Success and what it takes to achieve it.

Many writers, authors, presenters among others have talked about success in their own understanding or maybe in general understanding.
The word success looks so easy to understand, in fact it is easy to understand but the factors surrounding it even though sounds common and easy but very difficult to practice. It will require a lot of disciplinary actions and self denial of certain things and activities.
Success…. everyone wants it, but most of us really have no idea how to achieve it. In fact, do we really know what success is all about? This question will take us to the words of the likes of “Bill Cosby” and I quote “in order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure” unquote.
Understandably, success is simply the achievement of our individual or organizational goals which we had aimed for, maybe for a long period of time or short space of time.
After some few researches on what it takes to be successful, most people had their answer for the achievement of success as HARDWORK. I definitely and sincerely agree with them, but then what does it take to be hard working? This is the most critical factor of being successful.
Hard work as we all know is never a characteristic of a lazy man though it can be argued in a way, this automatically tells us that it will be very difficult for a lazy man to achieve success. It really takes a lot to be hard working, many people who took that word “hard work” lightly failed and the reason might be because of unplanned work or ignorance of planning.
Larry Winget said and I quote “nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan” unquote. I have also found out on my own that hard work has to do with four(4) characteristics which are very essential for success. Without these characteristics you can’t be or say you are hard working and success might not be achieved; “perseverance, self confidence or reliance, persistence and faith” these are the four qualities someone striving to be hard work should possess to be hard working and successful at the end.
I have seen people who are lazy because their friends are, maybe you are waiting for him to start before you also become serious, remember that some achieve success through hard working while some are destined to be successful. This is the more reason why we should be self reliant.
I have seen students who read (learn) very hard yet not successful at the end of the day, some are being mocked at and they think that is the end of the world, but am telling you today that it’s not and that criticism is the best help you can ever receive from your mates and friends to be motivated to work harder and harder. Frank Sinatra said and I quote “the best revenge is massive success” unquote. This quote when ever I go through it and think about it, it gives me the courage to keep fighting no matter how hard it is. Also those people who have tried so hard and yet not successful, go back do lots and lots of scanning and checks maybe you are missing something, then try again because nobody is born a failure.
  Remember, to be successful is no kidding, you have to disciplined.

Viggo~Frank

“The love of money” a strong motivation for success as well as the root of many evils

Some will ask, how does money motivate one to be successful? We have seen many rich people and the riches they enjoy and most times we wish to be like them. Have u ever asked yourself what it takes to be like them this question left us with many rhetorical questions like
“What are the things I have to do?”
“What are the things I have to endure?”
How much time is it going to take and at what cost?”
All these questions can be a strong motivation for the youths in the nearest future to give a direction to their life and work really hard to get to the top.
Some youths can be motivated through the love of parents and the well being of their future wives and children and this thoughts of a perfect future with the family can push them (youths) to the love of money because money is needed for a successful plan in life.
Nelson Mandela once said and I quote “money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will” unquote. Also Oscar Wilde in his ego to tell us how important money is, said and I quote “when I was young I thought money was the most Important thing in life and now that I am old I know it is.
  In the contrary, the love of money can also be the root to many evil as said by Mark Twain and I quote “the love of money is the root of all evil” though am not certain the love of money is the root of “ALL” evil that is the reason I used the word “many” to express myself. Many have entertained money inside their heart which explains the reason everyone one desires to have more not minding the much they had already.
Jonathan swift said and I quote “a wise man should have money in his head and not his heart”, unquote.many have committed many attrocities for the love of money. Some have killed their loved ones, do illegal businesses, commit suicide and so many other unbearable things just for the love of money.
Come to think of it, there is this statement about life that triggers the love of money in the heart of people which is “I must make it no matter what it takes” It’s a very short statement but very catastrophic. This statement can change one’s visual view of life. It can also change the way many people think.
   It’s good to love money but don’t let it destroy you. Let the thought of making it in life be for the sake of our set goals and objectives. Atimes life can be unfair, sometimes things doesn’t go as planned, do not let all of these weigh you down or make you start thinking of the statement “I must make it no matter what it takes”.
  The love of money isn’t that bad. Let your zeal to make money be of something that is motivating. For Christians always say I will achieve my goal by his (God) grace.
              
