capabilities lies. We allude ourselves by believing that we can become the best by working smart, working hard - but the truth is that to touch that Zone we need to reach within. Under Intense Pressure we have been sent to write examinations – for which we were not quite prepared in the real sense of the word. In that moment when we sat in completeness – The Inner person and the Outer Person together – what happened? We cannot believe that we completed the exam and passed!! Or think about the time a tough assignment at work that one is not quite confident about and yet putting in our utmost efforts we complete the project. Suddenly, we become the cynosure of our peers, colleagues the boss. Did we wonder then, if providence was on our side?
Push yourself, dear friend. Don’t do anything by your self. What you can do by yourself is trivial, ordinary and mundane. But learn to partner with the Inner You. Touch the Zone in everything that you do. Raise the bar for yourself. The more you do it, the better your value is, the better your value the more respect that you earn and the more respect that you earn the higher the responsibility that is bestowed upon you. It is in this unique position that you become your most valuable best. All things valuable in this world are treated with value, treated with respect and dignity.
If that is not perfection what is? Perfection is attained only in deep participation with the Inner You. Work from this level each and every time – you will suddenly see perfection and you become synonymous with each other.
Go ahead, touch your best and be surprised at what you discover.
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