Intellects and the heart

Many times we have developed our intellects at the expense of developing our hearts. Our intellects take the throne in our spirits, which should guide us, are kept locked away in prison, not permitted to function.

Think and Succeed by Isaac Oladipupo

It is quite unfortunate that most people in this part of the world never credit or ascribe productivity to a result of thinking. We live our lives without a thought out plan, we make decisions without thoroughly using our minds to reason and reflect, we believe no good product can come out of thinking. And the truth however is, there has actually not been any successful legend that lacks the habit of thinking.

If at all you are productive, your productivity will always be very limited if you don't think. Someone once said, "If you don't think, you will stink". What else can be as true as that?

Thinkers are winners and winners are thinkers. Thinking helps you generate powerful ideas; it makes the best out of you. In fact, the best way to stop someone from being successful is to deprive him of his thinking ability. The moment one stops thinking, one starts dying. Thinking has always characterized and will always characterize successful people. As a matter of fact, everything that exists today is a product of thoughts. Every visible innovation today began as a thought in someone's mind, and inevitably makes the person a successful innovator. You can also become one if only you can develop the habit of creative thinking. You need to cultivate the habit of creative thinking as only those who think get ideas, and only those who have ideas rule the world.

I read a statement few years ago, I will never forget it. It read, "Make your brain work. It will sweat, but make it work. It will improve, it will develop, until you become the envy of others". Until you task your brain, you can't generate ideas. And until you generate ideas, your success is not in view. It is the tasking of one's brain that produces powerful ideas. You need to become a thorough thinker. Ideas that rule the world only come through thorough brainstorming.

One would have thought he was rude to his mum, but imagine what he produced with his 'rudeness'. He has given us one of the best inventions in the world; Microsoft. "I am thinking, don't you think?" That was Bill Gate's response to his mum, one day she was calling him while he was busy meditating in his thinking room. How many of us have or intend to include such room ('thinking room') in our buildings? Thank God Bill Gate's thinking room helps us communicate better today and has also made him a man to reckon with in the world! That is what thinking can do for you! Unlimited success!

Isaac Oladipupo, a vastly experienced media entrepreneur, insightful speaker, public relations expert and celebrated author is recognized as one of Nigeria's foremost youth leaders. A product of Project Management Technology from the Lagos State University in Nigeria and member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, award-winning Isaac, who has been interviewed and featured on Nigeria's leading media houses including AIT, CHannelsTV, STV and Next Newspapers, just to name a few, is also the Founder of http://SoarNaija.com, Initiator of the nationally acclaimed SOAR YOUTH SUMMIT and bestselling Author of SUCCESS POWER!

Godman Principles: Fulfilling Your Goals

Godman Principles: Fulfilling Your Goals: "It is very important to be specific about the amount of progress you want to make in this year 2011. This progress must have an element of b..."

Fulfilling Your Goals

It is very important to be specific about the amount of progress you want to make in this year 2011. This progress must have an element of breakthrough inside it. It might not be the fulfilment of the vision, but it is going to be the accomplishment of a goal within that vision. When I say vision, I mean the vision you hold in life. The vision is for an appointed time, but you must know when the goal will be fulfilled.

God instructed Abraham to start from his current location. This means that you must start from where you are and not from where others are or where they think you should be. So set goals achievable from your present level of faith and knowledge. Avoid fantasying or hallucination and face the reality of your current position. From where you are, lift up your head and then look as far as you can see, not how any other person can see, but as far as you can see in 2011 as an individual.

As you pursue that goal, you have to rejoice with everybody on every achieved goal and don’t feel inferior. And do not, out of a competitive spirit do what you know you cannot see inside you because that would destroy creativity. Your vision depends on what you can see.

There is something about the way God created the world that makes the circumstances of life give to you what you have decided in your heart to happen in your life. Follow what you can see down in your heart and not someone else’s programme. This is the reason why you cannot be a financially successful person if you spend money the way other people do. Follow your own financial programme and goal. This is how the wisest people behave financially. If you do not have any savings or invested you cannot have a financial future. Your financial future is not how much you have spent but how much you have saved and invested. Do not compare yourself with anybody.

The vision is for an appointed time, and so there will be increase every step of the way. Development and growth will also happen. Last thing is that you need to understand is that if you fulfil the demand of faith in the invisible realm, things will begin to happen and  there will be more answers to offered prayers.

Great men didn’t achieve great feats without setting goals within the vision of their lives. Abraham set goals, Jesus had goals, Paul and other world changers set goals every step of their progress in life. The world is always in the habit of creating room for men who know where they are going in life.

Set goals, achieve and keep succeeding.

Big Plans

       Its undoubtedly true that we're in a new dispensation of men and women will rise in their ability to think like God and get done what He'd have them do on earth. Infact its impossible to please God without faith this season, which also implies that to produce greater results, we'd need to connect with a customized faith like the woman with the issue of blood and the centurion soldier. They both had different problems to be solved with different application of faith. The Woman needed to touch the hem of Jesus' garment to be healed, the centurion needed Jesus to just say The Word only for his servant to be healed. And they both had their solutions.
       Just like these two, we all have goals that are big enough beyond our own ability. But we need faith to make them achieved. Thoughts are also integrated into the achievement of these goals.
       See this, the hard work here is to think and search out your own faith to be applied for this plans (God's bigger plans) to find expression in your lives. When it happens in your mind, then it'd be easy to switch it into words, sights, hearings and then action. That means your goals are developed into daily confessions that you have seen inside you.
      You'd need time to see results. God owns time and chance, you know, but you'd have to draw out wisdom from your present situation and speak the word only.That means there must be some big goals you are reaching out for, so you'd have to see it as an image first inside you.
      Now, let fix all of these together. The fulfilment of God's big plans for you that you have seen, will only happen when seeds are sown. Seeds of work and sacrifices of faith, right words of confession and patience can't be ignored, because its by it we'd run our individual race and obtain the promise of this Big Plans.
      Make No Little Plans Here!

   

Principles & Values.

Great men have one thing in common, one thing that guides their lives. That is Principles & Values. Principles & values are fundamental, indispensable, lasting continuing stable creed not to be compromised for short term pragmatism of profit. They represent the way you will be living your life, what you stand for. Not what you want to be, but what you are now! It actually fosters orderly thinking.
Principles dont change, you would have to change to live by them.