YOUR VISION IS YOUR MOTIVATION - Empowered Vision Series - 07

Vision is the engine that keeps you going while passion is the fuel that drives you. So while passion keeps you moving (in motion), Vision keeps you steady; it keeps you together. 

You won't be wrong to say your Vision is your Drive or the spirit that moves or motivate you to take certain cause of action(s).  

Don't lose your vision, so that you don't lose your steam. Don't lose your vision so you don't lose your drive.

Often, you see people give up and become beaten by life or circumstances, the simple reason is the fact that they've lost their vision; their motivation. They’ve allowed temporary things, things substandard to their vision/destiny overwhelm them.

When you see or hear of suicide victims or those who've attempted suicide, you discover that they somewhere along the line lost their motivation for living. When people loose their hope for living they start dying.

What is Hope? Hope is expectation of what is yet to come. You don't see what you hope for physically most times but you see it as something you are expecting or anticipating; usually you see it as a Vision. You begin to envision whatever it is you are hoping for. You have a vision of that thing. 

Therefore Vision is a source of hope; it’s a source of courage; it’s the source of perseverance in the midst of difficulty. Your vision becomes a source of motivation.

Stop holding on to your past, Stop holding on to your failures, they will keep you in bondage if you dwell on them. "Tomorrow contains more joy than any yesterday u recall". Hold on to ur vision, don't give up on it; Keep believing.. We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves .

When Paul said "...I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" in Philippians 3:13-14, He was sharing his vision, his motivation with us. 

Paul kept the vision of the prize of the upward call of God and that became his drive.

Vision gives us endurance.

In the second verse of Hebrews 12, it says “Jesus for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God”. Here vision is being referred to as the joy set before Jesus. In the same verse, we are encouraged to fix our eyes on Jesus as our example.

The cross even though it was meant to make Jesus give up couldn't because Jesus had His eyes fixed on the Big Picture; His vision. 

Each time you are down, just look at your vision it will motivate you. Your vision should motivate you. There is light at the end of the tunnel for you, Don't give up on ur vision.

One other way vision provides motivation is that it gives you joy. A vision is meant to give you joy. Vision is an enzyme for motivation. When a vision enters ur heart, it releases an enzyme call JOY which serves as a catalyst for your fulfillment/success.

I remember catching a vision as a teenager in 1998 at Discovery for Men organized by Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, I went in as a boy & came out as a man. I even had to trek home that day cos of the joy released into my heart.

That's what vision does to an individual. Your Vision should propel Joy in You.

Your Vision may not look like what you desire now, don't worry your vision will give you joy, one day soon. Just hold on to your vision, don't give up. Keep believing, It will happen for you one day when you least expect.

You may be working for somebody today, don’t lose your own vision.

You may be going through hard & difficult times, fret not, the vision God gave you will still come to pass. You may be down in that valley of decision today, God will bring you out & your vision will come true.

Your vision may be way bigger than your, do not let it weigh you down, God can and He will see you through.

No one was born to be a failure. U need to have faith in the future & have faith in yourself; start living your dream.

Spend at least 10-30 minutes on your personal vision daily & see great results.

Your vision is your best raw material, the one you need to succeed in life. Your vision is one of your greatest assets in the world. When you believe in your dream/vision, it begins to attract its own resources.

My desire is to see you Achieve MORE, I believe in you & I know you will succeed.

Dear friend, there is light at the end of the tunnel for you because your vision was given to you to motivate you.

Remain blessed in Jesus name.

I appreciate your feedbacks, Thanks

Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to read my blogpost.

If you have been motivated and inspired by this post, please share with others.

(Read other post for previous editions, God bless)

David Adeleye

(Team & Performance Motivator)

EMPOWERED VISION 06 - VISION IS THE ART OF SEEING WHAT IS INVINCIBLE TO OTHERS

(THE 4TH DEFINITION OF VISION - ON THE JOURNEY OF EMPOWERED VISION)

Vision is the art of recognizing opportunities. Daniel records in Daniel 10:7  "And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves". The people around Daniel never saw what Daniel was seeing. The vision Daniel saw, made him superior to others. The people around Daniel became inferior to Daniel because of the Great Vision Daniel received.

