I read what about to tell you from Robert H. Schuller’s book, ‘Success Is Never Ending; Failure is Never Final’. They are very important questions you need to ask yourself if you want to make it to the top because that is what the risk takers and opportunity takers think about and answer. It will make you see things clearly.
Are you ready? 
Come on! Relax I’m going to tell you anyways otherwise I wouldn’t write this. 
Ok! Ok! I’ll quit playing already.
- What dreams would you be setting for yourself if you knew you could not fail?
- What goals would you have on the drawing board if you had unlimited financial resources?
- What plans would you be making if you knew you could ‘pull them off’?
- What projects would you be launching if you had the wisdom to solve any problem and the power to sweep all obstacles out of your way?
- What exciting work would you be engaged in today if you could acquire the skill to sell your ideas to powerful people?
Extract from “Robert H. Schuller’s “Success Is Never Ending: Failure Is Never Final
Chapter 3 pp.47
The answers you write down here are your true dreams you want to accomplish if there’s no such thing as failure; you had unlimited resources; you could just make it happen; there are no obstacles; sell your ideas and make it…those dreams are what you truly want. I’m sure you realize that and that’s nothing new I’m telling you but what you need to know is to close your mind to failure. See it as another means that didn’t work previously and it doesn’t matter how many times, YOU NEED TO GET BACK AT IT. Guess what? Anybody who doesn’t work hard for anything they have will lose it in the long run if they don’t work hard enough to keep it. In other words it is never by chance or by luck that people are successful. Never think that way!
You think the risk-takers and the people that make it and all the big names don’t know there’s something called failure? They do know!!! They just close their minds to ‘it won’t work’ and go ahead and make those plans and meet those people and refuse to see blockades as obstacles. It’s like, where you and I see a wall (obstacle) and can’t go through because there’s no way, they close their eyes and walk through as if there’s no wall and we sit back and look at them later and call them the big-shots. What the difference between you and them? They ignore and overlook the negative thinkers, the failure talk and believe that nothing is impossible.
What? You think your dream and plans are way over your head. Let me tell you something. The world has come from an era where people thought the world was flat, building skyscrapers was inconceivable, going out in space was fiction, walking on the moon was a fairytale, making vaccines for certain diseases couldn’t happen, producing a machine that can store, organize and reproduce information like the computer was a talk from a different planet to every idea conceive is possible on the planet earth.
Pal, day in and day out impossibilities are made possible on this very earth where people didn’t believe you could talk and at the same time see a person who lives far from you when the telephone was discovered. If there’s one thing the world has taught me all these years is never say something is impossible because you would go to bed one day and wake up the next and it has happened. That’s what the successful believe and do that we don’t and never believe. Do you want to be left out because of unbelief or doubt?
Look let’s do this together, my dream to be a bestseller in Africa (where people don’t read and producing over millions of copies of each book meaning that I have to realize the idea I have of inculcating the desire in blacks to read first) & then beyond. I have at the back of my mind that I can’t fail and I can’t see any obstacle. Are you with me? Then let’s go!
