Giant Strides

By Bolaji Ola-Adams

Its alright for you to know that you don't need anyone's permission to be what you want to be. You must live life on your own terms and live your life fully. What ever anyone can do, others can accomplish. What is most important is to learn the strategies that helps you win and overcome. This book will teach you how

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ola-Adams International LLC
• Release date: Dec 19, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386518624

Bolaji Ola-Adams

Bolaji Ola-Adams, is an Author, Motivational Speaker and an Entreprenuer. He currently serves on the board of a number of companies, offering professional advice that greatly impacts on the productivity and growth of these companies. He is a personal coach to several C.E.Os, helping them to articulate their visions, both individual and corporate and asking relevant questions that create the enabling environment that gives room for the development of strategies that makes the result they want to achieve attainable. He travels widely and speaks yearly in several high profile seminars and conferences around the world, creating positive response in his audience and helping them to realize that it is within the power of everyone to create the tomorrow they hope for. He believes that any negative circumstance can be turned around in the positive direction if the essential principles are understood and implemented. He seeks to empower people everywhere with the techniques essential for personal growth and financial freedom. He is carrying this mission with great commitment and passion, pushing through his insightful information in every nook and cranny of the society with every resource available.

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Introduction

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hrough research, it has been discovered that one of the strongest desires of man is to find meaning in life. When things are meaningless, it creates all sorts of vices because there is no direction and where there is no direction, there is chaos. The lives of many people today are full of chaos because their life has no meaning. Many are wondering and desperately looking for answers to questions that will make their existence meaningful. If you are one of such people, you need to look no further. This book will help you find that meaning and what you can do to turn it into significant attainment.

We all should strive towards new ideas and innovations. We cannot always live for ourselves. At a certain stage, our life must serve as an inspiration and encouragement for those coming behind. This book is geared towards helping you capture the essence of your being and helping you live your life to the fullest. No matter what anyone has achieved, it is a sign that if you are found in the same circumstance and you apply equivalent principles, you can also achieve the same.

Isaac Newton, a great scientist, once said, If I have been able to see farther, it was because I stood on the shoulders of those who were ahead of me. No matter how small you are, if you stand on the shoulders of a giant, you will see farther than that giant. You need not bother about where you have been but where you can be. What you do not have should not be a barrier to what you can have. Do not allow the present to become a barrier to your future. There is nothing you cannot get in this world if you will diligently make use of the unlimited resources that are within you. No one is born without inherent abilities. The tragedy is that we often worry about what we do not have while we waste away what we have. When we focus on our area of strength rather than our weakness, we are bound to create limitless possibilities.

The secret to greatness is already resident in you. All you need to do is look inward and discover who you are, where you are, what you have and what you ought to be. Tap into the wealth of possibilities in you and become a full expression of yourself. Also, you need to understand that there is no better time than the time in which we live. A time when wondrous things happen overnight through the acts of men. This is your time. It is not a time for you to wait for things to happen. You should determine to be an event maker and not stand by and watch.

We are never far away from our miracles. Everything we want in life is already a seed that has been sown inside of us. In writing this book, I have been prompted by the need to answer an age-old question. In most of my counselling sessions, people have asked me if it was possible for a man to change his destiny. I believe that we can change our destiny by changing the person we are. Every man makes his own history. No matter who you are or where you come from, you can re-position yourself and put yourself on the cutting edge of success. We all came into this world in different shapes and sizes. There are things that one person possess that the other does not. However, the fact that you do not have what others have does not make you inferior. In fact, no one can make you inferior without your consent.

The principles outlined in this book are timeless treasures gathered from the lives of men and women who have made giant strides. For any man who desires to make a significant impact in life, this book is your sure anchor. It will help you to accomplish more than you ever thought possible. It is packaged for you so that through the principles used by men and women who have made a difference in the world, you too can make a remarkable mark upon the sands of time. Each principle outlined in this book is a step-by-step guide into how men have been able to turn around unfavourable situations in their own favour.

Finally, I encourage you to make use of the powerful principles discussed in this book to move your life forward. You were born to make a difference. Happy reading.

Chapter 1

The Seasons of Life

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veryone lives life in three time zones. Just like we have the morning, the afternoon and the evening of each day, so also we have the morning time, the afternoon time and the evening time of life. What we eventually are when we die is a result of how well or how badly we have combined these three times of life. As long as we are here on Earth, there are seasons for everything. There are certain things that you have to do in the morning season and others in the afternoon or evening season. It becomes an abnormality when you leave what should be done in the afternoon for the evening season. When this is done, it is simply a misplacement of priority.

The morning season is usually our formative years when we have to develop core guiding principles. This is when our educational development should really be concentrated upon. We learn to do so many things at this stage of life. At this point also, the foundation of our lives is formed.

The afternoon stage is the prime period of our lives. It is usually the most productive period whereby the energy and zeal to do almost anything is up and running. We branch into new paths, freedom is being experienced and the real man or woman emerges.

The evening period is usually a season of consolidation. This is when we put all the experiences of the morning and afternoon into play. We, at this point, become a pool of information and experience that others may tap into. This is the period when we look back and recount all that we have done and get set to meet our maker.

Each of these stages is important and I cannot say that one is more important than the other. The essential thing, however, is for us to know what we ought to be doing at each stage of life. Do not live your life in such a way that your later years become meaningless. Often I have seen men and women who, in their later years, became beggars. The question is, what did they do with their morning or afternoon seasons? When you find yourself doing what you ought to have done in your afternoon season in your evening season, then you need to know that you have mismanaged your life.

DO NOT MISMANAGE YOUR LIFE

To make giant strides, you have to manage your life seasons effectively. If you do not, you will find yourself becoming a liability rather than an asset. To manage your life effectively means to make effective and efficient use of all resources that life has given you in that season and be able to give a good account for these resources. Take a look at yourself as you are right now. Do you know what you ought to be doing, having or experiencing at the moment? To become someone who makes giant strides, you will need to put your life seasons in proper perspective. You will need to put your activities on priority and do what you ought to do first to become what you need to become later.

Each life season is dependent on the other. Often, one leg has to be in front of the other for there to be movement. You stand still when you are not putting one leg in front of the other and you cannot move very far if you are jumping with both legs at the same time, and by so doing you wear yourself out. To be a force to be reckoned with in your afternoon season, it is expected that you lay the necessary foundation in your morning season. It is like the computer term, garbage in, garbage out. You only get out of life what you put into it. Do not leave till tomorrow what you really should be doing today because you might not get a tomorrow. You need to make that move, say those words, ask for that help when you need to. Always ensure that you do what you have to do, when you have to do it and where you have to do it.

Every human being is destined for progress and whether we make progress or not will be determined by the things we are willing or unwilling to do in the seasons of life. Do not sit by and let the seasons pass you by. Do not let your loved ones ask what you did with yourself at the end of your life. Let your mouth say less and your life more. Inspire others. Make a meaningful use of the season in which you are in. Even if you are currently out of a particular season in your life and you have nothing to show for it, you can still re-strategise. As long as you have life, you can still make something useful of yourself.

Whatever time of the day you wake up is your morning. The most important thing is that you need to begin to run. Do not let the loss of the season gone by prevent you. You can still recoup whatever it is you have lost. History presents us with