Five(5) Tips On How To Nurture Your Dreams

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam — 'Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.'

However if we do not nurture them, they will die or fade into a figment in our imagination.

Our dreams are meant to be a driving force in our inside, driving us to arriving there in real life; but when this driving force parks up, stagnation becomes reality.

Success requires Consistency as a key ingredient. Consistency would be in place only when our dreams are fresh, cherished and strong in our minds.

1. Identify and avoid dream killers.

Know and refrain as much as possible from those around you that seems to one way or the other always suffocate your aspirations, as seen either by their comments or disposition.

They are no good to your dreams. Intelligently keep them away from your dreams, aspirations and plan if you cannot necessarily avoid them.

2. Accommodate opportunities that will take you closer into attaining your dreams.

Be objectively open to opportunities that present potential of drawing you closer to your dreams.

Do not shy away from them; weigh them, and if they are appropriate, in line and crucial, accepts them.

This opportunities will keep you motivated and serve as a source of great encouragement.

3. See setbacks, as unfortunate as they may seem, as a detour that will ultimately culminate into a vital path of the journey.

Setbacks may delay you, but they will always make you stronger and razor sharper.

You will always never see any good in setbacks at first, but I can assure you that there is a good in it; you will eventually recognize it in the long run.

4. Know the difference between Passion and Interest, and make your dreams your passion.

Five(5) Simple Reasons Why People Fail

The failures we encounter can be traced to five(5) simple root causes, but let me say a few things things first.

The fear of failing is rearly the reason for failing as mostly perceived.

This is true because for the most part we don't really fear failing, but what we do fear is whether or we have it in us to rise from a terrible fall.

We fear succeeding and not having what it takes to sustain it.

It is not the fear of failing that keeps us from trying, it is the fear of "am I good enough or deserving of this blessing or success."

The fear of failing is not the primary issue, it could be the fear of discovering or manifesting  a part of us we never knew existed before, on the road to success.

I am emphasizing on fear because for me, it is not among the five(5) primary reason people fail.

So, here are five(5) simple reasons people fail. People,

1. Underestimate their Strengths.

We fail because we are more conscious and confident about our weaknesses than our strengths. We know pound for pound all our area of weaknesses and how bad it looks, but we know or take to account little or nothing our strengths.

We will seldom succeed if we never come to Identify, Cultivate and Nurture on our strengths rather than on our weaknesses.

2. Underestimate the fruits of Hard Work and Diligence.

Hard work pays. Diligence elevates. Down playing on the importance of these, in building our core values could prove fatal to our success in life.

RULE OVER YOUR EMOTIONS||LEAD!

Permit me to tell you why emotions are such bad leaders but great followers.

Have you notice how things whined up badly when done out of some feeling or emotion(or spur of the moment of some sort), especially when done through any minimal contemplation of any kind?

Haven't you regretted afterwords, making an important life decision based on a whim? It is because emotions are such bad leaders.

Our emotions are not smart. Someone said "emotions are without brains". You need to give your emotions the passenger's seat not the driver's, or you will pay for it later.

Truly, our emotions are very very important, and we can accomplish much with them, only when wisdom is applied with it - this is where taking the lead comes in.

Emotions are like YO-YO's, they are these now and that immediately after, ever changing and for the majority of the time should not to be trusted.

For example, if you really want to get a job done, you will have to really dig your heels in and stick with it regardless off how you feel or don't feel. And when you stick with it long enough even though you started not feeling like doing any of it, you will realize that you emotions will catch up and become excited eventually; see, good followers.

HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR SEASON

Life is a collection of times and seasons. One will never catch a break from it - even that is time. As one is exiting from one season, he is entering into another;it is a continuous cycle. Think about it.

Crops for example have their different seasons with which they flourish. While some do well in this others don't and would do well at another.

Time makes up for seasons as seasons makes up life. How well you maximize time culminates into your seasons and consequently your life.

Time should be invested not spent. Why not pay now and play later rather than the contrary. The irony here is that in both ways there is a "paying" - you determine whether it is now or later.

