Another wonderful excerpt from Unbeatable Minds, Invincible Spirits: Profiles of Soul-Smart Leadership, by Dilip Mukerjea: 

THE QUINTESSENCE OF SUCCESS

It’s a simple fact that you’ll never outperform your own level of self-belief. You must nourish and nurture your selfimage, impelled by self-efficacy, to do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to get your life under control, and to create lasting success for yourself. This point of awareness can be called your ‘line in the sand moment’. It’s the line you draw, and once you step across it … you will never be the same again. Like a line in the sand, no one else will ever know it was there, except you. The wind will come and blow it away, the tide will come in and wash it away, but the minute you cross the line, something changes in you forever.

I believe that it is this phenomenon that shapes the character and steers the trajectory of individuals who have unbeatable minds, invincible spirits.

As shown in the process map to the left, the path to success begins with a ‘white-hot desire’ that is impelled by ‘definiteness of purpose’. This is aimed at where you wish to project the direction and destination of your vision.

Armed with the elements of the first step, you need to be imbued with ‘applied faith’, where you have ‘faith in faith’ to fuel and impel your efforts. At this point, you are ready to activate the final step with ‘massive action’. This involves the relentless feeding of desire by action that creates the white-heat of superperformance, where you enjoy gold medal outcomes!

On the next page our process map takes the guise of an ‘Arrows’ Metaphor,

where A = Agenda, R = Rules, R = Roles, O = Outcomes, W = Wisdom, and S = Success.

The virtue of having a breakthrough vision is to equip you with a force that impels you in the direction of stunning success. It is better to steer by a lodestar than to drift across a meaningless sea: your vision is your lodestar. A compelling vision is your master plan, the blueprint of your triumph over trials and tribulations, for you to make an impact on humanity.

Your success in life will come from

• the integrity of your vision, to cast a guiding light upon your path,

• the strength of your discipline, to carry through your objectives,

• the power of your passion, to fuel your actions, and

• the purity of your conscience, to ennoble your presence on the planet.

In this way, you will have the raw materials to serve humankind in peerless ways.

Such is the path taken by unbeatable minds, invincible spirits.

A way to plot the path to success can be discerned from The Arrows Metaphor, to the right, where:

A ~ the agenda, describes and prescribes the mission that will serve your vision;

R ~ the rules of the process that will qualify you to play within the challenge space that is your context of operations;

R ~ the roles to be played by you and your team (if there is one) within the rules of engagement;

O ~ the outcomes that emerge from the actions and interactions directed at realising your vision;

W ~ the wisdom (relevant to The Age of Wisdom, and The Wisdom Economy) acquired from the processes at play;

S ~ success, the ensuing realisation of your vision.

Leaders who are imbued with a clear, compelling vision, are almost certain to realise their vision. But when goals are vague, interactions unpredictable, complexity extensive, problem descriptions incomplete, and the environment uncertain, success can prove elusive. Yet the individual with an unbeatable mind, invincible spirit, knows that defeat is not death, and that with perfect persistence and indefatigable determination, it is possible to triumph over adversity...with stoicism.

“Stoicism is about the domestication, not necessarily the elimination, of emotions. It is not about turning humans into vegetables. My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.” 

~ Nicholas Nassim Taleb 

Statesmen-Leaders graced with indomitable resilience know that every time they begin to feel anxious or upset, they practise the Triad of Control. To do this, they simply distinguish, in any given situation, whether they have total control, no control, or some control. Then they focus on what is in their controlwith their whole being...and go for gold!