Saturday, 15 October 2016

10 WAYS TO DEVELOP AN UNSHAKABLE BELIEF IN YOURSELF

What does it mean to have an unshakable belief in yourself?

It means you choose to have a winning attitude. You force your mind to see the positive opportunity in every experience, negative or positive. As you look at your core beliefs about yourself, you will see those beliefs reflected back to you in every area of life from finances, reputation, success and love. People with an unshakable belief in who they are focus their minds on opportunities, the bigger
picture, patience, resilience, and achieving.
They strive to feel deeply happy and satisfied in their lives. People with
winning attitudes deeply believe everything they set their mind to is something they can achieve.

1. Think positive.
Each of us has the power to choose and to direct our thoughts in any direction we want. Thinking optimistically keeps life flowing forward in the direction of our thoughts because our actions naturally follow our thoughts. For positive thinking to work we cannot passively think and
expect miracles. We have to back our thinking with hard work, follow through and determination. We are all destined for success and can all get there if we believe we can. We have to put action behind our beliefs, and add a touch a patience to our perseverance. Many people become
impatient when their positive thinking doesn’t immediately manifest success. That is because positive thinking, not
backed by hard work, reduces positive thoughts to a wish.

2. Goal-digger.
To develop a winning attitude we must experience winning.
For this reason we need to create agendas backed by achievable goals set with target dates for their achievement.
My amazing business coach Dr. Dave White tells me we overestimate what we can achieve in a year, but largely
underestimate what we can achieve in five years. In our sessions we goal set, explore, plan and achieve something each week. Small achievable goals motivate and inspire us towards our larger goals. Each goal achieved builds confidence and makes the journey towards success
enjoyable.

3. Be a 'passionator'.
To be successful in all areas of life, we have to love what we do. Waking up to a career we feel no passion for will not
provide well for us emotionally, even if it provides for us financially. The growth we can experience, personally and financially will be limited when we feel we are just going through the motions to make money. The greatest successes love what they do, and know that what they do spans larger than their own self-interest. It is when we see that what we do makes a positive, and significant difference in the lives of others that we most want to jump out of bed in the morning.

4. Gracious.
When we live with grace instead of entitlement we do not expect anyone to do the hard work for us. We do all we can
to propel our success forward. We are not afraid of the hard work required of us to succeed. No one owes us anything.
There is nothing more career crushing than an entitled person. They are poor relationship builders, self-centered,
tend of bully and are some of the biggest complainers in the corporate world. We must have patience, be gracious, help
others, and ask for help when we need it. We must commit to working hard, being thankful and accepting that things
are often unfair. We accept if there are goals to be achieved,
we must depend upon ourselves to get them done.

5. Keep good company.
We are a direct reflection of the company we keep.
Emotions and attitudes are contagious. For this reason we should make it a point to avoid, or largely decrease, the
interactions we have with people who are jealous, overtly negative, defeatist or who gossip. We cannot get anywhere
when we carry this type of an emotional infection. We must fill our lives with people who are confident, supportive,
happy, optimistic, realistic, hardworking and motivated.
This type of energy propels our movement forward.

6. Grit.
Success is always about persistence, determination and the stubbornness to never give up. Setbacks and rejections are a part of any great endeavor, so we must stay driven and optimistic. Rejections and setbacks are what help us explore,
grow, solve our problems and increase our knowledge to do better going forward. When we have a winning attitude we
see that failures are opportunities, not insurmountable problems. They are springboards to further success
and direct us to the places where we need growth and reinvention.

7. Believe in yourself.
We have to focus on developing and working on our unique strengths in order to develop a strong belief in ourselves.
We have to step outside of what is familiar for the sole purpose of increasing our self-knowledge and personal development. There is not a perfect person out there, so we must remain humble and inspired to work on improving our shortcomings, while not punishing ourselves over them. We can learn ways to work with them, such as delegating out, rather than letting these aspects of ourselves bring us down
down. We have to faith in who we are.

8. Be inspired.
Read. All the great successes read. It’s amazing the type of inspiration that can come from reading about other inspiring people. We must spend our time with people who inspire us, and model what they do in their lives in our own
lives. Inspiration can be found from family members and loved ones. It is important to look for relationships which
inspire us to be better; seek out coaches, therapists and teachers. We can also find a deep sense of inspiration through helping and serving others.

9. Good health.
Being in excellent physical condition generates a tremendous amount of positive energy. We are a physical,
emotional, mental and spiritual being. If our physical body is not healthy it directly decreases our emotional, mental
and spiritual health. When we are physically active our bodies produce the feel good chemicals which effectively
medicate stress, anger or despair. For this reason we need to take care of our basic physical needs, not just because it is
the source of true wealth, but because it generates us to carry a positive vibe about us.

