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Hello Nigerians! Forget About the Past, You Have Potentials for the Future
Hello Nigerians! Forget About the Past, You Have Potentials for the Future
Hello Nigerians! Forget About the Past, You Have Potentials for the Future
Often times when you listen to Nigerian politicians and the citizens talk about Nigeria, all you hear them say is lamenting and complaining about the past and why the country is in the state it is. They complain about all the errors of the past and how negatively they have affected the nation’s progress.
However, you don’t hear them bring solutions and way forwards to reviving the nation and setting it on its toes again. It seems to me that all we are interested in is our past mistakes and shortfalls. We are almost always looking backwards to the past. Not many of us know that we are making a grave mistake by doing that.
If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you
-Brad Paisley
Permit me to say that such attitudes will in no way make us a better nation, neither will it prepare us for the great future that lies ahead of us though unseen by a greater percentage of our populace. If we spend all our energy and time talking about the past mistakes and looking backwards, we will soon be heading in that direction. It simply shows that we are not focusing on the road in front of us.
We often forget that the past is gone and that we still have the future in front of us. We still have the ability to create the future that we want for our nation. We still have potentials for the future.
The same is true for your personal life. If you keep looking backwards to your past mistakes or past achievements, you lose sight of the potentials you still have for the future. The past is gone, the future is ahead of you. It is what you do with your potentials today that will determine how great your future will become. So let’s stop looking backwards. We will hardly move forward if we don’t stop looking backwards.
It is not possible to go forward while looking backwards
-Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Nigeria is a blessed nation. Just look at the potentials and natural resources that we have. Nigeria is one of those countries in the world that has a wide variety of different natural resources. We are richly endowed with a variety of natural resources ranging from precious metals like gold, lead, zinc, Iron ore, manganese copper etc. to various stones like limestone, Gemstone, cassiterite, etc. to industrial resources such as Barites, Gypsum, Kaolin, Marble etc.
Unfortunately, most of these resources are yet to be exploited. Statistically, the level of exploitation of these minerals is very low in relation to the extent of deposit found in the country. What about our crude oil and natural gas? What about cocoa, cassava, palm oil, rice and all other agricultural products that we could harness and export to other countries. Nigeria also has large human resources with a population of about 180million people. It is my belief that we are too blessed and potentially endowed to be an economically recessed nation. All we need is to recognize and convert our potentials.
If we could just harness the potentials of our agricultural sector alone, we could develop our country twice faster than it is now. What if we could get all our refineries to function and build more refineries so as to refine our crude oil by ourselves and not having to import finished products! Can you imagine how that will boost our economy?
What about our taking advantage of our large population and tapping into the potentials of every citizen through skill acquisition programs, agricultural and scientific research schemes, small and medium scale entrepreneurial coaching, academic workshops etc. harnessing potentials and encouraging human capacity development, wouldn’t we raise the likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt, wouldn’t we raise men like JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie who will through the power of their potentials specialize in building various sectors of the economy, from railway industries, to oil industries, to steel, to automobile and even the banking sector.
I appreciate what our own economist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Tony Elumelu is doing to raise young and upcoming entrepreneurs in Nigeria. I also recognize the work our industrialist Aliko Dangote has done in the industrial sector of the nation. If we could get more people who would recognize the potentials we have as a nation and who will work hard to convert those potentials into industries, businesses, processes of production and schools, etc for the benefit of the entire nation, we would soon become a great nation.
It is my belief that we have more than enough potentials to develop our nation and make our nation a praise in the earth. We, therefore, have potentials for the future. That is why we must forget about the past and focus on our potentials for the future. Marilyn Ferguson got it right when she said:
“Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.”
All we need to do is to recognize our potentials, believe in ourselves and convert those potentials into industries and processes of production that will engineer the economic growth and prosperity that our nation needs.
Believe me, friends, we can liberate the future of our nation. We have the potentials, all we need to do is to work on those potentials and use them to build a nation that will become the envy of the world.
To learn more about solutions and way forward to making Nigeria the envy of the world, read my book by clicking the links below.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077S8T55C?... and https://www.okadabooks.com/book/about...
Hello Nigerians! Forget About the Past, You Have Potentials for the Future
Often times when you listen to Nigerian politicians and the citizens talk about Nigeria, all you hear them say is lamenting and complaining about the past and why the country is in the state it is. They complain about all the errors of the past and how negatively they have affected the nation’s progress.
