YOUR SUCCESS IN LIFE IS DETERMINED BY WHAT DRIVES YOUR LIFE

Your life is driven, control, guide or direct by something because everyone’s life is driven by something.

Hundreds and thousands of things, circumstances, values e.t.c can drive your life. Right now you may be driven by a problem, a pressure or a deadline.
If you are driven by guilt you will spent your entire lives running from regrets and hiding your shame. Guilt driven people allow their past to control their future and sabotage their own success unconsciously.

If you are driven by fear you will miss great opportunities that lead to success because you will be afraid to venture out. You will instead play safe and avoiding risks that can lead to success by maintain the status quo. To have a good success in life you must move against fear with faith because it is a self-imposed prison that keeps one from becoming what God intends for you to be.

Good success cannot come as a result of been driven by materialism. The desire to acquire becomes the whole goal of some lives. Having more will not make you happier it will only provide you temporary happiness.
Having more will not make you more important because self-worth and net worth are not the same. More money does not make one more secure because wealth can be lost instantly as a result of uncontrollable factors.

People who are driven by the need for approval cannot have good success. Those who are driven by peer pressure, expectations of spouse, friend, parents, e.t.c will miss the mark of success because they are being controlled by the opinions of others. One key to failure and not to success is to please everyone.

LIVING ON PURPOSE - THE PATH TO GOOD SUCCESS

Purpose is one of the chief requisite for feeling true joy in life knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

You can experience a sense of day-to-day aliveness by discovering your purpose in life. Our contribution to life is defined by our purpose. We receive from what we give and in the process we understand more what it means to discover our purpose.

We will never find it if we strive for success as an end in itself. We cannot find the joy, a purpose to live for with the meaning of success giving to many of us by the affluent society. Commitment to something larger than our success gives life meaning.

To have good success depends on what you do and what you don’t do. To evaluate which activities are essential and which are not for good success your purpose becomes the standard. Purpose simplifies your life, it defines what you do and what you don’t do.
You have no foundation on which your decisions are based, your times are allocated and your resources are used for good success without a clear purpose.

Living on purpose helps discover your gifts and leads to good success. “ Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us”, says Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Knowing and using our natural gifts is the power behind our purpose. We each possess gifts and valueable talents. Everyone is gifted in some way. Bible says that, “ A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.” Knowing ourselves- what we do well and enjoy doing is important not only for making decisions but also for empowering our purpose.

Knowing your purpose motivates your life. Purpose always produces passion. A clear purpose energizes while on the other hand, zeal or passion scatters when you lack a purpose.
We lacked good success, strength are sapped, our joy are robbed, we are down as a result of passionless work.

4D'S OF SUCCESS

DESIRE - Outstanding success comes only to those who desire it. Desire is the first “D” of success. A lot of people do not desire good thing. Many people have no purpose in life, they have no goal and therefore there is no desire whatsoever in them.

To have good success in life you must begin to desire to succeed. Desire to do something good. Desire is the evidence that you need something.

With a strong desire to succeed, in your life endeavours be it marriage, business, etc.you will actually succeed.
Having enough desire to do something cause it to be done.

DETERMINATION – “Without determination, man is an untempered Sword”- Chinese proverb. On the ladder of outstanding success Determination is the second “D”. Good success can only come to a determined heart because determination is tenacity of purpose.

Some people only desire and do not determined to succeed. To succeed in life you must have Determination.

DISCPLINE - “He who lives without discipline dies without honour” – Icelandic proverb.
Discipline is the third “D” of success. Without discipline no man can hope to be successful because the truly successful man has all his faculties under self-control.

Self-control will succeed with one talent, while self-indulgence will fail with ten. If you want to be overcomers, victors, conquerors and successful be temperate or discipline in all things.

DILIGENCE – The fourth “D” is Diligence. To do what is right to be done we must strive and endeavour. Some people are not diligent. They do not strive. They do not endeavour.

To have good success you must give it all it will take. Forsake anything that will hinder you from moving forward.

“If you travel on the road having milestones of Doubt, Discouragement and Despair your destination is sure to be failure. But if you travel on the road having milestones of Desire, Determination, Discipline and Diligence, your destination is sure to be success”. W.F. Kumuyi.

3D'S OF FAILURE

“You will consciously strive to success or subconsciously strive to failure”- Sidney N. Bremer.

