You can experience unimaginable turnaround in your life this year, no matter where you are right now. All you need is to give attention to the important principles that has made millions of great men in history. The following are some of them:
1. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE.
Success begins with knowing what you want and then doing everything within your power to achieve it. But it takes responsibility to do that. Someone once said, ‘If you fail, it’s your fault. If you succeed, it’s your fault.’
Many people may never succeed in life because they blame their failures on everything else around them except themselves. What lies behind us can never be compared with what lies within us. Being poor or rich begins with a state of mind.
For the rest of this year, carry a strong wealth-mentality and then carry a sense of responsibility to match. Rich people are deliberate. They choose what they want and take responsibilities to make them happen. So if you want to break into riches this year you must be deliberate. Your future is determined by your internal resoluteness and conditioning, not your external circumstances.
2. BE WILLING TO CHANGE
Change is the hallmark of progress and improvement. You can’t climb to the next level with the experience and expertise of yesterday. Embrace new opportunities to change when you find them.
One reason why I finally met the love of my life was because I emotionally disconnected from the ‘extra luggage ladies’ I had as friends. I had to disconnect from them and move on. That was when I met my true love. If you want a change of experience, then disengage from the old and embrace the new that God is bringing into your life.
3. BUILD CONFIDENCE
Learn to trust your God- given abilities. Many people fail because they lack confidence. In today’s world, it is erroneous to judge your future by negative past experiences. Ignore your negative past. We live in a world of negative, frustrated people. That makes it easy for us to hear a lot of lies about what we can do or what we can’t.
And it has been said that when you hear a lie seven times about yourself, you’ll begin to believe it. Therefore many people see more of obstacles, than the enormous potentials that lie within them. There was something big I accomplished last year that many thought was impossible. Now, the negative fact has changed because I dared to be confident.
Divide targets and dreams into smaller achievable parts. Then work at reaching them one at a time. You will discover that every time you reach a smaller target you gain confidence to approach a bigger one. Confidence is what enables you to work endlessly to conquer bigger challenges. Without confidence, there can be no discoveries or innovations. You need confidence to power your dreams to reality.
4. PERSIST WITH PATIENCE.
Potential is cheap. What the world celebrates is capacity. We were all born with potentials but not one person was born with a fully developed capacity. We all build capacity with time. And here’s the way to build capacity: learn and practise. Give yourself time to grow. Persist daily with patience. This does not mean doing the same thing and expecting a different result -that’s insanity. It means you keep looking for better ways of achieving your goals until you hit the mark.
5. ENJOY SOLITUDE
If you see anybody out there doing something great and enviable, it is because they are working at their dreams and goals in the secret. They are hardly public people. Even the so-called showbiz figures that have become role-models to fun lovers, have little time for ‘public fun’. They spend late nights in their private studios, galleries and shooting locations developing their skills and expertise to perfection. If you are not comfortable with being alone for internal transformation, don’t expect much of external manifestations. Invest time in developing your God-given gifts. Those who make news hardly watch the news. In fact, a famous actress once said she can’t remember the last time she sat down to watch a movie. Imagine that!
It’s time to roll up your sleeves and start working it. The earlier you begin, the greater your chances. Start now.
Saturday, April 02, 2011
You Too Can Lead!
Leadership is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the world today. We often tend to associate leadership with lofty positions of power. How wrong that is!
The world is in dire need of solutions to its numerous problems. Never in history has the world been in greater demand for joy, peace, progress, convenience, wealth, self-mastery, and order as it is today. Yet the solution to all these can be found in two words: Effective Leadership.
What then is leadership? Is it an in-born quality, the preserve of a few, or a skill that can be developed by every one? Perhaps taking a quick look at the characteristics of effective leadership will help to answer these questions.
Who is a leader?
A leader is someone who by reason of knowledge, expertise, experience or character has earned the right to be a point of reference to others. Such a person may not hold a ‘big name’ position yet enjoys the loyalty of his colleagues, friends, associates and family. Just like light, no matter how hard a leader conceals himself, he eventually gets noticed and distinguished from the crowd.
Leadership is not a function of position, and position doesn’t make people leaders. True leaders who are committed to influencing others eventually earn positions of power that help them to do even more. Personally, I don’t believe in born leaders. Anyone anywhere who develops the qualities required for effective leadership whether at home, work, school, or in a public service, would naturally earn the respect and followership of others.
