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pressure, and desperation to just be noticed even at the expense of relationship,
harmony and love.
Little wonder why team work has become a difficult task. You can never talk of
team work when you actually don't know the definition of success. That you are
accepted, celebrated and recognized does not actually mean that you are
successful. Now let me stress a point; true success only becomes eminent when
purpose is discovered and purely pursued with the mindset of fulfilling the
purpose and not just breaking a record. There is something in every natural man
that desires to be praised, recognized and respected and that same thing is able
to drive such a man into doing disgusting things just to attain recognition, praise
and respect if not put in check. That thing is called self. The self doesn't care who
suffers what, as long as it achieves what it wants which isn't a good idea at all.
What it implies is that everybody could suffer as long as it does not affect its
achievements (self's). The self thinks; what will people say? What they will think if
it does not do what it should do. To self, success is not about the joy of fulfilling
purpose, it’s rather about meeting up with what people want. Why live your life
pleasing people?
Why not adopt what I refer to as the true success. Success in the real sense is a commitment to
fulfilling a divine mandate not actually because of people and that includes those that may even
benefit from fulfilling such a mandate, but because of an understanding built from the
revelation of the purpose of your creation as a person. In true success it’s not about
desperation or pressure. It’s rather a commitment to doing the right thing.
Success pursues not just what is good but what is right, so it can clearly understand that
different people have different specializations and assignments. It understands that two people
can be doing the same thing with the same goal but to different audience. It knows that success
isn't a competition to show who is better or not but an opportunity for every individual to fulfill
their part in destiny. You can't know this and still be struggling with envy and lack of peace.
This is because what drives you and forms the basis of your desire to succeed is right, pure and
selfless.
I won't write more, but just remember that your success is not for them it’s for you because
you are doing what you originally should do and not what they pressured you to do.
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