MAKING GREAT DECISION

It is crucial for every individual to understand that your tomorrow is no better than the decisions you are making today. How then do you make decisions without regret? Life is too short for regrets, and that’s why it’s so important for you to know who you are, and what is important to you. Though regrets are meant to teach us what to do better next time, but that is if second chance will permit us.

‘’Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious than to be able to decide’’
Napoleon Bonaparte

The English new dictionary defines decision as a conclusion reached after consideration. Frankly speaking, your future is as strong as the decisions that precede it. You cannot make great decision if you do not take seriously the consequences of that decision and base your decision on thorough information.

I think, “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a decision and then a step.” Great destiny is a function of great decisions; we all choose our joy & sorrow long before we experience them. Your present is the total sum of the accumulated effects of the decisions you have made in the past, and your future will be a reflection of your present decisions. Your decision is what makes your destiny. We are all beings of destiny, but products of decision. The bottom line is that we make decisions and decisions make us. Any decision that cannot make you will ultimately destroy you; that cannot increase you will undoubtedly decrease you. We make decisions based on the information that is available to us; and information we say brings transformation.

‘’Every transformation is as a result of your information.’’

Mistakes, in human are inevitable, but can be avoided or reduced in effect. And in order for you to increase your chances of being effective at decision making, I would like to introduce to you a resplendent model called FASTIN.

FASTIN is simply the guide you use when trying to gather the information for your profile. Is universal; it is built on the concept of asking more and acting well, rather than the conventional approach of thinking less and acting more. It emphasizes the fact that every decision you will take requires anticipation before action, that asking precedes acting. FASTIN should be a lifestyle of every decision makers and not just a mere tool. Remember, the power belongs to those who ask the right questions in order to avoid making wrong decisions.

‘’Question your Question.’’

FASTIN speaks the language of the mind, and for FASTIN to be effective you have to be able to ask question before taking steps.

F- Facts not Opinion
A-Ask the right & best source
S-See in Systems
T-Think and Act the best way
I-Inquire, Expect, Prepare, Move
N-Never Assume

Find the facts, not opinions. Facts rule the lives of the successful people. They do all to ensure they have all the relevant data before making decisions. As the saying goes ‘’ The Facts Never Lie.’’ Getting a poor opinion is like poor information which gives you poor decision. You can’t make great decision with poor information. Individuals have been misguided by the opinions of other people. Making great decision demand that you gather all the facts, not some facts, it is a discipline trait that must be learn and adopted continuously.

Ask the right and best source. Information is the difference between failure and success, and where you get that information is just as important as the information itself. If information is what is used to make decisions, then that individual who wants to use the information must make sure that information is gotten from the right and best source.

See in systems. This is the ability to understand that nothing in life or work is isolated, everything and anything is connected to a series of things, which makes a whole thing.

Think and Act the Best Way. It is the ability to make decisions based on rationalizing and not on emotions, is a key to effective living.
Inquire, Expect, Prepare, Move. Everything human beings have a pattern and it is advisable to know the behavior pattern of anyone or anything before engaging in relationships or even business.

''Whenever you see a successful business,
someone once made a courageous decision.'' Peter Drucker

Never Assume.

Certainty in life is the key. The key formula of certainty is cross checking things over and over again. In relationship it means that trust has to be earned. Leaving things to chance could be dangerous, believing all is well, without taking the time to make sure that things are in place.

The entirety of this write-up is focused on the introduction and application of this concept. This concept promises to yield positive result and en masse success based on the fact that it is not built on theoretical notions, but on empirical evidences by great successful individuals and corporations all over the world that have embraced its application and accuracy.

Joseph Oluwole
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT!!!

