Keys to Achieving in Life, Achievement, Growth, Personal Growth,Accomplishment, Success, Values,One's Potential To Achieve , General Determinants of Achievement, Individual's Capacities that Enable Achievement, Spiritual Capacities (& Methods) for Achievement, The Character of Life and Forces that Enable One to Achieve, Negatives Expressions that Block Achievement, The Process of Creation, Growth, and Accomplishment,The Token Act,Miscellaneous

Key to Accomplishment
The key to accomplishment in life is the organization of our inner selves for success.

Life Rewards Who You are Inside
Life rewards not for your work, but for what you are inside. (MSS)

Achievement, Genius Comes from Within, Not Outside
All that a man achieves emanates from his mind, not from his external experience. The West has made the cardinal error of mistaking the effect for cause. Where does the Genius, be it Ramanujam or Einstein get his knowledge? It comes from INSIDE. (MSS)

You Become What You Believe
You are only limited to that which you believe you can become. You become that which you believe you can become.

Could it be that how we view ourselves or the institutions we partake of is only a mental belief? That if we were to change the belief, the reality would also change? If this is true, and we think it is, then any individual can alter the course of his or her life, enabling vast, unimagined success and joy; and any institution can become a dynamic, energized, rapidly growing paragon of success.

So ask yourself this: If it is true that you become in life that which you believe you can become, then what limited beliefs about yourself or your company do you have? Think hard on this. It could determine the very course of your life.

We Can Achieve Our Belief in the Infinite Possibilities
If we know our infinite nature, we can believe in that, and thus achieve infinitely.

The Spiritual Basis of Our Infinite Potential
Because we are born of spirit, all planes of our being are infinite if we can learn to perceive that reality

Infinite Potential
We are infinite in nature, and we can manifest that in our lives as infinite accomplishment, success, and happiness.

There is no limit to what we as a person or as a society can achieve. We are only limited by our own belief systems. "We become what we believe we can become." (Bhagavad-Gita).

Infinite Results
We are infinite in nature, and we can manifest that in our lives as infinite accomplishment, success, and happiness.

Individuals have infinite potential for accomplishment and joy. Also every moment in one's life there is infinite potential for accomplishment. Be on the lookout for infinite possibilities!

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It is one thing to perceive the infinite potential of life; it is another to utilize the rules of accomplishment to see it come about as infinite results in one's life. It is the difference between the right to something that can give you power, and using that right to actually attain that power. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Practical Concept of Infinity
This principle essentially means that you can accomplish and succeed in life to literally an infinite degree if you make contact with and then open yourself to the spiritual powers of the Divine Reality.

Going within in essence enables you to begin to really realize the principle of the “practical concept of infinity;” that all of the infinite potentials of life can be made real, can be embodied by you in your life as a practical reality. Infinite abundance and success and joy can really happen. By going to the depths, we begin to move from what we perceived as a finite life to the real experience of an infinite life, as infinite abundance, prosperity, achievement, success, and joy.

Levels of Accomplishment
Individuals can accomplish at various levels - at the level of survival, growth, development, and evolution.

Survival, Growth, Development and Evolution
Life exists in the grades of survival, growth, development and evolution. An agriculture society changing into an industrial society is evolution. A famine stricken population avoiding extinction by its brave struggle is survival. A middle class family that faces a slide down into a lower class fighting back successfully is also survival.

An empty house of a middle class family acquiring all consumer durables is growth. A self-employed person having moved into that position from salaried employment is development. (MSS)

Evolution that is Beyond Survival
Practical knowledge is the physical capacity to survive. In Evolution survival is taken for granted and built on. Relying on survival is dangerous. As you evolve, the base of survival needs to be reconstituted with new consciousness. (MSS)

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As soon as Man rises to the next level that level partially descends on the previous level.

Individual Trying to Avail of Opportunities of Society
The individual in his growth tries to avail of the opportunities created by society. The opportunities for individual accomplishment are determined by what the society permits. The maximum is determined by what society sanctions. The minimum is determined by individual capacity. Individuals who fall below the social minimum socially perish. In rare instances, individuals try to outreach the society and the society puts up resistance.

