Always Stay Humble

Photo by Tom Woodward

Achieving success is one thing. Maintaining that success is another.

Achieving success is not an easy thing to do, just ask successful people. They'll tell you the hardships and failures that they have to experience and endure first before getting to where they are now. The countless sacrifice that they have to make just so they could succeed is enough to scare most people from achieving their own success.

Maintaining that success though is even harder. Just ask champion athletes or teams how hard it is to repeat winning the championship. Every opponent you face will give you their very best because you are the defending champ. Overcoming and beating you or your team is one of the most important goal for most of the opponents you'll face.

One thing that can help you maintain your success is to always remain humble.

It's important that you never lose your humility, especially after you have achieved success. Why? It's because when you lose your humility and become proud, you tend to be more daring. You feel as if you'll succeed at anything that you do because of the confidence you gained through succeeding. You lose the ability to be critical and logical because of your pride.

Once pride takes over, greed and danger immediately follows. And once the three-headed monster appears, our ability to discern and be critical when it comes to investing, taking on a new project or starting a business becomes cloudy. 

We are successful so whatever we do we will succeed because we now know everything. 

This is a wrong assumption. On the contrary, we are more likely to fail if we think like this. That's there are those who we call "one-hit wonders." They are successful but they have a hard time duplicating that success because they let it get to their heads.

Friends, remember to always be humble. Don't let your success get to your head. Remember that the success you achieve is because of God's grace and blessing, because of your hard work, determination and commitment and because of the help and support of the people around you.

If you do this, you will not only remain successful, but also increase it.