When this question What next? Crops up, most of the times a person gets worried. It could either be about studies, profession, family life or business.

The question brings along with it a whole lot of negative thoughts. It creates fear, insecurity and even drives you to being indecisive. It is just scary. Because of this, your thinking gets suspended. By all standards, you determine that your 'next' should be better.

This better will benefit scores of other people too who depend on your moves. So the question What next? is burdensome. A successful person who wants to be even successful goes through these tense moments.

As soon as the question crops up, one is always in a hurry to get the answer. In our anxiety to get the answer, we become numb.

In my opinion, when confronted with this all-important question, what is advisable is to allow silence to speak to you. In our hurry to find an answer, most of the times we trample upon the answer which wants to show on it's own. From silence emerge answers. Select the best one. This is what I do. It helps me select the subject for my next film, the director and everything that goes into the making of another success.

I am remembered of a wonderful story I read in a book titled Who moved my cheese authored by Dr Spencer Johnson.

The story is about two mice and two little people who discover the cheese they had been feasting on has exhausted one day. Nevertheless, the two mice venture out to find more cheese for themselves but the two little people, shocked at the sudden turn of events, are enraged and wrongly expect that the cheese would come back them.

When confronted with What next?, instead of feeling cheated, plan with a calm mind how you can go about achieving something. Don't speak your mind always, allow you mind to speak to you.

PS: Chiranjeevi wrote this article for Times of India on 13th October 2003.

Courtesy : Times of India

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