Clarity of purpose is extremely important for being successful in life as it
helps you streamline your thoughts and helps you achieve what you wish to
achieve. It also helps you realize your very purpose. There should be clarity in the
mind because in the absence of it, thoughts are very weak and they are unable to
drive a person in the appropriate direction. Absence of clarity is the cause which
does not help a person to channelize energy.
While reading the above paragraph it is realized that people first need to
understand as to what success means to them and what is their interpretation of
the word clarity. Our society considers material gain as symbol of achievement
and hence most of us are in the rat race of accumulating material wealth. A lot of
people work towards becoming material rich as they correlate success with such
gains. It is important to have economic welfare for growth of self, institution and
for development of nation’s economic progress. However pure material growth
may not help in attaining happiness.
I may work very hard, but if I am unable to describe as to why I am working
hard or what drives me to work hard then it is quite clear that there is absence of
clarity and I am just working with the flow of time. First of all it has been observed
that not many of us have set goals, not because we do not wish to have clear
goals but this kind of discussion never happened during our early stage of life and
most of us grew with time. The outcome of this has resulted into a pattern that
most of us instead of chasing the ball for hitting it in the goalpost, keep changing
our goalpost itself. Many of us are actually looking for achievements of goals
without putting in our best and that I feel is the one of the biggest challenges.
We have grown in life with many ifs and buts and let us thank God that we
have still managed to grow to some extent. We could seize opportunities which
came in our way. I am sure if we were told about goal setting during our
childhood and if we had understood this we would have certainly shaped our lives
in a much better way. This is purely coming out of my personal experiences as I
am yet to conduct a survey but this is my belief that if the path and direction is
clear the journey is better, else we have to wait at many places to ask for the right
direction. There are multiple reasons for our behavior pattern. It could be based
on our personality type, could be due to parenting we have undergone, our
objectives in life, our culture at home, our society, our school, college and many
such influencers and our vision and drive. It could be also because of the
organization culture. In some organizations, culture drives people to achieve
more and in other organizations it is again the culture which does not motivate
people. Therefore some organizations grow while others struggle to grow with
the same speed and zeal.
I personally feel that it is not very easy to define our purpose and also
identify our abilities unless and until we focus on identifying them. A lot of people
just wait for things to happen automatically in their life.
I am trying to help you with one process which I have used to understand
what I am good at. I am of the opinion and also have read in an article that it is
wise to take a pen or pencil and a piece of paper to understand and appreciate
our abilities. People who are used to laptop or tabs can use them for jotting down
what is shared below.
Please make a list of natural abilities which you feel you possess. For
example a person can have natural talent of being an observer, teacher, thinker,
administrator, preacher, quick learner, problem solver etc. You may also search
the list of abilities; human beings possess and then connect with the ones which
you possess.
Similarly prepare a list of specialized knowledge which includes factual,
theoretical, practical, competencies or skills in a particular area or profession. This
could include skills like video making, photography, selling, management, sports
etc.
Now once you have identified your abilities and specialized knowledge,
connect your natural talent with your specialized knowledge. For example, I have
a natural ability of observing and communicating or explaining concept and I also
have specialized knowledge of selling. If I connect the two that is my natural
ability and my specialized knowledge then I can come to a conclusion that it I can
communicate and explain the concept of selling to professionals who are willing
to acquire this knowledge. The job role which suits the above combination is of a
trainer in the area of developing and improving selling skills.
Let's have one more example for helping the reader to understand the
concept little better. I have a natural ability of solving the problems and I have
specialized knowledge of operations management. I can establish connection and
conclude that I can be good in solving problems in manufacturing or services
operations.
I am sure above information can be used by readers and you will have to
invest time and efforts to really know abilities better.
It is my opinion as more research has to be done to establish the model.
People should try to discover their abilities and then create meaningful content
which will create value for the society. This will also help people set goals and
work very hard with very clear focus of achieving it.
Clarity about our abilities will help achieve our goals be it personal or
organizational. People also need to identify themselves whether they fall under
the category of satisfied, growth oriented or achievers and accordingly define
their journey and help themselves in being successful and happy
Dr. Nitin Joshi,
Director,
DR V N BRIMS, Thane
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