03/10/2023
This is one of the most remarkable reads that I laid my hands on last year. I'm an avid reader, and not from yesterday but from eons ago. I can assure you something. Without reading, how will you know things? Information is in books. That's why I read. I came with a reading app inbuilt. This is why this book found me.
"DIVINE SUCCESS" is a book engulfed with deep reflections, experience, and resolve about the real things each one of us craves for. We all live for something. We all have desires to achieve. And we can NEVER achieve anything without understanding, manifestation and trekking on a certain path. We cannot become if our purpose is not aligned with desire and action.
This is what this book is all about. It delves into a deeper explanation as to why some people might succeed while others might not. I did not consider this book to be motivational as such. I could relate with every word to what happened in my own life.
What is success?
To me,it is the ability to achieve my heart's desires. For example, when I'm able to feed, house and clothe myself without struggle, I have succeeded. This is what success is. When I'm able to survive the adversity of life and rise above my tribulations as a person. I have succeeded.
For example, each one of us has big craving for wealth. And most times, we are confused because we do not know the right path towards achieving it. This book is a comprehensive guide about that. How do you plan, initiate and achieve these goals?
An excerpt from the book.
"Every morning the lion, the king of the jungle knows pretty well that it has to run faster than the fastest antelope for it to secure something to feed on and survive in the jungle, otherwise it starves to death.
Similarly, the antelope when the day breaks knows pretty well that it has to run faster than the fastest lion in the jungle for it to escape sure death and survive for a longer period in the jungle and give rise to the next generation, otherwise, if the lion preys on it, then that marks the end of its lineage.
Life in the jungle is that of “The winner takes it all" so the jungle is a place not meant for a casual attitude towards life. Hence the saying,
“Survival for the fittest”
The fit survives the ravages of hunger or that of being preyed on. The bottom line is sustained effort to outdo such ravages. Every fete in either’s effort is an attempt to achieve and sustain a certain level of success.
This allegory equally applies to human life. The universe indeed aligns you with the people, things, and situations that match the energy you put out. The more you improve yourself and raise your vibration, the more you will see things that are beneficial to your well-being. If one doesn't, the reverse takes the center stage and reigns rendering one a failure.
Critical thinking points out that we are literally living in the jungle; our attitude towards life in this awesome jungle determines our survival the following day. The total of that survival is literally success. Failure to become successful results in depression, sometimes with fatal consequences and this is the reality.
Sue Whitaker(2012) notes that,
"I alone cannot change society for the better
but I can radically transform my own
consciousness, overturning the conditioning
that limits my potential. We can all do this,
one by one, over time we can change ourselves
to the degree that society changes from
inside out giving birth to a new way of being,
Manifesting our birthright of living in a
peaceful and abundant world…trust yourself.
Live your full potential”
However, success is such a sweet word but really demanding. We cannot rule out the fact that there are other funny routes to success. Short cuts but short-cuts rarely last hence confirming the fact that cheap is always expensive. In case one forges a university degree certificate and manages to secure a job using that fake certificate, it happens ultimately when the truth comes calling that after all the certificate is fake.
The hard-cold fact is that success can be a function of several factors, but here the focus is on the traditional route. Hard work! Some of the factors that have been identified to determine success but on a rare basis are:
The kind of family connections one has, the sort of "do you know somebody to survive here" mentality. The linkage might have been established by parents and those who came after them only to do their best to protect those linkages for the benefit of their younger generations, holding their hand as they rise up the ladder with the sole purpose that when they get to the top they hold hands of the younger ones belonging to this club. Any attempt to do otherwise is seen as a betrayal. This is actually what drives the political class to want to cling to power at the expense of the citizens even when the end of their regime has come to an end. What if you don't have these linkages?
Inheritance; a few lucky ones get to inherit the wealth that their parents had made during their youth, but the danger is... If the children do not know how to manage and preserve the wealth left behind by the departing parents, then it is all useless. Cases abound of siblings mismanaging the hard-earned wealth and blowing it up within a very short period. Once rich kids end up being paupers or beggars on the streets, sometimes one is left wondering whether it is even worthwhile leaving behind an inheritance for the children. Sometimes the siblings fight over the wealth to the extent of eliminating each other because they want it easy. A story goes about a son who inherited business premises worth forty-eight million Kenyan shillings. The son on his part sold out the building for six million Kenyan shillings. What was the urgency or crisis that influenced this erratic decision? The interesting part of this narrative is that the six million drove him into uncalled-for excitement and he would hire vehicles to es**rt his hired cab because he was now a VIP, a Very Important Person. In a short while, your guess is as good as mine.
Luck, some people are just lucky, theirs had been predestined and with a little or null effort, they get to succeed in whatever field they venture into. What if you are not the lucky type? You got to sweat it out, dude!
Political patronage, with the "blessings of some god-father, maybe after being in his campaign trail, a few get to secure headways. In this exists the principle of punishment and rewards. Those who happen to support a given politician get rewarded with plum positions in companies or institutions even if they don't qualify for it. The sad part is that this kind of practice denies deserving individuals their rights. Once these beneficiaries get to those positions, they fail to deliver because they were not qualified. This drains down development.
Corruption is blatant thieving of public resources for personal gain. A society where a position given is a chance to eat,
“Man eateth where he worketh” syndrome.
As mentioned earlier, supposing one does not have access to these success predisposing factors? One must just work hard and that's not debatable, every human being strives to achieve success because everyone deserves a good life, in any case, you only live once. It is not a rehearsal.
This book is an undiscovered treasure, due to our own ignorance. But in the end, whoever gets lucky to access it, to be touched by it will be able to walk along that path to the destiny of his/her desires.