The success of a season should not be measured by the level of productivity. You might be in a season  where everything is working well and as planned, enjoy it. If you are at a season things seems not to be going with the flow you envisaged, don't get discouraged, resist the temptation to quit, rather make the most of what you have.

Like trees, you may thrive in some seasons and kind off go through the motions in others, but remember to make the must out of both, trees do.

The Power of Curiosity

Curiosity is Everything.

It is the mother of every invention that have come out of the minds of men and women since the beginning of their time.

Curiosity is the key that unlocks the innovations and ideas locked in the heart of men or women.

If you will master it, curiosity is a game changer. It has the power to change the very things you thought impossible to ever experience change.

Here are a few things about curiosity.

1. Whatever you focus on explodes. It multiplies beyond your wildest imagination. Could it be that you are not getting anything out of life because you are not curious enough, because you have not beamed your flash light of curiosity upon it?

Stay True to Your Path

Do you want to be a total master at what you are doing or be at the very echelon? Get in to you path and stay there.

One of the greatest temptation you will ever face and continue to face as a person, is the temptation of doing whatever is working for the next person or happens to be in trend.

This is a true temptation because, you may be going through your own process and become weary of it by the reason of it's seemingly slow pace as compared with the pace of the other person.

It will be good to note at this point that that person you are admiring his prosperity may have gone through his own process behind the blinds and is now reaping the fruit. So you see him now and starts dreaming of becoming as successful, not considering the fact that he stood in his path.

Another valid temptation is the temptation of trying to cut corners to getting faster to your envisioned destination.

Put in the effort now, do what you've got to do now, enjoy the process, stay in the path, don't try to rush things, rather allow things to flow naturally. In doing this you will grow as your enterprise in growing.

If you cut corners, you enterprise might grow, but you won't.

Here is wisdom,

Learning How to Leverage on Past Mistakes

Too much have been said about minimizing risk and avoiding mistakes so much so that it has become almost frightening to taking decisions about little issues.

In as much as learning how to minimize risk at any endeavor is imperative, becoming fearful about risks taking altogether will cause you more harm than the latter.

I think there is need to master the art of leveraging on our past mistakes and not only on how to minimize risks. I think this is a superior wisdom.

Anybody can minimize risk just by not taking any, which is very sad, but turning mistakes into milestones requires great understanding, and not everybody have that.

But you see no one is born with great understanding, it is learned by instruction, knowledge and counsel, which is what I am offering you.

It is foolish for one to be caught on the same net twice. Being taken by the same mistakes is never a good thing. For anything mistakes are to be avoided but when they come, which they will, you should learn how to receive instruction from it.

The only way for you to leverage from a bad situation is to learn from it. It is to receive instruction from it not just experience.

Here are some nuggets to consider:

• Experience gained from past mistakes may not necessarily stop you from making them again, but getting understanding by receiving instruction from the mistake will always keep you from making same mistakes.

• Learn not to focus on the things lost by the mistake but on the things you could still salvage from all of it, however how damaging the mistake may be. However severe the mistake you are making or have made may seem, there is still something there you could save, you just have to consider it deeply.

• You are never the real victim of your own mistakes, others are, so be less conscious about yourself in this case and think on how the mistake you have made or are making is affecting others. There is something about caring for others. There is something about putting the needs of others first. It brings wisdom needed for fixing fences. 

Now here are some ways on how to be instructed from past mistakes:

1. Consider the Patterns. There are always patterns that play themselves out in culminating into the mistake you made or are making now. Look for it and try to avoid it next time. You see, it is in identifying the pattern that you can circumvent it and keep it from repeating. Why because if you know the pattern from the previous and now see those patterns playing out again, you could quickly get out of it.
2. Consider the Counsels and your Choices. You must have received advice one way or the other before and during the time of the mistake. So consider them and try to reason why you took the path you took and why you ignored the advice that would had made the difference.

This look strenuous but this are what make wise people. The wise are those that have learned to receive instruction from all their past mistakes.

How To Retrain Your Mental Disposition

You mind thus far has been conditioned to working a certain way. It has learned how best it can process data and how best it can also dispose from it when called on.