Good success or outstanding success in life is too serious business to be left for chance. Everyone has to desired and make up his mind the road on which he will travel. Taking decision is the starting point of success or failure. Decision is very important in anything a person does in life because it will eventually determined destination.

No excuse for failure in the age we live everybody can succeed.
Doubt, Discouragement and Despair are the 3D’S of failure.

DOUBT – Doubt is the first “D” that leads to failure. Doubt is an opponent of faith. You will not doubt when you have faith. Faith is trample upon and cast out when you doubt.
A doubter doubts what his creator can do for him. He says he can do nothing successfully. He doubts people’s sincerity when they act or speak as if they desire his good.

A doubter has no bright future because his future is full of darkness and defeat.Are you a doubter who doubt God, everything, everybody and yourself ?Then failure is sure.

DISCOURAGEMENT - Discouragement is the second “D” that leads to failure. Because of discouragement some people cannot get through anything they set their hands to do.

People talk against God and themselves as a result of discouragement. Be wise do not talk when you are discouraged lest you talk something that you will regret later.

DESPAIR - Despair is the last “D” of failure. Some people are despair of winning in life battle. To lose all hope or confidence of winning in any endeavour will leads to failure. Allowing despair to come into your heart will invite discouragement. If you are a doubter you will get into discouragement soon you will be despairing.

OPTIMIZING YOUR CAPACITY IN YOUR CHOSEN CAREER-PART 2

SAINTLY PRACTICES FOR OPTIMIZATION OF CAPACITY IN A CHOSEN CAREER

It is difficult to make a make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.For effective capacity optimization, our personalities, talents and gifts must be stretched without breaking in the midst of momentary odds.The following practices among others can be adopted for capacity optimization in our chosen careers.

SINCERE CREATION OF A NICHE: Choose a niche you have more intrest where you hope to concentrate your energies.

STEP BY STEP FOLLOWING OF A MENTOR: Whatever may be your career; there are people who have been there before you. In your chosen career, pick an achiever, follow his records and let his record constantly inspire you to do more. To exceed his records should be your goal. Given enough time, all trophies shall be trashed by someone else, make yourself that person. Be resourceful in all you do.

SET ADEQUATE TARGET FOR SELF DEVELOPMENT: We have never been better exposed to information than in recent times. The internet has brought the largest libraries in the world into our bedrooms. You can get abundant information that could build your capacity for success in your chosen career. Hence, avoid intellectual laziness. Self-development is a booster and an in-road to great achievement. Learn new skills, be creative and innovative.

SEASONAL ATTENDANCE OF RELEVANT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS: Conference center are to modern professionals what Mar’s Hill was to the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers of Paul’s day.
It is a place for sharing new ideas to shape our focus in chosen career. You can employ divine provision and protection from the Lord.

SATISFACTORY NETWORK WITH OTHERS: Facilities and information are not evenly distributed to every member of the same profession. We need to network. The success of the Human Genome project is due to network among researchers in different parts of the world.

STRONG IDENTIFICATION AND ASSOCIATION WITH OTHERS: Working with people of endurance and tenacity of purpose will help you to the top.

STRIVE LAWFULLY FOR EXCELLENCE: You must strive to work hard and achieve excellence in your chosen career. While you are doing this, you must keep to the rule of the game. Those who plagiarize will jeopardize and ruin their career. Never compromise. Rely and trust in God, He will take you to your desired haven.

OPTIMIIZING YOUR CAPACITY IN YOUR CHOSEN CAREER -PART 1

God the creator of heaven and earth endowed everyman with abilities for success and execellence.The human brain for example,has an incredible capacity of storing as much as one hundred trillion facts,the mind can handle fifteen thousand decisions a second, and the tongue can taste one part of quinine in two hundred million parts of water.All these inherent abilities in man complement the saying that “the mind is everything; what you think, you become”. Unfortunately, remained dormant, undeveloped and unexplored is about three-quarters of this creative inner ability.
In our own minds are all our limitations. The mind is the natural protector of the body. Without cultivation a soil, no matter how rich it may be cannot be productive, so also is the mind.It cannot produce good results. Therefore, to come out of mediocrity and enter into the realm of full capacity optimization there must be optimism and strong passion for excellence.

