The New Alphabet of Success in Life and Career

Life is a characteristic state or mode of living, while Career is the particular occupation for which you are trained.

Managing your life and career shows you how to build on past experience and maximize opportunities to achieve success and fulfillment in your  

working life. From reviewing your current situation to exploring career options, monitoring development, and handling crises and change.

Today, I just want to share with you the new 
Alphabet of success in Life and Career:

Avoid blow out. Yesterday, you had to work arduous. Today, you have to work voguish and maintain a good balance between professional and personal life. Put God at the center of your life and career.

Beware of the boss who make impossible promises. Don’t stick it out with a boss you can’t rely on. If you haven’t obtained the raised or promotion your boss promised you five years ago, maybe it’s time to find another boss.

Celebrate your triumphs. Set your goals and cut your journey to success into milestones. As soon as you reach one, thank God and celebrate your triumph.

Develop your own value proposition. You and I are salesman (regardless of trade). You must have a value proposition, an implicit promise of value to anybody you deal with-customer, employer, organization, etc. Then deliver on that promise.

Enjoy your work. All this time, we have been told and conditioned to work hard. I suggest that you look at your work as source of joy and love. In fact, I urge you to love it-or leave it! Embrace your environment.

Find a necessitate and fill it before others do. If nobody needs your skills, products, or services, you’ll have very little chance of proving your worth. If you want to succeed, find a niche where you can be the best. Don’t just sit there; look for that need before others do.

Get up when you fail. We have been told to try and try until we succeed. Go ahead, try again, but try something else. What worked before may not work again for you. Don’t count on the same winning formulas or combinations that worked ages ago. Get up, get going, but get more new aces up your sleeve.

Have a dawdle. Know how, when, and where to go when your situation becomes indefensible. Being an excellent performer or working with a profitable organization is no longer a sure-fire guarantee of success. Thousands of great performers have lost their jobs, and hundreds of great companies have folded up as new rules emerge in life and careers. 


Innovate-or stagnate. Believe there is always a better way, and find it before your boss does, or someone tells your boss about it. When the playing field is level in quality, speed, and cost, your competitive advantage will come from new and innovative products and services.

Join winners, not losers. If you are great and join a lousy organization, you’ll stand out. But you’ll soon find your greatness diminished immensely if you remain with that organization. If you hang around with successful and excellent people, their success and excellence will rub off on you in the long run. So join winners, not losers.

Keep your head up on the sky but your feet on the ground. New, innovative, competitive, and creative ideas make for success in any language. Make sure your feet are planted on the ground, even if your mind is up on the sky. Be reminded that what you possessed is God’s gift to you and not by your own might.

Look beyond the schoolrooms. Despite what the demagogues tell you, believe that there is education beyond the schoolroom-in fact real education takes place in the real world, not within the corners of the schoolroom. Actual and practical experience is better than theory.

Master the technology of business and the business of technology. You need to know technology and how it can help make doing business or your job faster, better and more effective. If you think you can’t afford technology, I tell you that you can’t afford to be without technology. In todays world technology is life.

Never depend on luck. What’s luck got to do with success? Michael Jordan, Rafael Nadal, Manny Pacquiao, Michael Phelps have high batting average in basketball, Tennis, boxing, and swimming, respectively. They don’t rely on the luck to win. Nothing beats preparedness.

Overcome the fear of failure. Many people never succeed because they never try. They never try because they fear they will not succeed. Successful men are those who have courage, determination, and focus. A quitter never ever wins!

Perception is reality. What you are is important. What others think you are is sometimes even more important. That’s why successful people are so careful about creating the right perception about them. To others, especially the greater mass of humanity, perception is reality.

Quality does not happen by fortuity. If you want to succeed, never turn in tatty work, products, or services. Nobody buys poor quality anymore. There’s too much competition nowadays. That’s why people deliberately factor in quality in whatever they do. Quality comes first.

Reason and hunch must work together. Logic alone will make this world dull. Hunch can spark creativity and innovation, but must stand the test of practicality. If you wish to succeed, work with reason and hunch. You’ll need both!

Success is a journey, not a destination. Define your goals, have clear standards, and make sure you achieve them. Success is like taking a very long train ride that stops at every way station. Enjoy the moment, and maybe the money, every time you reach a milestone. Have focus and be a winner. Make God as the captain of your life's journey.

Think lattice, not ladders. Career success today is no longer just moving up the ladder. Now, there are more lattices than ladders that allow you gain greater success by moving sideways, not necessarily upwards. Your strategy speaks louder than philosophy.

Use other brains – if yours is not enough. Many successful people have not built empires by themselves alone. In fact, many don’t know how. They relied on the expertise of others to be successful in what they do. Great ideas comes from two or more minds.

Value your client, and make them feel it. If you want to succeed, develop a maniacal focus on your client. Understand, anticipate, and satisfy your clients’ needs, or others will.

Watch your back. As you shine, others are bound to envy you and wish that you had the lice in the armpits of a thousand camels. I had been in the lions’ den and had back to pains from stab wounds. If you want to succeed, watch your back! Nowadays, there is a lot of Judas!

X-tra mile gives you an extra push, too. Going the extra mile in whatever you do gives your client, boss, or audience a better deal. It also develops in you the mindset of quality, excellence, and service. If you don’t have the time or inclination to go the extra mile, your client, boss, or audience won’t.

You are responsible for your own future. Never renounce the responsibility for your success to other people or institutions. Nobody is as interested as you are about your success. Nobody else should claim credit for your success, and you can’t blame anyone else for your failure. Your future depends in you.

Zeal and exuberance help create a positive impact. Most Successful people have the energy, zeal, and exuberance that further enhance the positive impact that they create about their persona. Always make the greatest performance of your life every time you make a presentation or proposal, meet with your boss or client. If you think and act like you are beaten, you are! Be confident, trust God for HE will never leave you nor forsake you.     

I hope you manage the reading and absorbed the content. Good luck in your life and career endeavor.

God bless!