How to Get to the Top in Life

The way to the top is climbing the ladder of life rather than waiting for a lifter or an elevator.

                              

Success is a journey, not a destination.

I had rather try and fail than to do nothing and succeed.

Every dream or desire is a locked door which needs to be open with a key, rather than waiting for it to open itself and come to you when you are sleeping.

Life is not magical or miraculous; it is a well work-out practical-action process to your existence.

Believe it or not, if you want to be the next-level person, you must be willing to climb the ‘hills’ and ‘ladder’ of life before you can get there.

In this write-up, we want to use Joseph as our case study. Joseph is a practical example on how anyone can successfully to get to the way of life. (Go and read and study the life of Joseph in you Bible for full understanding).

These are some of the powerful lessons Joseph revealed to us if we want to reach the top.

1.       A dream… A BIG ONE: “Now Joseph had a dream and when he told his told his brothers there only hated him the more”(Genesis 37:5)

Your enemies are not just interested in you righteousness, prayer or holiness; they are bothered about you DREAM. The devil knows that if he can stop you dreams he can stop everything good about you.

You must note here that, not everyone you tell about you dream will be happy with you. Some may criticize, ridicule or underrate you, but the truth is that no one understand what you have on your head well enough than yourself.

Then he dreamed another dream (Genesis 37:9)

Joseph did not just dream, he had to dream a higher dream. He knew that the size of his dream is what will determine the size of his reward

Your enemies will not let you rest when you have a big dream.

Do not measure your dream with what you have or don’t have. You are bigger than you can imagine. Dream big! You can achieve it. It’s very possible.

#I have a dream.

My dream is to become a positive change agent in life; to discover and fulfill my purpose on earth; to create uncommon value and make people happy; to live in the memory of thousand, even millions of people when I pass on (dead).

What is your own dream?       

2.      DON’T PANIC AGAINST THE STORM

The first magnetic power of a dream is problems- the quick storm.

As soon as you have that dream, you will start facing some follow-up trials. This is the reason why many dreams are cut-short and shut-out. Many people expect that when they have a dream, the next 30 seconds it should be manifesting. But it doesn’t walk out like that. Joseph taught us that we should panic against any storm. The reason is because it’s the manifesting process of our dream. The storms that appear like destroying our dream will end up taking us to our success.

  Joseph taught us that problems may be thrown at us by the devil, but God turns it as a creative process and a helping tool for our achievement.

  BLESS BE GOD FOR THAT!                                                                                                                                                                              

3.      STEWARDSHIP: We are born to serve. To serve God and humanity. The law of reciprocal states that: if you can serve others well enough, people will serve you long enough.

The law of management states: that if you cannot manage another man’s property you will destroy your own when you have them.

One major unsolved problem we face in our society is that too many people want to be served and never want to serve. But the truth is that if you are too big to serve people you will be too small to be served by others. (Mark this statement).

“And Joseph found grace in is sight, and he served him, and he made him overseer over his house, and that entire he had he put in his hand”. (Genesis 39:4).

Portipher left all that he had in Joseph’s hand. He had Joseph’s trust and loyalty which was bigger than his possession. We are born to serve and offer services. Be diligent in stewardship, not measuring your salary wage or compensation with your performance or effort. Stewardship is the board-room for promotion. Serve others the way you want to be served. Stewardship is a reflection of Leadership, not slavery.

4.Run away from immorality: “There is none great in this house than I ; neither  hath he kept back anything from me but the, Because thou art his wife : how then can I do this great wickedness ,and sin against God ? [Genesis 39:9]

First Lesson: 

Your position or possession in life is not a qualification for immorality. Back-yard sex kills.

Be fearful enough to run like ‘Usain Bolt’ when you see or sense immorality no matter your power, wealth, influence or position.

Second Lesson

Never betray Someone’s trust in you. It might be all he has got.

The most painful slap is the betrayal of trust, not love. It doesn’t break the heart; it explode it without repair

 Trust is precious than sex or money; Don’t even give it away when you have it. It’s too precious.

