The Motive of Success

Sometime in April 2022, I sat down with my course preparation partner in the kitchen area of our classroom away from the rest of my colleagues in the Graduate Training Program (I have written about my Graduate Training Experience, check it out).

We were discussing the framework for the course we were to prepare and I told her "I really want to put in my best into this to make up for the time I didn't maximize in school". I wanted validation for this work in order to take away the guilt I felt for not graduating with the grades I wanted from the university.

To cut the long story short, I couldn't even complete the course preparation because my training ended.

It is important that we have the right motive in order to be truly successful. If I had completed the course I was preparing, the level of arrogance I would have displayed, would have been out of this world because I would have felt I was better than everyone else, thinking about it now I didn't even care much about my partner's feeling it was all a goal to restore my lost Glory.

You may graduate with that grade, you may make that money, you may get that thing you are struggling to get, but the truth is there will be no fulfillment if your motive for doing what you did was wrong, it will all be a competition against others and not against who you were.

Don't do things to prove anything, it's a wrong motive for success, don't strive for success to outdo anyone, that isn't correct.

So, you may ask "what is the right motive for success"?

It is God's desire for us to be successful, yes it is and God's idea for success is that you become everything he has destined or purposed for you to become.

Your motive of success should be to become everything God has made you to be. By doing this, you will realize that you don't have to prove a thing to anyone.

And this is where your fulfillment lies.