This message is good for those that are at colleague, high school or school going at any learning institution. if you’re not any of these you s may still go ahead and read it and may be you may get to learn something new.
Yes……. I am saying that you the biggest determinant of your own success. I am not yet that successful and I not going to advise entirely from my own experience but from what I have come to learn in life and probably from other people’s lives as well. I do state time and again that life is a learning process that starts when you are born. Your syllabus ceases of course you die. Even the old folks are learning as well!
I have been to high school and now I am almost done with my degree at university. Whilst at high school I never used to study that much as I, with my other colleagues, believed that we were intelligent enough to pass exams upon quick perusing of notes. Thank God I passed with an inch as my colleagues failed with an inch! Whilst a 1st year student at university, I learnt from my young experience at high school and worked extremely hard enough to get to study Mechanical Engineering.
Now what’s the story? Thing is…. you hold what you want to be in life. I have seen people rise whilst others fall down at higher speeds that they rose with. Funny enough, people only smile and tend to hang around with those risen or those tending to rise. Everyone loves and enjoys good living and nowadays this is closely associated with having a lot of money or earning a lot of money. Once people realise that you got the bucks they will come running like doors for heaven are open for free! You will even see new faces accurately calling your highly revised name.
So what is it that you can do to find yourself in a better compromised situation? First let’s agree that good living is good and am talking about being able to get what you want when you need. Being able to pay for and take your children to better school you never went to. Being able to drive vehicles you only used admire when you were growing up. Being able to support others who need you financial help when you might have struggled to get school fees when you were at school. Being able to have a good wife or husband and children, all smiling because daddy or mummy loves them. Basically being able to solve many of yours and other peoples problems financially and socially. This is what I call being successful.
This is not easy to do but it’s possible. What then can you do to attain this stature?
- Know what you want and see if you really can get it e.g. your career
- Do not be influenced by your friends to diverge off your goals, but listen to their opinions. They may have seen something in you which you never saw in yourself and could be of help to you.
- Convince yourself that sweat now is better with sweet later and not the other way round. Realise that the little moneys you are busy entertaining your friends with is because of someone else’s hard working and mainly not yours.
- When you feel lazy to study remember to tell yourself that the payoff is ‘failure and ultimate poverty with few friends’.
- Don’t do drugs or indulge yourself in promiscuity. These can cut short your life and no matter how intelligent you are, you won’t reach the shore of success
- Find a partner who is determined to work hard and make it in life. together you will encourage each other and work in the positive way for your mutual benefit
- Remember once you get your good education and a good paper say degree, no one can get it from you, not even thieves! It’s all up in the heard! Rather everyone will come all wanting to get you so that you can work for them.