Creed number 4- I am staring small- Israelmore Ayivor

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplished small tasks as if they were great and noble”- Helen Keller

Every great achiever had started with a humble beginning. No success had ever been acquired overnight. Great castles and big monuments we see today also started with a single block. “A journey of thousand miles” Lao Tzu said “must begin with a step”. It means that as an aspiring achiever, you “don’t wait for something bigger to occur. Start where you are, with what you have and that will always lead you into something greater”- Maryn Manin Morrisey

To some dreamers, the only obstacle that creates wide barriers between them and their future accomplishments is “how to start”. If you have a vision to accomplish, you have to bear it in mind that your vision will get processed into a product within a time interval before becoming a reality. Start small and improve on the little you do constantly and something great will come out that dream within a period interval.

You want to leave a mark on the earth, isn’t it? Then “take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step”. - Martin Luther King Jnr.

A packet of a ready product is made up of small pieces of the same brand. Success comes in the same way but not bundled in one pack. You receive a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow till you have accomplished everything you were sent for. Vince Van Gogh agreed with this by saying “great things are not done by impulse; but by a series of small things brought together”.

Anyone willing to have his purpose come to fulfillment needs something to spark himself to work; thus the spirit of “starting small”. Below are four (4) major keys you will need to unlock the gates and start small;

Desire:

“Desire is the starting point of all achievements; not a hope, not a wish; but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything”, said Napoleon Hill. Desire, also known as passion, is a strongly compelling emotion to do something. It is different from “like”. When you like something, you do it at the time the interest arrives but when you desire something, will are willing to do it with commitment! Passion is a drive or an enthusiasm that can carry you far to break every chain to do what you want. Desire could be profitable or unprofitable. An unprofitable desire is called “lust” which is not a virtue, but a vice.

Thought:

“First come the thoughts, then the organization of the thoughts into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning as you will observe, is in your imagination”- the words of Napoleon Hill. You can and must imagine a big dream, no controversy. However, your thoughts must tell you it is possible and this gives you the hope to start!

Courage:

Sarah Ban Breathnach said “Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let of the struggles and eager to learn through joy”. It takes courage to open a new set of pages in your life. Courage is an inward declaration of personal willingness to do something you have resolved to do. With courage, you shout and say “all is right, and I can do it now”! Once the thought is achievable, backed by desire, courage says “let’s go now!”

A step:

“A journey of thousand miles must begin with a step”, said by Lao Tzu. Without a step, your desire and your thoughts are wastes. Without a real step, you are like a well fuelled vehicle, sparked with exhaust coming out of the pipes and under the vehicle are four flat tyres. What can you go with those four flat tyres? You can’t go anywhere! You will only waste the fuel because if you say “I want to get a hell out of here”, the flat tyres will reply “We won’t allow that shit”. It does not matter the amount or type of fuel in the vehicle; the “leg” must be changed since they contribute the movement. With all set, “start small”.

These four keys above will enable you to “start small” and “start well”. However, you don’t remain as a “small starter”. Make use of available opportunities to grow with in time. This is how children do it; they first learn to sit, then they begin to crawl, improve by rising and later walking and eventually, they can run.

On the other side, you cannot be a good beginner if you do things that do not welcome success home. Below are four behaviours that keep others unable to start what they dream about.

Professional state desire:

Anyone with this desire wants to star big! He or she despises humble beginnings. It is good to dream big, as bigger as the blue ocean. But don’t forget that that blue ocean also started with a single drop of waters. It’s just like despising the size of a seed, meanwhile, it is that small seed that produces trees that bear fruits that contain seed that become trees that bears fruits that contain seeds that become trees that produce fruits that contain seed and so one seed becomes a very thick forest within a given period of time.

Alan Cohen advised; “don’t wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect”. Mark Victor Hansen agreed by adding; “don’t wait until everything is right. It will never be…get started now!” With each step, you take; you will grow stronger and stronger, skilled and more skilled, more and more self-confident, more and more successful.

Practicing excessively:

Most people think confidence lies in an excessive rehearsal. It’s true that man has to prepare, plan and practice before projecting his purposes. But a time must definitely arrive when man has to put an end to learning and rehearsal and start practicing what he spent time learning. Yes, “a time comes  when you need to stop  waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be”, said Bruce Springsteen. Marilyn Grey stressed on it; “life is not a dress rehearsal. Stop practicing what you are going to do and do it. In one bold stroke, you can transform today”. A little advice here; Get on board. There is an experience on the field of justification than on the camp of practicing.

