Don't get tired!

Hi there,

The feeling of tiredness often times sets in when we have reached the point of exhaustion. When we are burn out and drained of energy and drive to continue. At this point of exhaustion, quitting becomes quite easy because at this point all we desire is to become free from everything and crawl back into our comfort zone. My charge for us this morning is to exhort us to keep on keeping on and don't quit yet.

I know it can be hard most times , when we seem to be putting effort into something and we are not getting a commensurate result. It's easy for us to just walk away, but if we do walk away at that point, then we lose the rewards of the efforts that we have sowed in the past. One of the exciting things in life is that "life is governed by principles" and such principles acts as our guide posts, which helps us to know and understand our paths in life. One of such wonderful principles is called the law of sowing and reaping and it states that "we would always reap what we have sown".

Now this is interesting because it comforts us that we would definitely reap the results of what we have sown. So if at this point in time in your life, you have been sowing into personal development, you have been sowing into your business and the returns you are getting right now appears to be less of your efforts, or nothing at all. Don't worry, it would definitely show up. Laws are always fulfilled, they are absolutes, just keep on doing the right things that you are doing and don't get tired and don't quit.

A farmer is not afraid or tired to plant the seed and do the work necessary to provide a conducive environment for the seed to germinate. He does it gladly and hopefully. This is because he knows that harvest time is coming and when it comes, he would reap in greater measure the seeds he has sown.

And you will too, if you don't get tired or weary. Smile and get excited because your harvest time is soon coming.

Let me leave you with this quote from scripture

"And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart."

Have an exciting weekend

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher

Despise not the days of little beginnings..

Hi there,

The secret of every great man's success story lies in the days of his little beginnings. Just as a tree's strength and productivity level is not found in its fruits but rather in its roots, likewise a man's achievement is in the decisions that he made at the beginning and has continued to abide by it ever since. As Jim rohn stated  "success is a few simple discipline practiced everyday."

The successes of those great men and women that we are celebrating today are only compound effect of what they did and has continued to do, when everything didn't look like it was going to work out. A truly successful person can always reproduce again and again what he has accomplished, no matter where he founds himself even when he has lost all his material accomplishments. As the Holy Scriptures says,  "a man's life does not consist of the abundance of what he possesses". What really makes the true man is who he is on the inside.

A tree even when under harsh circumstances and all its fruits has been plucked, still has the capacity to produce more fruits. Why? because the fruits are inside the tree. To become truly successful, it begins from the inside out and not from the outside in. You have to develop the mindset of an achiever to really become an achiever. And the way to go about this is to diligently and consistently inculcate few simple disciplines of enlightening your self daily by reading great books along the areas of your interest as pertaining to your present needs and ensuring you practice those principles you glean from such great books.

As you consistently do so, you are building on the inside of you, the mind of an achiever and this begins to affect the way you see the world around you and of course the way you think and act.  Success is not what you pursue, it is what you attract by the person you become.

So keep at it, keep growing, keep developing yourself, keep doing all the seemingly little things that will help you become better daily, don't despise these little beginnings because they will form the very foundation of the successes tomorrow.

No tree ever started as just a tree, but rather a seed. So also, though all we might be seeing now maybe the seed form, but if you don't quit and you don't relent in continual nurturing and cultivation, we will one day eventually see the real greatness buried inside you all this while.

On a final note, I therefore admonish you not to envy a successful man's material possessions but rather learn from his story, his story is his secret.

Am sure you are having a productive weekend.

Anthony Desalu,

Your Friend and Well Wisher.

You Are Special

Hi there, 

You are special, so so special. Yes you are. I am absolutely, certainly and honestly convinced beyond any reasonable doubt, that you are special. You are the best, you are a number 1. No one can and will ever be able to compete with you. You are powerful beyond what you can ever imagine. You are a masterpiece, a unique breed. You are a born leader, a born success, a born winner and not a loser. You are not a mistake nor an accident, you have a role here on earth, your space is reserved because no one can fit into it perfectly more than you.

You are so important and you have loaded inside you something the world needs. There can be no one like you, you have a special assignment to deliver to this generation, and if you don't deliver it, no one else can. Your design is perfect for your assignment, you are so valuable. The day you were designed, your manufacturer was excited at his design that he exclaimed in excitement, this is good stuff.

Believe this, because it is the truth about who you are.

To all our ever resilient, passionate and inspiring teachers, I say Happy Teachers day to you all. Your role is important for this generation.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

In Love With Me

Hi there,

Oh Yes, I am in love with me, isn't that exciting. I tell you it is. Why? because, being in love with oneself is the key to unlimited happiness. Many people wait on people to love and cherish them before they can become happy in their lives. They leave off control of their lives to circumstances which often than not are not within their reach. They are only happy when circumstances are good and sad when things around them don't look fine. That's a kinda miserable way to live. Don't do that to yourself.

As a renowned author said "life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it". So why postpone your happiness till something big breaks through for you in the future. Choose to be happy now and the best way to do that is to become crazily in love with you. Many folks don't enjoy their own company, they need to be around folks who they expect should love and respect their person, before they can feel loved. That's isn't so good.

Know this today, you can't express love adequately to another person, if you haven't first loved you, why? because it's impossible to give what you don't have. And neither should you demand love and care from someone else when you don't first love and care for you first. It would only make you a needy and dependent person, which most times turns people off.

A person who is in love with himself/herself is not hard to recognize, he/she speaks with so much confidence and has a healthy self esteem. No matter, what people do to him or say, he is unperturbed. He exudes a tremendous amount of confidence such that, people become naturally attracted to his person and are willing to listen when he talks.  Why because, a person who loves himself can communicate love in his speech and actions. It is from the outflow of love inside him that he relates with another person.

Let me leave with a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world."

