Achieving Greatness

The United States was built to be a nation where young people can start small and become great. Though since she assumed her position as the world’s power having more millionaires than the other nations put together, we still have individuals who are jobless and wasting away by not utilizing the opportunities available to them or being provided for their productivity.

Life itself is a choice. You decide what you do with it, you project to it what you want it to showcase and whatever you are today is a picture of who you are inside. “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he”, so you can never grow beyond the picture in your mind because you are a product of your thought. This simply implies that the beauty of every human is taken care of in the subconscious. So investing quality time in accessing the beauty and the riches of the subconscious is the strength and the uniqueness of every human. Now the question is how far have you gone and how far do you want to go? You must certainly start from somewhere and then progress gradually.

To attain any height in life, you must first of all have a mental picture of it, dream it and know its implication. It is not enough to desire a thing but know the cost of achieving it.

For you to harvest, you must first cultivate (invest) and develop to maturity (your picture). One person’s picture may be different from another: success is at different levels, acceptability is at different dimensions and accessibility is by influence.

Now this is what I think: everybody deserves a better tomorrow. God designed the earth and made everything available to us all. He wants us to have the best of life, family and society. Our lives and all its involvement is to bring forth praises to Him. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end” (hope and a future or better still that picture of the future that you desire).

Roland Ojeruse

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