Success is a really relative, open-ended subject and an individual thing.
For some of us, success means retiring at 40 or living in a big mansion and owning a car collection. For some of us, success is being a good parent. Going on fishing trips three times a year and face painting once a week.
You need to identify what success means to you and pursue it with obsession if you want to achieve it. If you want to be excellent, not good or decent, but excellent at anything, you will experience exhaustion, fear, depression, anxiety, loneliness, judgment, and mockery from people around you. Those are the gatekeepers to success. And you will need to pay the price to each and every one of those gatekeepers to go through the door. You will need to do the work to be able and worthy to pay the price. Praying, reading, working out, networking, cutting people out, time managing.
That is the road, my friend. That is the path you need to take. You can’t buy this; even if you purchase it, you will lose it. You won’t be able to keep it.
So it is crucial to find out what success is to you and why you want to be successful. You need to identify that clearly in your being because the process is so uncomfortable and challenging that if you don’t know precisely what you want and why you want it, you will turn back at the first storm.
If you have a feeling deep inside you that you are meant for more in this life and in this world, that means that you have a calling from God, and you should start to get in contact with the one who created you and put that calling and feeling into your being.
If you had told me last year in December that I would write a book that teaches people about the importance of forming a personal relationship with God and how that relationship is the one and only true healthy foundation to life, I would have said that you are crazy. Creating my own blog, where I write weekly about the importance of that relationship, was out of the question for me.
Yet, here I am.
And I am doing all this after I asked Him what I needed to do and then went and did it.
When I told my family and friends that I published my own book, because not one soul knew what I was doing, 90% of them asked me: – how many copies did you sell? That is not the question I was expecting. What is it about? Where can I buy it? Nothing. Just how many copies did you sell? I just smiled politely and moved on.
Get close to God. Start a relationship with Him and ask Him directly what He wants you to do. And after you receive your answer, start moving in that direction muting all the outside noise, and do what you need to do. And remember to do it with Him and as an offering to Him, and I promise you that you will find a sense of peace beyond what you can imagine right now.
You can do it if you want. It is all on you and within you.
Who are you?
With love, yours truly, Cristian.