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From the Publisher’s Desk
Love… Happiness… Success
by Dr. Dev Anuroop Brar, MD
These three words are interrelated; yet most people view them as separate. There is, however, a fourth word that interrelates the three words completely, and a fifth word that breaks them apart. What are these words? Let’s see if we can discover them.
When you love someone, you look for ways to make her/him happy. You never expect anything in return. You are not thinking about yourself.
Happiness has been linked with love in the above statements. It is true that there is no true happiness that does not result from love or loving others. However, there are other types of happiness too. For example, we experience the joy of true happiness when we are doing something for others. When we are truly doing for others, we are not expecting anything in return. We feel a “deep in the stomach” happiness. We feel shivers that run through our spine because of that happiness. That happiness exists because we are not thinking of ourselves.
I know of no person who has been successful by taking care of him/herself. All real successful people have been such because they did things for others. I have mentioned this belief at various meetings in our office. I tell our staff that their success in life is determined by what they do after doing what they are expected to do. I never have to ask the successful people in our organization to work longer or harder. They do it because they know this principle. There is no success story in the world that does not start and finish with people doing things for others. The most successful ones are those who do it without expecting anything in return. They get rejection but they keep on doing what is right for their customer. They experience failure and sometimes ridicule, but they keep on doing things for others. They do not think about themselves. Hence, they succeed.
So what is the fourth word? SACRIFICE!
And what is the fifth word that, when it is used, eliminates all above-mentioned beautiful experiences?
That word is ‘I’ or ‘Me’.
Sacrificing without thinking of yourself...(I or Me) and you will ALWAYS be blessed with love, happiness and success in their truest form.
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