I CAN'T MAKE IT: MY STRENGTH IS SMALL

In the field of sport, every athlete and sports person would tell you the importance of stamina: The ability to move comfortably at a steady pace and having one's breathing rate and heart rate fully coordinated during a highly-intense, full body endurance sports or exercise. Stamina does not jump on people, it is gradually developed through regular routine exercises before the game(s). This is the reason why long distance runners stay long in the race; it is the same reason footballers can comfortably run around for at least 90 minutes during a game. Fitness can not be over emphasised when it comes to the world of sports.

How do you characterise an athlete with so much fatigue, feeling overwhelmed by the demands of the game and running out of gas just a few minutes into the game? Would you say, they have been developing stamina?

Friends, every potentially great destiny in life is like a potential Olympic gold medalist. There are high-intense, full life enduring demands in the pursuit for every greatness. Whether greatness in family life, career, business, academics, etc. These demands would always be present as long as we remain in the game (of living). Just like the athlete it is very critical that we build all round capacity. Develop ourselves for the greatness ahead. The same way stamina do not jump on athletes, so also capacity development does not come upon us. 

We need to consciously build it by applying ourselves to destiny building disciplines (exercise), Why? If we are still living and greatness still remains our objective, personal development is not an option, it is the way out. 

What can you say about the following statements?

...I can't make it...

...It feels overwhelming, I just can't handle it...

...I want out...

...I quit...

These are expressions that are common with Destiny Fatigue, Lack of preparation through robust personal development routines, Low stamina, etc. 

Some of your goals would not be achieved within the anticipated time frame. Your stamina would be required during such moments; certain targets might just take a little bit longer than your research suggested, your endurance is very key to achieving your purpose, your dream and your goal. It is time to build capacity. Therefore...

You can not afford to be obese or over weight in the pursuit of destiny.

You can not afford to burn out.

You can not afford to not work out mentally in order to build resistance. 

Let us see what the scripture says: 

...If thou FAINT on the day of adversity, THY STRENGTH IS SMALL... Proverbs 24:10

Before every quitting is a poor capacity development; before every feeling of 'I can't make it' is a lack of discipline to exercise.

What are you doing with regards to the game in your life? Family game? Career game? Business game? Faith game? Are you building capacity or just wishing your greatness to chance?

How many books have you read in the last 90 days, with regards to the games you are engaged in?

How many practical steps and disciplines are you cultivating for the game ahead? 

Athletes do not eat every thing that smell or tastes nice...that's a discipline. Are you driven by pleasure and comfort? Do you subscribe to paths of least resistance? 

Friends the demands for being successful in any endeavour, is INTENSE, requires ENDURANCE during the entire process; therefore strength (stamina) has to be built. 

You will not fail!

Till when next you visit this blog...keep building STRENGTH for the days ahead.

THE DEMAND: AVERAGE OR GREAT?

The race of life comes one inch at a time; there are those who stay in the race just for the records and there are those who want to win the race; both parties think differently and hence they commit to different types of discipline.  

The question here is, are you just in the race FOR THE RECORDS or are you in the race so as TO WIN? 

In other to win in whatever race you find yourself, be it financial, career, spiritual or marital, all you need to do is to stay ahead of your competition. Competition does not suggest some other person in the race, it simply suggest staying ahead of what you consider your best. If 100% seem to be your best, stay ahead by giving 110%. You need to become your own competition. 

Someone said, it is not easy...Yes! I wish I could tell you living average is easy, I wish I could tell you being an underachiever is easy. Friends, there is always a price to pay, whether you want to live average or you want to be great. The only difference is one price comes before the other. 

When you live easy, life will turn our hard but when you commit to seemingly hard but rewarding disciplines, your life will turn out easy. 

If you choose to live average, you would enjoy pleasures today and get the pain tomorrow. If you choose to live great, you will get the pain today and have endless pleasure tomorrow. 

So in whatever way you look at it, you must pay something for whatever you decide to do. 

How do I then stay ahead of the Competition?

Get tough on yourself! Place the demand of greatness on yourself! Great people are ordinary people who just seem to put great demands on themselves and average people are ordinary people with average demands on themselves. 

Can you imagine an orange juice without the process of 'squeezing' of the juice? Can you imagine keeping fit without going through the rigors of exercising and working out? It is time to stay ahead of your competition. It is time to leave your average lifestyle and aspire for something more than average. 

You would amaze yourself if only you knew, how much of your potential that could be realised by placing great demands on your self. 

Paul Said:

Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown....therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly...I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize... 1Corinth. 9:25-28 (NIV)

Paul said, 'I strike a blow to my body...that I will not be disqualified for the prize'

It is time to place new demands on yourself...demands to make you stay ahead.

Do you feel overweight? Place a new demand on your lifestyle that would empower your being fit.

Do you feel financially down? Place a new demand on yourself for services that can generate income.

Are you struggling with that subject? Place a demand on yourself that would increase the number of hours you study which will in turn address the challenging areas of the subject. 

No matter what you do, do not just be in the race...STAY AHEAD of the competition and you can only do so, by placing the relevant demand as it applies to your objective. 

Till when next you visit this blog, place a demand on yourself FOR GREATNESS and NOT FOR BEING AVERAGE!

MAXIMISE YOUR LIFE

An Iroko tree will never grow half the size less than it was supposed to grow. Water bodies flow maximally, sometimes they so flow that they cause flooding. Think about time for just a second, it does not stop, I call it the dedicated workman. You can choose to party or go for funeral, work or sleep, make progress with your task or whine...TIME WILL NEVER STOP being TIME. 

For some strange reasons only human beings live life but not to its full potential; and to think we are the only creation that was made in the likeness of God, makes me even wonder more. Just imagine God's potential and imagine the potential of another being (you and I) created in His image? 

The question is ARE YOU MAXIMISING YOUR LIFE or are you living less than you were created for? 

If you die today, can we fully list out what's going down the grave with you? The things, you were too lazy to birth for the benefit of the world? The Industries? The Medical Centres? The Schools? The Businesses? The Books? Ideas that were never explored? etc. 

But the question is not when we die...the question is by the time you retire for the day, could you confidently say I fully unveiled my potential for today? 

YOUR GOALS FOR THE DAY IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO FOR THE DAY, IT IS NOT NECESSARILY ALL THAT CAN BE ACHIEVED DURING THE DAY. This is where we start living less than our potential. 

Friends, it begins from now...empty yourself daily. Don't go to bed with daily potentials that were never maximised. Let me say this, PROCRASTINATION IS A MYTH...it doesn't exist. How? Every day has a potential, moving things forward (procrastinating) simply means you are living your yesterday in your today. There can only be one December 1st 2013, doing December 1st related business on December 2nd 2013, is you loosing one day of the month/your life. 

It's time to MAXIMISE YOUR LIFE!  

Jesus said

...but I have a baptism to be baptised with and how AM I STRAITENED TILL IT BE ACCOMPLISHED! Luke 12:50

No wonder 33 years OF STRAITENED LIFESTYLE is today still imparting the world after over 2000 years. 

You too can out live your existence. Start MAXIMISING YOUR LIFE!

THE MARK

...I press toward THE MARK for THE PRIZE...Phil. 3:14

Has it ever come across your mind that certain items in the market NEVER GOES ON SALE? The prices are fixed all year round. Just like the saying goes "to every PRIZE there is a PRICE". 

From the text above...IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO PRESS, but PRESSING TOWARDS THE MARK IS WHAT GUARANTEES THE PRIZE.

There is always A SPECIFIC PRESS POINT (THE MARK) for every level of success we desire to attain in whatever area of life. Therefore if we desire the ultimate prize then it is expected we press to the mark. 

There is a MARK of discipline and PRACTICE that would produce an Olympic Gold medalist. There is a MARK of hard work that will deliver a specific level of outcome in Business. 

The pain of pursuit is not failure, the pain of pursuit is finishing a few inches BEFORE THE MARK. 

What is your goal today (this month, this quarter)? Have you thought about the MARK you need to Press towards to deliver that goal? 

