A right goal makes life successful

Factors important to be noted for a successful life:

If you've right aim in right direction with proper planning in your life, if you're leading a purposeful life, then even if sometimes any weakness or distractions comes, attachments or indulgence comes, crisis or shortage comes, atleast a right aim is before you. 

• Determination : When a person lacks determination, a stage of ignorance creeps into him. He becomes insensible and inactive.  
• Reverence: When a person lacks reverence, he disrespects himself. Insolence and contempt bring idleness and stagnancy in him.
• Pessimism : Idleness and stagnancy engulf him in pessimism. Pessimism further produce cowardice, escapism and desertion. A long stage of escapism causes self-destructive attitudes and it makes the person irresponsible and thoughtless.
• Right goal, right direction and right planning : A person must have a right goal to live this life. People who don't have a right aim in right direction and a significant planning, they will not have proper conditions in life. They will face plight, abjection in their life.

From the excerpts of Swami Avdheshanand Giriji Maharaj.

Translated by Pranati Saikia