Pronounced defeats:

It is common to hear that most people who remain aspiring achievers till their call bell to eternity rings have negative affirmations that they confirm on themselves. This is in a way seeming to be a launching of defeat against oneself and results from the fear of the future. Fear is a ghostly pit that contains hopeless bones of people who don’t dare to win. Don’t fall into it. Here are some three (3) common negative affirmations that “a tomorrow’s failure” will use to defeat himself;

1. 1.      I will do it next time: Today was the “next time” of yesterday and tomorrow will be the “next time” of today. You see, a person who said he will do something great tomorrow had probably said the same thing yesterday. Don’t allow your mouth to be fooled with procrastination. Stop it now and “start small” today.
2. 2.      I am not sure it will work: This is an announcement to the whole world that you are defeated in your own single-man battle; thus you battled alone, yet you couldn’t win, and so you were defeated. Imagine you being the only player on a football pitch and you predicted a defeat for yourself. A person with such a thought can never be a beginner.
3. 3.      People did better, what else can I do? : If you have this inferiority intensions, you can never begin because you see yourself in an athletic competition where people are about to cross the end-line and you are yet to join the race. Don’t judge your ambitions using someone’s potential. You have a potential, the weight of which is unique to you. Work within this gifted potential.

It is your time to shine and let the whole world glorify the father for a great deal of plans He set to work through you. Get started now!

Creed number 3- I won’t give up - Israelmore Ayivor

"If you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for long in the first place”- Anonymous

Monaliza once held a bunch of keys in her palm with the intension of opening a door. Unfortunately, she could not identify the particular key that would open that door. She tried the first key only to find out that it couldn’t fit into the key-hole. She tried the second which fitted alright but could not turn. She tried the third which also failed. After trying the first four keys out of the nine on the bunch only to discover their incompatibility with the key hole of the door, she turned her back to the door and departed. She couldn’t get access to the treasure she sought for again!

Have you ever experienced that before? What do you do if the first few keys failed you? Go on. There are more keys on the bunch. Try again and again to the last key. The last key on the bunch may be the one to unlock your door of opportunities.

Every achiever had faced challenges before. Whether you explore into the affairs of religion, politics, leadership, and even studentship, you will have your own respective share and peculiar versions of challenges. These challenges do nothing that trying to stop you from attaining an expected end. It takes a personal affirmation through a strong will to continue and reach the top without keeping long on the half-way!

Henry Ward Beecher led us to the fact when he confirmed the difference between perseverance and obstinacy. He said “the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that, one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t”. Both are important to an achiever. Perseverance says “I will endure to the end” and obstinacy adds “I won’t turn back; if you are on my way, you have only two options. Either you give me a way to pass or you remain and I will bore a hole through you and find my way”!

With a strong will not to quit, you say to your obstacles; “if I lose everything I have and I still get me, you are still in trouble because am coming back with full vim”. Perseverance according to Walter Elliot “is not a long race. It is rather many short races run one after the other”. Better to rest in between the short races of Elliot, and continue ever after, than to quit you “long race” you imagine lies ahead of you. Though you get tired the more you run, the more you run, the closer you get to your accomplishments. The nearer you are to success, the harder the journey becomes because more energy had been invested into the race already! Remember always that “perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did”, says Newt Gingrich.

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how closed they were to success when they gave up”- Thomas Edison

It is so futile and wasteful for one to give up when the time is almost up for him to celebrate his success. In life, when you feel like giving up, just remember why you held on for so long in the first place. “Winners”, Vince Lombardi said “are not quitters” and I am very sure that no quitter has ever won. Don’t be discouraged in anything because the last key among the bunch may be the one to unlock your door of opportunities.

When drops of rain quit falling, they cannot make holes in the rock. Persistence and endurance makes you leave impacts on earth. This is how Lucretius put it; “the drop of rain makes a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling”. How often have you tried stepping up against the challenges you encounter as barriers? How many holes so far have you created in those barriers to have your way out? It’s not too late!

It is real sometimes that the destination to success seems far, but a determined person would say although it seemed so, he is closer to it now that yesterday! On the way to discover your success treasures, you may open the door of opportunities with the last key on the bunch, only to find another door inside the opened door which also needs to be opened before you get your gifts and this can only be actualized with persistence. Never, “never give in, never, never never, in nothing; never give up in except to convictions of honour and good sense” – Winston Church Hill

You may ask “how does a person give up”? “Giving up” is different from “changing”. You need a mind change of method if your method only produces wrong results. It’s like using the wrong formula with the intent of getting a right answer which is highly impossible. “Change” is one of the beneficial opportunities “failure” can offer anyone. By changing your mind, you can tell yourself that you can try again using another approach. This is “change” not “giving up”. A person is said to give up when he stops doing what he was sent to do without marking the summit of it, as evidenced by unattained goals.

