Success 24x7

By Anil Bhatnagar

This incredibly powerful and inspiring book shares simple and effective methods to give you true success—both corporate and personal—and explains how both can thrive on each other and help each other thrive. Success 24 x 7 takes you on a journey of round-the-clock happiness and success. Enjoy!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wisdom Tree Publishers
• Release date: Jun 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9788183284370

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Anil Bhatnagar, founder of Thrive!, is a motivational speaker, career and personal growth coach, Reiki teacher, an ISTD awardwinning author of five books and a pioneer as a corporate trainer, in spiritualising corporate operations. He writes prolifically for Business India, Life Positive and Training and Management in India and for Covey Leadership Centre’s Personal Excellence and Executive Excellence in USA. His intense, passionate and lifetransforming articles, books and workshops have been widely acclaimed both in India and abroad. Among his corporate clients are ABB Limited, Airtel, BHEL, Bhushan Steel & Strips, EIL, Escotel, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, NTPC, Oriental Insurance and SAIL, He is also associated with CRY for developing selfesteem, confidence and prosperity consciousness among children from slums. A civil engineering graduate from IIT, Delhi, he has worked for over two decades with Steel Authority of India Limited at its Rourkela Steel Plant and subsequently at its corporate office in Delhi before founding Thrive!

He is a man with wide spectrum of interests, each of which he pursues with tremendous zeal. Apart from being a Reiki master, he is a keen student of communication, personal management, neuro-linguistic programming, religion, philosophy, psychology, science, parapsychology, yoga, pranayama and meditation. He loves to paint and write poems.

© Anil Bhatnagar, 2005

First published 2005

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Dedicated to

the love, beauty, and wisdom

of Latent Oneness

that got this book to come into being

in its own mysterious ways

and to

my spirit guides, spiritual masters and

silence, through whom it whispered its secrets to me.

. . .Like a river

this book is a humble offering of love

back to its source.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: The Mechanism

I. Beginning… From Beyond all the Beginnings

II. The Secret Laws of Latent Oneness

Part 2: The Reprogramming

I. Attune Yourself to Latent Oneness

II. Leave the Leaves; Water the Roots

III. Take Roots in the Reality of Oneness

IV. Practise the Economics of Abundance

V. Anticipate, Recognise and Trust the Change

VI. Discover Your Purpose in the Big Plan

VII. Develop Motivation Muscle

VIII. Use the Power of Positive Thoughts

IX. Develop Quality People

X. Make the Best Use of the Present Moment

Part 3: The Commitment

Epilogue

Glossary

Preface

When man looked up at the sky he spotted a few birds flying above and wished he too could fly like them by attaching wings to himself because this appeared to him as the only difference between him and the birds. He could not however succeed in flying till he discovered the hidden laws of aerodynamics. Managing anything effectively becomes possible only when we perceive things as they are; not as they appear to be. Management strategies that stem from incomplete or incorrect perception can only be far from effective.

However, the problem with perception is that we tend to take what is perceived through our senses (or extensions thereof) alone as the whole truth. The earth we walk on appears to be flat, stationary, and densely solid and the sun appears to be revolving around it. But we all know today that none of these is true; the earth is neither densely solid nor stationary and flat. A major chunk of the atoms that the earth is made up of is nothing but an empty space. The subatomic particles that move about in this empty space are as distant from each other as are the stars and planets. So we can say that the earth that is made up of atoms is as empty a space, as is the intergalactic space. Apart from this, it is not stationary; it is both spinning about its tilted axis as well as revolving in its orbit around the sun at incredible speed. However, but for the persevering efforts of a few courageous men like Galileo, Copernicus and Kepler, we would have still been harbouring the same erroneous perceptions. And with these erroneous perceptions we would not have succeeded in making manned landings on the moon. Satellites without which life seems to be almost impossible today would have remained beyond human imagination too.

The real revolution in the field of medicine came with the findings of Louis Pasteur. He discovered that infection, putrefaction and disease were caused by organisms which were too small to be visible to the naked eye. Though people were slow to accept such a revolutionary concept when it surfaced, but the paradigm shift Pasteur’s findings brought about with them sparked off a chain of discoveries and inventions that were to totally transform the field of medicine.

Corresponding to every paradigm shift that often comes in the wake of an improved perception or a new insight, the history of the world has seen quantum leaps in our potential to manage things, resulting in a wider and more effective control over all related facets of our lives.