At the risk of sounding like a Grumpy Old Man, and with near certainty that this post will be roasted by many who read it, I am about to make the case that there is such a thing as Personal Development. I define Personal development as a process that produces personal change and progress. And It starts from within. Whatsoever you must become outside is as a result of what you are on the inside. Every individual is the result or product of their thoughts. I am not confused to say that you cannot grow beyond your thoughts. The ancient writings say “as a man thinks in his heart so is he’’. Bottom line; you cannot be better than your thoughts and values.
God created everyone to grow on a daily basis, man is not supposed to be stagnant or static. When you don’t grow nothing grows around you; your environment and you will improve only as a result of your efforts to improve on yourself, when you improve things around you improve. Our world is created in such way that nothing moves if you don’t move.
Every individual’s growth is a result of their choices, you can choose to learn and become the person you aspire to be, or you can choose to hesitate, be stagnant and doubtful but remember that when you live in fear you actually live in mediocrity. Everyone is responsible for his or her improvements and success as well as your frustrations and lack of progress.
Personal development will only happen when you have come to a state of discovery, however it’s my discovery that, there would never be personal development without first personal discovery; it’s your discovery that determines your recovery, whatever you discover you recover. It is being before doing. You cannot do without first being. Your being is what activates your doing.
And how do you become before doing, I am going to discuss that in the next chapter and before I do that I want to make us understand that personal development will happen when you make a firm decision to understand yourself, improve your awareness, work on your attitude, believe in yourself and your potentials, develop your skills, set your goals and begin with the end in mind.
I know you’ll want to ask a question like where and how do you start!
I’ll say first that you need to have self discovery, then self development plan which is workable system for your personal development and growth. But don’t forget always take continuous actions.
You need to know in which direction you want to go so as to help you work on yourself, do all that you can do and always do your best while at it. This is what I always refer to as self help.

Ask yourself these few questions:
Do you like where you are and what you have become?
-Have you ever wished that your life was better?
-Is your relationship with others working the way you want it to be?
-Are you producing the results that you want?
-What makes you feel good?
-Why do you do what you do?
-What have you been telling yourself about you?
-How do you go from here to where you want to be?
-How much time do you spend with yourself?
When you begin to ask yourself these questions, you will start looking for the answers within you. Because life will ask you questions, and your answers must always come from within. Your journey to discover yourself, improve and grow will begin as you find answers to these questions.
No one but you can take that decision and choice to move from where you are to where you desire to be, and I think one of the most important things you can do to turn your situation around is to shift your perception by looking at the positive aspects of where you are. Why? Your perception is your reality. Never forget this that, genuine discovery is an attitude of the heart. It’s an attitude that affects the entire life of every individual and controls his or her responses to life.
It’s your thoughts that birth your beliefs, your beliefs make your convictions, your convictions make your attitude, your attitude controls your perception, and your perception dictates your behavior. I think your life is what you think it should be. However genuine discovery is not a result of memorizing formulas, or learning skills, not also imitating someone or techniques. It is an attitude of the heart. It is the real you from the inside.
Your attitude is what dictates your responses to the present and which determines the quality of your future. And if you do not discover yourself, how do you know your attitude and how to control it. You are your attitude, and your attitude is you, control your attitude before it controls you. Attitude is what creates your world, it’s what designs your destiny; it’s a determinant of your success or failure in any life’s venture. It can make beauty ugly, and skillful without results.
Dr. Myles Munroe defines attitude as ‘’the mind-set or mental conditioning that determines our interpretation of and response to our environments.’’ It is our way of thinking. In essence your attitude is the manifestation of who you think you are. And who you are is the real person within you.
You need to understand who you are and what you are meant to be which are the keys to fulfilling your purpose for existence in life. Whatsoever you see on the inside is what you become on the outside, if you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand; and by it, I mean the future. The way is not in the sky, the way is in the heart, the real you is in your heart. Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are within.
We cannot teach people personal development principles but we can only help them discover it within themselves, I challenge you to discover the real you from within you and manifest your potentials on earth.

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Lawrence Oluwole Joseph
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The Practice of Leadership!!!

The greatest need of manhood is leadership. And our greatest challenge in our nation or at global is that of a leadership vacuum. Strategically speaking, our greatest need is not money, not social programs, or even new governments. Our greatest need is quality, disciplined, moral and people centered leadership.

However, Leadership is the ability to inspire and influence a group of people to achieve worthwhile goals. I’ll want you to take note of these six words underlined, and to be observed critically, without these words leadership is incomplete and irrelevant. I discovered that one of the quickest route to leadership is problem solving. Leadership is the ability and willingness to recognize, reconnect, refine, release, replicate or reproduce skills, talents, abilities and potentials in people, irrespective of their present problems to make them a progressive people, producing preferable result.

