FROM ONE OF MY BOOKS COMES THIS ONE...

144 GOLDEN NUGGETS OF VISION EMPOWERMENT

INTRODUCTION
An Italian proverb says, “It is not enough to aim. You must hit.” It is very crucial to know what you are aiming at in order for you to be able to hit your target. Meanwhile, the main crux of the issue is: What are you aiming at in life? What if someone does not have a well-structured goal or better still a pursuable vision, definitely such an individual will have nothing to aim at not to mention a targeted hit. Someone once said, if you don’t have a destination in mind any road will do.
In life, your upward ascension is restricted in the place of darkness, for the ability to progress strongly depends on how much you can see ahead at any point in time. It is in line with this that our Creator commanded that we must have a well-conceived vision of what we are created for or else there will absolutely be nothing to aim at not to talk of hitting a predetermined target. As humans we are driven by what we know. For, having a goal in mind and knowing how to achieve it provides you with the power to hit your envisioned target.

You have to understand that one of many selective tools to employ in hitting your targets is in the words that you speak, which provides you with one of the most effective weapons required in achieving your target. For in life, we live by the words we speak, therefore we are products of the words of our mouth. So, it is of utmost importance that we are meticulously selective of the right words to speak at any point in time, because this virtue can ultimately set us in line of greatness. It is with this perspective and understanding that "144 GOLDEN NUGGETS OF VISION EMPOWERMENT" was conceived in order to furnish us with the essential materials needed to guide us towards the attainment of our predestined vision, for every incisive quotations therein provides a more expansive understanding of the whole essence of our Creation.

-COLIN B. ADEPOJU

PART ONE
“The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do… to find the idea for which I can live and die.”
-SOREN KIERKEGAARD

“Where is no vision the people perish.”
Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

CHAPTER 1
The first foundational principle of the 144 Golden Nuggets of Vision Empowerment is the place of Vision.

IDENTIFYING WHO YOU ARE ON PLANET EARTH
1.) The first lesson in life is to discover ''YOU."

HE IS OUR CREATOR, YOU MUST BE A CREATOR
2.) You cannot be anything different from the one that created you.

THE FOUNDATIONAL STRUCTURE
3.) In order to achieve the success of our intended vision, we have to carefully examine the full foundational structure needed for that vision, for "To everything there is a foundation."

PLACE OF VISION
4.) The place where you conceived your vision will definitely influence the outcome of it.

REJECTION GIVES DIRECTION
5.) Sometime in our lives, we have to understand that elevation comes after isolation.

PARENTS ROLE IN IDENTIFYING VISION
6.) We always want to eliminate what we cannot categorize.

IN THE PLACE OF NEED
7.) Some people are moved by the needs of other people while some are moved by their own personal need.

IN THE PLACE OF DISABILITIES
8.) Helen Adams Keller’s vision was birthed in the place of disability, we must learn to turn our disabilities to abilities, weaknesses to strengths, failures to successes and impossibilities to possibilities.

IN THE PLACE PASSION
9.) To succeed in life, you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality. (Anita Roddicks)

IN THE PLACE OF CIRCUMSTANCES
10.) Your struggles in life are tailor-made to the vision you are created for.

YOUR PLACE OF VISION IS YOUR PLACE OF POWER
11.) If you are confused on what next to do, the place you conceived your vision is the path to follow.

ONE MAN, ONE VISION AND THE MULTIPLYING RIPPLE EFFECTS
12.) Remember, it is not about you but the people whose lives are to be positively influenced by your vision.

An extract from my book: "144 Golden Nuggets Of Vision Empowerment"

By Colin B. Adepoju