LITERARY CORNER

             Welcome to The Wealth In You literary corner

In this part of thefoundationofsuccessthewealthinyoublogspot.com, our focus is on literature and other related materials. As at now, we have two published literary books.

They are:

1. Wisdom Pack- Wisdom pack is a children's story book that was carefully mastered to appeal to the mind of the kids. And stir up in them the hunger to live up to the positive virtues which is the underlying message that the book carries.

2. Poems For All Ages- Poems for all ages is a collection of poems mindfully crafted to fit the taste of all age groups including the kids, the adolescents and the adults. The poems have something for everyone who intentionally or unintentionally picks it up to read. POEMS FOR ALL AGES, just like the "WISDOM PACK" story book, is built to teach or remind many of the readers about moral virtues. I strongly believe that sound human values such as Morals, discipline, obedience, thoughtfulness, remorsefulness, motivation and etc are the ingredient that everyone of needs to succeed and live comfortably with others in this world.

Wisdom Pack
(Stories for children) 

POEMS FOR ALL AGES
(Poems tactically created for the enjoyment of everyone)

As you already know, this blog is all about 'conscientizing' and directing people's percepective on the abilities they have in themselves.

When I say people, I am talking about everyone of us. I have always tried to drum it it into our subconscious that each and everyone of us has abilities that transcend our understanding. 

But the problem we have is that we live what I call an "accustomed" lifestyle. What I mean by that is; We live within the limit that we are used to. We unconsciously live in a comfortable state which feels threatened each time we want to go or do something outside it's 'normal'. And immediately our subconscious mind receives that signal of threat, it tricks the unprepared conscious mind which in turn retracts to its comfort zone. And this is one of the reasons why many of us remain largely under utilised. 
However, there is a way to force yourself out of the comfort less comfort zone and stubbornly remain outside of it. How to do this is to be awake. That is; slip out of the subconscious mind and remain in the conscious. Find something that will serve as a stimulant or a trigger which brings you to your conscious mind each time you tend to fall back to the subconscious state. The fact is that what you call a comfort zone today was created sometime ago and when it was nourished, it grew muscles and get established. So, as a result, it can also be dismantled by a conscious effort and another be created in its place. And through these cycle we will be able to discover the unused abilities that exist in us.
A typical example of what I am trying to point out here is my ability to have written the books posted above. I have not thought of it that one day I will write anything like that. To be honest with you, I don't know that I can write this kind of books. This is not to say that it is something that other persons cannot do. I am not try to give myself credit here, but I am trying to explain what I mean when I say that there is inside each and every one of us abilities that transcend our understanding. 
Here is the bottomline; you may be doing well in your chosen career whatever it might be, but the truth is that what you are doing currently is not all that you are capable of doing in your life.God almighty has endowed you with inexhaustible wealth and abilities which you can utilise any time you stir them up.
As you are reading this article, I am convinced that beside your chosen career or primary source of livelihood,  there is something else you can do to benefit yourself and the humanity which you are not doing due to one reason or the other. It may be that you can sing. It may be that you write. It may be that you can act. It may be that you can talk to and help someone who is going through challenges. It can be any other thing that I did not mention here. But the most important thing is that you know it yourself. And you know that you can do it. I am not talking about doing it perfectly. It is all about your passion or inclination. That is where it all begin. You may not be able to do it well yet but if you start, you will certainly get better at it.
The next question is; Why are you not doing it if you know you can do it? There are many reasons that you have in your mind which are cogent to you. But the main reason why you are not doing it is because you don't want to leave your comfort zone. You don't want to do something that will put your emotion on edge.
But I want to encourage you to break out of that comfort zone and start utilising the abilities or the wealth in you. If you know how to write, start writing, if your passion is in singing, start writing songs and sing them. If it is about helping people who are having challenges, start by creating a group on social media of your choice. Whatever you have flair for, go ahead and start doing. I challenge you to put your hands on the plough immediately after reading this and I assure you that once you start, with the grace of God, all other good things will follow. And if you need any help, feel free to contact us through the comment section and we will contribute what we can or direct you to other channels which will be of help to you.


FOR MORE ENCOURAGEMENT AND STEPS TO REACHING THIS YOUR NEW GOAL 
You can also read

1. How to actualize your dreams

2.The Vastness of the wealth in you

3.How to get things done

4.Believe in yourself

5.How to be successful in life

A new book is coming soon....

HOW TO GET THINGS DONE

In life, each and everyone of us would want to be productive. Whatever you do, it is imperative that you produce results constantly. Whether you work at home or outside home, whether you are self employed or you work for someone. Whether you are a boss or an employee, you need to be productive.

