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      "body": "An elderly carpenter was ready to retire.He told his employer of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family.\n\nHe would miss the paycheck ,but  he needed to retire. They could get by.The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor . The  CARPENTER said yes,but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work.He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials.It was an unfortunate way to end his career. When the CARPENTER finished his work and the Builder came to inspect the house,the Contractor handed the front door key to the CARPENTER.\n\nThis is your house'' he said , ''MY GIFT TO YOU.\nWhat a shock! What a shame! If he had only known he was building his own house,he would have done it differently.Now he had to lie in the home he had built not too well. So it is with us,We build our lives in a distracted way,reacting rather than acting,willing to put up less than the best.  At important point,we do not give the job our best effort. Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built not too well.\n\nIf we had realized that,we would have done it differently.Think of yourself as the carpenter.Think about your house.Each day you hammer a nail,place a board or erect a wall.Build wisely.It is the only life you will ever build.Even if you live it for only one day more,that day deserves to be lived graciously and with dignity.\n\nThe plague on the wall says, ''Life is a do it yourself project'' who could say it more clearly your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past.Your life tomorrow will be the result of your attitudes and the choices you make today.What you will be tomorrow depends on the choices you make today.",
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      "body": "CONTENTS\n  Introduction\n\nCHAPTER 1\nGRABBING OPPORTUNITY WHEN IT COMES\n\nCHAPTER 2\nSETTING GOALS AND TARGETS\n\n\nCHAPTER 3\nVISION LIKE THAT OF AN EAGLE \n\n\nCHAPTER 4\n DECIDE TO MAKE IT\n\n\nCHAPTER 5\nDIRECTION IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE IT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nINTRODUCTION\n\nThere are some things in our lives which will not allow us to make it in Life and make us successful. We need to tackle those things in our lives which will not allow us to be successful. Success has a lot of things attached to it. You need to overcome some things in your life before you can get to the top. A lot of people Fear of Failure have made them to remain Stagnant, Poverty, Low self -esteem and other challenges have hindered some people from getting to the top or making it in Life.\n\nWhat are those things limiting you from making it in Life, At times you can be your own hinderance to getting to the top or making it. \n\n-What are your responses to the various challenges of Life?\n-Do you have this mindset that Life problems are not surmountable?\n-Have you given up on Life due to your present circumstances?\n-Is it that you lack ambition, and have no dream or hope or you do not believe your dreams can come true?\n-What are your attitudes to Life’s challenges, I want to tell you that it is not what happens to a person in Life that determines how far He or She will go in Life but what the person does with what happens.\n\nProbably you may not know that there are some nuggets to success in life. If you find yourself giving up on Life, why? I want to tell you that ‘’you too can make it, so never give up’’. It is never too late for you to make it in fact the time is ’’ Now’’.\n\nThis book YOU TOO CAN MAKE IT IN LIFE,DON’T GIVE UP will guide your way through. Success means good result. Individual success is very important because it is what will result to the success of any nation, financially or otherwise. Success is not selective, it is not for one race, ethnic group, or one age group .It is universal. What you will be in future depends on the steps you take now, How knowledgeable are you. The kind of friends you walk with because the companion of fools destroys ,your response to change, and many others.\n\nNo matter the oppositions and obstacles you are facing right now, you can still make it. As a matter of fact, those who make progress in the absence of oppositions cannot be compared in terms of results with those who keep advancing in the face of adverse situations and circumstances. So, don’t give up, keep moving.\n\nLife is designed for motion and when it is not happening, a person becomes frustrated, because it is either you move or you are removed. If you are not living a life of results, Insults is bound to happen. Life is a race, if you stop Running, you will be run over by those coming behind you. Some of the frustrations that most people go through in life today are as a result of being overtaken by those who were once behind them.\n\nThe state of your mind is what makes the principles and strategies for progress to produce. We need Knowledge in the right areas of life to succeed. So, be rest assured that the insight you will contact in this book will give you that PUSH (push until something happens) that you need to make it in Life and enter into a new realm of Success.\n\n\nYou will make it in Life, so don’t give up.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                            CHAPTER 1\n\n\n                            GRABBING OPPORTUNITY WHEN IT COMES \n\nA lot of people believe that there is no avenue to success in Life, because of some happenings around them. Rather than people seeing opportunities wherever they are, all they see is obstacles. Wherever a person finds his or herself, there is an opportunity waiting to be tapped into.\n\nAccording to the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, Opportunity is defined as a time when a particular situation makes it possible to do or achieve something. According to this definition, no matter the situation, there is possibility for achievement in life.\n\nOpportunity can come to you in various ways; it can come to you through anybody, anything and anywhere. It can come in disguise as a form of problems. A lot of times, when we are going through some things in life which are not palatable we tend to give up, not knowing that there are opportunities embedded in that particular situation. When an opportunity comes and you grab it you have sowed a seed of success to generation unborn.\n \t\nThere are two types of opportunities, we have the positive side of opportunity and the Negative side ,When an opportunity comes and you grab it, it is said to be on the positive side but when it comes and you ignored it or you behave somehow towards it, it is said to be a negative one. If you reject it, you have neglected a wonderful opportunity to excel in life. It is not enough with how you get opportunity but what you do with it is what matters.