Excepts from "The 52 Immutable Rules Of Success"... Author Sylvanus Mgbechukwu
RULE 1: DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE OR MISSION IN LIFE!
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.”
- Thomas Carlyle
Question 1: What is my purpose in life? Or put the other way round: what kind of work am I to do in the world - as my own contribution or effort in the great mandate for human advancement and development?
These are vital questions that require nothing but frank answers.
A frank answer can conceive success.
Would you believe that most people do not know exactly what they want to do in life, not to talk of why they were here?
You discover that very many of us have no idea what life is all about. They have no sense of mission or purpose in life.
A lot of people wake up every morning, brush their teeth, eat, rush to work or business to make money. They come back from work or making money, eat again, drink and chat, watch movies, and then hop into bed - to seal the day.
They continue this ritual everyday, every week, every month and every year - till death interrupts them.
In the course of these rituals, they build normal houses; marry normal wives - to get normal children, who would be sent to normal schools - where they would be awarded normal degrees, in normal certificates - so the children would get normal jobs, and be making normal money, live normal lives and be able to give their parents normal burial - and then die off!
Just a few have been thoughtful and enlightened enough to realize that doing normal business, to make normal money, with which to build normal houses, and marry normal wives - with whom to get normal children, to be sent to normal schools - where they would be given normal certificates - so they can get normal jobs and start making normal money, and be able to give them normal burial, with normal caskets - in normal graves, after they have died normal deaths - may not be exactly why they were here.
It would not be out of place to dig deeper or search further.
For perhaps, just beyond these normal money-making, normal houses, normal wives, normal children, normal jobs, normal lives, normal deaths and normal burials lies the very purpose of our being here.
Woodrow Wilson, former American President, once declared, “I would rather fail in the cause that someday will triumph, than triumph in a cause that someday will fail.”
And elsewhere Zig Zigler noted: “Outstanding people have one thing in common; an absolute sense of mission.”
Not many people realized that humanity have -
several causes that lack assistance;
several injustices urging for unflinching resistance;
several oppression here and there that beg for the commitment of some conscientious fellows;
several wrongs that plead for eradication;
several values that need highlighting;
several lies that need exposition;
several evils that demand consecrated attack;
several truths urging affirmation;
countless ills debasing her;
and ... lots of needs thirsting for provision,
- all longing for some conscientious men and women who could live and die for them!
Cocooned in our shell of self-centered existence, most people believe life have no purpose outside the usual, normal, hunt for fortune, fame, pleasure, power and position.
Just a few realized that there must be one difficulty or pothole on the road of human development and advancement, which he or she in particular, is supposed to work on - or help remove.
“Make sure,” Charles Mays opined, “the thing you’re living for is worth dying for.”
C. Neil Strait declared, “Every life should have a purpose to which it can give the energies of its mind and the enthusiasms of its heart. That life without a purpose will be prey to the perverted ways waiting for the uncommitted life.”
Mary Shelley posits: “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
Several people are actually flowing aimlessly in life, driven about by just any current or flow of the crowd. What ever becomes the order of the day becomes their preoccupation.
Seldom do they spare some thoughts concerning what actually their very purposes in life were.
As easily as a carmel may pass through the eye of a needle, so may such fellows succeed.
Don’t you think that a man who stands up must first of all know where he is going – else he misses the way or gets nowhere?
Paul Nitze pointed out, “One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.”
Once you’ve noted what you want to pursue in life, then get busy about it.
Earl Nightingale stated, “If you have a clean mental image of the person you want to be, you can actually become that person”.
When you have ascertained on the WHY you were here - or WHAT you are to do in life, then sit down and write down HOW, WHAT, WHOM, WHERE, and indeed, EVERYTHING that will help you get that done.
You will also have to ascertain and note down as well, What, Whom, How, Where and Everything that can stop you from accomplishing that.
Then sit down and map out strategies or provisions in view of these.
