PLANNING IS KEY

I have talked on a lot of topics encouraging you to put your thoughts into action, actualizing your goals and driving yourself, today PLANNING is the major point of discussion.

Whatever you intend doing at any level needs planning so as to give the best result possible. A wise man once said, “Whoever fails to plan, plans to fail”. This alone rang a bell in me, making me understand the advantage of this singular step.
There are steps to be taken to ensure success and excellence in whatever we intend working upon. This includes asking questions, collating the answers, highlighting the points and then, putting parameters in place so as to successfully accomplish one’s aim.

In whatever it is that we intend doing, the ability to build a right structure that would bring about desired result is the major work because this in place, failure is inevitable.

The importance of planning can never be overemphasized because to me, I see it as the building block to great heights in our daily lives. As simple as it sounds, corporate people have schedules for the day, this is simply the process of putting their priorities in a scale of preference so as to make their day worthwhile. This is just simple planning, and if this can be done for daily activities, why should we not employ the same method to accomplish major tasks.

Life itself is in stages, God himself planned our life and existence for a purpose and if the being behind our existence takes planning as important as he does, I do not see why we should not.

Put things in place for successful actualization of your dream, vision or goal. In all, I say PLAN, PLAN and PLAN

ALLOW YOUR VISION GROW AND LET IT DRIVE YOU

There are pictures we see of things we want to implement or we want to see exist, the ability to continue seeing this picture and believing in your ability to create it is the main topic for today.

Vision can be defined as a picture of an expected future. To everyone there is a picture of an expected future you can see, but the ability to continually see the expected future is the main focus. I have found out that when you think of the same thing over a long period of time, you begin to imagine the possibility of its existence and this in turn motivates you to want to create the picture you see.

Motivation is the inner energy or zeal which encourages or pushes one to actualize a specific task. Motivation grows when encouragement comes and this comes when you see the mental picture of what you envisage to be in existence. To everyman there is a purpose and the purpose is being ignited by a vision which he needs zeal to implement.

In whatever field of life your vision might be in, you have to allow it grow to the point where you begin to make research, ask questions and document facts that would bring it into existence. After which you allow the vision serve as a motivating factor to push you into the actualization of your goal.

A man has to discover his purpose in life and this only comes to him through serious thoughts and imaginations. It is known that over 1 million thoughts passes through human mind daily but the concentration on a specific positive thought and actualization of it makes one happy.

Not being active or driven enough to bring your vision into existence is simply a failed life. So to everyone again, I say ALLOW YOUR VISION GROWAND LET IT DRIVE YOU

THERE IS NO CRIME IN HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

A wise man once said, “The only things that starts from the top and comes down are rain and the grave”. This means that whatever business we intend involving ourselves in, starting small should not be perceived as a disgrace or fault from our side, but opportunity to grow and effectively develop the venture efficiently.
There are advantages in starting small which when considered makes sense and really would serve as a motivation, making one to invest his time and energy into whatever endeavor it might be. They are listed and explained below.

1- Ease in tackling issues:- When you start a business humbly (small), the issues that would arise as you go on with your daily dealings would be an easy nut to crack, by this I mean we would not be overwhelmed and sucked into problems that we cannot handle.
It is known that when a business is efficiently managed, it grows, and the managerial skills and ability grows, also faith in you grows. It makes it easy for you to solve whatever problem might arise on the job. As we know every business has its complexities and as long as it is operated in minimal form, it is easy to manage whatever complexities one experiences in the day to day running of the business.

2- Ability to recruit productive staffs:- Starting out in business humbly affords u the opportunity to personally interview your members of staff, meet and explain your vision and mission to them and also tutor them to the point where they would slide around their duties at glacial pace. This would also allow you know everyone’s area of strength and weakness and in turn affect tasks assigned to them for efficient running of the business.

3- Low running cost:- Daily running’s of a business could be expensive, but as long as the size of the business is small, the amount to keep it active remains minimal and it only grows as the business grows. At the time when cost increases, the business would have matured enough to provide funds for its daily maintenances. In the case where business scale is huge, the maintenance cost is also huge and if one is not careful, the business might die before it sees the light of day.

With all these, I have been able to highlight some of the benefits of starting small. I hope it serves as a guide when starting a business so that the business can survive.

DEVELOP THE ZEAL TO BEGIN AND ACTUALLY BEGIN

Everybody has one thing or the other they plan to begin to improve themselves or situation of things around them but the zeal to begin is one major thing they have not developed. They say things like “I will start later” or “I will develop the business idea later”, but they never really put themselves to the task and start as earlier said.

This is one major problem everybody in this world has. It is called PROCASTINATION. The postponement of what should have been done now to a later date.

Before I started writing, I also faced the same problem. I knew I had these ideas flooding my head and I would sometimes pick up paper and scribble my ideas on it. The major problem now became not being able to put myself down to start developing my points.

