“Why are we sitting
here complaining, broke, hungry, and afraid yet prayerful until we die?” ~
The Four leprous men (2Kings 7:3) paraphrased
Today I add another year to my age. However, this is also the
day that the entire world celebrates as a hallmark of the new things expected
to happen in the unfolding season. The religionists also come alive with themes
to denote the entry into a new year. We hear themes like “Crossing over with
Power” “Night of Destiny” “My year of prosperity” etc. Some circles even go
into fasting prior to the New Year’s Day. Is there anything wrong with doing
all these? I don’t think so, its part of the choices that we make being men and
women of free will. However, people have been doing these things from time immemorial
and the majority are still wallowing in poverty and lack. It’s seems the New
Year has always been like any other year looking at the monotony of events that
results in no change. Critical life’s decisions must be made every day of one’s
life and not wait for the New Year. Wealthy people are not made on New Year’s
Day but are made in the everyday decisions that people make. Wealth is hidden
in ideas and not in events. Everything we see such as infrastructure, products,
works of Arts are all people’s ideas, which are exchanged for cash that goes
into the idealist’s bank accounts. Anyone can proclaim and declare all they
want but proclamations and declarations devoid of underlying million dollar
ideas are just as empty as an empty tin. Ideas come only to those who think. That
is the reason why the so-called “believers” are broke and eat each other’s
children (2Kinga 7J) while the “Chinese” are counting cash and
smiling all the way to the bank. The believers are praying and fasting but the revelation of million-dollar ideas are being revealed to the so-called “Out
Casts” just to borrow unfounded descriptions used by Christian to describe non-Christians
which in essence is being so narrow-minded. Just to refresh Christians' minds,
was Steve Jobs a Christian or is Dangote a Bishop? If you can find the reasons
why these people are wealthy and innovators, you would have discovered the secrets
of being a Multi-Billionaire.
I submit to you today that as you enter into the New Year, think
of the year like the man or the woman of year dreams. Describe the beauty you
hope to see and experience. Put detail and color to what you hope to achieve,
the people you wish to meet and connect, the new skills you want to explore.
Explore your deep Imaginations of the things you have never done but you hope
the magnificence of the New Year would help you explore. Describe and document what
you hope to do every day, week and months because it’s only what is planned
that usually gets done. Don't let your imagination down because it is the only place
where you can fashion your destiny or you can forge the weapons to destroy
your own life. Develop the habit of reading books on personal development to
help you build skills including mental readiness for an expanded life. This will
help you to get ready for big opportunities that you have built the capacity to
manage.
If you want the New Year to be your best year, color the year
with your best idea and be determined to execute no matter how crazy the idea
sounds. If you have problems in getting ideas, just look around you and the communities
you live in and find problems that need solutions. The problems you are seeing
hold new million dollar ideas for you. Remember,
if anybody laughs at your dream, just know that you are on to something. Just
talking about an idea does not make the idea work but document the idea and be
willing to die for it in the New Year.
Happy and Blessed New Year to you all
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This is powerful!!
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