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Leading A Spiritual Life

result. By adopting this formula, you will reach your
goal without any delay. Be practical and do not waste
your time and energy. Tread the path of adjustment,
and ensure your success.

Planning based on Remnant

The best formula in life is not to concern oneself with what
has been lost, but by wise planning, to avail of what is still
extant. Sooner or later, you will emerge as a super-achiever.

he German statesman Otto von Bismarck (1815 –
T1898) once rightly observed that politics is the art
of the possible. This aphorism can be usefully extended
to include planning. Planning should be done on the
basis of whatever is available to you. This means to plan
on the basis of what remains. Such planning can be
termed as ‘planning based on remnant’.

In chalking out a course of action, people are generally
obsessed with the concept of totality. They want to
have things in totality and are reluctant to accept the
fulfilment of their goals in any partial way. But thinking
along these lines goes against the law of nature. The
realistic formula in this regard is that if the total is not
achievable, one should be content with achieving just a
part.
There are nations in many parts of the world which

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