THE GOLDMINE WITHIN YOU part 6.
A Fact Is Not An Enemy But A Compliment Of Faith.
In the word of Zig Ziglar of blessed memory, “just any dummy can succeed, if he cares to know what it takes’’. It is therefore not enough to seek information but it requires a thorough search for the facts.
Your information must not be fiction based but facts based. No matter how dull you might think you are, if you care to look at the facts, you’ll in time be regarded as a superstar. It takes fact to pass examinations. What separates or distinguishes the excellent student from the others is the trading of facts.
It is a fact that if you don’t work, you don’t t eat. Yes! Faith leads you to the work but facts bring the food. The fact about academic success is that if you don’t read, you can’t be adequately informed.
An enterprise is built by wise planning made strong through common sense and established by keeping abreast the facts. Prov. 24:3(Living bible)
Facts are the trading of working formulas. With little modifications, make what you are sure is “working” work with a higher degree.
If you are not dedicated, you’ll soon be out-dated.
In discovering your gold-mine, dedication is another very vital tool that will put on your course for a very long time. Dedication is not act, it is an attitude. You cannot be truly sold out to your course and not excel in it. When your dedication is in place, your accomplishment is in view. It is your dedication to your class work that commands success, not your attendance. Get committed and you’ll end up distinguished. Your dedication brings about creativity. When you are creative, you are bound to be productive. And you cannot be productive on campus and not be successful. When you are a dedicated student, you end up becoming “the student”. Your attitude at becoming dedicated to your course is not a gift but a choice. You’ve got to choose whether to be dedicated or in the shortest time become out dated. Dedication is an attitude that must be in place for success to be in view. Until you are dedicated to a given course, you are not ready to change your status in your pursuit. According to Dr. Mike Murdock, “The proof of your desire is in your pursuit”.
It is your dedication, having a sense of duty that makes your pursuit worthwhile. Think about it, the university or polytechnics are paces set aside to train youths to become better and useful people in their generation. Are you now dedicated to this noble cause by smoking, drinking, partying, living above your standard, found in negative places at odd times of the day and so on? Look, you can’t cheat the laws of seedtime and harvest. Whatsoever you sow on campus, you will surely reap someday.
Rejoice, o young man, in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine hearts, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement. Ecclesiastes 11; 9
For example, we have seen public officers being disgraced out of office for forgery of certificates, stealing public funds and so on. They were not dedicated in their youth and therefore their “negative harvest” caught up with them. You are probably enjoying that thing that makes you smell like one that has just been to “hell” now. In some years to come, when you are at the verge of enjoying the fruit of your labour, doctors will come knocking to inform you that you have cancer, tuberculosis, HIV and so on. It is then you begin to run after God. At this point, some might have to spend their whole fortune on their health. God grant you understanding!
Living a fulfilled life requires a regenerated might and not might, it takes sense not strength. With dedication, any dummy can climb the ladder of success, if he knows what it takes and is ready to give it all. When dedication becomes your choice, attainment becomes your natural experience.
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; yea. Woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel. 1 Corinthians 9; 16
You need this radical mentality to excel in this world.