One surest way to lead and remain different in any given stance/field is to have a superior Vision. Vision is one thing that God gives you that makes you superior. 

It is my prayer that you alone will see that vision that will make you the reference point in your sector. This year you will see what your competition and colleagues will not see.

Like Daniel, you will see/conceive the vision that will make you stand out where ever you are or where ever you go in Jesus name (Amen). Vision takes you into the future before others get there.

Vision makes you stand 'head above shoulder': Your vision can make you stand head above your mates.  

Vision helps you recognize growth & opportunities others wouldn’t see.

Anyone who has ever invented something has had the privilege of seeing what others were not seeing. They've had the benefit of doing what others haven't done; that's the power of vision.

You are one information away from your next level of success or your next breakthrough. The difference between failures and success is information - MIKE MURDOCK. 

When God said He would do much more than we could ever ask or imagine (Ephesians 3:20), i believe He was also referring to releasing the power of vision.

The Encarta Dictionary defines Invincible as:-  

1. UNBEATABLE (too strong or skillful to ever be defeated) -Your vision makes you unbeatable.

2. TOO DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME (so great or difficult as to be impossible to overcome)-Your vision makes it difficult for you to be easily overcome. Have you noticed that “men and women of vision rarely die easily?

3. DEEP ROOTED (too deep-rooted or ingrained to be altered) – when you see anyone who is into his or her vision, they are not easily manipulated or convinced to ‘chicken-out’.

Anyone given to vision stays the course/cause even when others have long given up. Vision makes you deep rooted.

I recently read a story of a female African entrepreneur producing African-crop cereals to feed African infants, her name is Marie Diongoye Konaté of Mali. Her nickname is “L'insubmersible.” The Unsinkable.

Born in Mali, this West African lioness founded her multi-million dollar baby cereal company, Protein Kissèe-La (PKL), in 1995 with only 600 Euros in capital.

She used her own money to set up her small food processing operation, which became known as “an African miracle,” because big banks wouldn’t give loans to new small businesses such as hers, and she wanted to show it was possible.

Inspired to create a nutritious infant porridge that parents could feed their infants quickly and affordably, Konaté first bought a used milling machine, and then rented a stand in a market in Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire.

Her aim was to set up a local business, using local crop inputs, to produce highly nutritious fortified infant food, affordable to the poorest of the poor.

Konaté thought it made no sense at all that in Africa “We export what we produce and import what we eat!” even though Africa has the second fastest growing population on earth, doubling in size to 1 billion in the past 27 years. It is projected that this could almost double again by 2050! (Remember, high growth means high opportunity. Young people are an important emerging market within emerging markets! Think about it).

She first asked herself the question - "why must African parents feed their infants imported infant cereal when ingredients are produced locally?"

Konaté’s vision identified both a need and an opportunity to provide local homegrown (non-imported!) infant food as answers to widespread child malnutrition problems especially when giant multinationals like Nestlé and Danone were feeding imports to Africa’s children, while local farmers were growing many of the same nutritious crops, to be fed only to animals . . .

So, she resigned her salaried job and embarked into her own business, taking on some of the largest companies on earth, who remain her fiercest market competition! In Ivory Coast, PKL moved up to second in the powdered milk market, that has Nestlé and Danone. 

Konaté has faced several challenges in the past 20 years – huge international competitors, post-election civil war, and economic turbulence, among others.

One of the biggest crises that nearly sunk PKL about 10 years ago years was toxic waste dumped by a ship, right near her baby food factory. This is may be one reason why they call Konaté unsinkable! (cue from (Strive Masiyiwa #‎AfricanLionessRoar - @StriveMasiyiwa))

Marie Diongoye Konate’s vision made her compete with the giants of agribusiness in Africa. Your own vision will bring you before kings and nations in Jesus’ Name.

Marie Diongoye Konate’s vision made her unbeatable, deep rooted and difficult to be kicked aside. 

Vision makes you relevant and immovable force in your sector/industry.

Often, it is not money that is the problem but the lack of a deep rooted vision.  The problem is not the lack of money but the absence of vision.

Vision will help you to be strong-willed, dogged. You need to believe in your vision and be strong-willed about it. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams!

