Sabina Got The Key

Dear lovely people,

When Sabina talked to me that morning, her voice carried all the imprints of pain and frustration. She explained to me how lost she was and went through the previous day reflecting, finding herself frustrated with the lack of results she’s been getting in her business. She told me she reached the conclusion that she’s either working too hard and not getting enough results or she’s just not sure if she’s doing the right thing.

The first thing I told her as I often say is that it happens to everybody from time to time. Whether you're doing the right thing with no result, or you're doing the wrong thing with no result, the end result is the same: nothing. You achieve success when you meet a stretch goal overcoming problems, failures, and difficulties by conscious effort and by application of your capabilities, resources and methods. To be precise, succeeding requires a strong intention to succeed. "How to" is secondary. You must get inspired first and if you really want something so bad, you’ll invent incredible ways to achieve it.

Sabina was looking at me disbelievingly and so I told her many people get to me with the same complain and feeling. At the bottom-line, there is no standardized formula for success, there are rather tools you can use to fashion out your path to success that might be unique to you. There, Sabina started smiling, I was now touching what when wanted to hear and so I was motivated even more.

I must tell you, success is like a painting. While different artists might use the same set of tools and paint on canvas, the finished product will never be the same even if they were all doing the same portrait. The stroke of their brush on the canvas will never be the same, some will apply double pressure while others do it lightly. They will hardly apply the same lighting effects neither will they all highlight the same features.

You may equally look at success as a pot of soup. Different cooks might use the same ingredients but when served, the soup tastes differently. God made us all unique in our different ways always remember that.

As a unique person, you have to give a unique touch to your journey to success because you are different and only you can do it your way. If you focus on knowing the right tools and develop the right frame of mind to take along on your journey, then you will get to the same destination as many other people but using a different path unique to you.

Sabina went home that day all smiles. She got her answers and this is Living Lectures, doing what we do best.