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Achievers Handbook 1 11/24/2017 2:11:42 AM
Achievers Handbook 1 of Achievers Best Guide Series Book One is free and contains over hundred expanded Inspirational Keys and success nuggets that will help you fulfill your Destiny. This book help you
in self discovery - you first develop Concept given at birth, build your content (from education interactions) and then context(from environ), problem solving strategies, Your Faith or Fate? Empowering your voice (vocal or written) etc.
This handbook is a must and great read for anyone who want to fulfill their dreams. It is for business people, achievers, innovators, counselors, life coaches, leaders, workers, pastors etc. Chapter One
Self-Identity - Develop Concept, Content and Contextual milieu etc.
Nugget No.1- Self Discovery is instantaneous, then progressive.
- First step develop Concept (inside you - God given): Here is the inside view. Something thought up, formed in the womb, the origin, the original raw deposit and seed. It deals with only you. God created, formed, or customized you to a default. The self-concept or self-identity you make of this determines how you fare. Find out what God deposited in you at birth, at conception – the raw potentials, undeveloped. Self-discovery is learning about self – the process of learning about your true personality and motives (Encarta Dictionaries).It is finding out who you are really as God ordained you to be. Self-details, potentials, abilities and inabilities! What you can give out and what you can take in to affect the world around you. Knowing and understanding YOURSELF is a function or key factor to your success in life. Dissect your inner man, your makeup, your weaknesses and strengths, your abilities and inabilities, emotions and psychological strengths. What is inside you that make you unique and to the impinging environmental surroundings, understanding the intricacies and complexities, intrinsic and extrinsic values of your being? Then apply wisdom to defeat and play down your weaknesses and consolidate controls and uphold your strengths for profitable productivity.
- Second Step develop content (inside and outside - acquired and experienced - your worth and what you want to offer): Content is defined as amount of something in a container, the subject matter (question, discussion, and topics), meaning or message, available information, materials, capacity of a container. Your identity or potentials need to develop relevance, get education, possess content, technical improvement to be relevant to time and the present context. The anointing of yesterday will not do for the work of today.
- Third step develop context (outside you -your surroundings): Your potentials need a contextual setting to operate in – a background, circumstance, situation, framework, milieu (formal) environment, a perspective. Your identity must be related to the environment to succeed. You need others or partnership to survive. Offer yourself to others to access your work and evaluate your identity (For details see my book “Discovering Yourself”)
Nugget No.2 - In every problem there is a lesson to learn, bitterness to sweeten, a price to pay and a prize to win
- Solve your problems or your problems will dissolve you. A problem will either make you or mar you. It all depends on you and the way you approach it. Confront problems as projects that need solution. For every why question there is a yes answer. Ask the necessary questions and solve the puzzle then the prize will be waiting for you. If you confront problems you will control their obstacles but if you avoid them or run away, they still will be waiting for you.
Nugget No.3 - Your Faith or their Fate?
- Faith is trust in God and his promises to see you through but fate is living everything to chance or accept everything the way they come and the way they see it. “What will be, will be,” fate will say “but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” faith will say. While fate accept everything as they happen as the will of God, faith look into and hold unto the promises of God. By faith you can confront mountains and obstacles but by fate you will be drown by problems you can solve.
- Fate believes in predetermined events or inevitable outcome that you can do nothing about while faith believes you have a choice in what happens to you and that you have free will to decide and you have freedom. Destiny to fate is often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune etc. they say you accept your fate while faith in God says that God has a great future, equal opportunity for all but your faith or lack of it determines how far you can go. Even in cases where the sovereignty of God intervenes you have nothing to do with it but must accept it for it to materialize. If you reject it, it will not happen.
Nugget No.4 - don’t let a good idea die inside you. One idea can bring you to the top, or spark off chains of success chain reactions.