Do you ever wonder why you make certain decisions under certain peculiar circumstances. Have you really studied yourself to see that you tend to doing certain things the same way, how that you come to certain conclusions almost without too much fore thought? Yes, this is your mental disposition - having proclivities of or the propensity to behaving a certain way.

You arrived here due to several number of factors all through your life.

Have you notice that you repeat your mistakes almost as if you were doing it on purpose or not willing to learn from past ones?

This is not entirely your fault, you have become conditioned this way. However there's hope!

Do you fancy living more deliberately, I mean being more in control, making more informed and wiser decisions?

Do you know that your mental disposition is so strong in how it influences other peoples first impression of you?

Do you see how it is very important to be more in control of your own mind, rather than allowing your sometimes untrustworthy subconscious, make critical but seemingly spontaneous decisions for you?

Can my own mind deceive me? Yes, constantly.

How To Realign Your Self Perception

Perception is everything. How you see yourself is of uttermost importance to how you turn out in life.

Often times we perceive others as something, while we see ourselves as nothing. You think they are just lucky or perhaps it is because of their personality.

The truth is that if you go closer to this ones you will discover that they are not superhuman either. You will realize that they are just ordinary people that refused to believe that they are ordinary.

They chose to believe that they are something while you chose to be believe that you are just one of many people that are out they. But you can't be more farther from the truth.

The truth is that you are special, but until you start believing it, you won't amount to much.

How you see yourself is the game changer. If you see yourself as rich, it is because you are rich, and no matter how contrary the current situation may look, you will eventually become how you see yourself. But if you see yourself as weak and poor, I can tell you with authority that you can't beat that.

Watch Over Your Thoughts, They Are Seeds.

Thoughts are seeds that grow into words, and words are fruits that nourishes or kills the hearer, of which you the speaker of it are chief(because your words affects firstly you, secondarily others ) and the seeds of the fruit of your words grows into your attitude, disposition and lifestyle.

Evidently you will always attract what you are constantly thinking about.

Thoughts are very powerful, it repels as well as it attracts.

Therefore if you are not seeing certain things in your life, I guarantee you that you can trace it back to your thought pattern; you must have been repelling it in your thoughts or are attracting other things that will naturally counter that thing you really want manifest.

Take for example your want increased finances, but you think all day about how impossible it is to meet the bills - maybe because of the economic crunch , trust me that kind of thought will only create a cloud of depression around you and consequently it will repel any form of financial increase, it will even repel promising relationships that might just carry you into a new level of financial overflow.

A lot have been said about thoughts, that it is almost becoming a cliche, but it doesn't take one bit any potency from it. Thoughts are powerful, they are a very potent force.

Now, what are seeds? From the physical point off view, seeds are very small in nature, but they carry within them the very potential of becoming a very large tree, and bringing forth fruits after their kind. Thoughts are the same way, they may look very insignificant, but they carry in them the very potential to make or mar you.

Strive Against Mediocrity

Excellence dwelling too long on the same spot will become mediocrity. By definition, mediocrity is excellence sticking its head in the euphoria and praise of yesterday, basking and wallowing in the mire of self effacing applause, forgetting that real excellence is in staying forever at prime's state.

Mediocrity is excellence on vacation for too long.

You have to be weary of dwelling on the same spot for too long however how dazzling it may appear or seem. You'll have to keep going up.

You see, it is not just in attaining excellence, cause anyone may do so, but it is in sustaining it that you will escape the the damp quarters of mediocrity avenue.

Sustaining excellence is not cheap, yet it is more expensive to maintain mediocre status, cause mediocrity will cost you in later years.

You must come to terms with the fact that in order to stay in excellence, in order to stay at the top of your game, you will have to strive against mediocrity every other day of your life.

You would strive against mediocrity by two major ways:

Find Yourself

In the world today it has become very easy to get lost and stuck in it's hustle and bustle. You actually don't have to try too hard to become carried about by the 'sleight of hand' of nothingness.

People now don't know how to even find themselves. They actually see themselves as 'among the number'. These ones can hardly believe that there is anything special about themselves.

