As the year draws to an end and we look forward to 2015, I know we are all looking forward to 2015 with hope of a bigger and better year. Truth is 2015 can be a bigger and better year but only if we treat 2015 better than we treat 2014. In life, the law of sowing and reaping applies to everything, what we invest into something will eventually be a reflection of what we gain of that thing. Life is not a magic show and nothing happens by chance and life is not a product of what will be will be.
As we look to 2015, I encourage everyone to treat their 2015 better, with a little bit more respect than they have treated their previous years, actually let me rephrase that, treat your life which is actually very precious with the very respect that your life deserves. One of the ways to do that is to have a vision for your 2015 by setting goals for it. God has always expected us to have a vision for our life, to set goals, that's why it is boldly written in the scriptures, that where there is no vision, the people perish. So in order not to perish in 2015, let us all set goals and have a vision for 2015. Perishing has nothing to do with physical death, but the mere fact that you wake up everyday aimlessly, without something you are actually working towards, then you are definitely what I like to call a living dead.
There are many reasons we all do not like to set goals. Let's look at a few of them;
1. We do not know how - some people find it hard to set goals and it is mainly because a lot of times we are overthinking what we want to achieve or sometimes overreaching. The easiest way to do it is to look at every aspect of your life and first write down where you want to be in 2015 and then begin to put a timeline around it and write down what you need to do to achieve that goal. This would help break your goals into short, medium and long term goals. If you still find yourself struggling on setting your goals, then find someone who can help.
2. We are afraid we might not achieve them - some of us do not like to set goals because we feel at
the end of the day these goals would not be achieved by us and we do not like the feeling of not being able to achieve. I can totally relate to that feeling, I have actually refused to start a project because I already have that feeling of failure from the beginning but personally I've learnt that what I feel for not even starting the project is worse than how I feel if I start and fail. It's like saying today, I won't get out of bed because I'm afraid I might not be able to get through the day. By the time you do that everyday, you end up frustrated and depressed which is how many of us feel when we do not achieve our goals in life which is that perishing that God refers to. Whenever you find yourself being afraid, think into the future and imagine the joy you would feel when that goal is achieved and let that be your motivation. From reading about successful people, I've learnt that they always feared at some point that they might fail at their vision but today here we are reading and hearing about their achievements.
3. We are afraid of hardwork.... Uhm Mr. lazy - Some of us are just plain lazy because we know that
once we set a goal and we are bound by it especially if we shared the goal or vision with someone else, we become accountable to fulfilling it. Fulfilling it requires hardwork, perseverance, staying with it through the hurdles, the road blocks, the ups, the downs, the failures, the rejections, the mockers and all these could be hard to deal with. It would take its toil on us, it would require us to keep going even when we don't feel like. So we decide, life is not that hard, why kill ourselves right!!!!!. Lazy people achieve nothing and the bible calls them wasters.
4. We like where we are..... Mr. Complacent - Some of us do not set goals because we compare ourselves to others and somehow get it into our heads that we are better than the next person and become comfortable with where we are and therefore choose to remain in one spot. It is not natural. Nothing remains in one spot, anything that remains stationary eventually begins to rot, degrade, wither or die. If you leave food in a place without touching it, it eventually perishes, stationary poles after a while begin to rust. Think of anything that remains in a spot and begin to watch it daily and see what eventually happens to it. Mr. Complacent would eventually perish after a while.
5. We believe we do not have to set goals to succeed.... Uhm Mr. Arrogant - I've met people who tell me they just achieve, they don't set goals. Oh well what can I say but never leave your life to chance because someone else would set goals for your life if you don't. Your life belongs to God and you and not chance, luck or other people.
No matter where we find ourselves in the categories above, it is better to set goals than not to. We all like to pray that our paths would shine brigher an brighter, well stop praying, start acting in accordance with God's word or rather start doing works and faith by setting goals and having a vision for your life to avoid perishing in 2015.
I leave you with this quote, " There is only one pitfall and that pitfall is FAILURE in life. One can argue that you could still get away by living an ordinary, normal, mediocre life but an ordinary, normal , mediocre life is still a life of FAILURE and an insult to the ONE who created us all and blessed us with this precious gift of life".
If you need help in setting and working towards your goals in 2015, feel free to reach out to the LGP team.
Thursday 11 December 2014
Sunday 23 November 2014
HELP!!! I'm overwhelmed
The past few weeks have been very busy for me, filled with deadlines, goals to achieve, projects to complete amongst other day to day commitments and I actually began to feel very tired and overwhelmed. I am always on the go and a lot of times I find it very difficult to just relax, rest and just not do anything.
Every now and then I get the opportunity to drop off my three year old at school. we normally have to get the train and somehow we both enjoy the train ride because we get time to gist. I ask her about school and her friends and generally what's going on with her. All the fun normally stops when we get off the train and we have to walk down to her school. For her, all she wants to do is stop along the way, pick flowers, smell the flowers, admire the nicely cut grass in the beautiful suburb area that her school is situated in. While, for me I am thinking of the next train I need to catch to be able to make my early morning meetings.
I missed my train on one faithful day and I was really upset with her and I was so frustrated. Waiting on that platform, I was so furious with her for wasting my time. When I eventually got on the train, me being me, I began to think and plan my day ahead. Anyone that knows me would testify to the fact that somehow my brain is always in gear and all of a sudden, it dawned on me that I could actually learn from a three year old and that there was more to life than just being on the go all the time and the reason I sometimes feel overwhelmed and frustrated is because somehow I am always on the go, once I achieve one thing, I am straight away onto the next achievement or the next goal. I began to think about how she stopped and took time to admire the beauty of nature, the beauty of her surroundings and it began to dawn on me that because we are so busy, a lot of us miss out on the beautiful things around us. It began to dawn on me that the two only time I STOP to SMELL THE ROSES is when I am so tired and in that overwhelming state.
The key thing when you find yourself in that overwhelming state is to stop and take a step back and go to that place that calms you, that place that gives you joy, that place that makes you so happy that makes everything else seem inconsequential
For me music has always been my thing, it does not matter how frustrated or overwhelmed I am, music has always been the one thing that calms me. Put me in a room by myself till Kingdom comes, as long as I have music, as long as I can worship God in song, that overwhelming feeling begins to fade away. So I've learnt to always go back to my calm place when I begin to feel overwhelmed. So
whenever I feel overwhelmed, I simply just STOP, and let everything be for a while, one thing I have learnt for sure is that the world will not end just because I STOP, but if I'm not careful I might just STOP if i don't STOP and SMELL THE ROSES when I begin to feel overwhelmed and frustrated. As I write this, the scripture " when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I" actually makes perfect sense - Psalm 61:2.
