SECRET HANDBOOK OF CHAMPIONS. Day 1

Chapter one: SET IMPOSSIBLE GOALS AND STRIVE TO ACHIEVE THEM. 
Dream Big!!!!!  In whatever you do in life, never stop dreaming. 
Set goals that might look impossible to achieve at the present dispensation and strive to achieve. 
Work towards achieving your dreams, let your mind set be on that dream. 
       “Every dream you achieve today qualifies You for 
       a yet bigger dream”- David Adejumo
Set short term, medium term and long term goals and dream towards achieving them because every dream works with timing. We all know Leicester City a recently promoted team to the top flight of the English Premiere League, they had an initial goal of sealing their place in the top flight, and when that was achieved, they now set a more bigger goal of finishing in the top 4 and when top 4 was sure for them, they now set their eyes on the trophy and they worked towards it. In all this, they had an initial dream of winning the league and they achieved it. Their victory and success was like a fairy tale to the whole world. 
If you achieve a dream, whether long term or short term, set another goal and move on, strive to achieve it. 
     “The achievement of one goal should be the starting 
      Point of another” – Alexander Graham Bell
Dr Martin Luther King's famous “I have a dream” speech was a dream He had for the future, a passion he carried in him and today that dream is a reality. 
    A Nigerian proverb says:
“Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of 
Our Being”
A man without a dream or goal is like a dead man. If your purpose of waking up or living Life is not yet known, then go back to sleep. A man without a dream or goal is not better off than a dead person, A walking dead, a confused Being with no sense of reality. 
D. Elder says;
“Dreamers look into the future and see promise. 
Those who do not dream only see the future”
Dream Big!!!!!  Let your dream look bigger than who you are presently or what you are capable of achieving. 
Let your dreams and goals look impossible so that you will do the impossible to achieve them. 
“Never underestimate your dreams, instead overestimate them because every dream is a prediction into the future for all those 
Who care to believe and work towards them”- David Adejumo
Be a champion and dream big, never stop dreaming because it is  a top secret of champions. 
Dreaming is the process of creating a positive mental picture of how the future will be. Create a positive mental picture today, dream big and be a champion.  

THE UNCELEBRATED HEROES

A Hero is someone who has achieved a great feat, who is celebrated and appreciated for His/ Her effort in doing something good in the society, someone who has done something that is worth remembering. Heroes are seen as important people who many look up to and are inspired by the great feat they have or had achieved.
We all consider different category of people as our heroes, many consider Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Architects, Politicians, Activists, Soldiers, Accountants, Sport Personalities and even musician as Heroes.
  We see these people as our heroes who did little or nothing to make us who we are or who we will become, they only make efforts for their own personal and economic gains and for their own development and yet we still look up to them as heroes. But there are some exceptions, men like Martin Luther, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi of India, the heroes of Nigeria’s nationality were heroes indeed and even some Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Scientists, e.t. c were also heroes who did something for the good of mankind.
We often despise who the real heroes are: those who have been a part of our lives for about 20 or more years teaching, nurturing and impacting knowledge in Us, they have gone beyond all doubts and planted good seeds in us . Just like the old Guinea proverb which says: “knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it. Cannot be harvested “
These uncelebrated heroes have been forgotten and despised by who they have developed and nurtured, they are not considered as anything. Many of us easily forget our roots and we forget that our teachers are part of the root in our lives, when we were dull, they encouraged and taught us, they stood for hours daily teaching, influencing and ensuring a bright future for us and yet we count them us nothing. Knowledge is power indeed because he who has knowledge is a valuable asset that cannot be easily disposed. I even love this great African Proverb which says;
           “True teaching is not accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of      consciousness”
Many of our Teachers have reawaken our minds and reminded us of who we truly are, they have unleashed the potentials in us, of course knowledge is better than riches, he who has knowledge, has authority.
How successful you are in life depends on the foundation laid for you by your teacher, good teachers are hard to come by, so appreciate your teachers for where you are today and the knowledge they imparted in you.
Having a future ambition of becoming a teacher nowadays is seen as a waste of money and time, many perceive teachers to be third class or average citizens but they might not be wealthy physical but they have the greatest asset that most of us don’t have, which is knowledge even our holy book commanded us that knowledge is the principal thing, therefore in all our gettings, get knowledge. This is why they have the most  priceless and most valuable asset on Earth.
I strongly believe that Teachers are the real heroes, because a hero is someone who helps others to rise, who sacrifices for others, who influences and inspires, who helps to win and who help others rise to greatness, Teachers are the True uncelebrated heroes indeed, they are a gift to humanity.

THE PAINS OF LEADERSHIP

• Leadership is not an easy task, many people perceive leaders to be those who are privilege and above others. But that is just a myopic view of leadership. Leaders go through rigorous pains, sacrifices, discipline and hardwork just to please those they serve. But yet they are not appreciated we quickly find faults in their slightest mistakes to criticise and insult them. Someone once said that "leadership is hardwork". A lazy person can never be a leader. Leaders experience pains and sacrifice alot. 
• Leaders are lonely people
• Many decisions are left to them when it comes to certain things and situations
• Leaders have no one to help them when they encounter difficult situations, but they are obliged to help their followers when they need help
• They have no one to share their problems with. Sharing their problems makes people perceive them as weak. 
• Leaders cannot voice out their fears openly. After all, a Leader is meant to allay the fears of His followers and not to express His own fears. Many followers think that their leaders are fearless, but any honest leader will tell you about real things that ravage his mind on a daily basis. 
• A Leader barely has time to rest. 
• A leader is rarely seen or heard because he is always in search of solutions and new ideas
• A leader often bears the responsibilities for any defeat, failure, delay and setbacks. But when there is victory everybody is credited. 
• When people sleep for 8 hours, a leader rarely has a good night sleep. Because it is in the night that every successful battle is fought and won. 
• A leader rarely has time for his personal affairs as he is more concerned about dispensing his official duty. 
• A Leader always puts in the extra effort, he has to be one step ahead. 
• Leaders are very often prone to stress related illness
• Leaders are most of the time set apart from the crowd, when the crowd is going right, a leader is compelled to go left. A leader rarely has time to hang out or socialize
• A leader carries his cross alone and pay for the sins and mistakes of his follower. 
• Leader goes through the burden of self discipline, it takes discipline to sleep very late and wake up very early. 
• Leaders are easy target for the enemies. They are easily exposed to danger. 

Leaders are sometimes forced to take some hard, difficult but necessary decisions which hurts many people. 
The next time You see a Leader, appreciate him/her and support them any way possible, pray for them. Because it is not easy been a leader. Put Yourself in the shoes ofaleader and You will forever appreciate their effort.