Role Model – Define your growth path

Change is constant in life. We call it as our growth when the changes influence us in a positive way. The primary purpose of our life is to grow in a positive way and lead a meaningful & purposeful life. It is important to experience and feel the positivity of growth from time to time on a constant basis. Life becomes dull and monotonous when one fails to experience the positivity.

Growth: Positive growth can be achieved by two means. One is by contribution.

 Yes!! Contribution = Growth

Contribution: Your resourcefulness gets leveraged only when acquired resources are utilised for the benefits of others. This is called contribution and the contribution aids in allowing the energy generated by your resourcefulness to flow seamlessly.  The energy is blocked when your resourcefulness is not utilised for the purpose of others. For example, my resourcefulness of yoga skill has no meaning if I do not allow leveraging this skill for the benefit of others. Obviously, our contribution has positive impact on others and as well it aids in our own growth.

Secondly, growth can be achieved by enhancing the resources or by acquiring new skills. These resources/new skills should influence you in a positive way to lead a meaningful and purposeful life.

Role Model: Role modelling is one such ideal way to build the new skills/new resources. First step is to identify the role model depending on the level of interest in the field where you want to build your new skill/resource.  If you believe that running marathon will influence in a positive way which improves your health and fitness level then it is important to anchor this idea, right away. Obviously, right now, you do not have the right kind of resources to achieve the end result but you seek to build the resources by adopting the qualities of the role model.

Anchoring: The best way to anchor the virtues of role model is to take the printout of the photo of the role model & write down the list of qualities that you want to build over the period of time. Stick this photo and qualities that you want to build in your bedroom or drawing room. Whenever, you see this photo, it acts as a reminder to achieve this goal. Then, all that you need to do is to mimic the successful patterns of this role model. Over the period of time, you can able to produce similar result as that of your role model.

Bridging the gaps:  In our culture, a person who has achieved greatest heights in any particular field is titled as DEVA. Yes, they are equated to God. For example, Sachin Tendulkar is considered as a cricket god. Here, we are trying to reproduce his success pattern. While attempting this, the first start point is to understand your present resource capabilities and mindfully bridging the gap between your current patterns to that of the role model.

This involves a three steps process. a) Understand our present resource capabilities b) understand the success pattern resource requirements c) mindfully bridging the gaps between these two patterns.  Most of us do the mistakes in not understanding clearly our own resource capabilities or simply overstepping into our unknown discomfort zone that eventually causes the damage.

So, anchoring is a powerful tool and a clearly defined process as explained above is important in avoiding those commonly made mistakes. Let us GROW and HELP others to grow!!