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Greatness Does not Come by Chance

G rowing up and doing it on time is a responsibility everyone must personally accept. Responsibility is accepted when one realized that; no one can succeed for another person. Everyone must succeed for himself. Everyone must impact his generation himself. It should be made clear that no one can help someone else more than that person can help him or herself. For example, the best prayer anybody can pray for you is the one you pray for yourself. The best advice anybody can give you is the one you give yourself. The best compliment anyone can pay you is the one you pay yourself. The best love you can receive from anyone is the one you receive from yourself. To abandon yourself to external help and input is to abandon yourself to helplessness, frustration and failure. The future you do not prepare for, does not exist. A life left to chance is a life left to fail. You do not fly your way to greatness in life; you work your way to greatness giving it everything you’ve...

Start Today

There was a little boy whose father asked him one day: “What would you like to be when you grow up?” and he replied, “I’d like to be the best footballer.” The next day, as early as 5am, his dad came to his room and woke him up. When he checked the time, he was surprised that his father would wake him up so early. He said, “Daddy it is just 5am, I still have to sleep.” But his father said, “No, my boy. Last night you said you wanted to be the best footballer. If that is going to happen, then you have got to learn to wake up early, jog and train every day. If you do this until you are eighteen years old, you will be the best.” Reluctantly, the boy got up from bed and went to jog with his daddy. The interesting part of the story is that the boy ended up being the best. What does this tell us? It is not enough to make a decision for success; you have got to wake up early and start heading towards your goal. You can’t still be in bed at 8am in the morning and expect to be the best; it does ...