In today's fast pace rat raced
society, we find ourselves in a persistent pursuit for the things that we hope
can offer us a better comfortable life than we have being used to. Society has
helped us define the characteristics of this more comfortable life like owning
a car, building a house and having a successful family with a beautiful wife or
handsome husband. Thanks to the media’s crave for visualizing beautiful things;
we are often fed with this lifestyle on television screens and on movies. The
more we see, the stronger our passion to live this lifestyle reveals itself.
Success is a relative term yet
everyone tends to define success based on some degree of substantial
achievements that one can see, feel or touch. We have grown up with an assumed mental
definition of success and we think if we have to be defined as successful, we
must have all the nice things of life. Many persons have found themselves
caught in the web of reaching for success and many have failed to attain the
height for which they feel success is achieved. The reason is because they had
being pursuing the wrong goals. They have the wrong picture of success.
Success like everything in life
obeys the Einstein’s philosophical rule of relativity which supports the
conclusion that everyone is successful. This success is the relative success
which at some point we have enjoyed. Everyone has had reasons to go ahead of
some other person. You may not be doing well at work but you once did in the
classrooms against your classmates. Everyone succeeds.
There is a stratum of success
that often everyone pushes to attain. Yes everyone succeeds but what we often
lookout for is the stand out success, the one that every other person observes,
feels and touches. This success division is the one everyone strives to become;
to become “a success.”
We become “a success” when we
meet ranks with other successful people. Often in this rank of success, these
persons succeed at creating for themselves a degree of wealth and fame by doing
what every other successful person has done. Often there is no extraordinary
exceptional air around their achievements. They do what everyone who they feel
is enjoying success does and they get the same result. Success leaves
footprints and when you walk in those footprints, you will also become “a
success.”
When one becomes “the success”, he
carries an extraordinary exceptional uncommon kind of air that can never be
replicated no matter how much one tries. This kind of success isn’t gotten by
following some other successful person. It is gotten by a divine kind of
inspiration, the kind that arrives when you decide to take a path away from
every other successful person and then choose to do your thing. This kind of
success goes beyond wealth and fame. Wealth and fame comes and it comes in a
stupendous form that it becomes almost not valuable but that’s not often the
goal. The goal is often to bless and uplift lives.
The kind of success most persons
yearn for is the “a success” type, the type in which driving cars, owing
houses, having a beautiful family and having a chain of businesses is the goal.
This type of success makes people want to do all they can do to attain often
because their neighbors or relative has attained that. The man who wants to
become the success thinks otherwise. Yes he needs all the great things of life
but he sees beyond those things. He looks at the overall betterment of human
kind and human kind often bestows on such persons godlike attributes. He doesn’t
have his neighbors to compete with and even if his neighbors live in mansions
and he lives in a hut, he shows a degree of contentment knowing that beyond his
present situation is the mansions he is helping others build for which his will
arrive soon.
As a matter of fact, the man who
becomes “the success” is infinitesimally being looked up to for inspiration. He
has millions at his feet who glorify him and have him in prime place in their
minds. Everyone thinks becoming like him is impossible and so they never try.
They’d rather prefer being the faithful follower who taps from the resources of
the almost infinite “the success.”
What’s your desirable success
type?
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