“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined”.
Henry David Thoreau
The dream you have of your future should spur you to be confident of yourself and see yourself the way you had wanted to be and not the way you are, presently. The dream you have about your future must have a great influence on everything you do. Your dream should shape the way you relate with others, the places you visit, the kind of books you read and the kind of company you keep.
The actualization of your dream has a lot to do with your imagination. Your power of imagination works most when you have a directional plan showing every step you intends to take in order to achieve your desired future dream. A dream without a mapped out strategy to assure its actualization is just a dream in futility.
Do you have a worthwhile goal or dream in life? Do you have mapped out strategies for its actualization? If your answers to the above questions are in the negative, then you are yet to have a dream. Go back to work; put your dreams in black and white. Pen down your major strategies for actualizing the dreams as well. Until this is done, you don’t have a dream yet.
You may be wondering. How do I live my dream? You live your dream by being convinced that your dream can become a reality. You live your dream by believing in your dream. You live your dream by acting as if it’s already a reality. Until you have confidence in your dream, nobody will buy into it.
The first step in living your dream is to follow the various directional strategies that you have designed towards the actualization of the dreams. This entails moving from stage A to stage B and from there to stage C, until your dreams become a reality. As you move from one stage to the other you should focus on the end result. This picture of the end result should be your major motivation. If you can have a positive picture of the end result, you will definitely remain undaunted when you are confronted with numerous challenges on the way.
Having a picture of the end result in mind is not enough; you should be ready to pay the price. The road to the actualization of your dreams is not going to be rosy. On the way are so many constraints. Discouragements from people you trust and respect, financial constraints, stress and fear of failure, lack of encouragement and intention to quit. All you need do is to refuse to listen to people’s suggestion that your dream is not a realistic dream. Go ahead, remain focus and pay the price. Do everything possible to actualize your dream. After all, many dream that were considered impossible yesterday such as airplanes, are today a reality.
You can achieve your dream. Plan for it, work for it, imagine its possibility and live your dream. You will get there!
Writer’s Profile
Ajiboro Ayodeji is a Chartered HR Practitioner based in Lagos, Nigeria. Tel: 2348027807452. Email: jibdej@gmail.com.
©Hutren Consulting 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
CONSCIOUS SELF DEVELOPMENT
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Francis Bacon.
Our capacity to make informed decisions is a function of skills, knowledge, and capabilities that we possess. Your ability to deliver superior performance at work and in any other areas of your life is direct proportional to your skills, knowledge and attitude. With the right knowledge, your skills and attitude improves. Knowledge is power.
Any time there exist a gap between what we know and what we need to know, this resultant gap must be filled through knowledge. The cheapest means of getting knowledge is through a conscious self developmental effort.
Knowledge is all about having the right information needed to make informed decision or to achieve a given task at a particular point in time. Knowledge makes one to be smart and be in high demand. Leadership positions in Government across the world are often filled by knowledgeable individuals who have made their marks in business, education, private practice, public service and respected institutions within their country or across the globe. Knowledge makes the difference.
The knowledgeable people are always in control and could be rely upon in critical situations. This explains why the cabinets of political leaders across the world are made up of experts in various fields relevant to the service they are expected to render. This explains why the opinion of someone like Prof. Sam Aluko is highly required when government of Nigeria is introducing a new economic policy. Even if the government of the day fails to seek his opinion, the press will definitely do so. The position of someone like Prof. Sam Aluko counts because of his level of knowledge about economic issues. Your opinion does not count on any issue until you possess the knowledge that others see as uncommon.
Self development can be achieved through so many ways. Ben Carson, in his book, ‘Think Big’ described how he became an instant hero through knowledge of what his classmates knew nothing about. Being the dullest student in his class, this singular experience change his mentality that he can actually be the best in the class. Ben Carson had this experience when he was in fifth grade, by the time he got to the sixth grade; he had become the number one student in his class. This experience turned him into an instant hero and he continues in that zeal to become a world class neurosurgeon. He was able to achieve this feat through a conscious self development effort by studying hard, reading two books a week and watching less of television programmes. You can get to the peak of your career if you are ready to study hard and know what majority of your colleagues do not know.
