Perfection and Success
(topic)
That Which Enables
Good Results from a Work
Whatever the
work, it requires an energy, interest, skill, attention, concentration,
experience and perfection. If all of them are there, the work
gives good results. (MSS)
Perfection and Accomplishment
Even small perfection can bring great results . A small softdrink
company competing for the franchise of a big corporation secured that
franchise due to the neatly typed and folded letter that the consultant
for the company sent to that corporation. He himself was amazed when the
head of that corporation told him that it was the neatness and
perfection of that letter that convinced him to allot that franchise to
this small company overlooking giants in the field. (N. Ashokan, MSS,
modified)
Perfect Execution
The factors that enable great accomplishment and success in life
include perfect execution.
Unfailing Success that Requires Perfect Execution
Unfailing success requires that the energy be full and the execution
perfect. (MSS)
Optimizing A Work Accomplishes
I was watching an interview of famous
comedian and actor Steve Martin by Charlie Rose. When asked at the end
what advice he would give others to be successful, I thought Martin
might say you that have to work hard, or that you have to really, really
want it. Instead he said that you have to try to really stand out, and
you do that by doing what you do very very well. It made me think about
the book I've been writing, and what it will take to garner such
attention, and thus bring about real accomplishment.
The
Power of Now in Work
To be absorbed in the Eternal Now exclusive of all else
is a subject popularized recently by Eckhart Tolle, though its
inspirations go back to the profound ancient spiritual texts of India.
With that in mind, here are several thoughts on how to bring the Power
of Now to our daily work.
-Focus on the work before you, not something else
you want to do, or resorting to indolence. This the key starting point.
-Focus completely on the present, without thought of
past or future.
-Patiently do that work, with no apprehension,
tension, and demand.
-Do the current work as carefully and perfectly as
possible. Fully absorb yourself in trying to reach that perfection. This
is another key.
-Consecrate the work to bring life's conditions
under control.
-Move to the depths and feel the silence and
timelessness, and work from that poise. Meditation or concentration can
support that effort.
-As a result of living in the depths over time, you
will have intuitions of the past influence on the present, and
intimations of where the present is going in the future. You will thus
know at each point what to do in the present.
-Maintain fully positive attitudes at each point.
-Be cheerful throughout.
-The goal is to create the greatest Efficiency in
the work -- i.e. the greatest results with the least effort in the
shortest period of time.
-In the peace and demands of the Now, we can create
ultimate perfection.
-It will be accompanied
by breakouts of sudden good fortune - i.e. Life Response.
Perfection & Life Response
(topic)
[Note: 'Life Response' is how life on the outside
instantaneously attracts good or great positive fortune from
corresponding elements and individuals across space and time to our
change of consciousness within -- defying commonly accepted views of
what is logical and possible, and how cause and effect relate.]
Flawlessness &
Perfection that Attracts
Flawlessness in any work, whether it is a music performance or writing a
letter, is no easy job. A South Indian company, very small in size
representing one third of one percent of the national market, had the
temerity to apply to a British multinational for its franchise. The tiny
company was speechless when their application was granted. After a year
when the British and Indian partners became close, it came to light that
the British company had granted the franchise because they were
impressed by the company's first letter. The Indian company, in order to
write that simple short letter, had entrusted the job to a
perfectionist. Though it was a simple work (we can even call it a silly
job), perfection in all its aspects made the multinational grant the
franchise. (MSS)
Life Response of
Flawless Perfection
I invite
people to undertake any simple work and do it flawlessly to perfection.
It may be printing a book, conducting a meeting, negotiating a deal,
etc. Should it qualify for flawless perfection, the next moment they
will be catapulted to a high position. (MSS)
Stunning Spurt for Growth Online
For the last two or three years, Growth Online unique viewers have plateaued at ~2000 per weekday, after a~20-30% annual growth rate in the previous half dozen or so years. Now suddenly in the last month the daily rate has zoomed to nearly 3000, a 50% jump! It is a startling development.