\n\nYou that have grabbed it, you have to plan your success in life because success does not just happen ,you have to set targets, goals, know what you want and the price you have to pay to get it. To be a person who has made it in life, you have to work hard because true wealth or success is not obtained by chance, or wishes, you design to make it on your own.\nIn this book, I have written how you are going to make it in life, in your business or career. I give you clues for good planning and with a determined mind; you will surprise yourself, the people around you and even get to the same level with other successful people. We all have a fertile ground to make it in life. Success does not select or choose the people; it has nothing to do with whether you are old or young. The rule is to understand the basic principles of making it and apply it very well. You will make it at the end.\nYour family background, education or lack of finances might want to pose a challenge or obstacle hindering your move to making it in life, but you can choose not succumb to all the pressures by insisting on making it even with your family background, education, and little capital at your disposal.\nI always tell people that success is a continuous process, it does not end and once you have started the process, you have sown a seed of success which must grow. You may not succeed very fast but it is never a sign of failure.\nOpportunity like money is always readily available to us in different forms, at different  places and time. It is our duty to recognize one, when it comes, and go out for it. Opportunity like money is an inert matter, it cannot move, think or talk but it can hear when a man who desires it calls it. \nYou can call for opportunity by your thought because both poverty and riches are the off springs of thought. When you think positively, set goals, plan, determine to succeed against all odds, it is sure you will make it in life because making it is not by chance or luck. Rich people see money in every opportunity, but poor people will never see it even if it is dropped under their feet. There is a definition for being POOR (PASSING OVER OPPORTUNITIES REPEATEDLY).\n\nBE TENACIOUS\n   A degree of tenacity is required to make it in life; many people give up after the first attempt. But an aggressive man who wants to make it in life is tenacious. He is too sure he will make it so he keeps at it no matter the circumstances. Sometimes you may be faced with a big opportunity that you would not know how to carry it out and you become scared. Remember, in the place where you are most scared is where you become a star. Be unstoppable, The  most dangerous men upon the face of the earth are those who are unstoppable in their achievements, they rose from obscurity to limelight ,out of mediocrity to celebrity, out of average into excellence, out of failure into success with unlimited achievements. People with this type of spirit in them aspire to an unbelievable height, because as they climb the ladder of success, they become more determined to succeed with unwavering courage, side-reactions or comments do not stop them. They have in them several characters which are their watchword and have built them to become unstoppable. In fact, these qualities have become their lamp with which to see the road to success.\nWhat are the opportunities you can tap into around you, Opportunities abound where you are right now, yes where you are at the moment. Open your eyes to how you can make it, what do you have within you to make it in life? What are the skills you can acquire to make it in life? Which area do you need to be mentored for you to make it in life. You need to develop yourself and begin to tap into those opportunities you need to make it in life. You can never avoid the price of success if you want to make it in life because the surest insurance for success is to pay the price. For success to come, you must pass through difficulties, adversities. Success does not come on a platter of gold, you must press and exchange something for it, for example leisure, parties, sleep and time.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                          CHAPTER 2\n\n                               SETTING GOALS AND TARGETS\n\n\n\n\n\t\tGOAL SETTING\nIt is necessary for one to have set goals with which to work in life, because without goals, you will not have direction. Imagine two teams playing football without goal posts, nobody explodes into success, most accomplishment are products of gradual effort, because success is not a sudden happening. The people that have no goals live by chance and those who live by chance rarely succeed in life.\nTo succeed in any business you must set goals and work towards achieving it, because you are sure to get what you want out of life success supplies what you demand with passion. Your goal may be to graduate in one of the best universities, this will be possible if you plan, strategize on how to actualize your dream. One of the best strategies to achieving your dream is by setting goals. I wonder how one will reach certain feat in life when you don’t have goals. To make it in life is not an overnight experience, it is what has become part of you because it evolves out of your daily activities, and it does not come by surprise.\nYou should set goals and work to actualize it. You may write your set goals down on paper or paste it on your bedroom door or fridge as a reminder of the task ahead on daily basis. Regularly share your set goals with families and friends, these methods of actualizing your goals will help your efforts and you will eventually enjoy the result of the quest for success.\nWhen you do not have a goal, you are like an organization or school without rules and regulations and without goals you do not have direction. You must have a standard to be able to make it in life, and you must have the right standard because a man who do not abide by rule rarely becomes a RULER. Therefore set goals and copy from the very best in your field those who have become experts, emulate and do what the people who have made it in the field where you want to be do day by day until it becomes part of you and you will eventually start getting wonderful results.\nIf you want to achieve certain feat in life, study about those who have achieved that feat before you and how they made it. By studying and reading about successful people you wish to emulate, you will eventually cut years off your training years.