10 Principles For Becoming a Successful Person/Leader [Authored by Bello Timilehin - Bigtimi]
I was in Lagos on
27th October, 2013 and all thanks to God and Comedian Wazobia FM OAP, YAW who helped me to attend the Lagos Empowerment
and Resource Network “Time out with the youth” organised by First Lady of Lagos
State, Dame Abimbola Fashola (L.E.A.R.N) and it had a great mentor, preacher
and orator as the guest speaker, in person of Dr. Myles Munroe.
I learnt a lot
that day because it changed me and I also decided to publish this online for
people who weren’t present there. After you read this, take it to action and
when I see you again, you won’t be the same person.
NOTE: Every human Being was created to be a leader
but not over people.
Dame Abimbola Fashola and Bigtimi |
Let me tell you a
story about Myles Munroe, When he was age 16, he started speaking on Leadership
and at age 17, the prime minister of his state called his mother’s phone and
said “I’d Like to meet your son, Myles went ahead to see him. The prime
minister said to him “Do you know you have more influence in my country than I
do? Myles was shocked and embarrassed and he replied “ Mr Prime Minister, you
are the president of this country, how can a 17years old boy be more powerful
than you? And he said “Son you can bring together 5000people in a place without
them smoking cigarette, take alcohol and they all gather to listen to you, I
can never bring together5000 teenagers in my country, they will never listen to
me, and they are the future of my country and you young man control the future
of my country. Can you tell me your secret? Myles replied “ Sir I don’t know, I
just gather them to tell them what happened in my life, I was in a family of
13, A father, A mother, and 11 children. I remember when I was sleeping on the
floor with mosquito bitting me and roaches everywhere and my teacher in school
told me “Am ignorant, I can not learn anything, Am retarded and am black, am
not real human and he is just wasting his time teaching me, I went to my mum
and told her what the teacher told me and my mum said Son never say that again
and she gave me a book and in that book I learnt who I am and ten principles I
needed to possess and that is what made me. My teacher told me Blacks are
monkeys and not human, and he said am a monkey.. After reading the book I went
from F to A’s and was the best student in high school, I got an award and I
gave it to the teacher who called me a Monkey, and i told him I'm a smart
monkey, he was embarrassed and he said How did you do it?
NOTE: Don’t let anyone tell you who you are.
Every Human wants to succeed! No one decides to
fail, we all want to achieve.
Do you know that your success is good For God? God
needs you to succeed. Every manufacturer who makes a product wants the product
to succeed. God design seed to be successful to bring forth tree. Seed into the
soil and with water and sunlight help the seed to succeed.
You need some principles to succeed!
WHAT ARE THE TEN PRINCIPLES?
from L, Myles Munroe, them R- Bigtimi |
1) PURPOSE:
Purpose is the original
reason for the creation of a thing. E.g A bird was created by God to fly. If it
doesn’t fly then it hasn’t fulfil its purpose. You were born to do something
very special, if you don’t find your gift and don’t discover what you are born
to do, then you have failed. You must discover your purpose. The reason behind
your creation. Success is measured by what you are born to do. Your purpose is
the ideas that keeps coming to your mind. Your purpose is what you complain
a lot and needs to be changed in your country. The same way a bird is trapped in
flight, Your purpose is trapped in you.
DISCOVER
YOUR PURPOSE
2) PASSION:
Passion is the desire
stronger than opposition, disappointment and death. A person with passion
doesn’t need external motivation, A person with passion is someone who is
willing to lose friends, sacrifice their pleasures, doesn’t need alarm clock to
wake, A person with passion doesn’t get bored because life itself is really for
living. Passion is when you discover your purpose for living.
3) PLANNING:
Planning is writing your
dream in a piece of paper. If you don’t document your dream you don’t want to
achieve. Someone asked “How do you know
if your dream is the right dream?” Here’s the answer, if your dream only benefits you then its not from God, True vision
and true dreams always benefits others around you. A young boy was asked “ What’s your dream” He replied “I have a dream to own a 10room apartment
next to the beach, Travel all around the world, eat whatever I want to eat..
That is not a vision, its a personal ambition. Get a dream in your heart to
help other people. Don’t follow personal ambition. You must put your purpose
and passion on Paper.
4) PRINCIPLES:
You must live by
principles if you are going to be successful. What are the principles? LAWS!
You must live by principle to protect your purpose. For example, Myles Munroe lived in a neighbourhood where
people smoke cigarette, marijuana and take all sort of alcohols, he never
snuffed a marijuana leaf, or drink alcohol or smoke cigarette. When they offer
him these things, he remembered he wrote his dreams on paper. He knows when he
smoke its gonna hurt his liver, and he is gonna lose his dream. A young girl
wants to have sex with him, it sounds good, but he remember he wrote his dreams
on paper and when he sleep with her and she gets pregnant, He would be forced
to marry her. So he told her, i can’t sleep with you, my dream is more important
than Sex. Principles are what you
painfully decides and you are not violating.