Everyone needs to find that SMELL THE ROSES thing or place, for some of you its reading a novel, for some it's watching movies, for some it's playing games, for some it's hanging out with friends, for some it's simply just doing nothing. The important thing is to find that thing or place that works or helps to calm you when you find yourself being overwhelmed or stressed out.
Feeling overwhelmed or stressed is nature's way of telling you, you need to slow down or re - prioritise your goals or deadlines or simply what you need to feel to be able to make a necessary change in life.
When I am able to achieve that calm state after being overwhelmed, then I sit down and reassess my goals and priorities and most time I have a clearer picture of what I need to do to get to my destination.
Every now and then I get the opportunity to drop off my three year old at school. we normally have to get the train and somehow we both enjoy the train ride because we get time to gist. I ask her about school and her friends and generally what's going on with her. All the fun normally stops when we get off the train and we have to walk down to her school. For her, all she wants to do is stop along the way, pick flowers, smell the flowers, admire the nicely cut grass in the beautiful suburb area that her school is situated in. While, for me I am thinking of the next train I need to catch to be able to make my early morning meetings.
I missed my train on one faithful day and I was really upset with her and I was so frustrated. Waiting on that platform, I was so furious with her for wasting my time. When I eventually got on the train, me being me, I began to think and plan my day ahead. Anyone that knows me would testify to the fact that somehow my brain is always in gear and all of a sudden, it dawned on me that I could actually learn from a three year old and that there was more to life than just being on the go all the time and the reason I sometimes feel overwhelmed and frustrated is because somehow I am always on the go, once I achieve one thing, I am straight away onto the next achievement or the next goal. I began to think about how she stopped and took time to admire the beauty of nature, the beauty of her surroundings and it began to dawn on me that because we are so busy, a lot of us miss out on the beautiful things around us. It began to dawn on me that the two only time I STOP to SMELL THE ROSES is when I am so tired and in that overwhelming state.
The key thing when you find yourself in that overwhelming state is to stop and take a step back and go to that place that calms you, that place that gives you joy, that place that makes you so happy that makes everything else seem inconsequential
For me music has always been my thing, it does not matter how frustrated or overwhelmed I am, music has always been the one thing that calms me. Put me in a room by myself till Kingdom comes, as long as I have music, as long as I can worship God in song, that overwhelming feeling begins to fade away. So I've learnt to always go back to my calm place when I begin to feel overwhelmed. So
whenever I feel overwhelmed, I simply just STOP, and let everything be for a while, one thing I have learnt for sure is that the world will not end just because I STOP, but if I'm not careful I might just STOP if i don't STOP and SMELL THE ROSES when I begin to feel overwhelmed and frustrated. As I write this, the scripture " when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I" actually makes perfect sense - Psalm 61:2.
Everyone needs to find that SMELL THE ROSES thing or place, for some of you its reading a novel, for some it's watching movies, for some it's playing games, for some it's hanging out with friends, for some it's simply just doing nothing. The important thing is to find that thing or place that works or helps to calm you when you find yourself being overwhelmed or stressed out.
Feeling overwhelmed or stressed is nature's way of telling you, you need to slow down or re - prioritise your goals or deadlines or simply what you need to feel to be able to make a necessary change in life.
When I am able to achieve that calm state after being overwhelmed, then I sit down and reassess my goals and priorities and most time I have a clearer picture of what I need to do to get to my destination.
Sunday 9 November 2014
The Pitfall of New Year Resolutions
Its the middle of November and everyone around me is beginning to look forward to 2015 and the decisions they are going to make in 2015 that will make that spectacular difference to their life. Every time I hear people say that, anger always rises up on the inside of me and I actually think such people are crazy. I gave up on new year resolutions a long time ago, before you crucify me, let me tell you why.
I suppose the question you should ask yourself is, how many of those new year resolutions have you actually adhered to? I've known many people who have become very frustrated with themselves because of their inability to keep up with their new year resolutions and that many people includes me.
I've come to see a far more excellent way than making new year resolutions and I have been able to make greater success and progress in many areas of my life. The question I asked myself one day was why put off something that I can do in November and improve my life in November till January the following year, I said to myself- Dolapo, you must be a mad person to do that. So one of the keys to progress is not to procrastinate in any way shape or form. Do not put off something you can do today to tomorrow.
The second important key is how you see your definition of today, the way you view the dawn of every single day. I see the rising of every morning as a day full of 24 hours of open windows of opportunities to improve or achieve better success in one area of my life. For me every minute counts. I therefore see the 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds of the day as open windows of opportunities. The point therefore is to make a resolution every new day that you are blessed with that you will choose to make decisions that would positively improve your life and I can guarantee you, you will soon move from a mediocre life to a life filled with success.
One of the most important things I also learnt in changing the way I viewed everyday was the fact that every next second, minute, hour or day was an opportunity to work on the failures that the previous second, minute, hour or day has brought my way. In essence I had an opportunity to get up and work on my mistakes and failures quicker. Mentally, I was able to rise up from my failures faster than I would have in the past because I changed the way I think.
Give up on new year resolutions, begin to make new second, new minute, new hour and new day resolution, you just would experience greater and better successes.
The LGP team.
I suppose the question you should ask yourself is, how many of those new year resolutions have you actually adhered to? I've known many people who have become very frustrated with themselves because of their inability to keep up with their new year resolutions and that many people includes me.
I've come to see a far more excellent way than making new year resolutions and I have been able to make greater success and progress in many areas of my life. The question I asked myself one day was why put off something that I can do in November and improve my life in November till January the following year, I said to myself- Dolapo, you must be a mad person to do that. So one of the keys to progress is not to procrastinate in any way shape or form. Do not put off something you can do today to tomorrow.
