How to Plan the Future of Your Dreams

By Paul Areneshi Elijah

For Robert’s sake, why are some people more successful than others? Given the same circumstances, why do some people always realize their goals and others don’t?

These are two of the million dollar questions most smart people start with. We all get to wonder sometimes why certain people command high level of results in their lives and we don’t, why certain people easily realize their dreams and we don’t? Sometimes we are better off assuming our destinies are not the same or maybe life is turn by turn.

The truth is, anyone can become anything if only they know what it takes to be. Often times we believe an adherence to instructions or principles launches us to the reality of result but that is only true to the extent that these principles are themselves, true.

This book uncovers sacred truths, if you like, principles to be adhered to by anyone desirous of a brighter and a fulfilled future. I call it the “free ride vehicle” for reaching your dreams and aspirations for life.

Remember, we all have the same 24 hours in a day. This book will help you make the most of yours.

I wish you a great read! 

• Language: English
• Publisher: THEC PUBLISHERS
• Release date: Mar 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9789789649648

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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

It was a Monday morning when Jonny rushed up to Daddy in such a swift manner, dragging his foots on the floor like a creaking door. Jonny was twelve, and such a curious young man who will always ask many questions.

Daddy was set for office, but Jonny intercepted, and spoke in quite a gurgling tone, Daddy, can I become a doctor? Daddy responded horridly, oh yes Jonny, you can become a doctor. But Jonny wouldn’t let go, he continued, no, daddy, I want to become a pilot. Daddy then said calmly, why not, Jonny you can become a pilot, too. No daddy, Jonny modulated, I want to become a driver. This time, daddy smiled and lowered to Jonny’s height, then vent off this passionate statement: Jonny, you can become anything you want to become if you plan to be; but if you also think you can’t, you are still right.

Actually, anyone can become anything if they want to, and of course are ready to do what it will take to become same. Our greatest challenge as humans is not in what we can become, but in how we can become what we can be.

Little wonder, Abraham Lincoln once said that If I had four hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first two hours sharpening the axe. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. If I had 8 hours to chop down a tree, I would spend 6 of those hours sharpening my axe.

I believe nobody has a desire more than you, to become all that you are dreaming, to become the best that you can ever be, to maximize all that you could be and to fulfill your future. As a matter of fact, we all have some prospects we direly anticipate for the future. Like becoming celebrated political leaders, entrepreneurs, men and women of great acumen, number one in our career choice, professionals per excellence and the list goes endless. Many people even talk so highly of their future as if it were on a fixed track. They seem to imply with great certainty a lofty prospect that could almost apply to everyone.

Even more, when we think of the future, we mostly think of it as a reality we will suddenly find ourselves in someday. Most people do not even think that the future can be negative. All they fantasize, like little Jonny, is an imaginable comfort, ease and fulfillment they will one day, somehow begin to experience. I couldn’t agree more. But the one billion dollar question begging for answers is the how to connect to this future in a way that realizes our dreams and prospects? The truth is: you are either becoming your dreams or you are becoming something else, not the two.

And for the most part, I have seen many dreams turned nightmare, projects utterly failed, weddings turned sour, marriages crumbled, failed lives and a lot of other failures; many of which were attributed to one common force—poor or lack of planning.

Planning is the fundamental pillar that guarantees success in any venture one intends to undertake. It is more work to plan than to work. In fact, planning is the work and the key to connecting to your future. From starting a business to aspiring for a political office, you will need more planning than doing, to succeed. Hence, the difference between those that eventually succeed and those that don’t is in the thin line of planning. In the game of soccer, it is believed that the planning team is the winning team; i.e the team that wins the game is seemed to have made a better plan than the one that lost out.

By and large therefore, planning holds the key to anything anyone intends to become in life. But the unfortunate reality is that most people seem negligent about this subject; they tend to be more interested rather in what to become than how to become. Except that if you have been broadly concerned with the question of what to become, then you have not been maximizing your concerns. While you must consider the former, it is more important to ask the question of how to become.

I read of man who requested that a great man of God should pray for him to become as great as the man of God himself. I believe the man didn’t make the right request anyway, but in praying for him, the