Third Lesson 

 Sin is the Killer of dream

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

If for any reason, never sin against God. God is the pivotal and controller of your destiny.

If you can displease the whole world including yourself just to make him happy…DO IT .

A life of sin is a life of destruction.

The sin of immorality is the number one killer of dream.

It turns a person into any empty drum. It takes away your integrity and honor. The sowing of sex morality takes no longer than five to thirty minutes, but the reaping takes a lifelong affliction.

The rule for back-yard Sex (I mean illicit sex) is to… RUN AWAY.

5.      SOLVE A PROBLEM.

          And Joseph came to them in the morning and saw them, they were troubled. So he asked pharaoh’s officers who were with him in the custody of his master’s
 “why are your face downcast today?”  (Genesis 40: 6 – 7)

                                                                                                                                       

The Secret of Success is: Don’t be interested in your problems, be interested in people.

In spite of Joseph’s condition and pain in the prison, he was so interested in the other prisoners’ welfare. He wanted to solve a problem. He wanted to make an impact. He wanted to create uncommon value. He wanted to be a solution to people’s lives.

    Instead of Saying, ‘how do I get out of here’, He was rather saying, ‘What is the problem?

    The fastest way to get out of any problem in life is to help someone get out of his problems. (Keep this word in your heart always).

    Have a passion to solve problems, and you will become truly great. (Believe this truth).

    

6. GAINING REWARD.

        But remember me, when it is well with you, and do me the kindness, I pray you,

      To make mention of me to pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. (***)

     

    RULE NUMBER ONE

Make use of your gifts, talent, skill or knowledge to solve someone’s problem and you create a good name for yourself in the process.

Joseph used his gift of interpretation to solve the other prisoner’s dreams.

RULE NUMBER TWO

Try your best to maximize yourself (your abilities). People are always ready to dance, but the problem is that they are waiting for your music to be played.

Don’t ever believe that you don’t need people because you have God. God is a spirit, so he can only reach you through someone.

Joseph knew that was why he was saying to the prisoner that was about to gain his freedom to remember him when he gets out.

Seeking help from someone doesn’t really make me less or depreciate your faith in God, rather it gives you option.

RULE NUMBER THREE

You need to have an expectation. You must believe you can have what you are looking for. Mix faith with expectation.

Joseph made his request with an expectation. He wanted to get out of the prison that was his resounding expectation.

If you don’t have an expectation, you will be stuck up in limitations and never really going to achieve your ideal realization.

Don’t say there is no need saying it because I know nobody will help me. Always have faith and ask for help.

7. ACKNOWLEDGE GOD

Joseph answered pharaoh, it is not in me; God will give pharaoh a favorable answer. (Genesis 41:16). When we commit our ways and actions to God who knows all things, He will establish our path and give us good success.

Learn these principles and work with them.

You are on your way to the top. You are unstoppable!

Rufus Yamoah

Life Coach

How to Be the Best Among the Best

“There is nobody in the world better than me”.

                                                        --Jose Mourinho

1.       Work on Your Mindset                                 

         

It doesn’t matter anymore what your self-critics says or what people think about you. The truth still remains!

The truth is that: NOBODY IN THE WORLD IS BETTER THAN YOU.

This is the foundation of becoming the best…

You have no idea of the gross wealth and abundance that lies inside of you.

You’ve got all it takes to be the best among the best…if only you will CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE YOURSELF!

These are not mere nice words; these words are profound truth you can bet your life on.

Believe me; millions of people are living in the shadow of their real self.

Recognizing your self-worth is perhaps your greatest discovery you could ever make.

Sometimes when you take a jealous look at some super achievers and men of great accomplishment, you might be tempted to ask “IS GOD REALLY PARTIAL?”

The ‘NOBODY’ syndrome

Is God to be blame?

Our Father God can never be blamed for any man’s failure or defeat in life.

The sin of self underestimation, low self esteem and negative self-image has destroyed the lives of many potential-great destinies.

