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Food for Living: The Power of Thinking Big
By Henry Ukazu
Dear Destiny Friends,
“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big” – Former US President, Donald Trump
The world is not impressed with small minds, but intrigued by dreamers. As a result, one of the greatest gifts we have as human beings is the gift of imagination. We all have this gift, but not everyone of us has deem it fit to activate it. Did you know that to imagine or fantasize about life is free? Yes. You don’t need to pay to think. If you understand how to use the power of imagination, you can literally attract opportunities. It is quite unfortunate that some of us don’t know how to put our minds to work.
According to Napoleon Hill in his Book, “Think and Grow Rich”, whatsoever the mind can conceive, believe, it can achieve it. I personally believe, given every equal opportunity, everybody is a potential achiever because there are no dull brains, only brains undeveloped.
As a mindset coach, I understand the limiting factors that affect productivity of all men, and I have been able to work on my clients through the process to attract their heart desires.
While lesser minds see problems and either run away from it or delegate it to other people, greater minds see problems as a means of making an impact. Great men have been able to use their subconscious mind to solve the world’s problems, and that is why they are respected as great innovators.
When it comes to succeeding in life, the first point of call is the mind. Regardless of anything you would like to accomplish on earth, whether good or bad you will first think about it in your subconscious mind before manifesting it.
To think big means to think out of the box. If you come from a humble background like me, and have the desire to be a man or woman of means, like becoming a President, Governor, Professor, pilot, Judge, etc., it might generally appear impossible based on the circumstances surrounding you, but if you are courageous enough to work on your mindset, trust me, there’s no height you can’t attain.
A case study of interest is the former President of America, Barack Hussein Obama, who became the 44th President of the USA after defeating top contenders like Hillary Clinton to get the Democratic Party ticket and thereafter defeating McCain and Mitt Romney to win the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. The interesting story here is that Barack Obama’s father is from Kenya. Ordinarily, it will seem impossible for Barack Obama to win against Hillary Clinton and other credible and extraordinarily qualified white candidates to get the party’s presidential ticket not to talk of winning Mitt Romney a white man from a wealthy family. The significance of this analysis is that President Obama didn’t allow naysayers to kill his dream and vision. He believed in himself, and saw the possibility of becoming the first African-American President. Think big!
To activate the magical power of thinking big, here are some ideas to explore:
Thinking Big Gives You Motivation
Your goals and desires will motivate you. If you set goals, but don’t feel motivated towards them, perhaps, it is because your goals are not exciting or big enough. Isn’t it true that when things are normal, they don’t excite you.
Thinking Big Attracts the Right People and Opportunities
If you dream big, you will automatically attract other big dreamers into your life. Nobody likes to work with anyone who is uninteresting or has no vision. It’s a fact that like minds attract like minds. We all like to work with people who are passionate about a cause or vision. This is why big companies like Tesla, Apple, Facebook, Google, etc., are able to attract top talents.
On a personal level, most of the success I have recorded was because I refused to follow the status quo. I didn’t allow my environment or circumstances to limit me. For instance, during my formative years in the USA, I used to be a horrible writer. But over time, I have developed the art of writing by associating with the right people, inclusive of my mentors and mentees, and guess what, I’m still learning the art of writing. Today, I’m an author of a trailblazer book, and another book is in the pipeline.
Why Think Small When You Can Think Big?
Most people have the wrong perception of life. They believe that thinking big requires more work. Guess what, the same energy it takes to think small is the same energy it takes to think big. So why think small when you can think big? Thinking big is just a mentality.
It is instructive to note that Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Henry Ukazu, have 24 hours a day. So, it doesn’t mean that to achieve greater success, you will need to put in more time. It is your mentality that will shape the way you make decisions and the way you do things. According to Tony Robbins, “It’s not the lack of resources that causes failure, it’s the lack of resourcefulness that causes failure.”
It doesn’t matter where you are right now, how much money you make, your family background, your education, or who you are, to be successful, all you need is to be resourceful. Do yourself a favour by making thinking big your mantra.
