Are you successful today?

A question that I always ask people around me is: “Are you successful today?” Most of them usually respond by asking these two questions;
1. Is it POSSIBLE?
2. Is it a MUST…to succeed everyday? And my response has always been YES.

It is very important for every man and woman to record success every blessed day as it is one of the factors that motivate us towards achieving greater goals in our lives.

A young sprinter was asked the same question and her response was, “Yes, I succeed everyday. The essence of training daily is to increase my speed. Any day I fail to add a few seconds to my speed, I feel depressed and go to bed a looser and that affect me the following day. So I work harder to succeed and also to avoid depression because when you are depressed, nothing can motivate you.”

Another good example is the creation of heaven and earth. God created the heavens and earth, the ocean and all the creatures in it; the land and all that live on it; and all He did in six successive days. If your creator could succeed, how much more you who’s a product of success!

It is not until you are awarded a multi-million naira contract or when your business turnover hit millions that you can claim success, the completion of a simple task or just having a god reputation among your friends or in the society are good ways to account for success.


How can I be successful – everyday?

“The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend out timedoing second things first.” Our minds are mostly pre-occupied by problems and thoughts of things we wish to acquire but yet to be achieved. This tends to distract us from doing the right things and that makes us unproductive.

One factor of success that we need to work on is inner peace. A peaceful mind is calm, happy and not worried. When you have inner peace, you’ll be dedicated to whatever you do, no matter how stressful or challenging it is.

So, how do you search for inner peace?
1. Be connected to your source.
2. Avoid unnecessary stress.
3. Stay focus and accept ups and downs.
4. Believe in yourself and know you are not perfect.
5. Be optimistic and be a positive thinker.

Once these five things are identified with you, what you need to succeed daily are:
1. Have vision.
2. Plan ahead and set new goals/target for each day.
3. Prioritize your tasks
4. Be people oriented
5. Take one step at a time
6. When stress steps in, take a time out to have fun
7. Challenge excuses – Don’t explain yourself to anyone because those that trust you don’t need it and those that hate you won’t believe it.
8. Help 1 person a day and 365 people in a year.
9. Make quick and good decision
10. Be diligent – Diligence calls for being self-discipline, motivated alert, dependable and entails following through. Laziness is an enemy of productiveness and produces lack.

Lazy people are:
(i.) Procrastinators. “A little sleep… folding of hands.” They say, I’ll do it tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes.

(ii.) Expensive to maintain. He who is slothful in his work is a brother to… a great destroyer. They complain, cut corners, cripple businesses and cause hardship.

(iii.) Quitters. They quit before the job is done.

(iv.) Master of excuses. They give excuses in every situation just to protect their name and credibility. The sluggard says: “There’s a lion outside’ or ‘I will be murdered in the street!’” when he runs out of credible excuses, he goes for ridiculous ones. He will not plough by reason of the cold. (Pv 20:4)