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.