There are many factors that contribute to “giving up” on a dream. They are challenges that a determined aspiring achiever should bear in mind and overcome.

 The following are seven (7) main reasons why people become quitters;

 

Poor preparation:

A task poorly prepared for will only do the best that a lorry does when it is out of fuel. Or fair enough, a fuelled vehicle with the driver’s feet on the brake pads. A poorly prepared person is linked to the five (5) foolish virgins that the scripture talked about in Matthew 25 who were compelled to give up because of unpreparedness. To prepared means to set aside points, values, deadlines and clear lines of action as far as goals are concerned. A usual saying reads; “Prior preparation produces peak performance” and in the same vain we can say “proper preparation prevents poor performance”. Poor preparation leads to the following three (3) points;

1. 1.      Pointlessness: A person without a clear definition of goals and purpose will have no clear action to take.
2. 2.      Procrastination: A person who lacks preparation extends tasks into the future since he meets things that must but dealt with by well thought schedules.
3. 3.      Perplexed mood: Once with an undefined goal, one will be perplexed since he will not know of where to start and where to end.

In every pursuit, prepare before you set off since there is only a thin line that exists between success and failure. That thin line is “Preparation”.

 

Lack of determination:

“The main reason why most people fail is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go instead of how far they have come”- Anonymous. Looking at the journey ahead, people are likely to quit on comparing the number of potholes they jumped over to the number they need to jump over again! At a point, all unseen voices will mass up in one tune to tell you; “give up”! Beware of those voices because the same voices will tell you “thumb up” when you at last persist to triumph.

 

Inability to pay the cost:

Most people also quit because, they are unable to pay the cost of fulfilling their dreams and eventually, their purposes. Most of these people think success is as easy as a night dream. Sorry to say “success is not bagged on the silver platter”. Neither is it day dreamt. Rather, it is bargained for and worked for and paid for in the expected currency. You can’t be an achiever without determination, persistence, endurance and persistence. These qualities differentiate a dream worker from a mere dreamer.

 

Fear of competition:

Competition never kills because it has never killed anyone before. People are easily defeated when they see others doing what they can do in a far better way. They however reject all hopes that they can make it to that level. If you think like this, you will forever be a quitter. Start in a small way, but let the sky be below your limit.

 

Lack of Change:

To succeed, you need to switch onto a better attitude, a better value, a better relationship and better goals. Some people are willing to make indelible impacts in their fields of endeavor, but their current attitude cannot accommodate success. All they need is to reconstruct their parlous estates and they will welcome success in a ceremonial way. It’s only two things; either you change or you quit. “Decide what you want. Decide what you are willing to exchange for it” (HL Hunt). You don’t need money or meals to change yourself; “what is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself”, said Abraham Maslow.

 

A Search for pleasure:

It is unfortunate that people are more conscious of associating success with happiness. Happiness may be listed among the features of success anyway, but cannot be the success itself. In any case, over consciousness of pleasurable entertainments lead people into premature spendthrift folly and this leaves them broke. To them, all about success is “rise and chill”. People with this mental attitude only resort to withdrawal when things seem though!

 

Wrong definition of failure:

People who hold wrong perceptions about failure can never bear success badges on their chests. Dictionary defines failure as “lack of success” or “a person who is unsuccessful”, no controversy. That is from the dictionary anyway, but to great achievers, this definition is incomplete until you add words of hope to it and these words of hope make failure seem beneficial. To great achievers, failure is an opportunity, or a privilege, or a credit to really put you on course. Henry Ford proposed that “failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, and this time, more intelligently”.

The greatest concern of Abraham Lincoln about failure is “whether you are content with your failure?” This question will either make you to quit or to try again depending on the answer you would provide. Lincoln suggested “it is better to try and fail than not to try at all”. Winston Churchill agreed by declaring, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”. Dare to fail and you will succeed at the end of your trial.

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success”- Napoleon Hill

“Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything”- Marilyn Monroe

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed”- Theodore Roosevelt

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly”- Robert F. Kennedy

 

As an aspiring achiever, you need to have many dreams and “if one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those piece and begin again”, said Flavia Weedn.  Don’t listen to mockeries and insults from people. Their attitude shouldn’t make you to give up on your dreams. Rather mount the shoulders of giants and you will see farther than them!