When we talk about getting things done, we are talking about meeting targets.  We are talking about achieving goals. It means delivering quality services to our clients at the record time.

In order to get things done, some people make use of what is called "To Do List". Where they list all they need to accomplish for the day. To such people, getting things done entails successfully completing every item in their "To Do List".

Today, we are in a world that is awash with all kinds or sources of distractions and interruptions. It is without doubts that whatever you do and wherever you are, you are exposed to one source of distraction or the other. However, in spite of a all these distractions and interruptions, there are still steps that if you follow diligently you will be able to get things done. And not just getting things done, but getting good things done at the record time. Take a look at the following points. Let's go.

1. Go straight to the task.

Like I said earlier, there are litanies of tantalizing distractions littering our spaces. So, if you want to beat such distractions, what you need to do is to ignore them and go straight  to the tasks before you. If you are one of those who use "To Do List", your focus should be fixated on the first item or the first task on your list.

2. Stay away from the social networks

This particular point feature in almost all other articles similar to this. However, many of us fail to live up to the advice. When it comes to visiting social networking sites during working hours, many of us are culprits. Like you quite know, it is easy to say, 'let me update my page'. And once you are there, you may see links which you may be tempted to click on. And as you already know, once you click on such links, it is most probably that you see other links that may interest you. And that's how you go wild forgetting that you have some tasks before or ahead of you. Remember that your intension initially was to just update within five minutes. But now the five minutes has turned to one hour. And if care is not taken, it might even take your two or more working hours.

The University of Maryland, in collaboration with Total DUI (a non-profit group), recently released a compilation of reports and statistics on social media addiction in the US. It revealed that 18 percent of users can't go beyond "a few hours" without checking Facebook and 61 percent of users check their newsfeed "at least once a day." Of iPhone users, 28 percent check their Twitter feed before getting up in the morning. It's estimated that the average American spends nearly one quarter of their work day browsing social media for non-work related activities.

In order to get things done, the best bet is, don't go there at all. Don't open your email box if your job is not there. Don't log in to your social network account.

In the report released by The University of Maryland, in collaboration with Total DUI (a non-profit group), between 60 and 80 percent of Americans admit they don't go online for anything necessary, but rather to kill time or be entertained. For bigger businesses, this means if one thousand of your employees spend just one hour per day "cyberloafing," it could cost you $35 million each year. To make matters worse, numerous studies have revealed that just checking certain social media sites can make a person feel less happy. Now you might have unhappy employees as well as less productive ones.

Every social networking site is a double edged sword. It is sweet and sour. It can make or Mar your productive life. For those who are into Internet marketing or online business, social networking sites are havens of opportunities. This is because they connect with their potential clients through email services and networking sites. However, that well said, it is of prime importance to note here that even those who use the social networking sites for business should be disciplined in their way of using it. The fact is that without being focused, it is easy to stray once on face book platform or any other social networking site. The way out is, like I said earlier, don't visit such site if that is not where your job is. And that will help you to eschew social media addiction.

So, if you must work online, you must be ready to ignore pop ups and other adverts that jostle for your attention on Web pages as you browse through the Internet. Not just to ignore pop ups but to guard or protect oneself from negative stories that can impact negatively on one.

One of the trusted ways of getting things done which we have seen in the life of the world's greatest achievers like Thomas Edison "is to keep trying". As long as what you are trying to do has been done by some one else or even if it has not been done by any one, the truth is that it can be done by you if you stick to it. This means that in order to get things done, you must not give up. You must keep working on your target. Ask questions.

3. Switch off the internet.

It is not possible to get things done if you are always on the Internet doing what you are not suppose to do. The Internet is not a place to go all the time. Most time you need to work offline especially if your work is not online. Like it was pointed out in point number two above, there are many sources of distractions and interruptions on the Internet.

4. Do not welcome casual visitors during your work hours.

In order to get things done, we must not entertain visitors during our work hours. This applies to working at home and those working outside home. As long as it is with in the range of your work hours, don't fix any appointment that has nothing to do with your job. Your working period should be visitor-free.

In several occasions,  I have heard people complain of entertaining visitors during work hours as the reason they were unable to meet their targets or get things done.

Such excuses are not cogent. Your boss or your client or even your spouse will not give you thumbs up for that excuse. Even in rare case when you must welcome visitors due to the urgency  or importance of the reason for such visit, you need to allocate specific time that will not interfere with your day's job.

5. Don't give up.

Sometimes we don't get things done because we give up too soon. For instance, if some people work on a goal once or twice and they don't succeed in it, they give up trying. And remember that as long as you give up trying, you can not get things done. 

