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Arthur Marara Motivation for Success —
IT is very easy to succeed, and it is also very easy to fail. Shocking statement you might say! That is the truth. If you study and master the laws of success, and obey them you will be successful. There is no one with a monopoly over success. Everyone can be successful.
In my book, “Personal Development Toolkit”, I wrote a chapter I termed, “Success is open to all”. Everyone can be successful if they put their mind to what they want to achieve and work towards it.
Why then are some people successful and others not? The answer is very simple, successful people obey the laws of success and failures do not. Successful people observe the disciplines of success, while failures do not.
The priority of discipline
“Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing.
The easy roads to discipline are setting deadlines; discovering and doing what you do best and what’s important and enjoyable to you; focusing on habits by replacing your bad habits and thought patterns, one-by-one, over time, with good habits and thought patterns.” (Dave Kekich)
There difference between successful and unsuccessful people is their level of discipline. The difference between goals and accomplishment is discipline. Discipline is forcing yourself to do what you do not feel like doing.
There is no success without pain. Reading a good book might not be easy, but discipline tells you, you have to do it — going to for a jog might not be easy, but discipline forces you do it for the sake of your health, staying indoors while others are partying every weekend might not be easy, but discipline forces you in so that you can focus on yourself, switching off that television might not be easy, but discipline tells you — you are watching other people’s work.
Discipline entails going against what is convenient now in order to create what is long lasting in the future.
Discipline births habits
With discipline, come habits. It has been scientifically proven that you need 21 days to develop a new habit. What this means is that you have to commit yourself for the next 21 days to do something repeatedly and there you have a new habit.
Aristotle the Greek Philosopher once said something very profound, “We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is not an act, but a habit.” The interesting words there are, “repeatedly do”.
You are what you repeatedly do. What you repeatedly can either raise you or bring you down. You can be disciplined to do the wrong thing or you can be disciplined to do the right thing.
Many people have become serial liars by simply lying daily about basic things including where they are, what they are doing and even time on the watch. What are you repeatedly doing? Do what is easy, and life will be hard on you, do what is hard, life will be easy on you.
Discipline audit?
For a moment I want you to think, and travel back into your life. If you had been more disciplined in life, where will you be by now? Where would you be now had you been financially disciplined? The devil is not necessary your problem, indiscipline is. In life you can only go as far as your discipline takes you.
The majority of problems the world is facing today are discipline problems.
Financial indiscipline has led many people and companies to bankruptcy, time management issues have cost some people their jobs, and infidelity issues have cost people their marriages and relationships.
There are so many areas people have failed to be disciplined. Discipline brings order to your life, your business, your family, your church and any organisation that you may be part of.
Success is not an accident!
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. (Paul J. Meyer)”. Success is not an accident, and it will never be an accident.
Failure as well is not an accident, and will never be an accident. Successful people have however, arisen from accidents and made history.
Successful people do not wait for the climate to improve, they create their own climate. Successful people do not wait for “things to improve”, they rather improve themselves.
Success is deliberate, and intentional. Success is never for a chosen few, it is for the few that choose. Are you making a choice for success in 2017? I do not know what your goals are for 2017, but I am very convinced that you can be a success story if you make the deliberate choice to be success.
There is no short cut to success
“There are no short cuts to any place worth going.” (Beverly Sills). We live in dangerous times, where people want overnight breakthroughs. Some people go as far as “seeding” for the breakthroughs for overnight success.
The tragedy that will befall any church or any society is the moment that we start to teach and preach “shortcuts” to success.
This even seems to be the trend in Zimbabwe as I write now. Look at every poster for a crusade, the selling attractions are related to financial breakthroughs, jobs after deliverance, and marital happiness among other things.
If you also want to start a church, structure it along prosperity lines and you will have crowds of people coming after you. Do you know why?
We are a shortcut generation; we want wealth without work, a good life without sacrifice. Some people have been conned of their hard earned cash through pyramid schemes because they wanted quick returns.
There Is No Shortcut To Success! Be prepared to walk and work the journey.
Success is a journey
Success is not an overnight walk. Many a times we put ourselves under unnecessary pressure by comparing ourselves to people whose source of income we are not aware of. Never admire a person whom you cannot account for the source of their wealth.
Why? You may ask that question. The answer is very simple; there is nothing much to learn. I respect people who can sit down with me and tell me the steps, and the journey that they walked to get to where they are.
There are so many unorthodox ways to make money.
Never make money at the expense of your integrity. Success is a journey. Many people want to be successful, but very people are prepared to walk the journey. Success is a response to laws.
If you study the laws of success, and follow them you will be successful regardless of your race, creed, religion and gender. If you want to be successful, commit yourself to studying successful people and do what they did and you will be successful.
To be continued . . .
Arthur Marara is an Attorney, Author and Speaker. He is also the author of the “Personal Development Toolkit”, “Keys to Financial Freedom”, and “Keys to Effective Time Management”. Send your feedback to [email protected] or like his page on Facebook, or Follow him on Twitter @ArthurMarara or Whatsapp: +263772467255.
