True secret of success in all dimensions

For you to attain amazingly huge success, you need to love your work or business to the extent that you become addicted to it on one hand, because this forms the unquestionable way which will permit you to achieve that success. This obsession is realized through a field which amuses you where you work extremely hard but you seldom feel exhaustion.

Yet on the other hand, you need to moderate your addiction to business. Moderating addiction to your business is vital for multifarious reasons, since it enables both personal well-being and the long-term success of the business. It contributes enormously to your physical and mental health, work-life balance including proper relationship management and personal fulfillment, sustainable productivity and even business health. Further details will explain it more.

The website, Summation, owned by Auren Raphael Hoffman states “It is obsession that matters.” Hoffman is an American entrepreneur and CEO of Safegraph, a firm tracking people’s GPS locations. The website adds“ You cannot be great at something, unless you are obsessed with it, you need to be thinking about it all the time. That obsession may consume you, it may not be healthy for you, but that is the difference between the great and the merely good.”

According to the website, people who have changed the world are those who were workaholics. Workaholic is a person who feels compelled to work excessively. “Look at Martin Luther King Jr., or Mahatma Gandhi, or Alexander Hamilton. They all put in many hours more than a standard 40-hour week. The difference though is that their work is an extension of who and what they are, they worked hard because it did not feel like work.”

This website additionally says that even today great achievers are workaholics, providing an example of remarkable players and musicians. “Think about those professional athletes who have achieved remarkable accomplishments. Consider the way they take care of their eating and sleeping habits. Is this separate from their “work” day?

What about the time they spend in gym? Or cryotherapy, and massage therapy they spend hours undergoing??Each hour of the day becomes an extension of what they are at their core: athletes who want to sweat, improve, and win. Hard work is not an option for these high achievers, it’s their default.”

The official number of working hours is generally 40 hours a week. Nevertheless, you are strongly recommended to considerably increase these hours to even 80 ones, if you aspire an extraordinary achiever. The blog reads “If someone finds their job hard and exhausting though, the idea of working 60-80 hours per week will sound like torture. But it means they are working on the wrong things or working with the wrong people.

If you are going to put in enough time to change the world with your work, it has to be fun for you. It has to be joyful and filled with meaning. Otherwise, you won’t stick around long enough or move fast enough to make a lasting impact on your industry. To those in the right industry, hard work feels like play. If you are one of the best at what you do, your work probably feels like play. Find something you love to do- that you are good at. To be one of the best in the world at something, you have to work hard. Malcolm Gladwell theorizes that it takes 10 000 hours of deliberate practice to become a master at something.”

Those hours equal around 416.6 days which correspond to about 13.8 months. It means that you can master a field, if you combine all the hours for which you’ve practiced it and reach those months. Yet, as affirmed by Hoffman’s blog, it’s not those hours which count more; but instead, the obsession. The latter one is rendered feasible especially by the fact that you are working in a field, or a job which constitutes your fun. The obsession is additionally possible, while you are working with the right people, according to the blog.

In fact, we agree with the blog but again we recognize the moderation which we have also said.

I know a former university colleague of mine who owns a YouTube channel. This guy is a journalist on a government-owned broadcasting organization. Around two years ago, he told me that he got nearly 60 000 subscribers to his channel for only one year. But to accomplish this, he sweat considerably. According to information I have obtained from one of his former colleagues on a community radio station, this guy was almost every time occupied with his channel. “Both at day time and even at night as soon as he finishes editorial meetings and other issues concerning, I see him always busy with his channel,” she told me.

Every business wrestles with seemingly insurmountable hurdles, especially at its inception. There are also setbacks through which this YouTube channel owner has gone, for him to grow his channel to that extent. “I first of all worked so hard and tried to produce interesting content and I hired some young men, for them to assist me in promoting my channel on various social media platforms,” he told me.

This example proves that you really have to be obsessed with your business, for it to grow to the extent that you desire. But moderation matters considerably. The guy worked day and night for nearly a year. But today, he no longer works like that. He even possesses financial means which help him to hire some individuals to reduce the volume of his work. These days, he takes time to rest; which forms part of business or work addiction moderation.

Overworking leads to burnout, stress-related illnesses, and chronic health problems like heart disease and high blood pressure. Constant stress and lack of downtime results in anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues.

Proper relationship management is essential too. Overlooking personal relationships strains family ties and friendships. Keeping a balance assists you to nurture these relationships.

Personal fulfillment is equally crucial. Engaging in the spiritual field, hobbies, interests, and leisure activities outside of work also contributes to overall life satisfaction and happiness.

Efficiency, creativity and innovation constitute key components of business success and sustainable productivity. Overworking decreases productivity and efficiency. Taking breaks and preserving a balanced schedule leads to better performance. A well-rested mind is more creative and capable of innovative thinking. Constantly working stifles creativity and problem-solving capabilities.

Business health demands that you avoid exhaustion. Exhaustion impairs judgment, generating poor business decisions. A balanced approach helps to maintain clarity and sound decision-making. Business health also necessitates delegating and team-building. Over-involvement in every aspect of the business is likely to cause you burnout.

THE POWER OF CONCENTRATION is a book authored by Theron Q. Dumont. The author advises us to develop our concentration power to the extent that we manage to remain fully focused on a point with which we are dealing now. If you are writing article, you should solely concentrate on producing this article.

In one chapter, of the book, titled "The Mistake of Concentrating on Your Business While Away," he has written that in order to be successful today, you must concentrate. But he has argued that you don't have to become a slave to concentration, and then carry your business cares home. “Many men become so absorbed in their business that when they go to church they do not hear the preacher because their minds are on their business. If they go to the theater they do not enjoy it because their business is on their minds. When they go to bed they think about business instead of sleep and wonder why they don't sleep.

This is the wrong kind of concentration and is dangerous. It is involuntary. When you are unable to get anything out of your mind it becomes unwholesome as any thought held continuously causes weariness of the flesh. It is a big mistake to let a thought rule you, instead of ruling it. He who does not rule himself is not a success. If you cannot control your concentration, your health will suffer. So never become so absorbed with anything that you cannot lay it aside and take up another. This is self-control.”

This means that we don't have to ruminate our business or work all the time as Hoffman argues. We instead need to cultivate the capacity to concentrate on whatever we are working on since this will permit us to become high and healthy achievers.

By Jean Baptiste Ndabananiye- Media, Empowerment& MBA.

Management and Journalism Professional/Consultant with a demonstrated history/experience of involvement in women’s empowerment, project/program management, peace-building/conflict transformation, training, public awareness campaigns, governance and budget transparency, advocacy, documentation, the broadcast media industry, and community justice, among others.

He is skilled, among others, in English and French, Project& Program Management, Media Production, Peace-building, Leadership, Advocacy, and Kinyarwanda- English-French Translation, and Mind-Body Connection and its Link with Health through extensive reading and investigation about these two fields as well as Health Reporting and Communication. Strong management, media and communication professional with a Bachelor's and Master's focused in Journalism& Communication and MBA-Project Management respectively from University of Rwanda and Mount Kenya University.