SUCCESS AS A HABIT

Am particularly honoured to reach out to you today.
Perhaps an introduction at this point will do: I am Frank Uzo, Leadership Strategist and a German Certified Trainer of Trainers in Administration.
Today we shall be considering "Success As A Habit"...interestingly my first published book is captioned "Make Success A Habit" which has travelled to many more countries across the globe than I have ever been to so far...
So to say, am at home with the topic despite the different shades of opinions surrounding the concept of success but as we jointly xray it, I strongly believe we shall arrive at the conclusions that will redefine our perceptions and sharpen our dispositions to the truth about success...let's roll
Let's first understand the key words: 'success' and 'habit'. Success is both a noun and a verb. As a verb it means "to have a good result" while as a noun, it means "to be a person or thing that has succeeded." Habit on the other hand means "tendency to behave or do things in a particular way especially regularly and repeatedly over a long period." (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, New Edition)

 Now looking at success from both perspectives, we begin to see it as being beyond a good outcome to actually being an embodiment of the good outcome. Why?
If we base our definition on just the outcome, we unwittingly create a platform where anybody may habitually choose to cut corners in order to get a "good outcome"; which ultimately cripples the doctrine/concept of sanctity and propriety, the very things the word success embodies. This is the very definition of the problem which our great country Nigeria has been bedevilled with: acquiring material things at all cost without consideration for set standards and controls...
Hence my disposition to the following definitions:
1. Affecting people with the richness of your endowments for common good
2. Inspiring people to higher aspirations that promote their well-being.
3. The totality of activities and resources applied toward achieving a set objective right from the point of idea conception to the point of actualization.
 By reason of extensive research and studies, I have come to conclude that success is more a principle than an outcome. As a principle, it means that certain processes must run their full course before the anticipated outcome can be birthed; this therefore leaves no room for cutting corners, cheating or corruption which have become the typical identities of many people considered as successful by the depraved ruling standards of our convoluted social systems. Regrettably, I know this may sound hard and probably unacceptable to some people in some of our African countries today because of conditioned reasoning resulting from experiences that a coterie of people in the political and economic circles  have subjected most of us to in their bid to gain/sustain societal dominance (which ought not be so
Going by the foundation already laid, this concept de-emphasizes and cripples the long entrenched social misnomer that "The end justifies the means". Nothing could be further from the truth; this is a mere mishmash, an aberration and excuse for unending  compromises.
Think along with me, a medical student who cheats his way through medical college to become a medical doctor or an armed robber who amasses stupendous wealth that ultimately positions him for political and social relevance may be considered  successful but are they truly successful?
I leave you to regurgitate on this...
In view of the fore-going, it is safe to say that success is beyond the result! It is the totality of the result, the process/procedure and the person involved. In other words, it is a lifestyle, culture, way of life or habit if success must be viewed in its very dynamics and nature.
This may not sit pretty with some folks (especially the naysayers to propriety and dignity of labour) because of the ruling mentality and popular culture in our environment today but that does not by half an inch diminish the truth about success in its very content and context.
Now if that is true, there must be necessary characteristics/ ingredients that must run as common streaks or denominators in everyone possessed of it (in this discourse, I will not be exhaustive for reasons of space and time, however with the permission of my host I would recommend you read the book: Make Success A Habit where I handled it as success management principles).

Let's get together again to read more...

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