Success Mentality #4: Happiness

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Welcome to another edition of the success mentality series, I am quite sure you've learned a few from our previous editions. Anyways, let's get right into the article straight away;

There has been a very striking question ringing in my subconscious for the past three days, it's been on my mind and although I have a few answers though but after much thought I think I should just ask the question.
What is the Key to Success? Is it Wealth? Money? Fame? Innovations? Happiness?

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There are almost a million ways to achieve success, and I started out this series by saying that in other to be successful you have to first see it with your mind. However, the most important thing about success or being successful is that at any point in time You are always Happy and at Peace with yourself and the environment. I once read in a book that in finding success we have to first find our happiness first, once we are able to discover the stuff that makes us happy then we know that we are on the right path to success.

Building a strong success mentality requires a very sound and happy lifestyle. You have got to put in effort to be happy always and trust me, I know that sometimes it can be hard to be happy, maybe you didn’t get the recipe right, or you missed out a critical point in the plan but if you could look past all of these things and learn from them and still be happy then you have gotten a key to success.

Success isn’t about having all you desire, it isn’t about accomplishing your desires, it isn’t about having all you want and more neither is about becoming the richest, its more about being thankful and happy for where you are and being able to know that despite all odds you came this far and without any hindrance you can still go further because you are happy with yourself and the environment.

The most important thing to know is that being happy attracts success and if there's anything I've learned about life is that Happiness attracts anything good and Good can mean wealth, riches etc. Cultivate the habit of always being happy, it helps to build a healthy mentality for success, even when the odds are you failed your project or missed a dire opportunity. Yes, you might feel the need to feel sad about it, its allowed but however, you don’t have the right to dwell on it just simply learn from it, move on, be thankful and most importantly Happy.

A few years ago, back in high school, I had this nerd friend whose house I'd always go to after school, he had lots of gadgets and most importantly he had a system where we made plans for our science fair project. Every now and then we'd go back to the plans make some few adjustments, cross-check the specs but one particular evening we got back from school, got down to the bunker to make few adjustments, the room was smoked and then the system refused to turn on so, in the end, we found that a little spark had crashed the system, burning everything in the room that was electrically equipped. I felt devastated, like the whole world was crumbling at my feet but all of sudden my friend started laughing after a few mins of sadness then I asked why he laughed at the situation on ground, he simply said " The plans might be gone but the brains that made the plans are right in this room, so be happy, we can make another one, precisely a better one.''

Now, isn’t that a remarkably weird response to a very severe situation? Indeed we did make a better outline plan for the science fair project, even won second place during the finals.

The ability to look past a very critical situation, learn from it and choose to be happy is indeed a mentality of someone heading for success. Winston Churchill did say that '' Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of Enthusiasm.''