"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. 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. 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. 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!
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