I attribute it to a 3-month summertime effort to revamp the site, including redoing the table of contents and index of the KnowledgeBase, making sure all of the links go to the precise, correct location, breaking out composite pages into single pages for dozens of topics (making it easier to search for and find), redoing pages so they look correct in all major browsers, the removal of unwanted special character, etc. etc, In other words, an effort to try to raise the level of the work, to create perfection seems to have attracted the response.
Life Response Examples as a Result of Perfection
-A
company had just launched a new product, yet did not yet have any sales
on the product, despite considerable effort. One day the manager decided
to go through the operations manual to update it to the latest
information [i.e. to perfect at the letter of details], including
procedures related to the new product. He did this late in the work day.
Early the very next morning he saw the first order for the product come
in through the company's web site.
-An individual organizes his web site for greater clarity and
organization, and gets a positive life response.
-An individual decides to begin the long process of eliminating spelling
mistakes and other grammatical problems throughout
the
organization's 1000 page web site. Immediately he gets a number of
positive life responses.
[When he completes the work, he will open the doors to infinite
possibilities, such as great viewer or financial response to the site.]
-When an individual becomes aware of the fact that he has not paid
attention to the details in a work, and then makes the effort to correct
it, the result is that acts related to that detail unfold in life with
miraculous precision and perfection; e.g. in their timing and right
unfolding down to the millisecond!
Unexpected Spurt for
Growth Online
For the last two or
three years, Growth Online unique viewers have plateaued at
~2000 per weekday, after a~20-30% annual growth rate in the
previous half dozen or so years. Now suddenly in the last
month the daily rate has zoomed to nearly 3000, a 50% jump! It
is a startling development.
I attribute it to a
3-month summertime effort to revamp the site, including
redoing the table of contents and index of the KnowledgeBase,
making sure all of the links go to the precise, correct
location, breaking out composite pages into single pages for
dozens of topics (making it easier to search for and find),
redoing pages so they look correct in all major browsers, the
removal of unwanted special character, etc. etc, In other
words, an effort to try to raise the level of the work, to
create perfection seems to have attracted the response.
Perfecting a Work
Will Enable You to Cross the Border of Your Current Status
There is a law of life: what you do and how many things you are in does
not matter, but what matters is how PERFECT you are in even one of them.
Perfection in any one of the skills or capacities you possess will help
you cross the border, the border of your present social status. Take one
thing, do it perfectly, you will see yourself in the next zone. It
enables you to see the result, gives self-confidence, optimism is born
and then you are a different man. Till then, you worked hard without
seeing the result you were working for. Now you see it. What you have
gained, you have to preserve and go on adding to it. (MSS)
Life Response to
Implementing Avoided Details
When an individual becomes aware of the fact that he has not paid
attention to the details in a work, and then makes the effort to correct
it, the result is that acts related to that detail unfold in life with
miraculous precision and perfection; e.g. in their timing and right
unfolding down to the millisecond!
Perfecting Work to Level of
Details
Perfecting a
work down to the minutest details attracts positive life response.
Perfecting a Work
Attracts Positive Life Response
Efforts to
perfect a work attract enormous positive responses from life.
Perfection Attracts the Force
in the Work
-Should a person, no matter at what plane he is working, set
out to express perfection in his work in the major and minor details, he
will find the Force entering his work.
-A person who is NOT negative in his own personality doing a work
perfectly will let the Force enter into the work.
(MSS, extracted)
Perfect the Work for It to Move
No present work will move even an inch if past lapses are left
uncorrected. (MSS)
Correcting, Perfecting Past
Lapses
No present work will move even an inch if past lapses are left
uncorrected. (MSS)
Exploring Details of Problem Attracts
Interest in exploring the details of a problem can instantaneously
attract a positive response from life that solves it.
