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.