12 Rare Principles of Success in Life

When you succeed in life, and have children, it feels so bad when you see other children failing in life. It kinda makes you think, and actually worry about the future of your own children. Life plays you a bad deal when you can't help when you really want to and the need is real.

There are many lessons I've come to learn in life at a later age that I think I should have learnt much earlier, but someone somewhere was selfish enough not to let me know. They might have tried to teach me but I was always in the wrong place at a wrong time. It's sad that in all this no one helped me fix my terribly wanting condition.

Learning is a lifetime full-time job and if ever you stop learning then you stop living but surviving. Given that change is an ever present reality, you only adapt to changes well through endless learning.

Today am sharing twelve rare principles of success in life. These principles will help you succeed in whatever good you do without working harder than you should if you don't have to.

1) The principle of uniformity: Nature teaches us that this principle is true and favorable. You'll find animals both the prey, predators and scavengers living in the same habitat, even moving in the same direction, each following the other because of mutual benefits. People are surprised when they find a rose growing all by itself in the middle of a desert, they attach all superstition to it because it's not following the principle of uniformity. Be where you should be and in no other place at the appropriate time.

2) The Principle of Association: Man was meant to excel when he's in relationships. "One is to small a number to achieve greatness. No achievement of great value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone." John C Maxwell. Many people have no actual problem relating with others, but who to relate with. Here is a grand tip for you; choose people you like, admire and feel you'll treasure to relate with.
2 Peter 1:4-7 gives you a simple lesson in making yourself fit for good relationships - even what you see in others to determine if they'll make good company for you. However, learn to take chances with people, even those that are not that good, especially those you can influence to make better. People change with time, even for the better!

3) The Principle of Interest: Even the hardest things in life will come easy to those with interest in them. Some people love to be soldiers (and it's venerable) yet I think it's a difficult job because am not interested. Some people love rugby yet it scares me because am not interested. When you choose to interest yourself with anything, it starts to become simpler and understandable, and this applies to hobbies, business or even lessons in difficult subjects at school. Interest yourself with the important things and soon you'll be a person of importance.

4) The Principle of Survival for the Fittest: Weak people don't like the reality of natural selection. If you want to survive and have more and better opportunities in life, be that person that is always aiming at becoming better and better. Improving in the right and significant things everyday will make you more useful, needed and important - bringing you automatic success!

5) The Principle of Bravery: Bravery is a costly ticket to leadership. Lions are brave not because they're always right and strongest, but because they know what they want and are but afraid to eat anything the regard as food. All lions might be leaders of other animals in the park, but what does a lion do to become the leader of the pack of other lions? It proves itself to be more brave than the rest of its counterparts.

6) The Principle of Sharing: Selfishness only makes you less useful to those around you. Always think of what others need as you think about what you need. This will make you work harder and have more from which you can earn extra influence. If you desire to have great things in life and you have to get them but not yourself; give people what they need and they'll give you all you've ever needed.

7) The Principle of Recognition: Privately and publicly recognize those that make significant contribution to your life or the group. Recognition is being grateful and it's a good motivational factor. A chain is as strong as it's weakest link link so they say. Strengthen your weak links with some kind of recognition that challenges them to get out of their comfort zone and work even harder to give you more.

8) The Principle of Concern: Having concern for those around us gives us a place of influence in their life. Have you heard of a saying that one good turn deserves another? Everyone be inclined to you stand with you at all times if they know that if you care about them not just in words but in action. It's controversial when we are told to have concern for others and then to mind our business at the same time, but here is my simple answer; concern for others is your business so mind your business!

9) The Principle of Curiosity: A famous TV station has it's slogan as "Question More". Yes, question more about anything in life if you have to gain greater understanding in it. Everything good, useful, easing and comforting in our society today head been created by people who question more. In reading 1 Peter 1:10 carefully, we see that careful search and investigation also causes you to predict the future. The future is clearer to the curious, question more!

10) The Principle of Coordination: It's good to learn things that help you help people work together. Being a good team player might not only earn you a place on the team, but also opportunities of team leadership. It's a terrible feeling when your peers always tell you that it's because of you that they have endless challenges in the team including failure.Being relevant is one of the important things you can do to live in coordination with others.

11) The Principle of Positivity: Always see good in everything. Positivity and faith are BFF - Best Friends Forever. The Bible is a book of mostly positive thinkers and lessons on negative thinkers. Positivity makes you benefit more from anything and everything more than negativity. Positivity is being optimistic, positivity is being thankful and positivity is being thoughtful. Always look at the other side of anything and everything, especially the good side when all or most of what you see is the bad side.

