Usually, when the word "success" is been made mention of, most people limit its meaning to having a luxurious life, power, fame, money and being socially influential.
These misconstrued meanings to the term success have over time made most people (especially youths) to lose understanding of what success really should look like in a person's life.
Success in a person's life should ideally entail fulfillment, and one can only be fulfilled when one is happy with what one does or explore your potentials to its fullest, this by effect is what brings happiness in one's life.
When you're working and happy with what you do irrespective of how low the pay is, you still feel content and fulfilled.
You find out that quite a lot of elderly people when they retire tell you stories about how they regret their working years and youthful days due to the fact that they took a career they never liked and abandoned what they liked simply because of what they thought was better pay or doing what's more socially acceptable at the expense of what they found potentially comfortable with.
As serving Corps members who're about to round-off their service programs, this is the time to wake up into life's reality of choosing your path in life.
This is the time to decide what you'll do for a livelihood with the hope of having a happy family and fulfilled career.
The best chance of having this achieved is by making your passion your profession.
By this it's meant that you understand yourself, know what works for you and follow the path irrespective of the encountered challenges.
Not everyone can be a successful entrepreneur because some don't naturally have the entrepreneurial skills by nature but may be good at other things like working with people or an organization to achieve results.
We all know the reality of most people's academic qualifications that most graduates in the country are graduates of courses that are not in line with their potentials nor interest (be it forced by parents to study what they lacked passion for, studied the course the school offered such person when desperately looking for admission, settled for a lower course due to low Jamb score or deficiency in O'level result), as such, find it hard to make positive things with such academical qualifications.
And the few that get jobs with such certificates end up with frustrating and unhappy careers simply because they're where they don't fit into.
This is the point am driving at, as you're finishing your NYSC program don't just look for employment simply because you wish to get employed but rather, get employed to where your passion and potential(s) lies.
And if you're the type who feels that you have a talent or skill that can be of more benefit to you by being self-employed, then get serious with it by developing such talents or skills into an established and recognized brand, even if it means starting small.
The reality is that a good fraction of the unemployment rate in the country can be attributed to the fact that youths aren't tapping into their potentials but seeking employment opportunities into sectors they're unemployable in.
You also have to remember that there's always something God has given you that'll only work for you in respect to your life's success and happiness, that's if you take time to discover and understand yourself.
Take for example if Mark Zuckerberg had forced himself with his ICT talents to work as a Banker even in the ICT department of a Bank, do you think he would have been as successful, fulfilled and happy as he is today with Facebook?
Just imagine Bill Gates forcing himself to work in an oil company even if he's well paid, do you think he would have been as successful as he is with Microsoft today?
And mind you, the above mentioned personalities at the onset of their careers were more interested m in fulfilling their passions and potentials than becoming Billionaires.
That is simply what you get when you make your passion your profession, you end up being paid for what you love doing with little or no stress.
As a fellow Corps member, am not telling you to compulsorily be an entrepreneur or work for a company, all am saying is that look deep into yourself and find out that special thing God has deposited into you, understand it, develop it and be diligent in it, pretty sure with time you'll have cause to count your success testimonies.
And above all, seek God's guidance in all your endeavors for a successful life journey.
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