One of our greatest gurus in leadership Dr. Myles Munroe said, genuine leadership is one’s internal disposition, which relates to a sense of purpose, self worth, and self concept.
A leader takes people where they want to go, but a great leader take people where they don’t necessary want to go but they ought to be. (Roseline Carter)

How to become a leader….
Anyone that must become a great leader must observe the following points;
1.Solve your own problem first.
2.Help others solve their own problems by the things you have discovered when solving your own problem. (we all follow the leadership of Jesus today because he solved the problem of sin)
4.Diagnose and define the source of the problem.
5.Generate alternative solution to solving the problem.
6.Evaluate and select best alternative solutions.
7.Implement and follow up on the solution.
In our discussion on the practice of leadership it’s necessary for me to mention a few characteristics of a great leader and then what leadership is not.


Characteristics of a leader…
When we talk about characteristics of a leader we are talking about attributes, nature, originality, quality, mannerism, the virtue, flavor, trade mark and personality of a great leader. A study at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management found that compassion and building teamwork will be two of the most important characteristics business leaders will need for success a decade from now, but I think that is not enough. Follow me closely as I expose the critical aspect of leadership.
The word characteristics I derive from the word character. Any leader without character cannot produce characteristics, in other words character is what gives birth to characteristics.
Character I say is everything, it’s easy to get to the position of leadership but that which can easily destroys you at the top of leadership if not in place is character. Reputation is what people feel or think about you but character is what God knows about you, here is what we teach in leadership that, the heart of the matter is the matter of the heart. In other words character is within and reputation is without. If your heart is right your act will be right.
The characteristics or character of a great leader is,
Ability to initiate change:
Leaders help where to attain to the next experience and they are always dissatisfied with their current level. The ability to initiate change is what makes the difference between the leaders and the followers. Change is risk, but irrespective of what people will say, a leader will always initiate change. Strategically, there are many elements to a campaign but leadership is number one and everything else is number two.
Leaders have sense of divine timing:
The person who knows what to do, how to do it, where and when will always take the leadership position. Leaders don’t move after God has move, leaders move when God is moving. When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow to the end and at all costs.
Leaders know and focus on what is important:
A leader knows what is urgent, more so what differentiate the leader from follower is that followers want to do everything, but leader focus on what is important.
Leaders have vision:
The ability of a leader to see clearly is what makes people follow him.It is your sight that determines your size,and without vision you may be going everywhere without going somewhere. But there are three dimensions to a leader’s vision,
1. Hindsight: seeing yesterday difficulties or activities, those who cannot remember the failure of yesterday, will repeat them.
2. Insight: knowing today possibilities, seeing beyond the obvious. In every difficulty there are opportunities.
3. Foresight: seeing tomorrow’s opportunity. It is what your eyes can see that your hand can cease, and what your eyes can’t comprehend your heart can’t comprehend.
Leaders have commitment:
There is a difference between commitment and involvement. Leaders are dedicated to continuous improvement; anyone that will lead must be a reader because leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. A good leader develops through a never ending process of self study, education, training, and experience.
Leaders connect with people:
A good leader touches people with love and emotion. People will first buy into you before they buy into your vision. Henry Ford said, “Coming together is the beginning, keeping together is the progress and working together is success.” Leadership effectiveness is more of relationship development and management than goal setting and accomplishments. And the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers, though the first step to leadership is servant hood.

With basics understanding on leadership and characteristics we can now inspect what leadership is not…..
-Leadership is not only becoming a person of celebrities but a person with great responsibilities.
-Leadership is not about status but about service.
-Leadership is not about power but about people.
-Leadership is not about position but about operation.
-Leadership is not about title but about task.
-Leadership is not about aptitude but about attitude.
-Leadership is not about demanding for respect but about delivering respect.
-Leadership is not about personal achievement but people’s development.
-Leadership is not about charisma but about character.
-Leadership is not about being satisfied but more of willingness to sacrifice.
-Leadership is not about party but about personality.
-Leadership is not about principle but about life style.
-Leadership is not about structure but about culture.
-Leadership is not about pursuit but about result.
-Leadership is not about “come” into but about “call” into.

Leadership as said by Dr. Myles Munroe is not an exclusive club for the elite. Everyone is called into leadership.
Practical leadership,It is an attitude of the heart. Sincerely speaking, leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration of oneself and of others. The great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. “Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves.”

It is an attitude, not a routine. It is the heart before the act. Let’s get it right that leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
Leadership development is self development!!!
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IS IT LEADERSHIP?

