Becoming Your Dream: Tomorrow's Star

By Rudolph Mensah

Have you ever wondered what it takes to make your dream come true?
How do we ensure our dreams do not remain mere wishes?

We never get introduced to the topic as part of our school curricula; from primary school to even higher learning institutions.

We are not trained in our schools on the simple techniques of setting goals, pursuing our dreams, dealing with adversity and setbacks, eliminating self-defeating habits and developing positive ones, time management, being disciplined and practicing the power of choice, taking responsibility for our lives, developing self-confidence, dealing with the loss of dear ones, turning your dreams to reality, etc. These, we will learn in this book.

This book teaches you to know and define your own dream, believe in yourself, define your life goals and find your path. The model applies to you no matter where you find yourself in life right now. Success and winning are not confined to your affluence or your career. You are truly successful when those around you are successful, too. That is what we will learn in this book.

We will win, maybe not immediately, but definitely!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jan 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781483592411

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One reason that you need this book is because once you have defined your goal, you know where you want to go, you need to know how to put it all together and make that dish at the end. This book will tell you how to make your recipe, how to put your ingredients together to come out with a product that you want at the end.

Toni Saul, PhD.

Reading Specialist’’

Pittsburgh, USA

© 2016, Rudolph Mensah

ISBN: 978-1483-5-9241-1

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DEDICATION

To the friends and family who challenged, inspired and prayed for me; the superiors who have nurtured and encouraged me; the colleagues who make me better and the subordinates who gave me the chance to lead them.

GEORGE WEIR - My mentor, we have shared many stories, we have shared more than stories. We have conquered many challenges and for our obsession of keeping a to-do list and planning, it has lingered and propelled me to learn and write everything down. CARPE DIEM! Yes, I did, I seized the opportunity.

MADAM KATHY - Woman of substance; you are amazing at everything you do. I know your support and influence in my life shall echo in the corridors of eternity because you made your mark.

HELENA BENEDICTA NKOOM - My life without my mum is no life at all. For my mum, I wish the alphabets were more than 26 letters so I could invent more words to construct graphic sentences to describe the role she has played in my life. May all who read realize how wonderful you are because you are awesome. I love you.

AFUA OWUSUAA ASUBONTENG - To the lady who has given me all the time to pursue my dreams without any distractions. For being my best friend. Thank you.

To everyone out there on the journey to becoming their dream. This is for you, keep walking. We shall win, maybe not immediately but definitely!

Table of Contents

Cover

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Personal Declaration

Foreword

Introduction

Visualizing Your Dream

Defining the dream

Assessing your abilities

Reaching out

Harnessing the power of education

It Is Possible

Believing it is possible

Addressing the barriers to believing

The four-minute barrier

How to perceive life's situations

10 steps to making the impossible possible

The Journey I

Purpose, Plan, Prepare and Project

Goal Setting

Accomplishing the goals

The Journey II

Taking the first step

Becoming the dream

Inspiration In Adversities

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Inspiration

Trashing Negativity

What Next After Failure

Failure is part of success

Believe and try again

Be aware of it; but don't expect to fail

Steps to bounce back from failure

Overcoming the fear of failure

What Next After Success

What next if I succeed?

Stay motivated. Stay focused. Set new goals

Paying It Forward

I had help, you will too

Paying it forward

Just Before You Go

A Heart Full Of Gratitude

Appendix

Dear reader,

I can’t hide my joy. You made the decision to read this book. I have been a firm believer of going on this journey to my dreams and I do believe that you’ve decided to read this book because there is greatness inside you; and that you are impregnated with a purpose which you are struggling to birth.

Just as the caterpillar goes through metamorphosis of changing to a butterfly never realizing it is a must process, we also go through certain stages in our lives we never understand at the time why it happened, only to realize in the end that it was a must, to take us to the level of greatness.

I have read many self-help books and listened to various motivational speakers. One common denominator is that most of them are already at the pinnacle of success. They have achieved their dreams and so they urge us to climb higher. I know I will have witnesses to the fact that sometimes it sounds as a cliché saying, If I have done it, you can do it. The question still remains, how do I do it? with emphasis on I.

I have asked, how do I become what I dream of? What does the future hold for me? How do I go alone on this path and leave the noisy confusion behind? How do I find peace in the midst of the chaos and live my dream?

I have sought answers, I have found many; though I still have more questions, I have something to share.

In this book, you are going to read from someone who is still on the journey; the journey to my bigger dreams; I have shared with you my thoughts, experiences, wisdom from the holy scriptures and what I have learnt from my mentors.

I am extending a hand to you; let’s hold hands and walk together. I want to win with you, I want us to face the obstacles together, I want us to get there at the same time and look back at how far we have gone.

Take the time to go through the book and don’t take everything you read as an ultimate instruction for your life. What I only intend to do is to give you the spark to light the fire which is already in you. I don’t want you to believe me or side with me. I don’t want you to take everything you read to be true for you. I only want you to digest the information and begin to answer the questions you have about your life and becoming what you dream. This is a book to open your imagination and cause you to look within for answers. At some point, it asks more questions than it answers. This book doesn’t tell you anything new, it only tells you what you know in a way you’ve never thought about. This book is telling you where to look not what to see, that is entirely your own to do.

This book is not the fire; it is only the spark. The fire is already in you. I hope that as you read, you will discover the gold mine inside you and be willing to have the courage to mine your treasure. The last chapters will teach you how to deal with success and give back to society. Peoples’ inability to cope with success, once they have it have ruined them. We will learn to avoid that pitfall.