If you are pretty honest with yourself, there is nothing like "luck" that births greatness it's simply a function of PRESSING TO THE REQUIRED MARK. 

Have you ever missed a train? The train was scheduled to leave by 5:28p.m. (THE MARK) and  if you can be honest, although you ran, sprinted, pushed everyone, tripped and stood up, you couldn't get in because you MISSED THE MARK. 

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE MARK!

You can choose to have your mark, but if your mark does not equal or beat THE MARK, you will not hit your target. 

Every first class student knew from the start, that it will take minimum 6 hours of uninterrupted dedicated studying (THE MARK), to deliver their PRIZE (graduating with a first). So, they ignored lazy philosophies that say "it is not by reading too much" or "are you the only one studying"? 

Every one who wanted their faith to produce knew from the start that , they must have ABSOLUTE (THE MARK) FAITH in GOD. 

THE MARK for a great home is UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and UNCONDITIONAL SUBMISSION, any thing short of that...I guarantee "you will miss the train".

Let's see what God said to Cain, when he went grumbling...

Gen 4:7... IF THOU DOEST WELL, SHALL THOU NOT BE ACCEPTED? 

Not just doing but DOING WELL...DOING WELL...DOING WELL. 

Till when next you visit this blog KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE MARK not your mark but THE MARK!

THE QUALITY OF THE HARVEST

A wise man once said "if you do not like THE QUALITY OF THE HARVEST, check THE QUALITY OF THE SEED".

Our life is fundamentally what we make of it, it is not what the society makes of it as some would claim, it is not what our circumstances make of it, neither is it what those around us make of it. Everything God made responds to the law of sowing and reaping. 

Orange seeds will never produce Mango fruits.  If you sow seeds of Mediocrity, don't expect greatness. If you think and act like the poor, how would you emerge wealthy? By the way, how do the poor think, someone asks...POOR PEOPLE INVEST IN LIABILITIES, RICH PEOPLE INVESTS IN ASSETS. 

Liabilities take money out of your pocket CONTINUOUSLY, Assets put money in your pocket CONTINUOUSLY. 

The seed I want to be addressing today is THE QUALITY OF THOUGHT you put into what you do. 

Every great idea begins from a thought realm. The difference between an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 2 is basically the difference in the quality of thought process that goes into their level of production. 

Stop complaining about the outcomes in and around your life, start paying more attention to how you take the steps you take. Put some thought into it. 

Spontaneity a wise man said, is an action that lacks depth of thoughts but propelled by a desire for instant self gratification. 

Products can be improved because the processes are documented and thus reviewed once and again. 

Your thought life can not be greater than the quality of information you expose your mind to.    Zero exposure to relevant information, zero level of quality thoughts, which implies poor seeds which will result into poor out comes. 

I recently heard that AN AVERAGE BILLIONAIRE READS TWO BOOKS IN A WEEK. WOW! So, they basically renew their minds, to improve the quality of their thoughts (seeds). 

How many books have I finished in the past 90 days? What am I reading at the moment? 

This BOOK of the law, shall not depart out of your mouth but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe and do according to all that is written in it. For THEN  YOU SHALL  MAKE THY WAY PROSPEROUS and YOU SHALL DEAL WISELY AND HAVE GOOD SUCCESS. Joshua 1:8 (The Amplified).

...deal wisely...in all your seed sown (steps to be taken)

It's time for you to have Quality Harvest, till when next you visit this blog keep IMPROVING  THE QUALITY OF THE SEED!

WHAT IS YOUR PRACTICE?

As children most of struggled with the multiplication table (Tables 2 to 12). Personally, I only got to master it when I was 13 years old. How did that happen? 

I was privileged to have an academic mentor who oversaw my learning. I didn't study anything new, he only made me DO THEM REPEATEDLY FOR LENGTHY HOURS (minimum 4 hours study after school and 8 hours study during weekends). Initially, I grumbled and complained but I always completed ALL THE WORK (academic) given to me. 