Sure you are having a wonderful day so far.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Be Your Own Number One Fan

Hi there,

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

In life what you accept or permit, is what ends up becoming your own reality. You are the major determinant of whatever happens in your life. This is because what you accept is what you attract. This then means that, you are in charge of the happenings in your own personal life. But waiting on  people's approval of you is transferring that right of control to another person. And that makes you become so miserable, especially if people rate you so low in  their own estimation or evaluation of you.

That doesn't have to happen to you. You need to understand that people's approval of you counts for nothing, if you don't first approve you. You have to become your own number one fan, your own cheerleader first, before you can experience the outworkings of the greatness buried inside you.  You have got to believe in you even when it looks like all isn't working out right, cheer your self up, be self motivated. Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you are the best, that you have greatness in you. Tell yourself that you have something the whole world needs. Believe in you, believe in your abilities, don't quit on you. Approve yourself as a person of excellence.

You don't need certificates or degrees to do that for you. As Mark Twain said, comfort comes from you first approving of you. As you do so, you feel a great outburst of confidence surging from within you  and at that moment, impossibility becomes nothing to you.

As for me, I am my own number one fan, the question is are you also?

Sure your day has been productive all the way

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Do Something that Makes You Proud of Yourself!

Hi there,

Self Confidence is a key factor to success. Without it you will never be able to accomplish anything worthwhile in your life. When your self confidence diminishes, then your accomplishments in life also diminishes in return. And the higher your self confidence is, the greater your accomplishments.
Therefore your concern everyday is working towards keeping your self confidence on the increase.

How do you make this happen?

Jim Rohn says "the greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do". Here is another way to say it, when you do something that makes you proud of yourself, your self esteem soars, and whatever makes your self esteem soar affects your self confidence simultaneously.

So how do you get started in this journey?

Make a list of atleast 6 things you need to do each  day and work towards making them happen. Do this and see  your self confidence soar.

Welcome to a new month, a new you

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Genuinely Appreciate People

Hi there,

There is no human being on the face of the earth,  who doesn't value being appreciated. It gives them a sense of being valuable. As short as the two words thank you is, it sure does wonders. When you appreciate people, it gives them a sense of being valuable and it also means that you value them in your life or to say it differently, you hold them in high esteem. It's not just enough for you to just say it, but you need to show it. It has to be genuine before it can really mean a lot.

When you appreciate people, it does not only bless the receiver, it also blesses you the giver. You can't genuinely appreciate people without feeling grateful about your life too. Most people that have a hard time appreciating the people who has contributed greatly to their life, are often unhappy about theirs too.

So, I want you to do something today, get a sheet of paper and write out the names of at least 5 people, who has been a blessing to you one way or the other this year. After doing so, make sure to either call them or just send a short text message to them, appreciating them for their kindness.  As you do so, you feel a sense of gratitude within and a strong feeling of being appreciative too about how much God loves you and has blessed you with these great relationships. This also will make you learn, not to take them for granted.

Do it now!

Glad you are having a fruitful day..

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Keep Your Eyes On The Prize

Hi there,

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Henry Ford

For every prize, their is always a price to pay. The prize is that great thing that you desire to accomplish and the price is the process involved or the cost of attaining that so called great thing that you desire. What then, have you gotten your eyes on ; the prize or the price. If you are like most successful folks, then you've gotten your eyes on the prize. But the unsuccessful folks, have a different focus. Their eyes are always on the price.

Where your focus is, determines the energy or drive that follows it. Fixing your eyes on the prize releases a greater momentum that secures the attainment of that prize while fixing your eyes on the price, drains your energy and drive to attain the prize.

Consider two athletes for instance, who are both competing for a particular race, one fixes his eyes on the gold medal and the honor and reputation that attends to being a champion, so he is enthusiastic about the process or the price he needs to pay in reaching that prize. He is willing to go through the rigorous trainings and exercises that will enable him reach that particular target he has set. The cost doesn't look bigger or too demanding to him, so far it gets him what he wants, he is committed to doing everything necessary and right to earning that prize.

While the other athlete is finding it difficult to commit himself to the process involved in getting the prize. He is stuck about the whole process, he sees the rigorous trainings and exercises as something too unbearable for him to accept and he is already complaining bitterly and even contemplating on the need to quit, the whole thing. Why? Because all he sees is the price and not the prize.

What exactly is my point? It is this, "keeping your eyes on the prize makes you enjoy paying the price, but keeping your eyes on the price makes getting the prize unattainable"

The choice is yours to make.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

You Are Designed For Great Exploits

Sunday Conversations With The Manufacturer Pt 2

Dear Product,

You can't believe people's opinion of you, their opinion doesn't have to become your reality. Listen to me, I want you to understand that your perception of yourself dictates how far you can go and how much you can accomplish in life. And to have the right perception of yourself, you can't look to your circumstances to reveal that to you nor can you look to your academic qualifications to explain that to you. You can't trust your pastors evaluation of who you are nor your parent or friends or even your teachers and lecturers. None of these media has a clue to, who you really are and what you are capable of.

How then, you ask me, do I get the correct and accurate perception of who I am, if these media fall short in revealing it to me. Well, your question is not hard to decipher. Here it is, the truth about a product is hidden inside the manufacturer. No one knows the potential of a particular product more than the manufacturer, because he is the one who designed the product and he knows the stuffs he has loaded that particular product with.

Until the manufacturer reveals his intentions concerning a particular product, every other person is only guessing or experimenting. They have no clue as to the efficiency of that product. Whatever anyone has said or will say counts for nothing. Circumstances or experiences of other people regarding the product has nothing to do with the potential of that product. The intentions of the manufacturer concerning his product is the final and is the only accepted truth about the product, because he designed it. Are you getting me?

Therefore, it follows that if you are my product and I am your manufacturer, how then do you get my intentions communicated to you effectively?. You will get that answer in a minute, stay with me.

