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”.

Youth Arise: BEGIN WITH VISION

Youth Arise: BEGIN WITH VISION: The Youths of today are said to be the Leaders of tomorrow. This statement has become a cliché as its validity is contentious in this kin...

BEGIN WITH VISION

The Youths of today are said to be the Leaders of tomorrow. This statement has become a cliché as its validity is contentious in this kind of a clime where they are being daily enlisted in all manners of criminal atrocities. It is rather unfortunate that vast majority of them are still in alarming obscurity – motion without movement and picture without a future. Some are literate but not educated, some are aristocratically brought up and academically brilliant but clueless as regards the situation bedeviling the society. The youths in any nation outnumber the population of the others. Whether it is a fact or not is left for us to decide through some recent statistical research. I will rather not want to inundate you with lengthy numerical conundrum. The undeniable verity is that majority of the youth in  the streets are visionless (not a fallacy of hasty generalization). They possess no magnitude or direction. Hence, they are, rather than a blessing, a threat to the peace and desired anticipation of the society at large.

There are, of course, a few of the youths that are visionary. Those living their lives with purpose, desire, decision, determination and discipline to follow through. They are infinitesimal in number, but such are being envied, frustrated, endangered and even killed by those visionless youths who have enthusiastically embraced mediocrity in polity, philosophy and religion. It is a paramount project to start calling several of them to come to terms with the awareness of the necessity for living a life of vision and living a life indeed. A man that is yet to realize the purpose for living is dead to all that make life worthy of living. He is a dangerous man!

What is Vision? It can be described as the faculty or state of being able to see ahead. It can also be the picture of the future. According to Christopher S. Penn,  “vision is being able to see where you’re going, to see what’s up the road ahead, in both literal and figurative senses. It’s being able to see the potholes before you drive the car into them, being able to skillfully navigate”. The problem facing most of the youths, to continue the car analogy, is that most of them are driving using the rear window to navigate. They are steering based on where they have been, and maybe, just maybe they catch a glimpse out the side windows for what is happening to them right now. They don’t know where they are driving, They can’t see the sharp turn in the road ahead, and they believe that past is prologue, that biography is destiny. Most important, vision is about knowing where they are going, so that they know if they are there, and even more vital, knowing if they are off course and not any closer to our goal. Now we see why we are where we are in macroscopic society.

The Holy Writ says “Where there is no vision, people perish”. Not only the visionless will perish, the innocent visionaries will also be part by ripple effect. The events leading to the reckless extermination and destruction of numerous souls and properties being endlessly witnessed in the North lay a whole lot of credence to this. Also written in the same Holy Writ is “where there is no vision people cast of restrain”. When people don’t know where they are going, anywhere is a destination. No picture for the future, thus, there is no future. The tomorrow is more dangerous than today when the youths are without goals. Tomorrow is a death zone, when the supposed leaders of tomorrow are not responsible. Ye! Woe betides the country whose youths are only seen as social miscreants, an instrument of sanguinary engagement and political thugery.

Bill Gate had a vision and he followed it through. Now everybody is identified with him. Eliot Mark Zuckerbag, the Chairman of Facebook, actualized his vision and we all ‘facebook’ (lazing away the time). Two young guys – Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D students at Stanford University in America came up with Google Inc. They devoted their thinking and time resourcefully to be a solution to their world. A lot of us know Google, but very few know the Brains behind it. David in the Bible became a visionary as a youth. Nigeria is being relentlessly castigated by the people that are responsible for her woes. Should we flood our thought with the better way to castigate or develop ideas that will right the wrong? The vision starts with us.

Let’s ponder over it, what is the reason for living? Ask yourself, what is in me? Why am I different from others succeeding? What is the difference between the achievers and non-achievers? Nothing moves until you move. The first step is to create a vision. The next edition  will dwell pertinently on vision generation.