Discovering your purpose | Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM, ACL, Wcc

1.) Purpose is your reason for existence (Why you were born, why you had to be black or brown or white, why you were born in Asia and not America or why you were born in Africa and not Europe, why you had to be a woman and not a man!)

2.) Without purpose, your education can still be frustrating. Education leaves you with a platform in life but it cannot give you fulfillment.

3.) Your purpose clearly defines to you where you are relevant, how to be relevant and what makes you relevant in a community, state, country, continent or the world.

4.) We must emphasize that fulfilling your purpose is easier with your education but the education here goes beyond what you get in classrooms of schools. It is self-education: reading biographies or autobiographies when you don’t have to write an exam, training yourself to use a computer to achieve other aims!

5.) To fulfill your purpose you have to discover innate (natural or inborn) abilities that you have been given by God because of that purpose (talking for me is natural, what is natural to you?)

6.) After the discovery of innate abilities, there are skills you still have to acquire to brush up the inborn skills (learning to use a computer and taking a training as a speaker were additional skills I learnt in order to brush up or aid my speaking skills)

7.) To discover yourself you can take a pen and a paper to begin to list the gifts you have in you. You can also ask a few people around you, especially older people who know you well, to tell you about special abilities or gifts they have seen in you.

8.) When you have a list of skills or abilities attributed to you, the next step is to consult a mentor, counselor or your parents to ask them where they think these skills will lead you to in life.

9.) Another way to discover yourself is to look at where the burden in your heart points to all the time. There is something in you that makes you feel you can change the medical world, police force, civil service, entertainment world, broadcasting profession or the public speaking field. If you always have the nudging that this thing can be done in a better way, then you already have an indicator to your purpose.)

10.) Purpose can be discovered through what you like or hate.

11.) What you like is an indicator showing you where to build skills and what you hate is an indicator showing you where to proffer solutions.

12.) Purpose is not discovered fully at once. It is an unfolding process and you must keep learning about yourself and your purpose.

13.) Discover the reason for your existence today, discover the hidden skills required or acquire the needed skills and begin to live life according to purpose.

Living a planned life | Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM, ACL, Wcc

1.) The only way to have great results in life is to live a planned life (Simple or general plans).

2.) Every stage of your life needs to be planned through decisions and goal setting.

3.) What is a plan? It is your guide for how an action would be taken or your details of what to do, where to do it and how to do it.

4.) A goal is a target for what you desire to accomplish.

5.) Just as we have established that decisions are products of thoughts, we must know that plans are products of decisions.

6.) Simple planning often involves planning for the immediate just general plans may involve planning for the future and usually for a long time (planning a day, a week or month is a good place to start.)

7.) For plans to work you must have goals. What’s your goal for today? What’s your weekly goal? What would you have achieved at the end of each month and each year? You can plan to be a doctor but you should have goals to make it happen.

8.) Setting goals and following them will help us to achieve results and gradually see our life plans become real.

9.) Remind yourself of your goals by having postcards in your room, toilet, kitchen and every other place where you can easily see them. The goals that are seen very often will become a part of you and can be easier to achieve.

10.) The way to plan your life is to set goals that put demand or pressure on your skills and ability to make sure that you become productive (Example of demand is to set a goal to have 7 articles every week if you can write or 7 speech outlines if you like to talk. It could be practicing daily with football, basketball, piano, guitar or saxophone.)

Taking Decisions | Fola Daniel Adelesi, ASM, ACL, Wcc

1.) Decisions are final thoughts on actions to be taken.

2.) Decisions have to be taken always because we must act

3.) Decisions can be good or bad and that is determined by the consequences of the action taken.

4.) Decisions will always determine the quality of your life. Great and wretched men are products of decisions.

5.) The basic transition from childhood to adulthood is in decision making. Decisions are made for children but adults take decisions on their own.

6.) To have good decisions you must engage in a constant learning process.

7.) Good decisions can also be taken by consulting the right people on issues.

8.) A mentor comes in handy when it comes to taking quality decisions. They guide you with right decisions.

9.) Don’t jump into conclusions with issues you have to handle. Some decisions will be proved wrong or right with time.

10.) Some decisions are taken for the future and some are taken for immediate results. In either case, quality decisions must be taken.

11.) A continuous chain of wrong decisions will destroy you. Example: an immature girl takes a boyfriend (1), she accepts to have sex (2), she gets pregnant and decides to abort (3), at this level she loses her life! (This last one is not in her capacity to decide! It’s the result of several wrong decisions)

12.) A continuous chain of good decision is what makes a success out of you.

13.) The advanced stage of decision making is when you have to choose between good and profitable decisions. Example: watching TV and reading a book; stay on the internet or go for a seminar.