Almost every organization has someone in a position of leadership but the effective organizations have learned to distinguish between having someone in a position of leadership and having an eldership or a rulership. Many have failed to understand that ‘’rulership’’ or ‘’eldership’’ is not leadership.
Any leader that does not understand his destination may lead the ship in a wrong direction and then we say the ship is bad; it is not the ship but the leader. Anyone in charge of the ship gives the ship definition and direction, it may be leader in the ship, an elder in the ship or a ruler in the ship.
The unfortunate truth is that most African churches, organization, and government have people occupying offices who do not know the first thing about leading people. Given my perspective, it should be clear that having a title or position does not make one a leader, anymore than swimming in the ocean makes one a fish.
Society’s problem and great deficit is that we do not have enough leaders who understand leadership styles, approach, and also principles. Our society needs people in politics, ministry and business who know how to apply their leadership styles in the boardroom; we need political leaders who seek their guidance from God and not from thugs and elders. Our society longs for statesmen but it gets rulers,tyrants and exploiters.
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth. On my study on leadership, I discovered that voluminous materials are currently being published on the topic, yet there seems to be no simple definition of it.
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus discovered over 850 different definitions of leadership; I think this may be one of the major reasons why today’s leaders are unsure how they measure up. Too many standards to meet!
By reading and research I have come across various definitions on leadership but the following is a small sampling of the helpful definitions that have been offered by some leadership experts;
 ‘’Leadership is the process of persuasion or example by which an individual induces a group to pursue objectives held by a leader or shared by the leader and his or her followers.’’
John w Gardner
 ‘’The central task of leadership is influencing God’s people toward God’s purpose.’’
Robert Clinton
 ‘’Leadership is influence, the ability of one person to influence others.’’
Oswald Sanders
 ‘’Leadership over human beings is exercised when persons with certain motives and purposes mobilize, in competition or conflict with others, institutional, political, psychological, and other resources so as to arouse, engage, and satisfy the motives of followers. ‘’
James MacGregor Burns
 ‘’A Christian leader is someone who is called by God to lead, leads with and through Christlike character; and demonstrate place. ‘’ George Barna
All of these definitions help bring focus upon the role of leaders. Burns, one of the most respected scholars in leadership theory, explain that leaders are motive-driven. And he notes that leaders may have first aroused motives within their followers before they can engage and satisfy those motives.
A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do and like it. Any leaders who make no difference in their followers’ lives are not actually leaders. I heartily agree that leaders must exert influence if they are to lead.
Effective leadership must consider the following three C’s which is very crucial in leadership; call, character, and competencies. Leadership either in business, church, and politics should be ultimately measured not according to the leader’s skills but on the leader’s results.
Popularity is not leadership, and leadership is not status but service, not title but task, not power but purpose, not by been aggressive but been assertive. It is not what you have but what you can offer. It is not where you are but who you are. Many of our leaders accept status, title but neglect service and task, forgetting that its responsibility that calls for leadership and any leader that fails to accept responsibility will surely die in liability.
It is not the crown that calls for the king but ability to respond to situation. Every position of a leader is a cry for solution provider, problem solver. It’s right to intuitively know that claiming to be a leader or holding a leadership position does not make someone a leader. There is no leadership without followership. The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership skills and ability, and the more you try to do in life, the more you will find that leadership makes the difference. You can overcome many challenges in a church and organization, but you cannot compensate for the lack of good leadership. Believe me that nothing will cripple a nation, organization, church, business and home more completely than the absence of effective leadership.
As you strive to build your organization, business strategy, family and church structure, I want you to remember this, stated by one of the leadership gurus, John C Maxwell. That;
Personnel determine the potential of the organization
Relationships determine the morale of the organization
Structures determine the size of the organization
Vision determines the direction of the organization
Leadership determines the success of the organization
Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportional to the strength of leadership. No organization can grow beyond its leadership. No matter where you go or what position you hold, I’ve learned that ‘’leadership is leadership.’’ Everything changes, time rotates, culture changes and varies but leadership principles remain constant.
Stand out and Lead!!!
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ABORTION

ABORTION
According to the English mini dictionary, ‘’abortion is the deliberate bringing to an end of a human pregnancy. Abortion is the extermination of the future.