Precision Enables Vast Success
Science is a MARVEL today on the strength of discovery, forging fresh
new tools of measurement, securing greater knowledge of metals, gases
and all other things, their dedication to Truth and several other
things. One of the basic requirements of science is precise precision.
Those who know the subtle truths of life know the Science of Life too
demands equal precision. By which one of your pens you have signed your
letter later decides whether you are going to end up as a senior
executive of a huge corporation or its CEO.
Perfect
Execution
Make an exhaustive and complete physical effort. Achievement in any
field requires an enormous investment of energy and painstaking physical
execution. Unfailing success requires that the energy be full and the
execution perfect. You cannot achieve unfailing success if your actions
fall short in terms of the skill or effort or perseverance required for
achievement in this field.
Flawless Perfection of
Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) that Brings the Infinite to the
Finite
In the field of spirituality, the phrase 'the Infinite
emerges out of the finite' occurs constantly. In human life, such a
phenomenon is understood as a miracle.
This is achieved in a variety of ways. One such method is to reach
perfection and make it flawless at all points of work. Such a method
will apply to a losing concern, a booming company, a household, an
office, in agriculture or any work anywhere. This is a well-known method
widely practised, but rarely elevated to perfection, especially flawless
perfection.
Whatever the task, it can be broken down into 10, 20 or 50 smaller
functions. They are called Standard Operating Procedures, SOPs. When the
list is shown to another, he must not be able to add even one missing
step. When no small step has been overlooked or taken for granted, the
SOP for that item of work becomes perfect. If someone who is new can
take that SOP and from that can run the machine or do the work well, the
SOP becomes FLAWLESS. Flawless perfection has the capacity to transform
our consciousness from the human to the Spiritual. At home or in the
office or in a company, there are a hundred or two hundred such
functions -- letter writing, Xeroxing, despatching, answering phone
calls, running a machine, etc. etc. SOP writing must cover all the
functions without missing even one, however small it is.
For doing this much, a losing concern will become an earning
proposition. A company that earns good profits will double them. Family
income will rise 100 percent. Add the Spirit to it, which means in doing
each single act or before writing each single item of the SOP, call the
Spirit - think of the Spirit or the Mother.
By qualifying on all these three scores: 1. writing down the SOP to
flawless perfection; 2. writing an SOP for every function without
missing any, 3. thinking of the Spirit at each point, 4. implement what
is written down, a locally successful company will spread all over the
state or nation. That is the Infinite emerging out of the finite, the
Maximum becoming our minimum.
(MSS, edited)
The Response to
Attending to, Perfecting Work
The infinity - Brahman - is before your very eyes waiting for
your attention. When you attend to your work, doing it perfectly, what
responds to you is the Brahman in work. It is Brahman in life. If you
follow the thread, you can reach Brahman in the Spirit, if you choose
yoga or yogic life. Non-stop progress is around you, is at your
disposal. Do it better than yesterday. Raise the efficiency of your work
every day. Meet the resolute wickedness of life with patient
determination. The stalemate of life yields before perseverance. Keep up
your attitude and life will keep up its opening. You need to stop only
when you choose to stop. Progress is non-stop. Life is inviting you,
patiently waiting around you. The eternal SOURCE of progress is inside.
Go in, the outer life will co-operate, the other man will be helpful.
Mother will seek you.
Moving to 100% Perfection Provides You with Infinite Energy of the
Spirit
Once you acquire a shade more of skill in one aspect of the work, you
will see the work is not tiring. It has no end. To move from 70% of
skill to 95% of efficiency is possible for all of us. At that level
there will be job satisfaction and unflagging energy. To go beyond the
95% each one percentage of improvement will appear to require a
Himalayan effort. That effort itself is energising. Suppose you reach
99% perfection and you are determined to reach 100%. You will discover
that to cover that 1% you need as much energy as you spent in reaching
at 99%. It is so because he who touches 100% perfection moves from the
human effort to spiritual energy, which is endless. (MSS)
Perfect Perfection in One Skill
that Saves the World
One man's perfection can still save the world if
that is perfect perfection. The world knows thousands of men who have
scaled the heights of fame by virtue of possessing ONE skill in
perfection. (MSS)
Perfect Execution of Values &
Life Response
Values bring infinite results only when
they are executed perfectly.