Of course you should know that a lot of factors have considerable influence in the making or unmaking of a man.
W. Somerset Maugham wrote: “For men and women are not only themselves, they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learned to walk, the games they played as children, the old wife’s tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poems they read, and the God they believed in.”
As a matter of necessity, you have to devout time, a lot of time, to the things that will enhance your purpose.
For instance, he who intends to help in building a better society as a writer or author, would know that he or she would have to be objective in looking at things.
He or she should, as a matter of principle, always discard sentiments of nationality, profession, gender, religion, race, political leaning, carrier and class in his or her judgments, views or submissions.
He or she should be fair-minded, open-minded, conscientious, lover of justice, lover of mercy, and lover of the "animal" called man irrespective of the colour, geography, tongue, faith, political opinion - indeed all such walls.
Such a fellow should be patient with man and his near infinite stupidities, gullibility and absurdities.
He or she should learn to, and teach others as well, to tolerate the pranks, selfishness and wickedness of man.
He or she should beware of pride, prejudice, pomp and pageantry.
And, of course, he or she should be wary of fellow tribesmen, tradesmen, party men, flamboyant and sweet-speaking politicians;
Our man or woman who has decided on real success in life must strive to always read and read wide; he must make himself very knowledgeable - and have a mind of his own. He must not trust his opinion, position or judgement on the media, the columnist or the pressmen - as these very important folks still have to make money or work for an employer!
He or she must be critical of modern church men and mosque men. So often sentiments of creed or religious affiliation beclouds their sense of truth and justice. By reason of the frenzied hunt for fame, fortune and position, even what is right and what is wrong are often contested!
Our bright chaps on the path of actual success must not allow unjust and vested interests - as well as other corruptors of minds to have impactful influence on their consciences.
This, I think, is one of the Best Advice You Need. Or what do you think?
...... Being Chapter 1 Of The Award-Winning Classic, "THE 52 IMMUTABLE RULES OF SUCCESS" by Sylvanus Mgbechukwu
Send your comments...
RULE 1: DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE OR MISSION IN LIFE!
“It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.”
- Thomas Carlyle
Question 1: What is my purpose in life? Or put the other way round: what kind of work am I to do in the world - as my own contribution or effort in the great mandate for human advancement and development?
These are vital questions that require nothing but frank answers.
A frank answer can conceive success.
Would you believe that most people do not know exactly what they want to do in life, not to talk of why they were here?
You discover that very many of us have no idea what life is all about. They have no sense of mission or purpose in life.
A lot of people wake up every morning, brush their teeth, eat, rush to work or business to make money. They come back from work or making money, eat again, drink and chat, watch movies, and then hop into bed - to seal the day.
They continue this ritual everyday, every week, every month and every year - till death interrupts them.
In the course of these rituals, they build normal houses; marry normal wives - to get normal children, who would be sent to normal schools - where they would be awarded normal degrees, in normal certificates - so the children would get normal jobs, and be making normal money, live normal lives and be able to give their parents normal burial - and then die off!
Just a few have been thoughtful and enlightened enough to realize that doing normal business, to make normal money, with which to build normal houses, and marry normal wives - with whom to get normal children, to be sent to normal schools - where they would be given normal certificates - so they can get normal jobs and start making normal money, and be able to give them normal burial, with normal caskets - in normal graves, after they have died normal deaths - may not be exactly why they were here.
It would not be out of place to dig deeper or search further.
For perhaps, just beyond these normal money-making, normal houses, normal wives, normal children, normal jobs, normal lives, normal deaths and normal burials lies the very purpose of our being here.
Woodrow Wilson, former American President, once declared, “I would rather fail in the cause that someday will triumph, than triumph in a cause that someday will fail.”
And elsewhere Zig Zigler noted: “Outstanding people have one thing in common; an absolute sense of mission.”
