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T
he excitement and thrill of
stepping into the new year has
gradually faded away. Life is
going back, settling down and resetting
itself to the default it has always been. And
many of us have probably made a lot of
resolutions, setting goals and mapping out
targets we hope to hit for the year. Right
now, we seem to be energetic; on re,
ring on all cyclinders, and it looks like we
just might be able to pull of the stunts in all
that we hope for.
But along the line, during the tortuous
journey for the year, there seems to be a
problem that besieges us. Suddenly, we
zzle out, lacking the drive to continue.
We suddenly do not have the desire
anymore and in fact we begin to rationlize,
thinking there isn't meaning to all of it all.
Other times, we become distracted,
embroiled in the exigencies of life, pining
and whining away or getting carried away
by the next available fun of the moment.
But do not worry, do not fret; there's no
need to pretend that we're all super gods
and goddesses without rough edges. is
piece is an allay to that fear and here are
the ways to keep your re burning.
1. Make your life a need to
e problem of a zzling momentum or a
dying drive begins with a lot of us making
goals and resolutions because we had to
and not because we needed to.We had to
because of the spur of excitement for the
New Year and it is only habitual to make
goals and resolutions for the year. Aer all,
our friends and those around usdid and so
it's the “normal” thing to do. Here in lies
the problem. A “needing” is certainly
pivotal than a “having”. Imagine you're
suffocating or somebody is choking, you
see the desperation with arms ailing for
breath; you see the ght for oxygen.
ere's a “need” for that individual to have
oxygen otherwise death is certain. So,
make everything about your life a need
(something you can't do without). When
all that matters, including your goals and
resolution, becomes a need, there's a
“drive” to get it.
2. Make your life a healthy competition
How? You may wonder. I do believe we're
familiar with the statement, “overtaking is
allowed”. is statement isn't an attempt
to brew us into individuals who would use
vicious and ungraceful methods to bring
down those ahead of us. Rather, it is like a
“chi”to see our livesas competitive and to
take responsibility for it. Look around,
Social Media platforms like Facebook and
Twitter; Telecom giants like Globacom
Telecommunications and MTN are
always rivaling each other in a bid to
outdo the other. What this does is to mold
these brands into having the constant
drive and momentum for success. And
they're successful because of the
competitive spirit fostered in them.
Emulate this as well.
3. Surround yourself with success
oriented individuals
You cannot y with the eagles when you're
scratching with the turkeys. In order
words, you cannot hope to succeed when
the bulk of persons around you are
opposite of what you hope to be. No, it
doesn't work that way. Because eventually,
you'd be dragged down, reduced back to
pebbles, de ated by such persons even
though you have the drive or momentum
to be different. You need to realign and
readjust your circle of in uence with those
who have the mindset to be different.
When you do, you'd surely have the re to
keep burning.
4. Surround your life with materials
Momentum is the product of mass and
velocity but there is certainly a “force”
needed to produce the velocity that would
propel the mass forward. And so,
materials in form of written, audio and
visuals are one of such forces. Invest your
time into poring books that would
increase your mental capacity. Watch and
listen to men and women who are masters
of success for they can teach you in
minutes and hours what took them
aarduous life time to learn. When you
study materials, there's an unconscious
transfer of knowledge and what was
difficult and herculean to do, would
suddenly become a stroll in the park.
With these four nuggets at your nger
tips, I'm assured you're going to have a
momentous experience this year. And
what's more, a successful individual in the
end. If not, then something is wrong
somewhere. Sort it out.
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road to
success
As Youths the struggle in between our Visions and their
Actualizations is in the distinguishing between;
a. Relevance to Self
b. Relevance to Humanity.
Now, if these two are realized and dealt with accordingly and in
time, REALIZATION OF VISION will be but common ground for
Youths in this generation. So now let us demystify the subjects we
faced with.
RELEVANCE TO SELF
Feeding, Clothing and other personal welfare cannot be excused in
the daily lives of humans speci cally youths and must in fact be
acquired. But then there is a thin line between working to survive
and working to impact. Over time Youths have worked to survive in
the acquisition of Cloths, Feeds and other welfare materials but have
failed in recognizing that this ought to be but a short moment in our
lives while we anticipate our call to Primarily Impact, hence we
work to survive till we age and die.
