The 7 Triggers Of Authentic Greatness

Passion For Purpose

One common trait with all the people modeling success is that they are all passionate about their purpose. It is this passion that gets them out of bed in the morning before the alarm sounds. It is this same passion for purpose that keeps them up late at night working when the rest of the world is asleep. In order for you to begin living a lifestyle of success, you must get to the point of realizing your purpose and getting passionate about pursuing it. Passion purpose births determination, consistency and a natural fierceness within you that never takes no for an answer and never views failure as final. While travelling on the road to greatness, passion for purpose is your best friend.

Belief

It has been said time and again that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he. Your personal belief system determines who you are and what you achieve in life. Belief in the God that created you with a purpose and with gifts and abilities to accomplish that purpose is the fuel that keeps your passion for purpose alive. Authentic greatness is modeled by men and women who strive to be all that God created to be. It is an amazing fact of life that the people who believe they can accomplish something end up accomplishing it and those who believe they cannot accomplish something don’t acc

omplish it. In simpler terms, what you believe becomes your life. Forming a belief system that sees possibilities gives you the audacity to attempt the impossible and success becomes your lifestyle.

Strategic Planning

If belief fuels your passion for purpose, strategic planning powers belief. Strategic planning means that you put all the resources you have together and managing them in order to live out your purpose every given day. To me, this is success. Talents, gifts and abilities also fall under resources and people who never learn to manage their gifts, talents and abilities never achieve authentic success.  The resources you need to achieve the best you can be are within and around you and once you identify them; you must have a strategic plan in order to maximize their use. Strategic planning gives you the wisdom to look for the key that opens the door as opposed to breaking the door in order to get through it. No one ever achieves greatness without being excellent in strategic planning.

A clear set of values

You have the values that you live by and once these come together they form your value system. Your value system helps you define what is right or wrong in your day to day life. A sound value system gives you the ability to make sober and wise judgment calls on life’s issues. This way, you will prioritize what is essential to your success and avoid the distractions that lie along the path that leads to authentic greatness. You must therefore strive to protect your heart as this is what helps you live out those values. All the issues of life spring forth from the heart. The more you interact with God; His Holy Spirit brings out the fruit of the Spirit in you. The fruit of the Spirit is a depiction of all the values that will keep your success going through authentic relationships with people. 

Take Action

A very high level of passion for purpose, the best strategic planning, the right belief system and a sound value system will never produce greatness until you take action. You need energy and its twin brother enthusiasm in order to take action on your purpose in order to produce certain and specific results. In order to continually take action on a consistent basis, you must find ways to keep energized and enthusiastic every given day. Greatness belongs to those who wake up every morning to take action that lead to the accomplishment of goals. With energy and enthusiasm, your passion for purpose will never die.

Worthwhile relationships

All the success in the world will never be worth anything if you don’t have authentic relationships. The bonds you form with your friends and family create the platform for you to build and share your greatness and success. The platform also gives you cushioning against the disappointments and setbacks of life. A careful study of men and women who have achieved authentic success will show that they have developed worthwhile relationships and these keep them going. If you achieve personal success and have no worthwhile and authentic relationships, you will be a lonely recluse and sink into depression easily. 

Mentorship

So long as your success remains personal, you will never ascend to the heights of legendary greatness. Authentic success and greatness is marked by you mentoring other people to become the best they can be. Zig Ziglar says that if you help other people get what they want, you will eventually get what you want. It is when you begin depositing your passion for purpose, belief system, value system, philosophy and principles that you begin t cause change in the lives of others. You do this by using the talents, gifts and abilities that God has given you. The more you mentor other people to success, you become iconic and sooner or later, you will find your way into history books.

What are you waiting for? See you at the peak of legendary greatness.

The 6 Bullets That Kill Procrastination

Procrastination is the art of or habit of putting things off. One of the simplest ways of killing it is to learn to procrastinate on procrastination. The need to kill it is so important in that it is one of the most effective assassins of the greatness within you.  Below are some bullets that you can use to assassinate this beast known as procrastination.

1.       Get Started

I you carefully analyze yourself; you will realize that you normally procrastinate on the important tasks. The simplest way to start killing this

habit is to get started with what you need to get done. Getting started gives you the momentum to keep you going and as you keep at it, the momentum keep on growing.

