Building Blocks of True Success

Don't be misguided about success;
Success is not money.

Success is being or having:

1. Self discipline
2. Patience
3. Endurance
4. Humility
5. Diligence
6. Trustworthy
7. Confidence
8. Intelligence
9. Focus
10. Truthful
11. Kindhearted
12. Positively mouthed
13. Encouraging
14. Thankful
15. Respectful
16. Forgiving
17. Helpful
18. Passionate
19. Active
20. Creative
21. Goal-oriented
22. Attentive
23. Teachable
24. Curious
25. Prudent
26. Organized
27. Caring
28. Careful
29. Loving
30. Righteous (God fearing).

These habits are the true measures or predictors of true success. Regardless of your present bank account status, you are or will be successful if you have and cultivate these habits.

Many have money, but because they do not have these habits, they still feel miserable and unfulfilled. Many do not have money, yet because they have successful habits, they feel successful and know that money will come to them.

When you have successful habits, you may not necessarily look for money, but money will look for you. This is because, people will only put their things and money where they feel it will be secured or multiply - in a successful place.  Everybody likes to deal with people with successful characters, not people with wrong habits.

This is why many people are looking for money bur never get it. They lack successful habits, so people will not deal with them with their resources.

The problem out there today is that, many people are running after money instead of running after success. Another one is that many people have money but not success, and that's why the world is going in the wrong direction today. We all seeking and running after money, instead of running after true success.

But DON'T be misguided: Success is not money. Success is good habits! Be first successful in your habits, and you will ENJOY good money. 

Ideas Are Ladders

Life occurs in steps and stages. One step leads to another step, and one stage takes you to another stage, but it's ideas (knowledge) that will carry you through each steps and stages, especially from lower steps/stages to upper ones.

In life, people with more ideas get to the top stage of life faster than people with lesser , little or no ideas. The more ideas you have the faster and higher you will climb in life. The lesser ideas you possess the slower you will climb, and lower you will descend in life. This is because it is ideas or knowledge that rules in life.

It is the level of your ideas that determines how productive you will be in life. Just like in school, students who provide more ideas (answers) during exams will get more high grades than students with lesser ideas. During interview, the candidate who gives the best ideas gets hired most. In public speaking, the speakers who have the best insights get booked more for speaking engagements, and in science, the inventors or scientists with more ideas have more inventions than those with lesser knowledge. So life is a race of ideas!

To make your life more relevant and productive in life, you must go for more ideas. To get to the top of your career, you need more ideas. To be a better man or woman, husband or wife, employee or employer you need more ideas. Even to be a better friend, you need more ideas. 

Where and how do you get ideas? From books and people - you get ideas by reading books and listening to people, and by thinking and making logical connections through the things you read and hear. The more you read and listen, the more the knowledge that will develop in your mind and more ideas you will have to challenge whatever comes across your paths in life. And the more useful contributions and impacts you will be able to make in life.

In returns to this, you would get a reward that would take you to the top of your path in your life endeavors. And you will be able to say "Life is truly in stages, but ideas are the ladders with which you climb from one stage to another".  So go for more ideas, go for more knowledge, today!