One day, he said to me "KNOWLEDGE IS IN THREE LEVELS"

1. Acquisition of Knowledge 

2. Understanding of the Knowledge acquired 

3. Mastery of Knowledge (applied knowledge)

He told me most people who claim they know, are most times on level 1. Very few, manage to get up to level 2. He continued by saying there is only one principle to change from one level to the next.

PRACTICE! PRACTICE!! PRACTICE!!!

The truth is, I left secondary school as a Mathematics Authority (at that level), no need to say how my school in my time worn trophies in Maths Quizzes. I Finished and immediately started making earnings as a Private Maths Tutor at age 17.

You can have a skill, a gifting or a calling...but until you commit to lengthy hours of Practice, it will not speak. 

Check all sports men who make headlines, find out about their WORK ETHIC. I will tell you what you will see...UNTIRING DEDICATION TO PRACTICE...PRACTICE...PRACTICE! 

Do you want to be the best in your field?

Do you want to be a global authority in your discipline?

PRACTICE is the master key! 

There is NOTHING impossible to learn. It's a question of, how much we want to commit to the Practice of it. 

Hear Paul's advice to a young Preacher...

...till (continuously devote) I come, give attendance to reading...neglect (fail not to practice) not the gift that is in thee...meditate upon these things...GIVE THYSELF WHOLLY TO THEM...that thy profiting (success) may appear unto ALL (global success). 1 Tim. 4:13-15

How much time do you really devote to your skill? The above text suggests: GIVE YOURSELF WHOLLY...

It's time for the world to come to your business address. It is time your voice gets heard. The choice and the decision is yours.

What's your Practice and how have you been Practicing?

Till when next you visit this blog, KEEP PRACTICING!

YOU CAN DO MORE

Self appreciation is a very good tool for inspiration; it is great to look at how far you have come and then take time out and digest that feeling of accomplishment. The biggest challenge is dwelling there for longer than necessary. 

It is time to think a step ahead of your last success...it is time to DO MORE! 

You can choose to be a Conqueror or "more than a conqueror" 

You can choose to be just an employee or be "more than an employee"

You can choose to be just a student or be "more than a student"

The key is DO MORE! 

...By faith Abel offered unto God a MORE EXCELLENT sacrifice than Cain,  by which he obtained witness...God testifying of his gifts...Heb. 11:4

O boy! Did you see that? 

They were both excellent but Abel was MORE excellent...and God also attested to it.

When God attests to your DOING MORE, your promotion will be unstoppable. Can a man (boss/manager) stop an employee whom God has approved from being promoted?

It's time to do more...

In your business...DO MORE

At your work place...DO MORE

In your relationship...DO MORE

With your Children...DO MORE

With your keeping fit...DO MORE

With your Personal Discipline...DO MORE

With your drive for excellence...DO MORE

In your relationship with God....DO MORE

Till when next you visit this blog...keep DOING MORE!

AUGUST THEME

Dear Friend, 

Congratulations and welcome to a brand new Month.

Have you ever come across people in life who always feel entitled? They assume the world owes them something: they blame everyone and everything for where they are in life and even when you try to help them...they believe they are entitled to so much more. 

A young man named Jephthah was in a critical position once and he asked for help...but when he didn't get help...hear what Jeph had to say..

"...and when I saw that ye delivered me not, I PUT MY LIFE IN MY HANDS, and passed over against the children of Ammon...and the LORD delivered them INTO MY HAND..." Judges 12:1-3 (KJV, paraphrase are author's).

Jeph did not put his life in the hands of the Government, hands of Friends, hands of Family members, not even in the hands of his spiritual leader...He put his life IN HIS HANDS.

Until He put his own life in his hands (accepting FULL RESPONSIBILITY), God did not deliver his enemies into his hands. 

Why not join me this month, as we explore the theme PUT YOUR LIFE IN YOUR HANDS. 

Congratulations once again and Happy New Month! 

THE PATH TO GUARANTEED INCREASE

I do not seem to get this Maths question, the little girl said angrily. 

It is almost three months and the business is yet to pick, said James to Jane. 

