CAPTURE, GET, CREATE; WHATEVER. (Part 2)

This article is a sequel to "CAPTURE, GET, CREATE; WHATEVER. (Part 1)"

Say a very big no, yes NO; to that voice, which might as well be yours or any other persons' that tells you that there is no chance of you making it to the top. It's blatantly a lie. You have as much chance as you can think. There's certainly a lot of space up there, to start with, yet, there is particularlly a space or spaces allocated to you, with your name boldly printed on it, up there. 

You weren't a mistake. Your being was well planned by God. He is not also, in anyway, in dearth of resources to not allocate you a befitting portion of His estate. You just need to search for it. Not too far away a search, though. Just inside you. Starting from the 'will'. Which is what you can, and will do and/or give to earn the space. Yes, its not given gratis. Though, it's yours. You must earn it. Earn it by doing something. Something that's totally your onus to figure out. Clue: "something you like to do, something needful to the people around you that you can provide, or, a problem you can help solve in any way". You give such things as a service to the world or your small world and earn your space therewith.

A sudden flight will not get you there. A well planned, gradual and intermitted trips and voyages, involving wheelbarrows and bycicles, tricycles and vehicles, canoes and boats, cruise ships and war ships, small choppers and big helicopters, regular air planes and war planes, horses and donkeys, other land, sea and air vehicles, human beings and ultimately God himself and some new transportabilities you may need to invent to weave through new obstacles will certainly make a more certain end at your allocated space up there. 

These voyages, mostly, had been preplanned and arranged by divinity. But, may never be presented to you in the form of a complete roadmap, rather, t'll be, as is usual with God, communicated to you bit by bit. Hence, all you need is to follow through, willingly, as the divine 'scripts and handouts' arive your mind's ports via the ether or any other medium through which your mind can be communicated to; like meditation, thought impulse, physical reading or listening, keeping your eyes and mind steadfastly on the pictured dream so as to not weaver. Meticulously following the dream(s) to wherever it leads, discerning and avoiding evil, still, because God will never lead you to do evil.

It's just about you desiring, wanting, deciding and determining to take and utilize the chance now that you can. Your age does not matter. The younger the smarter and maybe; physically stronger but then, the older the more experienced and mostly; mentally stronger. In essense, there is so much chance available for both the old and young.

***After all, an 80yrs old man, Pa Alimi Olarenwaju Amodu, graduated with a Second Class Honors in Sociology, from Lagos State University, LASU, in 2012***.

Number of years doesn't matter. The age that matters is that of your mind and heart.

Meanwhile, do not go to squeeze yourself were there is no space for you because you find it 'already made' and easy, whereas; there is a space already created for you and all you need is to find and erect whatever structure you want on it for you can raise any desired edifice. Note: the quality of your structure determines the quality of attention, respect and adulation you get. 

Do not neglect your unbuilt space; you are the architect. Take up your tools and start work on it, Now! Start with the most feasible. Raise your DREAMs. Give life to those IDEAs. Ascend to those VISIONs. Complete those MISSIONs. Fulfill those ASPIRATIONs. Satisfy YOU.

The great and unique structure or structures you need to erect has already been engraved in your psyche. Its those dreams, visions, missions, ideas and aspirations that run through your mind now and again. Those good things that you wish you are doing but are not. Those things that soon starts giving you sleepless nights; pushing, pressing and pressuring you very hard, on their own, to give them expressions in reality. They are the things that'll transport you to your divine estate. Just look and listen very closely and attentively in quietude to them, within your inner being; the image of God in you, to relate better with them, and to discover them, if you haven't. They are the essense and basis of living and deserve all your time and attention. You must be remembered with them. They live after you.

You may be already great in your field, but, it's still no good reason to sit down inert, just cherishing your 'something great'. Are there no other things to make great or greater? Rise, still, and do something newer and greater in the same field, or after it, and see the next level of greatness, but never to stop there. Rise, move, act and take your place among the greatests. It's never too late so long as you still want it and know what to do. If you don't know what to do, no problem, just ask the one who knows you very well more than any one else; the one you are talking to now, YOU. He has the aptitude to lead you to where you can figure what to do.

And now, my dear reader; my friend! Let your name be mentioned in posterity among those who did great works, bettered lives and the course of living in this generation that you are. Let the future know that you lived here. Do not be the almost unnoticed passer-by who came, stayed, left nothing and went with nothing. You are not meant to be such and you know it. No one is actually meant to be. Sure is that we are going with nothing, but we'll give account of what we left behind, because we came with a lot, hence, we ought to leave something.

You have all it takes to leave a very good mark and legacy. How small is not the issue, how good is. The worst is that you did and left nothing, good is that you did something, better when you do much good, and best when you do so much more good and in all; leave them legacies in bequest for tommorow.

Would you not like to be a source of inspiration and motivation to the future generations starting from, but not limited to your immediate family and environs? Names like Nelson Mandela (Human rights activist), Martin Lurther King Jr(Human rights activist), Thomas Edison (Light bulb inventor), Isaac Newton (Physicist), Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe and Tafawa Balewa (Nigeria nationalists), Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu (Biafra frontier), William Shakespear(Classic Writer), Michael Jackson (Musician), Fela Kuti (Musician/Activist), Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Missionary), Bill Gate (Businessman), Diego Maradona, Jay Jay Okocha(Footballers) and many more will continue to inspire and motivate lives in different spheres because of the good, great, brave and magical things they did many years before.

