If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, don’t look outside yourself, look inside.

This is a little story of a boy and a girl who played together. The boy had a lot of marbles and the girl had candy with her. The boy asked the girl if she would trade her candy for the marbles. The girl agreed, and she handed all the sweets to the boy. However, the boy sneaked out the biggest and most colorful marble he had and gave the rest to the girl. That night the girl slept well but the boy was restless all night thinking that the girl might have hidden some sweets for him as he had hidden the marble.

The moral of the story is: ‘What you give is what you get and what you get is what you deserve.’ In this case, the child was not honest and therefore had a sleepless night filled with doubts.

How often do we come across people deluding themselves and blaming the rest of the world or cursing fate for their level of existence? By nature, most people like to play a lower game and expect higher results; when results don’t come, they start the blame game. It isn’t true?

Introspect yourself and see if you, too, have been the victim of this unfair game of self-defeating.

While in college, he wanted to earn distinction in his academic studies, but pushed himself only to get a second class. Which it was the result?

While at work, you promised to achieve a certain result but failed to do so. Did you and your team really play the compromise game at level 10?

While attending a training program, you expected the trainer to give you your level 10, but you never participated in level 10. What was the end result?

Think about it! Why do 1% of people control 85% of the world’s wealth? Why only a handful of people have millions of followers? Why only a few people achieve and maintain stardom? Why and how do champions become champions?

The answer is simple: they play their game at Level 10.

You can believe in destiny or create your own destiny.

Do you think Sachin Tendulkar was destined to become a great cricketer or did he actually lead his life to become one? When he was just 8 years old he spent hours practicing cricket, at 12 he was scoring centuries, at 16 he was playing for our national team facing Imran Khan and Wasim Akram. Imagine if he had spent hours watching TV, playing silly games with friends, or just lazing around for hours, would he have become an icon?

At the age of 37, most people ignored his achievements and passion for the game and criticized him for not retiring. And he went on to score a double century in one day internationals, he was the most consistent player in test matches and he was also the most sprinter in the 3rd edition of IPL T20. Imagine if he had to give in to pressure and make concessions, he would not have been the God of Cricket as we know him.

The question is why only him? That’s because he plays a superior game and gets superior results first in his mind and then on the field. And by the way, he is not the only one; Have we not heard of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Ratan Tata, Steve Jobs, Andrew Groove, Michael Jordan, Pele, Sergei Bubka, Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt and the list can go on? What made them champions? Level 10 attitude to success!