Every product in its product pack comes with its instruction manual. The instruction manual is what reveals or unveils the intentions of the manufacturer for his product to the user. The instruction manual reveals the potential and limitations of the product to the user, so that he or she can get the best use of it. So let's say, for instance, someone bought a new car and stated in the instruction manual that came with the car, was the potential of the car to travel 160miles per hour, but because you are scared of traveling in that speed and also counting the opinions of other people, you then travel at 50miles per hour. What happens is that you are falling short of the full potential of that car. Why, because you are counting the opinion of the manufacturer as  nothing and following the opinions of other people who has no clue about what that particular car is loaded with.

Then, on a particular occasion while traveling on the road with the same car, someone else traveling with the same car, you are traveling with passes you at the speed of 100miles per hour. Then you are impressed and thought, "how did he/she get to do that". What you didn't know is that, that person has read the instruction manual and followed precisely the intentions of the manufacturer as stated in it, holding in high esteem what the manufacturer thought about his product and not what he thinks or any other person thinks.

I want you to get this, whatever you think about a particular product's efficiency counts for nothing, your experiences or other people's experiences and opinions cannot deride the potential of a particular product. As long as that opinion doesn't match with the intentions of the manufacturer as stated in the instruction manual of that product, it is as good as been thrown away. What exactly am I getting across to you?

Dear Product, I want you to realize that I am your manufacturer and I know what I have built inside of you. That's why I gave you the Bible as your instruction manual. I know you have the capacity to prevail over that particular circumstance, else I wouldn't have permitted it to happen to you. It is right there written in my instruction manual _"Their is no trial that is greater than your power to overcome it, because inside it, is also the way of escape for that trial._"  Here is another one _"Greater is He that is in you than he that that is in the world"_. *Those trials you think you are facing and complaining bitterly about, is only revealing to you, the stuff that you are made of*. Why? Because the greater the challenges, the greater the power. And that power to overcome it, is sitting inside you right their, right now.

I have handcrafted you myself and built you for great exploits. You are powerful beyond what you think you are. You have greatness inside you. I fashioned you specifically to rule your world not to become a pauper begging for crumbs to eat.

That's not you! A thousand times no!

You can't fail!, because you are a success waiting to happen. Debunk all those theories of you not good enough, of you being an unfortunate kid, born to be a slave all your life.

That's not you! You are a born leader, destined for great exploits.

It is time, you let the world know who you are.

To be continued...

Culled from Dr Myles Munroe's sermon titled
"The Best Kept Secret"

Written by Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Glad you had a fruitful encounter in God's presence.

Success is Intentional!

Hi there, 

When I woke up this morning, it felt as if I should just sleep some more or not get out of bed at all. So it looks everyday of the week, most times I don't feel like waking up to do anything. Let me just lie all day on the bed like that. But in spite of this, I get up anyway. Though I didn't feel like going out and beginning the day's work, I get on with it anyway. That must be your attitude too, if you are really determined to fulfill your dreams. It's not hard to dream, anyone can relax all day and day dream about how his/her future should look like. We love fantasizing about the kind of things we would love to have and get done. But fantasizing doesn't get the job done, it's going out there and doing something about it that matters.

Yes I know, you don't feel like doing the things that are necessary to fulfill those dreams, and if you would ask most successful folks out there, they don't feel so too at the start, but they get on with it anyway. That's what being intentional means. You are not your feelings or emotions, so they shouldn't determine how your days should look like. Your emotions shouldn't be on the driver's seat of your life, else that life is heading for a crash. Now don't get me wrong, emotions itself are not wrong. if it were wrong, then our creator wouldn't have given them to us. Emotions are powerful, they are our self motivators to getting things done. They are what makes us human and that's the difference between us and beast. But we must be in control of them and it not being in control of us. We must redirect it, to do our biddings and not we surrendering to its whims.

If your desire is to go to school, then take up that book and start preparing towards it. If you desire to be in a new relationship, make yourself friendly and get rid of all those hateful emotions that makes people run away from you. If your desire is to change jobs or earn more than you are earning right now, then you need to grow your capacity for handling problems, because that is commensurate with the earnings you get. Do whatever is necessary everyday, that will move towards the attainment of your dreams. Yes you may not feel like it, but do it anyway. You are a born success!

Do have a glorious weekend! 

 

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Be Strong and Courageous!

Hi there,

Only courageous individuals are able to reach the proposed greatness they desire. In every man's promise land their are giants, their are obstacles they must overcome before they can cross to the other side of greatness. Their are sacrifices they must make along their path to achieving greatness. Only strong men and women can resist the attacks, they come across in their road to achieving greatness. Their will be some fearful circumstances along their path, but they must be strong and courageous enough to face it and enter into their greatness. Their would be times when it would seem, as if it is only them against the whole world, they would be left alone with their beliefs, but such times demands for courage and being strong enough to face everything that comes their way with a a strong faith that they would reach their dreams.

Successful people are also designated as champions because they have been able to withstand the battles of life against their dreams and yet stood their ground, refusing to back down and won eventually. The trophies of their victory is evident by where they are today, living their dreams and you too can get there, if only you are strong and courageous enough to go for it.

Life wouldn't offer you those things that you desire on a platter of gold. No, that won't happen!, not without a fight. You have to prove first to yourself and then to the whole world that those dreams of yours are worth dying for. You have to be hungry, really hungry for you to reach your promise land.  Life brings challenges across your path to prove you, in order to discover if you really desire that success or its just a wishful thinking. You would have to give up habits that might hold you back,  you would have to give up friends or company who doesn't see life as you see it and follow those who see things the way you see it. You will be forced to cultivate some certain habits that will help you reach your dreams and you will have to learn some important skills, that will facilitate your success. All these things are not easy to achieve, but its a necessity if you ever desire to reach your dreams.