It has become the norm to get lost in the flow of the hyper activity generated from some select quarters without genuine impact to life.

Nations are lost, social groups are chasing the winds, entrepreneurs making money off of others without foreseen satisfaction in sight. It has become a hopeless rat race.

Humanity have become lost. Who can save her? Who or what can bring her back in course? Who, if not the very ones that made a mess of it.

It will take people everywhere who have finally found themselves to make the giant strides needed. Have you found yourself?

Know What You Want

It is only in knowing what you want you can stand the chance of competing in life on equal plane with everyone else. Other than this, you are not even enlisted for the race to begin with (not even fit for the battle of life).

Do you really know what you want? If you were to be asked this simple but powerful question, "what do you want", will you have an answer? A simple answer also, or you would just mumble a lot of nothing ? Do you even know what it is that you want in life for yourself! Do you actually aspire to attain anything?

Have you considered that it is in knowing what you want that you will know what to pursue?

I have been where I didn't know what I wanted in life; it was terrible. It was just motion in the same spot; You know, oscillating is motion but no progress, so it is with living without knowing what you actually want.

You have to know what you want in every area of your life, in your relationships, in your finances (how much you want to be earning within such and such with planned or foreseen increase in the future), your health, your family, and so forth. Know in every area what you want so that you can pursue them.

The Change Long Overdue

Wisdom is in knowing when change is required, and having also the will to effect the change.

Change happens all around us. It affects everything and everywhere, owing to the fact that our world is bound and govern by it.

For something we have seen occur all through our lives, it is shocking how much energy we put into resisting it.

This should be a life lesson: if there is something you can do nothing about changing, use it to your advantage. Capitalize wholly on it.

Change is beautiful, if you can bring yourself to accepting and utilizing it.

Why not make that required change today.

You might be shocked at the tremendous increase a timely change would bring to your life.

How Do I Work it - working my vision into manifestation?

The difference between having a vision and seeing its fulfillment is also the difference between KNOWLEDGE and WISDOM.

What is knowledge? It is enlightenment. Knowledge is a vision, a revelation, an illumination. But for you to see vision manifest, it takes wisdom.

However, you don't get from knowledge into wisdom. You must need go through UNDERSTANDING.

So, what is understanding? It is perspective. It is the ability to see perspectives. It is the ability to comprehend knowledge gained and put them into perspective.

Understanding goes beyond knowledge. Knowledge might show you how to do a certain thing a number of ways, but understanding  will bring you into seeing which way is best among all the other ways knowledge had provided and it may also show you why it is the best way.

Understanding bridges knowledge to wisdom. Meta knowledge as in the above image may also be understanding.

What then is wisdom? It is the ability to use knowledge aright; The ability to put latent knowledge to work. Wisdom converts passive knowledge into active knowledge.

So for you to see your vision(which is knowledge) come to fruition, you must apply wisdom(which is the ability to give form to your vision).

Success is not in having a vision alone, it is in having the ability to WORK IT!

Knowledge may put you over, but wisdom takes you all the way to the blessed place - whatever that is for you.

Now, knowledge comes from gathering information, or having a revelation of information(vision).

Understanding comes from having perspective to what you have known - this can be achieved through comprehension. In other words, understanding is the ability to comprehend knowledge thereby gaining accurate perspective.

Wisdom can not be gained or learned, it could only be given. It could only be imparted. See how on this post.

So in working out your vision into manifestation, you need wisdom. Wisdom is the principal thing.

You have to insist on getting wisdom!

Salvaging an Already Hopeless Situation to Win

Are you stuck? Do everything around you seem to be crashing and coming at nothing? Do you feel like throwing the towel? Is that situation as hopeless as it could ever get?

Well good news! There is hope that hopes against hopelessness. It is one that can salvage an already hopeless situation.

Read this: A family moved into a new neighborhood along with Snow - Snow is the name of their dog. After the family settled in, Snow discovered an opening leading to the yard of the neighbors next door. Surely Snow went through that opening and found Bullet -
Bullet is a bigger dog that lives next door (a giant compared to Snow).