\n\nHAVING TARGETS\nWhat do we mean by target? Target means a result that you try to achieve, it’s like aiming accurately at a particular thing, just like when you shoot an arrow at an object, and the object is your target. Having target is very important in life, it makes one to be purposeful, and it provides an energy and power to carry on. It should not be like a New Year resolution kind of target which a lot of people make at the beginning of the year and abandoned before the middle of the year.\nTo make it in life, never turn your eyes away from your set target; rather resolve to surmount all obstacles which discourage one from making it in life. Success journey begins with having a definite purpose, so discover what you want in life and go for it. If you are consistent and persevere, then you will see obstacles fade into thin air and then you actualise your dreams.\n\n\nCHALLENGES OF SETTING GOALS AND HAVING TARGETS\nWhen skilful hunters go into the forest to hunt for animals they set traps for the animals they have targeted, they are convinced that the positioning of the traps are alright ,they wait to see results. But sometimes they miss their targets and may not catch any animal and not achieving their goals and this may continue for weeks or months before they successfully catch one. These skilful hunters as they fail in their first and second attempts, set new goals and targets. They device more crafty means of tracking down those animals(their prey).I believe that if things are not working well or going the way you want in life, you have to change your approach to that particular thing and re-strategize. If you continue doing the same things the same way you get the same results until you learn to do it differently.\nIf we look at the hunters described above, we would see that one thing is common about all hunters and this is the kind of attributes anybody that wants to make it in life must have. They are patient, they persevere, and they do not give up or abandon their profession just because they are not making it at several attempts. This is because they believed that failure is not final and the secret of those who make it in life are their refusal to quit or give up. A lot of us give up too soon even while almost at the edge of success, it is not in how many times you failed but at the numbers of times you tried that matters, winners never quit, only failures quits. The case of the hunter shows examples of people who are ready to make it against all odds, people who do not give up on anything. A student who failed a particular exam may repeat that exam and score a good mark again but if he has given up on the first attempt, he would not have made it. Some people do not have goals and target, they stop even before they get started because they do not know why they get started in the first place and do not know what they want.\nThose who do not have targets unlike the hunters would finally work for those who have reasonable and clear targets /goals. There are some possibilities that you can make it in life, if you have the following attributes .Turning the scars in your life and business to stars, turning your frustrations into fruitfulness because most problems are decisions waiting to be made by you and these decisions would yield success once they are followed with good plans and patience. Also, you can make it if you are not a lazy person, a lazy person is that person who sees opportunity and never makes the best of it. A lazy person cannot make it in life because success is never for those who retreat and surrender. For you to make it in life, your attitude must be of that of NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER.\nSetting realizable goal is also important .Many people have made it in life because they have set goals and targets. They did not abandon their goals /targets because they feel they would not make it.\nOne must not be carried away by anxiety, when you do not set realizable goals this may draw one back, those who have made it today have set goals which are realizable .To achieve them ,they work consciously for their goals and targets. Their targets are achievable.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                                 CHAPTER 3\n\n\n\n                                    VISION LIKE THAT OF AN EAGLE\n\nWhat is Vision? Vision is the motivation for motion, because you cannot move towards a goal until you see it. Success is motivated and compelled by vision. The greatest help anyone can give you is to help you see a future and that is what vision is all about.\nVision is a picture of your preferred future. It is a picture of your expectation. Motion becomes easy when you can see where you are going. For instance, in the 100m sprint, you can see the tape ahead of you, so you muster some unusual energy on your inside to press on so that your chest can touch the tape and you win the prize.\nPictures enhance your faith. You must see something. See the picture of your future. Success is moving from where you are to where you ought to be, it is changing your position for the better or from the present to the future, but what motivates you to take steps to change your position is your VISION.\nHow far you go in life therefore is a function of your vision. To be visionless is to be a failure. If your vision is strong, you will make it in life. You will notice that visionaries are always restless .Restless in the sense that they are always striving to do something more in response to what they have seen. Nothing breaks failure like VISION. It is what a man sees that makes him arise, if he sees nothing he will remain on the ground.\nYou cannot see a bright future and be silent. You can’t see it and not fight your way to get there. I discipline myself because of what I have seen .That is what wakes me up every morning. When I remember the great things awaiting me, the moment my eyes are open, I put my feet on the ground, with praise in my mouth, set to win again.\nThe successful people we see around today do not possess any natural things than the ordinary people. They only know how to play the ordinary game of life in an extra ordinary way. A step you think is so foolish and irrelevant might just be what you need to move up to the next level of success. Therefore, always attempt to do something great and fail rather than attempt to do nothing because of lack of vision.\nYou cannot make it in life by just staying where you are, get out of your shell and seek to learn how things are done, because exposure enhances success, quality information when acquired; it equips the mind to perform greatly.\nMistakes are invaluable part of learning process; it enables one to get focused on the direction of the right answer.