SALIENT PRINCIPLES OF CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION IN A CHOSEN CAREER

If we govern our actions and make all our exertions contribute to the fulfilling of some great purpose in life, there is no limitation to what we can achieve in life. Our careers should be taken up with a brave heart and with a determination to persist and persevere until success crowns our efforts. To what we can achieve there is no limit.
Persistence is the secret of capacity optimization. Dr Orison Warden says “We tend to realize in the type what we hold in the thought and vigorously struggle towards.” Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance.
The following salient principles are secrets to capacity optimization in any chosen career:RE

RETURN TO THE CREATOR: Allow God to be the center of your life’s endeavours. If you are connected to God, He will give you the elasticity to stretch to your ultimate capacity without breaking.

REFORM YOUR ANTI-ENGINEER: “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he”. We need a change in the way we think to be able to optimally use our capacity to promote our career. Behaviour is motivated by a belief, and action is engineered by attitude. The way you think about yourself and your career affects the way you feel, which in turn affects the way you act.

RESOLVE TO HAVE SINGLENESS OF HEART: Everyone is driven by something. Some are driven by the need for approval, some by materialism. Resist all distractions and focus your energies on your purpose for living, which is to serve God and make a success of your career. You can only be effective when you become selective.

RIGHTLY UNWRAP AND PUT YOUR POTENTIAL INTO USE: Studies have revealed that an average person possesses 500 - 700 different skills and abilities. You can use many of these skills and abilities to succeed in your chosen career. Remember, unused potentials remain dormant like untapped gold.

REAL FAITH FOR CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION: Faith keep you moving and growing stronger.

REMAIN PERSISTENT IN COMMITMENT: Commitment is an attitude that determines our altitude. The persistence commitment of David Livingstone lead to his remarkable discovery of the Portuguese Zambezi and the Nile.

REKINDLE THE PRAYERFUL SPIRIT: Prayer is the wing the soul flies to heaven and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. Prayer brings down the power of God and breaks the alabaster box of our potentials for its fragrance to influence to fill our domain.

How To Achieve Success Without Struggle

Friday, 16 May 2008 - Jordan Cheng
Is it possible to achieve success without struggle, despite what most of us have been taught from our younger days that success is impossible without massive hard work and sufferings?

As you go through stages of life, the painful reality you have to contend with is: Even hard work and struggle does not guarantee success. To most people, success seems like a mystery, a puzzle. Despite pain-staking application of the universal rules and principles taught by the gurus, success remains elusive.
The irony, as you may also have noticed, is that some people seemed to have gained success so easily. These people are often deemed to be the lucky ones, with unexplainable factors that guide them to do the right thing at the right time.
What is this missing linking of success? Is it really a fuzzy factor that picks the winners at random?

The level of difficulty in reaching success is in direct proportion to the level of clarity we have about our life goals and purposes.
Do you have to toil away at tasks you never enjoy in order to gain success? Most likely so if you are fuzzy about what your want in life.
Can success be acquired in a joyful and fulfilling way? Absolutely! If you have achieved clarity in your life direction and mission, and have placed them firmly at the center of your focus, your life will be characterized by daily experience of joy and fulfillment.

The biggest problem many people have with success is: The glamorous kind of success that gain the recognitions and envies of others may not align with your heart's deepest desire. If you can reconcile success with what your heart truly desire, you can really gain success easily. This is the missing link to finding success without struggle!
Most people see success as achievement of goals. The fact is, success should be experienced during the journey. Over more than two decades, I have been pursuing success in studies, sports, career, and even self-development goals. I was extremely goal-oriented, always perpetuate the timeless principle of one of the "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People": Begin With The End In Mind!

As I reflect on all these years of experience, I found myself looking at the glaring paradox of success: When I focused only on the goals, the joy and excitement of success is often short-lived. Success is usually achieved after a long period of struggles and sometime unpleasant hard work. The main reason being that I was pursuing success that does not align with my life purpose. I was drawn to prestige and glamor, more than inner joy and fulfillment. The simple lesson that took me years to realize is: Pursue only goals that you can enjoy the journey.
Most often it is how we define success that determines whether we are able to enjoy the journey as much as the end goal.

Take my favorite sport for example: marathon running. When I set my goal on running a marathon race, I give myself 6 to 9 months to train for the race. It is important to have a clear and specific goal on the marathon race. For me, I have a clear goal to complete the full course in three-and-a-half hours or better. I am setting this goal to push myself to instill better discipline in diet and exercise, as well as in my work. It is a challenging goal to me because the last marathon I run more than ten years ago was barely below four hours.
With this end goal, I work backward to find out the pace that I need to run during the race. I would then be able to know the gap between my current form and what I need to achieve in eight month's time. I work out a training plan to do weekly long run, speed work, and interval training. The training schedule will be in a progressive manner where I should achieve peak form when it reaches the day of race.


