Successful Businessman

Original draft date: October 11, 2010

The most common reason why we regard a businessman as successful is because he is rich. However, money is not the determinant of success in the world of business. No matter how much riches he had amassed, a businessman will never reach success until he became proud, contented, and optimistic of his life.

When a businessman is already proud of what he had become, then success is in his hands. He walks tall and erect like a lion walking in the jungle leaving no traces of any weakness in him. When he stood, he was as if the tallest tree in the forest looking down on all those beneath him.

Once he developed that sense of pride, he became contented of his life. He lives as peaceful as a hermit in his little cottage that could ask nothing more from this world. He doesn’t care of those he has not, but only of those he had. His contentment is like that of an undisturbed cat lying on a soft cottony cushion on a lazy afternoon.

Finally, knowing that he was proud and contented of his life, he began to take things positively. He’s as optimistic as a child opening his birthday present and a pious man waiting for an answer to his prayer. He faces his misfortunes without fear like a soldier unafraid to go into battle, for he’s sure as the rising sun that he will lose nothing in the end. His optimism leads him to believe that life is more of a classroom where students learn great lessons, than a prison cell where convicts strive for survival.

We may regard him to be successful, but a businessman, himself, knows that as long as he doesn’t feel that sense of pride, utter contentment, and positive outlook in his life, he’ll always stretch his arms with deep longing for that thing called success.