8th Reasons For Failure Why We Don't Achieve Excellence

Lack of Understanding of Nature's Laws

Success is a matter of laws and these are the laws of nature. Change is nature's law. We are either moving forward or we are going backward. We are either creating or disintegrating. There is no status quo.

 A seed, if it is not planted in the earth to create, disintegrates. Change is inevitable. It is going to happen whether we like it or not. All progress is change but all change is not progress. We must evaluate change and accept it only if it makes sense. Acceptance without evaluation amounts to conforming behavior, a sign of lack of confidence and of low self-esteem.

 There is a lot to be said about tradition. Growth for the sake of growth is the philosophy of a cancerous cell. It is negativity spreading all over. That is not growth, that is destruction. Growth, in order to be meaningful, must be positive.

 Success is not a matter of luck, but of laws.

 Law of Cause and Effect

 In order to succeed, we need to understand the law of cause and effect and the relationship between actions and results.

 For every effect, there is a cause. The law of cause and effect is the same as the law of sowing and reaping. The law of sowing and reaping says five things:

1.  We must have the desire to sow. Desire is the starting point.
2.  What we sow, so shall we reap. If we sow potatoes, we are only going to reap potatoes, not tomatoes.
3. We must sow before we reap. Sowing takes place before reaping; we must give before we get. We cannot expect the fireplace to give us heat before we put in the fuel. Some people are constantly looking to get before they give. It does not work this way.
4.  When we sow a seed, we do not reap a fruit--our harvest is manifold. If we sow a positive seed our harvest will be manifold in the positive, and if we sow a negative one the harvest shall be manifold in the negative. It is not uncommon to see people going against nature's law.
5.  A farmer knows that we cannot sow and reap in the same day. There is always a period of gestation.

  It is like the law of physics. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Most of the time people are trying to change the effect while the cause remains. Either we feed our mind with positives constantly or negativity automatically fills the vacuum. Many ancient sages have said what James Allen said in his book As a Man Thinketh. A man's mind is like a garden. If we plant good seeds, we will have a good garden. But if we don't plant anything, something will grow and they will be weeds. That is nature's law.

 The same is true in our lives. I would go a step further. Even if we plant good seeds, weeds will still grow. The process of weeding goes on forever.

 If you put water in a glass and put it in sub-zero temperature, it will freeze. That is not surprising, that is nature's law. In fact, that is the only thing that will happen.

 Our thoughts are causes.

 You sow a thought, you reap an action. 

You sow an action, you reap a habit.

 You sow a habit, you reap a character.

 You sow a character, you reap a destiny.

 It all starts with a thought.

 Laws of Attraction

 We attract to ourselves not what we want but what we are. The old phrase, "Birds of a feather flock together," holds true.

 Negative thinkers are dangerous. They attract other negative people, react negatively, expect the worst and they are not disappointed.

 Have you observed how at any social occasion successful people attract other successful people? Failures attract other failures, and together they will moan, groan and complain.

 Our friends are not the kind of people we want but the kind of people we are.