Small But Mighty!
When most of us are asked the most important possession in our
lives, we tend to look at the big stuffs we have acquired over
the years. We easily point to our cars, mansions and even the
money we have being able to amass in large quantity. To us,
these are the things that make our lives go smoothly. But if we
ask a successful man what his prized possession is, we will all
be amazed at his answer. His road to success was started by this
little thing we all can easily overlook and he sees it as his
daily companion. What is it? A journal! This is unbelievable but
true.
The power of a journal should never be under estimated in our
everyday living. If you study a successful person, you will
notice they hardly go anywhere without this prized possession.
This is because it is widely believed that the retentive power
of the human brain is very low and one can catch an idea or
inspiration anywhere. So if an idea comes to your mind and you
don't have the means of capturing it, it is likely to be
forgotten. It comes back to memory immediately you see someone
carrying out the same idea.
The faintest ink is better than the sharpest brain and this
cannot be disputed. Write something down and twenty years from
now, you will still be refering to it but store it in your brain
and you forget it in the next hour or two. Any idea may occur to
you that you may not even be able to carry out immediately it
struck your mind, but who told you you won't be able to
implement it in years to come? If your ideas are noted in a
journal, a day will come that you will have the capability to
implement it. This is one of the secrets of the highly
successful. They keep writing down all the ideas that occur to
them until the day they have the wherewithal to carry them out.
Do you really want to be successful? The begin to copy the
lifestyle of the successful. I know of someone who said he has
written down so much ideas to the extent that for the next
twenty year, he can never complain of not having anything to do.
What if you are in this man's shoe, how will you feel? If you
are not used to this, please begin to practise this art and in
no mean time, it will become a lifestyle. I learnt this some
years back and it has helped me a lot. There are some ideas I
generate that I couldn't carry out immediately. All I do is
write them down and file them somewhere I can make reference to
later. Any where I go, my companion is always my journal.
"Be prepared" is the Boys Scout motto and ideas may come at any
time so you must always be ready to jot them down. You never can
tell if it is any of them that will change your life. This is
one secret that will help you a lot if only you can put it to
practice. Learning without acting is like not learning at all.
You will make it.
Adebola Oni