To cut the long story short, there are lots of details in preparing for a marathon race. However, the single most important thing I have to focus on is how I define success. It is a mindset business. While I have set a specific time goal to finish the race, it is not my definition of success. The success is not found in the distant future eight months from now. Success is defined by my daily commitment in working out the training program.
With this definition, I experience success everyday whenever I:
- Complete a 12-mile run.
- Work out an exhausting but satisfying speed training.
- Push myself to finish the punishing interval training even when my muscle is aching.
- Resist the temptation of tasty food to stick to the sports diet
- Defy the urge to run too hard so as to avoid over-training or injury.
- Diligently attend to blister and chafing so as to recover in time for next day's training without disruption.
- Remember to replenish my body fluid sufficiently to restore the required balance.
Even though I have to sweat, suffer muscle aching and even injuries, doing these is not a struggle to me. It is fun and exciting. It keeps me energized everyday.
I look forward to the training regime everyday, anticipating the excitement and fulfillment of finishing each exhausting training session, knowing that I have achieved success for that day.

The compounding effect of such success mindset is empowering. I know fully well that these small successes will add up to huge success in time to come. Even if I do not meet my time goal at end of this year, I know I have succeeded anyway as long as I follow the training regime diligently. I would already have experienced success on a daily basis for eight months even prior to the end goal. The final achievement of running time will be wonderful but it will not undermine my success. I am not comparing myself with others.
This same success principle can be applied universally in our life, in anything we do.
It is absolutely possible to achieve success without struggle if you can:
- Find your life purpose by seeking your inner wisdom;
- Set your goals base on your purpose, and be guided by what really excites and energizes you;
- Break the goal into small tasks you need to do on a daily basis;
- Stay focus in doing the small tasks well and enjoy the process;
- The key to enjoying the process is to be in the state of flow regularly by aligning your mind, body and soul.;
- This can be achieved by daily meditation exercise;
- Do not be concern about how you measure up with others;
- Have the faith and belief that success will eventually come, if you persevere and never give up.
Everyone can do it and everyone can achieve success in his own terms, without struggle!

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GUIDANCE AND CAREER OPPORTUNITY

There is no substitute for fulfillment in life.Fulifillment in life,however may be a function of a chosen career and the ability to exploit the unlimited possibilities for development in the chosen career.
Consequently,the importance of Divine guidance in choosing a life career cannot be over-emphasized.
Today in the world some people,to know their future seek horoscope,palm reading,fortune-telling and other satanic practices.
Choosing a career by Divine guidance from God only brings fulfillment in life. The consequence of not seeking divine guidance can lead to lifetime regrets.Hence the need for God’s guidance in choosing life career cannot be over-emphasized.
God leads in diverse ways and manner.Some of the ways God leads include among others the following:dreams and visions, circumstances,Spirit confirmation in the mind (intuitive perception),Scriptural revelation,receiving counseling from godly and God- fearing parents or guardians and ministers when in doubts about anything.
In other to be able to follow God’s will in career self-will,self-ambitions and passions must be conquered and put under control.
Only service-oriented career brings fulfillment and profitability.Educational certificates or degrees are not “Almighty formulae” for success.To be able to make an outstanding contribution to your society and success without certificates you need to seek God’s wisdom.To excel in a chosen career some requirement are necessary.These includes:
Goal setting and planning:Success does not happen until you set a goal.Goal-setting is the necessary pointer to keep man moving in the right direction.Set goals and reach out for your goals.In your career determine specific goals you want to achieve.Have workable plans.
Courage to conquer all odds:Overcome your worry,doubt and fear.Whip worry and face the facts that worry always destroys and never helps.Dominate your doubts and don’t yield to them,you will be successful in your chosen career.
Fight fear with faith and with the facts.Try not to flee from your fears face them with facts aggressively.
Development of personal intuition and self-disciplined: “He who lives without discipline dies without honor.”Icelandic proverb.Indiscipline is an enemy of success.No indisciplined man ever ends up distinguished in life chosen career.
Motivate and inspire yourself:Paul J. Meyer states; “No matter who you are or what your age may be, if you want to achieve permanent,sustaining success,the motivation that will drive you toward that goal must come from within.It must be personal,deep-rooted and a part of your inner-most thoughts.All other motivation,the excitement of a crowd,the stimulation of a pep-talk,the exihilarating of a passing circumstance is external and temporary.It will not last.”
Believe in yourself:You must believe in yourself that you can succeed in that chosen career because you are better than you think you are.It does not matter what other people thnk of you,of your plans,or of your aims, you must believe in yourself.
Give your best to the work: Pay the price.As we sow so we reap our results are directly proportionate to the effort we put forth.Therefore pay the price for success in your chosen career by giving your best to the work.
Think positively and act positively:There is nothing so important in your life as your mental attitude towards yourself,what you think of your career,the model which you hold of yourself and your possibilities.You must have a positive conviction that you can attain success in your chosen career.
Enthusiasm to make the difference among contemporaries:Enthusiasm will open a door when other keys fail. Horace Greeley states that “The best product of labor is the high-minded workman,with a enthusiasm for his work.”
Trust in God for success: “A happy,contended, successful career must flow from a well-balanced, symmetrical mind, which has a sense of absolute security and unquestioned faith in the Great Creator,the providing and sustain power.”says Marden.

