SME-Written by/ Counselor Nasser Wagdy Ali
One day I thought that success was out of reach, but with determination and persistence my life changed forever.
Upbringing:
I grew up in an environment full of challenges, and there was nothing that suggested that I would achieve what I have achieved today, I had difficulty concentrating and lost self-confidence, after losing my father, may God have mercy on him, when I was twenty years old, and I had no one to guide me in this life.
The first stage in my life:
I dropped out of school after middle school and did not complete my high school studies, so I went to work in the field of follow-up for government departments, and then I bought a taxi and started working on it. I was convinced that this was the best source of income at the time and I did not want to complete advanced education stages, so I worked in this field for about
Fifteen years until I reached the age of thirty-six. The stage of change in my life:
I heard a saying that changed my life (God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves), so I began to contemplate this verse and say to myself, how will you change your life?
There was a course called (The Strong Influential Personality) by Counselor Muhammad Al-Khalidi. I took it and began to apply the skills acquired from the course. After that, I took a second course (Strength of Personality and Building Self-Confidence) and applied the skills. I found improvement, difference, and a change in behavior for the better. Here, I realized that knowledge is my weapon for development and the first steps towards success. So, I began to complete my secondary education in the evening section due to my advanced age, and I graduated from it at the age of forty. Development stage and achieving goals:
I joined a job as an accountant according to the specialization in one of the companies and I was the first Saudi accountant in the company and it was a difficult challenge to prove my capabilities and success in the labor market and after four years I decided to complete the university stage, and thank God I graduated (Bachelor of International Business Administration) from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, and I started taking different training courses in the field of self-development and management and I set clear goals and I started achieving them every year, and I started to develop a solid plan to develop myself and I started practicing meditation exercises daily and I set a program for my ideal day and allocate time to read books that help me and gradually enhance my self-confidence, and I was able to improve my lifestyle and increase my level of focus on goals and steps to success. Financial Success Stage:
After setting goals for multiple sources of income and preparing for the opportunities available in life, I realized that to be qualified for every opportunity, continuous development is necessary (whoever does not develop will deteriorate). So I started learning the field of training and offering training courses. Here, I had a new source of income and it helped me complete a new stage in my life, which is completing my master’s degree when I was forty-eight years old. I graduated after two years from the Arab Academy in the Arab Republic of Egypt and obtained a master’s degree in family counseling with a diploma in cognitive behavioral psychology.
There was a new source of income and I discovered that age is just a number. You are the one who decides to make a better life. The stage of building my business:
Here I decided to start building my own business and after the stage of financial stability, I established a private company in information technology to sell programs to clinics and hospitals, then I went to open a restaurant in Jeddah that specializes in Egyptian food, and thank God, thanks to God, it was crowned with success and began to spread outside the Kingdom. I went to the Arab Republic of Egypt for training and restaurant activities, and I went to the United Arab Emirates and opened a new restaurant for Hijazi food, and thank God, I realized that building projects requires studying the market and conducting feasibility studies for your project to be successful, and thank God for every blessing after a journey of struggle and continuous effort, I became more productive, and I felt in achieving the goals that I have always dreamed of, here I realized the importance of time and its value to achieve success so that you can be
an icon of success.
Conclusion:
Finally, success is not limited to anyone, just focus on yourself and your self and find your internal compass, so that you know your correct direction in this life.
From the valuable information in this article, I learned (that what we live is the results of our thoughts, when we change our thoughts, our lives change).
Your brother, Counselor / Nasser Wagdy