Individual capacity is determined by the skills, attitudes, beliefs, values, character and aspirations of each individual.

The availability of social opportunities and the ability of the individual to avail of them combine to determine the ultimate outcome. (MSS)

Increase Your Aspiration in Life
Energy is a product of one's will. The more will, the more energy. But what creates will in life? It is created by your aspirations in life. Whenever you aspire for something it creates the will that energizes. If you don't have energy, consider if you are lacking aspiration in life. Then consider how to attain aspiration. Think about what you would like to accomplish in life, what opportunities are out there, what you would like to achieve, what you would like to learn, and so forth. When you find what you want, you will feel aspiration rise, which will stir the will, and energize your being.

Rise to the Peak of Accomplishment at Your Current Level of Efficiency
A question arises when one is on the path to higher levels of accomplishment and success: How high should I am to improve myself? You should enter at the maximum level where you are positively organized, and do so with full intensity. By "positively organized" we mean where you have the full complement of skills, knowledge, energy, will, time, finance stability, systemization, personal organization, etc. etc. This is your level of efficiency. You should then start at the maximum possible area (given the above constraints) where you can more efficiently function; and then, on the way toward that achievement, aim at the peak of what can be accomplished in your undertaking. (Paraphrase of MSS)

Envision who you are at ten times your current functioning. Can you bring it into focus? Can you hold that image in your mind as a silent visual yantra of life?

Process or Accomplishment
Aspiration releases energy, Will directs energy to become force, Organisation changes force into usable power, and skills create results out of power. (MSS)

At the beginning of each day we must ask ourselves if we are truly committed to taking a step forward today, or if we are resigned to accepting our current status, habits and preoccupations.

A High Ideal of Motivation
The one MOTIVATION of man is to be constantly better than before. Spiritually it is a great ideal. (MSS)

Keys to Infinite Success in Life
Often when people reach the pinnacles of success it is because of a special gift or talent -- such as the ability to lead and inspire, or the capacity to develop a breakthrough product, or because they are driven to succeed. Other times, people reach the top simply because they make a steady, plodding effort in the course of their careers.

In research on what enables achievement in life, I have identified three levels of determining factors. The first contains the foundation -- i.e. the essentials for success. The second contains the more subtle, psychological factors that bring it about. And the third are the inner spiritual-like determinants of achievement. Let’s examine each of these more closely.

The first level contains the foundation and essential determining factors for success in life. They include our ability to target specific goals we aim to accomplish; our intense desire and will that they come about; our level of personal organization; the talent and skill we bring to bear; and the psychological strength we demonstrate in the face of life’s challenges. Aspiration, focus, will, organization, skill, and strength are thus the basic building blocks of success. Together they release enormous physical, vital, and mental energy that tends to attract vast success for that individual. Let’s examine several theoretical examples.

Consider the case of Eliza Gonzales, who currently demonstrates these capacities in spades. She has a keen interest in becoming a project portfolio manager; has the intense drive to make it happen; is fully organized in all aspects of her life; has all the necessary skills to accomplish; and has an innate ability to persevere in the face of life’s challenges. As a result, she has reached the very top of her field.

On the other hand, her collogue David Montaigne has not risen very far. Though he has had the aspiration and drive, he never developed the skills required of his position. Likewise, Sandra Lee, a co-worker of his, had the skills, but lacked the will and drive for achievement. Sanjay Aziz, a fourth member of the group, had the will and determination, but lacked focus in his life, as he was unable to formulate what he really wanted out of his career. Thus, where Eliza succeeded beyond measure, David, Sandra, and Sanjay plateaued at only modest levels of success.

The second group of factors that engender success are even more subjective and psychological. They take shape as our attitudes and personal values. In fact, if we examine Eliza’s great success, we see that she excelled in both areas. E.g., colleagues often described how positive her attitudes were -- in particular, how she always looked on the bright side of things; how full of self-confidence she was; how she always took responsibility for problems rather than blaming others; and how she always happily accepted what life had put before her. In this way, her attitudes -- about herself, about others, and about life -- will exemplary.