- Ideas, business inputs come as little bits of hunch, checks, inner witnesses, impressions, voice that God drops inside you. Great inventions and scientific discoveries the world over today came by accidents, designs and even errors. Some people see bread or gold where others see stones. Even stones like Jesus said can develop mouth and praise God if men refuse to. The whites came to Africa and carried mineral which we called red sand and processed it into products and sold it back to us. They took the cocoa of our farmers and processed it into chocolate which most of our farmers have never eaten before. Open your eyes, explore and exploit your environment.
Nugget No.5 – Empower your voice, vocal or written.
-You have a voice even when you cannot sing or talk. It is in your heart and head burning inside you. It demands for expression. The world wants to see and hear you. “I have a dream,” was the voice of Martin Luther King Jr. Hear this:
- In the United States, holiday (third Monday in January) was observed honoring the achievements of Martin Luther King, Jr. A Baptist minister who advocated the use of nonviolent means to end racial segregation, he first came to national prominence during a bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. He founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and led the 1963 March on Washington. The most influential of African American civil rights leader during the 1960s, he was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, facilities, and employment, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1964. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968 (Source – Encyclopedia Britannica).
- Though dead his words, part of his speech “I have a dream,” is still alive and ringing and has affected millions of lives today.
“If I perish I perish,” was the voice of Esther in the Bible that changed the destiny of a whole nation that faced extermination and saved them. You have a voice, written or vocal that has a message to the word. Who are you? A Deborah who presided over the Judiciary of Israel when men failed? A Mary Slessor who stopped the killing of twins? They all spoke out with their God given voice. Who are you? A singer, then sing a song or your songs? A motivational speaker, herald the news? Author, convert your voice into a book? A researcher, browses, investigate and prove yourself and worth? Books live almost forever. Interact with your environment. Words can be creative and your voice is active.
Nugget No.6 - when we go from our life's self-made prisons to praising God we enter the palace of life like Joseph. Keep praising God no matter...
- Worry and anxiety has never solved any problem but rather created more. When overwhelmed by life situation just open your mouth and praise God. Laughter and praise is the medicine you need to move ahead. Say it is well even when you are inside the well. Confession they say brings possession. Positive thinkers live longer to fulfill their dreams than negative thinkers.
Nugget No.7 - Prevailing prayers avails much. Pray until something happens
- Don’t rest until you get what you want. Spend some time to communicate with your creator who has control of the universe and your work place. There are things only prayers can solve if you dear to pray. There are things that are beyond man that only heaven can handle. You surely need it workaholic. When you handle the physical, heaven handles the spiritual and you too. Prevailing prayers avails much. Pray in season and out of season.
Nugget No.8 - Closed doors are pregnant. You need to prayerfully do some waiting and spiritual scanning to know what is in stock for you.
- Closed doors mean that you need open doors or open heavens. You need divine access. Analyze the situation, locate the source of the problem and proffer solution. Closed doors are like pouring water into a perforated basket, investments that result in wastages. You put in much effort and get little results.
Nugget No.9 – When everything and everywhere look black and dark, LOOK UP for there is light. We can still see God through the blackness of darkness
- They say there is light at the end of the tunnel but you don’t need to wait till the end of the dark tunnel. When you put God first, he will always lead the way. He says that the ways of the righteous are ordered by the Lord. If you made him the alpha or beginning he will surely be there as the omega or ending. Those who forsake God forsake their mercies. When darkness falls is time to see with your spiritual eyes or your sixth sense which I called the Holy Ghost sense. For the bible says he shall lead you to all truths. You need the director Holy Spirit.
Nugget No.10 - Life is a variety of decisions, choices made. Keep discovering yourself
- The decisions or choices you made yesterday or yester years are what kept you where you are now whether good or bad. Did they make you a star or stamped you with scars? But you can convert those scars to stars. Where there is a will there is a way they say. Those failures have only revealed some of your weaknesses not to kill you but for you to make corrections and start all again. Great American president Abraham Lincoln contested all vacancies there available in American politics and failed for many years before contesting the presidency and won, unified the Unions and abolished slave trade. Patience is a virtue.
