This document provides advice for what to do when you are not achieving the success you feel you deserve despite your hard work. It recommends: 1) Remaining calm and composing yourself instead of getting angry or blaming others. 2) Talking to yourself daily to reinforce your self-esteem and capabilities. 3) Analyzing the situation objectively without emotion to see if any mistakes were made. 4) Being patient and waiting for another opportunity if no mistakes are found, as success does not always go to the most competent.

1. WHAT TO DO WHEN CHIPS ARE DOWN
It happens more often to all of us that even after putting so much of hard work we do not get the
success which we deserve. Close to our heart we know that we did everything which was necessary for
getting success in our working career but still that moment of glory eludes us.
How we react to this type of situation,
• Getting angry on little things,
• Indulge in useless arguments,
• Become abrasive in our approach,
• Openly vocal & critical about the person or persons whom we found responsible for putting
hindrance in our success.
These are some of the very common reaction any normal person indulges in when he find after putting
all the efforts , The so called success instead of falling in his lap falls into the lap of person occupying
next table in your office & to whom you thought never worthy enough to embrace success.
• What to do, you just can ask for a boxing bout with the undesired recipient of success.
• You go on cursing the management,
• Cursing the bloody system,
• Cursing every creature who you think were even remotely responsible for your constant static
stature.
You start doubting about your capabilities, your self esteem getting lower day by day & instead of
getting strength for fighting again you start loosing strength. By doing this you give ample opportunity
to your adversaries in a platter to finger about your capabilities & which looks very obvious & visible to
everybody, you further go down on the assessment ladder. Things don’t look very rosy for you because
at home too, your spouse makes hell of the effort to bring upon the normalcy but your mind is still in
the office.
Dear friend first of all we must understand the world always never work according to our plan. Some
times things work in our favor, some time not. It’s not necessary that always the most competent
person will get the name & fame, if this would have been true Lord Krishna would not have bothered to
write Shri Bhagvat Gita. The almighty knew that there will be unsuccessful but competent persons in

2. kalyuga That they will need this holy book more than anything else to re enlighten them about there
self respect & capability. How many of us have heard the name of Nicola Tesla, a very famous
American Scientist of Serbian origin , he did no less experiments than Thomas Elva Edison but Edison is
known by everybody but tesla is known to few electrical engineers who know him for his invention of
electrical motor & tesla effect.
The very first thing we should do when the chips are down to keep calm & compose.
Talk to yourself for at least half an hour daily.
Repeat time & time again to you silently that you are efficient, capable for achieving success.
Believe me nobody can tarnish your self respect except you only.
Analyze the situation on non emotional base, think again & again if you have made any mistake, if you
find one, and try to rectify it.
After giving careful thought still you feel that you have put every efforts which you were supposed to,
just lie low, keep low profile for a while, wait for your turn, the wind will change the direction. What
about the heartburn after all we are human beings. There will be pain & sorrows, never share it in
office place, share it with child hood friend, college friend incase you still are in contact with them, They
are the best buddy to share the pain. If you have spouse, talk to him or her, they are your pillar of
strength. Never ever doubt your capabilities.
We all know about The great Indian king Prithvi raj chouhan, he defeated Muhammad Ghori thirteen
times, forget for a second about Prithvi Raj, just think about Ghori Getting defeated so many times
what a humiliation, but what happen ultimately he was the winner. Think of the mental frame of a
person, getting defeated so many times, think of the will power , logistics problem , motivational
problem , getting motivate the army to fight for after getting defeated umpteen number of times, your
fate can not be worse than Mohammed Ghori, if he won it , you will win too.
Saumitra Yadav