\nThe most people who make it in life are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failure into opportunity. Success does not go to the person who is free of risk. Making mistakes in business is not always the problem, but having the courage to correct them and move on with life. There is no problem you do not have the ability to solve. The answer to every question is lying dormant in you. If you gather the courage to attempt solving the problem, that is your first step to achieving great success.\nEverything that existed today is a product of man’s capacity to task his brain, if you have courage to try those areas you dread so much, you would be surprised you can make it work.\nVision and dream are synonymous, dream does not mean you sleep and dream, because having a dream is not referred to as those who sleep in this context, but to those who even in broad day light while their eyes open, visualize their lives goals and how to bring them to reality.\nWhatever you can dream of doing, you can begin it. If you are bold with Vision if you can’t see yourself somewhere today, you will end up nowhere tomorrow. You will never leave your present level in life if you cannot dream of creating   new level for yourself.\nWHY DO YOU NEED VISION\nVision is what fires up the hidden potentials in you and push you to bring out your talents and energy.\nVison inspires you to make it in life .It is what pushes you to wake up and it motivates you to go and make it. Vision unlocks impossibilities.\nHaving dream about your life and business is important because it helps you to bring in new initiatives into your business and success will come if you’re focused on the dream. Some people kill their life dreams because they do not have power to actualize whatever dreams they have.\nIf you don’t believe in your ability, you will always have problems with making it in life, if you are not born rich in your life or that you are challenged does not mean your dream should not be actualized. Your family background, financial status, your physical appearance should never be an excuse for you not to make it in life.\nBelieving in your dream is the starting point of all accumulation of riches. It is the only antidote to failure. Your faith in the actualization of that dream is what determines your success in life. Having foresight will always help you to outshine your contemporaries, because of your ability to predict the future and take advantage of the situation.\nWhen you dream or visualize yourself in a particular level, or dream of yourself achieving a particular feat, it is important to try and work to achieve it. Believe that, there is nothing impossible in this world.\nIt does not matter whether your dream is big or small; just have a dream and ambition. Actualizing your dreams fast may be hard; you have to take it bit by bit.\nDreamers who win the race of success don’t do different things in pursuit of their dreams. They don’t allow for procrastination, they do it differently .if you continue doing things the way you do you will get the same results until you learn to do it differently.\nVision and not excuses is what matters in your quest for success, vision motivates you into achievement, and also it is the strength of any mission. In fact vision is the backbone of distinction, doesn’t kill your dream because your mental picture determines your future.\nVision is what makes a man achieve success in life. When you have Vision of where you are going to in life, you need diligence to get there. You can never be a lazy person and expect to make it in Life. If you are a person who sleeps all the time like a log of wood, you can never actualise that vision. Diligence makes a man sits with kings and not ordinary men, it is through the spirit of diligence that you can achieve greatness in life .Some people might say after all some people make it in life by doing nothing, I want to boldly tell you today that any wealth gotten in the negative way do not last, it is short lived.\nVision makes you pursue your goals in life; it makes you see what others do not see that makes you get out of bed every morning to pursue your goals /targets. Vision inspires every flight and action. It is a successful leadership characteristic.\nYou need the Spirit of Excellence to actualise your vision, we would look at the EAGLE as an example, first the EAGLE, the EAGLE is a great animal I respect so much.it sees far above other birds, it has the spirit of excellence, and it does not give up on its prey just because of the power of vision. \nOnce an Eagle sets eyes on its prey, it would make sure it gets its prey without giving u. We are going to be looking at the basics qualities of an eagle that makes it different from its colleagues (other birds) and as it relates to Vision and you making it in Life.\nEagles do not step out of their nests and fly about AIMLESSLY. Vision inspires every flight and action of an eagle. Making it in life begins with a clear vision .Before you step out daily, you must be very clear about what you intend to do or accomplish.\nThe female Eagle does not settle or will not settle for any male that is not responsible. This has to do with relationship, once in a relationship, they stick together for life. This is telling us that the Eagle have quality relationship and partnership skills that is based in commitment and responsibility. To make it in Life, you must be a man/woman of integrity, that people can trust thereby committing their businesses to you. Likewise, the quality of the Eagle on relationship also implies that, the companion of fools destroys. If you want to be wise you have to move and relate with the wise. If you want to make it in life, you have to move with those who have succeeded in that aspect of life where you want to make it too. You have to move with people who see as you see who believes in what you believe in, that it is only through Diligence you can succeed in Life. You have to surround yourself with friends that are positive minded, who will contribute their quota in helping you get to where you want to get to in Life. You have to relate with those who will lift your spirit at all times and not bring it down. The Eagles does not befriend anyhow, if you are in a relationship and your partner is not doing or contributing anything good to help you pursue your Dreams you have to do something fast about the relationship. If your friends can not help you make it in Life, you need to change them, if they cannot give you an advice that will move you forward, and you have to change them. Show me your friends and I will tell who you are. If you cannot do business with your friends, if you only go after things that do not have a lasting significance or value, change them.