The sixteenth president of the United States Abraham Lincoln expressed a universal truth when he said: “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

A thousand good intentions is not as powerful as a single action and what matters most in life are not the things you think, believe or know but those things you do. Action is incredibly powerful and that one word alone can produce all you need to take you out to achieve your life dreams.

There is so many underachievement in the world today because most people refuse to get off their butts and take positive action. Success as they say is just 10% inspiration… the rest is the 90% of perspiration.

Check your age today and ask yourself – Is there anything you ever wanted to do in your life still a dream today? If there is, ask yourself if you have taken any action towards the attainment of that dream. Most people never have, and never will but you need to understand that this world of ours only respond to people of action.

Nothing works until you work it. Nothing happens until you take action. Invariably, nothing happens unless you make it happen. You are the change your life is waiting for, all you have to do is rise up now and do something towards your intended goal.

You have done enough of planning and analysis. The honest truth is that too much analysis mostly leads you to paralysis. The most successful people in any society are those that just do it like the motto of Nike: “Just Do It”

Think of that one thing you’ve always wanted to do. Think of that one dream you’ve always wanted to translate into a reality and think of that one wish, you wish all the time and take just action towards it today.

Author: Adebola Oni

The story of Ali in the classic, Acres of Diamond is one that has refused to clear from my memory ever since I read the story. Dr. Russell Cornwell, did a yeoman job by painting in stories the lives of the ordinary people whom greatness is within their grasp but couldn’t just smell it talk less of grabbing it.

What a great pity! Ali had a huge deposit of diamond in his garden, but just because he could do some searching sold off the garden for a peanut and went in search of diamond. He never found any diamond because he has sold it off and the lucky buyer discovered the world’s largest deposit in the same garden our journeyman friend sold off! Abu got frustrated with his life and committed suicide while our friend that bought Abu’s garden became the richest man of that time. What an Irony!

The story represents so many of us that have so many things to offer but are still wondering about what we want to do with our lives! Deposited in all of us is a huge deposit of greatness but amazingly only few ever get to become something in life. We talk about poverty, unemployment and several other things that should have never being heard among us if only we all can sit down and do some soul searching to discover the deposit within us.

Most times that I go out, I always see one person or the other that is evidently suffering and I shake my head praying silently that this ignorant person could just see what the Almighty has placed inside of him/her.

The world is replete with those who have discovered themselves and are really living it big and loud in our time, while there are also those who have failed to discover who they truly are and are living frustrated every day of their lives. Do you think the celebrities we have today will ever pick up pen to write an application for any job? No! They have discovered who they are meant to be and what is deposited within them. They never hesitated in using what is deposited inside and look at the fame people like them have acquired.

Prior to discovering my potentials, I used to be scared stiff whenever it occurs to me that I will leave the University one day and start looking for a job. I used to wonder whether I will be qualified for any job considering the education I receive everyday in the University. I used to see most of the courses as obsolete and irrelevant in this present age.

When I discovered my potentials, I just couldn’t be put down any longer. There has never being a day that I became dejected anymore because I have discovered a purpose to live for and I couldn’t be less excited. Whoa! What a great discovery! It was as if I just came into the world.

All those things that used to worry me disappeared because I was seeing a bright future instead of the bleak one that I used to see. People couldn’t believe I have decided not to look for a job like every of my other colleague that we graduated together. It was an abnormal situation to majority of them except just a few.

I want to let you know that your life can experience the same massive change I experienced years ago. Discover the power within you and you will never have to worry about your tomorrow again. Those who have discovered their passion are no better than you. You have the same brain and you can do the same thing they are doing if only you take the time to discover yourself.

Adebola Oni is the Author of “The Lessons Of Life”. So many lives have been touched by his newsletter, Life Lessons Digest. You can have a copy delivered to you every week by visiting his website: http://NaijaMotivation.com You will NEVER regret doing so as so many articles are waiting to change your life.

Perhaps, the greatest comforting truth is the fact that when one door closes, another opens. Unfortunately we look so long and regretfully at closed doors that we fail to see the ones open before us and it all has to do with our attitudes and reactions to situations.

Enjoy this video from Zig Ziglar on Attitude:

A bystander observed Michelangelo as he took a long time retouching every detail of a statue he’d been working on for many days, and asked why he bothered with them. Michelangelo replied; “Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.”

The greatest enemy of best is good. If you’re satisfied with what’s good, you’ll never have what’s best. (John Mason). The quickest and easiest way to become a high flyer is to do more and then more than is required and then to continue doing it.

One secret every true achiever knows is the power of going the extra mile with tasks. Zig Ziglar wrote; “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” The ability to put in a little more hard work and a little more detail is the hallmark of excellence and life always rewards handsomely men who truly and dutifully do a little more than all others.

“If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great Streetsweeper who did his job well.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Thomas Edision said; “Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.” “There are two kinds of men who never amount to very much,” remarked Cyrus H.K. Curtis to his associate, Edward Bok. “And what kinds are those?” inquired Bok. “Those who cannot do what they are told,” replied the famous publisher, “and those who can do nothing else.”

“Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve,” said Charles Caleb Colton. Find a better way and make that way better. That is the surefire lift to great achievements.

Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world. What you think about shapes who you are and positive achievement starts by thinking about what you want and how to get it most of the time.

Think about it – most of the things you thought about yesterday are realities you are living today. To live a better happier life tomorrow, you need to change your thinking starting now.