Life is a marathon and not a 100 meters race. There are so many things seeking our attention and calling for action. We must understand that to get ahead in the race of life we must have the right skills set to push ahead. This involves clarity of vision of the type of life we desire for ourselves. However, as Thomas Edison rightly pointed out "Vision without implementation is just a hallucination.”
What if I told you today that the one thing preventing you from achieving your highest potential has nothing to do with your lack of skills or lack of effort? After all, you wouldn’t be the successful person you are today without the hard work and dedicated efforts you put up yesterday!
This is one of the most difficult books that I ever wrote and paradoxically is also one of the easiest that I ever wrote. The reason for this paradox is simple. I had to apply what I was advocating. And as I took action to write the book I discovered for myself that there was so much to talk about, but I just had to find a way of presenting it in a manner that was well thought-out and yet easily comprehensible to as many people as possible. I believe that my effort was not wasted as I have succeeded to come out with a masterpiece that I am extremely and incredibly proud of.
Our lives, both individually and corporately (as organizations and nations), have been disrupted like never before. The COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world in the year 2020 radically transformed the world as never before. You have heard that common expression “You plan to fail when you fail to plan”? Most of us don’t fail to plan. We have lots of big and often over-ambitious plans. One of the biggest challenges we all have in life is that we have big plans. Some of us have big dreams. And we keep living the rest of our lives in that dream world. And where has that brought us? Not close to where we are supposed to be.
There is hardly anybody in the world who has it all. In one way or the other, one or two things are lacking that we desperately seek to make up for. In our personal life, career, family, community, nation, and the world at large. We are confronted with battles that we must win. Battles are not won based on inactivity. It is not a passive endeavor. It implies the ability to achieve complex battle goals. Looking at today's world each of us is a General in his or her rights. We are confronted by several battles that life throws at us. We have personal battles, relationship battles, financial battles, workplace battles, social battles, etc. We need to be strategic thinkers.
Are you a strategic thinker? You may not think you are but it’s a skill that you already have. All you need to do is sharpen it to give you that cutting-edge advantage to succeed in life. Success and achievement cannot just be left to hazard.
Everything you see existing today is a product of a mind. That means there is nothing that exists that was not processed by a thought. Whether it is good or bad. That is why it is important to plan. But all plans that are not executed end up dying with the persons holding the plans locked up in their heads or even written out on paper. Have you seen a great architect that designed a magnificent building? The building plan was not only detailed in engineering design but had all the aesthetics to it. Guess what this plan was left like that for years. Nobody ever saw the beautiful masterpiece erected. That is exactly how most of us are. We have incredibly great ideas. But we just stop at that .... having ideas.
Take Action is therefore a clarion call to everyone out there who has been having the challenge of moving from plans to execution of plans. It is an incredible journey we must embark on if we desire to be successful in life. It's time to wake up and collect your money. Live your life to the max! It is time to take action. Take a leap from plans to execution. The time to act is now! Let's go!