WHAT DO YOU WANT THE MOST?

           Life is like a game of cards with the cards facing down, which is why we never know what tomorrow has for us but we wake up to the hope that it has the best in store. We plan but sometimes we need luck to succeed, that why we pray. But one thing is for sure you either fail to plan and you will have planned to fail. Have dreams work hard and one day you will achieve what you seek. Here is where the proverb think before you leap comes in. Be very careful with the cards facing down because they are the ones that determine most of lifestyles. For example when you did your primary or secondary final exams you did not know the results immediately but when you obtained them they greatly influenced your future and you future merely depends on the choices and simple decisions we make daily. These leads me to the main question of the day, what do you want the most with your life is money, fame, love or a happy family. What are you doing about it to achieve it, are the small choices you making today leading you towards your goal or not. Ask yourself only a simple question, will these matter in a year or five years from now?
         They say every decision has consequences I just say make sure the consequences count at the end of the day. Definitely some consequences will not be preventable. We can’t control everything but we sure have control on ourselves that is our circle of influence where we need to focus more. The things we can’t control are under the circle of concern and we are better of without worrying about them. Are you ready to fight for what you want the most? Just take the leap in faith and do what you feel you need. Sometimes it all about jumping out of the normal program you are used to and do something different with your life. Believe in yourself and you sure can make it like all the others have done it.
           Take every misfortune as a lesson and stepping stone. Don’t get worried about yesterday its already gone focus on tomorrow. Don’t look back so much you are not headed that way. Build you character for the betterment of your tomorrow.  Do not accept to live a life less than your maximum potential that’s truly being a failure. We are made unique utilize your uniqueness.
         Always rock and roll in life with balance but without compromise. Take all risks you can afford to shoulder in order to achieve what you want with your life. You were born a pure copy why die a photocopy. Live life the best way possible finding the purpose of your existence. Die with memories and not dreams, keep your dreams alive and make sure you achieve your goals the only thing we live is because we believe tomorrow holds the best treasures in our lives and that no matter how dark today might seem we always look out for a brighter tomorrow.
         The road to success runs uphill, great men who conquer the world go through tough times before they can reach the top of their game. It pays to be a winner but it also demands you be at the best to attain your dreams. We will never be the same in terms of what we are after in life, thus we will need to ask ourselves one question, what do we want the most? Shut your critics out, grow a thick skin, think positively and always aim to be at your best in all that you do. Are you ready to swim with the sharks? Then you better start training in deep waters.
        Don’t compare someone’s chapter twenty to your chapter one your life is not a competition. The only competition you are in is you and your goals in order to meet your datelines. Make sure you stay motivated.

TWENTY TWO BEST MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES.

  Below are the best quotes that keep me going during those moments that I need something to raise my spirits. I thought they may also work for you if we happen to be heading the same direction.

1. "Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey." – Jennifer James.
2. Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. -William B. Sprague 
3. "It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it." - John Crowe.
4. "Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for   yourself and for those who will follow after you." - Amelia Earhart.
5. "You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth.
6. "Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." - Norman Vincent Peale.
7. "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russell.
8. There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.-Christopher Morley.
9. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. Theodore N. Vail.
10. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.-Theodore Roosevelt.
11. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.-Chinese Proverb.
12. One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. -Wayne Gretzky.
13. "Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top." - J.C. Penny.
14. "Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves." - Zig Ziglar.
15. "Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?" - Jim Rohn.
16. "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Suess.
17. "Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses ... on your powers, instead of your problems." - Paul J. Meyer.
18. "If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us." - Jim Rohn.
19.  Take rest a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop - Ovid.
20. "People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them." -George Bernard Shaw.
21. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." – Will Rogers.
22. "Do it trembling if you must, but do         it!" - Emmet Fox.       

      You cannot get enough of motivation that's why it is recommended on daily basis just like a shower, you just have to get one almost daily. Remember motivation is the food of the brain that sharpens your thinking and stimulates it to work beyond imaginations. Take your best quote and always remember it when you feel low and in need of some encouragement.

TIME IS KEY.

     Time is everything, we cannot manage it, and it’s constant, we manage ourselves in reference to time, in order to achieve best results. Self-management can be categorized into four major categories. These include urgent and important, important and not urgent, not important but urgent, lastly, not important and not urgent. Remember its self-management that will get you results not time management time is just a tool that we can control ourselves in reference to.
     Urgent and important things are those things that you have to deal with as soon as they arise, these include phone calls which are a must you take when they ring. Only a single phone can change the way you shape your entire day. These are those tasks that have to be dealt with as soon as they arise.
    Not important but urgent work include the knock of a friend on your doorstep asking you for company to the market place. These is where most of our time goes. We tend to jump into solving other peoples’ problems without thinking about ourselves. We would then spend some hours on the roadside just having small talks with friends we meet which won’t help us at the end of the day, we even end up being late for our own tasks. Minimize the time you spend on these category and instead relocate it to important and not urgent things.
       Important and not urgent work. Make the blue box your best friend.  Perhaps the box we should allocate most of our time because these are the things that matter at the end of the day. Going to gym is not an urgent task but it is very important at the long run for our own physical condition. Planning for our own future is not an urgent issue but a quite important one because at some point in our lives the decision becomes urgent and important.
    Not urgent and not important tasks are the tasks that do not count at the end of the day whether you do or do not do them. Like spending time worrying about things we cannot change or overpower, it may be society manners, political or whatever worry we do not have any power or chance of changing.
      A more elaborate way of time or self-management based on the four quadrants of time can be found in Stephen Coveys’ best seller: 7 Habits of highly effective people.

