I remember the words of one of my Calculus Lecturers; he said “If you want to become a good mathematician, you must always start from the first principle whenever you’re solving any mathematical problem.” I gained a lot of wisdom from that. Success requires that you must start pursuing your goals, and starting means that you must begin from somewhere. And my own advice is that you must be humble enough to start from the scratch if you desire success. I mean success that will last long.
If you want to begin the journey of a thousand miles, wisdom tells us that we must begin with a step. One step at a time will always take you to your desired destination. Someone once said that you can never take a giant leap to success, its takes one step at a time.
Apple Computers is one good example of starting from the scratch. Read the words of Steve Job the CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios when he was addressing a graduating class of a college. “I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.”
A company that started in the garage growing to becoming a multinational, it’s an indication that every idea has unlimited potentials to grow beyond ones imagination including your idea that seems weird to some people.
Some people find it difficult to believe that a seed is a forest or a plantation; it takes someone with fore sight to believe it. The absolute truth is that inside every seed lies a forest or a plantation. Look at it from this angle, when you plant a seed of mango, and it grows to become a tree filled with mangoes, and you harvest the mangoes and re-plant the seeds again, if you continue to re-plant the seeds after every harvest, with time you would have succeeded in raising a plantation, that’s how most successful empires are built.
If you have discovered your dreams and calling in life, don’t wait for a perfect condition before you start going after your dreams because if you must wait for a perfect condition, then you must be prepare to wait till eternity. The truth is that there is no perfect condition. Learn to start from the scratch. Success requires that you start from the scratch. Never mind your imperfect steps, just keep taking those imperfect steps with time they will become perfect. Beside practice makes perfect.
Starting from the scratch might not be easy especially when you have a very big dream. But you don’t have any option order than to start from the scratch. Remember every successful empire that you see around you today no matter how big they may be started from the scratch. Microsoft started from the scratch. Bill Gate started Microsoft with just an idea and presently Bill Gate remains one of the richest men in the world.
You can become whatever you want to become if only you will be willing to move out of your comfort zone and take the bold step of going after your dreams. Start from the scratch, don’t allow those great ideas to die in the womb, take one step at a time, it will sure take you to your dream world. You will sure get there!
En-route success unlimited™, we know that;
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."
- Robert J. Collier
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie
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