When it seems all hopes are lost, you can still go. Franklin Roosevelt said “when you get to the end of the rope, tie a knot and hung on”. Get something to stick yourself to, the knot is enough. If you don’t stick or hung on something valuable, you can’t get there; “consider the postage stamp. Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there”, said Josh Billings.

Creed number 2. I will also be like them - Israelmore Ayivor

My eyes gripped a scene on the screen a while ago when I was watching a televised documentary. The documentary was about African culture and that episode revealed pictures about African rites somewhere in the western diaspora. The shot that brought my attention to this concept was the coverage of a cemetery ground featured in the documentary. I saw a sign post mounted beside the main entrance of the fenced graveyard and on it was written “we were once like you; you will also be like us”.

On the spot I became terrified as if the inscription was written by one of the inmates of those immovable tombs and was reading it to me in voice saying “we were once like you; you will also be like us”. It took me few hours to appreciate the faultlessness of the statement after reality dawned on me. I agreed and whispered to myself, “It is a fact”. One day soon to come, our fleshes will also find resting spaces under one of those compacted stony frames although that will never be our spirit’s home.

I agree will everyone who believes and affirms “no condition is permanent”. With time, everything will change.

“For everything that the future holds, one thing is certain; it will not be the same”- Alan More

In everyone’s life, it is certain that the future will never be the same! It will definitely change whether positively or negatively!

Your assignment on earth is just to envision the future to see its change as positive. A future well-planned is always bright!

“The quality of persons’ life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor”- Vince Lombardi.

As an aspiring achiever, you have celebrated achievers who were once like you, young and dreaming big. If you truly dream and stay committed to be a great achiever like they were, you must first acknowledge this fact that they were once like you! Once they were once like you, why won’t you also be like them one day? You can, and will definitely be like them! You can graduate to that peak of excellence even being more than they were! Always put this on your tongue and affirm it every day!

Briefly, you need what it took your predecessors to make it to those higher heights. Some of the qualities and attitudes they put up and that accounted for their success are listed below as “Five (5) qualities you need to be like them”

Consistent Commitment:

“Commitment unlocks the doors of imagination, allows visions and gives us the “right stuff” to turn our dreams into reality”, says James Womack (a great author). To be committed means “to be dedicated to a task or a purpose”. All great achievers, both living and gone, had in one way or the other stayed true to what they pursued and it was all success they accumulated at the end. You can also be like them! Why not?

In other to be like them, you must show commitment to what you do. Commitment is different from interest. When you have an interest, you do it only when circumstances permit. However when you are committed, nothing can stop you!

“It was character that got us out of bed; commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enables us to follow through”- Zig Ziglar (American motivational speaker and author).

You don’t have to waste your time jumping from one task to another if unnecessary. That is inconsistency! A rolling stone gathers no moss, and by often falling to the same spot, the rain drops make holes in the rock! Be committed; be consistent and you will definitely be like them!

Self-analysis:

Self-analysis or self-audit is a qualitative measure of regular personal assessment meant to identify any inclination or declination in personal exploits. By the attitude of self-analysis, a destined achiever or an aspiring achiever becomes aware of whether he/she is on track or wallowing in a pit of stagnation.

To audit yourself, order you conducts aright and watch yourself from the back to see how you are faring. You also ask questions about what you are doing and how you are doing it. Think about who you impress and why you impress that person. Through this you will discover the acts that add value to you and your accomplishments.

All achievers in one way or the other had encountered a tap on their respective shoulders through daily experiences that kept telling them to “get back on track”. They also had encouragements at certain times and rebukes from people who are truly responsible and offered them a mentoring directions. Rebukes made them realized that they were drifting and all they need to do is to re-align.

Carefully offer the opportunity to similar minded people to inform you about where you are heading towards and you will surely be there!

Constant improvement:

Decades ago, the Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) worked together to invent the first airplane which was made up of frames of metallic bars. Today, pictures of that first airplane do not look attractive in any way. Ask why and you will get the answer to be “improvement”. Today’s airplane is really different from the model invented initially and I believe if the first inventors are resurrected from the grave today to pilot today’s airplane, they might ask for some time to learn about it.

Why? It is because there were series of improvements and modifications on what was first developed and each attempt to modify the structure earns the machine more comfort.  Improvement is geared towards attaining excellence. It clearly tells us that a dream is not achieved overnight. You keep improving on upon what you dream about and work out the improvements with passion till the final product is ready to be celebrated with excellence.

