Run to Win (2)

Welcome to part 2 of this article. To read part 1, click this link.

In part 1, I used the story of the champion horse and the potential champion horse in a horse race competition, as narrated in Napoleon Hill and Williams Clemenstone’s Success Through Positive Mental Attitude, to buttress the fact that life is a race that we must run to win.

Here in this second part, we are going to discuss the nature of the race we are called upon to run. Life’s race can be likened to a marathon. Marathon is a long running race of about 42 kilometres or 26 miles. Unlike 100 metres dash which takes you seconds to complete, marathon takes minutes and hours to complete.

Consequently, it takes patience, endurance and perseverance to run the race. If you can sprint to complete the race, fine. But Marathon is not run with the speed of a jet, as one may get exhausted before one finishes the race.

Even marathon stars never dared sprint to finish the race; they run slowly and steadily to finish the race. And by so doing, they conserve their stamina and are able to keep running until they get to the finishing line.

How to Run Life’s  Race

Having compared life’s  race with marathon, let us discuss what we must know and do to finish life’s race successfully:

1.   Life’s Race is a Long Distance Race

Iike marathon, life’s race is a long-distanced race. What this implies is that success is not achieved overnight. No matter how smart, brilliant or intelligent you are, you cannot make it overnight. It takes time and more often, longer time than you contemplate.

The inordinate desire of some people to get rich quick has made them fall prey to unscrupulous persons. If your focus is on how you can finish life’s race overnight, you may end up never making it.

Forget about get-rich-quick scheme, forget about overnight success. To run life’s race and win, accept the fact that success may take longer time than you ever contemplated.         

2.   Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Since life’s race may take longer time than you expect, you don’t have to run faster than your shadow, as it is difficult if not impossible to do so. A sprinter who runs the marathon with the aim of finishing it within seconds will realize that it is impossible to do so. He will run out of stamina and end up not being able finish the race.

Similarly, in the race of life, you cannot finish it overnight.  An English proverb says: “There is no hurry in life.” for this reason, we should run life’s race slowly and steadily.

A slow-and-steady race requires patience, endurance and perseverance. The Bible says: “Let us run the race with patience the race that is set before us.” (Heb. 12:1). 

Never let impatience rob you of your ability to make a dent on the universe. When it appears the distance is taking longer than you expected, never get discouraged. Don’t be too much in haste to complete life’s race. Exercise patience and keep running – slowly and steadily until you cross the finishing line.

3.   Life’s Race Requires Stamina

Life’s race requires stamina. Stamina simply means physical and mental strength. Stamina is a priceless resource that God has bestowed on us to enable us run life’s race. God will not set a race for us to run without giving us the stamina to finish it.

The reason life’s race appears difficult for us to run is not because we don’t have the stamina, but because of our unwillingness to develop our stamina.

Just as athletes engage in constant rigorous physical exercise to develop or build their stamina, we must get up and be serious about life. Get up, roll up your sleeves and work at anything you want to achieve. The more effort you put in, the greater the stamina you will build. Consequently, the higher your chances of success.

4.   Though a Competitive Race, Life’s Race Requires Being the Best You Can Be

Life’s race is no doubt competitive. You cannot afford to sit down and fold your arms when others are getting ahead. Everyone is running to win the race. You have to get on track and start running.

Our stamina, speed, mental and spiritual strength may differ, as it is reflected in our positions in life and lifestyle. Regardless of our positions in life, the fact is, we can work on ourselves, put in more effort and move ahead in life.

What is worthy of note is that in the race of life, you are called to be the best you can be. In his bestselling book, All You Can Do Is All You Can Do But All You Can Do Is Enough!, bestselling author and motivational coach, Art L. Williams  powerfully drives home the point that all we are called upon to do is all we can do, and when we do all we can do, that will be enough for us to excel in life. If we can sincerely do ALL we can do, we will run and win the race of life.

The bottom-line is: In life’s competitive race, our focus should be on doing the best we can and being the best we can.

5.   You Can Get Up Again and Run Life’s Race Anytime

In the race of life, there is ample opportunity to run and win. It is true that you may fall by the wayside; it is true that you may get discouraged and quit; it is true that you may run out of stamina, but it is also true that you can always get back on track and run again.

