Hello everyone
I hope, like I am, you are all preoccupied putting up things together in preparation for the new year. I want to tell you that, that is how it has been everywhere in the world. I have nugget recommendations or proposals for an appropriate course of action to pass on to you, so that you may add more valuable plan or remove some lightweight complacent decision that has been incorporated in your recipes for the journey ahead. Here it goes.
As you know that life is not always a bed of roses, our success are conditioned by the amount of risk we are ready to take. Therefore, we have to plan ahead, because it was not raining when Noah built the ark. I know that we would have received a bundle of calls, SMS, chats on good wishes for the new year. Let me remind you of 1st of January, 1964, when Dr. Tai Solarin, a notable Nigerian educator, addressed his wish for that year when he said, my wish for you is that "May your road be rough". People were befurdled and in a dazzling puzzle what he meant, if was a curse or prayer. But when he explained the concept behind the wish, many people rescheme their schedules for that year. Also, my wish for you today 1st January, 2018, is that "May your journey ahead bring to you toil, sweat and in the end success".
Scheme up a target to carve out a conspicuous mark on a hard rock. To achieve greatness in life, a price has to be paid. A price in term of vigorous effort, wealth, sacrificial endurance, and lot more. In between paying up a price and the actual success, it stands in rhe midway failure(s). Failures are the experience that enables one to cherish success that subsequently followed.
Undoubtedly, everybody want to be rich, wealthy and/or influential. Then if that is your wish your goal, why not making it now to emulate those who have successfully string the bow. Jack Ma is the richest man in the Asian peninsula. Ma grew up poor in communist China, failed his University entrance exam twice, and rejected from dozens of jobs, before finding resort with his third internet company, Alibaba. He rose to stand out as the Asian richest man outstanding. His story from rag-to-rich is an inspiration to elicit a responsibility to take of one's life to greatness. Despite challenges that stood his way, he managed to pierce the rock without considering the blunting axe blade, and finally find pearls.
Another awesome man is Henry Bill Gate, the man hailed from an average family like most people of his time were. He remained the American richest man and the world at large. He took upon his enthusiasm passion for software to the cutting-edge level of technology and build himself to be maestro in that field. He struggle to trampled the obstacles that fall in his way.
Another titan that we have to learn from his greatness his Aliko Dangote. Dangote head list of riches in Africa. He was not from a poor background like some other child were not also, and he is able to turn a loan given to him to a multi-billion dollars empire. While his story may not be the typical rags-to-riches, his success story is definitely an inspiration to anyone that has some start-up capital and hopes to someday become one of the richest people in the world. He transformed from an importer to manufacturer, an idea that blossomed in 1997 to get him to his status quo. He woke up one day, holding a cup of early morning tea, pierce his view through the the ray of light that fell in from the window of a storey building he was living and soliloquized aloud with a dogged envision that "as from this moment, I want to be sleeping and waking in the home of every Nigerians". Owing to that fact, he did not only sleep and wake in the homes of Nigerians but also got investment span through other African nations. He and some other African dollar billionaires disproved the misguided thoughts of the world's view about Africa being portrayed as a continent majorly filled with small huts, hunters, farmers and every man getting married to multiple women at childhood.
My dear reader, that is how life has been. Whether you are black, white or whatever complexion bestowed on you, take up the challenge before you now. Irrespective of your background, assume a virility now to shape your vitality. The trio mention hereto hailed from rich, average and poor background. All have an amazing lesson to teach and train any enthusiast. Nevertheless, not that these men have not failed before, all men are bound to failure, but are paying the price require to ensure success atop.
To culminate my discussion, success is the ultimate goal of man, that is surrounded by failure. Before you earn success, failure are grotesque numb that tends to chase you away from the corner of ultimate goal.
My dear brothers and sisters, make success your limelight watchword in 2018. Resolve in your mind that you will strive more harder and beat more resolutely that you are unstoppable by any form of failure that might precede your success. If eventually your mind is captured then you are going no where. In the end, not the years in your life that count but the life in your years count.
One again I wish you toil, sweat and success this year.
