KEY VITAMINS FOR CORPORATE SUCCESS

 

As we begin the second quarter of the year 2025, I would like to share with you something productive to think about.

 

1. Discipline yourself:

Have the discipline to stay away from conversations and vile arguments that infuriate you. Keep a positive mindset and presence. It is a proven magnet that attracts people.

 

2. Show empathy: Do not leave your humanity at the office door and only take it back when its 5pm. People should be able to approach you and feel comfortable around you. Demonstrate compassion and concern for the needs of others.

 

3. Relate well with others: Be a go-to person. Smile and connect with people. Keep a personality that allows people to draw closer to you. Simply, make time for people.

 

4. Celebrate major feats or achievements in your life: You successfully led perhaps the most controversial project for the year and delivered results in time and on budget? Pause from life’s seeming endless streak of activities and celebrate what you have achieved.

LIFE IS FOR THE STRONG-WILLED

 

In a conversation with a friend who graduated from one of Ghana's universities and doing her national service with one of the local telecom companies, she said to me, "Anokye, I feel so much pressure. Growing up is painful."

 

I wish I could get the right words to explain to her that growing up was not as painful as she thought. Clearly, she's a young woman in her early twenties so taking full responsibility of her upkeep while juggling the daily demands of work and other engagements came to her as a burden. She was new to the terrain and she was right to feel so. But to those who have been in this terrain for a while now and still think growing up is painful, I cannot console you.

 

This write-up might even add pepper to your troubles. Seriously, life is not promised to be any easier. If so, there's no point being happy when we are victorious or have surmounted a challenge. Life is meant to be for the strong-willed. It is for the mentally-strong. It's not for the weakling.

 

Many of us pray that God takes our challenges away from us. That is a bad prayer to waste your time on. Because as long as you're on this side of the planet, not only will your challenges not disappear, they grow in magnitude as you grow in age. It is the reason you see some old folks ending up so badly in the long run. It simply means their capacity to handle challenges didn't grow as they aged. As you advance in age, you have more on your hands. Hitherto, you had no one to worry your head about. You had someone to provide whenever you needed money. Now, you need to go out there to get that money to fend for yourself. For some of us, not only for ourselves, but our families; our spouses and children. And if you're a business person, you have to think about the well-being of your staff. Handling these challenges at various levels at the same time comes to many as a huge burden. And trust me, it's not as though I have a handle on it perfectly...we strive to do so.

So for those who are ever expecting for life to get any easier, your expectations will be cut short. Grow stronger. Feed your mind to get stronger to deal with the daily vicissitudes of life. It won't get any easier or less tough; you have to get tougher. Growing up is not meant to be painful. It is a call to wisdom; to maturity, and to mental stamina.