Monday, May 22, 2017
IT IS NOT
EASY AT ALL
We rush at mentioning the fortunes of the wealthiest people,
we even crave to be them and we strongly believe that we can be like them. What
differentiates us from them, thus leading to our inability to achieve their
feat, is that, we always want to earn success the easy way. To be successful is
hard work. Les Brown tells us straight in the face that when he was trying to
set up his business, he was broke; he even had to sleep in the office tower he
was renting for his office. One day, a guard gave him a letter from management
which said: ‘Mr. Brown, this is not a hotel, this is an office tower.’ Les
Brown now is one of the richest and most celebrated motivational and business
speakers.
Your dream will never come to fruition that easily. You will
have to wade through the rough waters. Ask Henry Ford, ask John Rockefeller.
Henry Ford was sued by the cartel of mobile car makers that he did not have a
patent for manufacturing his car. The law suit was to make or break Henry Ford.
It was only when he was successful that the Ford vehicle brand eventually ruled
the world. Rockefeller was prosecuted for his oil monopoly leading to the
breaking of Standard Oil Company into six parts. Life will always be
challenging.
All the achievers have waded through the greatest opposing
currents. The rule is simple, don’t wait to discover things, build them. Rockefeller
built the oil industry and made sure that with kerosene darkness no longer
meant the end of the day. When the rail industry wanted to overcharge him for
transporting of his oil, he never sat down, he revolutionised the way oil is
transported. He built a network of more than 4000 miles of pipelines.
Build your dream. It will never be easy. J.P Morgan built
the electricity industry and we have the celebrated General Electric. Andrew
Carnegie built the Steel industry. It was not easy. The building of the
Louisiana Bridge with steel made him bankrupt. He nearly faced many lawsuits
but he kept on and the bridge revolutionised transport mode in America. Build
what you have been dreaming for and you will be remembered forever.
Real estate mogul now US President Donald Trump says you
have to be smart, you have to have vision, you have to have all these different
things but the most successful people are the people that have the right idea
but never ever quit or give up. The people that really succeed in life are
those that never quit
Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard goes on to add
that the difference between people who succeed and people who fail in many
cases is not fear, everyone experiences fear. The difference is what you do
with fear. Do you work to overcome it or do you let it defeat you?
Mark Cuban, owner of Dallas Mavericks says that a problem
comes early in an entrepreneurs life when you realise you have to do things in
the business that other people are not willing to do. Everybody has ideas,
everybody has ambitions, but most people are not willing to cross that line
…wherever there is change, wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity.
Success is a product of many failures. Success is comes
after a brutal fight with changing market forces and many other challenges that
stand as obstacles in the pursuit of your dreams. Ask Dr. Thomson Mpinganjira
how many times he was denied a licence to operate a bank. Ask Mike Mulombwa how
many times he struggled to secure loans with banks. Ask any entrepreneur you
admire to understand how he or she made a breakthrough, you will be surprised.
They all nearly gave up but they never. Failure, in the pursuit of success, is
no option.
Donny Deutsch, an advertising mogul was right, ‘if you can’t
embrace failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of
failure, you cannot be successful. It is the truth.’
If you crave for success, if you want to be the next big
thing the world admires, then you have to live against all odds. It is not all
that easy but the good thing is that it is possible. The only thing to make it
possible or impossible is you.
