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7. Appreciation

Your success needs appreciation.

The fact remains that if you can’t appreciate whatever it is that you do, it is better not to do it at all. Appreciation is part and parcel of everyday life. It makes life worthwhile. That is why it is good to be appreciative of every bit of your existence. Life is wonderful with all its different aspects.

On your journey towards and through success you must learn to part yourself on the back every so often for every step that you take regardless of its outcome. This boosts your courage to carry on to the very end of your project. Many people do lack this skill of self-motivation. If they meet with challenges on any course of their life they are likely than not to give up unless encouraged by someone. This someone many a times in life is never there or happens to come to you at an nonredeemable point. The best person that will give you support in real time is yourself. Therefore you must be a person with self-drive to know the correct means and times to do what is required of you. When you appreciate yourself and all that you are capable of, the chances of high achievement are within your reach. Appreciate yourself now and then just the way you are, and that your potential of doing anything is such a high one. You are a worthy person. Believe it.

Have a joyful attitude for as long as you live. This is one way to keep you in good position to appreciate conditions and in good time. According to the laws of nature this will attract to you more goodwill from the supernatural. One of the shortest verses in the Bible stresses this point.

Be joyful always. 1Thes 5:16

It so happens that joy is one of the best ways of appreciating anything.

In the pursuit of your goal, there is one great aspect that will determine the worth and rate of your success. It determines your very existence.

Everything that happens in this world is under the watchful eyes of the supernatural realm. This realm has more control in our daily life than we are willing to accept. This is something we have to be well aware of all through our efforts. The point is that you should appreciate your creator and the support he has always given you in your entire lifetime. Know the fact that your utmost success will highly depend on His authorization. On your journey towards success and on attaining your dreams, your appreciation of God should be more than any other factor that plays part in it.

Thirdly as we crave for all that our heart desires, we tend to wish that everything could be our own. This means that I would appreciate if I owned the entire world. Me and me alone. Suppose you were placed in this planet just you. Alone! Would you survive? Would you be happy? I guess not. I guess you have never given it a deep thought. The fact is that you would not be worth. The very fact that you have people with you and around you is one more of the greatest things to appreciate at any particular time of your life. Your very success on this earth will very much depend on people whether you like it or not and I can give you a challenge to think just one thing you can do that does not require the input of a person either directly or indirectly. Co-existence is what creates every success on this planet. This is the fact why you must be appreciative of the human race and the part it plays in your earthly journey. Ways and means of appreciation are wide and varied and your wisdom is good enough to know which and how.

As I talk on people appreciation it is good to bring you to my point of view regarding who is to be appreciated.

When I was young I had the belief that I could always and only appreciate the good. As I grew up, I passed through a lot of experiences that taught me that my view was misguided. I came to appreciate the fact that for there to be rights there must have been wrongs to tell between the two. Otherwise you wouldn’t know good from bad. When I thought about what my fellow men did wrong to me and tried to see what it brought me, I was amazed at what I came up with. This is when I came up with the following appreciation note to those that did wrong to me in life.

My misfit friends

Thank you so very much, for what you were I can’t compare.

The wrongs you did, I see were right.

From what I lost, the gains were more.

The hate you gave, I knew to love.

You gave me weights, my muscles gained.

Through your neglect, independence came.

You said I couldn’t.

To prove you wrong, I outdid my mark.

I sincerely thank you.

-Anthony Samuel M.

Everybody with you and around you needs to be appreciated in your journey through success.

The point of appreciating the ‘wrongs’ drives me further on to adversity appreciation. The presence of joy on your success is more prevalent in the memory of some overcome adversity. Wishing for the elimination of adversity could many times mean mediocre or no achievement. Sometimes it is hard to accept it but it is so. Many examples in life point to this very fact astoundingly.

I usually appreciate many times that I have had challenges in my life. A challenge is not something that will make you smile whoever you are but is a necessary ingredient in success. It is overcoming challenges in your pursuit of success that you come to enjoy it in a very great way. Success is sweeter when you dropped some sweat at one point or the other.

I will give you some illustrations to show you how adversity is helpful and why you should appreciate the fact that you have some of it in your life.

If air flowed in the direction of a plane, it would never take off.

A tree needs to be pruned every now and often to make it healthy and productive. I don’t think you would like the cutting and sawing if you were one.

It is dangerous to run on a smooth polished floor however beautiful it may look. The roughness of the floor gives you the necessary grip that enables you to move comfortably.

When you learn to be appreciative of everything related to your dream, you happily achieve it. You then discover that one success leads to another. Many times it leads to bigger and better success.

It would help here to say that in many cases it is encouraged that you leave tracks for others to follow in order also that they may be successes. Give them a guiding hand in whatever you are familiar with to assist them reach their goals.

Depending on your scale of success you can do a lot of things to achieve this. The ways and means are limitless if only as a way of appreciating your success.

Use every available opportunity for the appreciation of your success. Here down list points of appreciation and tick them as due fit.

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