Wednesday, March 25, 2009

VISION:A MENTAL PICTURE OF YOUR SUCCESS!

Are you VISIONARY?Before you commit your Goals in balck and white,please answer this question.
Before you can set your goals correctly,your vision must be well defined - crystal clear!

This is what you will draw up your MISSION STATEMENT from.Only then can you know what your short-term and long -term goals will be.

VISION is the ability to THINK and PLAN the FUTURE with great imagination and intelligence.

Vision is operating with the accuracy of Heaven in the matter of pursuit.

Vision is the ability to see the area you see from a particular postion.


There are 3 Great Motivation of man: VISION + DREAM + AMBITION

Vision = what can be.A visionary person sees what is unseen and wants to make it happen.

Dream = what has been;the dreamer tries to get it back.......e,g "the good old days?"

Ambition = This is a selfish desire to gratify self.

Of all these 3 Motivators,VISION is the one to be best desired.

LAWS OF VISION:(Habakkuk 2v2)

1.Write down = DOCUMENT IT.

2.Make it plain = CLARITY.

3.Run with it = ACTION PLAN.

AS LEADERS AND ENTREPRENEURS,WE NEED A GOOD VISION IN ORDER TO SURVIVE! (proverbs 29v18)

TYPES OF VISION:

The visions we have can either be PERFECT,GOOD,NORMAL,POOR,or BLURRED!?

Hindsight should benefit us when we gain insight into a matter so that we might have foresight on that matter!

All of the above can either qualify us as FARSIGHTED or SHORTSIGHTED.(see the link between this attribute and the goals you set for yourself;long-term or short-term?)
Surely, IF we have a CLEAR VISION of the future,we would adjust the courseof our life accordingly?

HOW TO GET VISION:

VISION is a quality of the MIND. Unless the mind is well understood,our visions can at best be poor.The cerebral cortex is that part of the brain responsible for perceptions such as eyesight,sight or vision.It can produce a state of LOW VISION.
Since everyone posseses a brain,each of us can become a person of vision.The CHOICE is OURS.

Ponder this.

Till next time.

DreamsDreamer

Friday, March 20, 2009

GOALS SETTING:KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND PURSUE IT!

"Natural abilities are like natural plants;they need prunning by study" -Francis Bacon.

Today,we shall be doing some self-examinations.Only then can we be trully ready to set goals.To succeed in life,one first has to succeed in being one-self.

Men who control megafortunes know what they want and pursue it.

Sit down witha pen and paper.Ask youself some salient questions:

Q:What do I really want out of life?

Q:What are my heart's desires?

Q:What would I do IF I knewI could not fail?

Q:What would I do that I knew could NEVER Fail?

Q: What are my Strenghts & Weaknesses?(we shall be discusing S.W.O.T Analysis later on)

In providing honest answers to these questions,you will discover yourself!

YOU are Basically a 4 in 1 Person:

* You have YOUR PRIVATE LIFE - How you see yourself.Who you think you are.

* You have YOUR PUBLIC LIFE - How the public see you.Who the people think you are.

* You have YOUR ACTUAL LIFE - How you really are.RIGHT NOW!THIS IS YOUR FILE!

* You have YOUR IDEAL LIFE - How you should be.This is your DESTINED SELF.

Find yourself and be yourself:Live your own Life!In setting Goals - Go for the Ultimate you!The IDEAL You;because that is who you are created to be!

Only the man who has found his true self can know himself,find his own best talents and achieve his high success.

You may also want to take the SWOT ANALYSIS before you attempt to set goals foryourself.

S = Strenght.What things are you GOOD at?What Motivates you?What do you Enjoy doing?

W = Weaknesses.What are the things you are neither excited at or proficient at doing?

O = Opportunity.Develop a gift for discernment.Discover a need in your community and fill it.

T = Threat.Attitude comes in here.Your mindset matters.What you consider a threat can be an opportunity for the next man.What you can properly classify as threat is what your faith cannot carry.Dont carry a load that your faith cannot carry(if you dont have a strong heart,you cannot be your own boss).

Invest some time in yourself today.Do some serious Self Examination.Next time you shall be better prepared to set those lofty goals..................

"A man who qualifies himself well for his calling Never Fails of his employment." - Thomas Jefferson.

Success is when Opportunity meets Preparation.

To the actualizationof your Success Dreams,


DreamsDreamer

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

WHAT IS YOUR DREAM?

I concluded my last post with this rhetoric question:WHAT IS YOUR DREAM?


You first need to visualize your success before you can have it.The Good Book says "as he thinketh so he is".You are bascally what you think you are - a product of your dreams you might say.If you cannot see it,you cannot have it.There is first a seeing before there can be a entering into.You have to START to Dream your "Dream"Lifestyle NOW before you can hope to LIVE IT!


DreamsDreamer encourages his readers to Dream Dreams.Cherish your Visions and Dreams,

they are the children of your soul,the blueprint of your ultimate success.


The former executive governor of an oil rich south-south (Niger-Delta) state in Nigeria,Arch. Obong Victor Attah once said in a Television interview that he attributes his huge success in developmental projects to his ability to dream a lot.He counsels "dream BIG Dreams,dream MANY of them!You never know which one will succeed first or succeed the most."


DO YOU HAVE DREAMS?WHAT IS YOUR DREAM??HOW BIG IS YOUR DREAM???

Who told you it cant be done?What great achievement has he got to his credit that entitles him to use the word IMPOSSIBLE?SAY NO TO DREAMKILLERS AND NAYSAYERS!!



I close with the words of Paul Meyer:"crystallize your goals.make a plan for achieving themand set yourself a deadline.Then,with supreme confidence,determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's critizism,carry out your plan!"


IN ,my next posting,we shall be talking about Visions and Goals Setting.




DreamsDreamer