I knew I had a lot of things stocked up in me that I had to share, I knew I was not satisfied with what I was seeing around me, the level of decadence, drought in knowledge among the youth, poverty living as human among people, but I did not do anything about it. I just allowed days slip by hoping that a miracle would happen and materials to address these issues would automatically develop. Guess what, it never did at least from me. I had to go through the process of writing, researching and thinking so as to get materials out.

To build your zeal, I recommend highlighting the benefits you stand to gain if you eventually get done with the project. This should motivate you and as you know any little work done reduces the work load, so the earlier the better.

Build the zeal and consistently work on it so as to bring it to completion and you will get to derive the joy and satisfaction expected.

THE ART OF GIVING

Giving as we know is one of the major obligation we have as human beings. No matter the religion we are involved in, the art of giving is one preached by our leaders, prophets, and spiritual fathers in these religions and also preached as an art which serves as a criteria for God to bless one.

I had the opportunity of visiting a motherless a motherless babies home recently, and i found out that feeding which is a basic need for man's existence is even not fully catered for, talkless of healthcare services, good clothes and other benefits. i got moved emotionally and this made me think of ways i could be of help to this parenless kids

In as much as many of us have not attained positions we intend getting to,many of us have 3 square meals, wear good clothes, and have access to good health care service. A simple act of reaching out to this people with our rescources no matter out little makes a lot of change.

Trust me, you would not believe what your little gesture would do to these people, how much smiles you would bring to the faces of these people and also to you.

The art of giving must be imbibed by everybody and i strongly advice that it should be imbibed by everyone.

THE POWER OF ZEAL AND ASPIRATION

Today i got an update from forbes as regards to the new list for the richest people in the world for year 2011. to my surprise, Dangote is now worth $13.8 billion which puts him as the 51st richest man on the planet.

This got me thinking, the whole companies and all he owns that brought him this monstrous wealth all came from his aspiration and zeal to be something better than anybody he knows. with the zeal put into his work, he has been able to put Nigeria on the map, to the point where his company is about to be listed on London stock market.

Whatever sentiments anyone has towards him or the way he made his money is inconsequential. the main point is that he aspired and he built the zeal to accomplish it.

This is a big one to learn from amd i hope everybody would pick from this.

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

I talked yesterday about thinking great to achieve huge, today, the topic above is what concerns me because it is a great catalyst to achieving in whatever field of life you find yourself.

the Bible says"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he". this makes me understand that the mind is a very strong component or strong part of making something out of life or achieving great.

it is known that when we set our heart to do something with focus and determination, ones desire is achieved.this is a simple process of working on the mind which in turn gives the zeal that produces results needed.

the simple process we engage in to bring our desires to actualization is the same process we need to go through when we set targets for ourselves. Constant thought on actualizing the set goals gives the needed confidence to forge ahead.

when you think positively about issues sorrounding you, after a while, after a while, you bring yourself unconciously to the believe and realization that what you are thinking about is possible. This process is a self motivation technique and there is no motivation like it.

Constantly say to yourself words that are positive towards the actualization of your dream and i tell you, though it might sound funny but you would get to realize that you start feeling the zeal on your inside and the result of the zeal is that you are motivated to try out things that would put you in the very position you are envisaging.

THINK GREAT AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE HUGE

Achievement at any level in life starts with a burning desire to become something better than one's present state.to bring this desire to reality,there are certain steps that must be taken, they are:
- Reference your God
- Work Hard
-Improve your Skills
-Make yourself believe that you are worthy of the achievement you are craving for.

A mentor of mine says regularly that "God gave us brains so we can give him rest". we also know that he made us in his likeness which means to a large extent, whatever you put your mind to and work towards, most often than not will be gotten.

The main problem is the fact that we allow the obstacles and problems we have faced to create limitations for us through our thoughts.
The bible says"As a man thinketh, so is he". it should be noted that not allowing the NOW serve as a determinant to your life is a major step towards a life of achievement.

Itemize the things you are aiming for or you would want to achieve,paste it in a place where you would always see it to constantly put you on your toe. What you cannot see you cannot take delivery of or hold. Seeing it dailymake it paramount and a must achieve for you.

Remember, Smart,Hard work makes it possible.

TO BE A GREAT LEADER, YOU HAVE TO BE A GOOD FOLLOWER

It is said that there is no new thing under the sun. this makes me conclude that whatever it is that one is experiencing or passing through at any time in this world, there is someone who has gone through that lane before you.
He who wants to fly one day must first learn how to stand and walk, one cannot fly into flying. Also to fly, instructors are needed and the ability to follow the instructions layed down by the instructors is what makes one a professional flyer.
This simple analysis explains the fact that to be an instructor yourself, you have to be instructed and disciplined enough to listen and follow every instruction given to you.
All you have to do is to make sure that whoever you are following is experienced and sound in whatever field of life you are opportuned to be his student.
Many great leaders we have both in the past and today had many mentors that helped them in carving out their niitch and achieving whatever they achieved in their life time.
To Peter there was Jesus, to Elisha there was Elijah, to Obama there were Clintons and the likes.
this is very important to know.