Well, Snow, after getting the beating of her life from Bullet ran back home, having patches all over. Surely, Snow went back in the next day and received even a more sorer bashing - Bullet handed it to her again, this time Snow almost lost an ear!

Snow went up there again the following day and the next and was destroyed by Bullet each time.

Riding on the Storm of Pressure

It is the internal pressure exerted on the inside of a balloon that eventually blows it up. It is also the external pressure exerted on an object that crushes it to smithereens.

Pressure can for sure wreck irreparable damages to things and beings alike.

But here is the thing, pressure is a force, either external or internal, but like all forces, pressure also can be used masterfully as a propellant by you for attaining increased productivity in any area.

You can put that pressure you might be filling right now to work. It can actually work for you as a servant into bringing out the best in you.

The pressure that is on to you right now can either be allowed by you to crush you or to carry you into a new level of increase.

The Necessities of Having the Right Convictions

Masterful men and women, champions; are people with firm convictions.

For you to be a man or woman given to a good cause and eventually see tremendous results; making an impact in society, you must be a person of conviction.

The difference between you and where you ought to be is in your convictions. Are you really persuaded about what you are persuaded about?

For you to be outstanding in life you have to be firm in your convictions and not just any conviction, the right convictions.

Having the right convictions for and about life is very crucial to your well being.

Here are the reasons you need to have the right convictions in your life in order to begin living the life.

Having the right convictions and sticking with them would:

1. Construct your path aright. Not only that, it will direct your steps also; propelling you to walk in them.
2. Empower and equip you with weapons of war to fight off life's challenges.
3. Open doors of opportunities and favor as people are seeking to initiate and cultivate relationships at all levels and sort with persons with the right convictions and persuasions.
4. Give your life meaning and purpose.

Here are why holding to the wrong convictions can be counter productive.

Living life with the wrong convictions would:

1. Carry you through life till the end only to realize you have missed it; running after things that was never the real prize to gain.
2. Hurt your relationships.
3. Means you are living a lie; an illusion.

Here are some wrong convictions.

1. My net worth will provide for me real fulfillment. So you go through life chasing after money and materialism.
2. I am the only one that care about me so I will put myself first in every thing. It is me and me alone.
3. Cultivating relationships and putting them first will make me weak.

The above makes for a compelling argument, the immense necessity of being a man or woman of conviction, to living a fulfilling life.

How To be a Man or Woman of Conviction

As a man or woman you have to have a firm conviction about what is true about your life or life in general.

For you to amount to anything in life your have to be fully given to a particular belief or opinion about any thing that means or will mean anything to you.

You are your convictions. What forms your beliefs directs your life.

You cannot act better than what you believe.

What you believe fashions your mentality, your mentality sponsors your actions and your action furnishes your life; because you are what you do.

Having the right convictions will be discussed in another post (please look out for it). This post is to reveal to you the importance of having a conviction and how to have or build it.

It is better to have a wrong conviction or persuasion about anything than not to have any at all. Because a person with a wrong conviction can be persuaded otherwise.

But a man without conviction is vulnerable to abuse; what's more, he will be tossed to and fro by every wind of deceit that will be presented to him or her.

Learn to be a Compelling Communicator

Words, they are the most powerful force on earth. Words have the ability to create and also destroy. Words formed the very fabric of society. They are more important than time, space and matter.

While it is true that we cannot turn the hands of time, we could redeem lost time by speaking simple words into the air or to the ears of an individual and a seemingly hopeless situation will turn on its head just like that.

Words can create both space and matter. Your words can give substance to things, things abstract, things imagined. Words do create space, it creates avenues for innovations and inventions.

Words can unite, words can dissemble.

Your words if fitly spoken together can create opportunities for you where there were none.

How not to Run Out of steam in Your Relationship

Many times we run out of steam in our relationships before it even begins.

Other times having built so much expectation for it, we fall flat on our faces when it finally does arrive.

Most of us dream of meeting "the one", "our soul mate" -  as it is known in many parlance, but when we finally do meet them, the relationship turns quickly into a boring, no fun, but drab affair.

