Secret of Success : Successful People Interview 1

I have an ambition to meet a minimum of thirty prominent world class successful people and to understand the underlying success formula that made them successful in life. These are successful business CEOs, positive psychologists and spiritual gurus. I believe that there is a basic winning formula underlying their successes that can be easily followed and replicated by anyone.

In this series of Blogs, I am going to share success stories and success formulas of all those people to whom I have met and have learned from.

Success Story: This is the success story of Mr.Ravi Sundaram. He belongs to a middle class family with no formal educational qualification. A decade before, he found hard to take care of his family and to meet the basic needs of his living. Ravi is presently an Executive President Team member and India’s topmost distributor of Herbalife. He is fondly referred as ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’ by his Herbalife global partners. He conducts regular personal development programs where the participant’s strength usually crosses few thousand people. 

Recently , I got an opportunity to meet up with him on the occasion of his house warming ceremony. I have summarized below an abstract level of his winning strategies based on my conversation with him.

Success Formulas:

1.       Whatever work we are into, just keep our execution simple & ‘easy to follow’. It has to be so simple that when we train someone then that trained person should able to pass his skill to another person at ease. In this way, our wisdom branches through people as the flow of river water that branch into multiple streams.

2.       Strong desire and intention are the driving forces to achieve the results. Without which, one cannot progresses well in life.

3.       At first, everything happens as an idea. Ideas flourish when a person does not bind himself with his present resources and limitations. They say, “It happens only twice in life”. Once as an idea in the mind in our internal world and another as an action/execution in the outside world.

4.       When the idea comes to us, it does not matter ‘how & when’ to execute the idea. What matters the most are ‘Why & what’ to do with the idea. ‘Why & what’ is an approach of visionaries and ‘How & when’ is an approach of theorists. This is the difference between visionaries and theorists. Mark Hughes of Herbalife was one such visionary.

5.       When we have a vision, we live with that vision as if it is happening right now. We live in this imaginative reality. This is the power of the imaginative faculty and by doing so eventually, things fall in place and manifest in physical reality. This is the fundamental of law of attraction.

6.       Express gratitude to others for whatever position we are in today. This is a great virtue to become successful. Also, to be more successful don’t expect gratitude from others.

7.       It is natural that people start building trust with us as we progress in life. The greatest success formula is not to compromise that trust in any given situation at any cost.

8.       We are human beings and we all have our own dull moments some times in life. During these moments, one can bounce back to normal life. This is mainly because of the return energy. Return energy is the energy that comes from the people to whom we have given our energy at an earlier part of our life.

9.       Every failure in life is a good experience. This experience helps us in come out the present crises of big challenges and bad moments in life in quick time.

10.   Be open to any new idea from anyone at anytime. Keep ego level low irrespective of our current status and achievements. This attitude makes us grow further.

11.   Successful people know clearly that they have grown well. They are aware that their growth depends upon the growth of the other people who have trusted them. They help others to grow and in that process they grow .This is a win-win situation.

12.   Successful people are very focused. They work on people who have shown genuine interest in growing. They don’t spend time with people who do not have strong desire for their development. Hence they discard them as they don’t see value in dealing with them.