Hanny Setiawan

Power Resources To Sucess

As the underlying force of success, power existence is mandatory.  The lack of power will change the journey.  Therefore, it is crucial to know where to obtain power.  What the sources are to emerge this power is the next logical question for people that long for success.

There are 5 power resources that I believe are true across faith, social, educational and cultural background.  Peope draw their power from one of these sources or more. 

1. Passion (Power of Love).
2. Adversity (Power of Cross).
3. Knowledge (Power of Word).
4. Networking (Power of Community)
5. Spirituality (Power of Spirit)

We can pick any success story and we can tell where their power come from.  For instance, Bill Gates, one of the richest person in this planet, is no doubt very well-informed in the industry where he’s in and the information become his powerful knowledge to change the course of information technology history.  In other words, Bill, at least, draws his power to success from knowledge.  And I even dare to say that I believe this person is very passionate with what he’s doing.  The "rumor" says that he’s still actively invloved with the design of the latest microsoft technology, the .NET!  And was it possible for "sane somebody" to leave one of the mosty prestigous school in the world, Harvard, for something that he or she did not love that much? Bill Gates loves technology. These two strength alone, his passion and knowledge, become unlimited sources to make Bill Gates one of the most successfull man that we know (yhs).

Godly character develops success.
Solid competency maintains it.
Divine power makes it happen. (yhs)

Power To Success (I)

Success motivators such as Anthony Robbins, Napoleon Hill, Dr. Norman Peale, Robert Schuller, Andrie Wongso and many others believe that all success starts from dreams, visions, postive thoughts or many other words that basically describe some type of visualization of the desired output.  Then they also believe in the power of faith to make the dreams come true.  And if we act on what we believe, success is the result.  If I could summarize into a small equation, success is the sum of dream, faith, and action.  Mathematically it can be pictured like this:

Success = Dream + Faith + Action

I don’t argue with these gurus.  In fact, I totaly agree with them.  However, I strongly believe that there is another variable needed to be added.  I call it POWER! People can have all the dream and belief and working on them, but if they stop and give in, success can’t be reached.  Power is required ingredient of success.

History has proved that Christians will not be able to survive if they didn’t have the power (dunamis).  And my life journey has shown the same idea.  We need power to success.  If I could add to the equation, the math will look like this:

Success = (Dream + Faith + Action) * Power

If power is zero, success won’t have any value.  All of the dreams, faiths, and even persistency of action will not result the desired output.  This thought brings to the conclusion that dependecy toward higher power determines the degree of success.  The ultimate power will bring the ultimate success.  And the ultimate success cannot be found in other things rather than Jesus Christ.  The book of Hebrew has vividly described, that He is more powerful than any powers that world know. 

In short, the more we are dependent on Jesus Christ, the ultimate power, the higher degree of success is guaranteed.  In fact, He will bring us to the ultimate success (yhs).