ALL ABOUT SUCCESS | Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. – Vince Lombardi

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. – Irving Berlin

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington

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History tell us that successful people on the global state were people who also experienced failures and not people with flawless career path. Here are a few examples, as detailed in Green’s best seller The Road to Success Is Paved with Failures.

• Marilyn Monroe was dropped by 20^th Century-Fox because Darryl  Zanuck thought she was unattractive after one-year contract in 1947.
• John Grish am’s first novel, A time to Kill, was rejected by 16 agents and a dozen publishing houses.
• Walt Disney’s first cartoon production company went bankrupt but he tried again.
• Barbra Streisand made her stage debut at age 19 in a show that opened and closed in a single night.

• Edgar A ll an Poe entered  West Point in 1930 but was dishonorably discharged the following year for intentional neglect of his duties. Poe attended the University of Virginia but was again expelled for not paying his gambling debt. And at the age of 12, Adlai Stevenson accidentally killed a visitor to his parent’s home on Christmas Day.

A man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. But the point is not doing everything we can without a clear vision. We have to believe that it is not experimentation but systematically doing what you plan to do for the future is the key to success. “If we don’t have a clear goal in life, what are we going to be? If we don’t know our own aspiration, how would other know it?”

There are five principles to be consistently applied in order to become  successful.

First, we need to have a crystal-clear vision on what we can be – and not what we dream to be – based on our own talents. Dream are not aspirations because they can not become reality. A lack of clear vision is to be blame for frequent  failures in life.

Second, we need to explore our talents and substantive potentials. This requires the mastery of specific fields of study we are engaged in as well as all the necessary skills required for achieving our aspiration.

Third, we need to have well-recognized individual and professional integrity.  Integrity invites trust from the people with whom you work a well as from your professional surrounding.

And what is integrity? “It means conformity between word and deeds. Do what we say. And say what we do. Say what we mean and mean what we say.

Fourth, we need to know the techniques of communication with which to convey the right message on our knowledge and expertise to our surrounding. This comprises oral, written, and personal communications.

“People  who achieve great success in life are usually good communicators as well. And communication ability is not given – it is achieved through training and learning from others.”

And the last principle is, the need to have a good network of relationships to accommodate the above principles.

After having all these in place, one needs to draw up a systematic plan consisting of step-by-step activities toward reaching the goal. But even after we have had all  these, we need two more thing – determination and consistent prayer. God will answer the prayer of a determined heart.