No one should ever dare to dream and dream big, if you are not willing and ready to take up the responsibilities that are commensurate with its attainment. As it is often said  "Fortune favors the bold". In order to get gold my dear friends you need to be bold. You need to be strong and courageous for the task ahead of you.

The question is ARE YOU PREPARED!

I believe we had a pleasant day.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Fight Off The Negatives!

Hi there,

What limits us most times and stops us in our quest to achieving greatness is the thought that, we aren't good enough, the thought that we can't make it, the thought that we are inadequate. Those negative thoughts stops us dead on our tracks and we fizzle out. A negative thought has a multiple effect i.e it can multiply itself over time if brooded upon for a long time. One negative thought can lead to another and yet another, before you know what is happening, it has taken full territory of a man's mind and he is already feeling frustrated and depressed.

Negative thoughts are energy drainers, it saps your zeal and enthusiasm about life, until you are left hopeless and doubtful about pursuing your goals and dreams. This is why it is necessary for you to guard your mind from such an attack and tune yourself to positive thoughts. Company with people who look at life from a positive standpoint. No matter how worse the situation is, their is still something to be thankful for, their is still something to be grateful for.

Napoleon Hill said, "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." Find that greater benefit that will lift you above your circumstances. Listen to motivationals , listen to messages that call forth the greatness inside you, read materials that lifts your spirit. Whatever you do, make sure that you fight off every negative thought by choosing to reflect on positive thoughts. A positive thought is 100 times more powerful than a negative thought. A simple I CAN does wonders. As you affirm a positive thought consistently, your energy and enthusiasm about life is boosted and that makes you daring. You become open to possibilities.

So if you are there, feeling so down and out, you might want to check within and observe the thoughts that are bringing about such emotions. Dare to rise up and fight off the negativity, embracing the positivity.

Yes YOU CAN, make that dream a possibility, just hang in there and don't quit!

Glad you had a glorious day

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

The Cost Of Being an High-Flyer

Hi there,

People want to be successful, but they are not tenacious about it, they want it the easy way. That explains why their are few mountain climbers and  high-fliers upon the face of the earth. If you really desire to be a success and you want it as bad as you want to breathe, you would not settle for less nor chicken out at the slightest challenge, rather you would go all the way and at whatever cost, that is necessary.

Being a success at what you do, determining to be the best at what you do, is not something that comes cheaply. You have to do more than just talking it, to really reach the pinnacle. You have to work at it. And this demands a number one key element called discipline.

Most times you would not really feel like doing most things that you need to do in order to reach your dream, but you do it anyway. If you wait, till you feel like it before you act, you would not get anything done.

Being an highflier is not automatic, it doesn't just happen, you work at it, and that you do daily. King Solomon said  "A man skillful, efficient and competent in his work will serve kings and not lowly, unimportant folks."
Can you see that, being an high-flyer can be difficult but it's not impossible. There is place for you at the top but it comes at a cost. The cost of self discipline,  the cost of working on yourself daily to become better, the cost of being willing to accept mistakes, sometimes it might be huge and fatal, but you learn from them and move on, the cost of sitting down at the feet of a mentor who understands the path you have chosen and able to guide you along that path, the cost of yielding to the instructions of such mentor.

All this adds up together and makes it possible for you to reach your dreams and become the best you have always wanted to be.

So friends, you have to count the cost and see if you are willing to pay it and pay in full.

Glad you had a great day.

Anthony Desalu,
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Faith to Go All The Way...

Hi there,

Inasmuch as we have talked about the need to have dreams and not just any dream but big dreams. I will like to discuss today on the key trigger to the fulfilment of any dream. I call that faith.

Scripture defined Faith as  the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us, even though we cannot see it up ahead.
That definition is so loaded with meaning, it means that it is not enough for you to just dream, you have got to believe it's possible before it can manifest. That belief is called confident assurance.

Now I want you to get me clearly, believing that your dream is possible doesn't mean that you have to start figuring out in your mind how it will play out. Most times when you do that, you might be discouraged at the outcome of that kind of analysis. Your present status might make you begin, to talk yourself out of its realization.

Les Brown shared a personal story in one of his talks, he said their was a point in his life when he told himself he was going to become a motivational speaker, speaking to large corporations, advising great people in business and also that he would be going from nations to nations motivating people to go after their dreams. He was inspired to have this kind of dream of himself after being at a seminar, where he was listening to how  Dr Norman Vincent Pearl spoke and encouraged people. He really loved that and it stroke a cord within him. Then  he told himself, I can do that too!

But according to him, here was the mistake he made. He started looking at his present state and he began to figure out in his mind how he could make that a reality, considering the odds that were against him. According to the reports of his colleagues at school and some folks who knew him, they always abused him because of his background. An adopted child whose biological parents can't be traced, barely surviving and also that he was an uneducated mentally retarded child.

Those reports made him to start doubting the reality of that dream, until he met a man who told him that "Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality".
That adjusted his perspective about life and he started believing again, that he is capable of becoming anything he dreams of becoming.

See where he is today.!

A successful motivational speaker, traveling all through the year from nations to nations, speaking to large corporations, companies and great business men and women, also encouraging people all over the globe to believe the best about themselves and go after their dreams. He is exactly where he projected himself to be.

If he can, who says you can't live your dreams too.
But for this to happen, you must believe in yourself and you must believe in that dream. Don't misjudge who you are now for the real you. You are not your failures, your disappointments, your setbacks, your weaknesses or what people has said about you. That's not you!

Your Manufacturer says you are a masterpiece of his creation. You are fearfully and wonderfully designed. You are not a photocopy, you are an original. There's just only you on the whole earth. That shows how very rare and expensive you are.