The second important key is how you see your definition of today, the way you view the dawn of every single day. I see the rising of every morning as a day full of 24 hours of open windows of opportunities to improve or achieve better success in one area of my life. For me every minute counts. I therefore see the 1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds of the day as open windows of opportunities. The point therefore is to make a resolution every new day that you are blessed with that you will choose to make decisions that would positively improve your life and I can guarantee you, you will soon move from a mediocre life to a life filled with success.
One of the most important things I also learnt in changing the way I viewed everyday was the fact that every next second, minute, hour or day was an opportunity to work on the failures that the previous second, minute, hour or day has brought my way. In essence I had an opportunity to get up and work on my mistakes and failures quicker. Mentally, I was able to rise up from my failures faster than I would have in the past because I changed the way I think.
Give up on new year resolutions, begin to make new second, new minute, new hour and new day resolution, you just would experience greater and better successes.
The LGP team.
Sunday 26 October 2014
Breaking down your ultimate goal
Our goals and dreams always seem very big and the mere thought of fulfilling it can be very overwhelming most times. The problem is we always focus on the big picture, the final destination and tend to always forget about the journey.
Getting to that goal, dream, big picture is a process. The process is actually more important than the final big picture. The final big picture is as a result of the process. So what you put into the process determines how the end picture would be.
A lot of us get so frustrated on the way to fulfilling our dreams and the reason is because we are constantly focused on the final picture that we always seem too far from where the final picture is that we begin to feel like under achievers or failures that we get so frustrated and a lot of times we quit.
I studied Electronics and Computer Systems Engineering as a first degree in a top university in London. By the time I was in my final year, I knew without a shadow of doubt that I did not want to work as an Engineer. Problem was I kept saying to myself that I had a very strong analytical mind and was very intelligent, so I would have a very successful career but I knew I would be very frustrated. After a lot of searching myself and digging deep, I knew I wanted to work in finance. Uhmmmm, then came the dilemma, how do I achieve that dream.
I began to do my research, my guidance counsellor told that with an Engineering degree, I could go on to work in any field, which was very true. One of my options was to apply to any of the accounting firms but I knew I did not want to do Audit. The aspect of finance that I loved was using figures to explain the strategy of the company, or using numbers to analyse the success of a company.
I was so sure I did not want to go and do a masters especially because I had already abandoned a masters programme and mentally I was not prepared to quit at something else. So after much research, i decided to my professional exams in finance, but I decided to do CIMA as oppose to ACCA as I was not interested in audit. Deciding to do the exams was the easiest part of my journey.
The hardest part was finding an employer that would give me a job. It was difficult for employers to understand why I wanted to do such a change. A lot of recruitment agencies told me I was dreaming, told me I would be better off getting a job in IT or Engineering. There were days I came out of their offices and I would cry out of frustration or get so upset but I knew what I wanted to be and I kept pushing and knocking on doors in the face of rejections and discouragements and obstacles.
Today, all those seem like distant stories because I have become more than I ever dreamed that I wanted to be in my chosen field of finance because as I got to know more, my dreams got bigger and my visions got bigger and I aspired to achieve more, but I took it one day at a time and I broke my dream into little steps.
My steps were;
1. Apply to do my professional exams
2. Find a school to take my classes
3. Look for a job in finance to get experience
4. Draw up a career path, wanted to be a finance manager within four years, achieved it in less than that
5. Do more study- a masters degree which I have done.
Now I have attained a greater height in my career and I am living my career dream.
The key is to have a final destination in mind and break how to achieve it into smaller steps as little goals that need to be achieved and you would feel less overwhelmed and less frustrated.
The LGP Team
Getting to that goal, dream, big picture is a process. The process is actually more important than the final big picture. The final big picture is as a result of the process. So what you put into the process determines how the end picture would be.
A lot of us get so frustrated on the way to fulfilling our dreams and the reason is because we are constantly focused on the final picture that we always seem too far from where the final picture is that we begin to feel like under achievers or failures that we get so frustrated and a lot of times we quit.
I studied Electronics and Computer Systems Engineering as a first degree in a top university in London. By the time I was in my final year, I knew without a shadow of doubt that I did not want to work as an Engineer. Problem was I kept saying to myself that I had a very strong analytical mind and was very intelligent, so I would have a very successful career but I knew I would be very frustrated. After a lot of searching myself and digging deep, I knew I wanted to work in finance. Uhmmmm, then came the dilemma, how do I achieve that dream.
I began to do my research, my guidance counsellor told that with an Engineering degree, I could go on to work in any field, which was very true. One of my options was to apply to any of the accounting firms but I knew I did not want to do Audit. The aspect of finance that I loved was using figures to explain the strategy of the company, or using numbers to analyse the success of a company.
I was so sure I did not want to go and do a masters especially because I had already abandoned a masters programme and mentally I was not prepared to quit at something else. So after much research, i decided to my professional exams in finance, but I decided to do CIMA as oppose to ACCA as I was not interested in audit. Deciding to do the exams was the easiest part of my journey.
The hardest part was finding an employer that would give me a job. It was difficult for employers to understand why I wanted to do such a change. A lot of recruitment agencies told me I was dreaming, told me I would be better off getting a job in IT or Engineering. There were days I came out of their offices and I would cry out of frustration or get so upset but I knew what I wanted to be and I kept pushing and knocking on doors in the face of rejections and discouragements and obstacles.
Today, all those seem like distant stories because I have become more than I ever dreamed that I wanted to be in my chosen field of finance because as I got to know more, my dreams got bigger and my visions got bigger and I aspired to achieve more, but I took it one day at a time and I broke my dream into little steps.
My steps were;
1. Apply to do my professional exams
2. Find a school to take my classes
3. Look for a job in finance to get experience
4. Draw up a career path, wanted to be a finance manager within four years, achieved it in less than that
5. Do more study- a masters degree which I have done.
Now I have attained a greater height in my career and I am living my career dream.
The key is to have a final destination in mind and break how to achieve it into smaller steps as little goals that need to be achieved and you would feel less overwhelmed and less frustrated.
The LGP Team
Tuesday 7 October 2014
Determination! A key ingredient for success
I spent the last two weeks reading up on lives of successful people and the one they all had in common was their ability to press forward, to persevere no matter how many times they failed. Their ability to pick themselves up after every fall, get up and keep moving forward. The funny thing is unless you begin to read up on these guys, you never really learn about their constant struggles and failures, all we see are their constant successes and we think they must be more intelligent than us or they had it better in life or they never really failed at anything but the truth is they probably have more failures than you and I because they have tried at it more times than you and I have had the courage to try.