Not many people realized that humanity have -
several causes that lack assistance;
several injustices urging for unflinching resistance;
several oppression here and there that beg for the commitment of some conscientious fellows;
several wrongs that plead for eradication;
several values that need highlighting;
several lies that need exposition;
several evils that demand consecrated attack;
several truths urging affirmation;
countless ills debasing her;
and ... lots of needs thirsting for provision,
- all longing for some conscientious men and women who could live and die for them!
Cocooned in our shell of self-centered existence, most people believe life have no purpose outside the usual, normal, hunt for fortune, fame, pleasure, power and position.
Just a few realized that there must be one difficulty or pothole on the road of human development and advancement, which he or she in particular, is supposed to work on - or help remove.
“Make sure,” Charles Mays opined, “the thing you’re living for is worth dying for.”
C. Neil Strait declared, “Every life should have a purpose to which it can give the energies of its mind and the enthusiasms of its heart. That life without a purpose will be prey to the perverted ways waiting for the uncommitted life.”
Mary Shelley posits: “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
Several people are actually flowing aimlessly in life, driven about by just any current or flow of the crowd. What ever becomes the order of the day becomes their preoccupation.
Seldom do they spare some thoughts concerning what actually their very purposes in life were.
As easily as a carmel may pass through the eye of a needle, so may such fellows succeed.
Don’t you think that a man who stands up must first of all know where he is going – else he misses the way or gets nowhere?
Paul Nitze pointed out, “One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.”
Once you’ve noted what you want to pursue in life, then get busy about it.
Earl Nightingale stated, “If you have a clean mental image of the person you want to be, you can actually become that person”.
When you have ascertained on the WHY you were here - or WHAT you are to do in life, then sit down and write down HOW, WHAT, WHOM, WHERE, and indeed, EVERYTHING that will help you get that done.
You will also have to ascertain and note down as well, What, Whom, How, Where and Everything that can stop you from accomplishing that.
Then sit down and map out strategies or provisions in view of these.
Of course you should know that a lot of factors have considerable influence in the making or unmaking of a man.
W. Somerset Maugham wrote: “For men and women are not only themselves, they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learned to walk, the games they played as children, the old wife’s tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poems they read, and the God they believed in.”
As a matter of necessity, you have to devout time, a lot of time, to the things that will enhance your purpose.
For instance, he who intends to help in building a better society as a writer or author, would know that he or she would have to be objective in looking at things.
He or she should, as a matter of principle, always discard sentiments of nationality, profession, gender, religion, race, political leaning, carrier and class in his or her judgments, views or submissions.
He or she should be fair-minded, open-minded, conscientious, lover of justice, lover of mercy, and lover of the "animal" called man irrespective of the colour, geography, tongue, faith, political opinion - indeed all such walls.
Such a fellow should be patient with man and his near infinite stupidities, gullibility and absurdities.
He or she should learn to, and teach others as well, to tolerate the pranks, selfishness and wickedness of man.
He or she should beware of pride, prejudice, pomp and pageantry.
And, of course, he or she should be wary of fellow tribesmen, tradesmen, party men, flamboyant and sweet-speaking politicians;
Our man or woman who has decided on real success in life must strive to always read and read wide; he must make himself very knowledgeable - and have a mind of his own. He must not trust his opinion, position or judgement on the media, the columnist or the pressmen - as these very important folks still have to make money or work for an employer!
He or she must be critical of modern church men and mosque men. So often sentiments of creed or religious affiliation beclouds their sense of truth and justice. By reason of the frenzied hunt for fame, fortune and position, even what is right and what is wrong are often contested!
Our bright chaps on the path of actual success must not allow unjust and vested interests - as well as other corruptors of minds to have impactful influence on their consciences.
This, I think, is one of the Best Advice You Need. Or what do you think?
...... Being Chapter 1 Of The Award-Winning Classic, "THE 52 IMMUTABLE RULES OF SUCCESS" by Sylvanus Mgbechukwu
Send your comments...
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