Success
proclaimed, success attained and success maintained are three different things.
Visions, prophesies, dreams, aspirations don’t fulfill themselves. God has
always designed seed time and harvest time but without the sowing of the seed
by the farmer it all sill bore down to futility. God always needs a man, he is
a Spirit, even Jesus had to come down from heaven in the form of a man, before
man could be saved. For “God did not cause it to rain because there was no man
to till the ground."
The fruitfulness on the ground is not what is in question
here but the willingness, the patience, the focus and persistence of man to
till the ground, commands the rain that brings the desired increase.
Proclaiming
‘I have a vision or I am successful’ does not really make anybody successful.
Success is not determined by what you say only but by what you do. What you say
is important no doubt because it is supposed to direct your passion and to
achieving a determined goal but good talk without a corresponding action is
dead talk. Success proclaimed is the beginning of the process, it is not the
end but a means to an end. Many people are good talkers, some achieve their
relevance and pride from what they say in front of people to get favor but talk
only is nothing. Therefore success proclaimed is a ladder designed to take you
to the next level in your destiny walk.
Success
proclaimed builds in you hope and desire, success proclaimed makes you see or
have an insight into the big picture of your life. Yes I tell people you are
what you think, you become what you say, this also is a process leading
somewhere. Success proclaimed is writing down the vision. Writing down the
vision is not the same as making the vision plain. Making the vision plain is work,
work and work all the way but until the vision is made plan no man sees it and
no man runs with it.
Success
attained is the next stage in the ladder of success in life. When small
victories and successes begin to show up, when you finally see a glimpse of
what you have always dream about, many people stop here. They forget about
what they are called to do, they become comfortable in their comfort zone, we
begin to stay cool in little achievements, we want bigger titles, and we want
more respect and trust from people forgetting that we have to earn it. In fact
Jesus said, the greater should be the smallest and servant of all.
Attaining a height
of success is good but there is something more that we have not tapped into.
Staying on a realm of success is retrogression, no matter how hard you try you
will soon become outdated. Being progressive in success is what leads to maintaining
success. Many people think attaining success is fun, time to relax and pose as
a celebrity, no! It’s time for more work. Remember work took you from success
proclaimed to success attained, now more work needs to be done. Success is work
and hard work for that matter. Success places on you more responsibility than
you had before. Success is not an excuse for irresponsibility, success attained
is not an opportunity to go to bed, boos people about, give commandments and
instruction sit and do nothing. Success attained should produce a new
leadership spirit and leadership by example for that matter.When a leader
dissociates himself from his followers, he is digging his early grave. What
truly is leadership without followership? In fact the size, relevance, and
loyalty of your followership determine how effective you are as a leader.
Success
attained is good but it’s a dangerous point in life because everything you do,
say, your decision affects more people, your strength and weaknesses becomes
magnified than ever before, your continues success now depends on the strength of
your character, your flexibility to learn and adjust to situations, your
sincerity to your followers and your integrity in fulfilling your words and
promises to people. Many leaders are not sincere, many think you must know it
all because you have attained some level of success as a leader but nobody is
designed to know it all that’s why you always will need somebody, nobody
succeeds in isolation, so when you don’t know it be real be sincere admit it,
learn and move on. I have seen leaders who lie and manipulate their followers
and call it wisdom, but a lie is a lie, white or black and wisdom is not
deceitful.
Success
maintained is the part that I love so well because it does not matter that you
were once successful if you now live in failure. Wealth is not for all
generations because there are people who make wealth and there are people who
meet wealth. Those who make wealth understand the patience, the wisdom, the
sufferings that has built in them character that helps them sustain their
wealth.
Maintaining success is the most important thing any man should seek to know. “I was once a millionaire does not put food on any man’s table or pay any body’s bill. Maintaining success requires the strength of character, wisdom and skill that those who meet success do not have. Many who meet success are rash in decision making, quick tempered, inexperienced, wasteful and unrealistic in their expectations hence they make costly mistakes that could cause them a fortune.
It does not
matter how successful you are if you do not maintain your success. Many people
talk about prayer, anointing and confession of the word as if it is an excuse
for lack of character. When weaknesses are not taken care of, they become
magnified when success becomes evident and that can take you out more quickly
than you think.
No man was
born to be a failure but if you must succeed and maintain it you must be ready
and well equipped to deal with yourself, build your character because lack of
character is a limitation to your anointing. No matter how high you fly or go
you will go down and fall so quickly if you are not able to maintain your
success because of lack of character.
Lack of
character is a dangerous weakness, the most nasty people I have seen many times
are Christian, spiritual people who think the Holy Spirit will do it all, yes
God is powerful but if you don’t learn simple things as simple as “good
morning, having a pleasant personality, humility, kindness, friendliness,
public relations and relationship management,” how can you explain to people
how spiritual you are? Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much
you care. Maintaining success is possibly, it is one thing every man should
desire, put your character in place, learn what you need to learn and move on.
Do something
new today, learn the way of greatness even if you met wealth like J.P Morgan
you can take it to another level. Wealth and success requires a high level a
discipline habits not tamed can be your doom, no matter who you are, there is
always who you can be. If you are wealthy great, teach your children how to
handle and maintain wealth because wealth proclaimed, wealth attained but not
maintained equals failure.What makes you truly successful not just that you
made wealth but you maintained it, sustained it and pass it to the next
generation that’s why I consider D.J Rockefeller as one of the greatest men
that ever lived, over two hundred years ago but his wealth keeps multiplying
till tomorrow, these men must have known something we all need to pay attention
to, many people start businesses that fail in their life time or after they are
dead, when your business cannot do without you, that business owns you, you
don’t own that business.
Realize that
your failure or success can affect the next generation, in life, business,
ministry or whatever you do, think and plan ahead, don’t get satisfied with
mediocrity, move on, press on keep dreaming, keep proclaiming, attaining but
most importantly maintaining your wealth, cause that is when you are truly
successful.No matter how much success you attain you are a big faliure if you don't know how to maintain your success.