We all think Microsoft and Bill gates springs to mind and we say a man who has been successful in changing the face of computers but this was a man who dropped out of college to pursue a dream and who had every door closed in his face in the beginning when he was looking for funding and for someone to believe in his dream. I can imagine Bill Gates walking into a bank or into anyone's house to ask for funding, they would all be falling over to give him the money but alas fast forward now, Microsoft is one of the few companies with a very healthy cash flow on their balance sheets.
I was talking to a group of young people about the ingredients of success and I asked them who a successful person was and they mentioned Messi and Serena Williams.
Serena Williams as a Tennis player has a very successful career winning 18 grand slams and many other trophies. I've followed her career for a very long time, she had days where she was knocked out of tournaments in the very initial rounds. What did she do after every defeat, she learnt the lesson and came back out the next time fighting to win, that shows determination. Did she fail at that point, yes, did she pick herself up and keep pressing forward? Yes also.
I like to compare determination to two natural things in life. When you physically fall down , even though you get hurt, cut or bruise yourself, I am very sure you don't just stay there and never get up. No, you stand up and get treatment for your wound or you get someone to help you if you are unable to help yourself, somehow no matter what it takes, you get up after a fall because you need to get well. That is determination. The second thing I like to compare it to is a child learning to walk. I always watch them in awe because no matter how many times they fall, they cry sometimes but they get up and keep at it because they are determined to get to their destination, they are determined to learn how to walk.
Why am I saying all these, it pains me to see people who have the ability to succeed at something they have a passion for and quit at the first sign of an obstacle or decide of give up after a fall or even so many falls. The truth is for you to succeed you have to be determined to get u and continue on after every fall or failure. It is not okay to quit when things do not go your way or when it gets very rough, that is when you should pick yourself up even if it means getting help and press forward.
My primary school motto was perseverance and success- it made more sense to me as I got older. For every great success story, there are a series of failure stories behind it. No wonder the bible says a righteous man may fall seven time but...... When it comes to determination, my greatest hero is God, who after Man fell in the garden of Eden, He kept coming up with different ways to redeem man and was determined to save us His beloved creation and did not give up until He sacrificed His son, Jesus at the cross. Imagine if God had given up....food for thought. Jesus is another very powerful example who when faced with the cross even though at one point He prayed to God to let this cup pass over Him, still went to the cross because He was determined to save us, to fulfil His purpose. Imagine a world where His blood was not shed.
I leave you with this, find a successful person who you admire, search for information, their stories, their biographies and begin to read up and get behind the story of the person, I believe in there you will learn a bit about determination to succeed.
The LGP Team
We all think Microsoft and Bill gates springs to mind and we say a man who has been successful in changing the face of computers but this was a man who dropped out of college to pursue a dream and who had every door closed in his face in the beginning when he was looking for funding and for someone to believe in his dream. I can imagine Bill Gates walking into a bank or into anyone's house to ask for funding, they would all be falling over to give him the money but alas fast forward now, Microsoft is one of the few companies with a very healthy cash flow on their balance sheets.
I was talking to a group of young people about the ingredients of success and I asked them who a successful person was and they mentioned Messi and Serena Williams.
Serena Williams as a Tennis player has a very successful career winning 18 grand slams and many other trophies. I've followed her career for a very long time, she had days where she was knocked out of tournaments in the very initial rounds. What did she do after every defeat, she learnt the lesson and came back out the next time fighting to win, that shows determination. Did she fail at that point, yes, did she pick herself up and keep pressing forward? Yes also.
I like to compare determination to two natural things in life. When you physically fall down , even though you get hurt, cut or bruise yourself, I am very sure you don't just stay there and never get up. No, you stand up and get treatment for your wound or you get someone to help you if you are unable to help yourself, somehow no matter what it takes, you get up after a fall because you need to get well. That is determination. The second thing I like to compare it to is a child learning to walk. I always watch them in awe because no matter how many times they fall, they cry sometimes but they get up and keep at it because they are determined to get to their destination, they are determined to learn how to walk.
Why am I saying all these, it pains me to see people who have the ability to succeed at something they have a passion for and quit at the first sign of an obstacle or decide of give up after a fall or even so many falls. The truth is for you to succeed you have to be determined to get u and continue on after every fall or failure. It is not okay to quit when things do not go your way or when it gets very rough, that is when you should pick yourself up even if it means getting help and press forward.
My primary school motto was perseverance and success- it made more sense to me as I got older. For every great success story, there are a series of failure stories behind it. No wonder the bible says a righteous man may fall seven time but...... When it comes to determination, my greatest hero is God, who after Man fell in the garden of Eden, He kept coming up with different ways to redeem man and was determined to save us His beloved creation and did not give up until He sacrificed His son, Jesus at the cross. Imagine if God had given up....food for thought. Jesus is another very powerful example who when faced with the cross even though at one point He prayed to God to let this cup pass over Him, still went to the cross because He was determined to save us, to fulfil His purpose. Imagine a world where His blood was not shed.
I leave you with this, find a successful person who you admire, search for information, their stories, their biographies and begin to read up and get behind the story of the person, I believe in there you will learn a bit about determination to succeed.
The LGP Team
Monday 22 September 2014
It's time to graduate
We all have dreams and visions in life but the truth is only few of us actually get to live those dreams. It's funny how when we hear people talk about their unaccomplished dreams, we actually think that can never be us. Uhm...the sad truth is, that would be many of us in the next couple of years if care is not taken.
The easiest part of anyone's dreams is to sit down and talk about them. I find it's very easy to talk about what we want to achieve in life. Oh, do we love to hear the sound of our voices talking about where we see ourselves in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years and so on and so forth. The question however is, how many of us would actually take the next step; the next step being taking actual steps to realise those dreams. The hardest part of fulfilling any dream is putting in the hard work and commitment it takes to make those dreams a reality.
A lot of us have dreams and visions and we do not even know what it takes or what we need to do for those dreams to come to pass. A lot of us want to own businesses but we have never read a book on how to start a business, or books on running a successful business. We want to be an entrepreneur but you have never read a book on any successful entrepreneur. Uhm.....and you actually think you are serious about your dreams.
