Why you Need Abundant Faith to Get Things Done

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller

Embarking on any business is like taking a leap of faith. Most times, you know what you want to do but you can never be sure if the results will come out as you expect. You take the plunge all the same hoping with some measure of confidence that things will turn out right. Without hope, nothing worthwhile can be successfully achieved in our world. With faith, you get optimistic fairly easily. Optimism is what really fires everyone on to get things done as planned. Without it, most times you find yourself stuck in the starting blocks of what you have planned to do.

If you are determined to achieve maximum success in your business, you must learn the principle that real progress is made one step at a time. If you take one step, with hope and optimism, you can take the second and the third and the fourth and so on until you get the job done. When you are building a house, all you need is a brick at a time added on until the structure comes out. It is with hope and optimism you add these bricks because you believe a building will result from your efforts. There lies your faith in the steps you are taking.  With hope, faith and confidence, Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Notice how all these big accomplishments come about as a result of a series of little accomplishments stringed together with hope, faith and optimism. Everyone gets these results and really succeed provided they follow the rules.

Get busy right now because…. “No pains, no gains. To get the prize, you must pay the price.”

Why Every Human Achievement First Begins as a Dream

“Whatever the mind of a man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”-- Napoleon Hill

Every achievement of man began as a dream. The ranks of the rich are full of dreamers. What is it you desire most in life? Visualize yourself first as having what you desire and take steps to acquire it. Remember, if you want to be a millionaire, you must think and dream like a millionaire. All over the world, those who have made the most difference are those who started as dreamers. They dreamed and acted on their dreams and the world has never been the same again. Ironically, millions of Nigerians are in the poverty bracket because they have not managed to swim against the tide of life in the race to wealth. A dogged persistence to hold fast to your dreams is what separates those who make it rich and those who do not. Quitting when the first obstacle is encountered is the hallmark of the poor. Whereas the rich even if they encounter inevitable obstacles always manage to hold fast to their dreams and strive on till they overcome.

During the struggle for the independence of India, Mahatma Gandhi, the man whom the British press loved to call “half-naked fakir”, took on the British Empire through a campaign of non-violent civil-disobedience called “Ahimsa.” He dreamed of a free India devoid of colonial rule and held on fast to his dreams. Without a regular army, without any lethal weapons of war, he took on a well armed and organized opponent. Talk of the power of dreams! He mobilized the entire Indian population behind him and dared the British Empire. The British did everything to break his will but failed in all departments. They later did what became the most honorable thing to do by granting independence to India in 1947.

 “I have a dream.”  This was the famous speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. made on August 28, 1963 to an audience of more than 200,000 at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. This is the speech that aroused American conscience and indeed the entire world. Dr. King followed closely Gandhi’s teachings and he too was able to confront the segregation laws of his country USA with well-organized Civil Rights marches. He was arrested and jailed several times with threats of death permanently trailing him. Before his unfortunate assassination in 1968, many American Public Institutions have been largely desegregated. That America is largely a free society today is attributable to the efforts of Dr. King and his fellow Civil Rights marchers who dreamed big dreams, held fast to their dreams and took steps to actualize them. When a dream is mixed with confidence, determination, persistence and faith, it will materialize. This is one of the secrets of money making.

The Power of Abundant Faith

“But first, you must believe.”-- Peter Pan

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in God. This done, there is no problem or obstacle known to man which you can’t effectively tackle. Faith is therefore all about your belief system and it is a mind thing. If you think you can, you can. Remember that the only limitations you have are those you place on yourself. Having absolute faith in your abilities is what makes the major difference between what you can achieve and what you can’t. What people say or think about you in this wise count for nothing. You can do anything you think you can even if others think otherwise. What you think is what counts the most hence you must always have absolute faith in yourself and your abilities. What crowns your efforts is your faith in God. He is the ultimate station of faith. 

In the quest for human progress and achievement, when everything else fails, people generally turn to God. This is faith. Belief in God helps to build confidence, conquers fear, emboldens and fires a person on to achieve. Faith is one of the most powerful of all positive human emotions. People readily walk to their deaths on account of faith. The Holy Bible tells us that “faith can move mountains.” Faith moves people to achieve what ordinarily will appear daunting. Faith is a state of the mind which gives life, power and impetus to your thought process.

 

Why You Must Bank on Hope

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” –Dale Carnegie

The surest way to despair is to lose hope. Hope is what keeps people working and striving harder to earn a living knowing that tough times could come around but they will always pass away as others before them. This is what keeps hope alive. The feeling that tomorrow will be better than today keeps the spirits high at all times. This is what spurs achievements and productivity. “Once there is life, there is hope.” You must bank on hope if you have the desire to succeed in business.

When you are hopeful about the outcome of any project, you are also prayerful too. That helps to increase your faith. When you lose hope, fear creeps into your mind and that stunts achievements. Fear normally creeps in when faith goes out the window.  Having faith that you can achieve an objective gives you the courage to go after that objective. “With faith, all things are possible.” “God never disappoints those who genuinely believe.” That is the power of faith. Dennis Kimbro in his brilliantly written book “Think and Grow Rich, a Black Choice” came to the following conclusion about faith. “The people who really succeed are those who dare to risk, who challenge the status quo and push themselves beyond their normal limits. No person ever fully discovers and develops all the potential within himself until he expresses his faith.”