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}