Who are you? Where are you? Why are you? What do you live for? Before we continue in today’s expedition – The Making of Successful Career, I will want you to take your time, muse on these questions, and see how efficient you can to provide constructive answers to them. However, for resourceful help check back on our past expeditions; “What is Life About?” “Once King” “Zero to Hero 1&2” and “Precept for the Next Level” from the blog (http://da-revelation.blogspot.com) archive.
Now let us welcome ourselves powerfully on board to another stardom-driven expedition. Today we shall be discussing on “The P’s of Career Prosperity”. You are on a mission on this stage – earth and it’s (mission) purpose is your right to fulfillment in life.
Friend, how do the names of famous people beat our eardrum? Do they beat it magically that we want more? Do the names excite our imagination with positive thoughts and images that we crave to be like them? Yes! When names like: Michael Adenuga, Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and Michael Power sound to our mind, they make us believe that “Michael” is not an ordinary name but a name with inherent influence that automatically showers fame on the bearer. Therefore, most times, we because of this name our children such name - “Michael”. Also, famous folks like; Barack Obama, Williams Shakespeare, Ronaldo, Obafemi Awolowo and the like make us choose their names as alias and even address ourselves as such – “Am the Shakespeare of our time”. This is because we want people to see us as possessing the qualities of these people. But I tell you, name does not define a person rather one defines himself and gives his name the meaning it carries.
Barack Obama today is a name everybody wants to associate with in one way or the other. This man, Barack Obama was a son of nobody in some years back, but he – the man in the name rouse to the occasion of his life and touch his individuality. And today Barack Obama is no longer a name but a brand - a phenomenon. This shows how great you are if only you could arouse the man inside you to rise up to the occasion of your life, defines himself, and give your name a magical meaning.
It is an established fact; we admire people like; Barack Obama, Usain Bolt, Bill Gates and the Michaels mentioned above, not for anything but for their respective accomplishments in their careers. Friend, let’s discard the belief that these people are made specially with unusual abilities. They were all once “Mr. Nobody” but they became “Mr. Somebody” by their choice to rise up and make constructive decision about their life; they decided to tread on the path that gave their individuality the ability that made their qualities strived beyond the usual to unusual accomplishments – making them unusual special people. However, the relieving news here is that these qualities are intrinsic and acquirable. That is everybody has got the qualities and possibilities to become SOMEBODY.
Yes! We are on mission on “this stage” so we need to act fast. We have got career to build. Succeeding in it and backing it up with laudable accomplishments to become unusual achiever, we need putting some recipes that have proven result-oriented over the years. The recipes that those known heroes have adopted into their career that made them record holders.
Hero in making here we go:
PASSION
There are different kinds of career holders:
Ø Those that are driven by pay
Ø Those that are driven by pain
Ø Those that are driven by passion
Be driven by passion and see for yourself how your career will be placed on upward course to overtake any other driven forces (pain and pay). As mission is to vision so, passion is to individuality. As a man’s vision decides his mission and his mission is the platform on which he develops his career, so also, a man’s individuality decides his passion while the passion stays put him in the career (passion is a subject to individuality).
Passion is a strong feeling of enthusiasm towards a venture. Check every achiever in any field, passion is the key to their success. Passion is the virtue that empowers your qualities to dare the unusual in your career and overcome the invincible. Calvin Coolidge wrote; “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press on” has solved and will always solve the problems of humans race.” Passion is the heart with the beats that pump one’s career with the required persistence and determination. Passion is an invincible driven force that builds indomitable spirit through patience, perseverance and persistence.
However, educationists and employers often accolade credentials but this will never take the place of the intangible driven force of passion. Above 80% of all the great achievers (heroes) known were underdogs during there school days. This is what David Olaoye saw while he wrote; “I don’t salute talent or education but pay tribute and doff my hat to passion because it is the force behind the well of progress.” Be driven by passion today, then you are on the upward trajectory in your career to record holders’ countryside.
PLANNING
The ability to see ahead, think ahead and plan ahead the present is another vital recipe that move one ahead in his career. As a career holder, where you are going is nothing like where you are coming. As to this, there are things (goals) you must set in place per time to get “There”. You must set goals both short and long term’s. Goal setting is the sense of your career. It is meant to perceive the stimuli (opportunities) and response to them.
