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Have you ever asked yourself why there are very few people who are successful in this world? The simple answer to that is that the road to success is never easy and only those who are ready to make sacrifices get there. every day, life presents you with another opportunity to make something useful out of your life and it is left for you to decide what to do.
Successful people are those who made sacrifices and stepped out of their comfort zones to try things out. Success can never be achieved without sacrifice and only those are ready to make this sacrifice get there. The world is filled with many people who wants to be successful but the question is how many are ready to make the sacrifice?
Successful people are not those without excuses but there are people who tried to make the best out of their situation. Opray Winfrey was molested at a very young age, J.K Rowling was a single mother who was left alone from a very young, the Late Steve Jobs ( cofounder of Apple ) was adopted at a very young age and lived without his biological parents, and many others. All these billionaires had every reason to give up but there kept their heads up high.
Life will not give you what you want except you go out and fight for it. If you want to be successful and go far in life, you need to sacrifice these 7 things.
1. Time
This is the greatest assets we all have and how you make use of it matters. The same 24 hours you have in a day is the same number of hours people like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet and other billionaires have. God has given you a free will to decide how you spend your time and you have to use it wisely. The only problem this generation has is that everyone thinks there is time. Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried. You need to spend your time well if you want to go far in life and destiny. Spend your time and do things that will enrich you if you want to be successful. Spending the whole of your time chatting on social media, playing video games, having fun about is a waste. Sacrifice your time and do valuable things if you want to be successful.
2. Pleasure
You need to sacrifice short term pleasures for long term happiness if you want to be successful. Life is a long game and you will starve tomorrow if you eat tomorrow’s food today. Pleasure is the major reason why you see many helpless and hopeless youths on the street today. Imprudence with sex, alcohol, partying and other things of life will not save you in the long term. You need to give up on those things if you truly want to be successful. Life is time tagged and the strength you have today will not be there forever hence do what you are supposed to do today. Be a slave to your destiny in your 20s and spend the rest of your life as a king.
3. Negative relationships
The type of company you keep will go a long way to affect to your chances of being successful. Always get rid of negative people from your life. Hang around people who will help and propel you to your destiny. if none of your friends are ambitious, leave them immediately because there will ruin you one day. Some of the world largest companies like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook,Google etc. were founded by at least a pair of persons. If you really want to be successful in life, you need to sacrifice bad relationships.
4. Dogmatic behavior
This is another vital habit that hinders the success of many people. Steve Jobs ( the late cofounder of Apple) will say “ your time is limited so don’t waste if living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinion drown out your own inner thinking, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, there somehow already know what you truly want to become, everything else is secondary”. Stop living your life to please people. Remember that you have a destiny to achieve and not a society to impress. Just give up the idea of perfection and be your true self. You were born an original, don’t die a photocopy. Give up your idea of living to please people if you want to be great in life.
5. Excuses
When you make excuses, you celebrate your circumstances. There are world changers and billionaires who had every reason to give up but there did not. Look at Nicholas James Vujicic( the man without hands and legs) who is an evangelist and a motivational speak, happily married with 4 kids. He had every reason to give up but he is very successful today. If this guy could achieve all these in that situation, what of you with both hands and legs. Always take responsibility for your actions. Don’t blame people for your circumstances. Face the battle of life and fight it. Pray for the strength to endure difficult times instead of avoiding it.
6. Overnight success
There is a universal law called the law of process and you cannot break this law and want success to come. There are no shortcuts to success and those who try to maneuver their ways always get stranded. Every success takes time and you have to endure the journey. Successful people are those who have put in many years of hard work and sacrifice to get that far. Ignore the ‘get rich quick scheme’ and strive for your success. The law of process makes you value success and honor people who are successful. Everything passes through process and with hard work and persistence, your own time will come.
7. Comfort zone
Great things are never achieved in the comfort zone. People who become successful are people who are willing to step out of their comfort zone and try things. To hope and plan alone will not bring success. Get up and take action. Life itself is a risk and it is a risk not to take a risk. Take calculated risk if you want to be successful. Do things you are afraid to do and see how things will turn out. Dream big, work hard, back it up with persistence and see how God will bless you.
I want to remind you that life will not give you what you want but what you deserve. God has placed something in you and the world is waiting for your manifestation. You were never a mistake and you have a very big potential in you. Will you give it out to the world and bless humanity or enrich the graveyard with it after you die? It is a choice you need to make now.
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