Reading Makes You Think Big
According to Francis Bacon, ‘writing maketh an exact mind, conference maketh a ready man but reading maketh a full man”. Great readers are great leaders. You can literally travel miles of journey just by reading. Reading the autobiographies of great people will make you understand their thought process, their challenges, failures and general experience of life, and this can make you think big. The more you read, the more knowledge you gain and the better you can expand your view.
According to Oprah Winfrey, reading is “her personal path to freedom”. She said, “Books allowed me to see a world beyond the front porch of my grandmother’s shotgun house”.
Enlarge your dreams by networking.
You can expand your mind by networking with great minds. When you network with other successful people, you are expanding your mindset. According to Steve Jobs, “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”
In conclusion, do you have any desire or ambition in life? No matter how impossible you think it is to attain a given desire due to certain perceived limitations, I want you to change that mindset by thinking big and seeing the possibility. After all, there’s no harm in thinking big when you can think at all.
Henry Ukazu writes from New York. He works with the New York City Department of Correction as the Legal Coordinator. He’s a Human Capacity and Mindset coach. He is also a public speaker, youth advocate and creative writer. He’s the author of the acclaimed book Design Your Destiny – Actualizing Your Birthright. He can be reached via info@gloemi.com
By Henry Ukazu
Dear Destiny Friends,
The importance of timing cannot be overemphasized. Timing is everything in life. It is critical to one’s success. You can lose your money and get it back in many folds. You can even lose your health and get it back all things being equal, but when you lose time, you can hardly get it back again.
The importance of timing can be seen in crops. Every crop has a season, a good farmer won’t plant maize when it’s time for oranges, nor will he plant pears when it’s the season for mangoes.
Time is very instrumental to the success and failure of anyone. Imagine having a meeting or interview at 9:00am and you arrive at 10:10am, it will take the grace of God to be interviewed. As an employee, apart from one not being able to diligently do his job, one of the fastest ways for an employee to lose his job is by being late to work.
When I was in New York Law School studying Taxation law, I did a course titled, the Problem of Timing. During the semester, I learnt about cash and accrued income. Let me do some academic exercise here. In cash income, just like the name entails, one is paid in cash as soon as the work is completed. It’s just like going to the market to make a purchase. One can either pay directly with cash or with debit or credit card. But Accrued income refers to revenue a company has earned by providing goods or services, but for which payment has not yet been received, one will have to do the work first before getting paid. This is applicable when one works in either a public or private organization where one is paid either weekly, bi-weekly or at the end of the month depending on the stipulated mode of payment.
It’s important to note that before the money is paid either in cash or accrued, one would have earned it. It’s just like one learning g before earning, and one will have to update to upgrade. These are just the practical principles that will work with life.
In the same way, in life there’s a seed time and harvest time. It’s a universal principle of life. Whether as a parent, entrepreneur, student or employee. As a parent, if you don’t train your kids very well, they will grow up to reflect the opposite of what you desire. As an entrepreneur when you invest in your business, you will get the reward in due time. As a student, if you take your studies seriously, your grades will improve, and as an employee, you stand to get promotions and opportunities when you add value to your work. In summary, one will have to put in the work before recognition comes on.
To understand how seedtime and harvest work, imagine where parents tend to like one child more than others just because they see potential in him, or he’s smart, hardworking or even creative. They fail to understand that every child is different and as such their timing can be different. Some kinds take time to develop.
I personally believe there’s something so unique about each individual which God has deposited in everyone of us. It’s just a matter of time for it to manifest. Your timing of manifestation is different from your siblings and colleagues.
Personally, I didn’t mature fast with my contemporaries. Overtime, I have seen much improvement in my personal and professional life. Maybe because I have added value to my work with the assistance of mentors and good friends, or God had to humble my colleagues and mentors . Why do I say this? During my formative years, I had little or nothing to show for it. I was looking at my contemporaries as mentor and seeing my mentors as small gods whose feat is unattainable, but now, the reverse seems to be case as I have developed capacity some of my colleagues are yet to attain, while I have even surpassed the achievement of my some of my mentors in some quarters.
