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SUCCESS IS A CHOICE

Steve T. Ayu

If you ask a group of people if they wish to be successful, I'm sure that 100% of hands will shoot
up. Everybody wants to succeed but not everybody does succeed in their endeavours. Why?
Why do students for instance, sit in the same class, taught the same lessons by the same
teacher, yet some fail to make it? Believe it or not either success or failure is one's personal
choice.

Life is all about choices. You choose to believe in God or not. You choose to be diligent or not.
You choose to be a good student or not. You choose to be disciplined or not.

Someone had once said, “to fail to plan is to plan to fail”. How true. If you draw up a plan and
take steps to realize it, your choice for success is made. On the other hand, to leave everything
to chance without a plan, that also is a choice you have made for failure.

Daily, people keep making choices for success or failure by their actions or inaction. If a student
is fond of truancy, lazy, does not copy notes, does not do class work, or home work, and is
undisciplined, such a student has by his actions made a choice for failure.

If a worker comes to work by 8:00 o'clock when he knows he has to be at work by half past
seven. Such a worker has made his choice for continuing with that job.

Actions speak louder than words. So most of our choices are not spoken but conveyed in our
actions. It doesn't even matter what you may be saying, but do your actions concur? A wise man
once said, you actions speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you are saying.

Many a student are making a choice daily for failure by their lack of determination and laziness.
It's their choice! If you do not want thieves in your house, you shut the door and the gate. If you
don't you are by your actions saying you can't be bothered about the consequences.

Fact is, too many people know the path of the choice they have made will obviously lead to
failure but they are not ready to pay the necessary price. Success in anything comes with a
price, so once you are not ready to pay it you cannot take delivery of the product success.

Since wishes cannot translate into horses for beggars to ride, only wishing for success without a
corresponding action amounts to a mere expressive choice to fail.

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