This is one aspect that distinguished life’s race from marathon or sprint run (short-distance race). You are never for any reason disqualified from running the race of life. When you are tired, you may stop to rest; no one will disqualify you. God will also no disqualify you. That you are alive is an indication that God is still giving you ample opportunities to get back on track and finish your race.

What matters most in life’s race is getting to the finishing line. The number of times you fall by the wayside is immaterial. What will make you a winner in life is getting up each time you fall by the wayside and running with every determination to win.

As Napoleon Hill, author of the famous motivational bestselling book,  Think and Grow Rich, said, “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

Will you be a winner or will you be a quitter? Make up your mind now that you will not only run life’s race, you will run to win by doing the best you can, accelerating slowly and steadily until you cross the finishing line - strong and victorious!

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Alexander Stanley Kroll: How Paying the price can Change Your Fortune

What is your dream? What is your ambition? What is it you want to achieve in life? Have you been taking steps towards making it happen?

There’s a price you must pay to achieve anything you set out to achieve. Life will not give you anything, until you pay the price fully. Life will not accept installment. It will continue to turn you down until you fully pay the price.

What is the amount of price one can pay to achieve great success in life? One success story that lays bare the price one must pay is the success story of American football super star, Alexander Stanley Kroll. Kroll had a dream of becoming a professional footballer. But in spite of his passion for the game, he was not making headway by reason of the fact that he was not physically built to play football.

To make his dream come true, he worked on himself to develop his muscles. He would wake up early in the morning by 2-30am – 4.00am to develop his muscles, using his weight lifting equipment.

He kept engaging himself in this rigorous physical exercise for months until he became physically fit to play the game. In the end, he was automatically given a place in his team. From there, he went on to become one of the greatest footballers in the US.

<strong>Sydney Bremer once said: “There is no surer road along the way to success than to follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before us.” </strong> Let me share with you two vital lessons I picked from Kroll’s story:

<strong>1. Take Life Serious</strong>

Lie is not easy and so you cannot be frivolous and hope to achieve great success in life. Every person is pursuing his dream. You don’t have to sit down and hope that someone will come around to achieve your dream for you. If it’s going to be, it’s up to you. If you are not serious, life will not take you serious. Life will not give you what you don’t ask for.

One of the signs that we are serious about life is that we have a clear idea of what we want to achieve or become. That is the starting point. And this is why the opening paragraph of this article is relevant. Go back to the first paragraph of this article. Can you answer the questions posed there? If you can, then, it means you already know where you want to go.

For those who are not sure of what they want achieve or become in life, I believe Marsha Sinetar’s bestselling book, Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood, will be a great resource for you. The book will open your eyes to the tremendous opportunities you have been neglecting or avoiding. Please, click this link to read more about this book in my other blog.

If you have clearly defined what you want to accomplish or what you want to become, then, you have to start making plan and doing things that will keep moving you steadily towards making it happen.

Being serious also means using your time wisely. You can’t keep spending your time on activities that do not contribute to the realization of your ambition.

<strong>2. Offer the Necessary Sacrifice</strong>

Being serious about life is not enough. It is not enough to define where you want to go, what you want to become or what you want to accomplish in life.

As you strive to make progress towards actualizing dream, there will come a time when you will encounter obstacles, adversities or difficulties, which if not dealt with, will cause you to quit.

In Kroll’s case, the major obstacle hindering him from actualizing his dream was his physical stature. Not well built for the game of football, he could not find his way into any football team. He knew that if he were going to realize his dream he must work on himself to develop his muscles through intense physical exercise for months.

The sacrifice he made was that he denied himself sleep, waking up early in the morning by 2.30am – 4.00am to engage in rigorous physical exercise, using his weight lifting equipment.

His sacrifice paid off after months of intense physical exercise. He was automatically enlisted into his team and went on to become one of the greatest footballers in the world.

Perhaps as you are reading this article, there’s an obstacle standing between you and success; perhaps you are thinking of quitting or you might have quit; let me state here that quitting is not the best option or solution. You don’t have to quit because you have what it takes to weather every storm that comes your way.

In his books, Unlimited Power : The New Science Of Personal Achievement, motivational speaker, author and leader in the psychology of change, Anthony Robbins vividly explains that there are unlimited powers within us and that by learning to awaken them, we will achieve tremendous success in life.

