Fuel types that fuel your success

                            By Bayo Ogunmupe

    There are four types of fuel that help people achieve success in life. Sometimes when you lose steam or enthusiasm, you make decisions to pursue your dreams, only to lose passion; and you find yourself giving up. By studying successful people you find there are four kinds of fuel that pushed them to achieve greatness. The first is success fueled by your goals. Which is why many successful people are fueled by their dreams. Such people are vision-oriented. Everyday they think of their dreams, talk about their dreams and work on their dreams. They fly from people seeking to break their dreams by offering them new projects.

    To thwart dream breakers you must own a dream journal which you must browse everyday. In the journal you define what you want to accomplish in life. You create meaning for your life. But more than having dreams, you must make God's dreams your dreams. When you are sharing the same dreams with God, you don't run, you fly. Secondly, your success is fueled by your groans. Unlike the first person that is driven by his future, this second person is driven by his past. He is driven by his pains. You must embrace pain and burn it like fuel for your journey to stardom.

    The third fuel type is success fueled by your gift. The third successful person is one fueled by his passion or love for his work. I have met some of these uber-successful people eyeball to eyeball. Some of them are't literate to the level of having dreams or dream journals. But they are very successful because of their passion for their craft. Some of them are entrepreneurs, businessmen, transporters and traders. They didn't climb mountain to find gold at the top. Nor did they have pain in the valley that drove them up the mountain. They just love climbing mountains.

      But for many climbing mountains is painful. Wherefore, some become extreme, finding solace in a call to destiny. Such people have embraced the fourth fuel type, success obtained in serving God. Such people include:Nigerian Shiite leader El Zakzaky, Enoch Adeboye, David Oyedepo, Matthew Ashimilowo, Tunde Bakare and Temitope Balogun Joshua. But there are those very successful, only to self destruct at the pinnacle of their success, because of imbalance in their lives. If  you need long term success, you need to learn the important lesson that balance is power.

    Balance is a principle in boxing. Without balance you will fall by the weakest blow. And believe it or not, problems will try to topple you. And where is the only path to balance? The only path to balance is in finding God in your goals, your groans and gifts. At the end you have to be driven by humility, love, gratitude and forgiveness. When God's love is your fuel, you become selfless. Which is what religion is all about; unless you become selfless you never know peace and happiness. Results require action. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. And keep pushing forward: first they will ignore you; then they will laugh at you, then you win.