Every normal person carries within a dream, a
wish and an expectation. We all have hopes and expectations concerning our
families, finances, careers and businesses. We want to succeed with all.We don't want to fail, we want to do well; we
want things to turn out well. We want our children to turn out well, our
marriages to work out, our finances to grow steadily and our lives to
experience peace, joy and fulfilment.
As sensible as these expectations are, wishing
and hoping aren't sufficient attributes for manifestation. You don't succeed
because you wish for it. You don't succeed because you talk about it, you don't
even succeed because you've planned for it; you only succeed when you act and work
hard at it.Many serious minded people every day get
motivated by different people and factors to make plans and even draw up
strategies for success.
Many speakers and teachers at seminars,
conferences and books, tapes, write ups keep emphasizing the need to have a
written out plan with goals and time lines for accomplishment.
Many individuals attempt to carry this out and
on paper it looks pretty good, exciting and realistic. In fact at that point,
some see how relatively easy it can be for them to be successful and they get
so excited about it. Instantly they feel inspired, motivated, elated and
confident. They begin to think and talk different about themselves and what
they hope to accomplish, predicated on this newly found answers to a successful
future.
They look around and see the opportunities,
means, access, ability and time for accomplishment. All their limitations and
restrictions tend to vanish instantly on the account of the discoveries and
they become very happy.
Then hours turn into days, days into weeks,
weeks into months and months into years and nothing has been done, nothing
activated, nothing accomplished.
The dream, the plan, the goals become very
distant and vague as though it was a figment of their imagination. They have
reverted slowly but steadily to that state of mind and condition void of
possibilities and opportunities.
And the excitement of the possibilities they
once saw, and the plans they passionately developed become a thing of the past
and they slip back into that life of endurance, pressure and hopelessness as it
were. They're back to where they started.
Although they have an awareness of the
consequence of failure, these guys just appear clueless and helpless about
their situation as it continues to degenerate. Hence they keep returning to
books and speakers and tapes and events to motivate them again. Yet they do
nothing with it.
Suddenly with time, it becomes tough to pay
bills; school fees, the house rent, tough to maintain or replace a car, tough
to sustain the family and answer to responsibilities. It becomes really tough.
Worse still there appears no possible ways out of this. The possibilities they
once saw, the plans they had have been devoured by a terrible habit called
procrastination.
I want you to pause for a moment and just
think of your typical working day. What exactly do you do from morning to
evening? As soon as you're awake, what do you do per hour until it's time to go
to bed again? Think about it.
For a lot of people they just take their day
as it comes, they have no plans for each day. They just have a regular routine
of activities and they abide by it. For example, they wake up in the morning,
get ready for work, go to the office, carry out tasks and responsibilities as
handed to them, go for break and when its closing time leave the office. Maybe
hang out with the guys for a few hours after work and for the ladies branch at
the mart to buy one or two items along the way before going home, some go for
weekday religious activities and many especially in busy cities spend much time
in traffic till they eventually get home. They eat dinner, gist generally at
home, watch TV, prepare for the next day and then go to bed. Tomorrow is
another day.
Consistently they run by this routine for days
and weeks and months and years without a deliberate or conscious involvement in
how their tomorrow should pan out.
They have dreams and wishes but do absolutely
nothing about it other than hope that one day, miraculously, the dreams will
come true.
Many people today hope to build a house of
their own in a very good neighbourhood, buy brand new exotic cars, sponsor
their kids through the best schools, go on trips and vacations, retire rich and
early and generally have a good life.
Sadly their life of routine today holds no
promise what so ever for the kind of future they hope for. Of course they are
aware of this fact and know there's a need to activate some things today to
bring the dreams to reality. They just won't; most are full of excuses and some
just put the entire responsibility on God.
Immediately the thought of doing something
worthwhile today to improve the quality of their lives enters their mind, the
next line of thought is excuses and why it can be done later.
Consequently when frustrated or in trouble,
they blame their background, blame their qualifications, blame their companies,
blame the management, blame their bosses; blame their marriages and their
spouses and even their children. They blame the government; blame it on lack of
power supply, good roads, security, traffic, enabling environment and even on
God neglecting them.
They rarely activate what they should do to
make it work. They settle in and are comfortable with status quo; they avoid
any discomfort in their life, or alteration in the routine they have become
accustomed to.
They keep managing their sense of guilt by
looking for whom or what to blame.
My dear friend, you know you need to write
those exams, write them now! You know you need the MBA, apply now!, you know
you need that additional skill, learn it now, read those books today, write the
proposal today, write the application today, make that phone call today, make
the investment today, start the savings now, buy the land now. Pay for your own
training; don't always wait for the organisation to train you. The tomorrow you
talked about yesterday is already here. Stop the procrastination.
Draw up a daily to-do list and fill each hour
with useful and productive programs, for your life, time is valuable do not
waste it. Ensure you're adding value to yourself to someone else or to a course
at every point in time. Even while you're at play, gain something. Do something
every day to move towards your goal.
Becoming successful is not
a piece of cake, it's not limited to hope, wish, intelligence, strong desire,
prayers, quotable quotes, and motivational speaking, it involves real hard
consistent work. Talk is cheap. You must work hard to apprehend your dreams and
expectations. Kill procrastination now, do it today. Nothing can really stop
you without your permission. Remember if you forego your opportunity, someone
else is waiting to use it. It's a competitive world. Do it today.
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