Evolution in any field, in spite of taking place gradually for the most part, often involves quantum leaps. This we have seen not only in the case of biological evolution of species but also on a comparatively smaller scale of time in the life of individuals and organisations too. Individuals and organisations experience almost no significant change for twenty, thirty years or more. Then suddenly a deep insight surfaces unexpectedly at the most unexpected of moments connecting the hitherto scattered pieces of knowledge and experiences to give them a new and often a revolutionary meaning and perception. Individuals and organisations get to see and comprehend, then, the whole of the truth in one go just as a flash of lightning illuminates the whole of the landscape that was hitherto enveloped in the darkness of the night, enabling one to clearly see the buildings, the hills, the connecting roads, the trees and all the rest, though only for an infinitesimal part of a second. Such moments are inspiring and often transform our lives in such a profound manner that we start wondering how something that could happen in just a moment eluded us for twenty to thirty years. This book, Success 24 x 7 will be one such ‘flash of lightning’ experience for the reader.

As science is fast catching up with the age-old findings of the ancient Eastern mystics, new insights are surfacing on the horizon. As a result, a new and radical paradigm shift is beckoning us to shift our focus from ‘things’ to ‘thoughts’. And this time, it is the field of management that is going to be taken by a storm by this paradigm shift. If we manage to understand correctly the relationship between ’the things out there’ and the ‘thoughts in here’, or between the external truths and the internal beliefs, the consequences of this great and historic paradigm shift will be simply mind boggling. This paradigm shift is undisputedly one of the most important that man has ever come across in the history of this world. As a quantum leap, it will unravel the mystery from the phenomenon we call success; it will lay bare, one after the other, the infallible and timeless key secrets of success.

Success, in fact, is child’s play; it becomes otherwise only when we think it be otherwise. Success is merely an inner mental state or attitude projected outside. In fact, what we enjoy is not success, but the bliss of this inner state that manifests itself as success externally. However, oblivious to this truth, we frantically keep chasing the mirage of success like the deer that jumps here and there in search of musk, the source of which lies nowhere outside but within him only.

Success, whether corporate or personal, should come effortlessly, for it is in our very nature to be successful and this is what we are born for. We cannot and need not strive for it. Like sleep, it just takes place when we allow it to, by not worrying about it. Like a rose it just flowers naturally when we let the right conditions come into being.

My definition of Nature extends beyond the usual one to include everything else, for nothing is beyond its laws. Close your eyes and mentally step back far enough from this world, shed your ego and bias for the species you belong to for a little while, and try to see man just as any other species living on this planet. Once you do that, it shall be much easier for you to realise that the skyscrapers that we build for ourselves with all the comforts and modern sophisticated gadgetry provided therein, are merely the extensions of a bird’s effort at building a cozy nest or a spider’s building of its artistic web.

The source of intelligence that guides a bird in making its nest or the bees their hive is the same that led man to making new discoveries, inventions and technological advancement. The architects and builders may belong to a different species but be it a skyscraper, a bee’s hive, a bird’s nest or a spider’s web, the process of their coming into being is akin to the blossoming of a flower. They all bloom like a flower because the intelligence that guides these builders of different species is the same intelligence that orchestrates the blooming of all flowers in this universe.

The law that governs the flowering of a rose, therefore, also holds good for the successful flowering of any endeavour— human or otherwise, corporate or personal. Bliss and success are in our very nature and stand only this realisation away from us. This book, Success 24 x 7 is an attempt to share this very realisation with others as an offering to Latent Oneness from where this realisation came and flowered within me.

The book is divided into three parts: The Mechanism, The Re-programming and Making the Commitment. The first part discusses and makes us aware of a hidden and subtle mechanism working behind all happenings—good or bad. The second discusses the ten conditions that are essential for consciously making this mechanism work for bringing corporate and personal success to us and the third one makes us see the need to put to use all that we will learn in this book.

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Acknowledgements

When I think of people through whom Latent Oneness inspired me to write this book, it is you, Mummyji, whose kind face and loving eyes spring to my mind first of all.

Thank you Mummyji, for blessing each word of this book. As I was typing the last few words of this book you were breathing your last breaths some miles away. I now know why there was such an intense feeling of love engulfing me all over at that time. Though I could not see you in person, you had come to see me for the last time. Now I know for sure! Unmistakably it was you. Minutes later, when the telephone bell rang I intuitively knew that it was for me. I was right; you had been admitted to the hospital. On my way to see you, I got the news; in fact, though I was not told so, you had already left this world of form.

It seems that it was only yesterday when you were there beside me, holding and guiding my tiny hand when I was struggling to learn my first alphabets. In a way it was only at that very time the Latent Oneness had sowed the first seeds of this book in me through the love with which you were attending to all my spiritual needs. You kept nurturing the sprouts of holy samskaras in us throughout your life thereafter.

Those whom we cannot emulate, we feel like worshipping and this is what I feel like doing when memories of you imbued with selfless service, unfathomable love, exemplary sacrifice and incredible tolerance rush from all corners of my being to fill the void that you have left behind. Clouds of memories, however, fail me miserably in my attempt to recapture in them your sky-like infinite love, which was not only for us in the family but for whosoever entered your life.