You have something special to give to the world, because according to the manufacturer, he handcrafted you to deliver a particular assignment to your generation. And if you don't do it, no one else can. Therefore believe that dream he has placed in your heart, because according to Napoleon hill  "Whatever the mind can conceive and BELIEVE, it can achieve." The capacity to bring that dream to reality is inside you, but you must believe its their, before you can start seeing it.

Let me leave you this evening with a quote by Theodore Roosevelt "Believe you can and you are halfway there"

Glad you had fulfilling day.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Dream Big!

Hi there,

It is rather better to not have a dream at all than having  small dreams. Your dreams must be bigger than you or else it wouldn't challenge you at all to look beyond the status quo. For your dreams to really push you and stretch you, it has to be bigger and more demanding. Take for instance, if someone has a dream to become the President of Nigeria, then that's a demanding dream. Though where you are presently, might look like the dream is not achievable or rather impossible.

And that's good!

This is because, it will push you to begin to believe in yourself for more and it will challenge your mental outlook to things. When people are complaining about how bad the nation is, you would be thinking differently because you know one day you will emerge as the next president of your country. So instead of spending your time joining the company of those who complain about how bad things are, you would be thinking of ways and strategies to fix it.

One reason I believe, why the leadership of Nigeria is so backward and not progressive in development is because most of our leaders never had a dream of making Nigeria better. The leadership position they have today is not something they have prepared for, they just stumbled on it along the way. So, when they eventually became leaders, they had no clue as to what to do and how to make things work.

So if you are going to dream, then you have got to make it big. So that it can  push you to demand the best from yourself. Les Brown often said  "the challenge with most people in life is not that they aim too high and miss but rather that they aim too low and hit."

Don't settle for less, don't settle for mediocrity. When you consider people who are not engaged in personal development, those who are not enthusiastic about life. People who they need to be told things, before they do it. People who have no self motivation to do anything, they only have to be given a bait by payment before they can even get anything done. People who always have excuses of why they were not able to carry out some certain things. They are lethargic and when those people are in a team, they don't keep up with the demands of that team, they slow others down.

The reasons behind their actions is not hard to decipher . It is simply this, they have no compelling reasons, i.e no big dreams to challenge them. Nothing drives them, they aim at nothing. Hence, they have zero expectations from life. Wonder why many individuals of this country are like that. They have no big dreams of maybe owning a multimillion industry in the distant future that will solve the problem of unemployment for many people or building an empire that will serve as a monument of your contribution to your world or building a charitable organization that will help a lot of needy people. They have no such dreams of blessing humanity. They only dream about having just enough for themselves and that's all.

Friends, I challenge you this evening to dream big and believe in it, so that the world would also be blessed by the greatness that is stored deep inside you, waiting to be revealed.

The world is waiting for you.

Am glad you had a fruitful day.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well  Wisher.

Why Dreams Are So Important

Hi there,

I will like to write today on the importance of having a dream. Why is it important for us to dream and of what significance is a dream.

To start with, dreams are our compelling reasons, the why behind what we do. Dreams are what gives us reasons to believe more about ourselves, that we wouldn't believe ordinarily. They are what stretches us and helps us strive to become a better version of ourselves. They are our anchor at times, when it feels like all hell is breaking loose upon us. They are what assures us of a better tommorow. It is the one reality that helps us bear with patience, the trials and challenges that faces us today.

Many great men and women of today who has gone ahead to make positive impacts in life and a great mark on  the earth, were able to do so, because of the empowering dreams they had about how things should end up with them. They had dreams about a better world. And that is what forced them, or better still propelled them to demand from life, some certain things which are daring and impossible for the ordinary mind to capture.

Dreams are the gifts, God gives to us to enable us, tap into our unlimited potential and bless our world. Dreams are what keeps us going when the chips are down. Dreams are what adds flavor to our lives. It is what keeps us inspiring and makes us impactful amongst men. When you are around people who have great dreams, you feel so alive. It makes you feel more like a superhuman. Like someone who can dare anything.

Coach dimeji is one of those great men alive that inspires me with the great dreams he has about Nigeria becoming great by 2025. On my first contact with him at one of the groups he created on whatsapp, where he was sharing on the need for one to grow himself in order for one to earn. I was wowed at some of the amazing points he gave, about the need for dreams and since that time my concept about life changed dramatically. He helped me re-connect with those innate desires locked up inside me and gave me a reason to believe that it's possible and achievable. What I am doing now, motivating people through writing articles and having a blog where I do this on a wider scale is all thanks to the insights I gleaned from my meeting him. He is such a wonderful inspiration to me and to many people he has met with.

That's what having a dream does to people, and not just any dream but great dreams. On my next post, I will be writing on the need to dream big. But it suffices us to know that, dreams are important and dreams are to the spirit of man, what breath is to the human body. It is what keeps us alive and active when everyone around us is trying to keep us down.

People with great dreams can be easily spotted by the way they talk, by the way they act. They behave differently and that is because they see farther than the present circumstances around them into a better future.

Dare to have a dream and believe in it.

Sure you had a blessed day today.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

You Failed.... So what?

Hi there,

Many times most people get bogged down, by the many things they have done and failed at, this drains their drive, their zeal to do more. It makes them want to quit and not try again. It makes them believe less about themselves. Each time anyone encourages them to become more and be better. They remember those moments they have failed at some certain things in their lives and just tell themselves 'no, that's not me, I can't do that', they say things like 'I know myself and this is way beyond me, there is  no way  am gonna be able to make that possible.'

They let one event of failure judge their life. No! don't do that. You can't allow that to happen to you! Yes, I am aware that you've  failed and you are feeling bad about  it. Same applies too, to many who has failed too in some certain things in their life, it's not like you are the only one, no one likes failure also. So, get over it.