MEASURE TWICE CUT ONCE.

             Most of us have heard of these very basic rule in carpentry, perhaps only we did not know it can be applied in our normal lives as a principle in whatever we do. It’s the same saying as take time to sharpen your saw before you cut. Don’t you rush into action before you understand the procedures required for the process? Remember, Life doesn’t come with instructions, so take your time to write down your masterpiece before you can jump into action. A good start is a job half-done plan your steps well before you can start to execute them. Evaluate all the possibilities available you can’t miss one or two ways of doing something.

        Fail to plan then you planning to fail. Plan actions to be undertaken before starting to execute them. These gives a road map of what you want to achieve by the end of you actions. A plan gives you an outlook of the product you have to achieve at the end of the day. Life is all about preparation and you better be prepared well before you embark on your dreams. Just like we prepare for a journey, we all need to prepare before we can carry out a task. Convincing the mind before any task just acts to sum up the best possible outcomes. We get out of minds what we constantly feed in there. Just like we rip what we saw so we should fast create images in our minds then put them done on papers before we can create real life objects.

      Persistence breaks resistance. Prepare and then be persistence and you will surely achieve your goals. Sometimes all you need is courage to achieve your goals. In the battle between a stream and a rock the water wins not because of hardness but because of persistence. Take your time to define what you want on these world and then go for it. Cherish your dreams and visions as they the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievement.

    You can become an icon in the society or you can fit in but surely can’t do both at once. Napoleon hill once said time is a master worker that heals all the wounds of temporary defeat, and equalize the inequalities and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing impossible with time. Spend your time well and you won’t regret a moment on these world. Remember go slow to go fast, don’t rush and you won’t re-do the work again, just plan re-evaluate your plans then go to action knowing what awaits you. Imagination is better than knowledge because few have it, knowledge is easily available in books and anybody can have it whenever he reads. Your imaginations are sacred because they are purely the products of your thoughts and no one can corrupt them except you.  Time is all you have to be what you want to be in these world, spend it wisely.

NO EXCUSES

         If you want to do something you will find a way but if you don’t you will find a reason for not doing it. Excuse is always a safer route to take if responsibilities come knocking. A person would rather be creative with finding reasons not to, rather than looking for a way to do something. Not taking responsibility does not solve the problem and perhaps just postpones it, which will later arise in a more complex and worse situation. Life always finds a way to compensate and you are not an exception.

       People are always blaming circumstances for what they are, I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in these world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want, and if they don’t find them, they create them. I always say get out of your comfort zone and chase your dreams. It feels good to get an excuse because you will convince the accuser but what character are you building for yourself. Worry about your character more than you worry about your reputation. They say talent gets you in a position but character keeps you there. Don’t build your life around excuses instead build it around strong character with principles.
       We determine who we are by what we do not what we say. We are who we are by what most people see in us because that is the ecosystem we co-exist in, we can’t pretend forever. Life doesn’t come with instructions we ought to write our own script, and make it a master copy that everybody will learn from. They say be like a mirror and reflect what you truly look like in whatever you do in these world. Living life in a truly true way where nobody determines your fate but it entirely lies in your hands. Don’t make a reason for every failure you encounter instead take responsibility, and make it a climbing stone to rise above what you were targeting.

        In the previous blog I wrote about not being comfortable but setting out to find happiness. Looking for reasons only act to sum up a disjointed lifestyle with no real passion and goals. Excuses are always the simplest roots to escaping life realities. Focusing on the proactive side of life always gets you to achieve your datelines. Take the leap in faith and do what you dream of, the sooner you realize that in these life it’s always comes down what you have done more than what you say. Twenty years from now you be will be ashamed by those things you did not do than those you did.
    Suffer now and live like a champion for the rest of your life, Mohammed Ali. Hate everything you are doing now but get it done because it’s what you need to get what you wanna have in life. Waking up in the morning and not feeling like doing anything is a common perception that everybody has to fight to overcome. But we need to wake up dress up get out and always show up, never to give up. Don’t always look for excuses where they are not needed, it’s not a crime to have one but don’t always depend on them for your failures. Soon it will become a habit and won’t go away. Take responsibility and its only you who knows what you want the most for you.

