INSURGENCY: OUR INVOLVEMENT

The dimension the insurgency is taking in Nigeria is obviously out of the hand of the Leadership. There is no doubting the fact that there is no solution in view. Still the issue is expanding everyday. families are crying daily over loss of properties and lives of the loved ones. Then our insensibility is becoming thicker. The Leaders are busy with the second or third term when their performance d...oes not merit "repitetion" (or continuity they call it).

The Religious leaders are keeping mute. The religious worship centres are increasing but the moral values and the overall national prosperities are not achieved. I see war coming. I see those mega churches and mosques coming to ruins. I see the great business empires in shambles in no distant times. I see more havocs coming. I am a chronic optimist. I abhor pessimism. I have come to realise that optimisim is in actions and not in words. Until we collectively stand for revolution.

Until the church gets fully involved. Until the mosque gets positively involved (I don't want to take the BH for Muslims for now), until the problem in the North becomes the problem of everybody, we will keep counting the losses till the insurgency becomes a National comflageration. We should remember that we have such a large population that not a single country in Africa will be able to accommodate the Nigerian Refugees. The eralier the better.

Let the religious Worship Centres pray for the Nation rather than the inconsequential selfish prayers against the unseen and the unknown enemies. Let's stop condemning the zealous ones getting into politics. If the good ones are not involved what great expectation is it from the bad eggs?

Let the followership insist on the good leadership. Let's defend our votes with everything we have got. Let us all make peaceful demonstration against injustice in the land. Let the youths arise. The future of the country is in our hands.

I stand for revolution! Both Spiritual and physical but Non-violent!

GENERATE THE VISION

YOU CAN GENERATE THE VISION

The fundamental key to success is to set a vision/goals for yourself.  All successful individuals are intensely goal driven. They are very clear about what they want and will single-mindedly focus their energy on attaining it. You have the capacity through your natural potential to succeed beyond your Wildest dreams. The secret is to set specific goals to turn your beliefs, ideas, and visions into practical, applicable life strategies. The following knowledge systems will help you in generating your vision and in setting your goals.

Vision Generation starts from centering your great imagination on your God-given inborn ability to achieve any goal you could ever set for yourself. You can go as far as you can see, if you keep on with the wheel of goal setting. It is a science and an art. It is a science because it is reasonable and an art because it is consciously learnable. The major tool of the unstoppable people is constant goals setting. They know what they want in their lives, careers, marriages, finances for their children, community and nation and with goals settings they achieve desired goals with celerity beyond all mortal explanations. By implication, setting goals is natural, realization process of the set goal is celestial.

It will amount to exercise in immense usefulness, if the goals are set around those activities that give you sense of meaning and purpose in life. You probably know yourself more than anyone does. It might not necessarily be on your academic acumen, it might even be completely out of what you have gone to school to study. The most important thing is you derive greatest sense of satisfaction in those activities. You do them with ease, little effort or outrightly effortlessly. It might be singing, dancing, running, soccer, public speaking, farming, decoration, event management, emcee, counseling, writing, engineering, accounting, medicine and the list is endless. When you engage in the activities and people are irresistibly glued to you, everything swings into your favour, then, set your goals of greatness around them. They might be the solution that the people need. You have suddenly become a solution. You have shot yourself to the limelight.

Look at your personal and work life today. In what way has your creative thinking brought great profit to your work? If your degree of productive contribution has made you obviously indispensable at your work place, then it will be of a priceless value to expand this area. Think beyond the box. Think beyond being the best staff of the year. Think beyond interminable awards of excellence in that place. Set a goal of distinction for yourself. Try to move higher in that place. Do all that will be required to be at the pinnacle of your career. You might as well think that you have all it takes to give your entrepreneurial rationale a boom by becoming an employer rather than an employee.

Another important area of vision generation is to take cognizance of what discussion always takes your fancy. What do you always want to hear? What is it that puts you off? If you like discussing people, you are yet to start. If it is only events, well, you are just average. When it is idea you talk about, then you have a great mind. Check that positive idea as it keeps coming. If you don’t take a step, nature will not be aware or informed of where to come in. It doesn’t really matter the magnitude of the idea, just take the first step. Read more book about the idea. Identify people who have excelled in similar idea. Get more information. Do something today. What will you do to bring this idea to reality? Who will you meet? Carefully, contact the positive minded people. Resolve to be determined and resolute. Form goals around it and never trivialize the place of prayer.

Now, resourceful people are those that will develop a particular vision and be willing, by all means, to pay the price for the actualization of the vision. The goals you set will require you to pay some prices. It could be leaving your old association, it could be dropping some unhealthy and injurious habits, it could be some personal development via formal or informal trainings, it could be a change of location, it could be through some form of pain. Some price will have to be paid. Whoever that will eat the honey from the rock will not mind what happens to the mouth of the axe. No pain, no gain. Remember “if it is to be it is up to me”. You pay to go to school. The Jews paid to get to the promised land. Those who see you carrying your cross now will soon celebrate with you while you are wearing your crown.

You can now ask yourself, what action am I going to take having gone through this piece. Be honest in yourself and come up with something ingenious. Look at yourself and see the greatness you are endowed with. Say to yourself “No more time wasting”. In our next Edition we shall be looking at “Taking Charge of your Life”.