When you become aware of and see what God has deposited into your account, you will never agaian believe the devil or people’s negative talk about you.

The ‘nobody’ syndrome is more deadly than HIV AIDS. (That is my opinion). When the devil successfully make you to believe you are nothing but an empty cartoon… then he has stolen everything you need to make a big hit in life—YOUR MINDSET.

You will never go beyond the person you think is better than you.

Before you can ever become the best, you must first think and see yourself as the best. (Please meditate on this).

Winners do not win because they do extraordinary things or they are opportune to reciieve from the goddess of Luck; THEY JUST THINK DIFFERENTLY!

The poor and failure thinks of themselves as a thin empty vessel; but the winners think of themselves as ‘one big large room filled with everything they ever want or desire’.

GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU…

2.       Find Your Purpose

When you discover your divine purpose in life, you will automatically become the best person in life.

When you discover your purpose you will come to observe that nobody is like you in the world.

When you discover your purpose why you were born, you will never try to be like someone else…not even your role models!

When you discover your purpose you will never see God has been partial, or become envious of your friends’ success.

Joy, passion and enthusiasm will overshadow you when you discover you purpose and you not will ask for anything else.

The human body system is an interesting example of a man who has discovered is purpose.

Think about the function of the eyes, ears, nose, hands and legs. Think about it!

The eyes see itself as the best in body. Why? Because nobody can do what they eyes does. Only the eyes can see. (No argument).

Likewise every other parts of the body. They are created for a specific purpose and duty and they were placed in a specific position to carry out their purpose. The hands never feels oppress and lead by the brain. The legs never try to do what the ear does.  Everyone is leading in their own department. They are the best in their own purpose.

Like the human body, the world is born of different leaders with specific purpose and duties.

You were born with a specific purpose and duty—and that makes you the BEST.

Don’t fall a victim of the deception of self-critics and people.

 It all depends on what God says about you.

If God says, ‘you are a King’, who can make you a servant?

The choice is yours…

It is time to walk in your into participating in the success field.

Rufus Yamoah

Life Coach

The Power of Team Work for Greater Success

‘’ I’m a manager of human resources and I have to work with everybody …’’

-          Jose Mourinho

The Power of Team Work  

#Avoid the DO-IT-YOURSELF Mentality…

 The man who doesn’t need people is perhaps the saddest man in the world.

I don’t care what you’ve been told… One thing is certain; you can never get real far in life when you don’t work with people.

“No man is an island” is perhaps one of the greatest truths I have come to understand all these years.

Don’t ever think you can achieve your goal all alone.

In fact people with the DO-IT-YOURSELF mentality are only suffering because of their ‘shallow-tiny’ dreams.

Yes; you can really do-it-yourself when you have a dream that looks like just sitting down and switching on the T.V to your favorite reality program.

Dreams that are way-to-soft are no dream at all!

What can be called DREAM is something you desire to achieve that is beyond your capacity and resources.  And that is why one of the major causes of failure is not because a man does not possess enough skill or IQ; it’s only because he fails to recognize that his dream needs people.

The number one resources you need for your dream is not money or intelligence—but PEOPLE.

Super Achievers and winners are people who work with people.

#Avoid the KNOW –IT-ALL mentality…

People who are not willing to learn are one of the most annoying people you can ever come across.

The illiterate person of the 21^st century is not a man who lacks knowledge; But the man who is not willing to learn and re-learn.

I don’t care if a man is ignorant, what I fear most is the man who is not willing to learn because he thinks he doesn’t need to learn anymore.

No man really knows it all. It’s only a reason to stop learning.

“There are only a few things I know and countless number of things I know not. This is the very reason why I must develop PASSION FOR LEARNING.

YES; Passion for learning is the foundation for wisdom, knowledge and understanding.

Wisdom means passion for learning.

If you want to get really far in life you must be willing learn and re-learn.

BUILDING RELATIONSHIP THAT WORK

The secret of wining and achieving extraordinary success is: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS THAT WORKS!