Perfection
Another powerful strategy that is not mentioned in ''The
Secret'' is the importance of the Infinitesimal. When we seek a great
goal, we often disregard the small details as insignificant and
unimportant. In fact, the very opposite is true. The best way to
progress toward a great accomplishment is to make every small act as
perfect as possible. To us the infinitesimal and the Infinite seem like
opposites. But spiritually, the Infinitesimal is a manifestation of the
Infinite. That is why it is very difficult to perform even the simplest
act perfectly. If you try to keep a room perfectly clear, you will
constantly discover areas that have been missed or that cannot be
maintained in that condition. If you try to make everything you write --
even the most casual message -- error-free, you discover that it
requires enormous attention and effort.
The CEO of a small local beverage company in South India
wrote to one of the largest multinational soft drink companies applying
for a distributorship in that area. He put enormous concentration into
preparing the letter without a single error or imperfection. To his
utter amazement his small company was selected over much larger firms.
When he asked the VP of the multinational why his small company had been
selected, the VP replied that he was extremely impressed by the letter
the CEO had written.
High achievers know that perfection in small matters is
powerful. Avoid clumsy movements, loud noises, spilling, breaking,
tearing and every other form of disharmony with the environment. When
your goal is high accomplishment, the very best method is to make ever
small act as perfect as possible. It is a method that brings a much
greater result, much sooner. As a senior executive of IBM put it, ''God
is in the details." (MSS)
Example: Perfecting
Punctuality
(topic)
Punctuality as Perfection in Time
Punctuality is
Perfection in Time. Hence its value. (MSS)
Perfected Punctuality
At heights of perfection, any vibration reaches the Absolute.
Perfection in punctuality moves work from the subtle plane to the causal
plane of Supermind, which retains the constant presence of the Absolute.
Perfecting Any Vibration Reaches the Absolute
At heights of perfection, any vibration reaches the Absolute. (MSS)
Phileas Fogg's
Perfection of Punctuality Gave Him Equality that Made Him Immune to
Failure
Phileas Fogg in Around the
World in 80 Days possesses an equality that is spiritual. That
equality wins him the wager. He has taken punctuality and made it into
an article of faith. His punctuality that was physical, taken to the
extreme of
perfection gave him the spiritual equality that rendered him
immune against any failure in life. (MSS)
The Inner,
Spiritual Source of Perfection
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Ultimate Perfection and Spirit
Every act has the potential for ultimate
perfection, for behind all possibilities is
the utter Perfection of the Infinite
Divine embedded in it seeking to be released.
Perfection, Spirit, and Suddenly
Attracting the Infinite Potentials
The spirit, the highest consciousness is infinite in scope and
perfect in all aspects. When we perfect a work, we emulate the spirit,
which enables the infinite potentials to suddenly move towards us.
Perfection in Creation
-Sri Aurobindo says that the goal the Spirit seeks in creation is to
render its Force into Form and seek perfection in that Form.
-This Form at the supramental level is perfect and loses its perfection
as it goes down [in the involution towards
creation].
-Creation [in he evolution] aims at perfect
forms in matter. When human life becomes divine life, life forms would
acquire perfection. (MSS)
The Response to Attending to, Perfecting Work
[Brahman is the realization of the Divine
spirit in everything. - editor]
The infinity - Brahman - is before your
very eyes waiting for your attention. When you attend to your work,
doing it perfectly, what responds to you is the Brahman in work. It is
Brahman in life. If you follow the thread, you can reach Brahman in the
Spirit, if you choose yoga or yogic life. Non-stop progress is
around you, is at your disposal. Do it better than yesterday. Raise the
efficiency of your work every day. Meet the resolute wickedness of life
with patient determination. The stalemate of life yields before
perseverance. Keep up your attitude and life will keep up its opening.
