Hey Guys! Hope
you’re having a lovely week! I turned a year older this month and I’m so
grateful to God for His continuous faithfulness in my life -He becomes more
rooted in who I am each and every day and I’m excited to see what He has in store
for me this year.
Normally, you
all know I do talks and write ups and broadcasts on largely the matters of
purpose and destiny. But today I am going to tackle success-its related but it’s
also different.
I have a Soundcloud broadcast linked below that delves some more into this topic by
discussing the financial flow that comes from talents you have.
But right now, I
am briefly going to talk to you about success. Success is defined as the
attainment of profit or popularity. It is also defined as the accomplishment of
an aim or purpose.
Firstly, I want
you guys to understand a very important and fundamental principle-success is in
the same family as purpose and destiny. This is why when you look up the
meaning of success you will always find reference to purpose, and even when you
look up the meaning of purpose you will find it is connected to destiny. Just
like your last name lets people know your family background, is the same way,
success, purpose and destiny have connected meanings because they are related.
Now, to attain
success, following on from that metaphor, you need to understand it has the
same traits as purpose and destiny-starting with identity, and evolving into
activity.
But today I want
to concentrate on the traits that are key to attaining success.
Firstly, you
need to protect your relationships. This is why I said purpose, destiny and
success are all in the same family-in other words, you should not mix success
in the same category as failure-success
and failure are not family and they are not friends. What I mean is, you
cannot hang around those that speak negativity or influence you negatively and
expect a successful atmosphere. You need to surround yourself with go-getters,
people that encourage you, people that inspire you and push you forward. Supporters are friends of success not
failure.
So look into
your life-and allocate those surrounding you accordingly.
This will enable
your mindset to be influenced properly in an environment that is conducive and
responsive to success.
Although failure
is not a friend of success, failure is an
acquaintance. An acquaintance is someone one knows slightly, but not as a
close friend. The difference here is important. Failure is lack of success. In other words, where failure is a friend, success
becomes an acquaintance-an occasional
occurrence. This is why you need to be careful not to become familiar with failure. Keep it at arms
length-learn from it-but don’t become
comfortable with it-advance your knowledge of success.
You may ask:
well Tolu, how do I do that? How do I advance my knowledge of success? By
activating the language it speaks! This
is the third step.
You need to learn the language of those that have known
success-determination. This is a language that is spoken by each and every
person that has succeeded-they have recognized this dynamic between failure
being an acquaintance and making success a friend through consistency and
communication through dedicated diligence.
This is how you
make failure an acquaintance-by refusing
to speak in its language. A language of complacency
and defeat. You will find that failures and successful people don’t speak the
same way-they speak different languages.
Once you learn
from your failure, continue speaking a language of success-of determination and
consistent communication with your venture.
And success will
speak back-which is why if you trace any of your inspirations, you will notice
they continued diligently in their endeavors and they refused to make failure a friend. Rather, they studied
success, they became more familiar with its language-and eventually success spoke back-sometimes it speaks
back in such an audible note that it speeds you into the realm of a purpose
filled reality in the blink of an eye-but this only happens when you have begun to engage it in
speech-it starts as an inner whisper of direction. And you have to have an ear refusing to listen to failure but
determined to listen to success.
These are some
of the steps that are important in walking the path of success-realizing
success comes from the family of purpose and destiny and hence cannot and will
not hang around a family of failure which speaks a language of negativity.
So where are you
missing in these key links?
Locate it and
tackle it today. One important point I will reemphasize to summarize is: make
success a friend and let failure remain an acquaintance.
Stay Blessed!
Here is the Soundcloud link to discuss financial flow: