When do success stories help?

I wanted to have a success story of my own. I was all aloof looking for somebody to come and enlighten the lamps for me. That one day, a beautiful, obliging success-mantra book fell onto my lap, piercing the tranquility shaped by the wars between varying ideations to carve my own success sutra.

It took me about four days to accomplish the commendable write-up, I ended up with high energy levels, planning things on the directions shown by the book, but say in about a time of 2 weeks it all proved to be a vicious circle. I realized that it could be something which sounds great but doesn’t really seem working on the scene of action.

I wanted to backtrack, what exactly success mantras result in. Is it so easy to make an educated fool realize that this the way you achieve it. One of my bosses used to say, “If at first sight you find anything nice, it actually is nice!”, that made me derive that if I was elited going through a write up, it does mean that it had some useful stuff for sure. So, how come such a thing, which my outlook finds helpful, does not really help me?

I just do not want to bang on about my theory of achieving success, but one thing which I deduced for myself is, that success mantras provide you with a framework, which may or may not help you out, but eventually architecture above the framework has to be built by you on your own.

The essence is that these are really helpful, but they have to be customized based on ones own persona, the better you customize it, the more it works for you. Nothing is a piece of cake.

:- Muktesh Kandpal
(my original post at wits.rediffiland.com)