Gearing up for success

Sea changes are taking place in various academic disciplines around the globe. The scenario is also changing fast in India and Bangladesh, two independent and sovereign nations that are culturally and socially inter-related.

It is high time for the modern generations of both the nations to gear up accordingly so as to be able to achieve their desired goals in life.

Despite the many impediments in our lives, there are two important ways by which we can achieve our goals - we should be active and always productive in order to attain the optimum level of success in life. And there should be intelligence in our efforts. Only then will we be able to reach our success level.

Noted Bengali novelist and science fiction writer late Humayan Ahmed had been able to reach the pinnacle of success by dint of his activeness and vibrancy along with proper planning which ultimately enabled him to become productive in his endeavours.

Like him, we are aware of the fact that poet and Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, legendary Ashapurna Devi, professor Satyendra Nath Bose, Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (both of history and physics respectively) had all achieved wide ranging encomiums and adulations mainly because of being active and persevering personalities that eventually translated their missions into reality.

Singers of India and Bangladesh as well as corporate personnel have all achieved success mainly due to activities that made their lives productive.

There are various ways by which we can increase our activities and productivity in diverse professions and academic disciplines. Some of the common ways are:

- If there is proper planning of our professional work along with activities, only then will productivity in our professions be easily attainable;

- By being active in our professions along with having honesty and integrity, we can achieve productivity in life;

- Meticulous research along with necessary activity is required to achieve the targeted level of productivity;

- We must have proper deadlines in our lives along with activity so that productivity in our work can be easily achieved;

- Corporate meetings should be absolutely productive linked with activity;

- In our daily work salient features should be noted down meticulously along with activity and productivity is then ensured;

- Interruptions are avoidable in order to be active and thus achieve the optimum level of productivity.

There are various advantages of being active and productive which are essential for our career development. Some of the common ones are:

- Losing weight through exercise which enables us to be fit and achieve productivity;

- Following a healthy diet so that we become more active and ultimately productive;

- Being active always enables us to achieve our productivity comfortably;

- When a person becomes active it also helps improve our mood to achieve productivity with ease;

- Being active and productive helps us to overcome various diseases too;

- Persons with active and productive brains have accelerated brainpower.

Sports also pave the way for an individual to be active and productive in various phases of life. As in India, in Bangladesh I have noted that senior corporate executives, airline pilots and university professors are often active in sports in various clubs of Dhaka city.

Sports helps a person become more active which ultimately helps in achieving productivity in his or her profession. I saw in Bangladesh recently that the present generations including university and college students are always active. The same is the case for various corporate personnel.

In India there are many people who are extremely active but it is mostly noticeable in metropolitan cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. In Kolkata there are active people but they are less in number. Most of the Kolkatans spend their time gossiping. The migrant population of the city is more active than the locals. They are mostly involved in trade and commercial activities of Kolkata as well as that of various chambers of commerce.

Counseling by psychologists

Consultation with psychologists always plays an important role in the task of motivating active and productive life of Indians. They deeply feel that the more the Indians are active the energy they secure - a process that ultimately motivates them to be productive in their respective fields.

There are some exceptional people who are always lazy and cannot undertake any sorts of hard jobs. They tend to be lazy and sluggard. India is a vast nation with severe pressure of population of around 1.31 billion.

Competition will also mount. It is high time for every citizen of India to slog in such a manner that they could become active and productive to achieve successes in life.

Consultation for Bangladeshis

At present, the population of Bangladesh is about 170 million. That is why psychologists in the country would definitely advise the citizens to be more active and productive in life so that success soon reaches their doorsteps. Those Bangladeshi nationals who leave their motherland for better prospects for various overseas destinations, remain on the safer side. It is not possible for all of them to follow suit, to become successful.

To sum it up, one point is critical: there is no alternative to active and productive approaches in our lives in order to achieve success in our professions.

I have noticed in Bangladesh recently that there has been a rise in the higher middle class people who are becoming educated and rising up in society.

* Sujayendra Das lives in Kolkata, India