If you dream about writing a book, believe it or not, you just don’t have it published on the following day. You need to draft, edit, re-edit, type… all these are meant and geared towards improving what you envision. Thus maybe you write one chapter per week or less and once committed, you will have the true version of your dream book.

As an aspiring achiever, set goals for yourself and every single step you take should shape your dream into its divine format! Take today as another day to add another block to the castle you envision!

“Repetition of the same thought or personal action develops into a habit when repeated frequently enough becomes an automatic reflex”- Norman Vincent Peale

Positive affirmations:

No great achiever had ever down-sized him or herself into a state of unworthiness. Take note; you can’t make any positive impact if you keep repeating it to yourself “I am a failure”. No. If you really want to dream and have your dreams established, you have to say positive things about yourself. Epitectus confirmed this by saying “first say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you do” and you will surely become the very person you dream to be.

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality”- Earl Nightingale

Buy books that inspire you positively. For instance, this book is mainly focused on putting positive affirmations on the tongues of all young dreamers. Join groups with positive themes and activities. Choose friends who instill positive behaviours into you!

Personal branding:

Do you know how those great achievers left their success footprints on earth? It was by how they branded themselves and you can also do the same and be like them! Branding of self has to do with adding a “specific” name tag to yourself and by that name tag, you are being marketed. Any one that sees that tag reflecting in you will proclaim “that is the person we were talking about”!

If you brand yourself as a “smoker”, everyone who heard about you and sees you for the first time may be inspecting you with glances to see if smokes are coming out of your nostrils even at the time that you are not smoking! What you say, how you said it and why you said it; what  you do, how you did it and why you did it; how you feel and how you react when you feel that way, all goes into branding you with a “peculiar” trade mark that tells the whole world who you are.

Creed number 1- "I have a big dream"- Israelmore Ayivor

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprint of your ultimate achievements”- Napoleon Hill

Years ago in a small kindergarten classroom where my mother taught, I happened to interact with some school kids who shared with me their ideas about their future careers. Some of them predicted they would be Presidents, Doctors, Lawyers and other reputable accomplishments when they grow up.

I was partly surprised and partly not surprised about their various affirmations. Partly not surprised because everyone needs to dream and so kids are no exceptions. I was however amazed to experience that the sizes of the dreams these children declared by their mouths were large and extra-large dreams. More gladly, none of them included negative endings into their lives by exclaiming unworthy statuses on themselves.

Let’s take a brief thought of what a dream is and why it is necessary to be developed. Many descriptions exist for the word “dream”. One of them tells us about the sequence of events we see occurring when we are deep asleep. Unfortunately, this concept is not about those night dreams in which we see fantastic things, then wake up to realize they never existed. Oxford dictionary of current English (3^rd Edition) defines a dream as “a long help ambition or wish” and that is what we are up to here. Dreams are thoughtful imaginations that set a floor for one’s destiny to be designed. Dreams pinpoint how things should be when time elapses. In other words, dreaming is the act of envisioning the end result of something peculiar from a distance.

Being a great dreamer doesn’t mean you are sitting on a throne at the moment; neither does it mean you are having a fat meat in between your molars, nor you are walking with your head in the cloud above everybody. It rather means, you are setting a pace for achievements meant to be a fulfillment of your purpose.

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world”- Harriet Tubman

Every dream has in it its respective responsibilities. Your responsibilities equip you with the skills to fulfill the appointment your dreams offer you. Below are seven (7) facts about dreams and you need to believe and use them as you sail through to graduate from being an aspiring achiever into being a real achiever;

1. Dreams fulfill your destiny:

Robert E. Hughes in a public address declared; “it’s the independent American spirit that built this country; - hardworking, entrepreneurs who believed in the reality of their dreams”. A clear focus on the above quotation teaches us three (3) lessons as follows:

1.       American fore-fathers had dreams

2.       These dreamers believed and worked their dreams hardly

3.       America is a well-built nation today as dreamt many years earlier.

It therefore means that today, which was the future of yesterday, is a fulfillment of a dream once created and hoped for and believed and worked on. You owe it to yourself to change the story of your future by dreaming today!

“Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow, a dream of hope”- Anonymous

According to Eleanor Roosevelt, “the future belongs to those who believed in the beauty of their dreams”. By this, Roosevelt was not just referring to a merely live future, but stressing on a future well fulfilled.