You might want to ask the question; But how can one impact
without survival, I will tell you the truth, 'Survival is but an offshoot
of Impact, when the latter is prioritized in the mind'.
A Banker who is looking at Impacting his generation will not barely
wake up and run to work with just his scheme of work in that
particular bank in mind to achieve but will start to dig deep into
possible systems by which the Bank Industry as a whole, can be
reformed to t current demands from customers thereby setting
himself up for an innovative recognition, which is key to promotion
in that particular bank and even recognition at the State and
National level, depending on how far he is looking and what he is
looking to see.
A youth who is 'relevant to self ', whether he aspires to be such or
not, is one who barely wants to be rich without de ning the source
to that riches. It is in this generation you nd children and
Teenagers who are more conversant with What they want to HAVE
other than What they want to DO, basically misplacing, and
mistaking both for each other. Now a society with a yesterday of
such Children and Teenagers, have inevitably produced a today,
with a bunch of youths, myopic and sel sh in vision'.
'Relevance to self ' as we have therefore understood above, is a trap of
poverty and smallness clothe in the fake attire of 'e Products Of
Relevance To Humanity', hence many is a victim of the disguise,
rendering them almost useless to the 'SELF' they were trying to
protect and cater for, a forehand'.
e matter however, is not out of hand yet, as reading this now, is a
proof of your desire to be great. To Impact is an inevitable route to
greatness, so follow me.
RELEVANCE TO HUMANITY
Reading from top, I believe you must have made a choice between
'Relevance To Self ' and 'Relevance To Humanity', so let us go on a
journey through the latter.
To make Impact is to be relevant to Humanity, but at a glance, this
may seem really ambiguous. You must be thinking by now, ' But how
can I handle the idea to be relevant to Humanity as a whole, when as
a matter of fact, I have only been exposed to but a small part of the
world, thereby in uenced by just a particular Race and Tribe?'
Well, I got an answer to your question;
God, did not design man to be relevant to the whole world, and even
God himself as Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth designed a
manual (the Bible), for man but never trampled on man's Self Will,
hence just a fraction of humanity accords the Bible, a worthy
manual for life. Relating this to You also, your vision for relevance
cannot be useful to every human on earth but when you succeed in
that vision you can be recognized by all of Humanity, marked by an
achievement. For example, Michael Jackson is a musician whose
music is not relevant to some pastors and Christians, yet the same
pastors and Christians even without patronizing him, recognize
him because he has succeeded in his vision and hence is marked by a
musical achievement. is takes us to what I term; MARKING
YOUR TERRITORY.
For you to have yourself the ful lment of a year well spent and gain
momentum, You must begin to draw structures that renders you
relevant to a class of humans, directly/indirectly in need of your
acquired Skill and Talent, by this you have marked and mastered a
territory of in uence, which in the long run, you will be recognized
by.
Begin Today...Have A Great Year!
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Optimal
ADVANCEMENT
A
dvancement is a necessary virtue and pre-requisite for
an excellent lifestyle. Advancement means making
progress; forging ahead; making headway; scaling
higher altitudes. Every person has the right to make advancement
but only few do advance to their full potentials.
Most oen, we advance to a certain level and mediocrity sets in.
We begin to settle for the available. is, because, the available at
every stage of growth is usually better than the previous, hence the
distraction. But that would mean we're being sub-optimal in the
realization of our potentials.
Sub-optimality can never be at par with excellence.
For you to attain optimality in your advancement, your approach
must be Aligned, Balanced, Commensurate, Deliberate and
Evolutionary. is is the A – E strategy of optimal advancement.
ALIGNED
Alignment in its simplest form means a position of agreement.
is simply means all your actions and inactions must be geared
towards achieving some desired feat.
Every of your decisions must be in consonance with your journey.
e months or years spent on engagements not in sync with your
journey is a waste of a part of one's life. at's expensive!
ere's no greater waste of time than to do with zealousness, what
needs not be done at all. Let go of distractions and let your efforts
be coherent with your desired destination.
BALANCED
e principle of balancing the need to meet today's demands with
the need to invest in the prospects of tomorrow is unavoidable.