You need to stop only when you choose to stop. Progress is non-stop.
Life is inviting you, patiently waiting around you. The eternal SOURCE
of progress is inside. Go in, the outer life will co-operate, the other
man will be helpful. Mother will seek you.
(MSS)
Levels of Perfection
The printer in the West whose book is without printing error
has a vision of physical perfection from which he never deflects. It is
perfection for perfection's sake. It can be perfection for the sake of
the customer, which is one step higher, or for the sake of the Divine.
To discover the inner divine is the first endeavour and to refer to HIM
each part of the printing work will raise his work from printing
perfection to divine perfection. (MSS)
Flawless Perfection that Transforms to the Spiritual
Flawless perfection has the capacity to transform our consciousness
from the human to the Spiritual. (MSS)
True Spirituality and Perfection
True spirituality is not to renounce life, but to make life perfect
with the Divine Perfection. (The Mother)
Perfecting Any
Vibration Reaches the Absolute
At heights of perfection, any vibration reaches the Absolute. (MSS)
Perfect Perfection
Perfect Perfection is the only Perfection.
(MSS)
Perfection of an Act
An act becomes perfect when the supramental force executes in the
material plane. (MSS)
Perfect Perfection
Perfect perfection is the supramental
organisation of consciousness in the act or work.
Perfection of Real Ideas
Perfection is to express the Real Ideas of the Creator in the act or
work.
Perfection is Where M,V,P are
Universalized
Perfection is the term where the mind,
the vital and the body are universalized. (MSS)
Perfect Work and Values
Work that expresses values becomes perfect work. (MSS)
Other Thoughts
(topic)
One Man's Perfect Perfection Can Save the World
One man's perfection can still save the world if that
is perfect perfection. The world knows thousands of men who have scaled
the heights of fame by virtue of possessing ONE skill in perfection.
(MSS)
Work as Service
Work done as service to others ennobles work. Work done for the sake
of the Spirit opens up work to perfection, infinity, power, etc..
Complete Perfect Knowledge Accomplishes Perfectly
A space shuttle was
launched and was scheduled to land in a particular place and at a
particular time. It did land in the earmarked place and at the expected
minute. How does that happen? When you know ALL about a work as
perfectly as it should be known, it happens at it is expected, down to
the minute. When you plan a work in which your knowledge of the parts is
incomplete, you cannot predict the results.
(MSS)
All is Capable of Integral
Perfection
World, life, knowledge, power and everything we know are
integral and are capable of integral perfection.
(MSS)
Mastering a Single
Field Gives Essence of any Other Field
Each field is an ocean. Music, film production, athletics, original
research, world fame have behind them a lifetime of painstaking work.
Politics is one such. If one subject is MASTERED to perfection and he is
a yogi, he can turn his hand to any other subject. The essence will
readily reveal itself, not the details. One has to acquire the details
himself though not in long years. (MSS)
Going Higher in a Work Enables Higher to Respond
When you reorient a work to a higher level, e.g. move a computer service
from the individual user to the enterprise of a company for
collaborative use, an agent of that higher level instantly responds from
seemingly out of nowhere to that effort. It is another instance of the
wonder of the instantaneous miraculousness that is life response.
Perfection Required of a Token Work
Work,
especially work taken as a token experiment of discovering the Infinite
out of the finite, MUST be perfect, flawlessly perfect. (MSS)
True Spirituality is to
Perfect Life
True spirituality is not to renounce life, but to make life perfect
with the Divine Perfection. This is what India must show to the world
now. (The Mother)
Integral Perfection in
Synthesis of Yoga
It would be worth reading the fourth book "Integral Perfection" in
Sri Aurobindo's 'Synthesis of Yoga'.
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