A lot of successful people say that in order to succeed you
need to have passion for what you do. This is true but then it depends on how
you define success. For myself and many other people we define success as
having lots of money, cars and the ability to afford better opportunities.
We are very passionate about different avenues in life, some
are passionate about sports, some are passionate about philanthropy, some are
passionate about religion and some like me are passionate about music. To be
honest with you the most successful people in the world are passionate about
what they do, Warren Buffet began investing at the age of 11 and he says he
dances to work, Bill Gates is passionate about technology and philanthropy. Our
very own Strive Masiyiwa is passionate about business and owns a lot of them.
Yet you and I even though we are passionate about the things
we are passionate about we hardly are making an ends meet out of it. The funny
thing about passion is you can be passionate about things that have no profit (if
there is such a thing) you can be passionate about something you are not good
at, (have you seen star bright or south African idols the wooden mic) we can be
passionate about the things we are good at, look at Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel
Messi or Serena Williams the list is limitless.
By looking at this I am left to question myself out of the
billions of people in the world, why is it that only a few people are
successful I mean in terms of money. What makes them so different is it the
people they know? Has God blessed them all more than us? I keep on asking
myself these questions why, why, why. Now I know why?
Success is really about passion, but then how you define
passion is where most of us fail. From the dictionary passion is……………………………………………………………………………………………..
However in reality being passionate means willing to do whatever it takes to
succeed. That means spending time, money, getting educated however most
importantly creating the opportunities for yourself. The difference between me
and Dr Dre, is he created his own opportunities, he chose to be a dj when I
chose to get a degree, and he became great at it and learned how to run a
business through practice whilst I learnt how to run a business through theory.
No matter how passionate you are if you do not create the
opportunities for yourself no one will. There are people that can play soccer
better than Messi, however they have no opportunity to prove their skill.
However if you do your research every successful person created their own opportunity
and remember fortune favours the prepared, just because you want something in
life does not mean you will get it. In order to get whatever you want in life
you have to become it, for in life you do not get what you want, you get who
you are. If all you do is complain, that’s why you get things to complain
about, bad service from your service providers, high costs of living, cheating
partners. Life hands who you re, the things you are really passionate about.
Africa it is time we become passionate about things that
matter, instead of complaining let’s start solving. Change begins with you, the
governments have failed us, and it’s now up to you and me to make a difference.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.