I was teaching a class of young people one day and I asked them what they wanted to become in life and they all started telling me how they saw themselves as doctors, lawyers, accountants and much more. I was like, waoh, good, you guys are so ambitious, I like that, then I asked my next question; what do you need to do to get there? What subjects do you need to study in school now? What grades do you need to get? What colleges offer those courses? What other alternative routes are available to you? How much time do you spend studying? Lets just say I was very disappointed at their responses. So I told them, their future might pass them by if they do not start actually working towards these dreams. It's okay to have dreams but it's far way better to work towards those dreams. I told them dreams do not materialise by accident, you have to be ready to put in the work. Dreams do not come to pass by magic. It is only a lazy person that sits down and hopes that his dreams would come to pass without him doing the work that is needed. The book of proverbs chapter 6 verse 6 says "Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe it's ways and become wise" which means if you do not work hard at your dreams, do not expect them to come to pass. I also love what the bible says in Proverbs 24 verse 33 - 34 " A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so shall thy poverty come as one that travellers; and thy want as an armed man". This basically means a lazy person would achieve nothing in life but poverty. Well, as the bible says, whatever you sow, you shall surely reap, I love that scripture because it applies to very aspect of our lives. If you do not read for an exam, you simply fail. If you do not take steps in actualising your dreams, it surely would not come to pass. So I leave you with this simple statement tonight, " Quit talking about your dreams, it's time to graduate to actually taking the required steps to fulfilling those dreams".
The easiest part of anyone's dreams is to sit down and talk about them. I find it's very easy to talk about what we want to achieve in life. Oh, do we love to hear the sound of our voices talking about where we see ourselves in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years and so on and so forth. The question however is, how many of us would actually take the next step; the next step being taking actual steps to realise those dreams. The hardest part of fulfilling any dream is putting in the hard work and commitment it takes to make those dreams a reality.
A lot of us have dreams and visions and we do not even know what it takes or what we need to do for those dreams to come to pass. A lot of us want to own businesses but we have never read a book on how to start a business, or books on running a successful business. We want to be an entrepreneur but you have never read a book on any successful entrepreneur. Uhm.....and you actually think you are serious about your dreams.
I was teaching a class of young people one day and I asked them what they wanted to become in life and they all started telling me how they saw themselves as doctors, lawyers, accountants and much more. I was like, waoh, good, you guys are so ambitious, I like that, then I asked my next question; what do you need to do to get there? What subjects do you need to study in school now? What grades do you need to get? What colleges offer those courses? What other alternative routes are available to you? How much time do you spend studying? Lets just say I was very disappointed at their responses. So I told them, their future might pass them by if they do not start actually working towards these dreams. It's okay to have dreams but it's far way better to work towards those dreams. I told them dreams do not materialise by accident, you have to be ready to put in the work. Dreams do not come to pass by magic. It is only a lazy person that sits down and hopes that his dreams would come to pass without him doing the work that is needed. The book of proverbs chapter 6 verse 6 says "Go to the ant, you lazy man! Observe it's ways and become wise" which means if you do not work hard at your dreams, do not expect them to come to pass. I also love what the bible says in Proverbs 24 verse 33 - 34 " A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so shall thy poverty come as one that travellers; and thy want as an armed man". This basically means a lazy person would achieve nothing in life but poverty. Well, as the bible says, whatever you sow, you shall surely reap, I love that scripture because it applies to very aspect of our lives. If you do not read for an exam, you simply fail. If you do not take steps in actualising your dreams, it surely would not come to pass. So I leave you with this simple statement tonight, " Quit talking about your dreams, it's time to graduate to actually taking the required steps to fulfilling those dreams".
Monday 15 September 2014
Knowledge is power
The one lesson I can boldly say that I have learnt as I work in various spheres of life, is the respect people who are experts in any field actually command.
When people want an opinion on any matter, they look for what we call a subject matter expert. For example, if I a pregnant woman needed information during pregnancy on matters concerning her pregnancy, she would seek out a gynaecologist. If you had problems with your car, you would not take it to a gynaecologist, you would take the car to mechanic. If you wanted to become a computer scientist, you would not go to college and enrol for Business and Finance. These examples are the simplest of examples. When you begin to dig deeper, people then begin to separate the wheat from the chaff. What do I mean by separating the wheat from the chaff? I mean people begin to separate mediocrity from excellence. If a lot of people had their way, they would go to the best school there is to study a particular course or would take their car to the best garage there is to make sure they were getting the best education there is or their car was getting the best service there was.
When you venture into the working world, you get paid for what you know. The amount you get paid should be synonymous to what you are worth. What you are worth is judged by what you know.
Truth about life is you can never really excel beyond your level of knowledge. The application of the knowledge you know births wisdom. This wisdom that you have is what helps you to be a problem solver.
When people begin to see that you have knowledge and wisdom, they would begin to sought after you thereby giving birth to power. All my life I have loved the scripture study to show thyself approved, I'll stop at the first line of that scripture. The same way victory as Christians would elude us if we do not study God's word is the same way when it comes to our chosen career paths in life, we would be without success if we do not begin to study to show ourselves approved in our chosen
fields. The anchor scripture in life that God gave me as a young Christian was wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting, get understanding. Honestly, this scripture did not make sense until I ventured into the corporate world and I began to be sought after because I always seem to have the answers because I applied myself to knowledge, to studying to show myself approved.
I recently read a book by Dale Carnegie titled the quick and easy way to effective speaking and one of the important keys he stated as being able to be a confident public speaker is having knowledge about the topic you want to speak about. You cannot confidently and effectively speak about a topic you know nothing about. This to me meant knowledge gives you power.
In life, you can not excel limitlessly if you are lazy about getting knowledge and wisdom, it applies both to spiritual things and natural things. So decide what side of the fence you want to be on. The sad thing I just realised is that those of us who are lazy in getting spiritual knowledge are also lazy acquiring physical knowledge.
Nobody pays for mediocrity, decide to live a limitless, excellent life today.
The LGP team.
Saturday 6 September 2014
You BE what you believe
All day today I could not shake of this statement. You BE what you believe. As I kep thinking about it, a lot of things kept playing through my head and I began to see that my life is actually a product of everything I have ever believed, both the negatives and the positives, uhm.....I am what I believed.