Although it will take discipline, sacrifice, commitment and perseverance, we can make it happen. <strong>Prolific playwright, Ken Saro Wiwa, of blessed memory, said: “You must be awake when others are asleep, if you are to get to the top.” </strong>

Dear reader, regardless of where you are and your financial position, you are at the threshold of your dream. Every obstacle on your way is surmountable. You can achieve whatever you want to achieve. You only need to:
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    <li>Be serious by defining clearly what you want to achieve or what you want to become, and spend your time doing things, however little, to keep moving you closer to the realization of your dream.</li>
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    <li>Make the necessary sacrifice by courageously doing all you can to surmount every obstacle standing between you and success.</li>
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Let me round off with this advice of a wise man: <strong>“There are only night after night after night after night after night…and most of those nights, you’d better be burning the midnight oil.”</strong>

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Kogi Gubernatorial Election: How You Can Use Bulk SMS to Earn Huge Income

For every kogite, the contest for the number one seat in the State is one of the biggest events Kogites will witness before this rolls by.
 
Right now as I am penning down this article, we are feeling the mood everywhere. On our major streets, posters of gubernatorial aspirants are posted everywhere; billboards are erected at various strategic positions; and on radio, TV and in the print media, more aspirants are stepping out boldly to contest for the number one seat in the state.

Now, before the election proper, which comes up in November 2015 (about four months from now), what we are going to witness are election campaigns and rallies, culminating in the primaries.  After the primaries, we’ll then know those candidates parties have nominated to contest the gubernatorial election come November 2015.
 
But do you know that between now and on the eve of the election, you have the opportunity of earning huge income from bulk sms? The fact is, many (if not most) of the gubernatorial aspirants for the forthcoming election will buy into the idea of sending sms to kogites to solicit their votes, if you sell the idea to them.

How to Sell the Idea of Bulk SMS Campaign to Aspirants

You don’t have to know any or all the gubernatorial aspirants before you can sell the idea of bulk sms campaign to them. One tool you can use to sell the idea to them is proposal. A proposal can be a letter or a longer piece of writing in which you introduce yourself, the business you do and what prospects (the aspirants) stand to benefit from your bulk sms business.

If it is well-written and you take your time to explain to them how they will benefit from using bulk sms in their election campaign, you’re likely going   to receive positive response from them.

If you cannot reach the aspirants personally, you can get to their political party offices and ask to be linked up with them or drop your proposal with the office staff with the request that they forward it to them.

Or better still, you should try to get in touch with one or more members of executives of various political parties. The secret is to know any person that knows someone that knows another someone that knows the aspirants.

How to Send Bulk SMS for Aspirants

If you succeed in nailing jobs from the aspirants, you will need to quote your fee to them. Your quote will include the cost of sms credits and the cost of the database of mobile phone numbers of residents of Kogi State, which is readily obtainable from Cfvlsms.com. 

Cfvlsms.com is a veritable bulk sms platform set up by this blog, Centre for Victorious Living (CFVL) to provide quality bulk sms service to Nigerians at a faster and cheaper cost.

For the price of the database of mobile phone numbers of residents of Kogi State, scroll down to the end of this article. And for the price  of our sms credits click this link right away: SMS PRICE
 
After calculating the cost of the database of mobile phone numbers of residents of Kogi State and the amount of sms credits, you add your own profit. 

Once you’re paid for the job, visit Cfvlsms.com to place your order for the database of mobile phone numbers of residents of Kogi State and the amount of sms credits you need for the job.

For further enquiry, you can you can contact us via:

Phone: 07061016859;

Email:  info@cfvlsms.com; admin@cfvlsms.com.  


MOBILE PHONE NUMBERS & PRICES
Below is the price table for the mobile phone numbers of Kogi state residents:

Phone Numbers	Price Per  Number
1 - 500,000	N1.60k
500,000 – 1,000,000	N1.00k
1,000,000 – 5,000,000	75k

How to Order
Pay for the package you want into any of the above accounts:
After payment, send details of payment to 07061016859. your payment details will look like this: username/email/amount paid/number of Gsm numbers/teller No./date/