Success Ahead!

The long road to success includes hard work, dedication and passion, but one greatest thing you must do is to ACT. Growing up I was never into personal planning, instead I would let others plan my next moves for me, but as I am now I have come to the realization that success of anything is produced through personal planning. At times I would get stuck at a crucial level because the plan am using is not mine but someone else’s. Ask me now I will tell you personal planning is the foundation of where success is built. Had I had done it right from the start I would have been somewhere right now. It takes a strong person to remain motivated, face challenges and overcome obstacles, thus a well-constructed plan is required. A personal plan also needs a clearly defined goal, because priorities cannot be planned without a defined goal. “There is nothing brilliant nor outstanding in my record except perhaps this one thing, I do things I believe are ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act.” Theodore Roosevelt. As I mentioned above, make it a point that you have a personal plan for your future. A plan means you have certain things you must do in order to succeed. First figure out where you are right now with work and life, figure out where you want to be and what you want to accomplish everyday. Having an understanding of this will help you move forward with the most important things that is work and life. When people are talking about the most successful people or if they themselves are the successful ones they talk as if it was something bothersome or burdensome to get where they are, but yet it was something that was needed to be done for you to be where you are. Had you sat back and relaxed nothing was going to come. I have met this 34year old Zimbabwean man who owns buses that commute regionally in Southern Africa and he is very very successful. As we were talking I asked him how he has made it at his age because most people his age have figured out what they want to be but in most scenarios they have not reached a stage of having a net worth of thousands. What he said was that at a very tender age around 19 he came to Botswana, started off as a panel beater, every single cent he got he saved it, during the day he would survive with a bun alone, until he had his first bus, the rest is history now he is someone else… So in my own opinion this guy had to go through this process either way, he had to find survival skills so that he succeeds. The personal plan of starving himself was necessary so he had to ACT upon it. I hear people complaining about school pressure and so do I complain 500% of the time but at the end of the day it has to be done for you to pass and for you to go further.

The easiest thing to do is figuring out when you are most productive during the day or night. This is what has helped me in overcoming the two degrees am currently studying in which both of them am almost through with. Some people feel better working in the afternoon and overnight while others feel more productive in the early morning hours. Some say they are neutral they can work all day, I once tried it too but I realized it made me yield average results. Keeping a schedule during your most productive time will really help you achieve what you need to and what you want to. Holding success in your hands is not as tough as it may seem all you need is knowing or figuring out how you will get it then you ACT upon it.