Yes I know, you had set a particular target, and then you missed it. You told yourself that you are going to quit that habit and yet you find yourself  engaging in it over and over again. You sat for a particular exam and then you failed, you were not amongst those selected for that particular job, because they told you that you weren't good enough. Now you are feeling so sorry for yourself. You feel like if I had known, maybe I wouldnt have even tried.

Well, I have got news for you, there is not anyone who has ever reached the pinnacle of success that hasn't had their own fair share of failure. But did they quit? ... Well you can answer that yourself. If they had quit, there is no way we would hear about their great success stories today.

So if you are considering quitting because you failed, it's necessary you consider what you are giving up. The fact that you failed, reveals that you tried and it also shows that you are pushing  yourself to become a better version of you. The failure helps you to know that, you haven't yet mastered the lesson, it reveals that you are doing something unusual and your body hasn't gotten used to it yet. But if you quit now, the better you, that you anticipated will never emerge.

Let's say, you are trying to cultivate a reading habit for instance and then, you told yourself that you would read atleast 5 pages of a book everyday and then you did it well for two days or maybe three days and then stopped.

That's great!

Appreciate the effort thus far, no matter how little, and then get up and get going. If you continue for long and refuse to quit, one day you will eventually master it and start reading more than you are doing today. But if you quit, you have already aborted that reality.

Same applies to every other thing you have done and failed at, don't stop, keep stretching and keep trying. _You are not a failure yet as long as you keep trying_ , and if you try harder enough, you will eventually hit your target.

Let me leave you with this quote by Robert Schuller, “I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.”

Have an exciting day ahead

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

The Law Of Process

Hi there,

The above title was used in one of John C Maxwell's book titled 21 irrefutable laws of leadership, where he stated that "Leadership develops daily, not in a day". Permit me also to lend that thought as relating to life and most importantly in the pursuit of your dream or targeted goals. Many times we wish that things should just happen fast, we anticipate that we should just enter into our destination overnight. It doesn't work that way, there is a process involved in anything that will last.

As Jim Rohn often stated in his books, "You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." That's how it works. You can decide today, right now, what direction you want to take in life. You can decide now, what those things that you desire are, and start making plans towards its attainment daily. Though you might not see quick changes immediately, but if you keep working at it, without being weary, you will get there.

Just like a farmer who sows a seed in the ground, now it would be so unwise of such a farmer to start expecting the harvest the next day. It doesn't work that way, he would have to wait patiently until those seeds germinate, given that he also provides the right environment for that seed to grow. He nurtures the seed daily, and removes the pests and weeds that would spoil the seed from growing fully to harvest time, this is what the law of process entails.

It is not enough, to have a dream, just like the farmer plants his seed and protects it, so that he sees harvest time. You too also have to start working towards that dream, making plans towards its eventuality. Making sure that you protect it from every pests, i.e those that would try to talk you out of your dream.

And it is important that you do this daily, else you will lose the dream. Many times people dream, but they don't follow it through daily with massive actions, no wonder they lose it and end up as a mediocre. This is what the law of process demands, you work things out daily, if you desire to see results.

Everything that grows in life follows this principle of process. Starting from a baby that grows into a full grown man or woman, insects which grow up from the larva stage to the adult stage, the trees which grows from the seed form to the fruit form. So also, the same applies to your dream too. You grow it from that little, seemingly insignificant stage to the point where every person in the world can't deny its impact.

Therefore, dear friends, it is time to get to work!

Have a fruitful day ahead.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Sunday Conversation With The Manufacturer

Dear Product,

Many of you don't recognize me, and those of you who recognize me, don't believe every word that I say, while a large percentage don't even know who I am. Needless to say, I am non existent in the lives of most of you. Yet, daily I am grieved at what happens to my products all over the world, only few has yet to tap into the potentials I have loaded them with, while many go on in life living below my expectations. This is saddening to me, I have at various times sent my agents to you, to help you believe more, not just in me, but also in yourself.

It helped some of you to rise up beyond your limitations and tap into the greatness buried within you, while some don't believe at all. They think so little of themselves, thereby thinking so little of me in the process.

Why?

To doubt the efficiency of a product is to doubt the capacity of the manufacturer. Every manufacturer's pride is to see, that their products are performing well excellently according to the purposed way that they have designed it.

But this isn't the case, with some of my products. If only, they could start seeing what I have built inside of them, if only, they could just have a glimpse of what I have built inside of them and believe it, they themselves would be amazed at the possibilities that would unfold before them.

But, Alas,

They are blinded!

They are blinded by the lies people tell them, they are blinded by the lies of their backgrounds, they are blinded by their society, they are blinded by their traditions.

Who has done this to my products?

This is not what I anticipated, An enemy has done this.

An enemy has done this!

Dear product,  why don't you shut the doors to the lies and speculations of the enemy, I ask you to hold my hand and let me take you into a journey of self-discovery. The discovery of the priceless treasure buried inside you.

I am your manufacturer, I know what I have built inside you and I am the only one who can reveal the truth about who you are.

If you would take my hand, you will begin to know things about yourself that you never knew...

Would you take my hand...?

To be continued...

Anthony  Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Get Understanding....!

HI their,

"Solomon:- To start being wise you must first get wisdom. No matter what it costs, get understanding."

The word understanding means, comprehension and being able to interpret a thing correctly. When you understand a thing, the mystery in it is removed. When we fail to understand how something works, it is left to us as a mystery but the moment, we get it or comprehend the mechanism involved in that particular thing, then we become experts in it and can do it anytime, any day.

It is just like a subject we have mastered. That applies to life also. One of my mentors often said, 'life is not mystical but practical'. Brian Tracy also said 'success is predictable likewise failure' .

Life is governed by principles, just like we have the law of gravity that governs the movement of objects on the earth. We also have some time- tested principles that governs success. When we go into understanding this principles and we comprehend them adequately and start applying them, then we are on the road to becoming successful also.

