Ever noticed how we women are hesitant about owning our successes? Always giving credit to husband, or someone else? Girl! You worked damn hard to be where you are today in your life. It wasn’t your husband or anyone else keeping awake all those nights, working hard at what you have succeeded in doing now. It was you running pillar to post, doing the needful at all ends. Yes, it couldn’t have been without the support of countless persons and elements in your life. Actually, it was you all the way. Your struggles, hopes and fears on that solitary journey alone, needs to be relished, cherished and owned today.
Stand up proudly
Take full ownership of your successes and glory. Even to the hard roads you drove on. The pitfalls you faced on the way. The rude, insulting people you’ve faced. The years and years of patience in the face of financial crunch. It is after going through all that, that you’ve found this success. Madam, stand up proud and tall and own up to it all.
Only He was with you all the way
If any One deserves any credit for it. It is Allah the Almighty, who has been a witness to all that you have earned today. He knows your journey. It was only God who witnessed your sorrow, your disappointments and your pain. It only was He, who sent you the angels who helped you to get to that pinnacle of success.
Give credit to God Almighty and Allah, for all that He did to bring you to this point in your life. Most of all, to give you the life, to live long enough to be a witness to your glory today. It is a fact that God helps those, who help themselves. Had you not made any effort, He too, would not have helped you.
Own the successes of those you helped
As you sit here, and personally witness the success of your husband, and children today. You know, how much you participated in all the elements which have made them reach their goals. They are enjoying that success for which you sacrificed willingly, your career, your dreams and your night’s sleep. You did play an integral role in their successes too. Now, you have a right to be proud of them.
Today, on the eve of 2026, decide to take full credit for all your successes, and their successes too.
Today’s ownership includes status and assets
We assume and presume, that that property is owned by a man. That its a man behind that company or organization. He hardly ever gives the credit to how you put your career to the sidelines to support the career of your husband. How many years you spent working hard for the successes of your kids and husband.
Husbands who sacrifice for wives
Let me acknowledge a new breed of rare men I’ve seen, who have actually sacrificed their career for the wife. Actually, in all my life I’ve seen three, who have willingly, set aside their own dreams for their wives. One was an army officer who gave up his career to go with his wife abroad. There, the wife followed her career while he stayed at home and took care of the kids. The wife was highly successful and even moved to another continent, with hubby dear looking after everything and everyone at home.
So much so, that he was the one who knew how to operate the pram, as she was mostly in office. Its okay. We must value and charish such men, and we need to the women who have been doing the same.
It is fine, when the rank of the husband goes the wife becomes even more proud of it. She knows how much she put on stake for his success. So many jobs she refused, so it doesn’t affect her husband’s performance at work. So, its okay for her to take advantage of her husband’s place in life. She has played her own role in his success too.
Feel your worthiness yourself
So, when you worked hard, and taught yourself how to do things in a way to bring more successes into your own career. You were instrumental in making it all happen. So, now be happy, satisfied and fully in control at all that you did and earned in your life.
Don’t over do it
I’ll have to accept, some women do overdo it. So, beware. Be humble. Stay down to earth about it all. Just as there are highs in life, so there are lows in life too. We all know that. Its okay, we are used to that. All I’m saying is to be happy and proudly take the driving seat of your life. Be ready to accept that which you own now.
Single women
This includes single, widowed and divorced women; you have managed to keep your head high through your battles. You smartly survive on a daily basis in this society where ‘being married’ is the only status worth having. Your career or business is now your forte. You have made an identity for yourself which is your own. Most important of all, you are a force to contend with now. Madam, own up to your successes. Sit proudly and be who you are today with full pride and joy.
