Have you observed how ordinary life could be? Everybody just following the same cycle. 99.9 percent of the world's population do just enough to tag along and just the barest minimum requirement to get by. Only few take the pain to be extraordinary. Look at it this way, football is the most popular game in the world. At every stadium and street corner, people play football but only a minutely few number of people are exceptional enough to get famed and paid for it.
Everyone alive eats but some people are paid to eat. Ask the connoisseurs who tastes the food and drinks of presidents and kings. The bulk of us burn money and time driving cars, trying to impress people who don't care. But there are people who make money by doing the same activity and I don’t mean the cab drivers or chauffeurs. There are drivers who earn more than some bank branch managers. Ask the guy who drive President Jonathan or Barak Obama, or ask Michael Schumacher the world champion in Formula 1, a celebrity and a millionaire by just driving. Everybody talks, many even get themselves into trouble with their chatter, but there are people who earn millions just by speaking, ask the John C. Maxwells, Les Browns and Fela Durotoyes of this world. Who say talk is cheap.
As you look forward to 2014 make up your mind to take yourself out of the pack of the ordinary. Identify something in your life that you will be an expert at by the end of 2014. To get honored, famed and paid for something you do, you must have added enormous value to yourself that you become exceptional, you leave the multitude that keep doing the same boorish things on the average levels. Anybody can do anything, but it takes being exceptional to get paid and famed for it. Sure you can’t be a master at everything, but you can be a master at ONE THING. You should become the world’s best at one thing. Let the world beat a path to your door just to consult you for that one thing. Let billionaires, presidents and diplomats come to consult you just because of ONE THING you have developed yourself to become a 'wizard' at. JUST ONE THING. Research showed that it takes only 10,000 hours of practice to become a genius at anything. So if you decide today, then in 5 years you can complete your 10,000 hours if you practise for four hours daily. You can start this year, you can start today. Invest the first one hour today, go online browse about it, find out the world best at it and start to learn from them by checking them up at least weekly. It is the quality of knowledge that is infused into their activity that makes it so valuable that people are willing to pay so much for. Get knowledgeable, devour books. Put in your time, say no to distractions, and be willing to pay the price for greatness. Don’t remain as a mere statistics in the world’s population. Become great at something. Africa can only be great if Africans are great, Nigeria can only be great if Nigerians are great, the state of Kwara can only be great if Kwarans are great. Stand out! Be exceptional! Make 2014 your turn-around year!
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