10. Social support.
We live up or down to the expectations and/or beliefs others hold of us. Those people who express their belief and faith
in us, our purpose and our agenda in this world serve to deeply motivate us to continue on our mission with a sense
of purpose and passion. The faith and belief to come from others, whether that be our manager, our family, friends,
our coach, or those we manage serve to keep us on our toes and move us deeply into our personal commitment to our
careers.
The stronger we gear our thoughts and actions towards success, the more quickly we develop it. It isn’t about pretending bad times don’t exist. It is about focusing our
minds on the opportunities which can come from our bad days. When we have an unshakable belief in ourselves
we posses a deep knowing that we have what it takes to overcome and continue to achieve. Once we achieve consistent positive beliefs in ourselves, our potential
exponentially increase. We learn that obstacles are the experiences we need to further train ourselves to grow, remain flexible and move forward with a deeper sense of knowledge. Winston Churchill said, “ The pessimist sees
difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.”

Passion and Reason

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
—Benjamin Franklin

Passion.
What a thing.
It’s that adrenaline pump that wakes you up in the middle of the night with a vast idea -- one that will be the next (insert
something big here). But here’s the catch: Passion also causes insomnia. It overrides your saner instincts. It is fully absorbing. Passion is chocolate cake: You can’t subsist on it alone. You have to know when to give passion a break.
You have to know when reason should step in.
I admit: I’m not very good at toggling between the two. I’m mostly stuck on passion -- speeding my motorcycle down a winding road, traveling until I’m run ragged, staying in an industry I adore (print magazines!) even as the rest of the
world tells me I’m nuts. As an entrepreneur, I know you’re with me: You, too, struggle to balance passion with reason.
After all, passion is what got you this far. Now we both have to figure out how to let our saner instincts in, too.
Passion slams the gas; reason steers us safely. Passion throws us out of an airplane; reason pulls the parachute
cord. Passion made you launch a business; reason, I suspect, made you pick up this magazine. And in this issue, you’ll find people attempting this balance in real time -- people who are fueled by their passions, who took gigantic risks
and now are making it work.

We do this issue every year. Truth be told, I cringe at our annual title: “Young Millionaires.” I love celebrating people
for their passions, and so the focus on money just feels...tacky. But you know what? It’s OK. It’s a catchy
phrase. (See how I’m embracing reason?) And these young entrepreneurs’ financial strength is only emblematic of their
larger success: They have passion and reason. The perfect package.

You’ll meet Connor Franta , a kid who quit college to pursue the insane dream of being a YouTube star and is now
plotting an even bigger move.
There’s David Choi, who poured all his money into a taco truck, and Tara Reed , who built an app without knowing how to code. And there’s more! The collective horsepower of the next generation of
entrepreneurs is always fascinating, and I know you’ll take inspiration no matter what age you are.
But we don’t want to forget the lessons only a seasoned and veteran entrepreneur can tell, which is why we also visit with Roxanne Thurman, the 66-year-old proprietress of Cry Baby Ranch , an iconic cowboy store in downtown Denver.
Her wisdom is not only ageless; it’s priceless.
Be inspired . Stay up late planning and plotting. And then, please, get some sleep. You need to be fresh tomorrow.

Friday, 10 June 2016

YOU MUST PAY THE PRIZE

Proverbs  24:30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;  24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.  24:33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  24:34 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

Nothing changes until we change it.
Nothing works until we work them.
Until a force is applied, an object will remain and continue if in motion in it's current position.
Many lives has been overtaken with thorns and nettles because of irresponsibility.
Many destinies has been broken down because of irresponsibility.
Many have left their field and vineyard unattended to.
Things slips away from the hands of sleepers.
To love sleep is to become like slippers- slippery. unstable and without fiction.
To fold your hands and do nothing is to be folded away in life.
Change is constant: Yes! but even change itself cannot change change. It must be anticipated for.
To lie down and resign to fate  a man had said, is madness.
And  like it's said, "only a madman can go to sleep with his roof on fire".
When the mountain is on fire, is not time to relax, is not time to sleep, is not time to accuse and blame, is not time to fold hands and complain and become confused. Is time to act. It's time to run.
To see a Lion coming and wait to see if she will eat you up is foolishness raise to power two because you won't live to tell the story.
Responsibility is the price for greatness.

How have you kept your vineyard and field?
That business, that office, that job, that idea, that dream, that marriage etc...how have you kept it. Have you allow thorns and nettles to overtake them.
Are you relax, waiting upon time or you are working with time?
Are you believing and hoping on God or are you accepting and sharing responsibility with God in accordance to His word?
Are you blaming the economy, the government and everyone around you or you are finding out ways and means to make it better so your economy and country can be better?
Wake up Nigerians. Wake up
Wake up great giant of Africa and lets roar and conquer.

If you don't make it work, who else will?
Lets arise and respond to the abilities God has deposited in us and we will experience the great manifestation of His power and grace.