If you are a woman, an overemphasis of the masculine tense shouldn’t bother you, it has nothing to do with gender bias, success is not restricted to either gender.

How do you get the best out of this book? Simple. Whenever you open this book, be certain that you have a pen or pencil in your hand with a journal or a book. When you read a line or paragraph that is meaningful to you, underline, highlight or mark it or write it down in your journal, on your post-it or in your diary. This simple act alone will triple your retention and focus on that thought of building your dreams and also make it easier for you to locate it whenever. You might also wish to draw a star or an asterisk next to certain powerful suggestions or methods that catch your attention, or highlight the wisdom points and sentences which jumps at you.

Read it from beginning to end. Do not skip any of the lessons or exercises, they are tailored to help you plan and turn your dream into reality. Try them at home, anywhere, it is not a wrestling match so it’s safe. This will help you make a gradual transition from having just a dream today and becoming the dream tomorrow. You will be exposed to a wealth of knowledge, insight and wisdom. Take your time. Make the reading as close to your bedtime as possible so you can reflect on it while you sleep. Wonderful things happen when you put your subconscious mind to work, when you begin to create that mental picture of what you want and how you are going to get it. Everything happens twice, first in the mind then it manifests physically. What you can conceive with your mind you can create it.

On waking up in the morning, you will be amazed at how much of the material you have. Don’t be in a hurry. Never. What you have in your hand now was only a mental picture; for years, it has been edited, rewritten, reedited, abandoned, rewritten and edited again and finally you have it in your hand. Great things take time, you will be guided patiently through each step, each process as we journey from just a dream to making it a reality.

Just before I end this letter, please, if at all possible, AVOID falling into the habit of reading this book in the same casual manner you read most fiction or even nonfiction books. Reading this book is to acquire the tools necessary for success and turning your dreams into realities. Enjoy the stories I share in between but don’t read it casually.

Looking into history, we will find stories of people who have had a turning point in their lives from the reading of a single book. I believe this book will begin a new era in your life in turning your dreams into reality.

Come with me and enjoy reading but after you read, put the book down and take the first step towards your dream! That is very important to me.

It’s all up to you. No one is coming to save you. This is your life and the decision to pursue your dreams is entirely yours. No one else can succeed for you. It’s your move. Stand still or take the first step. Let’s begin the journey together.

We shall win. Maybe not immediately. But definitely!

Rudolph Mensah

PERSONAL DECLARATION

I ……………………… declare that I am taking full responsibility of my life; no more excuses. I won’t blame anyone and will strive to make my dreams come true. I am going to eschew temporary gratification and invest all the time and money in making my dreams come true.

I declare that I will be disciplined enough to pursue my goals and achieve every one of them. I won’t waste time and idle around hoping something good happens. I will be consistent in my pursuit.

I will persist till I succeed and I am willing to work and wait for success. I am not going to take any shortcut but I am going to trust the process. I am going to work hard. I am going to build the needed skills and abilities to help me attain my goal.

When things get tough I am going to be tougher than my situation. I declare that I shall never stay down when life knocks me down, I will get back up and shout, it’s not over until I win!

When I fail, I will learn my lessons and I will try again. I am going to succeed and when I do I will reach for higher levels. I am going to use my success to help others and show them the way. I am going to pay it forward.

Finally, I believe that regardless of how long it will take, how much work it will require, I know it won’t be easy but it will be worth it and I may not win immediately but I will definitely triumph with the help of God!

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FOREWORD

There are thousands of books on the subject of self-help and motivation. They are all useful in guiding the reader to help plan a life and achieve success. Some are written by rich and famous people, some by great achievers, some based on religious advice, others based on how to beat the competition. This one is different.

Rudolph Mensah is a young man of 26, who grew up in a village in Ghana, and still calls it home. I have known him since he was 12 and he has been an achiever since the beginning, never afraid of failure, always ready to try harder than everyone else and never ready to push others out of his way to get ahead. He has made it through university and is ready to begin a career as a doctor. Many authors of this genre have lives that are much more impressive. But this book is not about Rudolph’s life, it is about yours!!

His advice is sound: you must know your own dream, believe in yourself, define your short term goals, then find your path. You must re-evaluate your goals often, and your effort to move forward on your path must be relentless every day. You must also know how to deal with failure: you will have plenty. The model applies to you whether you are rich or poor, young or old, at any education level and at any level of success. Success and winning are not confined to your affluence or your career. Rudolph means the life success of YOU becoming YOUR dream, a dream that includes success for the people around you.

Read this book!! Read it from your own perspective, you cannot be someone else. But reading is not enough, you must study it. Do the exercises, think about the wisdom points, even study it with a good friend to discuss the advice. This model will work for you!! The quotes and stories (biblical and historical) will help you find your path and give you strength to follow it and change it as you need to. You will gain the confidence you need to handle both success and disappointment when it comes, and it will come.

Winning in this book requires peace with who you are and how you treat people. Along your path, you do NOT push away those ahead of you, or forget about family and friends. You show respect for others. Your reputation and ethics matter.

And the secret? It is just where it should be, at the end. Paying it forward is your reward, not just for those you help, but for YOU! You will be amazed at how good you feel by seeing others succeed, that is the culmination of becoming your dream.

We will win, not immediately, but definitely!!

George Weir

President and Founder

Tomorrow’s Stars

INTRODUCTION

"Knowing who you are, what you want, where you want to go and following that path is the greatest