So we are getting into relationships without optimism, waiting to fail and move on to the next. We do this not even realizing when we do it.

But what if you meet the right person for you, I mean, you would want to give it your best right?  So let me show you a few ways to keep that relationship from running out of steam.

Do You Have What It Takes To Do You?

There is something each and every one of us knows about ourselves that know one else does.

There is a path we know we must take, a path that would definitely sound or look stupid to others if we were to tell them about it.

It is often a lonely path. A not so popular direction.

It is a path when taken, would attract challenges, and this we know on the inside, and that is why it so scary for us to give ourselves totally to it.

It usually would require something masterful on our path.

So, do you have what it takes to do you? would you take that path?

This is what "the you in you" know to do, but will you go for it? Have you gotten what it takes to go for it?

You are a Product of Love

Men and women are  products of love, We may not realize it but everything every where reveal this to us.

Everything that happens and goes on around us reveals that we a people made by love and purposed to give love back.

Even at our lowest points as human beings there's always still a little glimmer of love.

But what was and still is our greatest undoing is that we try to attain this inherent trait in us; this thing deep down on the inside of us that we don't know how to even describe or prescribe, by going totally to the opposite direction.

In sincere search for this thing - which I call LOVE, we go ignorantly or blindly towards HATE instead.

The more we try to be who we could be and know we should, the more we watch ourselves consistently turn the other direction.

Mankind as we know it is constantly at the moment destroying it's inherent instincts; which is to GIVE LOVE BACK!

The Master Plan

Think of the Master Plan as the master's bedroom in your house, You know the master bedroom is the one room in the whole house where most of the decisions are made. It is where the man and his wife mostly conceive their children (not just physical children but also family goals, dreams and vision), it is where strategies are drawn out for family planning(birth control),budgeting and so on. It is also where they retreat to if there is need for strategy for whatever purpose

Master plan is the plan of all plans, the bedrock on which all other plan should stand on. It should be the road that all other roads leads to in terms of your plans for living the life you know you want and could have.

As long as your master plan is solid enough for you to fully become convinced about it, you will achieve whatever you set-up yourself for.

A master plan is the plan that should not crumble even when all else do.

Here is how a master plan looks like:

You see from the above diagrammatic illustration, as long as you stay true to your master plan, all your other plans will without fail come to fruition. You cannot afford to compromise your master plan. You will have to nurture it and retreat back to it time to time to constantly gain a sense of purpose.

Your master plan could also be seen as the plan that births your other plans (or the place where other plans are conceived like the master’s bedroom), so if the children (the other plans) are not doing well as they should, you have to work on your master plan – it could be either you have deviated from the master plan or it could be that it wasn’t a master plan to start with

Not all plans can fit for a master plan. 

For instance; going through or seeing yourself through College cannot possibly be a master plan cause after you’ve achieved it, then what? A master plan should be a plan that is dynamic; ever forward, and far reaching, a plan that seems to outdo even your greatest achievements. One that keeps you, ever inspired – like in the above illustration - “To be the best I know I can be”. It could be, “To be a symbol of integrity, to first my family, and secondarily to the world.”

If you haven’t got one, please do well to get one. It is called a plan it is not a motto; it means you will have to plan towards it and apply yourself to achieving it, and that where the other goals comes in. The other external circles (the other goals), will help you arrive at the main goal or master plan as we called it.

Get that plan and stay true to it.

The Power in Living Life Intentionally

Lets face it, most times we don't even have a clue were we're headed in our lives, careers or relationships and we find ourselves going through the motions - coasting through lie. However, it is harmful to just go through life one day at a time without being at least intentional with our lifestyle, choices and actions.

We may not know what next step to take in our lives, when to make some decisions that can take us to the next level, when to let go of some relationships, or when to stop certain lifestyle or habits that weigh us down evidently or elusive to us; However, amidst this, we have to be deliberate with our lives, styles or choices.

Being deliberate or intentional with our lives is a powerful tool to possess in our life journey.