That cannot be said of the others in the group, each of whom had one or more significant wanting attitudes. One colleague had problems getting along with several staffers; another was consistently unhappy with the work assigned to her; and a third had a cynical, constricted view of what he could accomplish. As a result, each were burdened by psychological constraints that prevented them from reaching their full potential.

In addition to her very positive attitudes, there was something else Eliza had in abundance -- highly developed personal values. Everyone noticed how tolerant she was; how she encouraged others’ to express their opinions and make contributions; how committed she was to bridging the gap between the company and the surrounding community; and how dedicated she was for social change and improvement. Eliza’s values and beliefs sharpened her aspirations in life, gave her focus and energy, and enriched every activity she engaged in. On the other hand, her colleagues had trouble formulating their guiding principles and values, which created an intensity and energy vacuum in their careers. This conspicuous absence of clearly defined and applied personal values kept these members of the group from ever moving beyond the mediocre.

Finally, the third group of factors that determine our success level consists of spiritual-like behaviors and values that tend to attract ultimate achievement. Among them are-

All of the factors described above have one thing in common: they lead to ever-greater success in life. Taken together however, they generate an overwhelming power that brings about ultimate, infinite-like achievement. In fact, if we examine how such success comes to us, we will see that it arrives in two distinct fashions -- through the “to-be-expected way” and through the “life response way.” The former means that as we embrace these achievement factors, we move ahead in a logical and practical way. E.g., people will take notice of our new behaviors, skills, actions, etc., and we are rewarded through the to-be-expected channels and unfoldings of life.

The life response method on the other hand operates much differently. In this reality, when we embrace one or more of the success factors -- particularly ones we are deficient in -- life instantly responds in kind, I.e. the very moment we change our inner orientation, life suddenly moves on our behalf, bringing us overwhelming good fortune. For example, if I shift away from my hostile attitude towards a co-worker, my boss suddenly appears in my office with word that I have been promoted to a much higher paying and satisfying job. This indicates the subtle, miraculous-like relationship between our inner selves and the world around us. When we change the inner, the outer instantly responds in kind.

If we can attract such powerful results by making these changes, then it only makes sense to take up the challenge. Therefore, why not review the success factors listed above, and come up with several areas where you are deficient. Then make the concerted effort to implement that change in your life. If you do, life will immediately start working on your behalf. That’s precisely what happened to Eliza when she made the decision to both improve her level of cleanliness and orderliness, as well as reverse her negative attitude toward her boss. From that day on, her career began to really take off. You can do the same thing in your life, and you too will be taken to the stars!

Abilities to Accomplish
An individual's abilities to accomplish are determined by his capacities and character, which are made up of his skills, knowledge, attitudes, energies, attributes, endowments, and personal values. There are a number of factors within these categories that determine this capacities and character.

Priority of Individual Characteristics for Accomplishment
The requirements of accomplishment for an individual in order of importance are strength, organization and skills.

Accomplishment, Knowledge, and Determination
The extent of accomplishment depends on the level of knowledge one has and the seriousness of its determination. (MSS)

General Determinants for Achievement/Accomplishment in Life
Among the overarching determinants and factors that affect our ability to achieve in life include-

To Accomplish a Work
The commonest question of serious people when they have to complete a work is, ‘‘What should I do?’’ It is a valid question. For the greatest effect, one needs to know his personality strength and weakness, the social situation he is in, the nature of the mission he is facing, and the attitude of the other person to the completion of the work. Knowledge is power. (MSS, slightly modified)

Develop Our Capacities to Create Luck
When we develop our capacities and gain the external cooperation of life we create the conditions for luck; i.e. the propulsion to the next level of achievement, success, and fortune.

Keys to Job Satisfaction
Right attitude towards the job will bring job satisfaction for sure. What are those attitudes? Here are some that come to mind.

The Inner is Ultimate Determinant
The inner (one's inner condition) is the ultimate determinant of achievement, not the conditions the outer reality.

Consciousness & Achievement
The more we open to a wider consciousness, the more we can achieve.

