OVERNIGHT SUCCESS DOES IT EXIST?

The word success means different things to different people. To the student who has spent years studying for a course, passing his final exam will be the ultimate success. To the woman trusting for the fruit of the womb, getting pregnant will be a huge success. To a long distant traveler, getting to his destination will be a success, and so on and so forth.

To understand the importance of success, corporations and advert agencies try to build our ability to attain success around their services and products. For instance, advert runs with some saying like this: be important, be successful, use… So by using the product, you will become important and successful. Do you thing it’s that easy? If it is, all would have become mega billionaires without sweating.

If you drive round the town, or any where you’re living, you will see beautiful billboards selling one kind of service or the other, attaching our success to our ability to buy and use their products or services. There is this particular one I see with beautiful colours and a nice background, with the word “Taste Success” boldly written across its face. What it means is that as soon as you buy that product, you taste success. But one thing is striking. At the base of the board you will see: “The Federal Ministry of Health warns that smokers are liable to die Young.” It then means that something is wrong somewhere. How can you taste success then die young. All they want to do is to sell their product.

Everyone living under the sun wants to attain one kind of success or the other, if not, why the hustle and bustle on a daily basis. You will also agree with me that these success don’t come easy. YOU MUST DO WHAT IS NECESSARY TO ATTAIN THE KIND OF SUCCESS YOU DESIRE. It’s only in the movies that you can become an overnight success.

There are very few (if any) “overnight success.” One wise man rightly said: “There are only night after night after night after night successes… and on most of those nights, you’d better be burning the midnight oil.” Simply means THERE ARE ESTABLISHED PRINCIPLES TO FOLLOW BEFORE ONE SEES HIS DREAMS COME TO REALITY. “Step by step, little by little, bit by bit: That’s the way to wealth, that’s the way to wisdom, that’s the way to glory.”

Don’t let anyone deceive you; there is NO QUICK ACCESS TO SUCCESS. You must be willing to sweat and pay the price. Though some of us want a get-rich-quick prescription, the truth of the matter is that you end up losing if you buy into such things.

One author insists that sustained and honest effort not only creates foundation on which success can be built, but also an inner strength of characters that enable you to handle success when it arrives. THE PRICE OF SUCCESS IS HARD WORK, DEDICATION TO THE JOB AT HAND AND DETERMINATION THAT WHETHER WE WIN OR LOSE, WE HAVE TO APPLIED THE BEST OF OURSELVES TO THE TASK AT HAND!