It should not be automatic to give sole priority to the prospects of
tomorrow and neglect the needs of today. Advancement must be
balanced. Excessive focus on the prospects of tomorrow will result
in ruined health, broken relationships, et al.
It is worthy of note that the needs of today drive our economic
engine and that of tomorrow has the capacity to de ne our
economics in the future. Both are important and priorities should
be set aright. We cannot afford to burn the candle upside down.
ere is no automatic priority; situation ethics apply and balance
must be maintained. Advancement is Balanced!
COMMENSURATE
Commensurate refers to proportionality of efforts with desired
results. Your input must be corresponding in magnitude, in
degree, in proportion with your desired level of advancement.
Efficiency is comparing your output to your input. While it is
possible to be sub-optimal in your output (due to other factors),
you cannot afford to be sub-optimal in your input.
Your results (output) is a variable dependent on your input. You
must put in an effort that can produce the desired result. Input
must be corresponding with desired output.
DELIBERATE
ere is the story of a man who lost his job and lamented to his
clergy saying: “I just lost my job and my wife gave birth suddenly!”
How impossible? Can one give birth suddenly? Isn't it a process? It
takes up to 9 months. So also, is advancement.
Advancement must be well thought out. It must be consciously
and intentionally pursued. ere will be unpleasant setbacks and
attractive distractions but they are what they are – distractions. It
is the conscious and intentional will-power that will keep you
going.
And advancement obeys the law of time. erefore, if I need maize
today, I must have planted it about three months ago. If I needed it
in three months' time, there's no better time to plant it than now.
EVOLUTIONARY
In an era where the surge for immediate grati cation and quick
xes is everywhere, it becomes hard work to be patient with the
natural order of things. Still, growth is evolutionary.
We've allowed the way success looks from the outside direct our
thinking of how it should exactly be internally. We believe it is
more revolutionary than evolutionary. e truth is, the reverse is
the case.
Just like the transition from childhood to adulthood. We advance
from learning how to sit, to crawling, to standing, to walking, to
jumping, to running, et al. e transition isn't revolutionary! It is
an evolution. It is a process. And so is advancement. We must be
patient with the natural order of things.
is is a call to a journey of an excellent lifestyle. A lifestyle that
negates mediocrity; that seeks no revolutionary quick x; that
exhibits willpower to be optimal and is patient with natural order.
Welcome to the optimal lifestyle. You're on earth to be optimal, do
so!
Samuel BADA.
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regulating
momentum your
o matter how old you are, where
N you're from or what you do for a
living, we all share something in
common—a desire to be successful. Each
person's de nition of success is different,
however, as some may de ne success as
being a loving and faithful spouse or a
caring and responsible parent, while most
people would equate success with wealth,
fame, and power. We all want to achieve
success so we could live a comfortable
life—have nancial freedom, drive a nice
car, and live in a beautiful house. However,
although success can be achieved, it does
not come easy. e road to success
requires skill while driving through that
road and it is only those that are ready and
equipped that will pass safely.
e success we desire so badly would not
just come overnight. What we do hourly,
daily, weekly, monthly and yearly is what
determines how far we would go in our
quest to achieving our highly desired
goals, dreams and aspirations. It is our
dealings and achievements yearly which is
gotten by what we do hourly, daily and
monthly that accumulate and determine
how magni cent or terrible the year
would be which in turn lays down the
foundation for how our life will be; either
successful or a total disaster.
Year in and year out, we write down goals
and plans we want to achieve and at the
end of the year and we discover that we are
able to achieve less than ten percent of our
entire plans for the year. For many people,
they lose the drive, re, motivation and
momentum that were there at the
beginning of the year and by March, they
are living a new year like the previous year.
e reason for this is simple. ey could
not keep the momentum that was once
there. S o how do you keep your
momentum that will propel you to
greatness for the remaining part of the
year? Follow me.
I don't know what it is that you want to
achieve. It might be that you want to lose
some weight this year, or you want to write
a book this year or probably you want to
graduate as the best this year or maybe you
want to be a millionaire this year.
Whatever it is you want to achieve, you
know best and I've come to tell you plainly
that if you put in the required and
necessary ingredients in a pot, you will get
the necessary soup. If you put in the right
and required recipe, you will get the
necessary meal. Your year will be fabulous
if you can keep the required momentum.
