The Door Into Your Future_ a series by Lennie Esomitoje
UNLOCK YOUR FUTURE!
The future we are focused on in this discussion is one of bliss, prosperity, health, comfort, success, excellence, victory, delight and pleasures. We are talking about the good life! Yes, good quality, first class, superior and excellent kind of life.
To unlock is to open, remove the blockage and allow access. It means to uncover, expose and make bare. It also defines, unfold, expand and sheds light on. To spread out one’s plans, dreams, visions, purpose, destiny and pursuits in written form or blueprint.
With these in mind, you are encouraged to sit tight as we in this discuss explore (take a look into) the future, how to know what is in it for us [or rather what we hope to be, do and have in it] and the secrets to making our exploration worthwhile, and making the best of that future.
An open door is the removal of a barrier or blockage. A closed door denies entrance and, or exit; and when opened permits entrance and, or exit.”
Opening the door into your desired future requires you to decide the life you want to have tomorrow. It requires you envisaging the benefits you will enjoy if you can enter into it. You have to pull down the fence –wall, obstacle, difficulties, blockade standing between you and the future. The first obstacle being having a clear knowledge of the future you want. Having a defined (single) purpose is paramount. And once we know who we are, where we want to be and the developed unalloyed desire to be it and be there; then we are ready to tackle and remove the other obstacles.
Other obstacles to unlocking a desired future will include the following: Impatience, fear of failure, negative mindset, lack of focus and procrastination
You possess an ability, talent, gift, capacity and potentials. They came to life with you and just needs to be discovered and exercised. The opportunities to put them to use will naturally come to you. To successfully use your inborn endowments, you must control your thoughts and thereby determine your desired results, life, future and destiny.
What you are now is the result of all you presently know and had accepted about you. There is more about you to be known and released by you. This is hopeful! For the more of you discover and know, the greater your awareness of and success in living the good life.
If you don’t discover yourself, you cannot realize and release yourself and if you don’t know and engage yourself in life’s pursuits you may not reach your future. For once you’ve known who you are: your prominent gifts, passion, turn-on, talents, focus and what you make out as your responsibility in the world, you’ll question everything before involving yourself.
What are abilities, gifts and talents?
They all constitute what we call potential. They are the capacities you are equipped with. They are attributes you display without complaining, no feeling of being trapped. And it feels good even when you expend energy in putting them to use
They are tools you need to count in life. They are special skill, aptitude, faculty and or high mental ability, which are common with and frequently used by you. They are natural with you.
What is capacity?
It is the power, potency, ability to contain, receive, experience, and or produce. It is another word used for potentials. As for potential, it’s all of these combined: capacity, talents, passions, turn-on, knowledge, desire, need, ability, talents, gifts, burden, focus and mental strength in their potent untapped state. Potential is that which possesses capacity for use, increase, growth, perfection, release and exercise.
You are here to show the world the stuff you are made of– your potentials, gifts, abilities, talents; and the ideas, dreams, vision and purpose you’ve focused your life on.
Potential is perfected in the process of use. This is based on the principle that nothing of great worth is of any real use in the natural, raw state, until it is refined. Potentials get processed as we use them; until you use them you don’t know what the really are and can produce.
Insisting on being the best in your line of pursuit, always giving your best, reaching the highest and possessing the best there is should be the goal of one aiming for and going after the highest quality life. Winning attitudes, thoroughness, focus and insistence on the best is how to attain the good life.
It is worthy of note that all of life hangs on cause and effect. Before there was an effect, outcome, result and output that was a cause, attitude and action. Cause is the “attitudes and actions” we exhibit. Effect is the result of impression our actions and attitudes leaves on others. I term it expression-impression. Our expression (cause-attitudes and actions) leaves impressions on those who are at the receiving end. The impressions created by our attitudes and actions provoke reactions in those who perceive them; which results in the treatments, reaction, response we get from them.
Whatever we do or refuse to do is an expression (a cause); how other to react to us, what they do to us as result is the effect.
What is an attitude?
One’s attitude is either…
-One’s opinion; way of thinking or seeing things.
-Ones judgment or assessment of events, happening or issues.
-Ones behavior, mannerism and character when subject to conditions, situation and circumstances that are harsh.
-A reflection of ones opinion, perception and view on life; both general and specific life issues.
-Ones position or standpoint on issues; ones bodily posture is also implicated
What then is a winning attitude?
It is our ability, power and skill to persuade others, gain the needed support, overcome drawbacks and obstacles, secure the result in view, take challenges, attain victory, standout in any crowd, conquer our weakness, move against the negative tides of life and being success crazy.
Desist from “victim thinking” or “there is no use thinking”, these are causes, attitudes and actions in themselves. In spite the disadvantages you may be experiencing at the moment. Know that others had gone through theirs, even far worse, with success and renown. They became well known because of how they managed their disadvantages, difficulties and obstacles. Yes, they end up stars for shining in their darkness!
Change your thought, attitude, approach, method, behavior, character and action, and other desirables change will follow.
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