Helping People Around You Succeed
Azeez Idris
Data Scientist Intern @ Microsoft | Previously Interned at IBM, Syngenta, Goldman Sachs, FlexiSAF
Success is different for different people. This means that what is success to one person probably is not success to another. But one thing is for sure. No matter the type of success each one of us wants to achieve, we can help each other achieve success.
You have to absolutely do the best that you can towards helping people around you achieve success. This is important because as you continue to climb your ladder of success, you need to have successful people around you. If the people around you are not successful, they would have to either leave you to seek success elsewhere or find a way to make a success from your own success. That way of creating success from your success can either be legal or just illegal. The choice these people have is up to you.
Being helpful to the people around us is not usually as difficult as we might assume. Inquiring and asking about how a person is at every point of their life journey might be one way to get started. Find time to reach out and follow up about the conversations you had. Even if that is all you have done, you have become an accountant for that person. How their life is going becomes accountable because of your check-up. Just that alone can be what would make the difference in their lives.
Beyond checking up, there are other ways to help. It can be identifying the talents and skills a person has. Then encourage them to continue or find mentors who can help them continue developing their skills. Finding people who can mentor others is also another way to help. Imagine how your life would have turned out if you had a mentor, maybe a little bit earlier in life. Imagine how much difference that would have made.
Beyond these few ways of helping, we can take more active steps in helping others by providing the resources they need at various stages. Resources could mean different things depending on the person and the circumstances involved. Some people might need access to the internet or access to some online courses or even physical courses. Providing all that can be a way to help.
Whichever way you are taking, ensure that the people around you are becoming better because you played a part. You will not be the only person to shape a person’s life, but at least play your role so that tomorrow, when you look around you, you find successful people you have helped in one way or the other.
In the future, the question would not be if we are successful or not. It would be how many persons we have helped become successful. The world is indeed more social than we want to accept. Therefore, we need to be there for one another. Helping one another is our way of making the world at least a little better. The world is how each of us sees it. If you allow another person to see the world better, you have helped make the world a better place.
Thanks for reading and God bless.