This week pick up your vision and take a 2^nd look at it and ask yourself if it's worth dying or living for? Is it worth taking a risk for? Ask yourself what you can do for your vision.

If you are not convinced about your vision or if you are in doubt, I’ll suggest you go to God in prayers and ask Him to help you give clarity & better understanding to your vision so that you can go all out for your vision.

When you connect yourself to God then you connect yourself to unlimited resources.

NEVER EVER GIVE UP ON YOUR VISION BECAUSE YOUR VISION CAN MAKE YOU UNBEATABLE, YOU BECOME DIFFICULT TO BE KICKED ASIDE & DEEP-ROOTED TO BE ALTERED.

May the Lord favor you this week.

Vision makes you outstandingly different.

Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to read my blogpost. If you have been motivated and inspired by this post, please share with others.

(For More (transformational posts), visit/click www.princedpa.blogspot.com)

Motivation Channel - Achieve MORE.

David Adeleye

(Team & Performance Motivator)

EMPOWERED VISION 05 - VISION IS AN ‘EXPO’ INTO WHAT YOU ARE THAT IS INSIDE OF YOU THAT IS YET TO COME INTO REALITY.

Mike Murdock says "What you love is a clue to something you contain" and I dare say, what you contain (inside of you) is a clue your vision. The things that are inside of you are pointers to whom you are; or whom you ought to be; the vision of you.  

“You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.” ― Myles Munroe, Understanding Your Potential

If God were to give you a slight peep into who you really are, you will be stunned with amazement and you won't be able to sleep, i can guarantee. 

Most times there is the need to see & know the vision of who we truly are, in other words, to see your real self. Vision is the ability to see your real self. 

When God created you He put a vision in you and thats who you truly are and not the faz (whim) or false life you are made to see on the outside.

You must have heard of this statement of fact "while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:18). So, Vision is an ‘expo’ into what you are that is inside of you that is yet to come into reality or manifestation. It is in seeing those things that are deep / eternal inside of you, that you discover your vision.

“People think that their dream is outside of them. So they go looking for prophets – wanting somebody to prophesy to them". 

God hid your future in a place where He knew you couldn’t miss it. He hid it within you.

Vision is the insight into what God has in plan for you. In Jeremiah 29:11, God reveals his mind towards us "For I know the plans that I have for you, (declares the Lord) plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. God has given you a future, a plan for your life and that's your vision. The vision of you. 

Vision really is God exposing the true potentials of your life to you in the midst of your present situation/conditions.

In Judges 6:12, the Angel called Gideon "A Mighty Man Of Valour (mighty warrior)" but gideon thought otherwise, he was dazed with amazement in contradictions to what the angel said even though it became obvious that the angel was addressing whom Gideon really was.

In a similar account (in Luke 1:26-30), The Angel Gabriel hailed Mary (the mother of Jesus) as "The Favored One", but Mary was greatly troubled at his statement, and kept pondering what kind of salutation that was.  

The truth is that God always sees us in the vision He created us.

When we catch and run with the vision of our lives, we will become unstoppable.

You have being created to do more. Vision here is an eye-opener

I will love to end with a story and this quote from Oprah Winfrey (paraphrased) "THERE IS A VISION FOR YOUR LIFE THAT IS GREATER THAN YOUR IMAGINATION"

A beggar once approached a little boy who was an artist to make a painting of him. The little boy agreed and went on to paint the beggar but never reflected the beggar's present conditions or appearance. The little artist painted the (same) beggar on a corporate suit, designer white shirt, with a pair of gucci glasses, Bruno Magli shoes, a versace embossed leather belt & versace genuine leather watch. The man in the painting had his hair neatly cut and kept with 'wet lips' along his neatly arranged eye brow. The beggar stood speechless for minutes in awe (wonder) at the vision the little artist-boy had of him.

May God reveal to you the true vision of who you are. 

(Thanks for taking time out of of your busy schedule to read this)

Motivation Channel - Achieve MORE.                                              
David Adeleye -
(Team & Performance Motivator)

EMPOWERED VISION 03 - VISION IS THE MENTAL PICTURE OF TOMORROW!

