"It is impossible to find a man who has everything, but it is possible to find one with something"
There was a guy living in a neighborhood who most parents labeled as been lazy and unproductive . Why because he was always found with a football during the early hours of the day and in the afternoons practicing. He will practice with the least chance he had.
He was very young with no mentor which made it difficult for people to understand why he was doing it all for . There was only one football team in the area . They trained once daily and he was always the first to go and the last to leave the training grounds. During the early hours of the day when children of his age where busy bathing and preparing for school, he was busy on the field. There was a day he had a quarrel with his class teacher for been late to school and the teacher said he will never get hate chance to play professionally.
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When he was asked by friends why he invested so much time in the field, he just stared on and never uttered a word. This was how he managed to get himself into a football academy. And today he is one of the best football players on the planet if not the best. A five times Ballon d'Or winner , a four time European golden boot winner, and have won 25 trophies in his career, including five leagues tittles, four UEFA Champions League and one UEFA European Championship. He is in the person of Criastiano Ronaldo , and this is his life journey to perfection in the world of football.
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All this story boils down to perfection. Working yourself up to perfection. You can not always be excellent but you can of course be perfect. Excellence is not perfection; it is simply a resolve to raise the bar of performance higher than normal. Perfection in every aspect of human development begins in the mind; after all, the mind is the factory of human ingenuity.
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In life everything comes with a prices and only people who are more hungry to succeed will be ready to pay the price. Perfection is not cheap, it comes at a price. Everyone you see on top of his game has paid a steep price. People are born with peculiar skills and talents, but these are not enough; perfection demands that you must refine your skills to its finest. Paying the price of perfection is not easy; it requires discipline, it takes fortitude and an abiding commitment to the principle. Many people will hate you when you try to instill the spirit of perfection in them, they will avoid the rigorous training necessary to excel and rather get expel and stuck in the mire of mediocrity.
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Perfection can be attained in diverse fields of life. It is not an event, it's an ongoing process. The sages say the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement. When you resolve to be perfect you will always find innovative ways of improving yourself.
My name is Abdul Rahim Alhassan a footballer, writer and a youth advocate. Never forget, you're Awesome. Thanks for reading.