Today, my heart was ringing for a re-read and rebroadcast of a piece I once posted on another blog I anchor and I'm getting it over to you guys to read and reflect on it.
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I learnt alot that day because it changed me and I also decided to publish this
online for people who weren’t present there.
After you read this, take it to
action and when I see you again, you won’t be the same person.
NOTE: Every human Being was created
to be a leader but not over people.
Let me tell you a story about
Myles Munroe, When he was age 16, he started speaking on Leadership and at age
17, the prime minister of his state called his mother’s phone and said “I’d
Like to meet your son, Myles went ahead to see him. The prime minister said to
him “Do you know you have more influence
in my country than I do? Myles was shocked and embarrassed and he replied “ Mr Prime
Minister, you are the president of this country, how can a 17years old boy be
more powerful than you?
And he said “Son you can bring together
5000people in a place without them smoking cigarette, take alcohol and they all gather to
listen to you, I can never bring together5000 teenagers in my country, they
will never listen to me, and they are the future of my country
and you young man control the
future of my country. Can you tell me your secret? Myles replied “ Sir I don’t know,
I just gather them to tell them what happened in my life, I was in a family of
13, A father, A mother, and 11 children. I remember when I was sleeping on the
floor with mosquito bitting me and roaches everywhere and my teacher in school
told me “Am ignorant, I cannot learn anything, Am retarded and am black, am not
real human and he is just wasting his time teaching me, I went to my mum and
told her what the teacher told me and my mum said Son never say that again and
she gave me a book and in that book I learnt who I am and ten principles I
needed to possess and that is what made me. My teacher told me Blacks are
monkeys and not human, and he said am a monkey..
After reading the book I went
from F to A’s and was the best student in high school, I got an award and I gave
it to the teacher who called me a Monkey, and i told him am a smart monkey, he
was embarrassed and he said How did you do it?
NOTE: Don’t let anyone tell you who
you are. Every Human wants to succeed!
No one decides to fail, we all
want to achieve. Do you know that your success is good For God? God needs you
to succeed. Every manufacturer who makes a product wants the
product to succeed. God design seed
to be successful to bring forth tree. Seed into the soil and with water and
sunlight help the seed to succeed.
You need some principles to succeed!
WHAT ARE THE TEN PRINCIPLES?
1) PURPOSE: Purpose is the original reason for the creation of a thing.
E.g A bird was created by God to fly. If it doesn’t fly then it hasn’t fulfil
its purpose. You were born to do
something very special, if you
don’t find your gift and don’t discover what you are born to do, then you have failed.
You must discover your purpose. The reason behind your creation. Success is
measured by what you are born to do. Your purpose is the ideas that keeps coming
to your mind. Your purpose is what you complain alot and needs to be changed in
your country. The same way a bird is trapped in flight, Your purpose is trapped
in you.
DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE.
2) PASSION: Passion is the desire
stronger than opposition, disappointment and death. A person with passion doesn’t need external motivation,
A person with passion is someone who is willing to lose friends, sacrifice
thier pleasures, doesn’t need alarm clock to wake, A
person with passion doesn’t get bored
because life itself is really for living. Passion is when you discover your
purpose for living.
3) PLANNING: Planning is writing
your dream in a piece of paper. If you don’t document your dream you don’t want
to achieve. Someone asked “How do you know if your dream is the right dream?” Here’s
the answer, if your dream only benefits you then its not from God, True vision
and true dreams always benefits others around you. A young boy was asked
“ What’s your dream” He replied “I
have a dream to own a 10room apartment next to the beach, Travel all around the
world, eat whatever I want to eat.. That is not a vision, its a personal ambition.
Get a dream in your heart to help other people. Don’t follow personal ambition.
You must put your purpose and passion on Paper.
4) PRINCIPLES: You must live by
principles if you are going to be successful. What are the
principles? LAWS! You must live
by principle to protect your purpose. For example, Myles Munroe lived in a
neighbourhood where people smoke cigarette, marijuana and take all sort of
alcohols, he never snuffed a marijuana leaf, or drink alcohol or smoke
cigarette. When they offer him these things, he remembered he wrote his dreams
on paper. He knows
when he smoke its gonna hurt his liver,
and he is gonna lose his dream. A young girl wants to have sex with him, it
sounds good, but he remember he wrote his dreams on paper and when he sleep
with her and she gets pregnant, He would be forced to marry her. So he told
her, I can’t sleep with you, my dream is more important than Sex. Principles are
what you painfully decides and you are not violating.
5) PEOPLE: If you want to be successful,
you must choose the right people to be in your life. Some of you have friends
before reading this, if you read well, you will change your friend after
reading this. Who is a friend? A friend is anyone who can help you fulfil your
dreams, who can take you to your destiny, who can help you achieve your vision.
