Naija Motivation

The euphoria created by the victory of Barack Hussein Obama is yet to subside and I am not sure it will do so sooner. Every newspaper has one thing or the other to write about this history maker and I even read yesterday that babies are now being named Barack Obama all over the world. I am sure some adults will start filing for change of names pretty soon

Barack Hussein Obama: A Beacon of Hope

The U.S. Presidential Election has come and gone and the lessons will remain with us forever. Looking back to what I have been saying for a while on this blog, I am sure you will now believe me that we all can achieve whatever we want to achieve if only we can believe it is possible.

Barack Hussein Obama came into the race for the White House with nothing but a dream. He started the race as “that one,” an object of ridicule but he never wavered in his desire to become the President of the Greatest Nation on earth, the United States of America. Now we all can see where his dream has led him to.

Some months back, I went to visit one of my mentors, who happens to be a Medical Doctor. He was engaged in some chores when I got there and it took some minutes before I was ushered into his office, which was situated in the same house he stays.

On getting to the reception, there was a couple waiting to see him as well and unknown to me and other guests, the two were deaf and dumb! The doctor went in to attend to a patient and I was left with these couple and another guest that had come to say hello to the Doctor.

I was supposed to handle a seminar on the weekend of September 13. I met with the organiser sometime in August and we finalised every thing to do at the meeting. Some days to the day of the seminar, I received a call from the organiser informing me of the cancellation of the event. She told me the patronage has not been encouraging and that she doesn’t want to fail at her first attempt. Putting it in her own words, “it is not good to fail!”

There are so many times things dream of accomplishing, never work out the way we wanted. Sometimes, it seems the object of your desire, your dream, may not realize after all. You will get to a point that you will see the dream as an exercise in futility and you begin to contemplate whether it is worth carrying on. All I have to tell you is that you hold on firmly to your dream because it is surely going to come to pass.

As a young guy following his dreams, I faced a lot of challenges. The business I started with nothing was showing no sign of growth and things were very difficult for me.

One decision I made before leaving the University was that I will NEVER go about in search of paid employment and when things weren’t working out, temptations to rescind on my decision were coming in droves. A lot of pressure was mounted on me to drop my ambition and go in search of a job that will be bringing regular income, but I stood by my decision and decided to trudge on. I persisted, having faith in the realisation of my dreams and the rest is now history.

“Faith is the confident assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things we cannot yet see.” Heb. 11:1 (NLT)

Faith is a powerful force that the whole of humanity is yet to embrace. Most people have read the quoted verse several times yet it has not been imbibed into their lives. So many people can afford to live below their God-given potentials because they have not been able to have faith in themselves and all that the scripture has said concerning them.