Ultimate Achievement
Capacities, values, and consciousness, enable ultimate achievement.

The Determinants of Who We Are and What We Can Become
There are several factors that have shaped who we are, ranging from the outermost influence to the innermost.

Inner-Directed Achievement
Not being determined by the outer social forces and influences enable individuality and achievement. It is Inner-Directed Achievement.

Inside or Outside the Box and Accomplishment
Those who have social character can accomplish fully within the norms and constraints of society. Those who have individual character think beyond the norms of society and develop infinite potential for accomplishment.

The Social Environment and Accomplishment
An individual's ability to accomplish is affected by the social environment and atmosphere -- which includes the capacities, energies, character, and circumstance of the social environment and social institutions he is involved in. When that environment, atmosphere is positive one is more likely to accomplish; when negative, it is less likely.

Variables that Enable Accomplishment vs. Failure
Human action, individual character, social character and the character of life combining and interacting generate a set of results. When those results are what the characters themselves would view as positive, we can refer them as examples of accomplishment. When they are negative, we term them failures. (MSS, slightly modified)

That Which Determines Accomplishment
An individual's abilities to accomplish are determined by his capacities and character, which are made up of his skills, knowledge, attitudes, energies, attributes, endowments, and personal values. There are a number of factors within these categories that determine this capacities and character.

Choice Achieves
It is our choice that achieves.

Human Choice and Accomplishment
The ultimate determinant in human accomplishment is our own true desires and wants. It is our choices that ultimately determines the outcome and real accomplishment in life.

Making the Choice that Accomplishes
The determination of accomplishment is determined by choice; it is made possible by the conscious exercise of choice at every minute. The short term gain vs. long term benefit; the occasion to exert vs. the least line of resistance; the courage to embrace the new vs. the cozy comfort of tradition; the readiness to risk vs. the sense of security, etc. etc. (MSS, modified)

Unfailing Success
For any undertaking in life to succeed one must have total commitment, have complete positive attitudes about and during the endeavor, and make an unflagging and unwavering effort towards its execution.

Process of Growth that Formulates Achievement
Following the process of growth and accomplishment formulates achievement.

Follow the Process of Growth and Accomplishment
Normally, when we make progress, it is a result of our response to the pressures and challenges of life. This is for the most part an unconscious form of growth. Conscious growth, on the other hand, takes place when we self-conceive that which we want to become. We consciously grow when we aspire to accomplish something, organize the details of our vision, and then carry it out until our vision becomes a living reality. This is, in essence, the process of growth and accomplishment -- the most direct and powerful approach for bringing about long-lasting success and happiness in life. Action Plan: Consider taking up a new opportunity, or developing a new skill, or making a major change in your career, or adopting an important personal value in your life. Begin by envisioning what you want to accomplish, and from there establish the major goals to achieve that vision. Then organize the goals into practical strategies and plans of action. When you systematically carry them out -- supported by your highest high skills, your most positive attitudes, and by making the full, persevering effort -- the infinite potentials of life will suddenly open up before you!

On Accomplishment
Accomplishment issues from energy converted into power through direction and organisation. (MSS)

Process or Accomplishment
Aspiration releases energy, Will directs energy to become force, Organisation changes force into usable power, and skills create results out of power. (MSS)

Mind, Knowledge, and Will
Mind has knowledge and will. Will executes what knowledge knows.

Ultimate Achievement
The spirit offers ultimate achievement -- infinite in no time.

Achieving Anything, Solving Problems through Spirit that We are Within
The source of all creation is divinity (or the Spirit). So by releasing this powerful Spirit into action (or by invoking or by taking the help of this Spirit that resides within us) we can achieve anything in life, we can solve any problem. (MSS)

Powers of Human Mind and Spirit in Accomplishment
Individuals are now just beginning to tap into the mid and upper levels of the power of mind to accelerate accomplishment in life. A few are using the highest powers of mind to create even greater accomplishment. A very rare few are using the spiritual powers (a plane beyond mind) which enables one to tap into the infinite powers of accomplishment.

