What is Success All About?

Victor Vincent writes from the heart of Lagos and is a Senior Staff at Godgold Integrated Company

I can not really give one specific meaning of success, but I would say success is simply:
1) reaching to a place where your dreams were pointing to
2) when you get what you really wanted
3) when you triumph over your adversaries, obstacles and barriers of life.

To all the above, success can not be a ‘when’, but it has to be something within you. Success must be born in the mind of somebody who really wants it. S/he must convince him/her self that s/he can succeed regardless of the colour, tribe, family background. What is important is to paint a picture of success in your mind.

To me, success is measured by the attainment of real joy or happiness. This joy comes when we see that the people we love (God and family) are happy. There would be no real happiness if only us were happy. Pleasing those we love brings the greatest joy to ourselves. It involves providing adequately for the present and future needs of the persons we care for (this would therefore include financial security to the extent that it enables us to provide for our loved ones). It involves doing things that would please them. This, in my opinion would bring the greatest feeling of fulfillment.