Often times, people always discourage others from
pursing their dreams. They look at you and ask, “What do you stand to gain from
this society that is full of CONNECTIONS? They will even go further to tell you
to your face that you will never succeed. The moment you listen to them and
succumb to deviate from your mission in life, you will forever live to regret
the action you took. At that point in life, you have stopped living, but
because of your breath, you will start existing without dreams.
Using myself as an example, publishing my second
book, “Fulfilling my Dream” wasn’t achieved as a free drink, or a platter of
gold. It required focus and determination to fulfil the dream of publishing the
book. Moments came when quitting became a best option for me due to the
setbacks, but determination brought me off the floor, so I won’t eat the dirt
thrown at me.
People are
permitted to throw dirt’s on you, but the question is, ‘WILL YOU EAT IT?’ The
reason I refused to eat dirt was because I had a vision, with a great strategic
mission. My drive for my publication continued until the book, FULFILLING MY
DREAM’ was published.
The story above can be likened unto a high level of
commitment, not the kind of commitment that you speak with your mouth, and back
off when challenges come. Christopher Columbus asserted that you can never
cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. There
was a success story attached to the book fulfilling my dream. If I had given
up, the success story wouldn’t have emerged. Sometimes you have to tell that
negative thought an upper case letter NO, not a lower case no.
There should be
power in your determination. Within the first month of publishing the book, a
school requested for a thousand copies, because they saw the potential in the book
to transform their students; State Governments approved for schools in their
various states.
Siloko Oyintari Ben said, “Never give up because you
don’t know which phase of your life will unlock your success story.” Can you be
traveling to a particular destination and stop thirty minutes before arriving
at your destination, after travelling for nine hours and say you are going back
to the exact point you started your journey simply because you were impatient.
If you do that, you are only putting more burden on your shoulders.
Don’t let people know your weakness, because they
will constantly buy you those things that make you weak, knowing fully well
that you can’t resist accepting, which in turn tears you apart.
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