What I have found out is that some people don't get things done not because what they are trying to do is undoable but because they decided to throw in the towel may be as a result of impatient or lack or motivation.

What I believe is that the longer you work on a project, the better your experience. And the better your experience, the nearer you are to getting it done.

6.Believe in yourself

Many of us don't get things done because we look down on ourselves forgetting that God lives in us. And when you look down on yourself, you lose confidence in yourself. And when you lose confidence in yourself, it means you don't believe in yourself. So, Don't look down on yourself.

Like I have always said consistently in other articles, to believe in yourself means to believe that there are abilities in you to carry out successfully, one task or the other. That is what Albert Badura calls "Self Efficacy". Self efficacy according him, is the act of believing that one has the ability to do what one wants to do.

When it comes to believing in oneself, what I have discovered is that when one believes in oneself, it gives One the impetus to work harder on a project despite the number of times that one fails. In other words, if you believe that there is enough powers inside you to enable you succeed in what you are doing, you will be motivated to do whatever it takes to help you get the thing done.

When you believe in yourself, that is, when you believe that there is power inside you to enable you carry out a task successfully, you will not be tempted to hang the booth no matter how many times you fail or the difficulty or the challenges you are facing in the project. The fact is that when you believe in yourself, you will start seeing failure as set backs or obstacles that can easily be overcome. So, the best bet, like I always say is, you must believe in yourself and in the God that lives in you because when you do so, it will help you to get things done. And not just getting good things done, but getting things done at the record time.

You can also read;

The vastness of the wealth in you

Don't look down on yourself

Believe in yourself

The vastness of "The Wealth In You"

Have you ever wondered why you have been able to achieve what you have been able to achieve in your life today?
Have you for once inquired into the reason why the person next to you have been able to produce the result that he or she is enjoying today?
Have you heard about the richest person in the world?
Have you heard that a person is the most beautiful girl in the world?
Have you ever wondered why a poverty-stricken, 12-year-old boy from a war ravaged country of Africa or middle east who found himself  in the midst of fortunate kids from well to do families in Europe and America would outsmart his mates academically?
Have you ever also wondered why a child from an influential home could out-perform all his or her mates and become the best pupil academically?
The reason simply is because every one of such people cited above including you possess great wealth in them.
You don't need to wonder again, Dude; because they wouldn't have been able to achieve what they have achieved if they do not already have the potential to achieve it in them. In other words, you, me or any one else have been able to achieve whatever we have been able to achieve only because we have the wealth in us. We have the abilities in us. We have what it takes in us.
I said every one of us possess "wealth in us". Yes, I said "Wealth" .You heard me right. And you may be wondering how come human beings possess wealth in them. For a clarification and to quell your curiosity, let us try a definition of wealth.

What is wealth?

Whenever we hear the word "wealth" what readily come to our mind is the abundance of  physical assets such as cars, money, house and other material possessions.
Now, according to an online dictionary, wealth simply means the abundance of valuable possessions.
Mark that phrase,"Valuable possessions"
That phrase, valuable possessions do not mean only material possessions but include other intagible possessions.
So, when I say that there is wealth in every one of us, what I mean is that there exist inside everyone of us abundance of valuable possession.
The word "valuable" means priceless. Something that is very important. And it is not just that we have all these in us, but we have them in abundance.
Before we go ahead, i would like us to take a look at two synonyms of wealth.
There are many synonyms of wealth, but these two are apt to the context we are discussing and will help to give more insight into how wealth exist in every human being.
The two synonyms are;

Well-being and

Resources

Well-being is a sound state of health. It is not a material wealth but it is a state of health that can be transformed into material wealth. No wonder they say that health Is wealth. This means that it is people who are in a state of well-being that are able to generate wealth. It means that people who are healthy possess wealth.

On the other hand, human resources is also not a material wealth but are qualities, virtues or attributes possessed by man which when utilised can generate or be transformed into physical or material wealth.
Now, real wealth is not the material wealth which we normally focus on.
Real wealth are those wealth in raw form such as well-being and human resources.
Many people struggle in life because they focus on the material wealth rather than on the real wealth which are in the formless state.
People who possess material wealth are those who have been able to make a good combination and the right manipulation of the real or formless wealth in its raw state and transformed it into the physical wealth.
And that is why I have always said, that, "The foundation of success is the wealth in you"

May be you are one of those who believe in fate like I do. But fate cannot produce wealth without substances.
And if fate is responsible, why is it that my village has not produced the richest man in the world? Or is it that people from my village are not fated to be the richest person in the world? But mind you, there is abundance of wealth in everyone of us though in a formless state but can be transformed into the tangible wealth at any time. And one day someone from my village will be the richest person in the world. That's by the way.