Abortion is the termination of foetus in a mother’s womb, and to abort means to terminate life before its full potential has or can be realized, before the person, plant or animal is given an opportunity to fulfill its full potential.

I know someone must have started questioning herself by her past events, relax and allow your present to determine your future. You’re not going to be condemned but lifted.

The abortion in view is not only the termination of biological foetus, but the destruction of seed which ought to make a forest, abortion of potentials, abortion of dreams, abortion of ideas and vision.

Everything made by God was created with the hidden ability to fulfill its course. The bible record of creation states that the seed of everything has ability in itself to produce after its kind.

Adam, the first man to commit abortion in the Garden of Eden, when he aborted the vision God has placed in his heart and destroyed the directives of the manufacturer; he changed the lives of the entire human race, including You!

The fact that you were born is evidence that God knows earth needed the potential you have. It would be sad that you leave this planet without giving birth to those dreams, ideas, inventions, and vision and remember vision rules the world.

Abortion, it robs life of its essence and denies the future its value. Every man that lives by Insight sees in every seed a tree, in a bird a flock, in a cow a herd, in a girl a woman, in a boy a man, and in a man he sees a Nation.

It’s true that the grave yards are full of great men and women who never became great because they did not give ability to their responsibility.

Any Nation that performs so much abortion, will ultimately loose so much potential. The wealth of a Nation is determined by the quality of people living there-in. Do something to improve your world.
‘’potential aborted condemns the future’’
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SUCCESS HABITS

Habits are what we do continuously over a long period of time and therefore it becomes a part of us. Though, we do not decide our destiny directly, we decide on our habit.

Habits determine our character, and our character determines our destiny. We can therefore conclude that good and godly habits birth success. Success comes when you achieve your objectives or set goals. But for a Christian success is the achievement of God set goals for our lives.

Success goes beyond material acquisition. If you must perform better in life you need to consistently upgrade yourself, let your habits be consistent with your destiny.

Destiny is from the word destination. Many are too bothered about their destiny while they ignore habits, it’s so easy to get to your destination but what sustains you is habit.

It’s your thought that forms your words, and your words determine your actions, your actions determine your habits and your habits finally become your character. Your character either makes you or destroys you.

If you don’t make conscious efforts to change your old or bad habits, cultivating new ones would be difficult. How do you cultivate a new habit?

MEDITATION:

Meditation gives birth to revelation. Meditation is been able to think deeply and reflect . It means to be thoughtful of something, to roll things over in thought. If you are too busy to think you are too busy to succeed.

RESPONSIBILITY:

Responsibility comes from the two words ‘’response’’ and ‘’ability’’ which means ability to respond. You have to take 100% responsibility of your life. Responsibility is the key to true freedom.

SELF IMPROVEMENT:

Self improvement is adding value to your life. And one of the major ways to self improvement is reading.

Through reading you can access the mind of great men. Whatever your profession is or heights you get to in life, there’s always something more you do not know. You need to keep improving yourself to stay relevant. Once you stop learning, you start dying.

POSITIVE TALK:

What do you say about yourself? Your life will move in the direction of your confessions. What forms your confessions is determined by what you eat. What you watch, what you listen to, what you read etc. All of these form the content of your dominant thoughts which then translates to your speech. So ask yourself “What am I eating” because Input invariably corresponds to output. Practice selective viewing and listening so that you can control what you say because your world is controlled by your words.



ACTION ORIENTED:

You must be action oriented. God designed the world such that nothing moves until you move. You don’t get rewarded for what you are planning to do; you only get rewarded for what you have done. Be somebody who always carries out his action. Action delay is destiny delay.

PERSISTENCE:

Develop an attitude of not giving up until you get your desired result. When you persist you soon reach a gush out.

PRAYER:

Prayer is one of the essential keys to success.

Success rates in life largely depend on what you do. Bad habits are easy to form but hard to live by, good habits are hard to form but easy to live by. Be consistent on your newly formed good habits over the old or bad ones because good habits will promote your success rate.

‘’Human beings are creatures of habits.’’

