SUCCESS INGREDIENTS

LIFE is a very interesting and challenging journey. The journey of life is usually punctuated by different types of challenges. Depending on how we perceive and respond to these challenges, our future could be easily sabotaged by them. Unfortunately, many of us have inaccurate perceptions of challenges of life; this may be the consequences of our upbringing or past life experiences.

Life has many stations. These stations serve to allow us to think and rethink over some things, actions or even certain relationships. Whatever we experienced in our lives, whether positive or negative, must not be allowed to distort or imprison our potential for success in the coming year. Kobi YaMaMda said, “Never let yesterday use up too much of today.”

Just because some things went wrong in the past, does not necessarily disqualify us for a better future. We must understand that the mistakes we make in life are not just failures, but rather a valuable source of feedback on our journey of life, helping us to look back with the intention of confronting our inaccurate beliefs, judgments and perceptions.

Today I want to discuss some key ingredients that may help us make better use of our lives. These are; vision, time, organisation, implementation and relationships.

lVision: The starting point of a successful, fruitful and meaningful life is vision. Vision is a picture of what is possible for your life. It is a clear picture of a preferred future. It is having a view of your destiny. Vision actually enables us to conceive the realities of a preferred future before those realities are realised in the events of life.

Vision is a combination of faith and goal setting. Vision is crucial because it throws us beyond our negative past or present and gives us a positive view of the future. A great vision is generational in nature, and is able to benefit our children and society. Vision will also usually unearth purpose. Determination, focus and pursuit are significant ingredients that make vision a reality. We must be focused and determined to pursue our goals and vision with passion.

lTime: Time, as we know it, is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years etc. Every opportunity has a time period. We must, therefore, use our time wisely in life. How well we use our time will definitely show by the level and measure of goals we shall achieve. Time management is key to a successful lifestyle. We must train ourselves to assign a time for all our activities in order to produce maximised results in our plans and vision.

lOrganization: We must endeavour to make sure that all areas of our lives are structured well and organised. A disorganised lifestyle wastes resources and time. We must bring order and organisation to everything we do. We must structure our activities and our days. Things in our lives must be put into a proper or systematic order, and arrangement for easy flow. Our lives must operate according to principle in order for us to achieve desired results. To be organised also means to plan, and direct activities in our lives, so that everything we do is governed.

lImplementation: This means we must act on our plans. If we do not timely put action to our plans, it is as good as if we never planned anything. Vision and goals must be enforced by action. It is not enough to have an action plan, we must act on it. We must determine to put into effect our plans. Implementation is basically translating an idea into action in a manner consistent with purpose and vision.

lRelationships: All of us want to be successful in life. We must, therefore, also understand that the basis of real life is people and how we connect and relate to them. Jesus Christ profoundly said; “Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do so for them,” Matthew 7:12. Almost all of us want people to encourage us, appreciate us, not take advantage of us, not speak evil about us, fairly criticise us, forgive us when we mess up, pick us up when we fall, listen to us when we have issues and to even understand us.

We must decide to treat others the way we want to be treated. However, no matter how much we live a godly life or walk in relational wisdom, we will always encounter those who will consciously or unconsciously try to sabotage our journey of destiny. Perhaps, one of the most problematic people we will encounter in the journey of life is the accuser.

These are people who take pleasure in scrutinising and questioning every aspect of our lives in order to discredit us, minimise our influence and destroy us. We must build the capacity to admit our shortcomings, correct our behaviour and move on. Never change the God-given direction of your life because of haters and accusers. Keep on going; you will finally arrive at the point of fulfilling purpose and destiny.

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