How to Suceed by Faarah Mohamed

How to Succeed

                                 Faarah Mohamed

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best that you are capable of becoming. Also we can say success is simply achieving and reaching your goals. The importance of success is that it provides confidence, security, a sense of well-being, the ability to contribute at greater level, hope, and leadership. Without success, the group, your company, your goals, dreams and even entire civilization may cease to survive.

Now that we understand success and the importance of success, we need to answer this question of 'How does one succeed or how can I succeed?'

Everyone in this world likes to become successful. The road to success is not easy to navigate but with strong efforts, patience, drive and passion it may become easy and also possible to attain what you want to achieve.

There are points that can help you in attaining success easily.

The first point is to 'decide exactly what you want'. Most of us understand the principle of cause and effect . For example you throw a ball up, the ball comes down; you finish your homework, you get good grades; you provide value to your company, you provide an action and a result is produced. This principle is obvious, but it misses an important step. What caused you to take that action in the the first place? The answer is decision. So, deciding exactly what you want will help you to achieve your goals.

The second point is 'plan to get there'. This means that you must make plans on how reach that goal post that you have set for yourself. For example, if you want to go to the QETC, you must know and plan how to reach and walk past that road and take the turn at Mohamed Ahmed Ali secondary school and walk until you reach Nasco Tower before walking into the institute's building. Exactly!Making plan to get somewhere is no more different from this.

The third is to 'execute your plan'. Ensure that you do something every day to move towards your goal and invest strong effort, spend lots of time aiming or trying to reach your goal. And as you know, there is nothing easy to find. It is not possible that you are sitting or sleeping in your house while hoping to get successful or reach any goal. Every achiever knows hard work is necessary in all you do. An Arabic proverb  says من طلب العلى سهر ليال which can be translated to mean: 'if you want to get or find high position or achieve success, you must stay awake at nights'.

The fourth is 'resolve and expunge every obstacles before you'. If you really want to achieve your goals, you must have enough patience and determination to overcome any obstacle before you.

The fifth point and the most important of all is that 'you have to depend on God. This means  you must obey what God says and abstain from that which he forbids you to do. Whoever puts his trust in Allah finds sufficiency. So, we must not forget that we are dependent on God in order to facilitate our success.

Finally, if we follow these points correctly we can be assured of success.

Thank you for reading.

Meet the Writer

Farah Mohamed is a proud Somalilander who is very passionate about writing and reading. He holds a diploma in English language and he wants to become a writer and computer engineer in future.