LIVING THE FUTURE (Part One)

Living every day like the person you want to become in the future is the beginning of fulfillment. A major part of tomorrow is lived today. Thinking that the future is still far ahead is one of the greatest risk ever, it makes you to be taken unawares by the unfolding of life realities.

Let's look at it this way: some hours ago, today was tomorrow, and some hours from now, tomorrow shall become today and today shall become yesterday. So, every tick of the clock brings the future closer than you think and you may be overtaken by events if you are still thinking the days are still far ahead because they are not. To fulfill your dreams, therefore, you must strive daily to beat the time and start living your dreams now.

Self-actualization, however, entails the following practical steps.

1.  Know what exactly you want to become in life - the type of husband or wife, father or mother, business person, public figure etc. you desire to be. Think of how you desire your family, career, finance, ministry to be. You see, at the end of time, each of us would end up becoming something either what you planned to be or the other way round. If you can't tell what you want to become in life, you end up becoming anything. If you don't know what exactly you want in life, anything becomes sensible and appealing to you. Your life begins to loose direction if you don't have a predetermined end towards which you drive your life. If you don't know what do with your life, you become an available tool to be used by other people to actualize their dreams.

2.  Visualize it: It is not enough to know what could be, you need to know what should and would be. This entails practical visualization and affirmation - seeing the invisible and believing those things that be not as though they were. It involves creating a clear mental picture of the future you desire to feature. You make it more real to your mind than present prevailing circumstances. This is when you practically rescript your life from how it has been to how you desire it be. While you are still here, you take a walk into the future through the force of imagination to create the future you so much desire and then come back and board the appropriate vehicle that could take you there. You must be real, specific, clear and simple in doing this. Don't be limited by your present station to shrink your dreams within the size of prevailing circumstances. Be motivated instead to dream big because big dreams do come through.

If you don't like what you have now, then make what you have a raw material to create what you want.

(To be continued)

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