Each time people ask me where am from and I tell them Nigeria, the next thing they say is “how far?” it is assumed that Nigerians here in Malaysia generally greet each other in this manner and I never saw it as a big deal until recently when it occurred to me that we are already half way into the year, therefore I need to ask myself “Nanko, how far?”. I think we all need to ask ourselves the same question; how far have we gone in achieving all the goals we had in the beginning of this year?
Sincerely, I think I have achieved half of my goals, on the other hand, there are certain things I intended doing this year that I have not even started working on. This is a cause for concern as I only have few more months before this year runs out, so I decided to come up with strategies that I call “speedy moves”. Let me share them with you…..
Set timer to remind me to pray; I am a Christian and believe God should be the number one in my life. I am going to set my phone timer to ensure I say a word of prayer every three hours, will pray about anything that comes to mind only to make God priority and number one. Now it does not matter your religion, if you want to want to put your God first, then why not? Remember you are doing this for yourself and for your success. My dad always tells me “there comes a time where you will be left alone, just you and your God” this time is now, it’s time to get serious.
Attach me goals to my mirror; let me talk about something else so it does not seem as though I am preaching. Am going to write down my goals (unachieved ones) and attach them to my mirror so that I have access to them every day. The mirrors in my room are precious to me and since I look at them daily, in fact continuously I might as well as use them as a means to speedily achieve my goals. You don’t have to do same if you don’t love mirrors as much as I do, you can condition your goals to any stimuli you choose to, do whatever works for you.
Hang around more motivated people; I probably should not include this as one of the things I aim to do because so far there are no such people around me, but it will help if you look around you and analyze the caliber of people that surround you. Are you surrounded by people who do not even have plans, or don’t know what they want out of life? You may probably want to think twice and act fast because the companion of fools suffers harm.
Use my time productively; I know that nothing's ever done yesterday and tomorrow is yet to come; it is only in the today that anything ever is done. Today, I am deciding to make good use of my time and most importantly sleep less. Seriously, I don’t think it is profiting to sleep for 6 hours anymore; doctors will say you need it to be healthy and function well, but I know people (my brother) who sleep for about 4 hours and still manage to be healthy and successful in life so am going to do same. Reduce my sleep and use the time I have to work. That however will not stop me from having fun and being friends, in fact, this weekend am going to the cinema with my friends to watch Kungfu Panda 2, cant wait…..
In conclusion, Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. This is my plan/strategy for the remaining months of the year and am determined to strongly go by it. I challenge you to come up and yours, remember to do whatever works for you because there is no such thing as “one plan fits all”. It is your life and you alone can determine HOW FAR……
