THE MOST VITAL SECRET OF YOUR SUCCESS
Success
is every body’s birthright. But champions thrive on secrets. Knowing what
others don’t know and doing what others don’t do is what gives individuals and
corporate bodies an edge over the rest.
Without
argument, Coca-Cola Company is the world’s largest soft drink maker. What has
given this company a clear edge over other soft-drink companies is that for
about 132 years now, it has been able to heavily guard Coke’s secret recipe.
This is a list of “secret” ingredients known as 7X (herbal extracts) which give the drink its unique flavor. The
“secret” is said to be kept in a bank vault.
In
2011 the company celebrated its 125th anniversary. In that year,
“This American Life,” a weekly radio show said that it had uncovered Coke’s hidden
formula. Reuters, New York, reported the company’s quick reaction thus,
“Coca-Cola said on Tuesday that its flagship cola recipe is still secret after
nearly 125 years….” From 1886 till date the company still jealously guards this
trade secret.
There
is one simple, easy, very important, results-producing, secret that the most
successful people always keep, in all fields of human endeavour including business,
academics, investment, communications, politics, religion, commerce,
manufacturing, services, etc. This secret will empower you to accomplish incredible
results.
The
secret is in this statement that was made by Dr. Mike Murdock, “The secret of your future is hidden in your
daily routines.” The secret formula
for your success, no matter what size you dream, is buried right inside your daily routines, what you think and do
per second per second, per minute per minute, per hour per hour, and per day
per day.
Where
many people are trapped is in what I call the
illusion of time in the future. They think they’ll do it tomorrow. They’ll
do the correspondence next week. They’ll begin to prepare for the examination
in three months because it is four months away. They’ll start the business in
the next two years when the business idea must have been completely clear.
People always wait for the time they’ll take the big actions, the “wholesale
actions,” instead of the “retail actions.”
To my mind, the
future is a mystery which always disguises itself as tomorrow when in actual
fact, it always comes as today, in fact, as now. Do you know that the past,
today, and tomorrow are made up of the same material, namely, seconds, minutes,
hours, and days? This may be the meaning Stowe conveys when he says that “The
past, the present, and the future are really one…they are today.”
So when we make good use of each moment, each hour and
each day, taking actions that take us nearer to our purpose and goals, then we
are certainly engaging a powerful secret that will culminate in our success.
The best kept secret of the most successful is the
effective use of time. We can make more money, get more Facebook friends, get
more children, acquire more education, buy more cars, build more houses, and
even eat more food, but we can’t make
more time.
Time is money, time is success, time is life. Those
who master the effective use of time master life. Time robbers are life
wasters. Every destiny is at the mercy of time. So make every time positively
engaging. Don’t ever think that you’ll
have more time tomorrow than you have today to do what you want to do.
Parkinson’s law states that “Work expands to fill the time available.” If you have a sense of
urgency, you can always produce far more results within the same space of time
than would have been possible ordinarily. Because you can’t increase time,
redeem the one that is available. This is the well-kept secret of those who
want to make a mark in life.
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