If you want to learn how to swim, don’t frustrate yourself in 6-inches of water. By the same token, if you want to succeed, don't listen to 'professors' and copycats. Learn from a man who have defied every odd and through hair splitting challenges, blood and tears rose to top of his games. Learn from a man who built his successes one block at a time and has taught and mentored thousands in the Corporate, Business and Church World for over 17 years.
Every successful person who lived in the past or is alive today is a person that made hay while the sun was shining. Stop and think about it. Zik, Awolowo, Mandela, Ojukwu, Obasanjo, Obama, they didn't just walk around saying, "Isn’t it wonderful, being alive, what's going to be is going to be, regardless of what I do". What made the difference and set them apart from the rest of us was that they knew exactly what they had to do. Even though it was not convenient, they defied themselves, went ahead and did them.
Because the road to success is filled with the unexpected, you don't just need to have the mind; you need to have the heart also if you have to get to the end of the journey. Having the mind helps us carry the burden and responsibility that comes with handling problems we have never met before while having the heart gives us the spiritual conditioning that makes us steady when we are struck with sickness, accosted with fear, or overwhelmed with strangeness or hurt and bruised in the mind.
There is something I have seen under the sun, and you can take a look around to confirm it: there has never been a time that it was easy to succeed at anything.
Success has always been the reward of vision, handwork, focus, determination and perseverance.
Get this straight. Even if you are born with an obvious disadvantage: maybe you are physically challenged or because of the terrible economic condition of your family, or as a result of a broken home, or you were born out of wedlock or your father died when you were small or you could not go to school for whatever reasons or you were abused or denied by an uncle, you have something to offer-something that holds the key to your financial progress.
The presence of a problem is not just the promise of a breakthrough idea, but a pointer to the presence of opportunity and presents the possibility of great financial prosperity.
God allowed problems in the world and in your life to make a champion out of you. You cannot be crowned a champion in sports, business or in life unless you overcome a challenge.
It doesn't matter in which area or what you are doing or the course you are pursuing, there is still space at the top. Don't let what your eyes see, what your ears hear, what your brain processes or what your mind rationalizes discourage you. Go for it. You’ll find space. Provisions still abound at the top: in Sales, Ministries, Medicine, Architecture, Industry, Commerce, Construction, Business, Politics, you just name it. I repeat, you’ll find space there.
There's no difference between you and the president of the United States, the owner of Coca-Cola or founder of Microsoft Corporation. We are all mortals - composed of flesh and blood and the basic stuff, called water.
Your day or opportunity could come looking ordinary, dull, drab, and dark or demanding, yet it's your day. Recognize it as your day, step forward decisively to meet it and everything about your life changes. Your day could meet you anywhere- in the market square, at a busy bus stop, in a church or mosque, in the office, in the shopping mall, in the bus, on the airplane, on a train and along the road, anywhere. The key is your ability to recognize it as your day and know it is your opportunity.
The man, who is truly poor, is not the man without any cash in his pocket, not the man who did not inherit anything from his father or mother, but the man without any ideas. If a man is poor but has ideas, he will eventually become rich, if not today, tomorrow, if not tomorrow, certainly the day after.
Every good invention or article of utility was first an idea, a mental abstraction, a vision seen through the 'mind's eye' of the man who sat down to use his head.
The beggar sitting by the roadside is a seed of idea waiting to be owned. The threat of HIV/AIDS shaking the nations should not be a source of dread for you, but should be an opportunity for fame and wealth, by just thinking out its cure or prevention.
Whatever makes you frustrated, angry, or disappointed or afraid could be a source of million dollar idea. Don't just gloss or gloat over things and believe that this is how they ought to be.
Your body will age, your physical prowess will diminish and your ability to take orders will wane with the passage of time, but your mind and your imagination need never grow old. Constant use will keep you mind forever young and active.
Ideas are your dream seeds. They are your success seeds. The death of an idea is the burial of wealth and fortune. Cultivate your ideas and what you will become will amaze you.
