Another category
of people who are likely to fail in life are unprepared people. If they do not
change something very fast they may just end up failing in life. The room of
success is available to everybody but not all can access it because that room
has a lock and you need a key. The tree around us that has very beautiful
fruits on it, as inviting as it is we still need to climb the tree to pluck the
fruit, or better still you bring down the fruit by throwing a stick. So that
tells me that the fact that something is available may not mean that it is
accessible. Success is available to every class of people, every race, every color,
every tribe, every nation but it is not accessible to all these diverse set of
people. The reason is simple, the kind of routines people have are different.
If you do not have the exact key that is configured for success you will not be
able to have access to it.
And so, a
good example of people who do not have the key to success door are unprepared
people. They are rehearsing to fail. The degree of our preparedness in life
determines the height of our achievements. What we are not prepared for can
kill us. Most of the disasters that have taken massive lives in the world were
simply because the government were not prepared about it. They never knew, it
came unannounced! The tsunami swept over three hundred thousand people away in
Indonesia and a certain part of Asia and the alarming part of that tragedy was
because it was a thunderstorm that came unannounced. The people were not
prepared so whatever we are not prepared for in life can kill us. The sad news
is that many love to learn through regret. Why not learn by information? It is
cheaper to learn through information than to bite your fingers later in life
when you should be biting sausages. So a lot of people through their actions have
chosen the path of regret.
Life is a
challenge and whoever desires to triumph must be prepared for it. Preparing
ahead of something is the greatest form of response to that thing. Preparation means
building up strategies and defense towards an occurrence. The things that
easily shatter other people are most definitely things that catch them by
surprise. Being prepared for surprises is indicative of a mental proactive
culture. Usually people become disappointed when surprises pop up but are you
kidding me? We should be prepared for certain surprises. Succeeding in life
will take a lot of determination and preparation. Don’t forget, success is a
journey! We all need to learn how to pack bags, we must learn how to book a
ticket, we must learn how to plan the travel and to engage a tour guide because
success is a journey and you have got to prepare. Preparation is the most
important thing regarding any form of trip. How best you prepared is what
determines the success of that trip. Abraham Lincoln says, “I will rather
prepare for a 24hour assignment for 23hours because it will take me less than
an hour to accomplish it if I was better prepared.” The reason why life is
hectic is because people are not prepared for what they are going through.
Another category
of people who are likely to end up in shame if they do not do something very
fast are unfocused people. Do not forget that success is a value phenomenon and
whatever has a value has a price attached to it, meaning that not everybody can
pay that price. There are cars that you know that this is beyond your budget and
there are cars that are only on order and there are also cars that are
available to you. There is always a price attached to success, the reason why
everybody is not succeeding is because not everybody can pay the huge price and
one of those prices is focus so when you find an unfocused friend around you,
you’d better begin to rethink that relationship because they are simply looking
for companies so they can do the dance with you.
The reason
why stories have not changed is because our focus have not changed. If you paid
attention, the reason why your goals from year to year has always been revised
edition of the same goals that you had the previous year and you haven’t had
any significant achievement is simply because your focus is yet to change. If your
focus changes, you will begin to have significant accomplishments.
Focus is the
activation of human momentum and the energy towards achieving ones desire. The woman
called Mary Engelbreit said if you don’t like something, change it but if you
cannot change that thing, change the way you think about it. When people’s
focus change, goals automatically change. The reason why men fail is because of
unbroken focus. In the real sense, no man is caught unfocused because everybody
somehow has something they are focusing on. So the issue is this, what exactly
are you focusing on? What gets your attention? Therefore, distraction is not
the lack of focus, it is the attraction in opposite direction.
It takes
focus and a lot of it to be a successful man! When people lack focus, their
minds and desire will change too often even when it is absolutely unnecessary. You
can hardly tell what exactly such people want as everything will interest them.
Unfocused
people ask for anything and in the school of success, anything is equal to
nothing. Stay focused!
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Yours Sincerely
Paul Amusa
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Yours Sincerely
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