\nEagles will rather go or fly alone at a higher altitude than to keep a wrong company. They do not associate with VULTURES because their passion and lifestyles do not connect. Who you associate with matters in your making it in Life, who you associate with matters in the journey toward your destiny. You can never walk or move with people that have no Vision or purpose for their own lives and expect to make it, never. You have to set yourself apart this is not pride. THE LION DOES NOT EAT GRASS BECAUSE IT LACKS FOOD OR BECAUSE THERE IS SCARCITY OF FOOD IN THE JUNGLE, IT IS NOT PRIDE.IT IS JUST WHO THE LION IS. You have to be careful of who you relate with on your way to greatness in life, if not, you would be pulled down or never make it.\nI have noticed that the reason why a lot of people do not make it in life is because they have or surround themselves with people who have nothing to contribute to their destiny. You can never fail if you surround yourself with people of like mind who have goals, targets, vision and they are doing everything to get there and they believe they can get there regardless of any obstacles they face on their way to making it in life.\nThe Eagles have pride they do not eat or feed on decaying animals like the vultures. They feed on fresh meats .To make it in life you need to constantly feed on current information that relates to your business where you are going to in life, the job you want and other areas of your life. You need to keep improving yourself on a daily basis, you need to look for ways on how to improve your business, improve your relationships. Keep yourself updated on the happenings around your business. IF YOU ARE NOT UPDATED, YOU WILL BE OUTDATED.\nThe Eagles build wisely. The Foundation of any Business, Career, Relationship matter in making it in life. You need to lay a foundation to make it in life, AS YOU LAY YOUR BED SO YOU LIE ON IT, you have to be purposeful and live and protect whatever you are building diligently.\nThe Eagles have an unbreakable and excellent spirit. They do not run from storms. They use the stormy wind to soar higher, to higher altitude. They take over when other birds think they have taken over. To make it in life, you can turn your challenges to a divine advantage. You must never quit pursuing your purpose, vision. To make it in life, you must know when to retreat from activity in order to improve their productivity. To make it in life, you must never give up on your dreams and vision just like the eagle. The eagle does not run from trouble, Challenges, rather they go out to face them.\n In life, you do not run from taking risks, it is better to try than not to try at all. You have to strive to go beyond the expected to succeed in life. Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have now. Never accepts No for an answer, if anybody tells you, you cannot make it never accept because you can, if you do not give up on your vision just like the Eagle never gives up.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                             CHAPTER 4\n\n                                YOU DECIDE TO MAKE IT IN LIFE\n\nThe power to make it in life comes from within. Decision is the power of determination. Greatness does not begin with physical motion, it begins from the heart. The reason why a lot of people do not make it in life is because they do not have the heart to make it (DESIRE).\nPower to make it is in the heart, as a man thinks so he is. The force that makes one succeed is in the heart. Whenever you see a successful business or someone who has made it in life, know that someone once made a decision to succeed.\nGreatness begins with a decision to move forward, WHAT/WHERE YOU ARE TODAY IS A PRODUCT OF YOUR DECISIONS YESTERDAY WHERE YOU WILL BE TOMORROW WILL BE AS A RESULT OF YOUR DECISIONS TODAY. Nobody is to be blamed for where a man finds himself rather the man himself. God or destiny cannot be blamed because God has given every one of us a chance to choose and decide where he or she wants to be in life. You have a principal say in your destiny.\nTo me, Decision is the act of being resolute irrespective of circumstances seeking to prevail over your business, career, education, relationship.\nWhen you make a decision as to what you want and which way you want to go in life, you naturally accomplish your goals and as such, you make it in life. Your decision determines your activities, and in turn your activities in turn mould your destiny .If you are certain about your expected end then you must also begin to take definite steps towards its fulfilment.\nI have noticed that the reason why so many people never make it in life is through Indecision .Indecision is the reason for so many things that have remained undone in our lives, indecision is the reason we do not make good use of an opportunity when it comes to us.\nJust as no dream is fulfilled until a man wakes up and decides that he wants to see it realised, nothing good reaches your hand until you reach a point of decision to get it.\nYour decision moves people on your behalf your decision moves God on your behalf. Until you have decided to make it God does not move into action for you. When your mind is set, your inner man connects with God. I have discovered that a man’s decisions can link him with great fortunes. \nNo dream/vision is realised without a strong decision to work it out. Those stagnated area of your life are only waiting for a decision from you before they begin to yield greater results for you.\nIt is your decision to walk out of poverty that will provoke your potentials and forces your abilities till you subdue the opposition on your path to see your dreams come alive. The difference between destitute and others who are rising higher by the day, is the decisions they made in life.\nThere is power in decision, you can decide not to remain under and nothing can hold you down .You can choose to make it in life and walk out of failure and defeat. You can choose to rise from rags to riches and walk on pains and sorrows; you have the power of choice. Life is all about choices, you choose the way you react to situations, you choose the way someone will affect your mood, you choose to be poor or rich and you choose to be a failure or a success. It is your choice how you live life because LIFE IS a DO-IT YOURSELF project.