Utilize Inner Techniques to Accomplish
One can use spiritual techniques like calling and deference to a Higher Power to create great accomplishment in life.

Accomplishing Infinitely by Acting on the Universe Contained Inside Ourselves
For 10,000 years we lived our lives based on our perception of physical space and measured time, which the Internet now threatens to abridge to a considerable degree. And yet the deeper inner consciousness of an individual can contain the entire universe within himself at any moment, negating space and time altogether. E.g. he can take actions from those depths, using that Force, enabling life to instantly respond up to an infinite degree from anywhere on earth within seconds. Even the Internet is a scratch of the surface compared to the accomplishment and joy that can emanate from this timeless, spaceless, infinite existence that we can contain from within.

Optimal Accomplishment through Values and Spirit
Optimal accomplishment in life is achieved through intense aspiration married to focused key values in life, implemented through maximum effort. Together they create great efficiency to accomplish in life. (That is, the greatest result with the least effort). Utilizing, surrendering to the spiritual Force creates the greatest scope and possibility for accomplishment, and is also the most efficient.

The Hidden Patterns of Life and Accomplishment
The final outcome to whether or not one accomplishes is also reflected in the operations and undercurrent of forces that are subconscious to most humans. These include "life responses" and other hidden patterns and processes that seem to circumvent time and space and all sense of normal logic. Like the attempt to understand the mechanics of quantum physics if understood these secret patterns of life could reveal the ultimate mystery to endless accomplishment in life.

Accomplishment and the Sanction of One's Emotions
An individual may think about ways to improve himself, though that is not enough to accomplish. He can even try to accomplish, but that might not bring in the desired results. When the mind decides to accomplish something it needs the sanction of the vital, the emotions. When there is a desire, an emotion to accomplish a thing it gains force and will of purpose. Thought to accomplish without the emotional desire and need will leave things as they are. For example, an individual might want to get more money in his life. However at an emotional level he feels secure in his current state. perhaps he seeks freedom, more than material gain in the form of money. Money will not come to such an individual even if he thinks he needs more money. A deep-felt want, hunger, ambition for money will unleash from life positive responses that will bring him toward his goal. If he takes a physical action, i.e. he acts on this emotion, he completes the process that will attract money to him in his life.

Accomplishment, Involution, and Evolution
Individuals accomplish by growing beyond their limited capacities. In other words, from out of the limitations, the "Involution," humans make an Evolution. Greater accomplishment comes from out of this process. In fact, this is a process that the whole universe is going through. The ultimate purpose of this process is the unfolding of the higher qualities and capacities in the individual, which reflect the original purpose and determinants of the source of the creation, the Absolute, the Divine.

Our capacity, including our ability to accomplish can be measured by our level of skills and knowledge, the degree of our organization, the positive or negative nature of our attitudes, our energy, drive, and will, and many other endowments, including those we absorb from the family, environment, and society.

A capacity can be measured as to its degree of intensity, and to the degree we have it in positive or negative measure. A man can thus have great strength, but use it negatively.

Capacity
Capacity implies skill, talent, ability, strength, endurance, etc. (MSS)

Individual Capacity
By capacity we mean the predominant human traits that make up the individual's character. These traits can be expressed positively or negatively, and with greater or lesser strength and predominance. These capacities or traits include such groupings as the individual's attitudes, endowments, environmental influences, and so forth.

Growth of Personal Capacity
Growth of personal capacity involves a progressive increase in the ability of the individual to generate, harness, release and control physical energy as skill, vital energy as behavior, emotional energy as attitudes and motives, and mental energy as thought, opinions and values. Human energy is generated and released by knowledge and willed effort. The physical effort to master a skill requires an enormous expenditure of energy. The acquisition of the skill converts that energy into a formed nervous capacity of the individual. The vital nervous effort to acquire appropriate external behaviors requires an even greater expenditure of energy to achieve self-control over one’s physical movements, gestures, expressions and speech. That behavior is only the external expression of personal attitudes. The effort to acquire positive feelings and attitudes toward people, circumstances and events involves a culturing of the emotions and motives that requires a tremendous investment of energy and results in the gradual building of the psychological intensity of character. A similar exercise of will at the mental effort results in the development of the capacity for thought, the formation of opinions and higher values. The cumulative capacity or force of personality resulting from this multi-level development at the physical, vital, emotional and mental level determines the nature and intensity of the responses of life to the individual. (MSS)