Smugness is strange, because this sickness has no basis of being part of human nature. And this sickness is a native of Africa. I say this because history told us that civilization started from Africa and writing was first discovered in Egypt. But after being the first to write on papyrus or present day paper, they became satisfied and went to sleep while the rest of the world moved on. See what going to sleep after a small achievement has caused Africa and the black race.
Greatness is part of God's plan for his children, for without greatness, without progress, without the prospect of greatness, there will not be any incentive for work and the world will be one boring, uninteresting stretch of barren wasteland inhabited by a herd of purposeless, mindless and timid men and women slouching into nowhere.
Fight for success. Don't acquiesce or wait passively for success. Noah did not wait for his ship to come in. He built one. You cannot be a Diego Amando Maradona without giving yourself to the rigorous discipline of training or be a Bill Gates, without giving yourself to deep thinking and sound action.
Enthusiasm drives you to begin from nothing, to start even when you are in the middle or backside of nowhere.
Imagination shows you horizons without boundaries and how far you can go if you can take the first single step.
Creativity tells you that every bottleneck or problem offers a new opportunity for discovery, for re-inventing yourself and the world around you.
Innovation tells you that you can do it better today than you did it yesterday.
Dissatisfaction tells you to keep going, that you can't stop now because your heart longs for something more and cries for a greater challenge every time you achieve the goal before you.
And guilt sends the message that you can improve, that you can work smarter or move up faster, that you can better your lot and that of others around you.
Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin—it should make you jump up and do something. I have had a great many ideas over the years. Some were good, some were great, and some I would prefer to forget about. The important thing is to take your best ideas and see them through. Not all of them are going to be winners, but just remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.
If there is anything the devil wants to achieve in your life, it is to kill your dream….If you don't follow your dream, the devil will give you miscarriage, make your heart sick and frustrate your life. His name means adversary, opposer, competitor and enemy. He opposed God, opposed the apostolic fathers and he is not afraid to oppose you. He opposed the spiritual giant called Paul and stopped his dream of going to Spain.... The devil stopped Paul and stopped the gospel of Christ from going into Spain for about 190 years.
You don't need to be numbered among millions in the world’s cemeteries that died with their dreams still locked up in their bosoms, unrealized, their desires bound in their hearts unfulfilled and their children hemmed in inside their loins, not delivered to the world.
Success is like the sun, no matter where you are, you can see it, if you are willing to look up. It is humiliating to be poor; it is worse to accept the lies of the devil that you can’t be rich.
Some people equate poverty with holiness. Some people believe that having no money to meet their needs is suffering for righteousness. This is wrong.
The key is this, act as if it is impossible to fail. Threaten the forces around and against you by your concentration, dedication, commitment and faith to where you are going.
Be possessed by such a fatal, reckless, unyielding, unrelenting spirit, when it comes to the pursuit of what God has shown you, your dream. Possess a spirit that does not hear stop, slow down, wait, no money, no way, no road, not possible, never done before…and you will work miracles.
So many people walk through this life not knowing who they are, who God made them to be and where they are supposed to be. This is a tragedy.
Have the tenacity of a weed. Germinate even if you are cut out, uprooted and thrown away. Refuse to die until you produce fruits.
"I said you are gods, and all of you are off springs of the most high". (Psalm 82:6)… If you don't believe this, you will die like common men. If Jesus could reconfigure water into wine and multiply bread without going through the natural process, so can you, if you dare.
How can your word accomplish what you sent it when you speak out of confusion and uncertainty? How can your word, like a guided missile, hit its target, when all the time, you say what you do not mean and what is in your heart does not agree with what is in your mouth? How can your word achieve when your spirit cannot differentiate what you mean from what you do not mean?
This is the parable of $6million: a dream that our people should not die in poverty, but rather through our contributions, have poverty die in them. The whole idea is to pass on the heritage of success to our children and inspire the succeeding generations. Let us join our hands together to provide the strength we need to get this done and become, not just makers of money but also makers of history and re-makers our country.
The number of our youths, ages 15 to 45 riding commercial motorcycles as a means of subsistence in Nigeria today is more than the population of Gambia and Swaziland put together. Every day, more people are leaving their workshops and others are resigning their jobs to join the motorcycle riding ‘business’. And nobody is angry enough to help.