\nYour decision for determination too matters. Determination means not giving up no matter the situation, against all odds, pushing harder in the face of challenges with unwavering decision .The greatest lesson I have in business is that if a person sticks to a business, career or job and not quit, determines and sustains his energy in spite of internal and external forces such as distractions, obstacles and discouragements he will eventually achieve his goal .The level of your determination will be based on if you want to be make it in life.\nA person who wants to make it in life must accept responsibility. A lot of people shy away from responsibility because decision making is a responsibility. Responsibility entails taking your life into your hands.\nFearful and faithless people make no decision. If you are the type who always looks for someone to blame for everything that goes wrong around you or in your life, then you will not go far as a decision maker. You must be ready to take responsibility for your decisions and bear the consequences at the sometime. I would like you to make a decision for responsibility today because that is what decision making is all about.\nThe successful people in any society are the decision-makers. They determine the trend of event, and as responsible and selfless people, they decision for whatever actions they will be blamed or praised for.\nUntil you are ready to accept the responsibility of decision making, you cannot make it in life. You have the seed of greatness in you, but it is the responsibility of decision making that creates a good channel for the release of your innate abilities.\nYour decision will bring u out of the crowd. Initially it makes you stand alone. But when the results begin to show, all those who stood afar off will begin to draw closer to you. So we can see that decision determines your placement in life.\nSome people do not want to dare to be different that is why they never make decisions. The truth is that UNTIL YOU STAND OUT YOU DO NOT BECOME OUTSTANDING. Decide what you want, because that is the first step to setting your life in order.\n\nA person who wants to make it in life must take Risks. For a yam to grow, it must grow through some processes, the process of planting, watering, and growing. Yet, except the grain goes through this risky period, it abides alone. That means it remains stagnated.\nThere are risks involved in decision making, yet it is inevitable if progress is your goal .Until you take risks, you never move forward. Many are so careful they have become careless, think about this, where you are today is where you are today is where you would have missed if you had not taken a step yesterday. Nothing pays you until it has cost you. Until you die, you never live .If you shy away from taking decisions, you remain stranded. Many people have lost precious opportunities, because of indecision.\nThey lack the heart to step out and embrace possibilities and open doors that come their way and the end day, they are left with regrets….’’Had I Known, I would have done have done this or that.\nMake up your mind to go forward from now.\nDo you want to start a business venture or take a step to improve yourself academically or socially? Stop tossing back and forth in your mind, make a decision now and go for it. If there is an obstacle on the way, tackle it today, otherwise another man will do it and take your crown.\nDecision makers take risks, but they often go far ahead of those who are too cautious to do the same. It is better to make a wrong decision than to be held down by indecision, No matter the risk involved, decisions makers are never stranded, even when they seem to fall, they rise again.\nDecision makers are creative thinkers. Indecision makes a dullard of a man. He sees nothing to be excited about.\nIf you are not a decision maker you are likely to become envious and angry at the progress of others. Indecision is a state of stagnation .That is why wrong decision is better than decision. Never be scared of making a wrong decision. At least, it gives you the opportunity to be corrected and directed in the right way.\nIndecision is a product of stagnation. Decision is a product of reasoning which you arrive at after engaging your mind in quality thinking. That is why it is like a magnetic force that pulls or attracts your desires to you. You cannot attract your desires to you. You cannot attract what your mind does not yearn for, but through your decisions you use the power of your mind to attract your desires.\nDecision-makers provoke joy for those around them and fulfilment for themselves. Your generation is waiting to sing your praise. If you make a decision to shine and be above only in all that you do, nothing can stop you from making it.\nInstability is a product of indecision; Indecision is a killer of potentials. Good things are passing many people by on a daily basis because of indecision. Before they make up their minds to take a step some smarter people have gone ahead of them. Do you not know that you require smartness to catch the opportunities around you? People who are indecisive always look for someone to blame for everything that happens around them. They like to take the easy way out of situations .Do not sacrifice your best for the good. There is a brighter future ahead of you. You are worth much more than where you are now .It is only lack of understanding that will make you settle down with your present position and miss the bright future that awaits you. When you see others moving forward, it is an indication that you also can move forward. Whatever makes others rejoice is the same reason why you must rejoice. Refuse to excuse yourself when others are moving. Take steps.\nWe fall backward too often because of indecision or weak decisions.\nThere was a story of a young man, who at age 19 was an office janitor, but by the time he was 32, he had a private helicopter. He had no formal education, but according to him, he decided to take control of his life. He snatched his life out of the hand of circumstance and put it in his own hands. It is time for you to hold your life in your hands and stop allowing circumstances to dictate the way it should be. Stop excusing yourself out of life! Decide to make it! Decide to come out of poverty!\nMany failures that we see around today are purely consequences of indecision. No matter how powerful your weapons of war may be, indecision will render them ineffective.\nIndecision is most of the problems we have, your problem is not the economic situation neither is it your family background, indecision is the principal reason for some people not making it in life. You have great potentials for success inside you; your decision is what provokes its release.\nWhen you have truly decided to achieve your goal, all barriers and obstacles fizzle out. Those who make it in life are decision- makers that are why they are never a failure.