Will these people be the only ones that'll be talked about for good in the future even after you have lived in this same world where they achieved their greatness? I say no. My name must be there. What do you say? Your own name should be there, too. Right? ...... Note: If i didn't mention anybody from your field or discipline in the name-list above, it doesn't mean that there are no great and successful geniuses there or that you cannot become great in the particular field. It simply means that we cannot exaust the list of the successful great men and women of all time and all discipline in this single prose. No. We are too many. And we don't have all the time too. So, let it not border you because you can certainly be very great and successful in whatever field you choose and that suits you most, so long as you're 'happy' being in it. And, note the keyword; 'HAPPY', with whatever you do. It shouldn't be otherwise or else, it would be couterproductive.

What are you doing now? Is it what you should be doing? If yes, thumbs up, do it exceptionally well to the best of your craftitude and become great in it. If no, worry less, just take a journey into your inner being today and discover your real self. Work with whatever you discover to be your real self and make out the greatness in you.

Again, it’s never too late in life.
There is time until death. It might be uneasy. Just normal! Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown! Or, don't you want the Crown any more? I guess you still do. So, let your small world and future know that you lived.

You can achieve greatness in whatever you are doing and called to do. You are the 'Only One' who can stop you. No demon or human can. That's the truth.

Do you want it? Follow it, get it or create it.

Let something good about your life live after you're gone to the great beyond.

Keep real, achieve and be great.

Life is sure better when;
You succeed and live your dream(s), Dream(s) you longed and worked for, And leave it a legacy for posterity,
For them to know that you were once here!

It's sweet,
So sweet,
Endure it,
Enjoy it.

Capture, Get, Create; WHATEVER!!
And, LEAVE LIFE BEHIND!!!

{This article is an excerpt from an upcoming motivational book written by: Anthony 'Lafty Lad' Obioha. All Rights Reserved}

YOU ARE THE ECONOMY

This short note just landed in my mind while thinking about what we all refer to, as economic problems and, or stagnation.

The problems of todays economy is not really 'bad economy' but the constantly increasing 'wants' of the people due to steady inflows of new contraptions and the peer pressure on the people to measure up to date. 

It's worst in developing worlds because most of these contraptions we are needing are being imported from the more developed economies. In essence, the pressure rests heavily on our respective currencies. Not having much to export to them in exchange for these wants and needs, we rely almost sorely on our raw currencies for the exchanges.

Otherwise, the economies had always developed. Althesame, not at the same pace with the peoples' increasing 'seeming needs'. And non will ever measure up to the speed of the people until all of its people begin to see themselves as the 'shapers of the economy' and not just as solely the respective governments' onuses.

There is nothing as 'The Economy'. Nothing real. It's no entity. Just a term representing a people running their daily lives. 'The People' are 'The Economy'. Once our needs keeps rising, without equivalent purchasing power at a go, the economy; WE, will keep being troubled.

In essence, the economy will keep being troubled all over the world. No matter the level of developements. Our wants, still remaining insatiable, grows with the newest developements.

The Only Solution must be to see and deal with yourself, with myself; with ourselves as 'the economy'. Whatever you'd want from 'a good economy'; do it to and for yourself. You Are Your Economy!

{ Written by: Anthony 'Lafty Lad' Obioha. All Rights Reserved}

-Whatout for my new song: "One-2-One" Droping this week-

CAPTURE, GET, CREATE; WHATEVER. (Part 1)

Aside the life we have and live as human beings, there is another life living in each and every one of us. That life, if built a house for; will continue to live for our representation when we have passed on to the next version of our own lives. Simply put, we; YOU, are built to leave life behind.

This life that I'm talking about and still going to talk about here, in this prose, is our Dreams, Visions, Missions, Ideas and Aspirations. These live in us just as we live in the world. They require growth and progress just like our physical body and life.

It is when these dreams, ideas, visions, missions and aspirations are growing and getting realized that we are said to be succeeding and eventually successful. They are the things that should fashion our lives, determine how we live; what we do as jobs or engagements and finally how we work on daily bases. They should also make us better and useful person(s) in all facets of our lives and we, in turn, make the world better by what we give through them and what we get from, and through them; for ourselves and for other people around or even afar from us.

How-be-it, it is ill to say, but truth that many of us have lost this life while still living, or, are not careful about it even when it should form the basis of existence; hence, the rampant carefree lifestyles in today’s world. Where there is no vision, the people perish.

