Thank you mate. This reminds me of a wonderful quote –

” I was afraid of so many things in life, most of which never happened!”

I guess as a culture we do give a lot more importance to the fear than it actually deserves. It is a beautiful struggle to try and come out of it :)

It is true that we should have a clear goals in life. Identify your talent and work on it. Let not the Fear of failure stops you.

Thank you Jayasimha, I hope so too. Maybe sometime soon. That is one dream I have from a long time, to write a book on these motivational ideas, hopefully it will all come to a reality :).

Happy to bring a smile Jayasimha, I am sure you will bring some innovative strategies to make it happen. I would be happy to help in any small way I can. Will stay in touch.

Cheers mate :)

Thanks for yor reply..to know that your friend has cleared it giving me some hope..Yea It is the time to strategise and use my time effectively.. I also hope that compilation of your articles come in a book form :)

Thank you Jayasimha for sharing your dream and such amazing words about me :). I really feel very proud to read such great words. I too have been a huge fan of these personality development books and started reading them very early. Somehow somewhere I feel that there needs to be a bridge between those ideals and their application which gave birth to this site Inspire99 and it has focussed on it from then on :).

I am really happy to know that it is realizing its purpose and such words truly make my day :). You have a fantastic dream mate and to know that you have been persevering is a beautiful thing, keep it up mate, I am sure you will get there.

I understand the constraints and I also understand the need for you to stay in a job. In your case, none of these sound like excuses, they are genuine concerns and you are finding a way to work with them which is truly admirable. I had a friend who made into IPS while working with me in Analog Devices and it was quite an inspiring feeling talking to him. I wish I could have put you in touch with him but unfortunately I have lost contact. But I think it is truly an achievable task. The way I see it, you have a very strong WHY and that will take you far.

There sure is a way to clear this exam mate. I think you need to find a way to be organized better, make sure that you spend atleast 6Hrs a day on this exam keeping everything aside. You know your priorities, it is going to be hard but stick to them, they will find you a way out. And motivation is a very interesting thing, the more you do it, the closer you get to your results and that inspires you for more;. I think the need of the hour is your strategy and time utilization. If you master that, the IAS exam should be a cake walk for you :) ..

Cheers mate :)

Thank you very much Vidhya :). Hopefully some day soon, we shall get there.

That’s beautiful to have these dreams Vidhya and the simpler they are, the more inspiring they are and faster you can move from one dream to another. I think a BIG DREAM is more of a hype, each us have that special calling in ourselves and those special callings define who we are. And if we are satisfied and happy with those special callings, then nothing better than that indeed :).

I am happy to know that the post infused a thought, that was all I was hoping for when I came up with this post. Hopefully we will keep coming with more such ones in the future :)

Thank you Chaitali, such lovely words, I am humbled and proud all at the same time :).

I certainly hope some day to come out with a book on these ideas compiled together, hopefully with time I will be able to bring one such interesting one :)