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The Happening Day

-Prosenjit Bhattacharya

Every day that we live has to be a happening day. Great things never comeour way. We have to make them happen. The first step is to stay confident.The secret to becoming confident is preparation. By practicing we come to a point of competence. We find ourselves accomplishing our goals gracefullyand confidently. It is then that we do things that we never dreamt we coulddo. We discover powers we never knew existed. Negative feelings createroadblocks in our path of progress, because of which we stumble down attimes. We achieve to the degree that we overcome the negative. Achieversare willing to pay the price of achievement. They sacrifice, struggle, work on, perhaps alone, weary, and discouraged, and yet at each step overcomethe negative.Our attitude is not determined by circumstances, but by how we respond tocircumstances. Our minds determine our attitude. We can respond positivelyor negatively. It’s how we react to events, not the events themselves thatdetermines our attitude. We gain the advantage in any situation through onemedium: time. We gain the advantage by doing things before they need to bedone---positioning ourselves ahead of time in the best place. Those whothink ahead to the approaching action will have the advantage. They willalways emerge out as the winners.We can know what people are thinking by looking at what they do. Actionsmirror thoughts. And by taking a good look at where we are and what we aredoing; we can understand what we are thinking. The thoughts we havechosen have brought us where we are today. We are in control to the degreethat we make the decisions. To affect the outcome of anything, we mustcontrol the action at the point of decision-making. If we let others makedecisions for us, we have no control. When we control the decisions, wecontrol the actions. We gain what we want through the help and support of others. To be agreeable, to be liked, to cooperate---this contributesimmeasurably to our success. When we coordinate our efforts with theefforts of others, we speed the way to our goals.Cooperation builds success. But we also get to embrace conflicts and everyconflict is a set of opposing ideas. All of us have had the feeling: knowing

what we should do on the one hand, and doing what we feel like doing onthe other. By understanding these two opposing forces warring within us, wecome to knowledge of the truth: we no longer remain slaves. A clear understanding will make us masters. Now comes the question, how can weactually progress? Progress begins a step at a time. There is no sudden leapto greatness. Our success lies in doing day by day. The upward reach comesfrom working carefully and well. Good work done little by little becomes agreat work.The house of success is built brick by brick. Events surround us. And Life isa series of events. Events tend to repeat themselves. The tide of opportunitycomes to us all. And when we are prepared for opportunity, our chance issure to come. Success doesn’t depend upon being at the right place at theright time---it depends upon being ready. Successful people are not afraid tofail. They accept their failures and continue on, knowing that failure is anatural consequence of trying. They go from failure to failure, until at lastsuccess is theirs. The law of failure is one of the most powerful of allsuccess laws: we fail only when we can’t accept failure. To feel in our innermost being that we will achieve what we set out to do---this opens theway for miracles. Expecting something to happen energizes our goal andgives it momentum. We often find that life responds to our outlook. What weexpect to happen, happens. The dreams we choose to believe in come to be.We all need faith. Faith is based upon something---the evidence of things notseen. To have faith, we must have evidence. Faith is not blind. We can knowthe invisible by seeing the visible. We can see the trees bend and know thereis wind. We can see the moon reflect light and know the sun is shining. Wecan see man, and know there is something beyond. The force of habit can beswift to push us to failure or to success. The more we do something, themore likely we are to do it again. Habit is like a cable---coiled, it binds us asits slave; stretched like a bridge, it enables us to walk across the deepestvalley to freedom. Seeing all the possibilities, seeing all that can be done,and how it can be done, marks the power of imagination. Our imagination isour own personal laboratory. Here we can recreate events, map out plans,and visualize overcoming obstacles. Imagination shows us how to turn possibility into reality. Before us lie two paths---honesty and dishonesty. Theshortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For thewise know the truth: in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurtingothers we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises