Success Loves Speed

 

Success Loves Speed

 

Have you heard of the phrases "money loves speed" or "success loves speed"?

It's something I've read a lot.

Marketers use it as a sales pitch to persuade prospects to act right away.

Some people use it as a source of encouragement to keep them from procrastinating.

But, success loves pace,' in my opinion, is not a sales pitch or a motivational quote.

My understanding is that when an idea hits, we must move quickly before the next door closes behind us.

The law of attraction will begin to function when we have a specific target in mind. 

We might get an idea to do something out of nowhere. 

When this happens, we must act quickly for two reasons.

1) The concept is a goal that you must achieve. The quicker you finish it, the sooner you'll be able to see the next goal.

You must not only complete it quickly, but you must also give it your all; otherwise, the next idea will not come.

Life is like a game, which is fascinating. You can't step on to the next stage until the current one is over.

Many people are trapped in life because they didn't give it their all or because they procrastinate to an unhealthy degree.

2) If you do not act quickly, the window of opportunity will close.

My mother was really concerned when I was in my early twenties and had been jobless for more than a year (I left after reading Think And Grow Rich, LOL). She knew I wouldn't listen to her, so she suggested I speak with a wealthy businessman who was a friend of my father's.

I did it because I had a business idea that needed to be funded!

My father's friend later became a business associate in my first venture.

Why did he want to team up with a complete noob like me?

He, too, had a reason.

He had a son who was roughly my age. He wasn't inspired to work because he was born with a silver spoon. My father's friend was looking for someone to work with his son and inspire him, and that's when I stepped in.

This chance may have been lost if I had waited.

Despite the fact that this opportunity cost us $50,000 in our first business venture, it taught me a valuable lesson.

In addition, that classmate of my father's became a close friend and mentor to me. He'd taught me a lot about business and investing from him.

Returning to today's subject, success adores pace.

If you have a specific target in mind, you can act quickly on any new ideas that come to mind.

The next idea will come when you finish one and learn the lesson.

You simply keep working on the next concept and studying the lessons before you reach your target.

 

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Are You 18 - 25 Years Old?

I want to tell you something

Right now, you are in the age bracket where things happen - the good, the bad, the ugly and sometimes even the very ugly.

Your hormones are raging wild and you want to taste all the tasteables

You want to impress your mates and show them that you are no baby any longer

You want to prove that you are now a man or woman as the case may be

And so you spend time on social media sites comparing notes

You upload pictures of things that you have never done and claim that they are really from you

You visit the Kardashians' Instagram Pages and you wonder why you are not like them

You visit Jeff Besos' instagram page and you think that he's stinkingly rich and yet he does not know you

Let me tell you something

All those seconds and minutes and hours you spend on Instagram and other social media sites comparing notes with people you don't know and may never get to meet in person and wishing that you were like them is WASTED TIME

It is time you should channel into doing something creative to better your lot in life

One fact you need to allow sink into your brain right now is that social media life is a false life - most people photoshop pictures and post on their handles pretending to be doing what the pictures say but in real life, they are not like that, so when you watch such posts and you get envious or jealous or even angry at your God, you are losing it.

And such a feeling makes you want to taste success in a hurry as a matter of NOW, forgetting that "success is not a destination, it is a journey"

At this age of yours, chances are that you are either in a Higher Institution of Learning or you actually, have graduated.

Now if you're still a student, how are you using your time?

Playing around most of the time?

taking in all junks in terms of food and drinks and the others?

chasing all in skirts or trousers?

having flings here and there, sowing your wild oats?

being a party freak?

having good times, so much fun?

Allowing your mates to convince and confuse you?

And then remembering to read only when the Examination Time Table is released? Yes??

Does anyone still need to ask why you have a certificate but cannot defend your degree?

Does anyone still need to ask why you are unable to make one complete sentence in English without adding a local exclamation or even broken words?

Let's say you are already a Graduate and peradventure you are serving your Fatherland if you're a Nigerian; all that talk about you acquiring skills for a living make no sense to you because your Pastor or Imam has told you that "Your case is different" and that "Companies will locate you in your house and give you an appointment letter"

Your mind is sold to "getting a good job after service" and when you're asked what constitutes a good job, you're like "a good pay with other perks"

The fact that so many other persons who were also told by their Pastors and Imams that their cases were different  but who have spent years waiting for their cases to become different in a world filled with indifference does not seem obvious to you

So you finish youth service and with no other skills except the certificate you're banding around and with no other plan except to "pick up a good job with good pay in a good Company" you start counting the years 1 year, 2 years, 3 years and your Pastor or Imam still keeps telling you that your case is different - but of course it has become.

Then you arrive at that frustration point where you're forced by circumstances to pick up a job quite below your expectations and then you start the 9 to 5 grind at a job you hate with a passion but have to do so as to have a meal on your dining table and your singsong becomes "30 days make 1 meal"

The time to pick sense my friend is NOW

When you're in School, do exactly what you were sent there to do - READ

Don't just cram to pass examinations, read to understand the subject so that you will be able to defend your degree when you eventually earn it

When you're serving, take nothing for granted, learn whatever skill you can "don't just burn the time on your hands, use it effectively"

Arm yourself with Plans A, B, C, and even D so that when the service year is over, you won't only be dropping CVs all over the place, but you'll be busy making a life

Making a good life is a process that comes with patience. You must have to fall in love with the process, you must deploy patience while executing the process

The process is not automatic unless you were born with a golden spoon in your mouth but if you were born without any spoon in your mouth at all, then you've got to establish the process of making a good life and that starts right at this age bracket (18 - 25)

Decide what you want out of life and then go and build it

Today, go and start a side hustle. If you've got digital skills, then deploy them to digital marketing.

The old popular saying that "Slow and steady wins the race" is still very much apt even in the now because like I said earlier - "Life is a marathon and not a sprint"

And right now, drop all forms of competition; just know that you're competing with yourself

Every day, work on improving yourself by 1% and in 100 days time, you would have hit 100%

Decide, Plan, Act, Succeed, rinse and repeat - that's the solid key to success

And if you're 18 to 25 years of age, you are in the best time of life - use it WISELY

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Are You Doing It?

When you know within yourself that there's something you want to do 

and I believe that each of us was born with a purpose

I believe that all of us have something that we are supposed to do

and that all of us have some goodness within us 

and that goodness gives us a responsibility to manifest our greatness

So for you to have your dream come through it's necessary that you have to work on it

that you develop yourself

that you go for what is yours in the universe Every single day you wake up you better be

spending time with your dream

you better keep it on the front burner

You better be visualizing every single day

There's no time to waste, you must give the realization of your dream a sense of urgency

that's the character

Your pursuit is not of titles, nor of success in itself, it is the character that defines success which in turn, defines the theme and it starts right there

Right where you are now - whether you are in the Gym or in the Training Room or in the field of play or in the Laboratory, you better when others are sleeping, you better be working when they are lazying around

If you have to be a champion, you simply have got to develop the champion mentality, do it when it is most difficult

This is your dream, you are the driver so expect no other person to come to your aid, do it

the problem with some people is that they want someone else to support their dream

But the dream is yours

so if you want to make it happen, then you've got to it your all

You have to take the waves in high tide and low tide, in shallow waters and deep waters

if you want it bad enough then you have to go out and fight for it day and night

You must give up the pleasures of life for a season to make your dream come through

You must give up the time you spend on worthless and meaningless and unfruitful conversations to brainstorm on the ways and means of achieving your dreams

because if you fail to, life would seem useless and worthless without it

but when you do achieve it, you'd be  glad that your sweat was not in vain

You have got to lose all your terror of the opposition, of the naysayers, of the negs

You've to focus with a single mind on your course - the mission of your life - with faith, hope, confidence and tenacity.

Neither heat nor cold, nor poverty nor hunger, nor mild sickness should keep you away from working on your goals every single day

Now concerning life, it is pertinent that you know that life is always changing

sometimes you're up sometimes you're down

So you need to know and be aware of the fact that things are not going to work out exactly right at all times

Sometimes they will sometimes they will not and that's when life is just playing the game with you

It's not about how talented you are

It's not about your degrees or other certifications

It's not even about how hardworking and dedicated you are 

there'll always be the times when things aren't going to go right they'll just go wrong

Those are the times when anything that can happen will happen

but during those down moments that's

where the growth takes place

that's where the work is

Anybody can feel good

when they have their health,

their bills are paid

they have loving and happy relationships

anybody can be positive then

anybody can have a larger vision then

anybody can have faith under those kinds of

circumstances

Who Said It'd Be Easy?

It's not easy

It's hard to change your life

I'm talking about the problem in your life

I don't know how you're handling it but you just have to handle it

because the problem will not just go away on its own,

you've got to handle it.

