I will be sharing two tips each day until I exhaust my notes from one of my mentors. I know it is going to get you up and going about realizing your dreams. This note has changed my mentality about some things and I know it would bring about a drastic change in your life as well.
Since this is the first, I’d like to start with putting up three tips. I am excited about the change this blog post will bring about in your life. Just make sure you put down applicable ideas that pop up once you read through. Thanks!
1. Stop living in tomorrow
Yes it is good to anticipate the future. It is good to expect great things to happen. It is true that the things that come to us are the things we expect. But the mistake most of us are guilty of is expecting things to happen without actually putting in effort to see that these things, these expectations, become reality. We get spiritual about success (yes it is spiritual) that we forget there is work to be done. We must learn to move from our ‘tomorrow’ to our ‘now.’ This would alter a lot about us. We should learn to put our expectations on paper and draft conscientiously, ways we intend to bring our expectations to reality. The good book says, only the works of our hands are blessed. Yes, our thoughts decide what we become, but more so, the thoughts we commit ourselves to doing, is what we end up benefiting from. No one gets millions simply by imagination. So write the vision and draft at step-by-step means by which that vision would become reality.
2. Stop living in yesterday
Our past, especially the negative, has a way of holding us firmly. It is usually hard to let go of the past especially when it hurts. We tend to slide into that place of pain whenever we are alone. Our past sometimes has the best of us so much so that we forget all the good things that are possible when we let go. Our past failure holds us for ransom and we tend to ruin the new relationships we have built, we treat people based on the opinion we have gathered of how we were treated in the past. It is hard to let go of the past.
If we must take hold of the beautiful future, we must learn to take the lessons from our past and forge ahead to make something blissful of our future.
Also, the good things we have experienced in the past tend to constrain us. For some of us, we tend to celebrate these good happenings too much we forget there is a better place we must get to. We must leave where we are in order to get to were we are meant to be. A wise man in the good book says is this way "I press for the mark..." We must press for more success. Remember success is not a destination. Success is finishing a task and forging for more task ahead! Success is a journey of accumulated finished task. Even when we fail, we can succeed in rising up and forging ahead still.
3. Make sure your company of friends and your environment is pushing you in the direction you want to go.
Sometimes the mistake we often make is having dreams, goals and aspirations without creating conducive environment to see to the realization of these dreams. We are often caught in the web of distractions as a result of the environment we find ourselves. We must not wait for the right environment. We must create the environment that pushes us towards achieving our dreams. A writer should have books around him and people also who push him to read and to write. He must avoid an environment of complacency. He must have mentors who push him when he gets tired of doing so himself. You must create an environment that encourages you to push some more.
Keep the right friends. You do not want friends who pet you when you feel discouraged. Yes, it is the normal thing to desire friends who will comfort you. But the bad side of it is that, comfort doesn’t always bring about the actualization of dreams and goals. Comfort usually paves way for the abortion of dreams. The comfort zone should not be a friend to anyone who wants to achieve greatness in life. You must step out of that zone. And to do this, we must get the right company of friends that push us consistently in the direction we are sometimes scared or reluctant to go.
Here you go!
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@andreyyte
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