Visualizing Your Future; The Power Of Imagination

What you cannot imagine, what your mind cannot visualise and what your mind cannot conceive, you cannot actualize. In fact, great achievements are first conceived in the mind before they are birthed. This is why I believe that the mind is the "womb" that bears success. If you cannot think it, then you may not be able to achieve it. Someone's achievement and their level of success is a direct function of how they have put their mind to use. Everyone may be given a mind, but what you do with yours is exclusively your responsibility, and it will determine how your life will turn out to be.

You may not be able to have all the resources available to initiate an action, as it were, but with a functional mind, you will discover that what you have is actually more than enough for you. One of the things that limit people is not lack of opportunities nor lack of help, neither is it some factors from outside, but their own mind. You will be surprised to know that a lot of people do not even know what their purpose in life is and where they are headed to. To them, everything goes, and they just flow with the tide. Without putting your mind to good use, even if you are given the entire support in life, it will still not be sufficient for you because you will not know what to do with them.

A friend of mine was sharing with me about how many opportunities that have come her way and she did not even know until they were gone. I was surprised how she could be this privileged, yet cannot maximise opportunities. She got admission to the University, she declined it because it was not her choice of University - she was given her second choice, not first choice. She also got an auxiliary job with one of the federal ministries, but she declined because she did not want to enter as a junior staff, with the hopes that when she finishes from school, she can be a senior staff. So many missed opportunities that she did not take advantage of.

After she narrated all these, I then asked her what her plans for the next 5 years are, and what her purposes in life are. To my utmost surprise, after she had kept silent for a couple of minutes, she told me "Sammy I really do not know." It was at this point that I discovered what the problem was and why she kept on missing opportunities. I mean, the first step to achieving a goal is to have a goal that you want to achieve. Without a goal or a target, opportunities will not be worthwhile. You have to move to discovered yourself first - what you want to do, what you have passion for, and your dream, then actions can be directed towards them.

It is worthy to note that the mind and the actions should align in order for success to be birthed. There is a reason why, when you see boxers before they fight, they will engage in mind game with their opponent and try to win the fight from the mind. They understand that when they have won in their mind, it will be easy to win in the actual fight. Some of the warfare that people fight in life are resident in the mind. If you lose from the mind, you will lose on the outside, but if you win in your mind, then you cannot lose on the outside. Out of the abundance of what you have in your mind is how your words and actions will be fashioned after.

If you want a great future, then you have to start to visualise it and then act towards it. You cannot think failure and expect for success to happen in the future. But when you think of a successful future, it will lead you to taking positive steps and actions, which will lead you to positive result, and that is how a great future in born. What you want to become tomorrow should start from your thoughts and actions of today. Of course it is today that holds a very great determinant factor to creating tomorrow.

The mind is like a fertile farmland, so whichever seed you plant into it (in terms of thoughts) will be what you will harvest in form of actions. If you will observe closely, you will discover that many of your actions are actually as results of what you think predominantly. So use your mind in your favour and think positively.

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