First, get a fix on yourself
Anxiety” simply means that you are concerned about the outcome of something. But the outcome of that something is not going to be determined by your desires. It is going to be determined by what you do. The more unprepared you are for what you are doing right now, the more anxious you will be. Isn’t it so?
Let us say, you do not know how to ride a motorcycle — you just sit on it and drive it. Now every moment is full of anxiety. But if you know how to balance the motorcycle, it is a dream. So the motorcycle is not the anxiety; your inability to handle it is causing anxiety. So do not try to handle anxiety. Anxiety is not a reality; it is the consequence of a certain incapability. If we want to go into something, we must work towards competence, not towards result.
Just because you desire to become successful, success will not come to you. It will come to you because you are equipped. The two fundamental ingredients for any kind of successful activity on the planet is to be able to use your physical body and your mind to their fullest potential. If this has to happen, you must be a pleasant person. This means that you are not the “issue” in your life. If you are not the issue, you can deal with the outside issues with absolute freedom. If you yourself are the issue, everything is a problem.
This is one reason why after so many thousands of years of experience of living on this planet, humanity is still one big mess, because individual people are a big issue by themselves. If they try to handle something, they will only create more issues; they will not solve anything. If they solve one problem, they create a hundred problems attached to it. Don’t you see this happening everywhere — in the international situation, in the local situation, within the family and within yourself? So when you yourself are an issue, whatever you touch will become a bigger issue.
So the first and foremost thing is, “this one” — you, yourself — must be settled. If “this one” is settled, then we can do the best we can do with the world. Whichever way it goes, “this one” is anyway settled. This is one thing that every human being deserves and must do for himself/herself. Whether you are going to become the Prime Minister of the country or you are going to become a great athlete is not the point. If it happens it is fine, but the most important thing is that you at least pass through life in a pleasant way. This is something everybody deserves.
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