Success Stimulants

Image credit: geodavephotography.com Dreams are fabulous representative of our subconscious self. They reflect our perception and perspective about our goals and ambitions. However, most dreams get stuck in the conception stage. Most people find it difficult to put wheels on their goals to set it in motion and they end up rotten at inception. Some people dream and immediately pull the handbrake out of fear of the journey ahead. Be courageous and saddle up to bear every cross that might come with the materialisation of your dream. "“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreaming is a fantastic experience. It brings the hope of things to come coupled with ecstasy. Dreaming refreshes a tired soul and reignites a dampened goal. A dream is an underlying bedrock that supports the (slow/rapid) growth of a goal. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

image source: http://mer-cury.com I bless God for another opportunity to be able to do what I love doing best. I also want to say thank you for joining me today. In the past couple of weeks that I was away, I've been able to learn quite a lot which I would be sharing on this platform going forward - one of which the above subject is based on. November 2016, I was at an official gathering where the words 'Forging Ahead' directed the course of the programme.

Photo Credit: The Odyssey Online Happiness – a sacred word craved by so many, appears to be felt by a few.   A feeling that is everyone’s right but not everyone’s possession. A hidden gem with the potential to set lives aglow. Happiness is also an attitude. It is an algorithm that can only be encoded/decoded by qualified programmers. It is like a world, a huge universe ironically with few inhabitants. Happiness is a skill, only for the wise.

Sometimes last week around Ikeja GRA axis, I saw a guy with this inscription on his T-shirt ' Do not wait for your future, create it.'  The deep meaning of these words didn’t sink in and I casually waved it off. Recently, I had a chat with a friend and she shared a picture of a lovely painting of the popular Beauty and the Beast story with me. I was pretty astonished – not at the quality of the painting – but at the fact that she has so much talent than I knew. I have always known her flair for artworks – she’s also a budding poet! But I never thought she is that blessed. So I inquired of her, “What else do you do that I do not know of?” She replied, “I’m a jack of all trade and master of none”. Then I advised her to pick one of her supposed numerous talents and groom herself on it.   Her response threw me aback, “I need a sign, a writing in the cloud… a letter from the Pope.” Photo Credit: motivationgrid.com

The word priority is one not too strange to a common Nigerian man. It cuts across all age bracket and spheres of life. Safely used but poorly implemented. Why? Most people have failed to recognise true meaning of this word. We are going to play around the definition before going through its relevance to today's lesson.