Now you must have these at the back of
your mind;
1. COMMITMENT TO THE JOURNEY
How committed are you or are you willing
to be?
Here is what I believe is the number one
key to success for you this year. Are you
committed? What I am trying to say is that
in all of my observations, and from my
own experience, I nd that the journey is
always the same. It's a long road of self
examination and improvement, skill
examination and education.
It's making judgment calls about people,
things and situations. You continually
correct the "course" until you are headed
in the right direction. To trust your gut, to
keep the faith, to make it through tough
times, takes commitment. e question is
can you stick it out? Do you quit because
the results are low? Do you quit because
you can't nd the right people? When do
you say it's over?
Commitment to the journey is the key to
success. Because you will always see
things that make you want to run. But you
have to put your faith on the table. You
really have to stand against all odds. It
takes courage. And when you do this, you
will succeed. Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy, the chance to draw
back, always ineffectiveness concerning
all acts of initiative (and creation).
ere is one elemental truth, the
ignorance of which kills countless ideas
and splendid plans--- that the moment
one de nitely commits oneself, then
Providence moves all. All sorts of things
occur to help one that would never
otherwise have occurred. A whole stream
of events issue from the decision, Raising
in one's favor all manner of incidents and
meetings and material assistance which
no one could have dreamed would come
his or her way.
Whatever you can do or dream, you can
begin it. Boldness has genius, power and
magic in it. Begin it now and stay true to it.
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2. LOVE AND CARE FOR YOURSELF
Here is a simple analogy. When you board
a plane, you are treated to a demonstration
of what to do in case the oxygen masks
drop from above. e rst instruction is to
put your mask on rst. is is especially
important because if you don't take care of
your need rst, you will not be able to help
others and that includes your children,
your spouse or anyone else.
How does this relate to your year? Create
the situation that best helps you rst. Put
yourself in a position of power or at least
close to the ear of power. Do a great job,
rst for you. Excel for you. en assist
others, speak up for others, do for others.
3. EDUCATION AND CONSTANT
RE-EDUCATION
I am not talking about college degrees
here. ough they are a great start, you
must continue to educate yourself. Take
part in seminars, read everything, surf the
net. Even when you think you've got it,
press on. Education is inspiring the mind
to reach the limits of excellence.
Learn things in and out of your eld, read
books, magazines and watch inspirational
clips. Remember that the principal womb
of a man is the mind!! It can give birth to
anything depending on what is stored.
4. OPEN MINDEDNESS TO NEW
WAYS OF THINKING.
How many times have we seen people,
throughout history, hold on to what they
believe is the ONLY way to think, to nd
the world moving on without them? It was
generally thought the automobile would
never catch on; aer all, weren't bicycles
and trains more than enough? It doesn't
mean you have to change your way of
thinking or embrace it, just examine it,
educate yourself about it and recognize
that it may be here to stay.
5. A LIFETIME OF SELF EXAMINA-
TION
I cannot stress this enough. We are a work
in progress. You will make mistakes, your
attitude will change and you will grow. But
if you don't take the time to examine
yourself and your attitudes along the way,
you run the risk of becoming stagnant and
brittle. And brittle is a good candidate for
crumbling dust.
Examine your relationships with people,
your business practices, not just your
nances. In the end, it is your relationship
with people that makes you successful in
both life and business. If you nd yourself
having the same issues arise, it's time for
some self-examination. What are you
doing to contribute to this issue? What
can you do to create a change?
6. WORK TOWARDS YOUR GOALS
LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT
Don't give up. Let me not lie to you, times
will come when you will begin to consider
adjusting your dreams and goals to suit
your present challenges. When that time
comes, know that you are on track. Don't
settle for less, keep pushing, and keep
grinding. It is either an 'A' or an 'A'. Be
tough on the inside, and work towards
your goal like your life is on the line.
Be wise. You are not getting any younger.
All you need is a decision to make every
goal come to pass. Stay committed to it,
love yourself, educate yourself, examine
yourself and maintain the energy that will
propel you to the top.
My name is Samuel Okeh and I approve
this message.
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