5) PEOPLE:
If you want to be
successful, you must choose the right people to be in your life. Some of you
have friends before reading this, if you read well, you will change your friend
after reading this. Who is a friend? A friend is anyone who can help you fulfill
your dreams, who can take you to your destiny, who can help you achieve your
vision. If you have a friend who can’t help you to achieve your vision, or
can’t take you to your destiny or can’t help you to fulfill your dream is NOT a
friend. If your friend tells you, let’s go drink alcohols, he is not a friend,
they only want to cancel your dream, You must tell your friends, I read this
article and I made some changes and one of the changes I made was YOU. Check your
friends out. If you are the smartest amongst your friend, you have to change
the group, you need to be among people that can make you grow, ask you question
and help you think bigger. You can outgrow your friend. People who are doing
nothing wants you to do it them. People who are going nowhere wants you to go
with them. I want you to tell them GOODBYE. Your future is determined by the
friends you keep. You cannot choose your brothers and sisters but you can
choose your friends. Friends are more important than brothers and sisters. King
Solomon said brothers and sister are for adversity but friends would love you
at all times. Don’t be with people who don’t believe your vision. You can be
the next president of this country but someone would want you to smoke, drink
alcohol have sex and destroy your dream. Protect your dream from people who
would destroy it. People can either help you or hurt you. There are 4 types of
people:
- Multipliers: Those who multiply to your
dream
- Substract: Those who distract you and
substract from your dream.
-Divide: Those who divide from you and
confuse you.
-Add: Those who add to your dream
I am
here to multiply to your dreams... Am a good friend!
A book
can be the best friend in your life. Books are good people. Lock the door, turn
off the T.V and speak to a friend through the pages of a book. Stop wasting
time and read books. They can keep friend with you. The Eagle is the most
successful bird in the world. Eagles fly alone, they dont fly with any other
birds. If you are going to be a successful young man, stay away from the crowd,
scare away from the gang.
6) PERSISTENCE: You insist on getting what you dream,
you lost everything, people left you, people disappointed you but never lost
your dream. Persistence is when you decide no matter what happens am coming
back.
8) PERSEVERANCE: Perseverance is gettting up after you
fall down. Every successful person is a result of getting back up. If you lose
all your money, all your friends, Get back up. Never trust a person who hasn’t
survived anything. A hard hands is what you pay to set your people free.
Imagine the life of Nelson Mandela. You will never be accepted until you are
being totally rejected. When you talk you learn what you know, when you listen
you learn what the other man knows, when you are in the midst of great people,
Don’t talk, but ask questions. Stop trying to make an easy life, do what is
right all the time.
9) POSTERITY: The next generation. If you are going to
be a successful man/woman, success is measured by what you do for others. Is
your dream big enough for the unborn to enjoy it? Think about your dreams, can
you transfer what you are doing to the next generation. Success always think of
posterity.
10) PRAYER: It is the most important one. Prayer is
daily consulting the one who gave you number one (PURPOSE). God is important,
no one knows a product like the manufacturer. You must spend time with him more
than anybody else. When you are reading, stop and talk to the manufacturer,
when you are driving, talk to him and sometimes don’t talk, Just listen!
Note:
Do not seek success, seek to become a person of value. Make yourself valuable
by discovering your gift and your dream. Your gift would attract people to you.
You were not born for yourself, you were born for us. Do you know that the
cemetry is the wealthiest place on earth. Why? Because there in the cemetry are
books that were never written, in the
grave yard, there are music that were never heard, there are poetry that were
never being read, In the cemetry we have dreams that died as night mares. In
the graveyard there are schools that never opened, In the grave yard, there are
great men who died as alcoholics, In the grave yard there are great women who
died as prostitute and drug addicts. The grave yard is so wealthy. It is that same
grave yard that made me write this, because I don’t want the grave yard to get
an awesome treasure. I wrote this to tell you, Don’t take your dreams, your
books, your vision, your ideas to the cemetry. I wrote this to help you die
empty. I wrote this because I want you to disappoint the cemetry. I want you to
die like a man that said “I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. SEE YOU AT THE TOP!!!!!
This Principles were taught by Myles
Munroe at L.E.A.R.N “Time out with the youth” at LTV 27th October, 2013.
Written by Bello Timilehin (Bigtimi)
Twitter: @Bigtimi_prolife
Facebook: Bello Bigtimi Olatunji
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