Secondly: You must be willing to dare flesh and blood to start out that vision in your heart
Thirdly: You must be ready to die to other alternatives in order to actualize your vision and dreams.
So, it doesn’t matter how great your vision, until you are dead to alternatives, you may abandon it when the storm arise. I have seen people with great business ideas abandon them for government or other jobs because they weren’t dead to other alternatives. Dead people don’t change their minds or develop second thought, dead people are not moved by the circumstances around them, dead people are not moved by inflation, weather conditions, political instabilities, dead people don’t retrace their steps, they don’t turn to the left, right or go backward, the only path they follow is the path that goes forward to judgment seat.
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Our success will come faster if only we will decide to shut our ears, minds, and eyes to other alternatives of our visions and dreams. There will always be alternatives. For example, an alternative to a successful entrepreneurial journey will be to get a job. An alternative to coming up with ideas to develop our communities will be to travel abroad for greener pastures. An alternative to getting a degree will be to go for a business apprenticeship with the aim of becoming rich faster than your peers that furthered their education. Most often, alternatives are killers of great dreams and visions and the only true way to overcome alternatives is to be dead to them. Men like Bill Gate and Mark Zukerberg for instance, wouldn’t have gone far with their ideas of Microsoft and Facebook if they weren’t dead to other alternatives like dropping out of Harvard. If music is what you are gifted at, then make it your only job until it starts bringing in the monies you need to invest in other businesses.
After deciding to go into motivational speaking, I knew I had to die to other alternatives that I may be tempted to fall to if motivational speaking wasn’t paying the bills. I knew I had to make it work by all means otherwise I may end up jobless. The moment I died, I realized an inner strength and zeal that I didn’t know I had. I can remember been told by someone that I should get a part time job to support my motivational speaking career, but I refused because I had already died to other alternative and had told people of my decision. If you want to be on the safe side, then it’s advisable to get a part time job, but if you intend to get the best out of your vision then you must be dead to other alternatives.
I also read the story of the founder of one of the biggest Christian organization in Africa; the Living Faith Church Bishop David O. Oyedepo who had to die to other alternatives by giving up his Job in Ilorin Nigeria just to actualize his vision. According to him, he told himself that it will be a shame to him if a part time pastor succeeds more than him. To be dead to alternatives is simply to become a one eyed visionary person, focused, dedicated, determined and unwavering. Deadness to alternatives will release unusual strength on you, it will awaken your creativity, it will make you responsible and work harder because if you don’t, there will be no other way to pay your bills.
Succeed You Must.
Johnspeaks Uwangue is arguably Africa’s fastest rising and highly sought after Motivational Speaker, Author, TV Personality and Business Development Consultant.
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