The Power of Clarity

Two things can keep you awake, your dream or your disappointment, your past or your future.

The past is dead except the life you give to it...don't let the occurrence of the past suck the energy you need to pursue and capture the future.

Clarity (exactly what you should be doing next) strengthens focus. Focus determines where your energy goes.

Before you focus, labour to get clarity, because you can be radically focused on the wrong thing. The purpose of knowledge is to enhance clarity. The purpose of wisdom is to diminish your error rate, prevent tragedy and maximize time (life).

Lack of clarity creates confusion and frustration, the outcome is usually not the desirable and thus could lead to perpetual depression.

The most important thing you should pursue per time is clarity. Any book, seminar or event that would not help sharpen clarity should not get your attention.

The truth is, nobody is idle; everybody is busy, only that many are busy with wrong things. Lack of clarity increases fear of the future and the presence of it creates confidence which makes today's pain more meaningful and bearable.

You also need to know that, there's is a big difference between suffering and preparation...one is the pain of folly and the other is the necessity of the process required to get the desired results.

You must resolve not to succeed at the wrong thing...a man that lacks clarity cannot lead the family. It's the same for organizations and operations at all levels.

Lack of clarity can be very tormenting. It's so hard to discern, it can be covered under nice suit, subdued by sweet smelling perfume and perfected by a good British English delivered using a captivating accent.

A young guy attended one of my free mentorship sessions recently and I asked him how he was doing with studies generally, he said sir, I'm done with service, I was shocked cos he didn't look like it.

I asked what's next, and he goes mumbling, like, I'm still trying to figure out what I need to do. I asked, so what were you doing for five years in school with all the time, energy and resources invested?

That could be a very frustrating stage for an average youth today, where you need to transition from school (fantasy) life to reality and you suddenly realize that what you read (were given and taught) do not fit into the market (today's reality) or is a substandard of the global standard.

I had two hours session with him and we designed a startup strategy to move from where he is to the next level. Many people wasted their time (life) in schools studying the wrong course, pursuing the wrong business only to find that what they went for shouldn't have been done in the first place.

A great number of young people today don't know the exact thing to do due to lack of clarity, many don't know their purpose and who they are, and so we have a chunk of confused yet energetic and gifted people moving to and fro.

One thing I listen for when I get into conversation with people is clarity and the absence of it. Money does not give clarity, rather clarity helps create direction for money.

When clarity is missing, focus is impaired, strategy is wrong, energy is drained, productivity is low, time (life) is wasted and the outcome is unlikely to be fulfilling (heartily rewarding) and that's the beginning of self-doubt and acute frustration.

I've listened to many people who says the secret of success is consistency, patience and all sort, while these are disciplines and habits to imbibe, however, we must go back to the root which is clarity.

What do you say to the person who is consistently consistent doing the wrong thing or he that is caught up in the web of patience waiting for the wrong things or what is never going to come?

How clear is your future? How far can you see? Do you have what a mentor of mine calls mental shortsightedness? Your future is as sure as your clarity of it and by your well crafted strategy to get there. Inability to see the ultimate (the future) makes people slaves to the immediate (present).

I don't want to waste a minute of my life doing the wrong thing, that would be growing old, groaning old and wasting to the grave. Investment towards gaining clarity is crucial. A blind man cannot help the blind.

Don't start anything without clarity, don't start a relationship, don't start the ministry, don't start the business, don't relocate, don't invest...do nothing without clarity. Many people seek clarity after they've been hurt or suffered a major loss.

Your prayers and pursuit of God should be to gain clarity of exactly what you should be doing and where you should be doing it and how you should be doing it.

Stop buying clothes, stop buying sun screen, stop buying new shoes without clarity of the future, prioritize clarity...travel to find it, invest to have it and be patient enough to get it.

Your next birthday should be a celebration of clarity (direction of what to do next).
The devil is not after your genius or energy, once he gets you to focus on the wrong things the deal is done.

Through vision you picture the future, faith empowers you to attract the needed ingredients, wisdom (right strategy mixed with diligence) helps you deliver the future.

In other words, faith stirs optimism, favor moves in the direction of faith and wisdom helps protect the door favor opens.

Wisdom is principal because it helps protect what faith delivers. Folly can make you lose what faith delivers.

Faith can initiate a miracle but you need wisdom to live in and reproduce it. What now happens when you begin to use your faith to attract wrong things?

And also remember, that faith can only attract what you can see. The clearer you see, the stronger your faith. Faith is weak where clarity is missing.

Stop trying to be who you are not, the world is waiting to meet you. Boldness to advance will never surface without clarity.

Don't be afraid or ashamed to quit what's not working if you're convinced it's not for you. It's a journey of discovery and you owe it to yourself to live your full potentials.

You are not weak. You are not dull. You are not poor. You may only need some clarity coaching to find it. Clarity increases your capacity to face opposition and endure tough times gracefully.

Don't endure the pain of folly, it has no enviable reward, only pity therapy by the few who cares. stop digging for diamonds in wrong zones. You can start again and now! You're not a slave, it's time, locate your palace and reign. GO!!!


©Mike Oladipo