This statement actually made my soon to be two year old twin boys seem very fascinating to me this evening. As I watched them play, I saw two fearless, bold and confident toddlers that believed they could climb anything no matter how high or low and by the way that includes human beings. They will climb all over you to get to what or where they wanted to go without fear. The question, then occurred to me, when do kids loose the everything is possible attitude? As I watched them, I saw two people who did not think anything was impossible or out of their reach. It suddenly dawned on me that just as God said that unless we become as these little children, we shall not enter His kingdom, truth is that applies to His kingdom here on earth as well, if you want to enter into your promised land and be fruitful in life, you have to be like children, fearless and believing that all things are possible.
Funny enough, we all started out that way but somewhere along the line, LIFE happened and we began to allow circumstances dictate what we can achieve and for those who go about life fearlessly, we call them RISK TAKERS. Truth is fearlessness was what God had in mind when He said in Genesis that He had given us dominion. So people who fearlessly reach for their goals are not risk takers but are acting out the innate nature of having dominion.
As I pondered further, it struck me that it is easier to believe in negativity than in positivity. What negativity does is make you lazy. The fact that you believe it would not work out is enough to get your mind into the state of not wanting to bother trying and once your mind is in that state, your body begins to act that state out. Positivity on the other hand means you have to work hard and persevere but your mind has to believe that what you are reaching for is possible so your body would begin to act out your state of mind, suddenly the scripture Romans 12:2 springs to mind, we need to renew our minds to be able to reach for our goals.
I looked up the word BE in the dictionary. The word BE means to exist, occur, happen, materialise, arise, come about. They all point to the same thing, which is what we are.
Like I said, positivity is hard work but it is very possible. Have you ever wondered why anything you sincerely believe you can achieve eventually happens and anything you believe is out of reach always remains out of your reach. Truth is, if you really search yourself, you tend to apply yourself to things you believe you can achieve.
So I leave you with one challenge today, what is that one thing that you really want to achieve but somehow you have convinced yourself it is impossible, write that one thing down and begin to work on your mind first and come up with a plan on how to achieve that thing and trust God who says that with Him nothing is impossible to those who believe.
Come back and share your testimonials when you see results.
The LGP team.
This statement actually made my soon to be two year old twin boys seem very fascinating to me this evening. As I watched them play, I saw two fearless, bold and confident toddlers that believed they could climb anything no matter how high or low and by the way that includes human beings. They will climb all over you to get to what or where they wanted to go without fear. The question, then occurred to me, when do kids loose the everything is possible attitude? As I watched them, I saw two people who did not think anything was impossible or out of their reach. It suddenly dawned on me that just as God said that unless we become as these little children, we shall not enter His kingdom, truth is that applies to His kingdom here on earth as well, if you want to enter into your promised land and be fruitful in life, you have to be like children, fearless and believing that all things are possible.
Funny enough, we all started out that way but somewhere along the line, LIFE happened and we began to allow circumstances dictate what we can achieve and for those who go about life fearlessly, we call them RISK TAKERS. Truth is fearlessness was what God had in mind when He said in Genesis that He had given us dominion. So people who fearlessly reach for their goals are not risk takers but are acting out the innate nature of having dominion.
As I pondered further, it struck me that it is easier to believe in negativity than in positivity. What negativity does is make you lazy. The fact that you believe it would not work out is enough to get your mind into the state of not wanting to bother trying and once your mind is in that state, your body begins to act that state out. Positivity on the other hand means you have to work hard and persevere but your mind has to believe that what you are reaching for is possible so your body would begin to act out your state of mind, suddenly the scripture Romans 12:2 springs to mind, we need to renew our minds to be able to reach for our goals.
I looked up the word BE in the dictionary. The word BE means to exist, occur, happen, materialise, arise, come about. They all point to the same thing, which is what we are.
Like I said, positivity is hard work but it is very possible. Have you ever wondered why anything you sincerely believe you can achieve eventually happens and anything you believe is out of reach always remains out of your reach. Truth is, if you really search yourself, you tend to apply yourself to things you believe you can achieve.
So I leave you with one challenge today, what is that one thing that you really want to achieve but somehow you have convinced yourself it is impossible, write that one thing down and begin to work on your mind first and come up with a plan on how to achieve that thing and trust God who says that with Him nothing is impossible to those who believe.
Come back and share your testimonials when you see results.
The LGP team.
Friday 29 August 2014
The future starts now
It's funny how we all have dreams for our future, dreaming about what the future holds for us. We dream about that fantastic job we are going to get when we graduate, we dream about that fantastic car, that dream house...blah, blah, blah and the list is endless.
The one that gets me the most is when I hear young people swear they would have a better life than the lives all the adults around them have. It really makes me laugh. I'm sure you are all wondering what's funny. Well, well, the truth is most of these adults had the same dreams you are having now when they were your age. So you them have to ask the question, what happened to them, well the answer we all like to give is LIFE happened, well that there is the answer. If you believe LIFE happened then honestly if your life is mediocre, then it deserves to be because obviously you are one of those who does not take responsibility for your life.
Well, on the one hand, you are right, you should not take responsibility for your life, you should really put your life in God's hands and let Him be responsible but that does not mean you do not do your part. It's all about FAITH and WORKS.
Life does not just happen, your life today is a product of the decisions you made yesterday. Your FUTURE will be a product of the decisions you make today.
Every life of an adult you see today is a result of decisions they made yesterday. People complain and complain about where they are now, yet they do not make a decision to rectify where they will be tomorrow. If you say I hate my job today, what is stopping you from changing careers, oh you might say, well that would require me to go back to school for three years, well news flash, if you don't and you are still alive in three years time, you will still be here complaining. Why not do the right thing by going back to school and be somewhere better in three years. I hear you say, oh, you don't understand what I will have to give up, well, NO SACRIFICE NO GAIN. That's why God talked about counting the cost before embarking on building a house. But also remember, that the children of Israel spent 40 years complaining and the ones who left Eqypt never entered the promise land. Complaining gets you no where but death in the wilderness.
Where do you see yourself in the future or rather the question to ask yourself is what do I want my future to be? My advice is to sit down today, take out a pen and paper or your iPads, smart phones and write it down and then begin to take the right decisions that would get you there. No matter the cost, it will be worth it in your future. God was very clear when He said in the book of Habakkuk that we should write the vision, so that you would be able to run with it when you read it. As you write it down and trust God with it and begin to lean on God's understanding, He will direct your paths.