However, you don’t hear them bring solutions and way forwards to reviving the nation and setting it on its toes again. It seems to me that all we are interested in is our past mistakes and shortfalls. We are almost always looking backwards to the past. Not many of us know that we are making a grave mistake by doing that.
If you make the mistake of looking back too much, you aren’t focused enough on the road in front of you
-Brad Paisley
Permit me to say that such attitudes will in no way make us a better nation, neither will it prepare us for the great future that lies ahead of us though unseen by a greater percentage of our populace. If we spend all our energy and time talking about the past mistakes and looking backwards, we will soon be heading in that direction. It simply shows that we are not focusing on the road in front of us.
We often forget that the past is gone and that we still have the future in front of us. We still have the ability to create the future that we want for our nation. We still have potentials for the future.
The same is true for your personal life. If you keep looking backwards to your past mistakes or past achievements, you lose sight of the potentials you still have for the future. The past is gone, the future is ahead of you. It is what you do with your potentials today that will determine how great your future will become. So let’s stop looking backwards. We will hardly move forward if we don’t stop looking backwards.
It is not possible to go forward while looking backwards
-Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
Nigeria is a blessed nation. Just look at the potentials and natural resources that we have. Nigeria is one of those countries in the world that has a wide variety of different natural resources. We are richly endowed with a variety of natural resources ranging from precious metals like gold, lead, zinc, Iron ore, manganese copper etc. to various stones like limestone, Gemstone, cassiterite, etc. to industrial resources such as Barites, Gypsum, Kaolin, Marble etc.
Unfortunately, most of these resources are yet to be exploited. Statistically, the level of exploitation of these minerals is very low in relation to the extent of deposit found in the country. What about our crude oil and natural gas? What about cocoa, cassava, palm oil, rice and all other agricultural products that we could harness and export to other countries. Nigeria also has large human resources with a population of about 180million people. It is my belief that we are too blessed and potentially endowed to be an economically recessed nation. All we need is to recognize and convert our potentials.
If we could just harness the potentials of our agricultural sector alone, we could develop our country twice faster than it is now. What if we could get all our refineries to function and build more refineries so as to refine our crude oil by ourselves and not having to import finished products! Can you imagine how that will boost our economy?
What about our taking advantage of our large population and tapping into the potentials of every citizen through skill acquisition programs, agricultural and scientific research schemes, small and medium scale entrepreneurial coaching, academic workshops etc. harnessing potentials and encouraging human capacity development, wouldn’t we raise the likes of Cornelius Vanderbilt, wouldn’t we raise men like JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Andrew Carnegie who will through the power of their potentials specialize in building various sectors of the economy, from railway industries, to oil industries, to steel, to automobile and even the banking sector.
I appreciate what our own economist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Tony Elumelu is doing to raise young and upcoming entrepreneurs in Nigeria. I also recognize the work our industrialist Aliko Dangote has done in the industrial sector of the nation. If we could get more people who would recognize the potentials we have as a nation and who will work hard to convert those potentials into industries, businesses, processes of production and schools, etc for the benefit of the entire nation, we would soon become a great nation.
It is my belief that we have more than enough potentials to develop our nation and make our nation a praise in the earth. We, therefore, have potentials for the future. That is why we must forget about the past and focus on our potentials for the future. Marilyn Ferguson got it right when she said:
“Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.”
All we need to do is to recognize our potentials, believe in ourselves and convert those potentials into industries and processes of production that will engineer the economic growth and prosperity that our nation needs.
Believe me, friends, we can liberate the future of our nation. We have the potentials, all we need to do is to work on those potentials and use them to build a nation that will become the envy of the world.
To learn more about solutions and way forward to making Nigeria the envy of the world, read my book by clicking the links below.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077S8T55C?... and https://www.okadabooks.com/book/about...
Without Self-Discipline, You Can’t Maximize Your Potentials
Without Self-Discipline
You Can’t Maximize Your Potentials
Dearly beloved, why do you think most people die with their potentials unused? Why do people discover their potentials and yet fail to maximize them? What is the main reason why people don’t fulfil their potentials and live their other lives(achieve their goals, dreams and ambition)? The answer is simple, Self-Discipline, the lack of it. You limit and resist yourself by your lack of self-discipline.