2.       Schedule Your Time

The professional procrastinator operates on impulse. He has no calendar or schedule of events to guide their day to day activities. The first bullet of Getting Started only causes bodily harm to procrastination. The second bullet of scheduling your important tasks causes more injury and brings you closer to victory. It goes without saying that once you come up with the schedule you will need to stick to it.

3.       Divide Your Work Into Manageable Pieces

The more you feel that you have a big task to complete the easier it will be for you to procrastinate. The third bullet of dividing your work into manageable pieces is meant to initiate massive internal bleeding to procrastination. The small tasks that you incorporate into your day to day activities add up to complete the whole project. Completing small tasks at a time keeps procrastination bleeding and helps you achieve more.

4.       Learn To Do It Now

It s important that you understand that now is the only time you have. Thousands of people that have successfully killed procrastinated all learnt to do what they needed to do when they needed to do it. Never put off for tomorrow what can and should be done today.

5.       Set Daily Goals

As you set up your schedule of day to day events, add a column of goals that you want to accomplish every particular day. This way, you will find yourself easily achieving what you have always procrastinated on and this increases fatality of the shots you have already taken at procrastination.

6.      Enjoy Your Success

The biggest motivation for what you need to do today comes from the successes you had yesterday. Spare a few minutes every morning to review where you were successful yesterday and let that thrill energize you to get started on what you need to do today. By the time you are taking this last bullet, procrastination is long dead and you have become a person of discipline who gets things done when they need to be done.

Worry not; no one will ever arrest you for killing procrastination.

For Your Marriage

This is an article that I came across on Facebook and it inspired me a lot. Hope you learn a thing or two from it.



Obviously, I’m not a relationship expert. But there’s something about my divorce being finalized this week that gives me perspective of things I wish I would have done different… After losing a woman that I loved, and a marriage of almost 16 years, here’s the advice I wish I would have had...

1) Never stop courting. Never stop dating. NEVER EVER take that woman for granted. When you asked her to marry you, you promised to be that man that would OWN HER HEART and to fiercely protect it. This is the most important and sacred treasure you will ever be entrusted with. SHE CHOSE YOU. Never forget that, and NEVER GET LAZY in your love.

2) PROTECT YOUR OWN HEART. Just as you committed to being the protector of her heart, you must guard your own with the same vigilance. Love yourself fully, love the world openly, but there is a special place in your heart where no one must enter except for your wife. Keep that space always ready to receive her and invite her in, and refuse to let anyone or anything else enter there.

3) FALL IN LOVE OVER and OVER and OVER again. You will constantly change. You’re not the same people you were when you got married, and in five years you will not be the same person you are today. Change will come, and in that you have to re-choose each other everyday. SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO STAY WITH YOU, and if you don’t take care of her heart, she may give that heart to someone else or seal you out completely, and you may never be able to get it back. Always fight to win her love just as you did when you were courting her.

4) ALWAYS SEE THE BEST in her. Focus only on what you love. What you focus on will expand. If you focus on what bugs you, all you will see is reasons to be bugged. If you focus on what you love, you can’t help but be consumed by love. Focus to the point where you can no longer see anything but love, and you know without a doubt that you are the luckiest man on earth to be have this woman as your wife.

5) IT’S NOT YOUR JOB TO CHANGE OR FIX HER… your job is to love her as she is with no expectation of her ever changing. And if she changes, love what she becomes, whether it’s what you wanted or not.

6) TAKE FULL ACCOUNTABILITY for your own emotions: It’s not your wife’s job to make you happy, and she CAN’T make you sad. You are responsible for finding your own happiness, and through that your joy will spill over into your relationship and your love.

7) NEVER BLAME your wife If YOU get frustrated or angry at her, it is only because it is triggering something inside of YOU. They are YOUR emotions, and your responsibility. When you feel those feelings take time to get present and to look within and understand what it is inside of YOU that is asking to be healed. You were attracted to this woman because she was the person best suited to trigger all of your childhood wounds in the most painful way so that you could heal them… when you heal yourself, you will no longer be triggered by her, and you will wonder why you ever were.

Allow your woman to JUST BE. When she’s sad or upset, it’s not your job to fix it, it’s your job to HOLD HER and let her know it’s ok. Let her know that you hear her, and that she’s important and that you are that pillar on which she can always lean. The feminine spirit is about change and emotion and like a storm her emotions will roll in and out, and as you remain strong and unjudging she will trust you and open her soul to you… DON’T RUN-AWAY WHEN SHE’S UPSET. Stand present and strong and let her know you aren’t going anywhere. Listen to what she is really saying behind the words and emotion.

