The Path To Success

There are times where we have to strive to become successful, and there are also those who have the gift and talent that makes them become successful. Whether you have the talent or work ethic, know that in due time it will all unfold in the very end.  As a future educator, one of the things I look at in a student is their ability to process learning techniques. For instance, how does this student know the information taught in class? What does he or she do outside of the classroom to prepare?

People look at being successful as working hard to reach for it. In other words, this is the point where we have to work hard just to get to the point we are going to.  The first thing to look at is our self.

Three key points to ask yourself,

             What can I handle?

             What can I not handle?

             Do I have the potential in us to accomplish something?

What we need to realize is that everyone is different. We have our own strengths and weaknesses, and sometimes we can’t be at everyone’s level.  What we need to do is not focus on what other people will say. Yes there will be people on a higher pedestal who will judge you based on your level, and there are those who will envy you.

The Journey

The process of working your way to success has to start off slow with small goals that are able to be met. Take the word “Success” and illustrate it as a story path diagram in your head. Imagine that you know what you are doing, you know where you are going, but you are also blind folded. As you’re walking down the path, you know there are people standing on both sides telling you what to do. Those people are either there to guide you, or they are there to see you fail. When you are walking down the path, you will fall into ditches and puddles. Now take ditches and puddles as obstacles.  You fall into ditch number one, someone warned you that a ditch was coming, but failed to say when. However, you kept walking but you fail downward [notice I meant that word as a homophone]. Okay so you realized you have made a mistake, and you feel like you failed at something that seem very easy. These people will put you down for it, but a way to help yourself is to get back up and try again. As you continue to walk, the tears will come down, but someone walks beside you to say “keep waking, I am here if you need me”. Even though people will laugh at your humiliation for not doing the simplest thing, there is always that one who sees your pain, and will encourage you. The best thing you’ve done was got back up, and continued walking. So as you are walking along, the person beside you whispers “You are coming into another puddle”. The person warns you, but you took the initiative to stop, think, bended down, and crawled just to find the ditch. The more you crawl, the dirty your clothes become. This is how you help yourself with the guided support. But realize when you work your way through something, it’s not always easy at it seems. Sometimes you have to get dirty in doing work. So eventually you have founded the puddle, and you crawl around it. Congratulations, you have completed your first goal. Would you consider this a success? Absolutely. As you continue forward to success, there will be small successful points below the bigger prize. Each success point builds on top of each other that will lead to greater success. So now as you are continuing to walk, two people are jogging beside you. They see that you are walking down the path, but they feel as if you aren’t moving fast enough. One is pressuring you to speed up your pace to a easy jog, the other is pressuring force mentally. Both are pressuring you to keep going, but the more they pressure you, the harder it may seem. Are they pressuring to push you further? Or are they pressuring your success ability? Realize that there will be someone willing to motivate you assertively, and someone to motivate you by attacking your level. Your success level should never match someone else’s success level. Also, NOW is the time to move quickly, be motivated, but only at your own pace. Keep them in mind, but block the second out at the same time. So let’s refer back to the first person who helped you out(voice of faith). That person has never left you, but the other two people( voice of assertive motivation & voice of higher success) are now with you. You are pushing yourself which is a good thing, but the voice of higher success says “you can’t do it, and you will never reach it to the end.  Yep, it’s going to happen. People of a higher success level will look at your potential, and will doubt that you can’t make it due to your will power. Does it make you upset and bring you down? Yes. Should you stop? NEVER. Keep going. So you are jogging at this point. The voice of higher success is now far ahead. But the other two people are still with you. You start to hear more people cheering you on… Keep going. People will cheer for you, and stand with you. They see your success, and they would love to see you going. Acknowledge them, be genuine and thankful for their support, but don’t trust EVERYONE cheering you on. remember you are doing it for yourself. Don’t get caught up in trying to please others but yourself, because someone in the crowd will cheer  you on the outside, but inside still might contain a little envy. So now you have jogged to a point in where you are getting a little bit tired, but you still want to push through. It’s a great thing, push yourself but now is a time to rest, enjoy your success, re-evaluate, and plan ahead. You never know when your next obstacle may come, so prepare yourself. Some people will overshoot to aim for success and not rest, re-evaluate, and plan. It works for some people, but not for everyone. Without doing so, you will add more stress on yourself. Do what’s best for you. Alright, so you’re done resting. Now it’s time to get back on the path and run some more. You are still ahead with the voice of faith, and voice of assertive motivation beside you. The other people cheering you on is behind you and beside you, but not in front. You’re getting ahead. You are catching up quickly to the prize. Now as time goes by, you come to another obstacle. As you run down the path, you come to a river with a broken bridge. What’s next to come? The people behind you say “There’s no way we can do it, we just have to go back”, and leaves. Remember, what ever you do, not everyone is going to support you 100% of the time, and not everyone is going to help you.  This is all determined on what you accomplish, and how you are going to accomplish. The only people with you are the two voices, and maybe a select group of people from behind who are willing to help you push through. As you are blind folded, you’re unsure on how to overcome this situation. Your first bet is to give up. But both voices says “There’s a way, you’ve got the skills around you, now let’s use it together”. So this is the point in where you think it’s the end of the world, and you want to give up and quit. You will always face a big obstacle before reaching a prize. Remember when I mentioned “plan ahead, and prepare?” Now you have to work hard and apply it to use. So as you are still blind folded, you have now came up with a plan on how to cross. All you had all along was Faith, and Motivation to push you through. It’s hard, but when there’s a will, there’s a way. So as you crossed the river using only yourself to get through(plus others), notice how uneasy it was?  But now you are back on the land of your path. Finally, you run faster because you can feel the motivation and hard work progress. The two voices says “take off your blind fold, and look back” The minute you look back, you will realize that everything is now in the past. If you can get through those, you can go through more obstacles to tackle-Count Your Blessings. You are now at the point where you are almost at your reaching point. A few more steps, and you are there. Do you see how much of a journey it was?

Basically, you have to work through things in order to achieve the success. Overall it takes YOU physically , but mentally, it takes a team of “Faith, Motivation, and Passion” to get where you are going. Supporters will always be there for you, and others will bring you down. This is one thing that we will all go through it until the day we die. So go out and begin your journey. Overcome the small challenges first, avoid those who bring you down and tell you different, and continue to press forward. Work hard and never give up. If you are those who have the talent of success, do a great favor and help others achieve their success.