Am sure you are familiar with the adage; the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer. Success is a journey and not a destination.
This is so because success has a formula. If you must be rich and famous, you must abide by the formula. Thus, this formula is what I refer to as DGP; that's Dream + Goals + Purpose.
Every successful man you can think of today, has a dream. Mark Zucherberg had the dream of connecting the world together. And today, Facebook is the biggest, largest and most reliable source of connecting people world wide.
When dreaming, dream big. Dream of what you can do to touch lives and live comfortably. Translate your dream into goals by solving problems in the society.
That is the driving purpose of being successful, which eventually leads to greatness.
Thomas Edison saw the purpose of inventing electrical bulb, tried several times, failed several times. But that, he, discovered many ways of getting it right. Today, there different types of bulbs which all started from the dream of Edison.
Despite the many times he failed, he equally realised that success is not the absence of failure and that failure is also a journey not a destination.
To every level, there is a devil. Defeat the devil and meet new level. This is the mindset of the rich and famous. In other words, the rich and famous works SMART rather than HARD.
The formula to greatness follows the road of SMART.
S for making dreams specific
M for knowing that the dream should be measurable; as in how big is the dream
A for achievable. Is there any dream that is not attainable?
R for reality.
T for time frame. Set your dream today and give it time to come to reality by working towards it.
The word poor does not imply not having a reasonable amount of money in one's own bank account or not being able to feed oneself three times daily. Poor simply means passing Over Opportunity Repeatedly.
This is one thing the rich and famous does not miss; opportunity.
What are the basic weapons the rich and famous needs to be great?
Prayer and Attitude are basics of greatness. Attitude has only three components; A, B and C.
A for Attribute
B for Behaviour
C for Character.
Show me a rich and famous person without attitude and I will show you a POOR man. Bill Gate, Aliko Dangote, Oprah Wilfred to mention but a few, showed enviable attitude to be who they are. Attitude determines FOCUS.
F for Follow
O for One
C for Course
U for Until
S for Success
Follow one course until success with the best attitude.
Identify one human problem today and try to solve it. And at the end, you will have a purpose for living.
The mind set of the rich and famous.
Frederick Oxford is the Corporate Affairs Manager of Oxford PR Consultancy LTD.
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