We nurse painful wounds of broken dreams. At times we regret why we did what we did. We consider we wasted time and energy in vain when we realise that all we have toiled for has not resulted in positive fruits as we thought the end might be. But this is what differentiates failures from achievers. While failures give up, achievers go on. To be successful in life one has to be unstoppable, one has to keep on going.<\/p>\n
No matter the circumstance, Les Brown teaches: \u201cthis is just the beginning. It should not be the end. Use pain to push you to greatness. Don\u2019t give up. There is still time as long as you can wake up the next morning. As long as there is time you can win the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is appropriate to note that you can get knocked down but do not accept to be knocked out. If life knocks you down, Les Brown says again, try to look up because when you look up you can see. We have too much energy to take us too far.<\/p>\n
Achievers are those that push on when everybody decides to give up. We need to have the heart of a rhino if we are to win the race to success. The rhino has a simple strategy, keep on going \u2013 charging on when others have stopped.<\/p>\n
Once the rhino has decided to charge, writes Stephen Berry in the Strategies of the Serengeti, only the rhino can decide to stop. In business there are multifarious factors which cause us to stop a given strategy. It may be the view of the market, financial limitation, deprivation of a required resource, lack of focus, loss of momentum or even loss of enthusiasm which cause us to stop strategic initiatives and give up. The rhino pays negligible attention to these external factors and only gives up when they choose to do so.<\/p>\n
Winners never quit. Successful people and achievers never look at obstacles; they are geared to break any obstacle on their way. Consider that Bill Gates, the richest person in the whole world couldn\u2019t make any money at first. Gates\u2019 first company, Traf-O-Data (a device which could read traffic tapes and process the data), failed miserably. When Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, tried to sell it, the product wouldn\u2019t even work. Gates and Allen didn\u2019t let that stop them from trying again though.<\/p>\n
Stephen King\u2019s first book was rejected 30 times by publishers. If it weren\u2019t for King\u2019s wife, \u201cCarrie\u201d may not have ever existed. King gave up and threw his first book in the trash. His wife, Tabitha, retrieved the manuscript and urged King to finish it. Now, King\u2019s books have sold over 350 million copies and have been made into countless major motion pictures.<\/p>\n
Even on the local scene, Dr Bingu wa Mutharika only amassed 22,000 votes during the 1999 election which was 0.47 percent of the votes cast. He never gave up. He found a way to penetrate the political system. Come 2004 he amassed almost two million votes representing 36 percent of votes cast and was declared winner. In 2009 he amassed almost three million votes representing 66 percent of votes cast. Winners never quit. Winners never give up. Failures encountered are used as stepping stones to greatness.<\/p>\n
To be a rhino is to be visionary, to be focused, to never give up, to challenge other people\u2019s thinking. Writing in the Greatness Guide II, Robin Sharma says that being a visionary and stepping into the greater reaches of your life necessarily means dealing with the fact that people will question you. They will not get where you are going. They might call you odd, or foolish or unorthodox. They will laugh at you. All good. Thank them for the compliments and keep doing what you need to do to get where you need to get. The world will be a better place once you do that.<\/p>\n
Visionary people are those that see opportunities that most around them do not see. Champions are made at the very moment that others are retreating. Soldiers that are decorated with medals are those that head towards the path where bullets are flying from at the moment other soldiers are retreating. We all have greatness in us, we all need the rhino factor to push us forward and open the floodgates to the paradise of success.<\/p>\n
It delights to finally learn, as Stephen Berry says: \u201cthe strategy of keeping going and not permitting anything to stop you is the strategy legends\u201d. It is time to awake the legend in you and achieve your dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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