You Need You: Translating Potentials into Realities

By Joshua Owolabi

You Need You describes the practical process involved in translating personal potentials, endowments, abilities and life opportunities into realities of sustainable achievements. Success is good ... but Greatness is the ultimate. Greatness involves fulfilling a destined purpose. This book practically illustrates the process that connects possibilities inherent in our life virtues to Greatness that we attain by living up to our potentials. Starting with Envisioning purposefully; You Need You takes you through the entire PROCESS of attaining GREATNESS. While vision should be purposeful, actions that translate them into realities should be strategic and the individual MUST harness the force of the environment to create a viable world of nurture. Principles must be obeyed and not betrayed.This book takes you from potentials to greatness through the right processes sustained by the right principles. Everyone can be great by translating the fundamental potential of greatness into realities of greatness through effective applications of the right principles. In life equations, variables are introduced to work out success, but YOU are always the constant- the only figure that cannot be traded away! You also determine the effects and influence of the introduced life variables on the constant YOU. Therefore, while it is true that the nature and functions of these variables require your attention, the determinant YOU requires utmost attention. Presenting the constant YOU adequately, appropriately and effectively will attract the right variables and influence them to work in the directions of your pursuit and lead you to greatness. You Need You is a book that takes you through everything about the process that leads to GREATNESS!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Feb 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504993081

Joshua Owolabi

Joshua Owolabi is the author of You Need You. He has over 30 published books on various subjects including academics, human resource development, creative resource development, relationship and others. His other works that are quite related to this current book include Pillars of Greatness, Success Triad and Nature Inspires! He has been guest Speaker & Lecturer locally and internationally; speaking to hundreds of people at various gatherings. He purposefully speaks to the young people and corporate world players on subjects including Career Planning & Development, Effectiveness, Life and Working Principles, Relationships and Relationship Management. If given the choice of a single subject to master- he would choose to master the subject of PRINCIPLE as applicable to all aspects of life. He believes that principles govern life activities and phenomena and unconventional occurrences are created when the binding forces of principles are broken. He also believes that more can be obtained from life and adventures by being more effective than being in constant pursuit of efficiency- it is better to catalyse processes to amplify results than to ever feed in more energy and resources. Born and raised in Nigeria, he acquired university education- undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and currently teaches in a prestigious African University. His passion for optimal performance in life has got him committed to speaking, mentoring and coaching. He is a prolific writer, poet, songwriter and singer with tens of creative works. Currently, he is the Presenter on the weekly Radio programmes You Need You and BrainHealth & BrainPower on the Nigerian Radio Station, Hope 89.1FM and has impacted tens of lives positively. He loves life and humanity.... envisions radically, works with passion, takes actions strategically and lives by effective principles. Interestingly, he is young, cute, married, blessed and joyful ... continually working out his purpose and greatness!

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Published by AuthorHouse  02/05/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5049-9306-7 (sc)

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ISBN: 978-1-5049-9308-1 (e)

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

1 YOUR VISION: WHAT DOES IT SEE?

2 MOVE!

3 WHO DECIDES?

4 STANDING BY YOUR ACTIONS

5 FACING THE STORM

6 FALLING WAS GOOD FOR YOU

7 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

8 SOMETHING LIES AHEAD

9 IT’S IN YOU!

10 JOIN THE BEST INVESTORS

11 MASTER YOUR TIMES

12 THE FOUR FORMIDABLE PERSONAL WEAPONS

13 TEMPERAMENTS AND COMPLEXES

14 BEWARE OF DEAD FLIES!

15 LESSONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Glory is unto God Almighty:

The author of my destiny; my source, my world and my hope

I appreciate life

For the lessons and trials: all have been unto me the purifying furnace

My Thanks go to you:

My parents: Pa and Mrs. M O. Owolabi & Siblings

For your love, nurture, investment and belief in me

My Dear Wife- Hannah & Children

For giving me the and blissful wonderful world I have got

My friends and Associates

For accepting, appreciating and cooperating with me

My Teachers, Mentors and Supporters

For your endowment, encouragement and empowerment

My readers, observers, critics and analysts

For your motivation, challenges and corrections

DEDICATION

I Dedicate You Need You

To

YOU

Who exist by destiny

Who live for purpose

Who truly desire fulfilment in life

INTRODUCTION

Dr Smart was generally known as the smartest doctor in the city. Chief Biggie on the other hand was a business mogul whose fame had spread all over the nation. Chief Biggie wanted the best of medical attention and so the best option was Dr Smart. Meanwhile, chief had always consulted a brilliant young doctor who served as his personal physician. Chief Biggie visited Dr Smart in his clinic and the following dialogue ensued.