Today I can readily believe in the life and sacrifice of Christ only because I saw in you all that I found difficult to believe for a human to be. I have no words to thank Latent Oneness for agreeing to accompany me in such a saintly mother till only recently.

Today when I want to tell you how much you meant to me, and the fact that I too loved you very intensely—something which I never told you before verbally, it is this realisation of Latent Oneness only that enables me to withstand and overcome our physical separation. I know we are still a part of the eternal Latent Oneness. No one ever departs or gets lost from this Latent Oneness.

Your words still ring in my ears, No one who wants to enjoy God’s blessings and please Him should ever think of hurting or exploiting females, animals, Mother Earth or anybody who cannot or does not protest. Probably it becomes too much to digest for God. Like a mother, God is extra sensitive towards His seemingly weaker children. When they get hurt, it is God who feels the pain.

Tears come to my eyes when I think of you as my role model of a person who always believed in giving without expectation. Without a mother like you I could never have written about ‘the importance of giving and forgiving’ with so much conviction. My personal lessons in ‘Leave the Leaves; Water the Roots’ and ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ would have remained incomplete without a teacher like you, who taught more by example than by words.

Apart from you, I am greatly indebted to Swami Naveen Krishnadas, Srila Prabhupada, Dr Paul Brunton, J.Krishnamurti, Paramhansa Yogananda, Swami Atmananda Paramhansa (Dr S.S.Chand), Dr Wayne W. Dyer, Dr Deepak Chopra, Dr Barbara Brennan and Sukhdeepak Malwai, the spiritual masters through whose words, love and blessings the lotus of Truth still continues to unfold within me bit by bit; Parveen Chopra, the editor of Life Positive magazine, who made me chalk out the basic skeleton of this book by inviting me to write an article on the subject; wife Aruna and children Moksha and Vedant, for their support and patience; father, Krishna Acharya Bhatnagar, parents-in-law Kusum Bhatnagar and Dr Daya Parkash for their unconditional love and blessings; brother, Girish Bhatnagar, for giving invaluable feedback/ suggestions for the book. The book would not have been in this present shape without his loving guidance. He has always been such a great friend, philosopher and guide to me, right from my childhood days and I owe him a lot of nice things that I find in myself. I thank my friends Rajendra Goel, Subhadra Gupta and Vaani Kapoor for being such nice human beings and for taking the pains to go through the book and for giving some invaluable feedback/ suggestions. Finally, I am grateful to the publishers M/s Wisdom Tree, especially Shobit Arya, for his belief in, and support of this book.

…how we programme the DNA of destiny, though only unknowingly, and let it unfold as happenings around us.

I

Maybe, the strings of all happenings in the great-puppet show of our world are controlled by us, though only inadvertently, through some subtle unknown mechanism.

—Author

I was just a kid then. My father, on insistence of my elder brother Naresh, had finally bought a black Morris. Everyone at home was naturally very happy and excited. As my father never enjoyed driving and was a reluctant driver, it was Naresh who did most of the driving. However, since Father found it difficult to learn how to drive, he became very particular about what he found easier to do—taking good care of his newly acquired prized possession. He would not let even the slightest of repairs get postponed. He would wash it personally with the help of Naresh, every Sunday. It was Naresh’s great wish to see my father being able to drive well and enjoy that too. He started giving lessons to Father.

One day, after lot of persuasion, he made Father agree to drive independently without him in the car. We all had come downstairs to cheer him for that maiden drive of his. The car started moving, though, very slowly. But we did not mind as the speed was probably being amply compensated for by the great noise the car was making. We were all smiling andlooking at each other, not knowing what to expect next. Then came the major test. The car was to turn right to merge with the main road. There was not much traffic on the road. The car stopped for a while and then turned. And turned quite well—only thing it cut a much bigger curve than anybody would have expected. Our confidence in him grew. ‘Maybe one day he will be able to take us for a long drive,’ I thought. The expectations and dreams began to take roots within our hearts.

The next turn was to the left—and we were still watching him drive. At the corner of the turn was a tree, where a barber had his shop. For a while he turned his eyes off from his client’s chin who was seated in the chair in front of him and looked at the car, as if finding it difficult to believe that it was my father driving. He grinned and reverted back to the client with his shaving brush; but not for long. The car had turned a little too early. It was no longer on the road but was slowly moving towards him. The barber was not too sure whether my father wanted to talk to him or had lost the control on the car, so he decided to watch. He was still holding the shaving-brush in his hand, as his attention shuttled between the client’s chin and the approaching car. When you confront a lion, you do not have to do anything— it is the lion that does what is to be done. And this was exactly the attitude the poor barber had while confronting the monstrous-looking black car.

