AHIEVERS WISDOM

28 June 2021

Will You Like to Be the Lucy One?

By Balogun M. Adewale On June 28, 2021

“Keep going and the chances are you will stumble on something. Perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone stumbling on something while they were sitting down” - Charles Kettering.

Fortune we all think is by accident, but not. Luck is well known for achieving what you don’t deserve; could that be true? I don’t think so. In reality, there is no way you can have it if your effort is not in that direction. Keep this in mind; you are also going to hit the luck soonest in your area of endeavour, but not by waiting for it to come over, you have to go after it. How soon it will be is a question you should stop asking, but if you still need an answer to it, I think you will consider this to be the best. “I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” - Brian Tracy.

If we have to consider the losers definition of luck, it is said that “Opportunity comes but once.” Yes, luck is not reservable, but always available. I don’t know when and where, but I know how? Just get up and start looking for it in the right direction applicable to you. Forget about how greener the other side is, you can make yours' greener too, keep working on it.

When it comes to luck, you could as well believe in what Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and third President of the United State have to say, “I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” In summary, another name for luck is hard work. According to Seneca, “Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.” Have you ever being told, you are very lucky, when you know, you work hard to achieve it. How did you feel? The more you believe some people are lucky and you are not, the faster you are treading the path to failure. If you believe, you will achieve it and very soon someone will say to you, you are very lucky.

In a State of Confusion, Just Do the Right Thing

By Balogun M. Adewale On November 07, 2020

“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.”- Oprah Winfrey

Anger: That Destructive Moment

By Balogun M. Adewale On July 11, 2018 In wrong

“Be patient and calm-for no one can catch fish in anger” – Herbert Hoover”

Anger is a choice and it has nothing to offer you than distraction and destruction. You cannot achieve any remarkable rather regrettable result when you are angry. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind” says Ralph Waldo Emerson. Why paying so much for goods you are not ready to receive? Why loosing so much if there is no expectation of gain? Be aware, your anger is never a friend. If anyone praise you for an action you take out of anger, such person is your enemy.

“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.” - Laurence J. Peter. Anger is inevitable, but you have choice what to do with it. According to Stephen Hawking, “People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining”, and I believe that, I don’t know about you. I want the best people around me; so, I can’t afford to go angry all the time. Moreover “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves” - Alexander Pope. Why will I ever choose that when I know that “Getting angry doesn't solve anything” as thought by Grace Kelly.

It could be funny when I told you anger could be the best solution sometimes. Before you crucify me, let’s share other intellectual thoughts on this matter. Evan Rachel Wood says “The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.” Can you make sense out of that; I think I am a testimony. Another point is that, if you want to go angry, do for the best. Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done” - Ang Lee. Yes, if you go angry about a situation then go ahead and find solution to it, then better. But if otherwise “When angry count to ten before you speak, If very angry, count to one hundred” advised Thomas Jefferson. Always remember, “Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming, - Koo Stark.

Don’t be Discourage, You Are One Step Fowrad

By Balogun M. Adewale On June 30, 2018 In try

“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward”. - Thomas A. Edison.

Very hard to accept, but it’s all you need to succeed. In reality any successful person is a product of trial who knows the danger of not making an attempt, accept that looking stupid so to say is what is needed to be ahead, the rest are the opposite. I love how Mercedes Lackey put it to support my assertion, “If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.” Come to think of it, no one ever negate the popular statement of “practice makes improvement or perfection”. I am not surprised anyway because of another popular slogan “easier said than done”

If you care to achieve great things, I think you will consider this according to Robert Francis Kennedy, the renowned American politician, and United States Senator. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” Wake up from your day dreaming, your role model is not a product of overnight success, if you love the achievement, investigate what it required. You don’t have to go far, keep trying whatever you could in such direction, and leave the rest. “Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful” says Roy T. Bennett in “The Light in the Heart”.

“A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.” - George R.R. Martin. Until you have what it takes to justify the achievement, you are purely wishing. You can’t achieve it sitting, but if you love wishing than the reality of having it, you are in a perfect state. Roy T. Bennett is aware that, fear and failure are good friend who have what it takes to make you better or worst when he says, “Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” I guaranteed, trying will not only convince you, but gradually makes your dream a come true.

Achieving Set Goals Leads To Greatness

By Balogun M. Adewale On June 26, 2018 In Success

“Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into”. - Brian Tracy

Within each and every one of us, we want to be great. Unfortunately 95% of those who desire greatness are just wandering around thinking they are going somewhere. “The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score” - Bill Copeland. That is exactly what I mean; your brilliance cannot earn you success in an examination without written the answers down. What is the only thing you would do if you know you will not fail? then go ahead and do it. Whatever you believe in, find a way to start doing it, you either become great doing it or it will lead you to where you will become great. “All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” Says Orison Swett Marden.