Support your goals with these seven pillars of successful planning:
To be continued next post...
Thanks for your time.
You’re a hero!
©Thomas Idowu!
Now let us welcome ourselves powerfully on board to another stardom-driven expedition. Today we shall be discussing on “The P’s of Career Prosperity”. You are on a mission on this stage – earth and it’s (mission) purpose is your right to fulfillment in life.
Friend, how do the names of famous people beat our eardrum? Do they beat it magically that we want more? Do the names excite our imagination with positive thoughts and images that we crave to be like them? Yes! When names like: Michael Adenuga, Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and Michael Power sound to our mind, they make us believe that “Michael” is not an ordinary name but a name with inherent influence that automatically showers fame on the bearer. Therefore, most times, we because of this name our children such name - “Michael”. Also, famous folks like; Barack Obama, Williams Shakespeare, Ronaldo, Obafemi Awolowo and the like make us choose their names as alias and even address ourselves as such – “Am the Shakespeare of our time”. This is because we want people to see us as possessing the qualities of these people. But I tell you, name does not define a person rather one defines himself and gives his name the meaning it carries.
Barack Obama today is a name everybody wants to associate with in one way or the other. This man, Barack Obama was a son of nobody in some years back, but he – the man in the name rouse to the occasion of his life and touch his individuality. And today Barack Obama is no longer a name but a brand - a phenomenon. This shows how great you are if only you could arouse the man inside you to rise up to the occasion of your life, defines himself, and give your name a magical meaning.
It is an established fact; we admire people like; Barack Obama, Usain Bolt, Bill Gates and the Michaels mentioned above, not for anything but for their respective accomplishments in their careers. Friend, let’s discard the belief that these people are made specially with unusual abilities. They were all once “Mr. Nobody” but they became “Mr. Somebody” by their choice to rise up and make constructive decision about their life; they decided to tread on the path that gave their individuality the ability that made their qualities strived beyond the usual to unusual accomplishments – making them unusual special people. However, the relieving news here is that these qualities are intrinsic and acquirable. That is everybody has got the qualities and possibilities to become SOMEBODY.
Yes! We are on mission on “this stage” so we need to act fast. We have got career to build. Succeeding in it and backing it up with laudable accomplishments to become unusual achiever, we need putting some recipes that have proven result-oriented over the years. The recipes that those known heroes have adopted into their career that made them record holders.
Hero in making here we go:
PASSION
There are different kinds of career holders:
Ø Those that are driven by pay
Ø Those that are driven by pain
Ø Those that are driven by passion
Be driven by passion and see for yourself how your career will be placed on upward course to overtake any other driven forces (pain and pay). As mission is to vision so, passion is to individuality. As a man’s vision decides his mission and his mission is the platform on which he develops his career, so also, a man’s individuality decides his passion while the passion stays put him in the career (passion is a subject to individuality).
Passion is a strong feeling of enthusiasm towards a venture. Check every achiever in any field, passion is the key to their success. Passion is the virtue that empowers your qualities to dare the unusual in your career and overcome the invincible. Calvin Coolidge wrote; “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “Press on” has solved and will always solve the problems of humans race.” Passion is the heart with the beats that pump one’s career with the required persistence and determination. Passion is an invincible driven force that builds indomitable spirit through patience, perseverance and persistence.
However, educationists and employers often accolade credentials but this will never take the place of the intangible driven force of passion. Above 80% of all the great achievers (heroes) known were underdogs during there school days. This is what David Olaoye saw while he wrote; “I don’t salute talent or education but pay tribute and doff my hat to passion because it is the force behind the well of progress.” Be driven by passion today, then you are on the upward trajectory in your career to record holders’ countryside.
PLANNING
The ability to see ahead, think ahead and plan ahead the present is another vital recipe that move one ahead in his career. As a career holder, where you are going is nothing like where you are coming. As to this, there are things (goals) you must set in place per time to get “There”. You must set goals both short and long term’s. Goal setting is the sense of your career. It is meant to perceive the stimuli (opportunities) and response to them.
Support your goals with these seven pillars of successful planning:
To be continued next post...
Thanks for your time.
You’re a hero!
©Thomas Idowu!
Well written, thoughtful post. Highly inspiring. Please keep it up!
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