The price of action

It is far easier to wish for greatness than to work for it.

Funny enough, we prefer the easier route: wishing, rather than working the talk. You have to give up something to get anything you want of life. Retrogressive habits will someday catch up with you and give you a bad name. Maybe you ask Tiger Woods, Tafa Balogun or Cecilia Ibru what this means. Life responds to action.

Thomas Monson says, “Our very business in life is not to get ahead of others…but to get ahead of ourselves.”

One of the best deals you could strike for yourself is to break free from the shackles of your character. Get ahead of every malignant behavior that finds expression through you. You’re responsible for all your actions, remember, your name is a brand.

When life is over, will your name be over?

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If you inundate your mind too much about the future,

you’ll never get anything done today.

Focus on an area where you have a great deal of control today.

“Naija go beta… Naija go beta…” has brought us to this jungle of misgovernance.

Each generation has conceded the responsibility of change to an elusive “unborn generation”.

What is your priority in this season of your life?

What you commit yourself to doing today will determine what you become in future.

Have you any plan to develop your core competence?

If today is the road to the future, you must make each day’s step count.

The result of action - or inaction – is usually lifelong.

Warren Buffet, the 2^nd richest man in the world says,

“What the wise man does at the beginning, fools do at the end.”

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Act Now

There’s no such thing as indecision.

Indecision is a solemn decision to put up with the status quo, accept fate and refuse to change anything.

It’s the by-product of ignorance and lethargy.

It’s an abdication of responsibility.

Stop giving fluent excuses. You’ll never get anything done today if you procrastinate.

Achieve what you’ve always wanted to accomplish; now. Get past your fears, self-doubt and mental disability.

“It is only those who dare to fail greatly that can achieve greatly, you are not likely to go further than you dare” says a highly successful entrepreneur, Deolu Akinyemi. Enrol for that professional exam. Seek out new customers. Write that proposal.

Rewrite history without a pen, act on your dreams now.

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