YOU CAN BE YOURSELF ONLY FOR TOO LONG? Character transformation

It doesn't matter how hard you try, you can only be yourself only for too long. Your have to admit, positive change is comes very easy; it is the easiest thing in the world to encounter; to overcome that addiction, to cultivate those relationships, to become that person you know you are capable of being, I mean, name it. But you know this is not the case for all of us. We only see ourselves behaving as we should every now and then, not really having a grip of that person we know we are or should be or become.

There is a reason for this seeming difficulty to behaving in ways we know we should.

1. You see often times we try to make ourselves behave right by focusing rather on our weaknesses than on our strengths.
What you focus on, you give strength. The more you focus on your weaknesses the more you are giving it strength to rule over you.

You have to reconcile this. You have to stop energizing your shortcomings but rather focus on your good sides.

Mind Connections

A lot have been taught about the human mind, what it is, it's unique abilities, even it's location in the human anatomy. There is a lot of material out there if one where to carry out research along this line.

But allow me to introduce you to what I call "The Mind Connection". What it is, and how it applies to you.

Your mind is the seat of your consciousness. It is able to make sense of the information coming from your senses. Your brain receives data from your five senses (sight, auditory,smell, taste, feel ),processes it and passes it to the mind to make sense of it by either pondering, wondering or reasoning on the received data.

Mind Connection is the ability of the mind to make meaning or connections with seemingly unimportant information by linking it to an already acquired skill or a unique piece of memory stashed away in the memory bank, extracting or applying it to the situation at hand, creating a revelation.

Mind Without Borders

Do you want to discover what you were born to become or do? Do you want to soon meet you? It is very very easy. What is that one you will be doing if the possibility of failing is taking out - that one thing you will do if you are told you cannot fail in it (i.e 100% success guaranteed)?

You see, for some reason if the limits we have fashioned in our minds where to be taken off the sky will be our play ground. We will achieve everything we set to achieve.

Identify that one thing you would love doing, knowing that there is no possibility of failing, at all, in that one thing; then, take the borders off of your mind; allow your imagination to run loose;unleash it to the endless possibilities in the universe.

Now lets get serious. Do you know that you are the biggest and baddest enemy you will ever get to face in this life? yes YOU. I guess you already knew this, if yes, take it as a reaffirmation, if no, take it as a true reality of life (it will be a life saver).

Conform to Reform

Before any real reformation, there need be conformity of some sort. To reform is to first conform, so as to come up with strategy both timely and efficient for effecting the required positive change. You can't change a system for the better you haven't come to understand it's intricacies or tested first hand the frustrations existing with its current state.

There is only so much you can do for a system you understand little or nothing about, how much more, reform it. It is one thing to have a strong desire to effect a positive change, it is another thing entirely to know the how, where, and when; knowing this requires conformity of some sort on your part.

You Don't Have a Money Problem

You don't have a money problem, you have a manifestation problem. Money is not a means to an end neither is it an end; money is simply an avenue on which means ride-on to attain an end.

Money have no respect for persons, it does not select it's master but rather it is mastered by those who have manifested to their world. If you want to master money, manifest - your money is tied to your manifestation.

The manifestation of something is one of the different ways it can appear - as defined in Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary of English. The reason why crude oil is very lucrative as a business and a product of necessity today is because it could be refined (manifested) into different finished products. From it you could get fuel(PMS, Jet fuel), gas, motor oil, diesel et cetera. Do you notice from this example, that all refined form of crude oil seems to solve a class of problems; that is, to empower machines(be it cars, planes, cookers et cetera)? Even so your manifestation should be directed or channeled into one area or set of related areas, field or endeavor.

How do I manifest? You DISCOVER, ALIGN, then PRESS.

Taking Control of Subliminal Influences Over Your Unconscious

There are only a few things beyond our control, and what goes into our unconscious mind should not be one of them. According to Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary of English, Your unconscious is the part of your mind that contains feelings and ideas that you do not know about or cannot control.