       Where there is a will there is a way. Put goals with deadlines that force you into work, fulfilling these small goals gives you the much needed boast in your endeavors. They say you are not too old to dream another dream. Keep your feet on the ground, be proactive and go get it. No excuses forever. #TEAMnoEXCUSES.

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COMFORTABLE OR HAPPY?

           I say don’t be a comfortable person because it’s associated with being average.  Instead be a happy person and always put it before everything else. Comfortable takes you to the comfort zone which once there you won’t find it easy getting out. First you feel OK then comes the idea of you being secure, that means you have a future which is good for you to trudge through with few criticism and average being.

        Be happy, happiness doesn't mean having what you want but instead having what you need. Accepting to have what you already have and then working towards what you need. Comfortable is about being in an average point where you can’t achieve more than you think of. Sometimes to achieve what we want the most in life we have to abandon our comfortability and engage in energy draining processes that we are sometimes less paying but at the end of the day we are able to get more than we will be working for. In life we all get the chance to make the decisions about what to do and by luck we can get the second opportunities to make amends for our choices but.

   

     

           Happiness is all about living to the fullest and dreaming beyond our imaginations. It’s all about being able to take the leap in faith and being able to get out there and getting what we want. The happiness world is all about taking what you love the most and putting things together as you want them to be, contrary on the comfort world we wait for people to make decisions to us. Be a freethinker and always thing like there is no box. Don’t fail to imagine because it is the only thing that cannot be violated by anybody no matter who on these world, you and only you have the power to make or break your mental state. The greatest weapon you own is your mind use it well use it forever for things that make you happy not for those that make you comfortable.

        We live in a world where things are taken not given, take what you can with all your mental strength. The future belongs to the risk takers not the comfort seekers.

       Be passionate about what you do because passion goes hand in hand with happiness. Do what you do with all your energy and find happiness in it. Don't do things halfway and with a lot of complains and at the end of it all you're not satisfied with your own work. Take the passions ways and enjoy the ride. They say comfortable people who don't put in much of the efforts beyond average person are just not cut for the positions at the top. 

       The choice remains always yours to always use you mind for your own good and make sure you keep one rule forever in your head “NEVER AGREE WITH ANYTHING OR ANYBODIES PHILOSOPHY IF YOU THINK IT DOESN’T FIT IN YOUR LIFE” including these article. Enjoy your month see you soon.

GO SLOW TO GO FAST

A horse master once said go slow to go fast , well we all act as if there is not enough in time in our days but instead everybody gets 24 of them each day. In simple if you would do your tasks slowly, full of energy and correctly you  would have much time than you think of , rather than do things faster and carelessly and then end up  with poor work which requires us to start all over again and again. It would have been better if we did our tasks with much more great care than hurrying all over the place. We all know times waits for no man but where are you rushing to with your life, it’s yours own it control it live it love it exploit it but with one thing in mind, one step at a time. You of all people know what you want the most in your life so take your strides with care not at any moment overstepping so that you end up straining yourself.
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        Plan your days in way that you will cross your bridges when you come to them, that’s for both short term and long term goals don’t try to cross a bridge that is one kilometer away with a single stride we all know you won’t make. A journey of a million miles starts with one step, mind your daily strides because they the ones that take you to your tomorrow and eventually to the future you dream of. To overrun to tomorrow  because stress arises from two major sources when we fail to complete yesterday’s work then carry it to today and then try to bring tomorrows work to today. For Christ sake my friend you will burst your brains and exhaust your energy reserves. Just stop procrastinating and start working today. Set your goals, you’re not in competition with anybody so please go slow. The only person and things you should compete with are the deadlines for your goal.
        I for examples sometimes find it hard to put these principle in practice due to the way I was raised up and the way I have been used to doing things but it always comes down to practice , because if you want to do something you have practice repeatedly in such a way that it becomes part of you. You must know how to prioritise your tasks in such a way that you know that one task that no matter what it must be done, and that should be the task that you start with. Of course sometimes tasks may vary in way that you are required to start with smaller ones that will eventually lead to the final task at hand, in these case you will reach the final task still with energy because you have set that as your main task and no matter what you must do it.
       Take your time success is not a destination it’s a journey enjoy the ride. As long as we try to plan our days into productive timelines we should also consider our happiness because that’s what we are here for. We all plan our days so we have a better and happier lifestyle, these is made possible by enabling us to do todays work today, stop procrastinating , and wait for tomorrow with optimism that it will bring joy in our lifestyles. Take your time to do what you love and makes you feel relaxed and calm even if it’s weird from the normal things people believe in. Sometimes it’s the weirdest things that make us the happiest people.

          Finally, these being my first blog I would like to say that it takes a leap in faith to start anything you want to do, get out of your comfort zone take that leap in faith and just do it. People fail to try because they fear the critics, the whole of my life I have never seen a statue for a critic, they are paid to find faults in your life, and keep one thing in mind no one is perfect. Enjoy your month, goodbye for now.