                                   Viggo Frank

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Violence, a means to total destruction

A violent behaviour that is meant to hurt or kill someone is what we can term as “VIOLENCE”
Many have been hurt because of the effects of violence. Most people have been a witness to the disaster which violence have caused in the society. I have come to understand that this violence can be caused by effects of uncontrollable fears, emotions, anger, hatred and so many others.
  Marthin Luther king jnr once said and I quote “violence a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is important because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding: it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by deceiving itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers”, unquote.
  A story was told about a man whom had a wife with two kids “a boy and a girl”, it was said that he was happily married, he works in a company and as an executive accoutant. He loves his wife and children more than he loves his own life but a little mistake of his younger son changed everything to disaster. He finishes his work at the company before coming home everyday until one fateful day it happen that his company had to merge with another company, and he had to make a presentation to the executives of the both companies so he had a lot to do, this led him to taking some of his uncompleted work home to finalize his work. When he got home the family ate together and everyone gets to bed. The little boy couldn’t sleep so he kept on crying until the mum had to go get him from his sister’s room and take him to their own room there he was left to play around in order not to cry anymore. Meanwhile the dad was still busy rounding up his presentation on a sheet of paper. He finished at midnight and went to bed, the little boy having seen what the dad was doing went to the table picked up the pen and started writing meaningless sentences without even knowing what he was doing.
In the morning the dad was about to leave when his wife handed him over his briefcase, in this briefcase was containing his whole night work (his presentation), he left for work. When he got to work everyone was sitted and he had to give the first presentation, with confidence he came out to make his presentation brought out his file and he couldn’t understand what he saw, the paper was damaged, he can hardly see what he wrote, he excused the manager and laid the complaint, the manager not knowing what to do ask him to explain to the entire board what happened, which he did. The entire board blamed him and the manager for their irresponsibility, and signed out from the merging, the manager couldn’t handle the humiliation, he had to punish the man by giving him one month suspension after which the company will decide if he is still needed. When the man got home, the wife was surprised seeing her at that time because he hasn’t come back that early before and seeing his face she knew all was not well. Going to approach the husband, the man out of anger and depression, shouted at the wife in a way he has never done before. The wife out of fear went inside the bedroom while the man was at the sitting room, she was crying and thinking at the same time. Meanwhile the wife was having a high blood pressure and she was caught up with that and fainted, the husband out of depression slept off at the sitting room and was woken up by the children when they were back from school in the evening, happily they greeted their dad and there was no response all he could do was to scold the little boy for his action that led to his suspension at work forgetting he couldn’t have done that if he knew what it was. The daughter rushing inside her dad’s bedroom to say hello to the mum and to tell her to come rescue the little brother, she noticed that the mum was sleeping and she decided to wake her up and found out that the body was so cold, so she had to call the dad telling the dad that the mum is feeling cold, the man out of love for his wife rushed in to the room to cover her up, it was then that he came to his senses realizing that the wife after the morning incident haven’t come out of the room and also remembered that she use to have high blood pressure in most cases, he sensed danger and rushed the wife to the hospital, the doctors confirmed her dead. The man couldn’t take the loss of his wife and being suspended at work at the same space of time so he had a heart attack, luckily he didn’t die but he suffered a great stroke that he couldn’t walk or talk anymore. “Effects of violence”, now what will be the fate of this little children at their litlle age.
   Now we can see how violence can be very disastrous when it is not controlled. I have been thinking, what is the best way of controlling this violence? I was hoping that love alone could help control it but after hearing this story I just shared, I was thinking that patience and silence at d moment of depression is also very essential to control violence.
If we can combine this three virtues “love, patience and silence” I think violence can nw be a moment when we think about what happened and realise our mistakes and not blame it on people around us. If we can think like this then violence will be no more a means of total destruction rather it will be a moment of total reconciliation.
Thanks for reading…..Viggo Frank

Does business need immoral practices to survive?

A question was asked a long time ago on business and it has been left unanswered, so I ve decided to give a little hint on it and not answering completely because it can be argued.
“Business” “immoral practices”, what are these immoral practices? I don’t know them all but am quite sure that the few I know like “lies, cheats, duping and faking of items cannot be exempted. A British founder of the body shop 1942 once said and I quote “being good is good business” unquote, though it might be true but it is arguable because most business men who has practiced the  good ethics of business has made it to the dust.
Sometimes I do ask myself, what is the main aim of doing business and I can’t think of any other answer but making profit, yet I get confused with the quotes of the likes of Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in social psychology of organizations in 1966 which goes thus and I quote “it is a commonplace executive observation that business exist to make money, and the observation is usually allowed to go unchallenged. It is however, a very limited statement about the purposes of business” unquote.
Nowadays, business is very competitive and the companies who has succeeded in stealing other companies’ strategy or plan is termed as being “smart”. And they can even go to the extent of paying off the important personnels who are vital to other company’s day to day success and bring them to work for their own company. By doing so in business it is termed as realising their “threat” and making use of their available “opportunity”.
As far as being true and modest is concerned this practice is immoral, and most successful companies has been using this strategy to succeed. Arguably, business needs immoral practices to survive. Some will say it depends on how smart and sharp you are and this smartness and sharpness being talked about is pointing at immoral practices whether directly or indirectly.
Michael Hesltine, the British conservative politician once said and I quote “the market has no morality” unquote.
  Finally, I have come to realise that immoral practices are bad but it seems to have arguably occupied 90% of the means through which most businesses succeed.
  My advice; if you have been doing business without immoral practices and you have been successful please keep it up do not succumb or discouraged.

Viggo Frank