Two things about life tend to give identity to the personality of a man: his successes and failures. In a country like ours, so many of the people out there obviously presume that the gauge used for determining how successful a man is, is by judging from the way he is addressed at some kind of exclusively reserved function. Again he is judged by the kind of car he rides in, how mighty his house (cage) is, and the amount of money he pledges to give at an occasion where he has been given a special and royal invitation to attend, possibly to be a speaker or even chairman. Sadly they have judged him by the number of material things and hundred of titles he has acquired for himself. How he got those shouldn't be anybody's business. "The details shouldn't bother you", they say. The question now is, how do you judge a man's failures and successes?

There are a million and one ways to know this. In fact there are large numbers of successful men and women out there and they all seem to have the same phrase in their success-story life: 'Hard work, hard work and nothing but hard work. Go through the process and stay with it until you get there'. Perhaps we still need to be reminded of the truth that there is reward for hard work. You also need to know that there is a thin line between success and failure. Success is a just an eye blink away from failure.

That everyone can make it in life is no new talk. Even the pastor should learn to believe this too but the big question is how, many people are ready to go through the part of hard work? Maybe it is time we looked beneath the surface and beyond the razzmatazz of cloths, colour, class of car and the kind of edifice the person has here on earth but to search within to know how truly and genuinely the person made it in life so as to impact and truly affect that man in the street. "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." (Jackie Robinson) It will therefore be important that you consider how you could really be of little help to the next fellow around you rather than envy that big man in your neighborhood. Your very little impact could go a long way to play a significant role in the life of a generation even yet unborn. It really would be more profitable to look within than pay close attention to a man whose wealthy acquisition hardly could stand the slight fire of questioning and scrutiny.