Difference between Fate and Destiny

• St. Augustine of Hippo made a distinction between fate and destiny. He described fate as something that man has no control over. All of man’s actions are fate-driven and are a product of nature, according to St. Augustine. Destiny, according to St. Augustine, is a merging of the soul with the body, with the soul uniting man’s nature with his reason, which allows for free choice. Choice is what separates fate from destiny. St. Augustine believed that man should seek God to overcome his fate and turn that into destiny.
  
  As is clear from two words by looking at it, both are close to some similar words which have clear meaning for most of us.

  Fate relates to Fatality and Destiny relates to Destination.

  Fate relates Fatality: In other words it relates to some uncontrollable circumstances or events. So one have very little or no control on the fate. In other words what ever has happened to us so far and what is going to happen is our fate. Fate has no choice. Fate could be good or bad.

  Destiny relates to Destination: What is our destination? Every one who has taken birth have one inevitable destination to death, no matter what. But during our journey from birth to death, we have to follow the rule of nature. We are going to go through day & night, moon cycle, various seasons cycles.During these periods of cycles, we are destined to do certain actions to feed ourselves, provide shelter to ourselves, treat ourselves from illnesses, go through mating and reproduction, helping others and looking after the family.

  To accomplish these actions at every moment of life and at every foot step we have choice to make. It could be good or bad and based on those choices we are going to develop a personality or a character of ourselves. Some pursuits for wealth, some for higher learning, some like to serve others and some like to be served. 

  What ever we do, to reach its peak we need desire, enthusiasm, positive mind set, expert guidance to achieve our goals. Nothing is ever achieved in a day. To achieve something big needs lot of hard work, perseverance, strong will, determination to reach there and a clear vision to our destination.

  If one can not conceive a thought, one can not achieve anything. To transform the conceived thought into realty, one has to make a blue print of it in his mind and layout an action plan to achieve it. One can use a voice recording or share with others; or use paper pencil or pen or computer to lay out the plan for other to see. As one has limited time in this world, timeline of any plan is a must.

  Breaking down the big goal or our destination to Success into small goals or small destinations make it easy to divide the plan into multiple simultaneous action plans and also give us the ability to monitor our progress. It enable us to get help from others to reach your destination faster by accomplishing small jobs simultaneously.

  Breaking down of our Destination goal into small destinations is the key to designate small jobs to others to accomplish it in certain time limit. To achieve our success in our final destination is based on effective and timely coordination between different small jobs assigned to different people  to accomplish within their time limit without any major hurdle or difficulty. 

  Effective coordination has the ability to pin point the problems at hand and to get timely help to resolve the issues.

  Coordination is the key to reaching the finish line of our designated destination of our plan, but there is another key factor which must be in line with rest of the things. Next to Coordination is the team work of all the work power.

  A harmony in team coordination creates a collective team spirit in which every one feels involved in the plan and feel pride in achieving it on time. A coordinated team work creates a collective effort of all the team and brings out the best results.

  Any plan can reach its destination in time as long as team work is in complete harmony. A slight slack in team work can delay the destination enormously. 

  Small destinations give birth to big destination of life. Successful people reach their destination either on time or with some delay. Failure people mess up their small destinations with lack of coordination and team work and never reach the finish line of successful destination within their life time.

  So destiny is in our hands, it could be changed, it could be measured and it happens many times in our life time. Successful people time and again creates wonderful things for themselves and mankind. Failure people blame there fate and others and continue to fail. Some people find the key to success after some failures and take the blame of their failures and focus on those shortcomings to avoid them in future so that they can reach their destination as planned.

  Those who fail to understand their reasons for failure are destined to fail time and again because they always going to make same mistakes what they did before. Learning from mistakes is the key to develop a successful behavior. Hardly anyone succeed in life in first shot. Successful do make mistakes but they blame themselves for their failure and learn from those mistakes and keep fixing the mistakes one after the other. But making mistakes time and again of same kind means you did not blame yourself completely for those mistakes and in stead blamed others for it and kept trying to succeed without success through out your life. 

  Obviously, failure people who always blame others for failure and never take  blame on themselves are destined to fail and there is no difference in meaning of Fate and Destiny for them. An bad Destiny was their Fate.

  Successful people who work hard to reach a destination and learn from their mistakes and others mistakes are destined to succeed and they change their fate by changing their destiny one step at a time and always acknowledge others as the key to success and without much emphasis on themselves. They really believe they reach their destination of success with the help of others.