\nDecision overcomes Impossibilities-When you decide to come out of your predicament it becomes a cheap possibility. Believe that you are going to make it and stop bothering about how it will happen. This is the problem that paralyses many people in life; they place the cart before the horse. How to get a thing done should not be the first issue on your mind, but a decision to get it done. Once you decide that it can be done and it must be done, the ‘’how’’ naturally flows.\nIndecision is the fertilizer of excuses. The day you decide that you want to be free is the beginning of your making it.\n\n\n\nHOW YOU CAN MAKE A DECISION\n\n\nDecision making starts with thinking .But there is a difference between thinking and worrying. The reason most people fail to come up with decisions when they are faced with issues is that they worry rather think.\nWorrying leads to dead ends it magnifies the problem till it looks impossible, and then you say, ‘’There is no way out. But when you engage in resourceful thinking, you encounter several options and workable ideas that provide answers to the issue at hand. And when you settle for one of the options or ideas, it becomes your decision.\nWhen thinking is not tied to a decision it becomes futile. Many think but they do not decide.\nThe glory and beauty of your mind is your decision. It is one thing to think and another thing to make a decision. That is why nothing scares success like a man who makes decisions. He is not afraid of those who think, but those who make decisions. He is not afraid of those who think, but those who tie their thinking to decisions.\nMost importantly, you must take steps in the direction of your decision. The process is think, decide and then act upon the decision you have made.\nAvoid procrastination or your decision may become weakened and eventually die off. Every genuine decision is backed up with immediate action. When you take steps in line with your decision, your success also takes steps towards you.\nThe thing that will distinguish you in life is closer to you than you ever imagined, but you will only discover it as you begin to take steps! Your action is the most authentic proof of your decision. Until you act, it is assumed that you have not decided and until you decide, you have nothing to show for your thinking.\nYou must also learn to be consistent with your decisions. Be prepared to press for a while to see it work out. Successful people are quick decision makers but they are also slow to change their decisions, because they believe that there is light and life in what they have chosen to do. But the undoing of many failures is that they are slow decision-makers and fast at changing their decisions at the slightest opportunity.\n\nINGREDIENTS FOR DECISION MAKING\nInformation is the ingredients for decision making. Those who lack information remain indecisive, but those who go after information are never short of decisions. If you fill yourself with good thoughts that you will make, you definitely will.\n\nFacts help decision making. When you are pregnant with facts decision making becomes a natural thing with you. You need a strong heart to make certain decisions, but when you are starved of information, you remain weak at heart.\n\nThe more information you have, the bolder you become to defy excuses and take giant steps toward your goal.\n\nFacts provide the raw materials for thinking, while thinking is the process of turning facts into a decision.\n\nThe reason some people make decisions but never act on them is because they lack confidence. To make a decision and not be able to act on it is as good as Indecision. That is what happens, when you lack adequate information. You may have the idea of what to do, but will lack confidence to take steps, because you are not sure of the outcome.\n\nSo, take steps now! Make your decisions and step forward to make it.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                                             CHAPTER 5\n\n\n                                DIRECTION IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE IT IN LIFE   \n\nDirection means the process of being led by a particular thing. A life that lacks direction can never concentrate on a particular to achieve success .When a person lacks direction he or she can be easily convinced of ways that are not legitimate to make it, such a person will be tossed to and fro and will never settle for a particular thing. Direction simply means to turn.\n\nMotion is not always equal to progress. Everybody is working, but not all are making progress. Sweat is not equal to profit. Many are obviously sweating yet they have no profits to show.\nProgress is not a function of strength, but of strategies and principal among such strategies, is direction.\nI would also like you to know that speed is not a substitute for direction. You may be going very fast but in the wrong direction.\nEnergy dissipation is not equal to progress. It is not work except it is directed.\nThe essence of direction is to eliminate sweat.\nThe EAGLE triumphs by direction whereas other birds flap their wings, the eagle soars. It waits on the peak of the mountain watching the direction of the wind, while other birds keep flapping, dissipating energy and at first it looks like they have gone ahead. Then when the right current of wind blows, the eagle spreads his wings and begins to soar.\nWhen the eagle stays on the mountain and all other birds are flapping, they mock him. ‘’Won’t you move? Stupid. See him standing like a dead duck. He can’t flap the way we are flapping.’’ But when the eagle takes off he leaves them many miles behind in no time. He soars to great heights with powerful effects.\nDirection enhances your status of operation. You are not walking like other men on foot, you are not flapping like other birds, and the wind takes you up. When you are directed, no one sees your sweat, yet no one can deny your results. Direction is your greatest asset in school of success.\nUnless you are directed you will keep moving in circles.\nFor a career person, it means to change your career or change your location.\nIf you have stayed longer than necessary on a particular stage of life, I want you to get angry and say to yourself,’’ I have stayed here too long, it’s time for me to move forward! It’s time for me to turn’’.\nTo keep going round and round on one spot in life is like taking a jolly ride, and the type that children love so much. All those toy rides that keep them moving and having fun, but it is taking them nowhere. That is what children do, but adults operate by direction.