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Thursday, August 4, 2016

7 things we need for optimum performance


 


 Potential generally refers to a currently unrealized ability. Potential is latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and could lead to future success or usefulness. We all have hidden gifts and talents that sometime are only brought to the fore under pressure. In other times we need guidance to bring out the best of gifts and talents in us. Look at yourself closely and ask people who are sincere to you what potential they see in you. You would be surprised at what they tell you.
Purpose is a person's sense of resolve or determination. The reason for which something is done or created or the very reason for which something exists. Everyone has a purpose for his very existence. If we can find that purpose it would help us pursue our goals in a highly effective manner. Purpose is a driver. Purpose spurs us forward and enables us to conquer new realms. Work hard at discovering your purpose and you will go places.

Passion is a very strong feeling about a person or thing. Passion is an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire for something. Passion is a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something. : Passion is also a strong feeling (such as anger) that can cause us to act in a dangerous or undesirable way. We ought to channel our passion towards positive things. You need passion to succeed at what you want to do. If you are not passionate about it, on a bad day you might lose faith and give up.
Prayer is solemn requests for help or expression of thanks addressed to God. Praying helps us to focus on our goals and commit them unto God so he can help us achieve them. Sometimes  the tasks we undertake are unbearable and when that happens faith that our God is backing us in our positive endeavours helps push us forward. Frequent prayer is a powerful tool for those people striving to higher heights.  
Plans are documents that are meant to take us from where we are to where we want to be. Everyone should work from a plan and have a strategic plan for everything in life, so that there can be a reference and we can keep going to back to the document when ever we get stuck or alter it when it is no longer realistic. Plans ought to be flexible, and short as well as long term. Short term plans marked with mile stones enable us to plot our progress and do frequent evaluation to make sure that we are on the right path.
People  are important to our very existence. No man is an Island. No body can succeed alone that is why it’s strange when we hear people refer to others as “Self made men”, there are no such beings. Everyone was helped by someone at one time or the other. So it’s important for us to let people who will advance our plans into our lives so as to help us. If we are hiring people for a cause or a business its good to hire experts and people who are smarter or more brilliant than us. Anyone who is afraid to work with people smarter than them will find it difficult to succeed in life.
Patience is a virtue. Everything we desire will not come to our side immediately. Sometimes we have to wait. We have to wait for certain things that are beyond our control to take place or be revealed to us. Sometimes we have done all we know how to do and we need time to consolidate our activity. Time is an asset and it is the only resource that all human beings are given in equal measure on a daily basis. We all have 24 hours. The real question is what do we do with these hours? Using our time constructively is a challenge to every living person. Let us not get carried away with distractions of life. Life is too short to waste on insignificant things. This does not mean that we cannot relax or have fun. But lets make sure that we try to accomplish all that is to be done. 

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