Quit complaining about where you are and begin to see the promised land in your future and start working towards it. As they say, the journey of a thousand years actually starts today.
I am really interested in working with anyone who is willing to take their life on as a project on a path to limitless success. Feel free to contact the LGP team.
The one that gets me the most is when I hear young people swear they would have a better life than the lives all the adults around them have. It really makes me laugh. I'm sure you are all wondering what's funny. Well, well, the truth is most of these adults had the same dreams you are having now when they were your age. So you them have to ask the question, what happened to them, well the answer we all like to give is LIFE happened, well that there is the answer. If you believe LIFE happened then honestly if your life is mediocre, then it deserves to be because obviously you are one of those who does not take responsibility for your life.
Well, on the one hand, you are right, you should not take responsibility for your life, you should really put your life in God's hands and let Him be responsible but that does not mean you do not do your part. It's all about FAITH and WORKS.
Life does not just happen, your life today is a product of the decisions you made yesterday. Your FUTURE will be a product of the decisions you make today.
Every life of an adult you see today is a result of decisions they made yesterday. People complain and complain about where they are now, yet they do not make a decision to rectify where they will be tomorrow. If you say I hate my job today, what is stopping you from changing careers, oh you might say, well that would require me to go back to school for three years, well news flash, if you don't and you are still alive in three years time, you will still be here complaining. Why not do the right thing by going back to school and be somewhere better in three years. I hear you say, oh, you don't understand what I will have to give up, well, NO SACRIFICE NO GAIN. That's why God talked about counting the cost before embarking on building a house. But also remember, that the children of Israel spent 40 years complaining and the ones who left Eqypt never entered the promise land. Complaining gets you no where but death in the wilderness.
Where do you see yourself in the future or rather the question to ask yourself is what do I want my future to be? My advice is to sit down today, take out a pen and paper or your iPads, smart phones and write it down and then begin to take the right decisions that would get you there. No matter the cost, it will be worth it in your future. God was very clear when He said in the book of Habakkuk that we should write the vision, so that you would be able to run with it when you read it. As you write it down and trust God with it and begin to lean on God's understanding, He will direct your paths.
Quit complaining about where you are and begin to see the promised land in your future and start working towards it. As they say, the journey of a thousand years actually starts today.
I am really interested in working with anyone who is willing to take their life on as a project on a path to limitless success. Feel free to contact the LGP team.
Sunday 24 August 2014
My Nature
I was thinking about nature today and then I started thinking about myself. Everything in nature that was created by God easily does what it was created to do. The sun shines brightly once it is out in the sky unless there is an overcast of clouds which in that case, the clouds are doing what they were created to do. Everything around us actually acts itself out, which means it does that which it was created to do.
Every product designer designs a product with a purpose in mind, the purpose of what that product is suppose to do. When you plug in a hoover, it cleans the floor, when you turn on a washing machine, it washes your clothes. When you go out in the rain without an umbrella, you expect to get wet.
When something does not do what it is supposed to do, we say it is damaged, for instance if we put dirty clothes in a washing machine and after we put it on and it goes through its full cycle but the clothes still come out dry and dirty, we say the washing machine is spoilt, it needs to be fixed.
If all of a sudden you come across a lion in the street and it runs towards you and wants to be cuddled, we would automatically say it is a freak of nature because it is out of character for a lion, needing a cuddle does not come naturally to a lion.
What am i getting at here, it is the question of nature!!! There is that thing that comes naturally to us as a human being, there is that gift in us or talent that comes to us naturally. That thing that we enjoy doing, that thing that is not a chore to us. That thing that we passionately love doing, that we would do and even if we don't get paid for it, we would still be happy and satisfied from the joy of just being able to do that thing, that thing is our natural gift, talent, the very thing we were created to be or do, that is our NATURE.
NATURE beautifies all that is around it, NATURE feels you with satisfaction, joy unspeakable.
I leave you with one question today, what is your NATURE? In the answer to that question lies your breakthrough.
Every product designer designs a product with a purpose in mind, the purpose of what that product is suppose to do. When you plug in a hoover, it cleans the floor, when you turn on a washing machine, it washes your clothes. When you go out in the rain without an umbrella, you expect to get wet.
When something does not do what it is supposed to do, we say it is damaged, for instance if we put dirty clothes in a washing machine and after we put it on and it goes through its full cycle but the clothes still come out dry and dirty, we say the washing machine is spoilt, it needs to be fixed.
If all of a sudden you come across a lion in the street and it runs towards you and wants to be cuddled, we would automatically say it is a freak of nature because it is out of character for a lion, needing a cuddle does not come naturally to a lion.
What am i getting at here, it is the question of nature!!! There is that thing that comes naturally to us as a human being, there is that gift in us or talent that comes to us naturally. That thing that we enjoy doing, that thing that is not a chore to us. That thing that we passionately love doing, that we would do and even if we don't get paid for it, we would still be happy and satisfied from the joy of just being able to do that thing, that thing is our natural gift, talent, the very thing we were created to be or do, that is our NATURE.
NATURE beautifies all that is around it, NATURE feels you with satisfaction, joy unspeakable.
I leave you with one question today, what is your NATURE? In the answer to that question lies your breakthrough.
Tuesday 12 August 2014
Do your research
It's funny how most times we make decisions in life that are important to us based on what people said. I have heard people say, oh it is very hard to get into a particular college or university or it is almost impossible to get into a particular career field or you can never make it in life if you choose to do something peculiar with your life. A lot of times, I always ask such people, why do they think so. It's funny that most times, the answers always start with someone said or I heard that........and this breaks my heart all the time.
This takes me back to the second post on this blog " building your road map". I always ask people what research have you personally done that influenced your decision, sad to say the answer is always none. So, let me get this straight, you want to make a decision that would affect YOUR life but YOU have done no research but YOU have concluded it is impossible then honestly YOU are setting YOURSELF up for either a life of failure or at least a mediocre life full of unhappiness.
One thing you need to bear in mind is the so called advisers after advising you are always off to meddle with someone else's life. You are always left to take RESPONSIBILITY for what happens in your life. Do not make decisions in your life based on someone else's mediocre thoughts, who by the way were not talking out of research they have done personally but probably based on what they've heard or their failures.
