How To Be An Overnight Success

I believe in over night success. And I know a lot of young people hope and wish for such. The odd thing about overnight success is that you can only become successful over night if you refuse to sleep.

You can't sleep your way to success neither can you play,wish, dream, beg or study your way to success!

Success demand work; real hard work!

It's your wake up call dear young Nigerian! What are you going to do?

Henry Longfellow said 
“The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night

Settle it in your heart, if you're going to achieve success, you'll need to put in a great deal of work and burn the midnight oil.

©Theotosin2015

WHAT IS IN THERE

His dad gave him a boat for a birthday gift. But the wise man knew better. He also gave him motivational tapes and books authored by some of the world's best in the field. As he handed him the gifts, Mr Sadusky said to his son 'you need to digest those materials, they'll prepare you to be the kind of man you need to be to handle the business success I'll be leaving behind. These are all yours'.

David left his dad's presence excitedly. Immediately he was back in his room he dumped the tapes and books in the trash bin, with or without it he was going to take over his father's estate any how, he thought.

His friend Calvin was with him, he envied David because unlike him he had no parents was being raised by an adoptive mother who was struggling to get by. In fact they became friends because his mom was a domestic staff in David's house. Calvin picked the tapes and books. He devoured them.

I don't know what became of David, but Calvin I know. He went on to be a Mega success business man with global renown. Calvin's other name is Leslie. He better known today as Les Brown.

So you see it's not just what you have going for you, but what you have in you. What are you loading, seeding filling yourself with?
It will surely tell in a matter of time

Lessons from the life of David Oyedepo

The anointing won’t do for you, what you are expected to do for yourself: he is a super anointed man no doubt. But he never took that for a license to complacency. His stance on hard work is known to all and exemplified by his own life. The man is a HARD WORKER

Revelation is good, but vision is important. He’s had great revelation much of which marks turning points in his life, but he did not build a monument on just revelation. After his eighteen hour trance, he got up and crafted a vision. He projected the future, dared the impossible and challenged status quo. His vision drove the revelation into reality.

There is no self made man: it is very easy to see him as a self made man, but the man himself knows better. If you’ve taken the time to follow him you will know he is not just a student of great men of faith like Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, Oral Roberts he is an ardent follower of them. And he owes his success in part to this relationship.

Wisdom and wealth are best of friends: owning an apple product (or a car and other toys that boost our ego) will give you some class, but owning an apple stock, will make you rich. Being rich will afford you even more class. Mr. Oyedepo was not willing to just own the stocks, he owns the company! How wealthy he is, is still a case for contention. It is believed in some quarters that his wealth dwarfs Dangote's. 

It is not what you have with you, rather it is what you have in you that guarantees your success: the story is now a classic of how a younger David Oyedepo returned from the US without anything but books, and how he said to his wife: by reading these books, I will be able to created the companies that will produce the things that I should have bought. Well, time has proven him correct

Learn from the best: when he was going to commence his university projects, he read the history of the best universities in the world. Any wonders, his universities are breaking much ground in such little time.

Reading is key to greatness: he is credited with the saying: ‘leaders are readers’, and his life is proof of it. By reading he has interacted with the best minds that ever lived, and owing from that, he has created great quality of thoughts that has set him apart.

Where you are is not as important as who you are. This man lived in the same Africa we complain about, in our same Nigeria, and worst of all a town notorious for witches. But couldn't stop him in the least 

When you have the answers to the world’s questions, the world will beat a path to his door. Diplomatic and international issues are settled under his roof. Some issues of global reckoning will not be pursued until he is consulted and gives his opinion even though he is not a politician. Can you beat that?

It is not about your skin color: many people think that their black skin or being a Nigerian is a disadvantage. Think again. David Oyedepo is a black man too, and as at the last time I checked (when we had lunch together ) I saw he still had one head, two arms, two legs and 24 hours in a day.

He was not born privileged and he is not making an excuse of that. He is proof that your background cannot and should not keep your back to the ground

The list of lessons inspired by the great man Bishop David Oyedepo is inexhaustive. Please use the comment box to share lessons you’ve learnt from this great man.

