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Summary of Question:	Guidance - Succeeding And Failure
Category:	Other
Date Posted:	Thursday, 12/16/2004 3:48 PM MST

i need guidance...

if ur constantly trying and contstanly failing by only small things that bite you sooo much afterwards..what should u do....u know u could of done better, but u also know u tried ur hardest....u see everyone around u worrying sooo much even though they know they'l still be ok...but u urself are trying to have confident and faith in God...but u also know that u'v done bad all the time even thoug u tried and prayed...ur heart becomes a rock when u have failed soo many times...u see peaple who have not tried merely as hard as u did who still win at the end..for example....in education...even though u took harder classes, they still won in the end bc thy got better grades....i dont wanna feel like i am doin easy work but at the same time i wanna do good in that work, get credit for my hard work, and since our class is sooo comepetitve, i always end up as a loser....what should i do....pray (tried), try harder (always do...)for once, just for ONCE i wanna succedde...how do i do that>when i have done all i couldl (yet i still have a feeling i didn't do enoug, i could of done more, i could of been smarter, i could just done something if i had known teh results...????
please help...
i am lost ...its been like this for 3 yrs now...is there something that God is telling me...what is going on....??????? WHAT AM I LACKING????? (Ok, intelligence that God has not given me...at least not as much as my peers who are merely, GENISUS, going to Harvard adn Yale....but what can i do...i feel terrible when i compare myself to them...what i could of done yet how much i tried..)\
sooo sorry this is a confusing questioin but i truely need help with this situation...

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You didn't really give any details about what the issue that you are having is...so I will just respond as best I can based on what my intuition tells me.

From my personal experience I know that we all have a certain Karma. God gave us certain bodies, parents, intelligence, etc. This is what each of our souls need in order to go through certain experiences and pay this karmic debt. Based on this we hopefully learn and get through blocks which are keeping us from being a better more pure soul (stopping the cycle of birth and death).

We cannot compare ourselves to others as it will only lead to dissapointement. Too often we forget about the Gifts that God has given us and just look at what other people have or what we are lacking. Take an hour or so and write down all the things that you are thankful of.

In my life I have had many challenges. It helps for me to look at these challenges as a test from God. When I look back I realize how much I have learnt from these situations. They can be gifts in disguise because of the lessons that you can learn. It is all how you look at it.

Keep up! God can rotate the earth...and can surely take care of your affairs. You might try doing a Sahej path from the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. This would give you a good connection to Guruji and hopefully give answers to your questions.

GMS