In all these, they are all surprised how it happened. Some are yet to comprehend or articulate the feat. It’s just like watching a film where everyone slept and woke up to see the game and tides have changed. The secret behind it is the seed time and harvest time. I was probably learning the trade while in the wilderness, and when the training season matured and ripe enough to be harvested, I became attractive to almost everyone who loved the seed I was producing.
There are litany of examples of people, who have been in the wilderness during the seed planting season. Let’s take a case study of Joseph in the Bible, his journey to stardom took a little twist. Despite the travails he experienced in the hands of his siblings who sold him, his experience while in the jail, and with Portiphar’s wife, who tried to seduce him; they were all set ups for success. The moral here is Joseph seed time and harvest time was quite different, it wasn’t a smooth journey. Ordinarily, one would have cursed his siblings or his friends who were with him in prison and forgot him after they were released. But at the end of time, everything worked out for his favor. Joseph’s seed days were his dark days while in the wilderness.
Another inspiring story of note was that of Pastor Ibukun Awosika, the former board Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria. She once shared a pathetic story during her formative years of being in business. According to her, she sojourned for about 15 years. She cried because lines were not adding up for her and she wouldn’t do what her contemporaries were doing to get opportunities. At a point in her business, it appeared like she was in a race of own life because everything seemed to be against her, but at the appropriate time, lines began to fall in place for her. Appointments, business opportunities, favours and goodwill began to fall in place for her. Again, she had a fair share of seed time.
An interesting question I would like to ask you is, what’s your seed time? Have you ever been in the wilderness when you appeared to be fixed? It’s unfortunate many people are not willing to pass through the storms or experience seeds and harvest time. Amidst all these, one must do some work before they get opportunities. However, before such opportunities will come up, one will have to plant the seed.
In conclusion, seed time and harvest time is critical in the journey of life. Take a seat and determine what seed you would like to sow and what you’ll like to harvest.
Henry Ukazu writes from New York. He works with the New York City Department of Correction as the Legal Coordinator. He’s the founder of Gloemi. He’s a Transformative Human Capacity and Mindset coach. He is also a public speaker, youth advocate, creative writer and author of Design Your Destiny Design Your and Unleash Your Destiny . He can be reached via info@gloemi.com
By Eric Elezuo
The Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghen for six months over her sexual harassment accusation and other disputes against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
The Senate also withdrew her salaries for the period of the suspension, as well as her security details.
The chamber however, soft-pedaled on the salaries and allowances of her aides, who it was argued would not have any source of livelihood within the period.
Globacom is welcoming new customers on its network with the introduction of the e-SIM. The e-SIM activated in any Gloworld shop or Dealer outlet comes with an introductory free 5GB data when the customer buys a data plan of N1,500 or more.
Customers already on other networks can now join the Glo network with e-SIM as an additional SIM. Existing Glo customers can also enjoy this “SIM-less” freedom.
With the e-SIM, customers no longer have to worry about space for a physical SIM on their phones. The e-SIM is a software-based digital chip built directly into smartphones or wearable devices, thus eliminating the need for a physical SIM card for customers.
The use of e-SIM enables customers to have seamless switching between phone numbers without a physical SIM. It is ideal for upwardly mobile people who travel frequently. The e-SIM also guarantees security, as unlike physical SIM, it is harder to remove from devices. It is also eco-friendly and reduces plastic waste.
Globacom’s launch of the e-SIM enables enables it to cater to high-net-worth individuals and enterprise customers, and it also reinforces the company’s commitment to providing seamless and future-ready services to its customers.
A customer seeking to activate the Glo e-SIM needs to check the compatibility of the mobile handset by dialling *#06# on his or her phone. If an EID number reflects on the mobile screen, the device is e-SIM compatible.
“The customer can then proceed to the nearest Gloworld shop or Glo Dealer outlet to migrate to e-SIM. The process takes only a few minutes and the customer can thereafter begin to enjoy the use of an e-SIM”, the Marketing Department disclosed.
