CONVERTING PICTURES OF THE MIND INTO REALITY

Doing the right thinking is excellent but the question is… what happens thereafter? It’s not just about doing the right thinking then seat back on your chair draping your leg atop the other, expecting a miracle; it’s about creating reality from your valid thoughts. Everyone can make good resolutions but what distinct you from others are your abilities to bring your resolutions alive. To get the best of anything, you must give the best of everything. This is not an arithmetic class – this is a simple step-by-step process to become that dream in your mind.

After you have invested unrecovered time into thinking your way forward, after you have created a conspicuous mental picture, what will your next action be? Perhaps, you don’t know the right people; you don’t have the finance to get the ball rolling; will you just sit there and allow time consume you? It shouldn’t be that way! Before God created all things, He had a mental picture of them; He thought to Himself and didn’t stop there until His mental pictures became reality then He rested... You have to trace these steps carefully and you will see your mental pictures breathing, smiling in front of you while you relax to build on a new-fangled picture. The steps therefore:

·        Be strong-minded to begin the quest: determination is not just a key to success; it is a driving force that keeps you at the top of your challenges. The absence of this strong force determination in every goal setting, keeps you stagnant until you are pulled out to failure. To be determined means going beyond all odds, it means agreeing to kill selfish interests to achieve your desired results. Grow your ability to meet head-on with hard-hitting times during the pursuit of your goal. Make up your mind to win.

·        Work with the right people: sometimes we have brilliant ideas but if we are not working with the right people, the ideas becomes hard to be converted into what people can see, benefit from and appreciate. Thus, accomplishment becomes an uphill task. Take for instance, I have an idea on how to develop and improve the maintenance culture of government properties thereby, helping her save or invest more in other areas but here I am working with a medical doctor who share poles-apart frame of mind with me… how far will the project go? The medical doctor might have less or nothing to contribute to the existing idea. He will just nod to everything I say and in no time, the project becomes boring to him and soon, I’m off the lane. Now that’s the troubles of not working with the right people. Choose people that share similar dreams/ aspirations with you. That way, you reawaken each other because you share an analogous mental picture.

·        Don’t just sit there and dream: you cannot get to the market by sitting at home and wishing you were at the market. This is perhaps the chief process of converting your thought into pictures. Who are you waiting for? Come on! You are who you are waiting for. The company you think might turn down your proposal might be the company to fund your project. Face reality at once and step up. Don’t just sit there and make assumptions! Tackle it, defeat it and move on! Assumptions sometimes have their positive results but don’t depend on assumptions. You cannot change time and it ticks on. So why waiting? Step on the pedal and get on the speed lane. You are not growing younger my friend; you can’t procrastinate again. Take a step and climb to the top of that project. You can do it; yes you can!

·        Believe it is possible: when there is a fragment of doubt in you, your conceived dream suffers the consequences. It pulls you back when you are about to make a salient move. Impossible, or rather I can’t; holds a strong negative force that keeps you relaxed when you should be on the go. “Look, this project is impossible because I don’t have enough money to finance it.” We can’t deny this is what we say most times. We don’t have the finance but we recharge our phones everyday to make irrelevant calls, we pay other bills too. This little amount of money can get your project on the lane if you learn to save and make a tall use of it. Believe it is possible to achieve your set goals and get ahead of it. Cultivate the idea of YES I CAN! And you will be marveled at the incredible results thereafter.

Written by
Paul Okuk