Break out of the mold of mediocrity --- Part 2

Referring back to Dr. Wayne Dyer classic book “ Pulling Your Own Strings, he comments that “If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you’ll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.” ( p. 94)

To this end, in cultivating your Serendipity Quotient, you must work on your mind, body and spirit awareness in displaying creative aliveness while undergoing the greatest of adversity.

Victor Frankl in his book “Man’s Search for Meaning” also attests to this in creating and finding the purpose and meaning of your life through the most tragic of circumstances.

Another book that reflects this theme is “One Day in the Life”of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In this book, the author focuses on life in a forced- labour prison in Siberia.

These two books, in particular, tell the life- changing story of using the mind to be creatively alive in moment-to-moment contexts.

These authors, like Dr. Dyer, emphasize the significance of “applying your sense of self-worth” to the present moment and refusing to let your own attitudes and self-beliefs defeat you as being the basic ingredient to the survival of the characters in these books.

Some quotations by Dr. Dyer summarize the essence of this theme:

“ You are the product of what you choose for yourself in every life situation” ( p. 234)


“ You do have the capacity to make healthy choices for yourself by changing your attitude to one of creative aliveness”. ( p.234).



And, this one by me- “You truly are the power of your mind!”