If you have a friend who can’t help you to achieve your vision, or can’t take
you to your destiny or can’t help you to fulfill your dream is NOT a friend. If your
friend tells you, let’s go drink alcohols, he is not a friend, they only want
to cancel your dream, You must tell your friends, I read this article and I
made some changes and one of the changes I made was YOU. Check your friends
out. If you are the smartest amongst your friend, you have to change the group,
you need to be among people that can make you grow, ask you question and help you
think bigger. You can outgrow your friend. People who are doing nothing wants
you to do it them. People who are going nowhere wants you to go with them. I
want you to tell them GOODBYE. Your future is determined by the friends you
keep. You cannot choose your brothers and sisters but you can choose your friends.
Friends are more important than brothers and sisters. King Solomon said
brothers and sister are for adversity but friends would love you at all times.
Don’t be with people who don’t believe your vision. You can be the next
president of this country but someone would want you to smoke, drink alcohol have sex and destroy your dream. Protect your dream
from people who would destroy it. People can either help you or hurt you. There
are 4 types of people
- Multipliers: Those who multiply to your dream
- Substract: Those who distract you and substract from your dream.
- Divide: Those who divide from you and
confuse you.
- Add: Those who add to your dream
I am here to multiply to your dreams… Am a good friend!
A book can be the best friend in
your life. Books are good people. Lock the door, turn off the T.V and speak to
a friend through the pages of a book. Stop wasting time and read books.
They can keep friend with you.
The Eagle is the most successful bird in the world. Eagles fly alone, they don’t
fly with any other birds. If you are going to be a successful young man,
stay away from the crowd, scare
away from the gang.
6) PERSISTENCE: You insist on getting what you dream, you lost everything,
people left you, people disappointed you but never lost your dream. Persistence
is when you decide no matter what happens am coming back.
7) PATIENCE: No one is successful
in a day/year. Patience is postponing the fulfilment of
pleasures. Patience is not complaining,
patience is working while you are waiting, Patience is preparing yourself for
which you are preparing to recieve. My friend asked me (Myles Munroe) what you
going to do after high school, i said i want to go to college,He said he wants
to go and work in the gas station and in 4years he will have more money. I knew
i didn’t have money but i was patience, My elder sister saw my dream on paper
and gave me all the money that she saved for her house and I used the money to
go to school, I knew I needed a scholarship and I studied to get a 4.0. your
problem is not money, start somewhere. Good news: My company is one of the largest
and my sister is the administrative assistant. Do you know who pays her salary?
Her younger brother, Do you know who is my financial director?, Her husband. Do
you know who is the director of multimedia liveshow, Her daughter. She never
knew she gave that money to her boss. Be nice to someone today.
8) PERSEVERANCE: Perseverance is gettting up after you fall down.
Every successful person is a result of getting back up. If you lose all your
money, all your friends, Get back up. Never trust a person who hasn’t survived
anything. A hard hands is what you pay to set your people free. Imagine the life of Nelson
Mandela. You will never be accepted until you are being totally rejected. When you talk you
learn what you know, when you listen you
learn what the other man knows, when
you are in the midst of great people, Don’t talk, but ask questions. Stop trying to make an easy
life, do what is right all the time.
9) POSTERITY: The next generation. If you are going to be a successful
man/woman, success is measured by what you do for others. Is your dream big
enough for the unborn to enjoy it? Think about your dreams, can you transfer
what you are doing to the next generation. Success always think of posterity.
10) PRAYER: It is the most important one. Prayer is daily consulting
the one who gave you
number one (PURPOSE). God is important,
no one knows a product like the manufacturer. You must spend time with him more than anybody
else. When you are reading, stop and talk to the manufacturer, when you are
driving, talk to him and sometimes don’t talk, Just listen!
Note: Do not seek success, seek
to become a person of value. Make yourself valuable by discovering your gift
and your dream. Your gift would attract people to you. You were not born for
yourself, you were born for us. Do you know that the cemetery is the wealthiest
place on earth. Why?
Because there in the cemetery are
books that were never written, in the grave yard, there are music that were never
heard, there are poetry that were never being read, In the cemetery we have
dreams that died as night mares. In the graveyard there are schools that never
opened, In the grave yard, there are great men who died as alcoholics, In the
grave yard there are great women who died as prostitute and drug addicts. The grave
yard is so wealthy. It is that same grave yard that made me writes this,
because I don’t want the grave yard to get an awesome treasure. I wrote this to
tell you, don’t take your dreams, your books, your vision, your ideas to the cemetery.
I wrote this to help you die empty. I wrote this because I want you to
disappoint the cemetery. I want you to die like
a man that said “I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. SEE YOU AT THE TOP!!!!!
These Principles were taught by Myles
Munroe at L.E.A.R.N “Time out with the youth” at LTV 27th October,
2013.
Courtesy: Bello Timilehin