VISION RULES THE WORLD

We are in the world where people mistake purpose and mission for vision, break the scripture with our culture, and turn journeys into destinations.
Permit me to say that it is only human beings that have visions which can speak the things that be not as though they were. Check out the likes of Martin Luther king, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Bishop David Oyedepo (Covenant University), Fela Durotoye… what all these people have in common is that, vision took them there before they were there physically, they lived in the reality of their vision before it became their vicinity.
It is only vision that permits you to live the future while still in the present. To a man without a vision, the past determines his present; but the man carrying a vision sees the end from the beginning. A man with vision doesn’t have need for a seer. God wants you to have sight, but never live by your sight. Live by insight which the word of God provides.
A life without a vision is a life without a mission (assignment), and a life without mission is life that’s set out for confusion and frustration in the presence of opposition. Vision is the source and hope of life, your hope comes from your vision. Vision is the source of confidence. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision. The moment you stop seeing the future on the inside, you start dying on the outside.
I have discovered that life is measured per second not per year; but the quality of life is measure per thought, not per second. You are a product of your thoughts. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. Don’t trust your eyes but trust your heart. Remember this, ‘’eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare’’.
There’s nothing noble or noteworthy on earth that is not a product of vision. African nations are suffering at large because we are not aligned with the present age and dispensation; Africa is the poorest continent, not because we lack natural resources, but because we lack supernatural resources and a deep understanding of what’s essential for national growth. There’s an American dream, where is the Nigerian dream? The reason for New York was because there was Old York; vision is what gave birth to New York. Your present is a reflection of your past, but your future is the end-product of your present.
African countries will maintain their present status quo until they stop breaking basic principles that govern success. Anytime a country or a man stops leaving on vision, he starts living under depression. The change in Lagos state, Nigeria is as a result of vision not ambition. Let me make this clear that there is a difference between a leader and a politician. One leads whiles the other rules. Leadership deals with vision, rulership deals with ambition. Vision is what makes a leader, the vision of a leader is what informs or bring about transformation. Vision gives birth to inventions that transform lives.
It was the vision of a desk-sized computer that inspired Steve Jobs to invent the desktop computer, it was the vision of light that possessed Thomas Edison to invent the light bulb, it was the vision of flight that motivated the Wright brothers to invent the airplane; and it was the vision of Bill gate that birth the most influential software company in the world, Microsoft.
What you don’t know will affect your economic future. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become. There’s a huge difference between becoming anything and becoming something. People who strive to become anything end up becoming nothing. Becoming anything is a function of sight, but becoming something is a function of vision.
Vision births ideas, and ideas birth value, and value is what is transformed to wealth. You can sell an idea, but you can’t sell a vision. They say ‘’what is worth living for is worth dying for’’, but the only thing that worth living for without the requirement of death is vision. Your vision preserves you. Even in the midst of the most turbulent storm, your vision is what presents you life and replace the fear of dying with the courage of living. If you can see it, believe me, you can live for it. “Before you can get there, you must see there.”
It is vision that keeps the earth rotating, it is what makes plants grow, and it is what also sustains reproduction. Our home needs vision, our family needs vision, and our churches need vision. You need vision!
Our nation today is in desperate need of vision. The challenge of our nation demands men and women who will see beyond the endured present into a preferred future, people with the skill to transform vision into reality, and with the courage to inspire others to do the same.
I am yet to see a nation that will survive without a vision. Any individual that tries to acquire wealth or success by ambition is clearly heading for destruction. The wise King of Israel, King Solomon affirmed in the book of proverbs that “where there is no vision, the people perish.” (Prov. 29:18) Where there’s no revelation of the future, people tend to live in darkness. And to churches or ministries existing without vision, very soon people will start leaving to another parish. When a parish doesn’t have a vision, it will perish.
Every individual is designed to make a difference in their generation; you are born to lead, to achieve something great. But your vision awaits your action. Live by insight(hincyt), not by outsight. Let the unseen in you propel you to see beyond the seen and put you on the scene. If you can picture it, then you can print it out. The future you cannot picture, you cannot feature. And the moment you stop seeing the future, you start dying in the present.
This book is designed to challenge you to live a vision-driving life, to discover and redefine, and to understand the power of vision. It will help you to see beyond what you are called to do. You cannot be better or greater than your vision. Believe in your vision, and act on it. Your greatest asset lies within you, but your greatest adversary lies around you; your best days are not ahead of you but right inside your vision, they lie within you. Challenge yourself, get inspired so that you won’t expire, get informed so that you won’t be deformed. Your vision is more real than your present realities. Don’t trust your eyes.