12) The Principle of Simplicity: To define simplicity of character, a meek character brings it out best. To be meek in character means to be Humble, non-boastful, modest or self-effacing, submissive, dispirited... These are good words when understood positively. Matthew 5:5 and Psalm 37:11 have a promise to the simple in character; inheriting the earth, owning the earth and all its wealth!

Simple people are the most complicated people. It's easier to be complicated but hard and complex to be simple. You can easily be complicated even without actually being simple, but you can't be simple without being complicating yourself. Simplicity will make you lovable, approachable and always ready to be accommodated by others and to accommodate them. Simplify your life by acquiring a simple character. The simpler you can define yourself and your purpose in life, the simpler your life will be.

A Year of Great Company

This New Year our target is to make new company, company in high and low places, even new company within our known circles of influence, but profitable company that will give us morale to achieve our annual targets and most of all our life long purpose. By company I mean a team; a group of people who work together.

It’s said that your income will be the average of five of your closest company in five years’ time: for this reason, we start this year with adding, changing or adjusting our company, and of course eliminating some useless company like some of that we’re going to be looking at today.

Can someone that genuinely loves you be the bad company you don’t need as you pursue your purpose in life?

It’s a hard task to discover your true purpose in life. This purpose will sometimes come as a mere idea, dream, vision, assigned task from a superior, a deep desire – one of those things you like, an improvement of someone else’s idea, and many other ways, yet it’s even harder to start pursuing and fulfilling your purpose in life regardless of which way it comes to you or you get it.

As parents, it’s easy for us to identify bad and good company that we can permit our children to associate with if they have to live a meaningful life. Of course, living a meaningful life doesn’t mean you’re living your true purpose in life; we shall get more about that some other time. We sometimes go as far as chasing the young people we regard as bad company out of the lives and circles of our children; my mother was a champion at this and am forever grateful for her very much unwanted protection in my years of ignorance. I can’t tell how many times I was convinced she was against me when she fought everyone I regarded as a friend. 

Bad company is easy to deal with, even in our adult life, because you always see the bad things they do. But, is there possibility of good people, loving people and genuinely caring people pausing as bad company in your life and failing you to pursue and achieve your desired purpose in life without any hidden or visible intentions of malice?

In Genesis 12:1-9, God tells Abram “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s home, and go to a land that I am going to show you…” Abram had greatly prospered in his motherland with good age, great wealth and slaves. Imagine how hard it must have been for him to convince his parents, relatives and other associates to bless his journey after he prepared to leave in obedience of the call of God, which was his pursuit for purpose in life. 

Bad company can be people that cherish you genuinely, but only when they love you enough or too much not to let you dare to live to achieve your purpose in life. These people can be very protective and very caring that they will not let you do anything that they regard as risky, dangerous, mysterious or simply out of the ordinary. They’ll talk you out and talk you down, telling you all the possible challenges, just to discourage you in the name of not seeing you get hurt, disappointed or lost in things they’re convinced you don’t understand well.

David, suffered from this problem: his brothers could not comprehend the fact that he could challenge their fears (Goliath; 1 Samuel 17:26-31,33-37) and win victory for Israel in the name of the Lord. Even with genuine love for David, they thought talking him down and explaining how dangerous it’d be for him to challenge Goliath would deter him from daring the giant, yet truly they were prohibiting him from reaching his glorious destiny that would change his life forever (1 Samuel 17:41-58) - thank God he never listened, be like David!

Aspiring to do great things and actually doing them requires a measure of wisdom that can help you determine when to start, pause, resume and stop. Caution: be careful not to regard all wise counsel as an expression of bad attitude from people who love you that you might regard as bad company, not all caution from your company that deters you from doing what you want is actually bad company.

Think about this; how many people’s lives have been destroyed by the caution that is inspired by fears in the name of love and protectionism?

Whatever you do, follow your heart, find your purpose in life, take a risk, go forward, far and wide, and stay on the move until you can do something meaningful with your life! If ever you’re convinced to get out of your comfort zone which are the usual experiences and familiar environment to bring to life the purpose of your life, start when your heart tells you it’s convenient and enjoy the satisfaction of living your true purpose. 

May the Lord take each step of your life with you and be the leader of your good company as you find more company to help you discover your path and purpose in life. I wish you a happy and prosperous new year.