Dr Smart: Chief, I must first congratulate you for coming here on time; I mean it might have been too late if you had waited longer.

Chief Biggie: Thank you doctor, I am here because I know you are the smartest.

Dr Smart: My observations and diagnoses show that you are obese and diabetic; you also suffer from high blood pressure. And the pain you suffer in the chest is called angina; a sign of an imminent heart attack. I am afraid, I know you may not die, but I must tell you that heart attack is deadly.

Chief Biggie: Quite frightening, doctor; the young doctor had told me the same thing, and it scared me.

Dr Smart: Chief, don’t be scared please.

Chief Biggie: I hope I will no more be; I know you will have better treatments, so can you give me the prescriptions now?

Dr Smart tore a prescription sheet and wrote the pills Chief Biggie would require and then handed the paper over to him. Chief glanced through and with a disappointing look retorted ‘but this exactly is what the young doctor had always given me. It has not worked!’ Dr Smart too was disappointed, but he had to do his job. He paused to think. After a while, the conversation began again. Dr Smart tore another prescription sheet.

Dr Smart: Yeah, chief, you were close to being correct. Here now is the best prescription I have ever got for your case in my 40 years of practice as a medical doctor.

He handed the paper to chief who beamed with smile

Chief Biggie: My doctor! I now know why I have to come here. But please doc, can you explain to me what this prescription is? You know you doctors have your ways of writing prescriptions.

Dr Smart: Well, chief; it’s quite simple. Only one drug and the best in the world! The prescription reads You 24/7 – Full dosage

Chief Biggie: Can you explain further?

Dr Smart: Oh yes!

Chief Biggie: Okay, go ahead.

Dr Smart: The name of the drug is YOU. You need a complete dosage. It is to be taken for 24 hour a day and for seven days, that is 24/7; and for every week.

Chief Biggie: That is impossible! That is to say I will live on drug! And you know it’s going to be expensive too!

Dr Smart: Not really chief. I have said it is the best drug; but it really costs you no money.

Chief Biggie: But how?

Dr Smart: The obesity was caused by not being disciplined in terms of your diets. The obesity is also related to your diabetes. The complications from both are the major cause of your chronic high blood pressure. There is also the possibility of blocked or narrow vessels. These might have resulted in your angina. Besides, you have always been too busy for rest.

Now listen to what YOU will do:

YOU will strictly control your diet with much discipline.

YOU will start taking morning exercises.

YOU will stop drinking alcohol.

YOU will give yourself enough rest daily.

YOU will visit me regularly for checkups and further treatments.

Chief Biggie: I see! … …

Dr Smart: And you should see that no other drug can do that but YOU.

Chief Biggie: I see! … …

Dr Smart: Now take your prescriptions …….

Six months later, Chief Biggie came in as usual to see the doctor, he had become smart and cute; obesity had gone. He had been cured of diabetes and the high blood pressure. Angina had greatly subsided. He had become a much healthier man.

Chief Biggie then asked Dr. Smart ‘but doctor; I have taken the same drug formula my young brilliant doctor had earlier always given me but without effect’ Yes chief, you are almost right. But the young doctor was only brilliant, I have the experience. There is a great difference between being brilliant and being smart. The latter makes the difference. The solution wasn’t the drug formula; it was YOU. It was the YOU 24/7 that cured you; the drug formula as we call it was just the formula we used. You were the solution, the drug was the formula. I think I should appreciate your cooperation

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For every form of sickness; social, financial, spiritual, physical, mental or otherwise, there are formulae of all sorts; but none will work without the cooperation of YOU. ‘It is one thing to get the physician prepared, it is another for the sick to cooperate’ Nothing affects you without passing through you; nothing changes you without first influencing you.

This is a highly inspirational book meant to serve you a great motivation; but not just a usual blind motivation; it is a highly researched work. Ask me a hundred times what you have ever needed and that is your greatest need on earth and from on earth; and my answer will not change by a letter – you need you!

But how do you find out and obtain the YOU that you really need for use. That is the purpose of this. You are welcome on board!

Thanks.

Humbly yours,

Owolabi Joshua O. [2015]

Author

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The vision of life is not just of the rounded eyeballs fixed into the skull. It is a vision of the mind and it determines the focus, direction and pursuits of one’s life, thus determining whatever it is that a person may achieve in life

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YOUR VISION:

WHAT DOES IT SEE?

There is a strong connection between the eye and the mind. What the eye sees the brain works on; what the brain analyses the mind dwells on; what the mind dwells upon the body acts on and what the body acts on it probably achieves.