We have heard it times without number that, those who set goals achieve more than those who do not, while those who sets goals and write it down achieve much more than those who set goals but failed to write it down. Writing your goals down and where you will always see it and read it to yourself is a sign of commitment. It differentiates between those who actually have a dream of achieving something specific and those who only wish to. In a nutshell “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” - Earl Nightingale.

Life is only meaningful when you set out to achieve something that is dear to your heart. The more goals you commit yourself to achieve, the more you will discover many meaningful things and many things you consider meaningful that is meaningless. That is wisdom. And we all need it to become great. However, “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” - Pablo Picasso.

Success is in Problem Solving

By Balogun M. Adewale On June 12, 2018 In Success

"Life is a one Way Street, no matter how many detours you take, none of them leads back. And once you know and accept that, life becomes much simpler” - Isabel Moore

Every problem bring with it solution or potential solution. There are many times we are not aware we have the solution until problem surface. Have ever thought or notice that. Sincerely speaking, I have come to realize that problem brings out the best in every one of us. There is nothing so great than being known to be a solution provider, the world achievers are nothing but people who love solving problems. Let’s look at what the great Albert Einstein have to say on this “If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.” The reason I think is because solution reside within the problem.

“Problems are meant to be solved, but unfortunately, a lot of people choose to complain, worry, and cry about them” says Edmond Mbiaka. Problems love those who hate her but hate those who love her. In reality, the more you try to avoid problems, the closer it is to you and the more you have many of it. Susan Del Gatto reveals “If you choose to not deal with an issue, then you give up your right of control over the issue and it will select the path of least resistance.” According to Joey Lawsin “The opposite of a problem would likely be the correct solution.”

Someone said, “I have not met someone great that has an easy past,” I can’t agree less. The more problem you solve, the greater you become. I am sure you know that “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” - Albert Einstein. In the world today, money seems to the first yardstick to measure success. Could that be, even if it is Manoj Arora advised “Do not focus on money, instead focus on a problem that needs to be solved for the world. Money will follow you as a bi-product.” Next time never say; why me? Instead ask why not me? Then follow by what is the way out

Overcoming Your Fear

By Balogun M. Adewale On June 11, 2018 In procrastinate

"Fear is interest paid on debt you may not owe” – John C. Maxwell

Fear is full part of our life, everyone experience fear in one area of their life. One of the the major enemies to your greatness is fear. It is mostly caused by our past experience, but most especially unknown outcome of event; thus, the popularly statement “fear of unknown”. One thing I have experienced about fear is that; it is generated out of negative thinking. Remember “negative thinking is a mental hunger, feed it with the only food, positive thinking” – Balogun M. Adewale. In other words ““Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.” Says Napoleon Hill

In reality about 95% of our fear will never come to pass. They are only generated by our feeling and sometimes our past experience. Henry Ford from experience share this about fear “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.” The only thing we have to fear when you are afraid to move on is fear itself” because fear lead to failure while uncertainty could lead to success. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” — Nelson Mandela

Fear has a good friend; procrastination, and procrastination is a well-known quality of a loser. Postponing what you need to do today till tomorrow is a gradual step towards failure, never good room for it. Dale Carnegie advised “Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.” Believe me, if someone can do it and has done it before, you too can do it. Never let fear steal your trophy.

Start with What You Have, Start Now!

By Balogun M. Adewale On June 10, 2018 In Success

"Don’t let life discourage you” “everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was” – Richard L. Evans.

If only I have the required capital, if only I have B.sc, if only I have the right connection, if only my parents are rich…….all are alibis. The resources needed to achieve the dream at hand is with you at every point in time, look inward, meditate, ask yourself what is the way out, what is the next alternative. Believe me, there is always a better alternative. “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again” says Benjamin Franklin

Those who believe opportunity come but once may be right, we have countless number of people who remain the same today as they are years back just because they always postpone till next day what they need to do today. If you doubt that, you may like to meditate on what Abraham Lincoln have to say on this, “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” Don’t be among the people who always eat the leftover, double your action; stop putting till tomorrow what you should do today.

Discouraging yourself from pursuing your dreams because you lack what you think is the most important thing is a waste of time and energy. The most important resource needed is you; so start the work now. A journey of a thousand miles, they say, start with a single step. According to Norman Vincent Peale “The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.”

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28 June 2021

Will You Like to Be the Lucy One?

7 November 2020

In a State of Confusion, Just Do the Right Thing

11 July 2018

Anger: That Destructive Moment

30 June 2018

Don’t be Discourage, You Are One Step Fowrad

26 June 2018

Achieving Set Goals Leads To Greatness

12 June 2018

Success is in Problem Solving

11 June 2018

Overcoming Your Fear

10 June 2018

Start with What You Have, Start Now!

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