Modern Parenting Concept: What Is Really Important?

Life has substantially diverse & different in this modern age due to various reasons. People remain occupied due to their daily life routines, as compared to life in past. Similarly, in this modern age concepts of family orientation and parenting has changed significantly too. Lets share the story of our modern days parenting concept, and focus whether what we are doing is really important and worthwhile, or we are just wasting our precious time on wrongdoings.

Sarah is a working mother of two young children. She works for an IT company, and serves at a senior position. Her office is almost half an hour drive away from her home. She uses high quality, and most modern devices to remain connected with her projects. Her husband is a banker. Both of them are high end earners, but unfortunately they hardly find time for their beautiful children, because both of them return home in late hours in evening, and even after reaching home, they sometimes have to complete tasks as well.

Sarah's husband is usually on travel, due to his job requirement. Therefore, their children keep waiting for their parents to pay attention to their needs. But whenever they reach out to their parents, they are either busy, away or speaking on their mobile phones, or doing work on their laptops. Hence, this makes their children feel lonely, sad, and sometimes neglected by their parents. The family hardly finds any time to sit, enjoy and share together. However, both parents try quite hard to compensate their absence by purchasing expensive clothes, toys and other such things for their children, but fail to fulfill the hallmarks of good parenting.

Since Sarah is quite social, so she has various friends in her neighborhood as well. Aliya is one of those friends from neighbors. Aliya's family seems quite connected with each other, since the mother does a part time job, but prefers to stay at home, and spends time with her young children. Aliya's husband works with Sarah in her company, at a senior position. Sarah sometimes envy Aliya, that how come she remains so happy, without any career, by being just staying at home mother.

One day Sarah approached Aliya's husband in his office, and asked him that how come, they are a happy family and so connected with each other. He told Sarah that although his wife is a doctor, but she prefers to work from home, in order to spend most of her time with her children at this vulnerable age, to pay attention to their developmental needs, and inculcate good moral values into her children to turn them into good human beings. He also told Sarah that they take dinner together every evening, help their children with their school work, and prioritize to spend time with their children.

After listening to his colleague's family story, Sarah decided to change this arrangement for the sake of her children. She requested her boss to give her another home based position, so she could be available at home for her children most of the time. Next, she convinced her husband to minimize his travel and try to spend time with his family. This change has brought lots of extra benefits for them, for example, fresh and healthy food, clean and organized home, happy and healthy children with high achieving grades in school, lot of family engagement and much more.

Love and relationships are most valuable part of our life. If we lose them, we lose everything in life. People are important, not things. Unfortunately, we run after material things to get happiness, but happiness and contentment has no connection with things, it has true and solid connection with our humanity.

Succeed To Be Successful

Success is a relative term. That means success has a different meaning, and concept for each one of us. For instance, for John success means owning a business firm, while for Alex success means owning a large farm at countryside. Hence, both have a different goals to achieve their success, and therefore their action plan, and their steps towards their success will obviously be quite divergent from each other. 

Success refers to achievement, accomplishment, a sense of fulfillment, attainment of one's goal, and subsequently a feeling of satisfaction getting out of it to an extent where one enjoys contentment. 

Why we want success?

Humans have an innate desire for success. We as humans love acknowledgment, attention, encouragement and support to achieve what we want in life. However, success is not everyone's cup of tea, rather it is a precious gift that comes with its own price. 

How to become successful?

Success and being successful are two different sides of the same coin. Although, attaining success and becoming quite successful requires quite a lot of planning, serious & objective oriented efforts over a period of time, devotion, commitment, consistency and perseverance. 

Success is a journey. Person who desires to be successful has to climb steps that would lead him/her to the ultimate pinnacle. 

What successful people do differently?

Successful people although seem similar as far as their physical appearance is concerned. However, the question is what special things they do to become successful in life? What makes them stand out?

Definitely, successful people perform differently, out of the ordinary, diligently, creatively, and of-course intelligently. Successful people believe in performance, and determine their goals in life. They are very clear about what they want to be? Why they want it? What they have to do to achieve their goal? Etc. 

Additionally, successful people are visionary, they possess a drive to succeed, a fire within them that keeps them moving on towards their goal, no matter how hard they need to work. They create short & long term goals for themselves by believing in themselves, that eventually lands them into success zone. 

Successful people always have an inspiration in their life, as their motivational force. These inspirational figures could be their mentors, their gurus, motivators, and leaders around them. These figures might be in their family members, among friends, or among their teachers or anyone else. 

Most importantly, successful people get out of their comfort zone, they believe in themselves, they aspire to inspire, prefer to be leaders instead to be among followers. They manage their time effectively & efficiently, fully utilize their available resources, explore and research their opportunities, try be at their best always. 

Let's take a look at the other side, they do make mistakes, they fail innumerable times, but they never give up. Each mistake teaches them a lesson, they never regret, rather positively keep improving themselves to avoid future errors. They are never scared of making mistakes. 

Can I be successful?

Fortunately, it's a 'YES'. Anyone can be successful in life, provided you have the will to try, and a vision to succeed. A strong determination & commitment to excel, choose intelligently, and remain focused on your goals. 

It does not matter even if you have only one goal. You can create short term or long term goals. Your journey to success can begin anytime in your life. Strive against all odds by approaching gradually but consistently towards your success, that is waiting right there for you. Every step you take is decreasing your distance to achieve it. 

Challenges and opportunities go side by side. Whoever overcomes challenges & exploit the potential opportunities on the way is considered successful personally and professionally. 

SUCCEED TO WIN, SUCCEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL!