You will go as far as your eyes can see

In life, you will go as far as you can see, think, or imagine with your mind. You will go far in life if you can see very far, but if you are shortsighted, you may not go far. In other words, your progress and success in life are mostly determined by your ability to see afar, that is your ability to envision and see yourself in a great place in life.

Why some people succeed and why some don't
People who become successful in life have seen it from the beginning. They know what they want from life before they get it. These people have a clear picture of the kind of future they want within their hearts. Before they became successful, they have seen themselves in a successful place in the mind of their heart. They just transferred what was in their mind into reality by taken deliberate actions. This is how successful people become successful in life. In contrast to this, people become unsuccessful in life because they could not see success in their future, or because they settled for a small success. They cannot imagine beyond where they are!

Ask two kids about their future goals

Imagine, you ask two young kids about what they want to become in the future. One responds, "I have no idea" and the other responds, "I want to become a lawyer". Fast forward to the next 10 years, you will find out that the kid who had something in mind about his future would most likely be more successful compared to the one who had no idea about the future. Also if one kid says I want to become A and the other kid says I want to become B, it is unlikely that Kid 1 will become B, and Kid 2 will become A. Each kid will likely become or near what each has desired according to his or her heart. This is why - a child who has a clear picture of his or her future would be more motivated to pursue that future, and a child without a definite goal is bound to flow with the tides of life, not minding wherever he or she may end up in life. 

Don't let your bad experiences becloud your future
Most times people fail to imagine themselves in high places because of their disadvantaged background. They think it is impossible for things to turn around for them. They accept fate; they believe that things will either remain the same way they are or even get worse. They fail to visualize themselves in a better place because they allow their future to be clouded by their many bad past and present experiences.

No matter what, choose to see a better future
If a person chooses to see a better life in his or her future irrespective of any past or present hardship, such a person will definitely experience that future. This is because vision is powerful. Vision has the capacity to empower a person to overcome his or her current hardship.  A vision can teach and guide a person on what to do to move from where they are to where they are supposed to be.

I wanted to go to Grad School in America
When I was in high school, I had the vision to come to the United States for my graduate school education. Even though I had no parents to sponsor my education, my vision kept me going. My vision made me to be more serious with life and caused me to be diligent in my educational pursuit. Then later I met a person who made my dream of coming to America to come true.

The far you look the farther you get
It is only those who refuse to settle for the bad present that will get to a better future. Only those who see afar will get very far in life. No matter what you are facing now, don't let it becloud your mind. Do not allow anything you might be facing to hinder you from seeing afar of, because the far you look the farther you will get. 

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The impossibles are for God

1. Do the possibles 

Many things are possible for man, but there are many things which are impossible for man (Note: man here refers to both men and women). Actually, the things that are impossible for man are not meant to be done by man - they are meant to be accomplished by God, and must be given to God. 

2. There is a division of labor 

The impossibles are for God. There are things which man can handle, and they must be handled by man alone - not God. The responsibility of life is shared between God and man. God has done, is doing, and will continue to do His own part. Man as well has his own part that he must do. Problems come when a man wants God to play his roles, and when some want to play God's role. 

3. The unstoppable man gives work to God

As a man we are meant to be unstoppable in life. Nothing should be able to stop us. We should be able to accomplish all that we want in life: we should be able to do the possibles and give (not leave) the impossibles to God. In every situation, when we have done all we could do, we should allow God to do the remaining tasks, and make them possible for us. We should be unstoppable because we share tasks with God.

4. The free access to God: Jesus Christ

There is a way to give the impossibles to God. This way is available for all, but not everyone has learn the way. The free access to God is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. To give the impossibles to God by Christ, go into your room or a separate place anywhere or in your heart and pray to God using Jesus Christ Name. Jesus Christ in the Bible promised us that whatever we ask God (His Father) in prayers through His name, will be done by God (John 16:23-24). So this means we are free to give everything that is IMPOSSIBLE for us to God through Jesus Christ. 

5. How to pray

This is how to it: you may say, "God of heaven and earth, the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. I come to you today in the name of Jesus Christ your Son. Please make ____________ possible in my life by so so time. Amen!" I have done this several times and saw God turned impossibilities into possibilities. 

6. My personal experience 

I remember praying to God when I was about 12 years old. I was in primary school then. I was doing very poorly in school because I was not smart: I could not read and write, not even my own name, and I always got the poorest grade in my class. Then I prayed that God should give me wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, to make me become a better student.  Afterward, from few days after I had prayed to God, my brother (late now) who was living in another neighborhood started coming to our house every evening to teach me how to read and write. After teaching me for a few weeks, my understanding opened up, and I was able to read and write. That same year, I became one of the best students in my class. That was God turning my impossibility into possibility because I gave Him permission to do so. God can do the same for you too if you can learn to give your impossibilities to Him. 

Please, do the possible you can do today and give the impossibilities to God in prayers through Jesus Christ our Lord. God bless you and stay blessed. 

The Common Ways of Life

People are made in life by the ways they live their life. What they do and how they do what they do it make them what they become. Though there are different ways of life, but basically the ways of life can be grouped into two categories (1) the common and (2) the uncommon ways of life.

The common ways of life are the natural easy ways that people live or interact with their environments. It is the way people naturally react  or respond to things that happen to them. The common way is the easiest ways to approach life issues and circumstances. They are common because they are the easy ways.

Few examples of common ways include;
1. Lack of goals
2. Lack of formal /and informal education
3. Disorganized lifestyle
4. Lack of codes of conduct
5. Wrong activities and companions
6. Bullying others and pride
7. Disrespect for simple instructions
8. Lack of planning for ones future
9. Lack of good heart for others
10. Laziness towards life.

But here is the problem, people who practices the common ways of life end up being common or ordinary in life. They become people without any respectable achievement and contribution in their society.  These are the people who end up just living for food. People whose life circles around 'eat, play, and sleep; eat, play, and sleep'. And that's all they live for from the beginning of their life until they die.

People become like this when they fail to change their ways from common to uncommon ways early in life. This happens when people fail to master the uncommon ways of life early in life. This also occurs when a child grow up to become an adult without learning the uncommon ways of life. And finally people end up as as common man when they fail to take deliberate efforts to change their ways from common to uncommon ways.

But your greatness is sure when you DELIBERATELY and CONTINUOUSLY take steps to move from common to uncommon ways of life. You can be sure of a strong and happy end in life when you choose to go the road less traveled. Because that is the way of the uncommon man!

Building Blocks of True Success

Don't be misguided about success;
Success is not money.

Success is being or having:

1. Self discipline
2. Patience
3. Endurance
4. Humility
5. Diligence
6. Trustworthy
7. Confidence
8. Intelligence
9. Focus
10. Truthful
11. Kindhearted
12. Positively mouthed
13. Encouraging
14. Thankful
15. Respectful
16. Forgiving
17. Helpful
18. Passionate
19. Active
20. Creative
21. Goal-oriented
22. Attentive
23. Teachable
24. Curious
25. Prudent
26. Organized
27. Caring
28. Careful
29. Loving
30. Righteous (God fearing).

These habits are the true measures or predictors of true success. Regardless of your present bank account status, you are or will be successful if you have and cultivate these habits.

Many have money, but because they do not have these habits, they still feel miserable and unfulfilled. Many do not have money, yet because they have successful habits, they feel successful and know that money will come to them.

When you have successful habits, you may not necessarily look for money, but money will look for you. This is because, people will only put their things and money where they feel it will be secured or multiply - in a successful place.  Everybody likes to deal with people with successful characters, not people with wrong habits.

This is why many people are looking for money bur never get it. They lack successful habits, so people will not deal with them with their resources.

The problem out there today is that, many people are running after money instead of running after success. Another one is that many people have money but not success, and that's why the world is going in the wrong direction today. We all seeking and running after money, instead of running after true success.

But DON'T be misguided: Success is not money. Success is good habits! Be first successful in your habits, and you will ENJOY good money. 

Ideas Are Ladders

Life occurs in steps and stages. One step leads to another step, and one stage takes you to another stage, but it's ideas (knowledge) that will carry you through each steps and stages, especially from lower steps/stages to upper ones.

In life, people with more ideas get to the top stage of life faster than people with lesser , little or no ideas. The more ideas you have the faster and higher you will climb in life. The lesser ideas you possess the slower you will climb, and lower you will descend in life. This is because it is ideas or knowledge that rules in life.

It is the level of your ideas that determines how productive you will be in life. Just like in school, students who provide more ideas (answers) during exams will get more high grades than students with lesser ideas. During interview, the candidate who gives the best ideas gets hired most. In public speaking, the speakers who have the best insights get booked more for speaking engagements, and in science, the inventors or scientists with more ideas have more inventions than those with lesser knowledge. So life is a race of ideas!

To make your life more relevant and productive in life, you must go for more ideas. To get to the top of your career, you need more ideas. To be a better man or woman, husband or wife, employee or employer you need more ideas. Even to be a better friend, you need more ideas. 

Where and how do you get ideas? From books and people - you get ideas by reading books and listening to people, and by thinking and making logical connections through the things you read and hear. The more you read and listen, the more the knowledge that will develop in your mind and more ideas you will have to challenge whatever comes across your paths in life. And the more useful contributions and impacts you will be able to make in life.

In returns to this, you would get a reward that would take you to the top of your path in your life endeavors. And you will be able to say "Life is truly in stages, but ideas are the ladders with which you climb from one stage to another".  So go for more ideas, go for more knowledge, today! 

12 Life Misconceptions

12 Life Misconceptions 

Life is complex, and this makes us view life differently from our different sides of life. Sometimes our views are right, and sometimes we are wrong. I identify here, 12 different views or misconceptions people make when they tend to focus on the first side of the coin while losing their view of the most important side. My views may or may not be the right view, but I am definitely making my points known here. I hope somebody would gain some insights from them. 

1. Life is not only in eating but in reading. 

What you eat can sustain you for a few hours, but what you read can carry you for life.

2. Life is not only in feasting but feeding. 

While feasting could result in wastage and obesity, feeding would satisfy your hunger and nutritional needs appropriately.

3. Life is not only in dancing but in marching. 

While dancing around will reduce your forward movement, marching forward will get you to your destination in time.

4. Life is not in sex (gender) but in sense (intelligence).

Being a male or female person does not make anyone great, it is our level of intelligence that determines our greatness in life. 

5. Life is not in lust but in love. 

While lust could lead to immoral deeds and crimes, love brings unity and peace to our community.

6. Life is not only about singing but about worshiping. 

People sing (consciously or unconscionably) to promote what they worship/ admire. Singing a song just because someone sings it could bring you into a "wrong world".

7. Life is not in enduring people but in enjoying them.

Enduring people makes people get sensational, but enjoying them makes them feel loved.

8. Life is not only in talking but in speaking. 

We talk to talk, but we speak to make a point. Only speak when you have a point (not always necessary to speak).

9. Life is not only in communication but meditation.

During communication, we give out knowledge. During mediation, we form the wisdom to forge ahead in life.

10. Life is not only in multitude but in attitude.

Moving with a multitude of people with the wrong attitude will end in being destitute, but moving with a person with the right attitude will command a multitude. 

11. Life is not only in the length of life but in the depth of it. 

It is not how long a person lives that makes a difference, but how deep is the impact of a person's life that matters.

12. Life is not only in what you feel but in what you think. 

What you feel does not control your life, but what you think determines everything in your life. 

Setting The Right Priority

Priority means first thing first. Setting priority means making first thing first in your daily life. It also means spending your time on things that are of most importance or value to you. It's like doing things that matters. It's committing yourself to tasks that would have grave consequences if let undone, or giving yourself to an assignments that would bring you the most profitable rewards. 

Setting priority is one of the most successful habit you can have.  It's one factor that contribute most to the success of every great individuals you have seen. It can makes somebody out of nobody, and can turn slaves to kings when practiced. 

This is it: setting priority makes things to become more important in your life. Once you give your time continuously to something,  the thing would increase and tend  to 'dominate' your life.  You would give more time, thoughts, actions and physical space to such thing. Everywhere around you would speak about the things you have prioritized in your life. 

For example,  if your first priority is to make money, you would always think about how to make money.  You would talk to people about money, you would purchase books on making money, and you would want to associate yourself with people that you know that can give you money - the thoughts of money will become your priority. It will dominate and control your time. 

The point I'm making is this: only give priority to things of high value in  your life. Abolish all the irrelevant things, and commit yourself to only activities that would make you great in life.