Destiny refers to both what will happen in the future as well as what one will achieve. While performance matters in life and sports, other factors are also important. Destiny determines the consequences of our actions based on past actions, but we have free will to choose our actions. We can plan for the future, but God sees the future and plans the present. Maintaining a positive outlook and surrendering to forces outside our control can empower us to face challenges.

1. How understanding
destiny empowers

2. Destiny – two meanings
Destiny: what is going to
happen
Destiny: what we are
going to achieve

3. Sports – amplified microcosm of life
Performance matters,
Yet performance is not
all that matters

4. What is destiny?
The aggregate of the
reactions to our own past
actions delivered to us
according to a higher plan

5. Vidura-Dhritarashtra
Destiny determines the
consequences of our
actions, not our actions
themselves

6. Destiny-free will interaction
What happens is
destiny
What we do is free will

7. Destiny-God interaction
We see the present and
plan the future
God sees the future and
plans the present

8. Always be positive
Everything that
happens may not be
good, but it can be for
good

9. Surrender empowers
Diligence about the
changeable,
Dependence about the
unchangeable

10. Conclusion
Whatever karma may
get us to, Krishna will
get us through