Accomplishment & Individual Capacity
Accomplishment in life is in proportion to the capacity of the individual. Capacity is a measure of the strength of personal character. Character is the formed structure of the personality built up by knowledge, will and values to generate, release and convert raw human energy into personal intensity. It is the intensity of personality that attracts to the individual forces of similar strength and nature in the form of opportunities for advancement and struggles for survival. (MSS)

Skill, Talent, Capacity
-It is necessary to distinguish between skill, capacity, ability and talent.

-Talent is interest organised to perfection. All the capacity concentrated on one skill raises that skill to a pinnacle of talent.

-Any talent is created by one skill getting fortified by the entire capacity of the Individual. To convert one skill into a talent by the general capacity, one needs that ability. (MSS)

Skill, Capacity, Talent

Skill is at three levels – physical, vital, mental.
Capacity is the essence of all skills you have learned.
Talent is interest organised to perfection. All the capacity concentrated on one skill raises that skill to a pinnacle of talent. (MSS)

What Achieves
Skilful hands, a clear vision, a concentrated attention, an untiring patience, and what one does is well done. (The Mother)

“Take Inventory of Yourself” as the First Step to Endless Progress
We are an amalgam of capacities and virtues. Each of us has exemplary, average, and weak parts of our nature and character. Over the course of our lives, we succeed because of our strengths, but are held back because of our weaknesses. We could argue metaphysically that our soul has taken birth in our bodies so that it can advance itself through our growth and development. From the “negative side,” we progress by turning our negative propensities into positive ones. Those truly on the path of personal growth dedicate their lives to this process.

Though there are dozens if not hundred major and minor endowments, and capacities of our being, we can identify several constellations of traits that will indicate the general state of our strengths and weaknesses in life. If we identify say one or two of the weaker ones, make the concerted effort to overcome them, not only will we progress, develop, and evolve as individuals, but we will tend to accomplish at far greater levels in life, which will lead to experiences of constant joy and delight in being alive.

Consider the following list, determine which ones are false for you, i.e. where your weaknesses lie, pick out one or two where you can improve yourself, and come up with a plan to overcome them. By doing so, your life will never be the same, as you will quickly be propelled towards the pinnacles of success, and feel a constant joy and happiness through that process.

I am psychologically strong.
I am organized in all facets of my being.
I have the necessary knowledge and skills to be successful in my work.
I am continually self-giving, instead of being selfish.
I really love the work I am doing. I have a passion for it.

I have eminently positive attitudes toward everyone, and everything in life.

I am willing to give up old repeating habits.

I think for myself, and avoid the herd mentality.

I am rational, taking in all points of view.

I am filled with energy all of the time.

I have a deep aspiration to improve myself in life.

I work hard, and continually make a persevering effort.

One individual determined that he could be more self-giving, less selfish, and work harder. Another that she was psychologically weak, that she found it difficult to give up old habits, and that it was difficult to have an aspiration for something more than what she currently was. When each examined the reasons these were the case, and made the concerted effort to overcome these limiting traits, their lives improved dramatically, even overwhelmingly, in short order. I.e. life constantly responded to their efforts with instances of sudden good fortune (i.e. “life response”). They were able to quickly move to the heights of success, becoming leaders in their fields, and all the while becoming infinitely creative, bordering on genius Their lives were not only then filled with abundant material success, but was accompanied by a deep contentment and joy within.

It is the power of taking inventory of yourself, and acting on it, to attract the infinite potentials of life.

Keys to Achievement, Growth, and Life Response

GENERAL

Intention, Will
Higher Levels of Energy
Willingness Do What Life Gives, Overcoming Reluctances
Availing Opportunities
Makes Full Effort
Hard Work
Persistence
Determination
Endurance
Personal Organization
Skills