The 3 Cs Of Successful Living

 Have you ever wondered what it means to have a successful life?

Is it about money?

Is it about happiness?

Is it about possession of materials things in gold and diamond?
Is it about philanthropy?

Is it about Family or Career or Relationships or Health or...?

The list could just be endless

But, yes it is about all of the above and more

But what is successful living?

According to Anastasiya Goers

"Successful living in the broadest sense is

a life that is full of opportunities that you are not afraid to try,

a life full of fun and meaningful work,

a life where you can spend plenty of time with the people you care about,

a life that you live without regrets."

This therefore presupposes that successful living is not about acquisition of mansions or gold and diamond but actually the process of living life to then hilt.

In my own understanding therefore, there are 3 concepts I think that would aid anyone to really and actually live a successful life.

1.      Curiosity

Curiosity helps us to discover what is on the other side of the divide. It takes us out of ourselves and helps us to know about others and what their challenges are.

Curiosity also helps us to discover hitherto undiscovered traits or talents that we have but which have not yet shown up.

When we are curious, we ask questions, we seek solutions and provide answers. These help us to maximize our grey matter for the enrichment of the Society

Curiosity helps us to make a choice. If we never ask, how can we get? if we never seek, how can we find? and if we never knock, how can the door be opened unto us? It is only the curious person that dares to leave his comfort zone and bulldoze into an uncharted territory

Today, dare to be curious!!!!

2.      Creativity

In each of us is deposited at least 1 talent but most of us are multi-talented.

A creative mind streams out of a curious personality.

If Edison was not curious about why darkness is pitch black and if there is anything that can be done to ameliorate the tyranny of darkness, he would never have been creative enough to discover the light bulb which chases away darkness even in the thick of the night.

If the Wright Brothers were not curious enough to ask why the birds of the air fly and human beings cannot and to find out if there is a way to make humans fly even without their own wings, they would never have been able to be creative enough to invent the Aeroplane

Too many examples abound of men and women who asked questions about this world we are living in because they were curious and went out of their way to apply their creative ingenuity to find answers and solutions.

Today I dare you - be creative!!

3.      Collaboration

When God formed man in the Garden of Eden and the man was all alone, God said to Himself, this man is all alone and it is not good, I would make a companion for him and so God made the woman out of the man - that is the Story of Creation from the Holy Book but from it comes our third tool for living a successful life - Collaboration.

It is popularly said that no man is an island unto himself and that is very true. Sometimes when I read the story of some "self made persons" I still see there that there was some help or another from some other persons in that person's life be it temporary or permanent, so that in the real sense of it no man can be described as being "self made."

Be that as it may however, no matter how curious and creative anyone is, making a dream come true is not one man's job alone.

Collaboration with others is key to fulfilling a dream.

A good collaborative effort involves both internal and external relationships and so a balance man or woman would surely know how to harness the two to arrive at a goal that has been earlier set.

So, with curiosity as your template and creativity as your watch word, add up collaboration as the meat of the matter and you are headed for a successful life.

Thank you for reading this post

And do share your own opinion on the matter with me

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