Success is the progessive achievement of set goals in a particuar field of human endeavor. To be sucessful requires the act of focus and wisdom in the area one wants to venture into. It takes a lot of effort to achieve set of goals and at times you may need to rise up each time you fall in order to advance in your career. Achieving success in life and career can be brought to reality through the following:

** Having a clear goal
** Pursuing your goal vigorously
** Sacrificing everything for the achievement of your goal
** Patience
** Prayer

=> Clear goal: it is an established fact that without a clear picture you cannot feature in the future you desire. The target you are aiming at determines how far you can aim. No goal means no success!!

=> Pursuit: The evidence of desire is pursuit. No success be it in career or life can be achieved without expanding some energy to achieve a desired result.

=> Sacrifice: In order to win any medal in any Olympic event, many sportsmen invest a lot of time in training before the commencement of the event. This sacrifice makes them to be at their best during the competition and they eventual win medals. This is quite important for success in career and life.

=> Patience: for any worhwhile success, you need to be patient. Before people are awarded degrees in any field, they need to pass several exams. This shows clearly that success requires some time.

=> Prayer: it is seen as the master key that unlocks God's favor and endless a person to achieve in life. To be successful either in career or life, we need people, resorces, material. What prayer does is that it unlocks everything we need to achieve our goals in life.

Finally, success is a continuum and it should never be seen as an end on its own but a means to achieve future success