I will like us to start this discussion using the words of Daniel Goldstein:
If you set goals for yourself and you are like a lot of other people, you probably realize it’s not that your goals are physically impossible that’s keeping you from achieving them: it’s that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them…
Looking at the quote above, you will realize three things: the first is that people set goals for themselves, come up with dreams and visions of what they want to achieve. That is, they have a picture of how their second life(future goals, dreams and ambitions) should be like. Fortunately, the second thing is that all these dreams and aspirations are possible to achieve. They are not beyond reach, they are not impossible. Yet unfortunately, the third thing we notice is that people don’t always achieve those possible dreams, most people never fulfill one-tenth of their goals and aspiration.
In order words, though we have the potentials to enter into and fulfill our second life, we, however, don’t always enter. We waste all our potentials in the first life wishing and wishing and never acting. We often die with our potentials unused and unfulfilled not because we are faced with any external resistance but because we limit ourselves by our own lack of self-discipline.
Without self-discipline, you will never be able to maximize your potentials. Without self-discipline, your dreams will never become a reality. Without self-discipline, your goals will only remain on paper and never be realized. Without self -discipline, you will discover all the potentials you have to become the best of yourself, but you will never use them to your advantage. If you lack self-discipline you will only see from afar the beautiful future that awaits you but you will never get to enter into it.
Without self- discipline, people die with all their discovered potentials unused and all their foreseen dreams unfulfilled. Without self-discipline, you will have the potentials for becoming a king but you will die a slave. Without self-discipline, you could be so gifted and talented to become a champion and yet die without being celebrated and unheard of. Self-discipline is a kingmaker, self-discipline is the midwife for birthing greatness. Without self -discipline, potentials are useless and mediocrity becomes the plague of life. No wonder Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States proclaimed the following:
“The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream”.
If you must be numbered among the achievers of our days, the great names that history will never forget, you must cultivate one habit, and that is self -discipline. If you want to live an exceptional life, a life worthy of emulation, a life of influence and positive impact, you must first learn self-discipline.
The difference between people who fulfill and maximize their potentials and those who die with their potentials is self -discipline. The difference between those who die wishing and those who fulfill their wish before they die is self-discipline. If you don’t want to live a life of mediocrity, you must above every other thing, put on the virtue of self-discipline.
The problem is not that your dreams are not achievable, the problem is not that you don’t have the potentials to maximize your purpose, your primary problem is that you lack the self-discipline to work out your dreams and maximize your potentials. Your dreams and visions are very much possible but without self-discipline, you will hastily conclude that they are not a possibility. Without self-discipline, you exempt yourself from greatness. Without self-discipline, greatness will elude you.
What then is this self-discipline? The answer is found here:
“Self-Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, even when you don’t feel like doing it”
-Anonymous
You promised to read one leadership book per week, are you sticking to that?
You promised to study six hours per day, are you doing that?
You promised to author one book every month, how far have you kept your promise?
You promised to put in three hours of practice every day on the Piano, has that been fulfilled?
You said you were going to do a voice training every two days, are you doing that?
You said you were going to start up a blog and write articles every week, what is happening with that?
You proposed to train five hours every day on the football pitch, the basketball court, the swimming pool, etc. are you doing that?
You see, I could go on and on asking similar questions, but that will produce an unending list. People are quick to make resolutions and write down goals but are very slow and lethargic when it’s time to fulfill them. The problem is not that it is bad to have goals and dreams, but one must also be ready to fulfill them. There is no difference between a man who died with his goals and dreams unfulfilled and a man who never had one. Both will die with their potentials and as mediocre.
Most people often come up with excuses why they don’t maximize their potentials or live a great life. Some blame witches and enemies, others blame circumstances and backgrounds. The truth, however, is that it is not because you are troubled by some family witches that you are not successful in life. It is not because you were born into a poor family that you are not living a life of greatness. Neither is it because your country has corrupt leadership that you are not fulfilling your potentials, it is for the singular reason that you lack self-discipline. Your dreams are far-fetched because you lack self-discipline. Your goals are not accomplished because you are resisting yourself by your lack of self-discipline. If you must reach your goals and fulfill your potentials you must have self-discipline. The reason is that:
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments
-Jim Rohn
To get the complete book on how to turn your potentials into greatness click here YOUR POTENTIALS- THE SOURCE OF YOUR GREATNESS OR OKADABOOKS
You Can’t Maximize Your Potentials
Dearly beloved, why do you think most people die with their potentials unused? Why do people discover their potentials and yet fail to maximize them? What is the main reason why people don’t fulfil their potentials and live their other lives(achieve their goals, dreams and ambition)? The answer is simple, Self-Discipline, the lack of it. You limit and resist yourself by your lack of self-discipline.