\nTurn! Stop labouring in the wrong direction. When you are directed you do things beyond your natural abilities. When you are directed, no matter the smallest of your capital, you will go up. \nDirection determines your location your location determines your allocation. That is where to be or where to go. Not all places are suitable for your progress. There is a need to be in the right place and that covers every facet of life, business, even where you want to start that venture.\nDirection includes where to put your money. Some business men are stranded not because they don’t have capital, but because they have put their money in the wrong business.\nEnergy dissipation is not equal to progress. The essence of direction is to eliminate sweat.\nWaiting time is not a wasting time. What do I mean by this, the eagle, popularly known as the king of the air, triumphs by direction? Whereas other birds flap their wings, the eagle soars. It waits on the peak of the mountain watching the direction of the wind, while other birds keep flapping, dissipating energy and at first it looks like they have gone far ahead. Then when the right current of wind blows, the eagle spreads his wings and begins to soar.\nWhen you are waiting for insight and direction, you are not wasting. Never confuse waiting with procrastination. When you wait to know what you want to do in life, you must be working on your ideas; as soon as the idea is fully matured then you put it into action.\nWhen the eagle stays on the mountain and all other birds are flapping, they mock him.’ ’Won’t you move? See him standing like a dead duck; some will even call you names because you are waiting for direction. Direction enhances your status of operation. You are not walking like other men on foot, you are not flapping like other birds, and the wind takes you up. When you are directed, no one sees your sweat, yet no one can deny your results. Direction is your greatest asset in making it in life. Unless you are directed you will keep going in rounds.\nIf you have stayed longer than necessary on a particular stage of life, I want you to get angry and say to yourself. ‘’I have stayed here too long; it’s time for me to forward! It’s time for me to turn. Direction simply means to turn.\n.For a businessperson, it may be to turn to another business, for a career person, it maybe’’ changes your career ’’ for a pastor, it may be change your message, or change your location.\nTo keep going round and round on one spot in life is like taking a jolly ride, the type that children love so much. All those toy rides that keep them moving and having fun, but it is taking them nowhere. That is what children do, but adults operate by direction.\nNot all places are suitable for your success in life. There is a need to be in the right place and that covers every facet of life. When your business is in the right ‘’place’’ even if it is in a hole people will go there. When you are directed a Year is too much for you to make it in life………Direction reduces the time you spend to move from one side of life to the other. Direction is the master link to making it in life. You cannot be directed in life and not enjoy speed.\nWhat to do when you have direction, you take steps with your direction. There are some people who will excel as a taxi driver, there are others who will build houses and buy cars through barbing. We have places in which we can excel in life. When you are directed everything in your hand works.\nI appreciate the fact that you know how to do many things and I am not asking you to destroy what you know how to do, neither am I asking you to stop what you are doing, but I am saying that there is a principal thing to do that will jack you up so that the other things that you can do will only be supportive. There is the major thing to do and that is where you need direction. The race of life is not a function of swiftness. You do not have to be cunning to win; you only need to be directed.\nDirection also includes ‘’How’’ .You will notice, that yesterday’s approach may not be relevant and applicable today. Experience and expertise are not equal to direction. That you have done it before is not a guarantee that you will succeed at it again. Experience says I have done it before while Expertise says I have gathered information. New ideas and innovation do not equal direction. Direction is superior to expertise.\nThe fact that you have done one kind of business before does not mean you should put your hand in your pocket and say, This one does not need direction, I know what to do.\nYou do not carry your money and say, ‘’ I have invested here before.’’ Open your mind and your eyes, and let God direct you, because what we call strategy simply means approach, which often differs from one situation to the other. You cannot just jump into issues. Every situation requires a different approach. That is what makes for uniqueness of triumph.\nAs an Administrator, you need a specific approach to your work. A politician needs a different approach too. As a preacher you don’t say this is the way we used to preach. You need to know how to go about it, in order to be current and relevant.\nTiming is very important when it comes to direction. ’’When’’ Is it time for what you want to do? The beauty of any endeavour in life is right timing. Doing the right thing at the wrong time still makes it wrong.\nYou must know the length of time you have allocated to each issues of your life and you must be able to identify when it is expired. Some people are long overdue for a change of job, some are 0verdue for change of business but they do not know so they are suffering in stagnation. The ability to understand the times and seasons of what you are doing is what makes you a success.\nHow do you receive Direction? You receive direct ion when you make enquiries you can pray to God to give you direction. You can also receive direction when you learn from those who are successful in what you intend doing. If you are in the right direction, you have immeasurable progress, advancements and results.\nWhen you cannot see any measure of progress in what you are doing, before you give up, check yourself and see whether you are on the right track.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n![DIGITAL_BOOK_THUMBNAIL 3.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmYfoR7jmyCKDFCthpPF58N2pCpz4PN6dY7hJiU9P2oXpJ/DIGITAL_BOOK_THUMBNAIL%203.jpg)\n\n\n                                                \n                         Your best days are still ahead, rise up, be courageous, put your past behind you, and believe THAT YOU CAN MAKE IT TOO, NEVER GIVE UP. See u at the top, the sky is your starting point .YOU CAN MAKE IT TOO, DON’T GIVE UP.",
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