Winners spend all their life building relationships that bring results because they recognize that people are the biggest resources we need to achieve our dreams.

Having the right people in your life is the fastest way to get the best deal out of your dreams.

There is one thing I know that really works, and that having the right people in your life.

Assets wealth means having the right people in your life.

You must strive to make your contact count.

Work on building relationship every minute. You will find out that this is the most important skill you ever developed.

You can’t do it alone. You don’t know it all.

You need people to help you achieve your dream

To your success

Rufus Yamoah

Success Teacher

How to Maintain Success and Keep Winning

“I think that being a winner doesn’t mean winning and being tired of winning, and I never want to lose. For me, a winning player, coach, or a man in general is someone who is never tired of winning”.

                                                                                                                                                --JoseMourinho

Getting to the mount of success is the issue; it is staying there that counts.

I have seen a lot of people who are up-in-hills and shining like stained-glasses today, but tomorrow they are nowhere to be found. They are back to their pit-holes after their ten minutes ‘wow’ effect.

One of the biggest problems facing people in business is being short-sighted in their vision and goals.

I have seen many people who after achieving a small success like owning a business, having a car and having a house, they would say to themselves, “What else is there to achieve?”

Listen: they saddest person in this world is someone who has nothing else to live for.

This is high treason against life. A man who has nothing to live for is not better than the dead man.

Success is by degree.

Starting small is good; staying small is a sad thing.

You must enlarge your coast, and learn to stretch your vision and dreams.

Super Achievers are people who pursue after big dreams and try to do what ordinary men call impossible.

They greatest challenge towards maintaining success, is what I called ‘the average mentality’.

This is the truth: You can never go beyond the limit of your mind.

When you get to the mountain top, it is not a license to fold your arms, close your eyes and fall to sleep.

Success is easy to achieve; maintaining success and staying successful is the hard job.

Winning in life is not World cup or Olympic event; it is a lifestyle. Let winning be like drinking a glass of water every day.

Greatness is by degree.

Think extraordinary thoughts. See yourself going the extra mile when everyone else is celebrating.

The more your win, the more there is to win.

Every peak you reach is not a final bus-stop, but it’s only a stepping-stone to greatness.

It is fine to be good. It is wonderful to be better; but the world will only celebrate you when you become the best.

Beware of shallow thinking. Beware of poverty mentality. Beware of impossibility thinking.

SEE YOURSELF AS THE RECORD BREAKER AND A SUPER ACHIEVER.

Greatness is never far from the man who always believes he can.

Those who maintain success and keep winning are people who believe that their best is still yet to come.

But small achievers and failures always think that there so-called best can never be surpass.

To keep winning in every area of life, you must maximize your potentials.

It is not all about discovery who and what you are; it is about leveraging it for work wonders for you.

Whatever and where ever you are today, I tell the truth…you can still achieve more. You can still do better than that. This is the secret of continuous progress.

Winners are never tired of winning. They hate losing!

It is time to break out from your comfort zone. It is time to awake the greatness in you.

Let success become a lifestyle for you, and not a momentum event.

There is something I was point out at this juncture: IT IS CALLED PRIDE.

Yes; Pride is the number enemy for falling from grace to grass and from success to failure.

No matter the degree of success you have achieved in life or the level of height you have attained, you must never let this virus to creep into your life.

Pride is a destroyer. It is the mother of demotion, setback and lose.

HUMILITY IS THE KEY.

The more you succeed, you more you should be humble.

When you are humble, you will never let what you have or what you have become to control or influence you negatively.

You must be a master of success, if you want to maintain success.

Destroy the spirit of pride if you desire to keep winning.

Put on the garment of humility, and you will be lifted above your fellows.

DON’T LOSE WHAT YOU HAVE LABORED FOR…

DON’T REMAIN IN ONE PLACE EVERY DAY…

…GO BEYOND THE AVERAGE.

Rufus Yamoah

Life Coach