A short remark...

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Saturday, August 08, 2009

Success: The truth about it.


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I was indeed too busy since the last post that I've made, still busy. Yes, there could be people who are busier than me but for them it might not be a big issue. I would rather describe this phenomenon as the process of learning and adapting to a more 'congested' environment i.e. too many matters to be worried about while coping with increasing responsibilities and duties.

Alhamdulillah, I still manage to steal time to express some of my thoughts while indulging myself in the pleasure of writing. We could sometimes learn a word merely in less than a minute but sometimes it really takes decades or even a lifetime for a person to truely understand a word and the entire concept behind the single word. Hence, one of the most significant and could be also a mysterious word for many people is the word "Success".

Other than the usual dictionary meaning for this word, there could be many different meanings. But, not in anyways I'm going to describe this word as how its mentioned in books nor other media. Just try to run a simple search on Google for this word, you'll find lots of books and articles on personal and corporate success stories and .... tonnes of it.

So, what is success is all about?! Before I start, I would like to clarify that I'm writing this based on my CURRENT understanding on this matter in which I might change in future. 'Success' could be an event, process, state, status, achievement, object, person or almost anything that we humans wants to 'get' individually or in a group, in fact it could be even an entire nation e.g. 1Malaysia and vision 2020.

See, the fact is that success varies to everyone. So, how could books like "The Habits of Successful People", "The Secret of Success" and all these books could explain about success? Actually, those books only documents people's success stories, analyse the cause of their success and tries to prove some concepts of success. However, the truth is that no one can tell you what is success and how you can get there. Over the time, individuals have to identify and recognise their own path of life, what we really want and which one has higher priorities. From that point onwards, we have to determine, configure and set our mind towards getting there.

No matter whatever concept or techniques you may derive from any books pertaining to the so called secret of success, the ultimate path to get there is through hardwork. A quote to be always remembered: Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration by Thomas Edison. Noting comes easy in this world even if it may sound easy. But please do remember, hardwork alone is also useless, there are other factors as well such as techniques, confidences, knowledge and possibly luck, yet hardwork is the main key.

So, whatever you are working on or trying to achieve, I wish you All the best! Even a simple sentence could be your swiss-knife, "use the right tool at the right time for the right purpose" and never forget to put your whole effort, add a pinch of interest, few spoons of confidence and voila!