Characteristics of Effective leadership
You can become an effective leader. You can take the lead; you can blaze the trail; and you can set the pace for others to follow. Even your enemies will readily submit to your influence when you exhibit the following characteristics. Let us take a look at them.
1. Unusual confidence. No one will believe in you or follow you if you are not sure of where you are going. Majority of people are motivated by the hope of a better future. And as long as you can prove to them that the action they are being inspired to take through your vision promises increase, they will follow you.
2. Ability to communicate. The success of every leader is a function of his/her ability to achieve great goals through others. For example, in 1960, J.F. Kennedy had a 10-year goal for man to reach the moon. Although he didn’t have the professional expertise to achieve it on his own, he was able to communicate the vision to scientists and astronauts who eventually achieved it in 1969.
3. Sense of Purpose.
Effective leaders carry a sense of purpose visible to everyone around them. They may not be good at everything but they are very good at something. People can feel the passion, commitment and determination that leaders put into their pursuit and therefore want to help them achieve it.
4. Creativity in handling Crisis.
Leaders never welcome challenges with despair. They always carry the mentality that anticipates unforeseen circumstances. They understand that if anyone must reach lofty heights that he dreams of, he has to accept the challenges, tests, trials, oppositions and disappointments that they encounter along the way and work hard to overcome them. As a cleaner, office boy or security guard you can lead your way to the top. No one is left out.
5. Willingness to live for others.
Effective leaders live for a cause they are willing to die for. They understand that for others to make progress and live better lives in a particular dimension, someone has to pay the price of responsibility.
You can exhibit effective leadership in your family, group or community. You can start leading from the very spot you’re reading this article. Offer to help someone solve a problem today. Do a little more than is expected of you in everything and you are on your way to leading others.
The world is in dire need of solutions to its numerous problems. Never in history has the world been in greater demand for joy, peace, progress, convenience, wealth, self-mastery, and order as it is today. Yet the solution to all these can be found in two words: Effective Leadership.
What then is leadership? Is it an in-born quality, the preserve of a few, or a skill that can be developed by every one? Perhaps taking a quick look at the characteristics of effective leadership will help to answer these questions.
Who is a leader?
A leader is someone who by reason of knowledge, expertise, experience or character has earned the right to be a point of reference to others. Such a person may not hold a ‘big name’ position yet enjoys the loyalty of his colleagues, friends, associates and family. Just like light, no matter how hard a leader conceals himself, he eventually gets noticed and distinguished from the crowd.
Leadership is not a function of position, and position doesn’t make people leaders. True leaders who are committed to influencing others eventually earn positions of power that help them to do even more. Personally, I don’t believe in born leaders. Anyone anywhere who develops the qualities required for effective leadership whether at home, work, school, or in a public service, would naturally earn the respect and followership of others.
Characteristics of Effective leadership
You can become an effective leader. You can take the lead; you can blaze the trail; and you can set the pace for others to follow. Even your enemies will readily submit to your influence when you exhibit the following characteristics. Let us take a look at them.
1. Unusual confidence. No one will believe in you or follow you if you are not sure of where you are going. Majority of people are motivated by the hope of a better future. And as long as you can prove to them that the action they are being inspired to take through your vision promises increase, they will follow you.
2. Ability to communicate. The success of every leader is a function of his/her ability to achieve great goals through others. For example, in 1960, J.F. Kennedy had a 10-year goal for man to reach the moon. Although he didn’t have the professional expertise to achieve it on his own, he was able to communicate the vision to scientists and astronauts who eventually achieved it in 1969.
3. Sense of Purpose.
Effective leaders carry a sense of purpose visible to everyone around them. They may not be good at everything but they are very good at something. People can feel the passion, commitment and determination that leaders put into their pursuit and therefore want to help them achieve it.
4. Creativity in handling Crisis.
Leaders never welcome challenges with despair. They always carry the mentality that anticipates unforeseen circumstances. They understand that if anyone must reach lofty heights that he dreams of, he has to accept the challenges, tests, trials, oppositions and disappointments that they encounter along the way and work hard to overcome them. As a cleaner, office boy or security guard you can lead your way to the top. No one is left out.
5. Willingness to live for others.
Effective leaders live for a cause they are willing to die for. They understand that for others to make progress and live better lives in a particular dimension, someone has to pay the price of responsibility.
You can exhibit effective leadership in your family, group or community. You can start leading from the very spot you’re reading this article. Offer to help someone solve a problem today. Do a little more than is expected of you in everything and you are on your way to leading others.
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