5 SHORT CUTS TO SUCCESS

For people looking for short cuts to success listen up and listen good to these four and powerful tips

1 Know that there is no short cut to success for many of those people you believe are overnight successes in reality took many nights to get there. There is no short cut, it is the hard way, the only way.

2 Learn from the success of others for a wise man said that to know the road ahead, ask those coming back. If you must take a 'short cut' to success be a leader of those who have succeeded before you and some examples are Eddie Murphy who learned from Gregory Hines who learned from Bill Cosby who learned from a man called Dexter. Also there is two time World Footballer of the Year, Ronaldinho learned from Austin 'Jay Jay' Okocha while Samuel Etoo learned from the Camerounian legend, Roger Miller. Nobody cares who makes the original, everyone cares about who made the best.

3 Ask others for help instead of trying to do it by yourself and you will succeed a lot faster than you think for people will only support what they help to create

4 Celebrate the success of others rather than being jealous and you will the next person in line to succeed an example is when someone is dedicating a house or a car, sow a seed into the person's life and watch what happens. Jealousy will only hinder you but will make you believe you are hindering others in other words jealousy is believing others got what you deserved

5 Help others succeed and others will help you succeed. When you help others up the ladder you increase the rate of your own success. I will use my case as an example, two years ago one of my proteges caught the blog bug wanting to be part of the fever, I never discouraged her but gave her my tacit support spending energy time and money also connecting her to my web designer who created her site. Today it is a success story as www.bbworldmagazine.com is kicking and from her success comes this blog which you are all reading from. My protege told me that if  I had told her not to do the blog, she would have buried the idea and that would have been that so there you are the five short cuts to sure success

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SUCCESS CAN MAKE YOU A FAILURE

Robert Greene was so precise when he 47th Law of Power' Don't Go Beyond The Mark In Victory' know when to stop for the moment of victory is also the moment of peril. Truly one's success can make one a failure especially with the perks it brings like fame, fortune and popularity. Iron Mike Tyson had it all going for him, a young African male from the ghetto who suddenly found himself on top of the world catching the attention of boxing promoter, Don King. He was riding high on his new found fame and began sowing wild oats which cost him a divorce, eventual defeat by Buster Douglas and then a prison sentence which he got seven years but was set free after three years for good behaviour. Even after his release and return to boxing, he was never the man he used to be as complacency set in and another defeat by Evander Hollyfield whose ear he bit during the match. A wise man said that, 'Adversity reveals a genius but prosperity conceals him'
       Marion Jones was the queen of the tracks breaking old records and setting new ones, in the year 2000 she set a goal of five gold medals and though she did not hit the target, she won three gold medals and two bronze and then the bubble burst, after denying allegations of using performing enhancing drugs she broke down and confessed to which she was stripped of all her medals and went to jail for six months and starting a new life as a player in the WNBA. It is easier to become successful than to remain successful. The same fate befell the Zambian National Team who after winning the African Cup of Nations started bragging that they feared none of the big teams, they were the first African Champions in the 21 year history of the tournament to lose out in the first round without winning a single match. So when you are on the pinnacle of success be careful for one slip can cost you.

SETBACKS- A DEAD END OR A NEW BEGINNING

What do you call a setback, a dead end or a new beginning? That to to a great extent will prove how one views life. A setback could be a beginning if you view it as a beginning.
Carlo Ancelloti had just been sacked by the board of Chelsea FC everyone thought it was the end but not this great Italaian tactician who was signed by PSG and from nobody he became a celebrity as he won the French Ligue 1 Trophy, the next season was even more glorious as he took on the challenge of coaching the Galacticos and proved to naysayers that his achievement in France was no flash in the pan or fluke as he won the Copa Del Rey and UEFA Champions League all in one season. At the start of a new season he won the UEFA Super Cup, how about that?
     In the year 1996, the world received with shock the news of Olympic Gold Medalist Nwankwo Kanu's heart condition. One particularl newspaper splashed in its headlines' It's All Over For Kanu' and instead of accepting defeat, he went for a heart surgery and came back stronger than before scoring goals and becoming African Footballer of the year that same year and three years after. Ironically the newspaper that thought it over for him has folded up. And as a result he is one of Africa's most decorated footballers after Samuel Eto of Cameroun
        Chioma Ajunwa, turned her setback of being accused of using drugs to a comeback as she became the first Nigerian ever to win a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics Her former shame was turned into fame. So I ask you again what is a setback to you, a dead end or a new beginning.

WE ARE BORN TO FIGHT