Are you aiming to become successful in what you do? In most cases, the answer to this simple question is yes. In fact, success and how to become one is now often a topic in many discussions. For the purpose of this article, allow me to define success as the act of achieving what you set out to accomplish, whether at work, business, relationships or in whatever it is that you want in life.
I refer to the process of achieving success as The Art of Getting There. It’s an art because there’s plenty of ways to achieve it, depending on a person’s passion, interests, skills and reasons for success. We all aspire for success. We imagine it and dream about it and pray for it. Others plan for it. While some would even claim to manifest it and declare that it’s theirs. But how is it that not everyone achieves success?
Unfortunately, most people enthusiastically thought about success but failed to act on it. Or they may initially pursue it, but not over the long haul. Our “instant” society where everything is served fast-paced like instant noodles and fast foods, influenced our expectations for immediate gratification. Somehow, we forgot that success takes time and requires the right amount of patience and effort on our part in order to achieve it. This is called “hustle.” One needs to passionately and joyfully put in the time, effort and skills in order to achieve what you set out to do. And one does this over the long haul, because a process is involved and usually takes time to evolve.
For someone who truly wants to be successful, it is never a hassle to hustle! Never shy away from a good fight and just do the grind. Proverbs 14:23 says, “Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!” Of course, doing the grind is not easy and is often accompanied by challenges and difficulties. But such is the road to success. Edgar Allan Guest, the author of the 1920 poem Don’t Quit, captured it nicely: “Success is failure turned inside out—the silver tint of the clouds of doubt, you can never tell how close you are, it may be near when it seems so far; So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit—it’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.”
Just do the hustle, and keep doing it. By following this dictum, you don’t only eventually achieve success after going through the process, but you also learn many things as you go through it. And that’s the benefit of a good hustle—you succeed because of it, and become even more successful as you continuously go through it. So remember, for a successful person and for those who aspire to become one, it is never a hassle to hustle.
By God’s grace, you can do it!
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Alexey Rola Cajilig is the President of ARCWAY Consultancy Inc., Executive Director of ARC DOCENDI, and the Executive Managing Director of EM-CORE Success Academy and EM-CORE Foundation, Inc. He is a Sales Leadership Coach, Strategic Sales Operations Consultant, Christian Motivational Speaker, Human Ecologist and Author of The effective Seller. He is also the creator of ARCH Styles, a behavioral and personality assessment tool. If you have questions and suggestions, you may send an e-mail to salesleadershipcoachlex@gmail.com.