Daily, life and fate, beyond human powers, presents us with yelling; the extreme expression of happiness or that of sadness. But, as true as the above statement is, and as true; the fact that we have little power over what happens to and around us according to nature, we are yet vested with the complete powers to decide how we react to the effects of whatever circumstances and challenges we survive. Our decisions, then, becomes key executives in determining how quickly and well we recover from any hit of nature and fate. In other words, we only have limited power in deciding what happens to us, in some cases, except with natural courses, but our power is unlimited when deciding our reactions to them and as such; "there is nothing we, as humans, cannot deal with. And being able to deal with everything, essentially, means that: we have the ability to come out successful in everything. Our strengths and greatness lies in dealing with the effects of nature and fate, not in shying away from its reality for we've got the power of reaction against nature and the power of action against the present, near and distant future"

Each of us has these enormous powers and abilities right from birth but the knowledge, understanding and management of it is the problem of many today. All the same, that should in no way be a limitation. Reading good books on such and different topics, listening to and inquiring with good and seasoned human resource persons in the pertinent fields, paying good attentions to one's likes, dislikes, strengths and weaknesses and ultimately trial and error will settle the issue of understanding and managing our powers and abilities profitably well. Setting out, to do, will trigger all the solutions.

Only if we can, ...and yes; we can... conduct, guide and direct these powers and abilities into the right channels. What else, shall we be looking and asking for except the time and how best to enjoy our goods and greatness which will definitely leave good and lasting legacies in our names as we live and leave space for others in a world that is too large but yet lack space.

Subdue the earth we were told at creation after being blessed by God because we have been given all it takes to do so, including the visual powers to CAPTURE and the aptitude to GET whatever we want that's already in existence plus the craftitude to CREATE whatever newthing we want that's not yet in existence; and i mean WHATEVER. I mean you have the Visuability to CAPTURE, Aptitude to GET and Craftitude to CREATE; just WHATEVER you want. [Visuability is ability to visualize & Craftitude is ability to craft]. I mean that you can CAPTURE, GET and/or CREATE just WHATEVER you wish. Important or not. Just know that you can. That you will if you make sustained moves and efforts forward. Whether you believe it now or not. Just know it. Think about it. Keep thinking about it. And try it. And try it again. So long as you still want it. Until it's done. The believe soon ariseth from the pondering and staggering trials when you start to learn and enjoy the processes, even as you endure, too. Think about it. Read it again. And again. For some minutes now. And for some more time later. Anytime you can. Just think it. And act it. CAPTURE, GET, CREATE; WHATEVER.

The capturing'll be done, first, on the inside with the deposited image of God and the getting and/or creating, second, on the outside with the installed aptitude and craftitude of the Maker. We came preinstalled with all the abilities at the original creation and blessing time. We received the first ever blessings from God plus that mandate to go and subdue the earth.

We were actually made by God to further his creations. God never created everything he concieved, that's why He made man in His own image, with unlimited abilities; to bring to life all the things He originally concieved but never materialized, from His installed image and aided by His craftitude deposited in man.

So, what else are you asking for before you'll rise and become great. There is absolutely no excuse for you not to be mentioned among the greats of this generation. Atleast, in your small world.

You are not meant to do the wrong things in order to be recognized. There are too many good and wonderful ideas inside you, new things right inside your mind and heart which you know you can do. For every bad idea that pops up boldly in whatever situation(s) in life, there are numerous good ones that silently echo to your senses, the signals: "I'm here and suitable for this situation; choose me instead". You could always choose from that pool.

What about that idea, that vision, that mission, that inspiration and that aspiration you have which you have or have not started working properly on. Do not look down on it; it's an idea and vision for greatness. As you were born a child and small, so has that idea and vision been born inside you like a child and small, too. Nurture her to grow just as you were nurtured and you grew.

The biggest and most celebrated things; ideas, businesses, places, events, etc. in the world today were first and once born just like that in the heart and mind of the then 'no-bodies' that had the ideas and visions (like you do now) but 'now-great' men and women (which you'll become if you act) because of the executed ideas and visions. Even the creation of man was first birthed in God's mind as an idea and vision when He said; "let's make man in our own image after our own likeness". What more would you want to hear other than the fact that all these great men and women, including the Great and Almighty God Himself, pursued their dreams and visions and made sure that their ideas were executed in any way they could until they've seen the picture in reality which they first painted in their various minds.

Start doing something now toward the actualization of your dreams. The successful execution and bringing to life is the 'house' i talked about in the first paragraph which you'll build for those dreams, visions, mission, ideas and aspirations so that they can live after you.

Just follow that dream and that vision, that idea and that mission and that aspiration of yours to wherever it leads you, with the most discerning meticulousness. Keep the most close and focused eye on it, never let it slip, never forget it and never wave it aside. In it lies your greatness.

Do you want it? Follow it. Get It or Create It.

Let something good about your life live after you're gone to the great beyond.

Keep real, achieve and be great.

Life is sure better when; 

You succeed and live your dream(s), Dream(s) you longed and worked for, And leave it a legacy for posterity, 

For them to know that you were once here!

It's sweet, 

So sweet, 

Endure it, 

Enjoy it.

Capture, Get, Create; WHATEVER!! 

And, LEAVE LIFE BEHIND!!!

{This article is an excerpt from an upcoming motivational book written by: Anthony 'Lafty Lad' Obioha. All Rights Reserved}

-Continue to CAPTURE, GET, CREATE; WHATEVER (Part 2).

-Also watchout for my new music; 'One-2-One'.