I can see you have a story of what 'seem' not to be working which is currently making you feel discouraged. I have good news for you, because today will be the last day, you will ever be stuck on your task or dream. Let us see a very simple scripture to help:

''...I ASSURE you, most solemly I tell you. UNLESS a grain of wheat falls  into the earth and dies, it remains (just one grain; it never becomes more but lives) by itself alone; BUT IF IT DIES, IT PRODUCES many others and YIELDS A RICH HARVEST...'' John 12:24

Wow! Rich Harvest, now that is mouth watering, right?

1. Be TOTALLY IMMERSED (Fall into the earth):

Have you ever wondered at people who want to excel in a task but who do not want to give their all? Can you imaging how effective the grain of wheat will be, if it is partly immersed in the earth and partly outside? Would it yield a rich harvest?

How much of you is immersed into that assignment? How much are you sacrificing? Dear friends, I tell you, it will take a TOTALLY IMMERSED attitude towards our task before we would strike the core of our rich harvest.

2. Be numb to distractions (..and die..):

When Something is dead, it is no longer sensitive to what goes/happens around. How boring? Yes, but that is what it takes. When a student claim to be reading and they have got their eyes on the TV at the same time, can such a student make an 'A'? They might have the potential but if they do not apply themselves properly to their task, that potential will never be realised. It is time to be 'dead'. Stop distracting yourself. When you say you are going to work, ''go to work'', when you say you are going to the Library, please do study...leave the sports papers and the DVDs alone.

Why should you settle for less when you can have a rich harvest?

Every seed has a potential to becoming a forest, but until it is properly planted, it would never maximise its potential.

YOUR LIFE IS A SEED!

Till when next you visit this blog, KEEP YIELDING A RICH HARVEST WITH YOUR ASSIGNMENT AND YOUR LIFE. 

NO WEEKENDS 3

Years ago, I read a book titled "AN ENEMY CALLED AVERAGE". 

Lately, I have come to conclude THE real ENEMY is not AVERAGE, because AVERAGE is just an output of some type of input. 

The real enemy is "HALF-HEARTED" Commitment. It's a commitment that doesn't stretch you.

A prophet died indebted and the creditors were to take his two sons as slaves: Elisha, the man of God asked the widow what she had? In her response, she said,  she had nothing but a jar of oil...Elisha gave her a specific instruction: 

"Go borrow...vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; BORROW NOT A FEW (Don't hold back..go all the way).." 2 Kings 4:3 (KJV Paraphrase are author's). 

Now, she did what was instructed, however, God could only fill as much vessels as she gathered. By the time the vessels were all filled, the miracle in the oil stopped. She sold them and paid off the debt of her dead husband.

WHAT IF SHE GAVE HER ALL and got twice or thrice as much vessels as she initially gathered? 

Friends, God CANNOT BLESS YOU BEYOND YOUR STRETCH. Elisha asked her to go beyond the vessels she had...He said "GO ABROAD","BORROW NOT A FEW". 

There is a deluge of Success coming your way...but it will demand a STRETCHED Commitment. 

Don't tell me "I believe I can make it to the top" until you tell me, how much you want to sacrifice: How much of your time, resources, sleep and comfort that you want to give up for your dream. 

Why waste valuable time in the name of "it's a weekend"? Let your Productive input to your goal go beyond week days. 

Ordinary men talk about "hours of input", Average men talk about "diligence" but men who reach out to the world talk "Sacrificial Commitment".

No one is to blame for your level of success!

You will not fail!

Good morning and Happy New Week!

MAY THEME: NO WEEKENDS

Congratulations and welcome to a brand new Month

Jesus was speaking once, when he established a powerful success principle; he said 

"...whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain..." Matt. 5:41

He was simply asking you to go the extra mile for another person; but the question is...How does that translate to you? It simply suggests that, when it comes to your business...you should at least always go the extra mile. 

This Month, we will be considering the theme NO WEEKENDS and our focus will be on Commitment. 

Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do, long after the mood you said it in has left you. 

Your dreams don't recognise, weekends...it demands your full commitment. 

Congratulations once again and happy new month!