HINTS ON SUCCESS

Success has been defined in so many by so many people because many do not view success in a holistic perspective. Hence they misconstrue the true meaning of success. However, true success is God-glorfying and not self-centered. It starts from God and ends in God.It fulfils God’s purpose and benefits humanity.

The starting point of all successful achievement is to know oneself and the starting point of knowing self is to know God. He who knows God will know himself better. There are great innumerable possibilities in and before everyone.

You should not be found limiting yourself. There is a goldmine hidden in every life. It is certain that nature never made a failure. There are forces in everyone created by God that are valuable to the spiritual and commercial world. Long waiters are success winners. You must never lose heart when the first efforts fail. Just go back into success. Do not forget that there is discomfort in all trades. And he that will eat honey in the work must consider the stepping-stone to success.

Success is not achieved by sudden flight. Success achievers are neither sleepers, nor idlers but they are real toilers.

YOUR SUCCESS BEGINS NOW

Preparation for success starts with the little steps of today.Today is that tomorrow you waited for yesterday.Tomorrow does not come suddenly,it comes through continual counts of seconds,minutes and hours.

Through the little actions taken moment by moment so also does success come around.Do not wait for a bigger opportunity;it may be to late and never come.Use the little priveledges and opportunities you have today to build structure for your future.

A little more effort and perseverance,a little more self-denial,a little more care for details will make your success brighter and better.Learn new skills and improve your self in little ways today.

If you want to succeed, you must check your daily routines.How purposeful and profitable are your activities?The events that occupy the most parts of your time are they of any advantage to your life goals? To be busybody instead of working to achieve something purposeful in a day is a useless exercise. Let your actions work toward your target.As you go out today, do nothing that is useless and wasteful. What matters is not the quantity but thequality of activities that keep us busy.

GOOD SUCCESS

“……then thou shalt have good success” (Jos. 1:8)

Success indicates a favourable outcomes, an attainment of what was desired or attempted. It is also an accomplishment, achievement or attainment of God-given and self-set goals.

Success, true success is never cheap. It has a price tag. Anyone who desires success has a price to pay. Good success starts from God and ends with God.

True success is not self-centered it fulfill God’s purpose and benefits humanity. Good success is costly and yet, every one can afford its price if so desired.

Good success demands that one be:-

STRONG: Success demand’s that you exert your energy on goal-oriented actions. Your energy must be dispersed on things required by your chosen career. In all your endeavours you must be strong and hardworking.

COURAGEOUS: “Hope and courage are two bright diamonds in the crown of success” – Indian proverb.Courage is the ability to be confident in facing dangerous or painful experiences. Courage will put fear under control. Courage is needed in pursuit of success courageous man never gives up easily.

NOT AFRAID OR DISMASTED: To have good success you must fight fear. To have good success in life you must not be moved by what you see. Step out boldly. Fight fear with faith and with facts. Fear-False Experience that Appear as Real hinders your ability to think and to reason effectively. Fear produce disturbances and generate weakness in both mind and body. Fear leads to retrogression rather than to growth. No wonder that the creator of heaven and earth command Joshua not to be afraid or dismayed.