Like I always say, this is the best time to be alive, their are no longer any mystery shrouding how to become a great achiever. History is filled with great men and women who rose from obscurity to prominence. Men and women like Les Brown, Myles Munroe, Brian Tracy, Helen Keller, Mother Teresa, Tony Robbins, Ben Carson just to mention a few had the same unfortunate situations that most of us find ourselves today. Yet they are now at the top of their game. If they can, then you too can.

The only thing limiting you from reaching that greatness you desire is your ignorance. But once you grasp the mechanism involved in that particular thing, then your possibilities are endless.

Sir Isaac Newton once said "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

Here is my final advice, no matter what it costs you, get understanding because it will save you enough time in reaching your goals quicker and smarter.

Have a refreshing weekend.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

How bad do you want it?

Hi their,

Eric Thomas — 'When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.'

The above quote is also parallel to this, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Many times we wish for things in life and don't really desire them. The summary of the quote above is just one word DESIRE. Even the scriptures says, whatever you desire when you pray.... That's where it begins, desire is the starting point to achievement of any goal. That's the first principle.

Wishes doesn't get the job done, it's a pulsating desire to do something that makes it happen. The graveyard is filled with many people who have died, wishing for many things in life and ended up with not getting it done, they carried those dreams to their grave. That must not happen to you.

Those who have made a mark in life are people who had a pulsating desire towards accomplishing a particular goal and went all the way in getting it done. Life doesn't give us our shoulds, 'I should be rich by 30', 'I should buy my own house', 'I should go get a degree', ' I should have my own business'.

No! you have to develop a new vocabulary, where you replace those shoulds with musts. Start saying,  'I must be rich by 30', I must get a degree', 'I must have my own business'. How does that sound?That's more binding upon us that the shoulds. Musts are products of a pulsating desire to get a thing done and that is what life gives us, it delivers to our doorsteps our musts.

Many people in life only wish to be successful but they don't desire it, they don't want it as bad as they want to breathe, that's why they can easily throw it off when they meet with little challenges along their path. What life does is, it tests how bad you want something, life knows that most  people never really want something, they have set aside a plan B, those dreams of theirs is not their priority, they would rather desire to just be comfortable and not take risks and be at their comfort zones than pursue those dreams of theirs.

Until those dreams becomes a must in your life, you can't make it happen. Stop wishing for things to happen, make plans towards making it happen. Pursue that one goal, that one desire till its fulfilled  don't quit, don't lower your standards. You can change strategy in implementing that dream but don't quit on that goal. And eventually you will get it, if you really really want it as bad as you want to breathe.

Have an exciting day ahead.

Anthony Desalu,
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

You Can't Quit Now!

HI their,

The road to success is paved with many difficulties and disappointments, most often than not, you will often feel quite alone and frustrated, such that you would just want to walk away. At those times, people that you thought you could look up to for help, just seems missing, you can't find anyone, you are just all by yourself.

Those are times you've exhausted all the possible solutions you know and you wonder if their is anything left to do. Believe me, when you reach that point, giving up and quitting becomes the best option.

But you can't do that! You have made so much sacrifices to get to where you are now, you have paid a high cost in making sure you reach the point you are now, you need to get a reward for it.

If you fall down nineteen times, get back up at the twentieth time.
Success belongs to those who are tough, those who are not afraid to look challenges in the eye and face it upfront.

If you think, you have exhausted all the possible way outs, no you haven't! To every challenge, there is always a way out, if you look hard enough. Nobody said it was going to be easy, if it was, many people would have become successful. The extra effort you put in, when everything around you screams at you to give up is what separates you from the mediocre class.

Dare to continue, dare to rise up again and keep moving on and you will eventually hit your destination. Whatever you do, never ever give up on your dreams. Because winners don't quit and you are one in the making.

Have a victory filled day!

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

What do you want?

Hi their,

The above question seems to be the most important question for anyone to ask himself. And though as simple as the question is, many still don't have a clue as to the response to the question . No wonder many go on in life with mediocrity.

Many times it is those things that we don't want that gets us down, we spend our time mulling over in our mind, and creating pictures of those things that we don't want, until finally at the end of our lives we are filled with regret, because we didn't pursue those dreams locked up deep inside us.

The number one difference between the successful and the unsuccessful is what they focus on.

The successful focuses always on those things they want, while the unsuccessful focuses on those things they don't want. That explains the reason why the former achieves a lot while the latter does not.

When we determine those things that we want and focus more consistently on it, their is higher chance that we would get it, and that does something to our self esteem. Finally, we have something that could keep us awake in the night and also keep us active during the day. We are no longer a part of the majority who are wondering though life with no clue as to where they are headed to, it makes us become responsible and take charge. it increases our motivation to get a lot of things done. It becomes our comfort at times when the chips are down, why? because as we focus on the prize, we barely even see the price we are paying to get it.

Just like an athlete, he  is focused on winning the gold medal, so he stakes his life in making that possible, undeterred by the obstacles in front of him.

So I challenge you today, to ask yourself once again, what exactly is it that I want? 

Have a purpose filled day.

Anthony Desalu,
Your Friend and We'll Wisher

Check Your Daily Routine

Hi their,

Here is a notable quote by the world's foremost leadership expert; John C Maxwell

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Like it or not their are some certain attributes which differentiate the successful from the unsuccessful, it's all in their routine. Everyone in the world has the same 24 hours in a day. Why then does some people seem to make an headway in life while others barely struggle to live by. It's all in what each person does daily.

Their is no better time to be alive than now, because many of the relevant information  that are necessary to help us achieve success is available everywhere on the internet . Solomon, the wisest man in the world said that their is nothing new under the sun, their is nothing that is happening to you today that another  man has not experienced before and overcame.

So wisdom demands you research on those people and model what they did and you are sure to get the same results they got. Don't just sit down and gripe about how worst things are, go get answers and you are sure to find it, because those who seek eventually ends up finding what they are looking for.