The life you will live in the nearby future will surely have question to answer, problems to solve and goals to accomplish. Do you know how you will provide the answers to all those pressing requests? Edgar Cayce answers rightly; “dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions”

2. Dreams tell you are still alive:

“When you cease to dream, you cease to live”, said Malcom Forbes. From the scope of this concept, we can settle a fact here; thus there is a difference between a person who is truly alive and another who is merely breathing and that difference is a dream.

Anyone who lacks dreams, lack an access to a fulfilled live. A fulfilled life is rated by the number of dreams that fulfilled your purpose of existence as evidenced by how swift you are able fly beyond every reasonable doubt to set your foot on success. A person who has deficiency of dreams is the one who merely lives and breathes without a thoughtful future and his / her wage is to stand still in that dreamless future without any fulfillment.

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”- Langston Hughes

3. Dreams make you an innovator:

With well-defined dreams, you can be able to create something that was not in existence until you took the courage and patience to dream and make a new thing altogether or make something already existing in an uncommonly excellent way.

A dreamer brings in things that are marvelous and serve as a role model for other to imitate. A dreamer also sees the dawn earlier before anyone else wakes up. This was what Oscar Wildes was trying to decode in his quotation when he said; 

“Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is the one who can only find his way by the moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world”

Dreamers are leaders because they pave the ways for people to trek on and they win in their own style. Take your time to dream big and you will discover the responsibilities to accomplished them. Keep saying and confirming it in your life “I have a big dream” and you will never get bored to fulfill the responsibilities you have identified to respond to with your abilities.

4. Dreams are raw; actions cook them;

The first step in accomplishing you dreams is the discovery of your purpose. Next to follow is dreaming about the fulfillment of the purpose you have discovered. That purpose becomes achieved the moment actions are perfectly taken to fulfill the dreams dreamt about.

“A dream doesn’t become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work”- Colin Powell

It is very obvious that spectators and bench player in a football stadium have a negligible influence on the ability of a football team to win. It’s only those who dress up and enter the game to change the worsts to the bests that have the credibility and quality to be called real dreamers.

You may have a dream or a vision towards an achievement of something eyes have not yet seen, but without actions, bet me; it’s just a fantasy that ends in thoughts and words. Remember, thoughts do more, words do much; but actions do much more.

“Vision without ACTION is merely a dream. ACTION without vision just passes the time. Visions with ACTION can change the world”- Joel Barker

You must be willing to be responsible for the actions needed to have the dreams you dreamt fulfilled. Take a close notice of this fact; “Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true”- Anonymous. Wake up to cook up your dreams to the best taste of the world. Start now!

5. Dreams position you well:

It is very obvious that anyone who dreams and works towards the fulfillment of his dreams is carried automatically from a state of deficiency to a state of affluence. A dream worker meets new friends, new discoveries and new areas of success to recover. Remember, to meet those new dimensions, beware of how you position yourself. Not every position on the football field is conducive for goal scoring. You can’t be at an offside position and still think you can score a genuine goal.

Dream big and offer your dreams to put you in the right position for their fulfillment. Mike Tyson once said, “I am a dreamer, I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star, then I grab a handful of clouds”. When you dream about biggest things, you will by all means capture bigger things. And if your dreams are bigger, the worst that may ever happen to you is to achieve big things.

6. Dreams are not expensive:                                 

Dreams are not costly at all. It does not take anything from you to dream big! You don’t pay anything to anyone in order to obtain permit to dream. No organization, not even an agency, governmental or non-governmental has ever been given a task to determine the size of people’s dreams. It would have been unfair on the sides of great achievers we see or hear of today if dreams were to be directly proportional to the money they have had in their pockets initially.

It takes a child to dream; it equally takes an elderly person to dream. Rich men and paupers, all have an equal privilege to maximize the length and breadth of their dreams anytime, anyhow and in any way! Don’t stop dreaming! Dreaming doesn’t stop the moment you are old. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dreams another dream” (C.S Lewis). You have the whole time of your life to dream. It is free!

7. Dreaming is not a crime:

Nobody had ever been arrested yet on this earth on account of over-dreaming! It therefore means as long as you can dream, you have neither offended the monarchs nor the Pope!

 If dreaming had been a crime, the world would have been the same way it was few minutes after creation; no castles and no gadgets would have been in existence if it were so. All the past and present heroes we see or hear of who have contributed to make the earth a place of comfort would have spent the rest of their days in jail if dreaming were to be an evil act. You are safe to dream!

“Man alone has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man alone, can dream and make his dreams come true”- Napoleon Hill