Success Is Not A Consequence Of Hard Work - Steemit Virus Contest

Hello wonderful people! I am here once again to do a picture interpretation to enter for the @steemit-virus contest #6! 

Looking at this pictures, many ideas come to my brain. So i will be giving the picture some interpretations and i hope you can relate with it.

We have many motivational speakers who have linked success with hard work. In most of their words, you will always find hard work in between it.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. Source

So hard work seems to be the ground or passage to success. In most cases, these people do not tell us what it is to be hard working! What am i saying?

Here is Nigeria, we have a lot of hard working individuals who cannot call themselves 'successful'. Have you seen wheelbarrow pushers before? These people will load any goods on their barrow and push it  from miles to miles and in the end, they are given 100-200 naira (less than 1 sbd). You see them sweating, they are always working come rain come sun. 

In most cases, you will pity them if you see what they wear. These people work to feed their mouths and send little money to village for their family. This is an example of people working very hard to survive and do not near success! Or perhaps you consider eating three square meals as being successful?

The above scenario is lesser when you compare them with those that carry these goods on their heads (alabaru as they are called here in Lagos). You will see able-bodied men carrying heavy loads to earn 200 naira (less than 1sbd) just to survive. They also walk from miles to miles before they can be given their money. These people have rumpled forehead because of the loads they have carried on their heads. These people can also afford meals a day. So they are hard working but are they successful?

Can i also talk about the most workers who wake up 5:00 am to go to work and come back 8-10: pm due to traffic. These people work Monday to Friday. Unlike the developed countries where they work based on hours, here we work 10-12 hours a day. These people graduates and work diligently but they cannot say they are successful.

Being success as far as am concerned is a relative term! The relativism lie on what you want to be successful in and whether you achieve it or not determines whether you can be called successful. But in this case, i am looking at success from a general view which is linked to being financially independent.

It is possible you call yourself a successful being because you just bought a car, build a new house, graduated from the school but the question is are you financially independent? 

As human beings, we need more than hard work to be successful. You need to have good vision, good business acumen, investment guru and you need to be open to  different ideas. While the person pushing wheelbarrow makes less than 1sbd, you that you are a graduate make more than 5sbd a day. The difference between the two of you will not be measured by your hard work but out come. By out come, i mean success.

No matter how hard working you are, it is not a guarantee that you will be successful. Aim higher!

Thanks for reading and hope this motivates you to strive more and go higher!

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