Till Success Do Me and Failure Apart
I did not succeed in any business but the one I like the most, publishing! All though success is relative, I call my publishing a success because my terms of its meaning have past the test – never having given up at it. I have in the past started and failed in several businesses. I have tried a hair and beauty salon, screen printing, butchery and retailing but I couldn’t sustain any of them to success. The one that I can do without expecting payment has given me a lovely title – ‘a successful publisher’.
Amazingly, all the ideas that failed were started with good intensions of making some profits yet the secrete lied in sustainability. Some were passion based but proved to demand more than I can manage to keep it going. For example, one of my passions is freehand fine art drawing, not screen printing, but I missed the point by starting out as a screen printer not an artist. I realized that I didn’t like all the work involved in producing a screen printed item except for coming up with the design.
My conclusive paramount success ingredient is choosing an idea that you can sustain your life time. The one for you is the one you can continuously do without expecting payment. To me such ideas are centered around publishing. It could be anything that can be translated into all forms of information products; audios, videos, slide shows, e-books, books, folios, web sites, etc.
I’d like to bring my other success beliefs that work well with sustaining your endeavors.
- The world owes no one a living but people should make their own way.
- Envy is a waste of time and energy resources. Rather use the resources to build your own success.
- Avoid tactful scammers that promise overnight success – none such thing exists!
- Don’t work in the dark. If it calls for you to take some time off to study a solution to a problem, so let it be. Don’t be tempted to operate an appliance without having read the manual.
- All compelling ideas should be given a chance; some may surprisingly make unexpected success.
- My credo – ‘If I fail, I’m the first person to blame’.
The list above is not conclusive of the ingredients to success. However, if you do want to succeed, take your success agenda seriously and nothing will beat that.