All challenges should motivate you. When see other successful people don’t curse or hate them… thank God for showing you people to look up to, because he can do it for you. Always have the drive and hunger to accomplish your dreams and you will.
In order to succeed you need something that attracts you and/or something that pushes you. You see the “good life” and want the same to be part of your own life experience.
Know what you want. That something must be enough to light a fire inside you. This desire should be enough to drive you into not sparing any pains to achieving your success. If it’s something you love doing these “pains” won’t be too hard. See the next chapter on doing what you love. You will realize that great men of success saw their work as blessings rather than “hard labor.”
“Every opportunity is there for you, if you WANT it.”
“Nothing happens unless we dream first.”
“God gives opportunities, success depends upon the use made of them.”
“To live like a king you should work like a slave.”
“I want to the best ……… that the world has ever known.”
“There is never a money problem, only an idea problem.”
“ Money comes to me easily and frequently.”
“I have unlimited abundance.”
“I give and receive freely.”
“I always have an abundance of money to meet my needs and wants.”
Begin to expect great things, and as you do you will create your life in advance.
Expectations transform behavior into what’s required to achieve a desired goal. Look at a petulant to two-year old baby. It always expects to get its own way. It is willing to through itself to the ground even at the expense of bruises or a spanking- it doesn’t even know of these possible consequences. It knows what it wants and it goes after it. Period! Now I believe everyone whose reading this book is above two years of age (unless you are a really smart two year old!!). You are more mature in your approach to getting what you want. But whatever you want is your milk or fluffy toy. Whether its money, great relationships go after it with your all. If it’s really important you will do what it takes.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Simple and straight forward. What someone thinks about he does. The bible also says in Psalms 1 that the righteous are those meditate on God’s law continually. The successful people I have read about all have a passion for reading and watching other successful people. One of Tiger Woods secrets is to hang around other people of success because they understand what it takes to be excellent and they understand the pressures that come with it. So if you constantly think about how you can be a great husband, wife, son, daughter, or parent the actions will start to show.
Nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.
A man embarked on a long journey by foot to another part of town. As he passed the outskirts of the town he decided to go into one of the houses and ask for a cup of tea. He prayed in his heart, “Lord may you cause these people to be friendly to me and give me a cup of tea.” So he summed up the courage to go into the house and just before he had barely entered the house, a cup of tea was brought to him. He was offered a cup of tea before he asked for it. He thanked God in his heart for answering his prayer. Just before he got up to leave and carry on he’s journey, a lady also on a journey came into the same house. Just before she asked for anything, she got a pot full of tea and some muffins. The man became so disgruntled and grumbled to God in his heart saying, “ I only got a cup of tea and she gets a whole pot and some muffins.” But that was his prayer!! He had asked for only a cup and God had been faithful.
What are your biggest dreams that you are praying and believing for? Would they make you happy even if you saw others, who in the natural, seemed to be doing better than you?
I’m not saying compete with others I’m simply saying your dreams should be big enough to satisfy you.
Think of great things only. Aim to be the greatest human being. Achieve the highest success possible in your industry, or in your education. Whatever YOU want. Ask yourself what is it that you truly want, see it vividly and then pray for it. I promise you God hears and answers prayers. Prayers that come from the bottom of your heart especially, get the attention of God.
“If one is to justify the aura of greatness, he will have to compile a record that makes him stand out, one that will also make him vulnerable to attack.”
“The first and most important step towards success is the expectation that we can succeed.”
“He who expects nothing will receive it (nothing).”
The hero is the one with ideas.
The people who change football games or any other sport are those who instinctively get bold ideas and implement them on the pitch. The creative ones that find spaces were no one else does, who move like no other and dribble past people as if they weren’t there in the first place.
The successful people in business or any other profession are those who often do, “common things uncommonly well.” They are those who redefine how things “should” be done. They often do the right things in their own way. They are bold. They are industry shakers. They have a way of being that separates them from the rest.
See, the ability to be creative has generated some people billions of dollars. It can also happen for you. Enlarge your thinking, your vision, and your possibilities. There are many problems to solve in the world, and to be a solution finder you need treat your mind delicately. Watch what comes into it all the time. Make sure what comes in is consistent with your vision.
Come up with great ideas and you will be irreplaceable in any undertaking.
The battle for control and leadership of the world has always been waged most effectively at the idea level.
Before any war, there needs to be a tactic and strategies. Same thing before any sport’s match. Someone has to come up with ideas that will uproot the opposition. It first starts in the mind then it is implemented by the body of soldiers or players. The best are usually the most innovative and deal with the opposition. But mostly, the truly successful are those who know their best weapons, their strengths and apply them. To be truly successful you need to focus more on YOUR strengths than on the problems or opposition ahead of you. Your strengths will lead you to “scoring” your goals. Whatever goal you have.
It all starts with ideas. If you are there in the mind, then you will go there in the body.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men, than has been taken from the earth.
The mind is the greatest asset for a human being. Ages ago, the richest people had gold mines. Nowadays some of the richest don’t even know much about mining. The human mind is able to come up with new ways of sustaining itself. Pray to God for such wisdom and He will give you. Some people are rich because of ideas that just popped up in their heads. They just came. God just gave them. Now they are financially free. So simple yet that is the reality of some people. One characteristic about such people is that even before their million-dollar ideas they always imagined a better life. Living in a better neighborhood, a better car—being able to afford things without struggling. They prayed for that a better day. From this we can reasonably ascertain that their prayers direct and specific. Successful people pray for what they want exactly.
“Gold mines tap out. Stock markets crash. Real estate investments can go soar. But a human mind with the ability to think well is like a diamond mine that never runs out. It’s priceless.”
Being successful is simply a matter of making good choices by using our incredibly sophisticated brains.
Highly effective organ is our brain that it is able process different kinds of information at the same time. It’s able to remember all your childhood experiences and link them all to your current life. Now our brain is neutral in the sense that it works with the information it is given to work with. Many young people focus on many musicians, and they end up talking like them, walking dressing etc. The brain is a persons’ “director of the orchestra.”
This why it’s so brilliant!! You get to choose. If you know what you want and constantly think on it, you find information on it—if you focus on it then all your choices will be directly linked to what you want. I am talking about anything: being Christ like, having more money, being a better parent or child, ANYTHING. This is a fabulous organ that can bring you great success or great failure depending on what is fed in it.
People will never attain what they cannot see themselves doing.
“What you see is what you want. We are transformed by exposure. Send your words to where you want to go.”
If you think you can, then you can. If you think you can then you will see yourself doing it or living it. You will pray for it in faith. Your actions will correspond to the beat of that song; THEN very soon your thoughts will become reality. You had the thoughts now they have you.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
You may never be the president of your country, but you are the ruler of your own self.
You choose what experiences to have all the time. What affects your circumstances is not some outside influence; it’s you and the choices you make. You decide. God has graciously given us free will to be exercised. We are not robots. God is like a coach who tells us how to live abundantly and happily and we are the player. We go on the pitch without necessarily being controlled by the coach like we do on Playstation. We then decide to follow the coaches instructions or not.
We score the goals or shots, make the dribbles and tackles or blocks. We go to training, we are taught by our coach but we ultimately decide how to respond. We are the architect of our own lives. Don’t blame others for your life. It’s not in the events of your life, it’s your responses. Get it through your head then you will start making the choices that correspond to what it is you really want.
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