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Rule # 7
Be a doer, not only a thinker.

The last and the best rule. I'll tell you something, just sit back, relax and go down your memory lane for a couple of minutes to see the path you've crossed. Think about everything you wanted to do, and see what you've done actually. We all want to do many a things in our life, but we end up not doing most of them due to various valid unavoidable reasons and there is also a fair share of our own disabilities too. As we move on, we change our priorities, our interests gets changed and we always drift a lot on our way. And that's the beauty of our life, we think as far as we could in the future before making every important decision but still, there's a pinch of uncertainty in all our decisions and it might turn the tables in the real future.

If you want to be successful, you should start doing whatever you want to do rather than just thinking it virtually. There might be a lot many reasons why you can't do something, you might be overloaded in your work, have lot of personal issues to sort out, list will go on and on. I'm telling you, just thinking about something in your imagination will not be useful for yourself or any other for that sake. If you think you have an wonderful idea and you don't spend enough time on realizing it, then your idea will always be an idea. And sooner or later someone else with a better will power from some other part of the earth would realize the same idea, whereas you would be whining about it. Don't let yourself to be a victim.

It all boils down to only one thing, time management and personal discipline to adhere to whatever you plan. Where there is a will, there is a way. If you really wish, you can easily do all the stuffs you want to do and still find a lot of time for your family and friends. Improve your concentration, try to compartmentalize your thoughts, do one thing at a time and do it perfectly. Collect proper information, spend time to analyze and plan correctly, because you can't afford to go wrong. You've got to do it and do it right the first time.

At times it may happen that you might face a wall in your journey, try to break the wall but if you know that you can't break it, don't hesitate to retreat to take some other route altogether. And never be afraid of failure. Even if you fail, try to embrace it with a satisfaction and keep your head high. If somebody tells me that they never failed, I would pity them because they have never tried anything in their life. Success and failure are the end results of the journey. They doesn't matter much, what real ly matters is the journey itself, the experience is worth millions.

Motivate yourself; learn to forgive, not only others; at times, yourself too. Yes, you've to learn to forgive yourself and give credit for what you've done. No body makes miracles. All one can do is to give their best shot at everything they do. Most of the time, hard work really yields its result in one or the other way. Every time you try something, you a feather to your crown which actually you cannot see but the rest of the world can.

I really love Leonardo-da-vinci a lot, the greatest and most efficient brain of the era. But, I respect Michelangelo a lot for the same reason we're discussing now. Leonardo-da-vinci had an excellent brain and he indeed has a whole lot of "I did it first" stuffs in his portfolio now, nearly four centuries later. What's the use? Whereas Michelangelo did manage to do things in his lifetime, rather than just playing them around in his imagination.

So, ladies and gentlemen, take inspiration from Michelangelo but think like Leonardo.

I'm done guys. Hope this will help somebody and please, pass on your comments.