The Womb of Success Part 2

Show Us Your Faith

Preparation is the highest act of faith. When you prepare for something, it means you strongly believe that it will come to pass. Expectant mothers, prepare for the time that the baby will come. They buy clothes for ‘little people’. The home is prepared in readiness for the baby. The baby’s room is decorated in pink or blue depending on the sex of the baby. Your success is like the coming of a baby. You need to prepare for it. If you dream of making money, stop dreaming and start making it. It is the little steps of preparation that will get you there. An expectant mother will buy a romper today, gloves another day, nappies tomorrow, vests next week. Slowly the new baby’s wardrobe takes shape. That is preparation. As you also prepare for your success,

Activate Your Dream

A dream with no action remains a dream. I have folks in the village. Boy, do they have dreams! Everytime I visit them we just sit to catch up. They will tell you how they are going to be successful one day. How they will drive big cars and live in a nice city house. Meanwhile they will continue imbibing ‘skokiaan’ (home brew) and indulging in village gossip. Now that does not make for one serious about their dream. If you are an African you know what I am talking about here. Those folks are not bad at all, some of them are quiet brainy too. Their dreams join a cemetery of dreams because there is no ACTION. If you want to be a business person, go and register a company or buy a shelf company. Research about that business on the internet. Save some money towards your dream. Enrol in a Basic Business Course. Do a business plan. You will see your dream taking shape. Invest in yourself today to reap tomorrow. The things you do today, are the seeds for the harvest you get tomorrow. If you are a church pastor and you want to be a great pastor, go to a school of ministry, study about great ministers of the Word, follow their example. Like a photo the picture of your success gets clearer as you develop it. If you remain on the shoreline, you will not see your success at the horizon where the ocean meets the sky. I want to persuade you today, even to jerk you, please give us some action!

A Leader Is A Reader

An expectant mother reads all kinds of books to learn about mother hood. Every mother has a dream to be the best one. The books, internet research, advice and ante natal classes equip the mother with superior knowledge to handle the baby and attendant challenges. Albert Einstein said that, a problem cannot be solved at the same level at which it was created. In other words to get a solution to your situation you need to think higher than your problem. It is for that reason why companies may seek outsiders to turn around their business. Even in interpersonal, regional or national conflict, sometimes it has to take a mediator with a different thinking to bring peace to warring parties. Anyway lets talk about you. Yes, your mind needs to die and be renewed. Your mind needs continuous updates and rebooting in order to be compliant with the ever changing operating systems life presents to you.

Winston Churchill predicted that empires of the future are empires of the mind. You need to read. A leader is a reader. Education and learning give you multi-trajectories of opportunity. You need to be a fundi in your field. To obtain mastery in your area, you need to learn, study and research. The idea of undertaking doctoral studies strongly tickles my fancy, not because I want to look for a job with a PhD, but because I want to extend my knowledge horizons and increase possibilities in life. Businesses today are heavily investing in R & D and knowledge management, because they want to be strong today and tomorrow. How about you?

Delivering Your Dream

An expectant mother needs a gynaecologist, obstetrician and paediatrician. A gyaeno looks at the health of the mother and undelivered baby. She acts a as ‘mentor’ for the expectant mother until delivery. The obstetrician plays a mid wifery role to help deliver the baby. At that stage, the paediatrician takes over. The paediatrician performs the AGPAR test to just ensure the baby is normal and healthy. In order to deliver your dream, you need to have a mentor. A mentor gives you handles (shows you how things are done), roots (develop stability and strength) and wings (the confidence to become who you should be). You also need a catalyst. This is a person(s) who open doors for you and point you to the right places at the right time. This is a person(s) who ignite the spark to usher your dream. Relationships will take you much further than education. You need to know people (always remembering that who you see determines who sees you). Network. There is nothing wrong with having friends in high places! I have got Jesus. Lastly you need to have counselors and advisors to interrogate your dream. Your dream needs to be tested and given a quality stamp of approval; otherwise it can become a nightmare.

The Womb of Success Part 1

The Womb of Success

Last week on Friday night I was speaking to Cher, who is a media and publishing entrepreneur at a function. As we chatted she asked me where I get inspiration to do my consulting and motivational work. This is how I responded, “I am loaded! I mine it from the spirit”. There is a seed that is inside of me which I conceived. This has been growing inside of me. I nurture it, protect and cherish this seed that I carry. Every one of us has a seed of destiny inside of us. It is dropped into our spirits, but we have to acknowledge it and nurture this seed. Think about a woman when she conceives. The ante and post natal period is a gestation (development & growth) period. We would like to look at some anecdotes of success which we can learn from this.

Sanctify Yourself For Success

The moment of conception is a defining moment for the woman. A lot of things have to immediately change because of what she carries. No more stressful routines. Those who smoke and drink stop doing that for the sake of the baby. Most medicines especially antibiotics become a NO NO during the pregnancy. Even animals are known to be very protective during the gestation period. They become more territorial and jealousy of invasion of their space. This protective instinct is crucial for success. Your destiny is like a baby. You need to protect it and separate yourself for success. This can mean being circumspect about the company you keep, better work ethic, due discretion in the books and information you read. You can easily shipwreck your success if you do not know what you are carrying inside of you. Be more purposeful and have homing instinct that draws you to your destiny. Do not allow your destiny to be aborted by getting entangled with the wrong things.

Feed Your Success

“Eat for one, drink for two”, was what we were told during the ante-natal classes. There is a special diet for expectant mothers. The chances of a healthy baby are increased by adhering to a specific health regime. This in some instances is augmented by iron, vitamin and calcium supplements (organic not genetically modified /GMO). Even animals as primal as they are, go and hunt for good prey to feed the expectant female. Have you increased your chances of a healthy success by adhering to a healthy dietary regime? Are your nurturing your destiny, starving or feeding it on steroids. Feeding your success on steroids is when you are taking short cuts, buying your way to success. This does not work. Ask Marion Jones (She is returning 5 Gold Olympic medals after recently admitting to the use of steroids!). Feeding your success on GMO, is when you “hot wire” – bribery, unethical (end justify the means attitude). The way to success is to work for it. Years of feeding on steroids, GMO manifest in cancers, organ failure and degenerative diseases in later life. So great is your fall, when your success is fed on the wrong things. It catches up with you. Your success just degenerates or becomes malignant/ cancerous and devours you.

Speak to Your Success

A baby in the womb hears the parent(s) voice. Your destiny hears your voice. When the mother is stressed, the unborn gets stressed. Gynaoecologists encourage parents to speak to the unborn baby “You are great. You are super intelligent, You are man of valour. You are a woman of substance”. This has been proven that it does something to the spirit of the unborn child. Parents who shout at each other before the baby is born produce timid and low self confidence/ esteem offspring. What does that mean for your success? Every morning when you wake up, speak to your day, call forth favour, and declare open doors. In moments of confusion tell yourself you have a sound mind. Declare YOU ARE A SUCCESS! Life and death are in the power of the tongue according to the Ancient Book. There is a creative power in the words that we speak. Words are spiritual because you can’t touch them. Isn’t it? By the same token success is also spiritual because you can’t touch it right? So you can talk your way to success. The psychologists call it self talk or positive talk. Those like me who are from Zion (the city of God), call it FAITH because it is based on logos (written word) and rhema (spoken word). This stuff works!! It is for that reason why you should never allow anyone to talk you down. When they talk you down talk yourself up. When they write you off, write yourself in. Speak to your success.

Don’t miss out next week when we talk about the importance of preparation and the people you need to deliver your baby called destiny.