KEYS TO SUCCESS: MASTERSTROKES FOR WINNING

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Before you can succeed in business, career and/or in life generally, you need to take certain steps and actions. These extremely skillful actions or masterly actions people take or carry out to win a contest, succeed in their businesses and in every other life's endeavour are known as the masterstrokes for winning. Until you take these actions, winning will always be afar off from you. They say what kills a man is his comfort zone. You must learn to always leave your comfort zone.

These actions are therefore, wise, clever, good and considered effective. You cannot take these masterly actions and end up losing; the end result is usually success. In life, what you give in determines what will come out. Similarly, the Bibles tells us that what we sow is what we will read. So, your actions is what determines your success or failure. I sincerely hope that you engage in actions that will bring wins to you. Don't forget, failure repels from you because no one wants to associate with failures but what attracts people to you is your success. People will naturally come close and want to mingle when you succeed in whatever you do.

By the foregoing, there are numerous masterstrokes for always be on the winning side but the purpose of this publication, we will consider the following four and they include: Dedication, Determination, Diligence, and Sacrifice. You cannot exhibit these five attributes and then end up a failure in life - Never! They are the major keys and factors associated in having a winning lifestyle. Look around, show me a man who is successful in life and I will show a man who these four things and even more.

DEDICATION: This entails devotion and setting aside of one's time, resources for a particular purpose. You can never achieve success in what you do, if you do not dedicate yourself to it. Dedication to a purpose brings about success and decoration. It is foolishness of a person to be expectant of a good or excellent result without dedication to purpose. You need to be dedicated to work because dedication produces good success. Every life of impact is a life of dedication. Dedication also means committing one's self to something or someone. It speaks volume about devotion. You must therefore be dedicated to the one who made you - GOD, and also to all you do. Those who are dedicated to God cannot be dethroned. You can never be put to shame when you dedicate yourself to God reason being that He will always empower you to stand out. This then makes dedication a masterstroke for winning in life.

DETERMINATION: Often times, people lack the ability to be firm in their decisions. The Bible tells us that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. This confirms that it is only we are resolute and determined in the heart that we can achieve success. Determination is a master stroke for winning. It is the quality of being able to come to a firm decision and stands. It is only when you are determined to succeed that you can succeed. Determination is what will provoke and drive you to work harder and smarter. It makes you never see quitting as an option. Consider Daniel in the bible, he first purposed and determined in his heart and then he found success.

DILIGENCE: Many persons lack this particular quality and it is not very good. Diligence is what separates good from excellence. It is defined as the constant and earnest effort put in in order to be able to accomplish a given task or project. It is an attribute of every person who wins and it precedes success. In all we put our hands to do, let's endeavour to be careful about it and give in our hundred percent.

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Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mere men.

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Sacrifice on the other hand is all about refusing pleasure for the treasure ahead. If you want to be a winner in life then you must be ready to make sacrifices. It is only those who sacrifice, either their time or resources that get succeed in life. Watch out, there is always a difference between a person who sacrifices than one who does not.