If our unconscious contains this feelings and ideas we don't know about or could control, what put them there or how did there get there? Your unconscious mind wasn't a blank slate when you were birthed. There were behavioral patterns,cognitive feelings programmed in you, knitted in you in your mother's womb - this weren't things you picked up. For example you weren't taught to suck on your mama's breast, neither were you taught to cry when you felt pain or needed attention.

But you see, as we grew,  messages and external influences began to be communicated to our unconscious minds, this messages we could perceive or not perceive; subliminal messages and influences seemingly beyond our control. This is true to us when we were but children - as in that stage, virtually everything that crossed our paths we picked up - but should this be said or seen of us as mature adults? You could say well, if most of the messages getting to our unconscious are subliminal, isn't it beyond our reach to control? Well you are correct; I couldn't agree more, however lets reason further together.

You've Already Got It!

Knowledge acquired only polishes what you've already got on the inside of you - no matter the knowledge acquired in a certein area, if you haven't got it, you haven't got it.

So what have you got? Let me submit to you that on the inside of you lies treasures that your mind cannot possibly comprehend. You have more treasures on the inside of you than what money from the oil wells in the Middle East and in Nigeria can buy; you've got more treasure on the inside of you than the gold mines in South Africa and Ghana, more treasures than what the diamond mines in Zimbabwe could offer - YOU'VE ALREADY GOT IT.

There are solutions on the inside of you that can only come from you alone - no one could provide it but you. Contrary to popular believe, you were born into this world full with inherent abilities, but on the flip side most people go through their lives and finally to their graves without emptying themselves off the abilities put in them - meant really for the world to benefit from.

Get in Shape

I need your feedback on this if you will - I am putting up a three day challenge at the end of this write-up - you will do something simple that promises to bring tremendous success in your life (the change you want to see) - but first read through.

Have you ever noticed with yourself or in a particular situation were, for whatever reason you just knew what to do that particular time and it turned out that going through with it was the best thing you've done for yourself in a while? This is true for all of us.

There is something on the inside of you that have the solution to your situation. There is something you know deep down on the inside whether you realize it or not that can move you out from what present condition or challenge you are faced with right now; all you need is listen to that inner voice. You only have to give a little thought to your situation and you will receive instruction from the inside - kind of like a light lit up on the inside of you, signaling the way out.

Enlarge your Premise

Our premise; supposed to be the foundation on which we lay or anchor our dreams, aspirations and goals on. But it is amazing how shallow and narrowly scoped we make them . We can dream all we want, set the goals, but without the right premise or basis on which we are conceiving this dreams and setting the goals, we become tailored towards failing.

Imagine for a minute a young man meeting a young woman, had a couple of dates with her and decides to get married to her for a singular reason he could come up with, "I love the way she smiles". Smiling is good and all that but can that sustain a marriage? Here, smiling becomes a terrible premise on which one would hang his or her marriage on. what happens to the marriage if she loses her smile perhaps to life getting the best of her?

Who would want, if you knew, a five story building built on a two feet deep foundation even if it is going for a give away price? You probably wouldn't because it is only a matter of time before that building will collapse and come to it's ruin.

On the Horns of a Dilemma

Have you ever been faced with the situation where you were expected to choose between two different things or make a decision betwixt two and at every time it seems really difficult? Well, let me tell you a story.

Two kids were playing football(soccer) out on a field; both boys being the same age. The ball they had to play with got into the front yard of a senior citizen, he is Mr. Ben. Now Mr. Ben has got a heat sensory lawn sprinkler on his front yard which he uses as a private joke on trespassers - to get them all wet. Now both boys already aware of the consequence of going into yard where caught on the horns of a dilemma - whether to go get the ball and get wet in the process or to forebear.

Can you guess what they did?

A New Place

Are you in a new place in life, a juncture, a chapter, or a phase? I am talking about a place that will require a new level of challenge, a place that will require a new you, a better you at the matter of fact.

This place can be scary I agree; with so many "what ifs", so many uncertainties and unfamiliarity; but I tell you, you will never realize what stuff you are made of until you get here. You could either retreat into your comfort zone and continue to aim at nothing and never missing a single shot or you can take up this new challenge and experience a new you that was always there but never have been put to the test.