Oh! I think I must have skipped many questions I had to ask before asking this one. Anyway, I am sure while searching for an answer to this I will also find one or two for those. But before we begin our little examination, we really need to define success and make two key points very clear here: what we really need to achieve in life, and the length of time we really want to give for each achievement.
What made me think of this topic? I am a non-jealous over-ambitious type of person but earlier this morning, I found myself feeling something unusual. After completely reinstalling my blog, I felt as if the previous day was quiet a lot of mess and I have made many obstructions in my blog, messed my certain things I might never put back in the right place, and probably all these must have pushed me a few months back. Am I progressing or regressing? I asked myself. Why can’t I be as good at blogging as Mr. X or Mrs Y? Why can’t I write a post as good as that which Blogger Z wrote the other day? Do I really need to be here?
For the very first time in my life, I allowed my inner self the opportunity to discourage me about something I am passionate about. Uncle Che? Oh No! This can’t be me….I exclaimed. I am not that cheap to be beaten down so easily. My expectations are not yards of quick sand that I will sink in. After a while, I calmed myself and set out on a venture to seek and find why I had a low spirit and my moral boosted towards the negative direction.
Why don’t I think I am successful? I asked myself. I picked up a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word success. Oh No! I couldn’t. Why? I must not refer a word as easy as that. If I had no dictionary, what will I define success? After pondering for a while on the very first definition that flashed on my mind, I refused taking it. I told myself there must be something more.
What was the mistake I made? I defined success, in my won words and opinion, as a state of satisfaction with one’s self achievements, within a specified period of time, together with its impact on self and others. Yeah, when you are satisfied with what you do, you feel successful. You feel you are a champion and have achieved something at last. Yes, of course. Success is an achievement. It is something like a result. There must therefore be a path to it. Everything done within that path that leads to success is part of success and should be included when evaluating one’s success.
HARD WORK: A teacher of mine once said “there are three routes to sucesss; hard work, hard work and hard work”. I laughed out loud, but later on realized the true meaning of that. Even if you are not seeing any prospects of being successful, hard work alone guarantees your success.
FAITH: You must believe in yourself first, and then in what you are doing? How can you talk about success when you are sure you will fail?
HOPE: Even if you do not have the current tools that will enable you put in your best, you should be hoping for them. They always say a lazy carpenter complains about his tools. I am not sure anyone will want to say that if they knew that so –called “lazy” carpenter is hoping for better tools. We are not talking about miracles here, but who says they can’t happen?
LOVE: this one word surpasses all. There is no way you can be faithful, hardworking or hoping to succeed if you don’t love what you are doing. At times, even love is not enough. You should be passionate and compassionate.
I wasn’t just consoling myself. After putting together many things and exposing them to light, I decided I am a very successful blogger. Instead of looking down on myself, I will rather set limitless limits and look up to them.
Can you call yuorself “Successful”?
. If she had even a tenth of the education I have now, I guess she would be the one teaching me how to knob a tie. Oh! Let me not pretend here. I never put on one. I feel very uncomfortable in suits. Noela always asks “How would you dress up on our wedding day? “In tennis shoes, jeans and a T-Shirt? Ha ha ha.