The quality of sight has parameters:

The quality of what is seen is fundamental because no factor from the seer can change it.

The clarity of the vision is another, even when what is seen is well presented enough, a bad sight can grossly misrepresent!

How about focus amidst distractions? The eyes have to focus a particular target amidst several other less, equally or more appealing ones. There is the need for a focus; a focus on the target not only contributes to the good quality of perception but also prevents confusion and creates a sense of the reality. A proper focus gives the real perception and not the apparent. The real remains real anytime you re-perceive or re-focus, but the apparent changes at every focus; what a confusion!

The vision of life is not just of the rounded eyeballs fixed into the skull. It is a vision of the mind and it determines what the body of one’s life works on in life, thus determining whatever it is that a person may achieve in life.

What a great need it is to have a bright, sharp and great vision at dawn! A vision that rises at sunrise; that shines brightly with the sun, rising steadily with the sun and giving its brightest glow in the noon- when the muscles are best built to work it out. When they are matured and have not wasted. But does it set with the sun? Of course, the strength of the body does and the integrity does but the achievements of the day never do! What a great source of joy to the heart; even when the sun is darkened, and the sight grossly distorted. The fruit of the labour of the day keeps the heart glowing and creates an unquenchable intrinsic source of illumination.

Life is not accidental. Even if some claim it is; yours by the grace of God Almighty is not. God has created you and all things for His glory. If life was not created through just a circumstance or chance but purposefully, then it should not be lived by chance or ruled by circumstances; it should rather be lived purposefully. Your life is a life of purpose!

Mankind is for a special purpose, and you are not an exemption. You are made for a purpose which is unique. Hence there is a purpose of your creation- your birth. This purpose has been embedded in you - in your being and you can attain and achieve your PURPOSE if only you can identify it; this is where VISION comes in.

Man is the most advanced creature whose basic role is to manage life and nature. Every human has got a unique set of potentials, abilities and features so as to play a peculiar and purposeful role in managing life and nature. Every human has got a unique design and functional pattern. The fact that of all the populations of human races and nations across the world, no two humans are exactly the same is not a matter of chance; rather it is because every human has got peculiar roles to play in life. This is why every life is unique and important. Each of us has got a purpose for his or her existence that we call destiny. We can only realise our destinies and achieve fulfilment if only we lead our lives purposefully. This is why each of us should establish our purpose in life and create visions that will lead us unto fulfilment when we achieve our destinies- our purpose of existence.

Now about your vision:

- It must have a focus.

- Its target must be of a good quality.

- It must be clear and sharp.

- It must be bright enough to make the mind glow.

- It must be real.

• FOCUS

A vision without a focus is no vision. It can never see anything clearly and nothing will therefore be perceived and brought into the mind. Hear William Mathews The first law of success is concentration – to bend all your the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point. No horse gets anywhere until it is harnessed. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined Henry E. Fusdick.

You must create a focus in life for yourself. John Mason has got this to say You cannot become what you are destined to be by remaining what you are’ ‘Until you give yourself some great cause, you haven’t begun to fully live. Have you asked yourself the question what do I want out of this life? Or if you had been asked at one time or the other, did you have a particular answer? Okay, if you are asked now, do you have a definite answer? Pause here and think; do you have an answer or answers or options of answers? Your answer to that question has affected your life this far! If you have no answer at all, then worse is the situation!

If you have got an answer- your answer; then the only directly influencing parameter is the quality of your focus. If you are fortunate enough to have a focus of a good quality, then you are in for the best; good luck!

Your focus is your destination and the purpose of the journey. Your acts, activities, lifestyle, pursuits, mentality, ideology, philosophy, perception, orientation and belief about life are modelled by your focus just as your destination on a journey determines which vehicle you board and which direction you face or go. These two factors will in turn determine the fare or price you will pay, the people you will encounter, the resources the journey will require, the potential dangers and the time the journey will take among other things.

Imagine now what it is like to have the right focus in life, you will pay the right price in life; spend the appropriate time to achieve your goals; see, meet, and interact with the right people; face the right challenges; face the right direction and of course arrive at the right destination - your ultimate goal in life! Focus in life is the journey of the mind ahead of the body and whatever it targets is what the body goes for. Hence you need to HAVE THE RIGHT FOCUS IN LIFE.

Where we are coming from matters, but where we are matters more; where we are is important but where we are going is more important; there is no journey where there is no destination

Where we are coming from matters, but where we are matters more; where we are is important but where we are going is more important; there is no journey where there is no destination. Aristotle, the great philosopher observed "All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve this is to express yourself completely in service to the society. First, have a definite, clear, practical idea –