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”.