Why You should Stop Praying And What To Do Instead To Change Your Life

I’m not sure of any other place but one of the most profitable niche you can build a business around in this part of the world, Nigeria, is offering to help people with prayer or in a spiritual way.  I bet you whatever religion you belong, if you know how to run it, you will make huge amount of money for a long time to come. For me, I won’t go into that kind of business for reasons you will discover in this article

NOTE: This article was first written for year 2014 when I first launched my website. But it’s still as very relevant as it was then and it will be for a long time time to come except you take it to another planet.

Before this post, I first wrote a newsletter to my subscribers where I advised them never to repeat the same mistake of previous years in the coming one and forever

At the end of the letter, I promised to go deeper on a later date on how to avoid that mistake but after that I was busy with business activities and preparation for the big projects ahead. Here today I will love to fulfill that promise as my first blog post since I built this website.

An important DISCLAIMER before we continue, I believe in God and I believe in prayers. If that is true, why on earth should I tell you to stop praying?

Okay, stay with me. Here are my big questions for you:

What is your prayer for the coming year or next one year?

On the other hand, what is your resolution for the next one year?

What is the top one thing that if you achieve on or before 31^st December of next year, you will be the happiest person on earth?

Please get a pen and a paper and write the answers down…

I’m serious, trust me and do that right now…

 

I’m waiting……..

 

 

 

Are you through?

If you have not done that please do before you continue. Just trust me I want to make you a big deal….

So do it now.

If you have done that,  great!

Let’s get going….

I don’t know who you are or what you are passing through now. If you can read this, something is telling me you are blessed than most people outside there. And I can say something about what you want. I know whatever you want is something better than whatever you see yourself having now. So I want to give some great insights that can make you have and experience better and better things for major part of your life.

Most of us like and love to have miracles happen in our lives. Most especially when we found ourselves in challenging situations, like when we are confused in darkness without any hope for light or its source. We resolve to prayer. We pray fervently day and night. We may even beg and pay people to do same for us. We call God in all ways we know and we do all sort of things to change things for the better. If our source of frustration is loneliness we feel like seeing somebody instantly from nowhere to shower us with love and feelings of belonging…

If things fail to change for the better we tend to become miserable and attach everything to God or evil beings. Is it that God don’t answer prayers?  I’m very sure He does and that He makes miracles happen?

I’m an amateur in Quran and Bible. But do you remember the event when Pharaoh and his armies were pursuing Moses and his people? Moses hit the sea with his stick and the sea made way for them until they reached the other end when the way was closed on Pharaoh and his armies after Moses hit the sea again with his stick.

That was a miracle. Isn’t it?

But what most people overlook about this miraculous event was that Moses had to hit the sea with his stick. What of if he didn’t hit the sea with the stick but just waited at the bank of the sea?

Here’s the moral. You’ve got a role to play than prayer in whatever situation you find yourself. Prayer is very important, in fact I pray every day. The fact is Miracle, whatever way you see it, Success, unexpected assistance, ….. is not instantaneous. It occurs as a result of series of action, decisions, choices…. you make daily.

Personally, I don’t attach any importance to 1^st of January like most people do. My believe is that, it’s like any other day.

In business and corporate world, the year doesn’t end on 31^st December or start on 1^st of January. Each organization has its own annual date. You can make resolution on any day or month of the year. What’s important is which type of resolution you make and what you do afterwards to make it come to reality.  I decided to write this blog post as a result of insanity I see around.

Remember,   I quoted Albert Einsten being credited to a statement in my Newsletter:  “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”

The day I first drafted this post, I had down time on my server which delayed the time of writing it. As at the time I was typing, all my neighbours were not at home. Some have gone to church while some have gone to mosque all with intention to receive miracles in the coming year.

Get me right, I’m not telling you not to call on God for help. It’s very important. I do so myself but I want you to think beyond prayer. And here is what you should do.

Take Control which means…

Engineer or hack your miracles.

What do I mean?

Hit the sea with your stick.

Do the work:

Think, plan, execute, reflect, correct and perfect.

If you can do that, you too can hack your way to what people may see as instantaneous miracles. The work is what we don’t want to do that makes us run after miracles. These days, you see lots of advert in all media calling people to come for spiritual solutions to problems like better jobs, increased sales, soaring of business…. These advertisers are making huge money that is the reason you continue to see the adverts.