The suggested strategies below could be used to achieve knowledge acquisition through conscious self development.
Set a personal activities time table and follow it.
Identify your career goal.
Get the best education that fits your career goal.
Read a material related to your field of study for at least one hour daily.
Read at least one book of general or narrow interest per week.
Limit your time on the internet and TV to the barest minimum.
Have a close or distant mentor in your chosen field.
Follow at least one Journal in your field or area of study or interest.
Be inquisitive and conscious of development around you.
Keep company with people with similar vision.
The difference between a versatile Lawyer and a mediocre one is knowledge. What differentiates a skillful and respected surgeon from the crowd is knowledge. To be the best in whatever you do, seek knowledge. Knowledge is power!
Writer’s Profile
Ajiboro Ayodeji is a Chartered HR Practitioner based in Lagos, Nigeria. Tel: 2348027807452. Email: jibdej@gmail.com
©Hutren Consulting 2011
Francis Bacon.
Our capacity to make informed decisions is a function of skills, knowledge, and capabilities that we possess. Your ability to deliver superior performance at work and in any other areas of your life is direct proportional to your skills, knowledge and attitude. With the right knowledge, your skills and attitude improves. Knowledge is power.
Any time there exist a gap between what we know and what we need to know, this resultant gap must be filled through knowledge. The cheapest means of getting knowledge is through a conscious self developmental effort.
Knowledge is all about having the right information needed to make informed decision or to achieve a given task at a particular point in time. Knowledge makes one to be smart and be in high demand. Leadership positions in Government across the world are often filled by knowledgeable individuals who have made their marks in business, education, private practice, public service and respected institutions within their country or across the globe. Knowledge makes the difference.
The knowledgeable people are always in control and could be rely upon in critical situations. This explains why the cabinets of political leaders across the world are made up of experts in various fields relevant to the service they are expected to render. This explains why the opinion of someone like Prof. Sam Aluko is highly required when government of Nigeria is introducing a new economic policy. Even if the government of the day fails to seek his opinion, the press will definitely do so. The position of someone like Prof. Sam Aluko counts because of his level of knowledge about economic issues. Your opinion does not count on any issue until you possess the knowledge that others see as uncommon.
Self development can be achieved through so many ways. Ben Carson, in his book, ‘Think Big’ described how he became an instant hero through knowledge of what his classmates knew nothing about. Being the dullest student in his class, this singular experience change his mentality that he can actually be the best in the class. Ben Carson had this experience when he was in fifth grade, by the time he got to the sixth grade; he had become the number one student in his class. This experience turned him into an instant hero and he continues in that zeal to become a world class neurosurgeon. He was able to achieve this feat through a conscious self development effort by studying hard, reading two books a week and watching less of television programmes. You can get to the peak of your career if you are ready to study hard and know what majority of your colleagues do not know.
The suggested strategies below could be used to achieve knowledge acquisition through conscious self development.
Set a personal activities time table and follow it.
Identify your career goal.
Get the best education that fits your career goal.
Read a material related to your field of study for at least one hour daily.
Read at least one book of general or narrow interest per week.
Limit your time on the internet and TV to the barest minimum.
Have a close or distant mentor in your chosen field.
Follow at least one Journal in your field or area of study or interest.
Be inquisitive and conscious of development around you.
Keep company with people with similar vision.
The difference between a versatile Lawyer and a mediocre one is knowledge. What differentiates a skillful and respected surgeon from the crowd is knowledge. To be the best in whatever you do, seek knowledge. Knowledge is power!
Writer’s Profile
Ajiboro Ayodeji is a Chartered HR Practitioner based in Lagos, Nigeria. Tel: 2348027807452. Email: jibdej@gmail.com
©Hutren Consulting 2011