Now, nature made us to be strong enough to do things that astound us. We are intrinsically made with unfathomable wealth and abilities. The wealth and abilities that we cannot exhaust within the period we are to live on earth.
I know about a man called Roger Banister, a British athletes who at that time was a medical student. In the year 1954, he shattered world record in athletics. He was able to complete a mile under four minutes. A feat that was considered impossible before he did it.
What about Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountineer who in 1953 was able to reach the summit of mount everest after several attempts by others failed. And after he broke the jinx, more people have been able to climb and reach the summit of the everest successfully.
Another fellow who exhibited the existence of wealth in him was Thomas Edison. The man who persisted in inventing the incandescent lamp despite failing 9,999 times before getting the lamp correctly. There are many others who have utilised the wealth in them.
The raw or formless wealth that the people mentioned above possess are; Discipline, courage, self confidence, wisdom, well being and etc. All the above mentioned wealth in their raw or formless form were transformed into physical or material wealth for the people mentioned above. If they were not healthy (well being), disciplined, courageous, wise and etc, they won't have been able to accomplish all that they accomplished. 

All the above examples are what man's physical abilities can accomplish through the use of the wealth in them if given extra exertion.
Truly,  it was an extra exertion of the ability in them that made them to produced the extra effect. But there wouldn't have been an extra effect if the wealth do not exist already. So, extra effect was produced because there exist in the system an unexplored or an unsed wealth in a formless state.
What about man's mental or psychological abilities. I have read that man's mental abilities are so vast that an average person uses only 3% of his mental abilities within his life time.
Albert Einstein coined an equation(e=mc2) that defied every effort by the most intelligent physicists to solve. But that was not a feat beyond human capacity to unravel. For after ten good calender years of thinking and brainstorming Einstein, the genius himself was able to solve the equation. An equation that revolutionised the way scientists and technologists think.
The question is, "where did the ability to solve the equation come from? Of course,  it didn't come from any where outside the human brain which seems to be the sit of the real wealth in us. Which connotes that there exist in the brain of each and everyone of us unexploited powers or abilities which are ready to do their work  and be transformed to physical wealth if evoked.
What about the human ability to endure or bear hardship or pain or discomfort of all types?
What about the human ability to put up with or endure shame and disgrace of or all types and intensity?
What about the ability to insist on getting what you want in spite of the difficulties or the challenges that come with it. Inspite of the sacrifices that it demands. And inspite of the length of time that it requires?
The truth and nothing but the whole truth is that these abilities exist in us. And it's not that they just exist, they are action-ready waiting for us to call them up and be transformed into material wealth.
Once again, these abilities are inside of us even in excess but we never called them to action. And that's why they never worked for a lot of us.
Now, if all these raw wealth exist in everyone of us. Why is it that some people fail? People fail because of the way they are programmed.

Programming.

The majority of our problems lies with how we are programmed.
Some time ago, I took an introductory course in computer programming. In that course, we learnt how to configure or shape the computer. Not the physical structures or hard wares, by the soft wares aspect of the computer. The course is all about programming the computer. That is; giving the computer modus operandi, limits or scope of what it can or should do and what it cannot or should not do.
Originally, thecomputer has the potential to work in other ways but it won't make use of such potential powers because of the way it has been programmed. And so , it can only work in sync to the way it has been pre-programmed. It can only work according to the way it is programmed.
We human beings operate in a similar form. We perform to the extent at which we are programmed to perform.
The programming of every human starts from the day he or she was born. We are programmed by what we heard, what we saw, how we were treated and how others were treated.
All that experiences became our reality or our model of what life is all about. They become our model of how to act. Such experiences peogrammed us and dictates how we react to events. Our programming dictates how we respond to issues ranging from criticism to commendation. From success to failure. It controls how we go about pursuing our dreams.
It controls the amount of effort we put in while trying to reach our dreams and maximize the wealth in us. It controls how we percieve others. It controls how we relate to others. It controls how we view other peoples' opinions about us. It controls our resistance to discomforting situation. It controls what we do in order to overcome challenging situation.
Everything we do is controlled by how we are progeammed to do things.
Like the computer, we possess other abilities or potentials to do more than we are doing currently, but we are limited by our programming codes.
Like we saw in the examples of people who were able to achieve beyond the so called "normal" by exerting extra effort, it is also possible for you to achieve extra by exerting extra effort because ability and the abilty to exert extra effort and achieve extra exist in you. The nitty-gritty here is that there are extra abilities in you. There is an unexplored area or a fallow ground in you. You are only limited by your programming. You can do more if you change your programming codes or syntax to give room for producing the extra wealth which exist in you.

Who are you?