One of the reasons why people never live happy and successful lives is that they have failed to define what success is. The first step to success is to know your purpose in life. You don’t become successful if you don’t know your purpose in life. In order to know when you have reached your destination, you need to understand what that destination is. Success for somebody set to go to Nairobi, Kenya is taking the right flight or road towards there and successfully reaching the place. Thus you haven’t succeeded if you haven’t defined what you want to achieve and have successfully used your resources to achieve this goal.
This requires one to take responsibility for all the events in their lives. There is a great relationship between the amount of responsibility you take for the events in your life and the amount of control you feel you have about the events in your life. This will in effect affect the level of happiness and satisfaction in your life. It will motivate you to commit all your energies to achieving that which you have set your heart to achieve.
Having taken responsibility of your life, you need to create a vision of what you want to achieve. In setting a vision for your life, it is important to understand that you vision and mission must be written in such a way that it shows how your life will benefit other people. It is very important to understand that man’s success is a journey, not a destination. You can feel successful all the way along the journey not just after the destination. Success is living your life for others. Consider the fact that no tree “eats” its own fruits. It produces fruits for the benefit of others. It therefore follows that your God given gift is for the benefit of other people around you.
Can it be said of you, “after he/she had served his/her purposes in his/her generation, he/she rested”?
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