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The Seed within the Seed   “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after it kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after it kind.” Engrained in every good seed is the potential to become a fruit. And this potential to finally become is fuelled by persistency. That is, as long as a good seed persist on the ground on which it was planted, absorbing moisture, heat, and other agronomic elements it will eventually sprout. In other words, persistency is highly germane to the fruition of a vision. It is the seed within the vision; and its importance is inexhaustible. Persistency is the kernel for growth; the fifth essence, so to speak, to every vision. Also, it tells how tough, rigid and resolved the visionary is at building his or her vision from the crust of mediocrity. Knute Rockne captures it this way when he remarked, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” You should see my amazement when I discovered that Napoleon Hill devoted an e...

  The Full Corn in the Ear Years ago, so the story goes, a Jewish philosopher was trudging along the rock-strewn terrain of the country side; laden with severe accusations about his vision, and about to be killed. Surrounded by a mammoth crowd of cheerers and wailers, he exercised not many seconds to say a few words to both groups of onlookers. Fixing his eyes on them, he said: “Weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.” The philosopher saw afar-off, the light at the end of the tunnel, the reward of the course he borne while the environment was in frenzy and tumult. He did not allow his detractors to distract him from his resolve to actualize his vision. When your vision begins to take shape and form it will attract unsolicited cheerers and wailers, or rather sympathizers. However, of these two groups of people, the sympathizers are the most lethal to the success of your vision. Sympathy is contagious. And often times destructive to the pursuit of a...

         Valued Function Peter Drucker in his book, “Management Challenges for the 21st Century,” said: “Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong. People know what they are not good at more often... and even there people are more often wrong than right. And yet, one can only perform with one’s strength. One cannot build performance on weaknesses, let alone on something one cannot do at all.” Put slightly differently, you should expend energy at a place where you have the greatest effect. More often than not, the vision of most visionaries are driven either by contribution, that is, to give back to the society; influence, that is, the political leverage to effect the much needed change in the social order; or profit, that is, to get return on capital investment. Whichever motivation drives you, as a visionary, it is necessary to balance energy to effect ratio, E2E r , in order to valuate and/or appraise your contribution. The ...

  Eagle’s Perspective The eagle is renowned for its excellent eye sight estimated to be four to eight times stronger than that of the average human. An eagle can easily spot its prey from an altitude of 3.2km. The eye of an eagle provides it with a vision unparalleled by that of other birds of the air; which makes it a formidable predator in the animal kingdom. The great inventor, Thomas Edison said: “From his neck down, a man is worth a couple of dollars a day; from his neck up, he is worth anything his brain can invent.” Put slightly differently, your vision makes you travel ahead of time psychologically. Your mental images are perpetuated with glimpses of the future of your vision. Like the eagle that can both soar and spot its prey from over 3.2km away, your vision positions you mentally ahead of others. You can see the goal ahead with a curve view without disturbing too many who stand in the light. Having an eagle’s perspective stimulates your mentality to think o...

                     In 1865 the French novelist Jules Verne published a book on classical geography, De la Terre à la Lune “From the Earth to the Moon.” Verne described how the Baltimore Gun Club a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts proposed to launch three of her members including the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival and a French poet in a bullet shaped contraption into deep space with the aim of a moon landing. The Gun Club saw the Moon as a bull’s eye and their contraption as a bullet with which to hit the bull’s eye. Scientists in the West, inspired by Verne’s novel, began researching and developing the science on Moon landing. These events amongst other things led to space research program and stirred up Apollo 11 crew members who made history on July 20th, 1969. Among them was Neil Armstrong who on approaching the Moon surface said, “One small step for a man, one giant...