IS SUCCESS LUCK?

If you think that success is an overnight moment that happens by luck,then you are living a deceptive lifestyle.It is unfortunate that majority of us are trapped in this mentality. At some point in my life, I lived fantasizing about life and success. I lived in deception. I thought that  so as long as I dreamed and prayed for my dreams things would fall in place automatically without doing anything;that things were to fix themselves in a supernatural way for my own goodness.

After some years trying to figure out the meaning and purpose of life, I have realized that there is always some significant cost associated with being the top student in class, best soccer player in the country and the most popular artist in the city.And therefore, I believe you can accomplish anything if you are willing to pay the price for success.

 

Today I agree with Vince Lombardi sarcastic sentiment, that it is only in the dictionary where success comes before work.So often do we allow our lives to slide into fiction, getting submerged in illusion on how to attend success. We think that success is something we wish by faith and, this has caused a lot of disappointments and pain to the present generation. I dispute not that one should believe or develop faith about something, but as the old say goes, faith without action is dead faith. Therefore, there is nothing like being lucky in life; you must work your way up!

Everyone loves to be associated with successful people. We always wish to be like them, and it is a beautiful thing in life. However, it is interesting that most of us are ignorant to the process or patterns that curved such people into the amazing and attractive figures we desire to copy.We pay no attention to the path that these great men and ladies went through to be who they are;you know, learning the process well, and then deciding whether to follow their path to success and be like them or designing your own version by creating your unique path.

Lionel Messi, Oprah Winfrey,Billy Gates, Usain Bolt,Barack Obama and Folorunso Alakija are successful; rich and famous people. Anyone would wish to be like any of them. However, it's only a few of us who can accept to go through their course of perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice and respect for authority.

Success is a continuous process that takes time, therefore don't desire to be successful in a day, for this will only push you into disappointments and anxiety.Be ready to identify a particular thing you love doing and maximize passion and effort in your pursuit until you become a master of it while exercising patience.

It may take months or years of struggling and suffering, but don't give up for the reward is worth the process. Benjamin Franklin said, “He that can have patience can have what he will. ''Therefore be patience for this is a conquering virtue.

Even when you fail, remember that, “success is not final and failure is not fatal,''.