I will like us to start this discussion using the words of Daniel Goldstein:
If you set goals for yourself and you are like a lot of other people, you probably realize it’s not that your goals are physically impossible that’s keeping you from achieving them: it’s that you lack the self-discipline to stick to them…
Looking at the quote above, you will realize three things: the first is that people set goals for themselves, come up with dreams and visions of what they want to achieve. That is, they have a picture of how their second life(future goals, dreams and ambitions) should be like. Fortunately, the second thing is that all these dreams and aspirations are possible to achieve. They are not beyond reach, they are not impossible. Yet unfortunately, the third thing we notice is that people don’t always achieve those possible dreams, most people never fulfill one-tenth of their goals and aspiration.
In order words, though we have the potentials to enter into and fulfill our second life, we, however, don’t always enter. We waste all our potentials in the first life wishing and wishing and never acting. We often die with our potentials unused and unfulfilled not because we are faced with any external resistance but because we limit ourselves by our own lack of self-discipline.
Without self-discipline, you will never be able to maximize your potentials. Without self-discipline, your dreams will never become a reality. Without self-discipline, your goals will only remain on paper and never be realized. Without self -discipline, you will discover all the potentials you have to become the best of yourself, but you will never use them to your advantage. If you lack self-discipline you will only see from afar the beautiful future that awaits you but you will never get to enter into it.
Without self- discipline, people die with all their discovered potentials unused and all their foreseen dreams unfulfilled. Without self-discipline, you will have the potentials for becoming a king but you will die a slave. Without self-discipline, you could be so gifted and talented to become a champion and yet die without being celebrated and unheard of. Self-discipline is a kingmaker, self-discipline is the midwife for birthing greatness. Without self -discipline, potentials are useless and mediocrity becomes the plague of life. No wonder Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States proclaimed the following:
“The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream”.
If you must be numbered among the achievers of our days, the great names that history will never forget, you must cultivate one habit, and that is self -discipline. If you want to live an exceptional life, a life worthy of emulation, a life of influence and positive impact, you must first learn self-discipline.
The difference between people who fulfill and maximize their potentials and those who die with their potentials is self -discipline. The difference between those who die wishing and those who fulfill their wish before they die is self-discipline. If you don’t want to live a life of mediocrity, you must above every other thing, put on the virtue of self-discipline.
The problem is not that your dreams are not achievable, the problem is not that you don’t have the potentials to maximize your purpose, your primary problem is that you lack the self-discipline to work out your dreams and maximize your potentials. Your dreams and visions are very much possible but without self-discipline, you will hastily conclude that they are not a possibility. Without self-discipline, you exempt yourself from greatness. Without self-discipline, greatness will elude you.
What then is this self-discipline? The answer is found here:
“Self-Discipline is doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, even when you don’t feel like doing it”
-Anonymous
You promised to read one leadership book per week, are you sticking to that?
You promised to study six hours per day, are you doing that?
You promised to author one book every month, how far have you kept your promise?
You promised to put in three hours of practice every day on the Piano, has that been fulfilled?
You said you were going to do a voice training every two days, are you doing that?
You said you were going to start up a blog and write articles every week, what is happening with that?
You proposed to train five hours every day on the football pitch, the basketball court, the swimming pool, etc. are you doing that?
You see, I could go on and on asking similar questions, but that will produce an unending list. People are quick to make resolutions and write down goals but are very slow and lethargic when it’s time to fulfill them. The problem is not that it is bad to have goals and dreams, but one must also be ready to fulfill them. There is no difference between a man who died with his goals and dreams unfulfilled and a man who never had one. Both will die with their potentials and as mediocre.
Most people often come up with excuses why they don’t maximize their potentials or live a great life. Some blame witches and enemies, others blame circumstances and backgrounds. The truth, however, is that it is not because you are troubled by some family witches that you are not successful in life. It is not because you were born into a poor family that you are not living a life of greatness. Neither is it because your country has corrupt leadership that you are not fulfilling your potentials, it is for the singular reason that you lack self-discipline. Your dreams are far-fetched because you lack self-discipline. Your goals are not accomplished because you are resisting yourself by your lack of self-discipline. If you must reach your goals and fulfill your potentials you must have self-discipline. The reason is that:
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments
-Jim Rohn
To get the complete book on how to turn your potentials into greatness click here YOUR POTENTIALS- THE SOURCE OF YOUR GREATNESS OR OKADABOOKS
