This articles are created in series, hence they are not to be read as stand alone artciles.
- Wake up early.
From the pages of biographies of great men, one thing is always recurrent-early rising, all the great men I have come across were early risers.
“a little sleep and a little slumber and poverty will bounce upon you like a bandit”- sacred thought.
The strain of modern life makes it difficult for us to achieve everything we set for within a 24hrs day this makes it very necessary for those hardworking people who want to excel to raise early enough to have a quiet time and plan their day to be sucessful. Mather Washington used to raise b4 4am and prepare for the day, Thomas Jefferson used to raise as early as three or four and he most times read for up to 15 hrs daily.
The benefit of raising early is that you will have the undistracted time to organise yourself and launch into a great day.
Close related to early rising is planning the next day before you go to sleep the previous day. This may seem too simple that you may be tempted to ignore it but it works, it makes your new day more sucexful and prepares you to face the events of the next day better. I do it most times and its excellent.
2-life is one long series of challenge, joy, triumph and sucess. Challenges come in different ways, failed expectation, unpaid bills, unmet goals, and many more. But the truth about life is that you can overcome it, you are strong, its not about what happens to us but how we react to those things that will determine our level of sucesss or failure.
3- How do you react to the vicissitudes of life, when you wake up in the morning, do you speak positive words to your day or do you move along with the tides of the day.
Life is an adventure you cannot afford to venture into with the physical eyes, if you must suceed then allow the genius in you to view life from its eyes of faith and watch as you work your own miracles. let me share a personal experience.
In my school days back in Enugu, during my 2nd year, i lived in monaque avenue close to merryland, this was a bit on the outskirt of town. Getting bike to school was “WEAC” sometimes you will stand for close to 30minutes before you see bike especially in the morning since in the morning, people don’t come back from school in the morning, only few bikes who come to drop people who went to other places or those who forgot something on their way to school are the bikes you will see in the morning and these number of incomers are few….not up to 20% of the people going to school. There is a track road to school but its long, about 30minutes work and if you do it by the time you get to school, you will be so tired you will lose concentration coupled with the fact that bad men may meet you on that track and collect your stuff. After a while of having to wait for bikes for long hours, it became a serious problem to me, even sometimes when you see a bike going to drop somebody and you ask him to carry you on his way out, he may carry another person and you lose out. one day during my contemplations, i boldly told myself that i will never stand and wait for bikes again, that whenever i want to go to school, i will see a bike as soon as i come down from the hostel. Now whenever am bathing or dressing up to go, i remind myself that am not going to wait for bike and like magic, from that day, whenever i come out i must see bike, sometimes some people will be out, standing for 10 to 15 min but i just come out and i see bike, they will be surprised how come. this continued for over 6 months. At a point i started asking myself if it was normal or natural that i got bikes everyday while others didnt get, within a short while i poisoned my optimism, after a while i started waiting for long before i saw bike, then after a while again, i asked myself why i poison my thinking, i re-ordered my thinking and got back on track.
There is power in your thought, whatsoever you think will come to pass if you don’t doubt it. The universe awaits your command, wake up and make your life easier with the keys at your fingertips.
“He can who thinks he can”- Napoleon Hills
4-“from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks”- sacred thought
From the abundance of the mind the life moves-unknown
The predominant thought in your mind creates a kind of forcefield around you. That field is what attracts whatever thought you have put into it. Rupert Seldrack call it morphogenetic field, the holy writ sums it up when it says “as a man thinks so he will be”
When you think negative it creates an aura of negativity around you and that effects everything you do.
Build your thoughts, they are the key to your sucex.
5- Positive mental attitude is not got just by reading a few lines like these,its an “excellent” attitude developed over time from repeated effort.
6-what do you think?
How was your month?
Any impact from these reading?
Any need to continue reading?
Is there any improvement in your optimism?
Have you chosen a good carrier that you will engage in throughout your life ?
7- Review your month.
This article is based on a series hence they are not to be read as stand alone articles, together they give the essence of the discuss.
“Let us make man in our image and let them have dominion over everything” -sacred thought
Strictly speaking you carry the sum total of paradise within you, it is in the image in you, the real you that is housed in the cloth of animal skin you wear. This imbues you with power to overcome every challenge that comes your way. The supreme power that strengthens you to transcend everything in creation both on earth and in the ideal world. Humans are the highest beings in the universe hence divine the divine energy animating us carries a double portion of greatness.
The greatest inventions, ideas and many others are all there within your noble mind……you only have to sit still and remember the divine energy animating you for it to flow properly and produce result.
Previously we have seen how knowledge equips us with responsibility, responsibility meant only for the strong and wise, the wise whose wisdom blossoms forth from a deeper understanding of his importance in the scheme of creation for the benefit of humanity.
As humans, our rudimentary or most important responsibility is the mastery and transformation of our little earth to a paradise to suit our noble aspiration as reflected in the saying
“thy will be done on earth as in heaven”
since men reside on earth and the divine host is in heaven.
Imagination then becomes an indispensable tool in the achievement of a great earth(as in heaven).
Everything you see today started as an idea, ideas formulated in the laboratory of noble minds, ideas developed by the sun of imagination and visulisation, ideas whose faith brought to life what was not but was capable of being brought to life.
your mind is like crude oil, when crude oil was discovered, initially it was only used for the production of minor stuff like kerozine, later research lead to the production of diesel, petrol, luricating oil and many more. Today we have multi product derived from crude oil. That’s how your mind is, if you go deeper, you discover more bounties(remember Napoleon Hill once said “more gold has been mined from the minds of men than from the earth”)
this month we are going to take a close at how you can develop your imagination to that point where the achievement of imagined secex and set target becomes easier for you to bring out, to bring out the kingdom within u for the benefit of mankind.
We will do some exercises which i advise you to take seriously……do them as they constitute the foundation of the self help growth which is the responsibility bestowed on you by virtue of reading these.
The benefit of these exercise is That within a while, you will begin to see life with the eyes of faith and not the physical eyes which gets daunted ,confused or diverted as a result of challenges on the path of growth. From the apex of your imagination/visualisation, you will see into mans future not because you are better than others but because you play a vital role in bringing about that great future as envisaged by all optimistic mind collectively and individually working for the greater good of mankind. Another important thing is that it becomes easier for you to blossom your nobility. We believe you can, we believe in you cos you have travelled far on the road of life and is equipped with the great truth of life such as the fact that your destiny is in your hands and since none but you can delay or deny your destiny, you are making effort to achieve you destiny.
So lets get started, buckle our shoes, sit tight, switch gears to cruise control, belt up and do our best………cheers.
Month aim
Develop your active/strong imagination.
Acquire the power to succeed against all odds.
Activate the greatness within.
Know and take the necessary mental effort needed for the actualisation of your best
Eleas Stanley