RIGHT THERE

I once read a story about a business executive who was deep in debt, on the edge of declaring bankruptcy. Frustrated he went to a park, sat on the bench.

He was deep in thought when suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," said the old man. After listening to the executive's woes, the old man wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.” and, then he was off.

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world! He now has more than enough money to rescue his sinking business. But on a second thought he decided to put the check away uncashed. Just knowing it was there gave him a unique fervor to work hard at saving his business.

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just as he was about to hand back the check and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man."I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried.

"I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller. “And she led the old man away by the arm.
The executive just stood there, stunned. He suddenly realized he’d been blissfully deceived. He knew that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around, it was his newfound self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after.

Like a once popular commercial for a milk brand said, “It’s in you!” Don’t wait to get lucky, don’t wait for anyone to prod you (don't wait for the old man, he's dead now.*Winks*). You be your motivator believe in   and your possibilities, believe in your ability to achieve, look yourself in the eyes and say I CAN. It’s in you! Don’t waste another day sulking.

Get out of your comfort zone, go all out, MAKE IT HAPPEN….. and as the great Les Brown would say ‘When life knocks you down, jump back up and say, it’s not over until I win’!

OF CLASS AND MASS

The poor complain of being poor, not knowing he's rich. Why do I say so? Because it is the poor that makes the rich rich and keep the rich as such. They keep themselves poor and keep the rich richer by being poor - by being consumers.

Consumerism is the main reason the third world has remain so third world. If you have no skill, talent, product, patent, idea (bla bla bla) that someone is paying for or which has the possibility of commanding such value in the near future, your fate is sealed at the bottom of the food chain.

You will always be fodder for the rich, one of the poor masses. if your only income is the kind that comes due in a thirty day cycle and your only source is a pay check, you'll be always condemned to the struggling middle class or worse.

Any nation that has moved upthe power and economic ladder from third world to first world achieved it by moving away from a consumerism paradigm where she consumed so much and produced so little to offer the world in exchange for value. It's the same path that any nation seeking to make same transition will have to take. Same applies for any individual who wants to movefrom the cheap state of being masses to being classy. There's been no other way safe the illegal.

A word should do. Create Value!

What’s The Wait?

What are you waiting for; Africa can only be great if Africans are great, Nigeria can only be great if Nigerians are great, so before your next complain, and check with yourself first. 

Are you the best you? Are you an honest you, time conscious, incorruptible, visionary……. You?
Of course we might not be able to get everyone on the same pedestal at the same time, but we only need a critical mass of great people who can tip the scale positively in the desired direction.

Will that critical mass include you?
What are you waiting for; Africa can only be great if Africans are great, Nigeria can only be great if Nigerians are great.

The question is not whether Nigeria will be great or not, it's a question of when and if you'd be a part of the change?

Do greatness!

IT’S A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE

A very poor man once applied for a job as janitor in a bank. “Can you write?” demanded the head of employment. “Only my name” he replied. He didn’t get the job.

Many years later an important business man held a press conference in his beautiful office. At the conclusion of his talk, a reporter obviously blown away by his success story said, “You should write your memoirs.”

The gentleman smiled. “Impossible” he said, “I cannot write.”
The reporter was astounded. “Just think,” He remarked, “how much further you would have gone if you could.”

The man shook his head. “If I could write,” I’d be a janitor.”
That man’s got a name - Conrad Hilton.
End of story.

Lessons learnt:
Forget the stereotypes. There is no one exact route to whatever you call success

Nothing can stop you if you don’t allow it to

Literacy and intelligence are not exactly the same . One will earn you certificates, the other will give you much more

Never allow your background keep you on the ground

Your experiences in life, whether they be advantages or disadvantages, stepping stones or stumbling blocks, that's just a matter of perspective. And it's entirely up to you!

Alright. So what else can you add to the list ……. Feel free to use the comment box. And..... don't forget to lead a limit free life, this week and always!