Do you have in your mind a clear picture of what your tomorrow is? Your vision must be clear as crystal not vague. A vague vision is not a good one; there are times where a vision may not be totally clear but it gradually unfolds. This is called a vision in process (many of us are in that state). Two things worthy of note is that Vision is not static & that vision is mentally visible (first & always), conceivable, (vision can be visualized).                                         

Do you have a clear cut picture of your vision? When you have clear cut vision in life/business, you have taking the first step out or away from obscurity/insignificance. It's when you've settled in clear terms what your vision is that you can then commit to paper, having a real genuine & meaningful Vision Statement.    

EMPOWERED VISION 02 - MYTHS ABOUT VISION

The future belongs to those who 

believe in the beauty of their dreams.

 ~Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the greatest problem of humanity; If not the greatest, is the problem of discovery; the problem of visioning! "For it is the glory of the Almighty God to hide the secret (the deep or uncommon) things of this world but it is the glory and honor of kings to find it (search it out). Proverbs 25:2

Finding vision in life is an assignment given to all.

MYTHS ABOUT VISION

1. Vision is Vision Statement: - Many have limited vision to just the writing down of vision statement(s). Vision is not just the writing of your vision statement or a set of visions on Paper but clear cut knowing & understanding of what you are to do and protecting it with your Life. Little wonder, many visions end on paper.
2.  (Quid crastina volveret ætas, Scire nefas homini.) Man is not allowed to know what will happen to-morrow: - The future is a world limited by ourselves. God has given us the ability & capacity to envision tomorrow (what is to come); we are only limited in our thinking/mind).
3.  (Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius). The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable: - there is nothing wrong about seeking the vision/future of anything because  If only our eyes can see beyond our today, then we won't suffer from impaired vision or being miserable. We won't sacrifice/destroy tomorrow today. The mind that cares about tomorrow, will not mortgage the future for things that expires now.
4. Man remains in the end what he started as in the beginning: - Vision changes any man's life except and unless you are unwilling to do something about your tomorrow today. Vision gives one's life a new meaning just as it did mine. God gave Abraham a new vision changing his life from Abram to Abraham. Abraham died at a ripe old age, an old man satisfied with life.

(Thanks for taking time out of of your busy schedule to read this)
Motivation Channel - Achieve MORE.                                              
David Adeleye -
(Team & Performance Motivator)

EMPOWERED VISION 04 - VISION IS THE INSIGHT INTO WHAT IS NOT IN EXISTENCE

“I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision,”  “Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart. When a person doesn’t have a vision, they live by their eyes. That means we live by what we see. That’s one of the reasons why people are so depressed, and that’s why the future never becomes a reality". 
Dr. Munroe says.

Vision is the art of Conceiving ideas that are yet to exist.  Alan Kay says "The best way to predict the future is to invent it". I quite agree with Alan and i'll like to add that one of the greatest way to invent the future is to have a vision. There is nothing wrong if the things you see in your dreams or vision don't exist now, God is just revealing to you things that will make you or your business outstanding. You are conceiving in your vision the future. It is a good thing to be in the future long before others. Imagine if you are already living in the future of that business sector that you are involved in, imagine how relevant & sought after you will become. 

The owner of microsoft once said, their vision was to always be ahead of their customers, so that when their "customers wake up", microsoft will be there (waiting). You can have a vision that keeps you ahead of the pack; ahead of your industry, ahead of your customers, etc.

Vision gives you the edge in your field; vision gives you insight into what is not in existence. God gives us ideas,  He gives us ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ – these are the things God has prepared for those who love him (according to 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9) – Some ideas that God gives you in the night, don't discard them. No matter how unimaginable they seem or how big they are, don't discard them. It may not make meaning now but tomorrow it will make sense. it may be the very idea that you need for your business success or for the success of your future, please don't discard it.

According to Barack Obama, We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. Vision helps us to shape the future. Vision takes us into the future before we get there.

In closing, in  Daniel chapter 12, it was reveal to Daniel the things that will happen in the world long after Daniel had long died; the account also records in Daniel 12;4 "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased".

Has knowledge truly increased today or not? This is what Vision can do - it is the power of seeing what is not yet in existence.

(Thanks for taking time out of of your busy schedule to read this)
Motivation Channel - Achieve MORE.                                                
David Adeleye -
(Team & Performance Motivator)