Without advert, people who know I’m a little bit religious have contacted me many times offering to pay me if I could help them with prayers or in a spiritual way for their betterment. That’s a validation for potential business but I won’t go into it so I rejected their offers..

The brutal fact is that you can’t buy miracles, you work your way to it.

Now let’s get to Take Control and do the work …

You don’t just do the work, you do it for a reason. And the reason for most work is always for the better.

I know if you make a resolution it’s for the better. Also, if you can make a resolution, I assume you know what you want.

If you wrote down the answers to the questions earlier in this post, let’s dive in right away and plan a better way you can do the work to start living the better life you dream.

The greatest source of energy comes from past not really what you want. Before we work on those answers, let’s start by looking backward to answer another question. And here the question:

What’s it that you have achieved in your life that you’re really grateful for?

No matter your situation, there’s always a lot that you need to be grateful for.

The first work is to show gratitude for what you are and believe in yourself.

Showing gratitude and believing in yourself no matter what show that you believe in the work of God because you’re a work of God.

Your next step after gratitude and believe in yourself you can do the impossible is to set a specific goal. A goal that clearly describe or show a clear picture of what you want. You should be able to pull this out from the answers you wrote down earlier.

If you find it difficult to come up with a specific goal, let me help you out with some tips about setting goals and doing the work.

1. Choose a specific period

Here we are setting a goal for a period of one year.

What do you want to achieve in your business, career or whatever you want for the next one year?

To be specific, let’s take financial goal for instance: How much profit do you want to make at the end of the year?

2. Choose a goal out of your comfort  Zone

How do you know a goal is out of your comfort zone?

It will scare you…

You will be uncertain about how you’re going to achieve it.

You will feel inadequate of resources to achieve it.

And you will doubt it’s possibility due to fear..

When these happen you are out of your comfort zone. All big successes and achievements happen when you are out of the comfort zone.  You’ve got to put yourself their and THINK BIG.

Once you’ve done that, the next thing is to…

3. Write it down

Your Goal is important, but the journey to your goal is even more important. Success is much simpler when you enjoy the process. Remember, your major reason for setting the goal or making the resolution is for the better.

You don’t need to continue thinking about your big goal until you are carried away from doing the work and you don’t need to sacrifice your present happiness in doing the work. All you need is to passionately and smartly do the work. And that leads to the next tip

4. Break it down

Break your goal into pieces and focus on doing the pieces.  I feel like going deep on this but I don’t think I can do that in just one blog post.

Let me give an illustration, let say your goal for your business is to bring in a profit of N20 million Naira in the next one year. Here is how you can break it down:

Ask yourself this question: what must happen before you make a profit of 20 million Naira?

Answer: You must sell products or services that generate that profit.

Another step is to determine the number of product and services that generates that profit.

Once you do that, you determine how many you should sell monthly, weekly, daily.

The next step is to determine the activities, you will need to carry out each day and commit that activity.

Note: This is not peculiar to money or financial activities alone, you can use it for any goal you want. The aim is to not overwhelm yourself with the future. Remember, a year is made up of individual days and no success is instantaneous.

Another important tip for achieving your goals is…

5. Leverage on your strength

For instance, to make a profit of 20 million Naira, you may not need to start a new business or find/create new product if you already have some products or services that you’re selling. All you need to do is to check your products and services and determine what’s working and what is not working. See if you can improve the one that is not working well in the market and make it work better. If not, drop it. The whole essence is to concentrate your efforts on what is working to get your result easier and faster.

Also, observe your daily activities to see what is giving you the best result and do more of that

The last tip I’m going to give you about how to make your next one year your best year ever is…

 6. Block out your time

Once you determine the activities you need to carry out to achieve your goal, schedule when you are going to be doing it and make sure you stick to it. Say no to other activities at that period.

Most people won’t do this kind of work, that’s why they look for miracles here and there and that’s why most don’t get what they want. If you will do this,  call for God’s help, get to work and you will be ahead of most people who are looking for the miracles.

Remember God blessed you with the mind, brain, hands, legs and lots of other things not just for fun but to make a contribution.  What are you contributing? Are you adding positive values or you’re just looking for ways to enrich yourself.

Let me hear your view in the comment box below.