And it happened too suddenly—even before he could think any further. He was almost caught unaware. The car was still moving—carrying one of the legs of the chair on its bumper. You may not believe it but the frightened client with his blank face half covered with the shaving cream, instead of jumping off from the chair, was still clinging to it. Probably his mind had gone blank. The barber too had become too nervous. Unable to decide whether to discontinue his work or to carry on, he was still chasing the client with his shaving brush. Luckily for everybody, the car stopped well in time and except for the barber’s client, who suffered minor bruises, no one got hurt.

That client never came to that barber again; and, my father never drove again. But the next morning, the barber began to climb the tree whenever he noticed the black Morris coming on the road, without even caring to notice that it was my brother who was in the driving seat, this time.

The organisations in the corporate world, like cars, are driven by people, often making more noise but achieving less, cutting a turn either too early or too late, intending to be accelerating but experiencing the application of brakes instead. As per Arie de Geus (author of The Living Company, published by Harvard Business School), If looked at in light of what they could be, most commercial corporations are underachievers. They exploit only a small fraction of their potential and have a high mortality rate. By 1983, one-third of the 1970 Fortune-500 companies had broken or merged with bigger companies.

The question that immediately comes to our mind is, ‘Why?’

I will answer this question by asking another one. What will happen to the car, the owner-driver and other passengers in the car, if the owner makes all possible efforts to keep the car in the best of condition but forgets to hone his own driving talents or doesn’t care to know the traffic rules and signs and still carries on and on, without doing the needful? Surprisingly, most of the organisations are doing precisely the same; they are doing their best to improve everything without paying heed to the development of people who ‘drive’ these systems. Without an understanding of the spiritual warning signals and the spiritual traffic rules that govern all organisations alike, it is no wonder that people fail to achieve what they could, and that too not without losing mental peace, conscience and health in the process. Organisations are too busy formulating rules and policies that are predominantly based on pure logic, left-brained thinking and the language of economics. Unfortunately all these strategies are out of sync with principles according to which the latent world orchestrates the happenings of our world.

Happenings, corporate or otherwise, have reasons much deeper than what the logical mind can have access to. Let me share with you some very ordinary happenings, the oneswhich almost each one of us keeps encountering, every now and then, in our lives.

I can go on and on, citing such examples from my life. And I am sure, like me, you too could cite innumerable such examples from your own life.

However, such coincidences may not always be pleasant.

Plane crashes, road and railway accidents often take place in spite of all precautions and backups—as if by a sheer coincidence. Usually, when analysed, instead of one single reason for the accidents, what is found is a strange chain of improbable and dramatic incidents; these small incidents that lead to the final mishap, take place with uncanny precision like in the assembly line where small inputs lead to the final product. In the assembly line, every worker works to a big plan and knows what he is supposed to do and does precisely the same. Case histories of accidents appear to be no different. It appears as if all the improbable things that should not have happened and that usually do not happen seem to conspire and contribute their bit like the worker in the assembly line, to make the unwanted and improbable happening possible according to a hidden plan.

Often, last-minute changes make some people decide against taking the fatal journey. Whereas for others it is just the other way round: they make last-minute decisions to take the fatal journey. Inquiry committees are set up to find causes for such accidents. Explanations are found but as mentioned earlier, usually there is no one cause. It is usually a highly improbable combination of so many improbables.

In a truck accident it was found that the bus driver could not get a full night’s sleep as some unexpected guests had come to see him the previous night and left quite late. He got up late and had little time to rest. As he could not get his usual quota of good sleep he was quite irritable that morning. He fought with his wife for insisting to have full breakfast and slapped his son for not bringing his shoes intime. He decided to skip his usual check up of the brakes before starting his journey.

The mechanic friend, who came to check the noise the truck had started making the previous day, had brought his ten-year old newly recruited, inexperienced boy for carrying out the repairs. The boy had unknowingly tampered with the brake-mechanism while trying to set the noise right. While all this was happening, a few miles away from the driver’s house, on the route the truck was to take the next morning, another interesting episode took place. The right wheel of a bullock cart gave in, spilling oil from the drums it was carrying all over on the road. A few yards from the spot where the oil had been spilt, the sweeper had emptied out the contents of his wheel-barrow a few weeks ago, which had become a hardened slope over the kerb between the road and the pedestrian’s path by now. The preparations, for the fate the truck was going to meet, had already begun at different places, at different points of time and through different people. The stage was already set; only the script was to be enacted at the precise moment.

And it was enacted.

The driver began his journey. When he was only a few yards away from the oily spot, he realised that the brakes were not functioning. And even before he could start