You can't sleep it away,

you can't drink it away;

you'll wake up from your sleep and it's right there beside you starring you in the face

tormenting you

You'd become sober after your drunken stupor and it will be right there hurting you the more; it's always tugging at the very fabric of your soul, you wish it's not there but anywhere and everywhere you look, it's waving at you and tormenting you

So I'm telling you today to DEAL with your problem;

and the sooner you deal with it, the sooner you get your rewards,

the sooner you get on the other side of it, the sooner you begin to feel fulfillment

The sooner you get on the other side of your problem, the sooner you'd be on the side of self-actualization and your dream becomes a reality

The sooner you get on the other side of your problem, the sooner you'd find out that there-in lies the world of success

The sooner you deal with the fact that you have anxieties, the sooner you'd be a free person

Deal with it, it's not the end of the world

Deal with the problem because when you do, you'd create a solution for it and you just get over it - Deal with it

That you and your children don't have the best of relationships - deal with it

Deal with the fact that you are procrastinating

Deal with the fact that it's hard for you to execute things

Deal with the fact that every time something happens, you're so worried about it

Deal with the fact that you have this attack of nerves (anxiety) every time you're about to reach another level of success

Deal with the fact that you're struggling with your success

Deal with the fact that you feel guilty that you're successful - deal with it

Start working on your dream

Most people don't work on their dreams because of either the fear of failure - they can't handle shame because they don't think it will work out - or fear of success - what if things work out and they can't handle it? -

Again most people don't work on their dreams because they become comfortable with who they are at the present time - that's their comfort zone -

they stop growing,

they stop working on themselves,

they stop stretching, they stop pushing themselves,

they stop expanding and start contracting and they end up becoming cynical about life and they then throw in the towel on themselves, on their family members, on their dreams.

And the other thing is that most people don't feel worthy of success because they did not have a College Degree or they take to heart what other people are saying to them and they do not believe in themselves and so they fail to act on their ideas.

Let  me tell you something my friend

All you need to achieve success is a belief in yourself and your capabilities and a belief in your Creator - Your Silent Senior Partner -

So it's possible for you to choose your future and to create it

but to do that, it's necessary for you to work on yourself and develop yourself

It's necessary that you get the energy drainers out of your life - people who don't want anything out of life, people who are not challenging themselves anymore,

people who are no longer striving,

people who have given up on life,

people who are not growing,

people who have stopped dreaming -

these are the energy drainers you need to extrude them out of your life

It's necessary that you align yourself with people who are hungry for success,

people who are unstoppable,

people who are refusing to live life just as it is (default mode), people who are asking more out of life,

people who would not take no for an answer.

There's this popular saying that "birds of the same feather flock together"

so if you run around with losers, you'll end up a loser.

It's necessary that you get the losers out of your life

If you want to change your life's default mode, it's necessary that you realize that no one is going to do that for you except you

And even though you face disappointments, even though you experience some set backs, it all comes with the territory.

If you are starting something new and you call for meetings and no one attends, even if someone says to you "count me in" and they don't come around, you won't just give up on yourself, you've got to continue believing in yourself, you've got to continue visioning your dreams and goals

and you've got to keep saying "It's never over until I win, until I succeed"

To succeed, you'll encounter difficulties, you'll meet obstacles, you'd fail severally, you'd be disappointed severally, even by your own family and trusted friends,

you'd suffer lots of setbacks,

you'd suffer anguish and pains, defeat will laugh at you most times

but if each you fall down, you rise again, you shall overcome.

The trials and temptations will teach you things that you didn't know you possessed like the fact that you have greatness inside of you,

the fact that you are powerful beyond measure

and the subtle fact that you're greater than your circumstances

and that you can't afford to go through life as if you were a victim when just a little more push would tilt you down the road to victory.

So I want to invite you right now to think about that your dream - yes that dream that won't let you have peace of mind,

that dream that won't let you sleep well,

that dream that makes your heart skip a beat, that dream that you wish you had all the money in the world to chase, pursue and close it in - yes that your dream

I want you to begin to envision it right now, visualize its completion, its attainment

Can You Do it?

Hello,

I have something to say to you

Don't you ever let someone or anyone tell you that you can't do something or anything you've set your heart on doing; so long as it will further your purpose on earth -

Don't listen to anyone - not your Mum, not your Dad, not your Teachers, not your best Uncles and Aunts and definitely not your peers and senior friends.

You have a dream? then you have to make great efforts to shield and protect your dream from dream killers.

Just because those people could not do what you want to do, does not in any way mean that you can't do it.

That they failed is the main reason why they project their failure to you by saying that you can't' do it but that's a big fat lie - you can do whatever you set your sights on doing and have a singleness of mind to pursue it to its logical conclusion.

You want something - Go get it period.

We are afraid not because we are inadequate, we are afraid because we are powerful beyond measure.

It's our light and not our darkness that most frightens us.

Your playing small in this world does not serve any purpose

There's  nothing enlightening about shrinking so that all those around you won't feel inferior;

we are meant to shine like children of light.

That Light is not just in some of us, it is in all of us and as we let our light shine, we constantly give other people permission to do the same - to let their own light shine too

As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others

Dream big

Never give up

help other people to achieve success and you will be successful

Remember, never ever give anyone permission to say to you that you can't do it because you can

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