HOW TO PREPARE FOR BRIGHT AND GREAT FUTURE

You future is created to be great but you need to prepare for it and make it come to reality. You are designed great but you need to make it happen. If you fail to word hard for your great future, you may fall short of you potential. The part of becoming what you are created to be is your responsibility. God has played His own part. He has designed you with gifts and calling and has given you will power to choose how you want to utilize the great abilities He has deposited in you. You parents can’t make you great. They can only assist you. It is your duty to take your destiny in your own hands. I have seen children from very rich and powerful home who end up small. Some got soaked with bad habit and addictions and that has shattered their potential. I have people who started at zero becoming heroes. So it is about you. It is not about your parents. There are three simple steps to you great future. The steps are yours to take.

1.    DREAM IT – Dream for a great future. Choose great future. Choose the career course you want to pursue. Determine to be great. Let your dream be a big one. Do not go for small dream. Pst Bolaji Idowu Said; “Small dream, small achievement, big dream big achievement”. Your future depends on your dream. If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

2.    SPEAK IT – Keeping speaking about your dream. Share your dream with your real friends and well wishers. Avoid sharing with dream killers. Carry your dream in your mind. Picture it in your mind daily. Write down. Write it where you can always see.

3.  WORK TOWARDS IT - Work towards your dream daily. Work tirelessly to achieve you dream. Your dream is not enough to get you there; you have to work it out. Keep working towards your dream, you will get there. It will come to reality if you hold unto your dream. Langton Hughes said; “Hold on to your dream, when dream dies life is like a broken winged bird that cannot fly”.

SUCCESS HABITS FOR BRIGHT AND GREAT FUTURE

1.  Create a study chamber in your home: Even if you live in one room apartment, you can claim a corner of the room and place your table there as you study chambers. Great elites have study chambers. If you really want to build a great future, emulate the character of elites. You will become one if you prepare like them.

2.   Choose subjects that are associated with your choice of course: There are subjects associated with your dream course of study. Choose them as your core subjects.

3.   Draft a personal study timetable for your daily studies: Study habit is a success habit. All great minds identify with study habit. If you are going to build greatness, you must cultivate daily study habit.

4.    Have WAEC syllabus: Syllabus is a booklet where all the topics to be covered in all WAEC subjects are shortlisted. It is a very important booklet for smart students.

5.  Get all the need textbooks for your core subjects: Make sure you have textbooks for your studies. They are your tools.

6.    Launch a personal study routine: Study daily. Let it be cultivated as a habit. Reading is a success habit. You must embrace it. Go extra mile. Spent nights, invest quality time daily for your studies. Dig for knowledge. Know your subjects. It pays.

7. Determine to be the best. Determination is the key for success. Determination today leads to success tomorrow. Don’t just dream to be a doctor, dream to be the best doctor in the world. Don’t just dream to be an economist, dream to be the best economist in the world.

8.    Avoid artificial distractions:  Make sure you shun the new factors of this era that distract young people from focusing on their studies. Avoid over engagement in watching movies. It is not wrong to watch movies but you must moderate your craving to it. Make sure you manage your time well. Stick to your daily study timing. Create time to wind up. Do not place your study chambers where there is a distracting television. Check your indulgence to mobile gadget.  Addiction to social media and earphone may distract you from investing quality time in your studies. You need to guide against this distraction.

By: Comrade Arinze Okwara

Founder : MISSIONARY ORGANIZATION FOR CHILD EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MOCET)