1. CHOICE: Life is all about choice. It is one thing for something to belong to you, it another thing to choose to have it. The position we are today is a as a result of the choice we made at onetime or the other in our life. Perhaps the story of S.B. Fuller will illustrate how it works.
S.B. Fuller was one of the seven children of a Negro tenant farmer in Louisiana. He started to work at age five. By the time he was nine he was driving mule. Young Fuller was different from his friends in one way: he had a remarkable mother. His mother refuse to accept this hand to mouth existence for her children, thought it was all she had ever known. She knew there was something wrong with the fact that her family was barely getting along in a world of joy and plenty, she used to talk to her son about her dreams.
“We shouldn’t be poor, S.B.” she used to say, “And don’t ever let me hear you say that it is God’s will that we are poor. We are poor not because of God. We are poor because father has never develop desire to become rich. No one in our family has ever developed a desire to be anything else.” No one had developed a desire to be wealthy. This idea became so deeply ingrained in Fuller’s mind that it changed his whole life. He began to want to be rich and he chooses to. Today he owns four cosmetics companies, a hosiery company, a label company, news paper and so on like that.
Failure is not nearer to you than success, life is all about choices.

2. COST: You need to sit down and know the cost of the choice you made. Every choice carries a cost. There is a price for everything. There is no free launch in life. I love the illustration Jesus Christ gave to the issue of cost in the bible.

Luk 14:28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he may have enough to finish it;
Luk 14:29 lest perhaps, after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish, all those seeing begin to mock him,
Luk 14:30 saying, This man began to build and was not able to finish.

Failure to count the cost of any choice you made will lead to mockery.

3. Commitment: you have to be committed to pay the price of your choice. You need to be sold out to your choice. Commitment makes you to be creative and resourceful. Commitment has no room for excuse. Your level of commitment determines the height you attain in life.
A single glimpse of Ford in action will illustrate the power of commitment perfectly.
Years ago, Henry Ford decided to develop the now famous motor known as v-8. he wanted to build an engine with entire eight cylinders cast in one block. He instructed his engineers to produce a design for such an engine . to a man , the engineers agreed it was simply impossible to cast an eight cylinder gasoline block in one piece. Ford told them to produce it anyway. He commanded them to stay on the job until they succeed, no matter how much time is required. The engineers went to work . there was nothing else for them to do if they were to remain on ford’s staff. Six months went by, and they had not succeeded another six months passed and still no success .
At the end of a year Ford checked with his engineers. once again they informed him that they had found no way to carry out his orders. “ keep working ,”said ford . I want it and I will have it.
And what happened?
Well of course , the engine wasn’t impossible at all. The Ford V-8 became the most spectacularly successful car on the road , pulling Henry Ford and his company so far out in front of his nearest competitor that it took years for them to catch up.