For any decision YOU want to make, come up with a road map. How do you come up with a road map? The answer is simple, RESEARCH! RESEARCH ! RESEARCH !
Based on your research, come up with a detailed plan on how to get from where you are to where you want to go and begin to work hard towards it. You might come across bumps, pot holes during the course of the journey on the roads, these are important to help build character in you. Every road to success is paved with pitfalls, but do not let these bumps, pit falls, road blocks or pot holes stop you. Use them as a stepping stone to getting to your destination.
Ask the right people questions, use the internet, social media.....anything at all at your disposal to do your RESEARCH
The LGP Team.
This takes me back to the second post on this blog " building your road map". I always ask people what research have you personally done that influenced your decision, sad to say the answer is always none. So, let me get this straight, you want to make a decision that would affect YOUR life but YOU have done no research but YOU have concluded it is impossible then honestly YOU are setting YOURSELF up for either a life of failure or at least a mediocre life full of unhappiness.
One thing you need to bear in mind is the so called advisers after advising you are always off to meddle with someone else's life. You are always left to take RESPONSIBILITY for what happens in your life. Do not make decisions in your life based on someone else's mediocre thoughts, who by the way were not talking out of research they have done personally but probably based on what they've heard or their failures.
For any decision YOU want to make, come up with a road map. How do you come up with a road map? The answer is simple, RESEARCH! RESEARCH ! RESEARCH !
Based on your research, come up with a detailed plan on how to get from where you are to where you want to go and begin to work hard towards it. You might come across bumps, pot holes during the course of the journey on the roads, these are important to help build character in you. Every road to success is paved with pitfalls, but do not let these bumps, pit falls, road blocks or pot holes stop you. Use them as a stepping stone to getting to your destination.
Ask the right people questions, use the internet, social media.....anything at all at your disposal to do your RESEARCH
The LGP Team.
Friday 8 August 2014
Who is to blame?
An important report had to be sent to somewhere very important. The report has been set up to automatically generate the information. The report gets sent in. A day later, it is discovered that the information that went in was not accurate. The blame game starts - the report that did not function as it was suppose to function or the person who sent the report in without analysing and checking the information contained in the report, uhmmmmm
I would really like your input and your thoughts on this.
I would really like your input and your thoughts on this.
Tuesday 5 August 2014
Build your road map
Every destination begins with a journey. At the beginning of a journey, the person embarking on the journey thinks and comes up with the best route to get to their destination. If we are embarking on a journey to a destination we are not familiar with, we either rely on google maps, AA route planner or we dig out the sat nav. Its funny how every smart phone has some sort of map or sat nav app built into it. In this day and age, only a silly person would embark on a journey without having a route plan or a sat nav that would take them to their destination. My question is then, why do we sometimes embark of different journeys in our lives without a road map, route planner or a sat nav.
A lot of us have so many dreams and goals and we have no plan on how to achieve them or rather we choose to keep working towards the goals without a clear picture on how to get there, walking blindly hoping we would somehow arrive there. Well, well, I hate to burst your bubble, YOU WILL GET LOST.
My first challenge for you is therefore to write your destination down, your destination being your dream, your ambition, your goal and then draw up a map on how to get there.
If you need help drawing up a map or planning a route, please feel free to ask us here.
Looking forward to helping you out
A lot of us have so many dreams and goals and we have no plan on how to achieve them or rather we choose to keep working towards the goals without a clear picture on how to get there, walking blindly hoping we would somehow arrive there. Well, well, I hate to burst your bubble, YOU WILL GET LOST.
My first challenge for you is therefore to write your destination down, your destination being your dream, your ambition, your goal and then draw up a map on how to get there.
If you need help drawing up a map or planning a route, please feel free to ask us here.
Looking forward to helping you out
Monday 4 August 2014
What's on your mind
Every thing in life is designed with a purpose in mind by the creator of the thing. This network was created to help people overcome their limitations. It was created to help people become successful in their chosen careers, help young people maximise their talents, their gifts.
For the network to be effective, we will need to answer real life situation questions. My dream is for every communication on this blog to be a step further in helping someone realise their goals in life.
Please send in your questions or thoughts no matter what it is.
Thanks
LGP Team
For the network to be effective, we will need to answer real life situation questions. My dream is for every communication on this blog to be a step further in helping someone realise their goals in life.
Please send in your questions or thoughts no matter what it is.
Thanks
LGP Team
Welcome
Welcome to Limitless Generation Project. I'm sure you are all wondering what the Limitless Generation is all about. This blog is borne out of my passion to see young people become everything they dream to become. I believe it is possible to be everything you have dreamed to be, no matter how hard it seems or how big the dream seems. I actually believe that a dream or vision has to be bigger than you to be called a dream or a vision. Whatever is easily achievable is definitely not a dream or a vision.
This blog aims to encourage young people to see beyond where they are and begin to see a place in the future where all their dreams are a reality.
The biggest problem we all have when it comes to realising our dreams are the power we attach to the things that we allow to hinder us - basically our LIMITATIONS. These limitations and how they can be overcome are the very reasons this blog was created.
I believe that not race, education, environment, parents, friends, background, religion or anything under the face of the earth can hinder us from achieving our dreams. The one thing I believe that hinders us is our MIND, basically we hinder ourselves by what we end up believing about the things we see as limitations. I am not saying these limitations do not exist, but I am saying these limitations can be overcome.
Please feel free to post questions and comments.
Once again, welcome to Limitless Generation Project and please spread the word.
Thanks
LGP Team
This blog aims to encourage young people to see beyond where they are and begin to see a place in the future where all their dreams are a reality.
The biggest problem we all have when it comes to realising our dreams are the power we attach to the things that we allow to hinder us - basically our LIMITATIONS. These limitations and how they can be overcome are the very reasons this blog was created.
I believe that not race, education, environment, parents, friends, background, religion or anything under the face of the earth can hinder us from achieving our dreams. The one thing I believe that hinders us is our MIND, basically we hinder ourselves by what we end up believing about the things we see as limitations. I am not saying these limitations do not exist, but I am saying these limitations can be overcome.
Please feel free to post questions and comments.
Once again, welcome to Limitless Generation Project and please spread the word.
Thanks
LGP Team
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