Have a beautiful day ahead

Your Friend and Well Wisher
Anthony Desalu

Be grateful

It's another Monday of a new week, welcome once again to the last quarter of this year. I understand that many of us has a lot of plans laid up for this year, some were able to drive those plans halfway through, while some couldn't for one reason or the other, nevertheless for what is worth, the first key thing i want us to do is irrespective of whatever you are going through, have an attitude of gratitude.. Find something to be grateful for.

Yes things didn't work out as you anticipated, but the good news is, you are still here, you are still alive and that's great news, because that means there's more you can still make happen. A Living dog is better than a dead lion and for any one that is joined to the living their is hope. Rejoice exceedingly because your best is yet to come.

Have a great day

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher

Three things

Peter Diamandis wrote:

I’m often struck by the ability of a single individual to change the world.

Think Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Anne Wojcicki, Martin Luther King Jr. and Indira Gandhi, to name a few.

They each started with no money and no technology, just their passion and perseverance.

Ultimately, three things make anything possible: People, technology and money.

If you have the right people on your team and enough money, you can create the technology — that’s called innovation.  

If you have the right people and the right technology, you can attract the funding — that’s called venture capital.  

But money and technology alone, without the persistent and passionate human mind driving things forward, are useless.

If I had to name my superpower, it would be persistence — not giving up, even when everyone tells me it isn’t going to work.

My most important successes (companies like the XPRIZE Foundation, Singularity University, Planetary Resources and Zero-G) have taken me 10 years or more to implement.  

Had I given up in the face of the criticism or adversity, you wouldn’t be reading this blog post.  

What good is patience without persistence?  

Doing anything big and bold in life is hard work, and learning to persist (try, fail, learn, try again, etc.) is fundamental to any entrepreneur’s success.  

Another name for this superpower is ‘grit,’ the will to keep pushing, iterating, and taking the next step in the face of hardship.

Remember that true failure only comes when you give up.

Anthony Desalu

Your Friend and Well Wisher

IT IS NOT EASY

On your path to bringing your dreams to reality, their will be real challenges, their will be hurdles along your path. Life will test you to know the authenticity of your dream, by bringing across your path, tough times and put you in a hard situation. You will be tempted to give up and to just throw in the towel, you will be frustrated and even doubt if your dream will really see the light of the day, you will almost want to conclude that maybe its just a fairy tale which will never see the light of the day.

Some would wonder, why am I being this negative, I am actually meant to encourage you. Yeah, that's exactly what i am doing, I am preparing you to be a fighter and not a quitter. You need to be tough to win!

You need to arm yourself with the boldness to look your challenges and set backs in the face and say, I will not give up! I will ensure this dream of mine manifests. As Les Brown fondly says, if it is hard then do it HARD!!

If it is easy, everyone would be doing it. It takes you nothing to just dream but it will cost you so much to bring it to reality. It demands a reasonable amount of responsibility.

Why?

Responsibility is the price for greatness, its only people who are willing and committed to go all the way against all odds, that eventually wins. People would try to talk you out of believing in your dreams.

But! Don't listen to them, keep your dreams and guard it jealously and obligate yourself to bringing it to fulfilment and guess what, it will manifest. If you can dream it then it can happen if you follow it through with dedication and resilience.


Your friend and well wisher
Anthony Desalu

Success Leaves Tracks

Success leaves Tracks~ Brian Tracy

Success leaves tracks, this is indeed the greatest quote to have ever been known in the area of success and it is coming from the world's famous success expert, Brian Tracy. A great discovery indeed!

This statement pushes us to conclude then, that being successful is not a game of luck or chance, it is not trial and error, it is about following calculated steps.

Take for instance, someone wants to cook a particular meal, say rice or beans for instance or maybe an egusi soup(a Nigerian soup) or salad. It would be very unreasonable, to just get any ingredient mixed together in no particular order and then expect to get the desired result without first consulting someone that knows how to prepare those meals for counsel. The Holy Book says "In the multitude of counsellors, their is safety."

No man on earth, who has ever been successful, were born with all the knowledge of what it takes to be successful in their fields of interest, all of them learnt it. The likes of Bill gates, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Bishop David Oyedepo, Dr Myles Munroe, John C Maxwell etc. All of these great men learnt from those who has gone ahead of them. Brian Tracy always talks about Jim Rohn to be one of his great mentors, John Maxwell talked about his father to be his role model.

This means good news for you too, if all those successful individuals I mentioned, learnt all they knew, then that means you too can. Tony Robbins once said "The Fastest way to become successful in your field of interest, is to model someone that has already done what you want to do". This means you learn their skills, mindset, habitset, heart set, everything that they were doing to get the results they got. Once you do so, you will sure reach your goals faster with less stress.

Remember, success leaves tracks, your duty is to recognize the tracks and follow it.

Anthony Desalu,

Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Are You Wasting Those Failures?

I know most people will wonder at the title of this article. They'll wonder is their any relevance to failure, it's as good as being gone. Most of us has had memories of many failed attempts and we don't want to remember it, we really wish we could just forget it. A large many have never attempted any big endeavor for the fear of failure, needless to say, many dreams go unfulfilled because of the fear of failure.

DECISIONS; The Action Trigger

"Everything changes, the moment you make a decision" 

Anthony Robbins

As you embark on your journey to purpose discovery and its fulfilment, you need one major skill to help you in this quest and that is DECISIONS…

Your Mind; The Ultimate Success Ingredient

“We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see…” Strive Masiyiwa

 Let's go on a journey together....

Imagine for a minute, that you are passing through an uncultivated land, how does it looks like? You see grasses growing here and their, bushes and even some dangerous reptiles that might be lurking inside those bushes, simply stated its a land not regulated for a specific use.