9) BE SILLY… don’t take yourself so damn seriously. Laugh. And make her laugh. Laughter makes everything else easier.

10) FILL HER SOUL EVERYDAY… learn her love languages and the specific ways that she feels important and validated and CHERISHED. Ask her to create a list of 10 THINGS that make her feel loved and memorize those things and make it a priority everyday to make her feel like a queen.

11) BE PRESENT. Give her not only your time, but your focus, your attention and your soul. Do whatever it takes to clear your head so that when you are with her you are fully WITH HER. Treat her as you would your most valuable client. She is.

12) BE WILLING TO TAKE HER SEXUALLY, to carry her away in the power of your masculine presence, to consume her and devour her with your strength, and to penetrate her to the deepest levels of her soul. Let her melt into her feminine softness as she knows she can trust you fully.

13) DON’T BE AN IDIOT…. And don’t be afraid of being one either. You will make mistakes and so will she. Try not to make too big of mistakes, and learn from the ones you do make. You’re not supposed to be perfect, just try to not be too stupid.

14) GIVE HER SPACE… The woman is so good at giving and giving, and sometimes she will need to be reminded to take time to nurture herself. Sometimes she will need to fly from your branches to go and find what feeds her soul, and if you give her that space she will come back with new songs to sing…. (okay, getting a little too poetic here, but you get the point. Tell her to take time for herself, ESPECIALLY after you have kids. She needs that space to renew and get re-centered, and to find herself after she gets lost in serving you, the kids and the world.)

15) BE VULNERABLE… you don’t have to have it all together. Be willing to share your fears and feelings, and quick to acknowledge your mistakes.

16) BE FULLY TRANSPARENT. If you want to have trust you must be willing to share EVERYTHING… Especially those things you don’t want to share. It takes courage to fully love, to fully open your heart and let her in when you don't know i she will like what she finds... Part of that courage is allowing her to love you completely, your darkness as well as your light. DROP THE MASK… If you feel like you need to wear a mask around her, and show up perfect all the time, you will never experience the full dimension of what love can be.

17) NEVER STOP GROWING TOGETHER… The stagnant pond breeds malaria, the flowing stream is always fresh and cool. Atrophy is the natural process when you stop working a muscle, just as it is if you stop working on your relationship. Find common goals, dreams and visions to work towards.

18) DON’T WORRY ABOUT MONEY. Money is a game, find ways to work together as a team to win it. It never helps when teammates fight. Figure out ways to leverage both persons strength to win.

19) FORGIVE IMMEDIATELY and focus on the future rather than carrying weight from the past. Don’t let your history hold you hostage. Holding onto past mistakes that either you or she makes, is like a heavy anchor to your marriage and will hold you back. FORGIVENESS IS FREEDOM. Cut the anchor loose and always choose love.

20) ALWAYS CHOOSE LOVE. ALWAYS CHOOSE LOVE. ALWAYS CHOOSE LOVE. In the end, this is the only advice you need. If this is the guiding principle through which all your choices is governed, there is nothing that will threaten the happiness of your marriage. Love will always endure.

In the end MARRIAGE isn’t about Happily ever after. It’s about work. And a commitment to grow together and a willingness to continually invest in creating something that can endure eternity. Through that work, the happiness will come.

Marriage is life, and it will bring ups and downs. Embracing all of the cycles and learning to learn from and love each experience will bring the strength and perspective to keep building, one brick at a time.

These are lessons I learned the hard way. These are lessons I learned too late.

But these are lessons I am learning and committed in carrying forward. Truth is, I LOVED being married, and in time, I will get married again, and when I do, I will build it with a foundation that will endure any storm and any amount of time.

If you are reading this and find wisdom in my pain, share it with those those young husbands whose hearts are still full of hope, and with those couples you may know who may have forgotten how to love. One of those men may be like I was, and in these hard earned lessons perhaps something will awaken in him and he will learn to be the man his lady has been waiting for.

The woman that told him 'I do', and trusted her life with him, has been waiting for this man to step up.

If you are reading this and your marriage isn’t what you want it to be, take 100% responsibility for YOUR PART in marriage, regardless of where your spouse is at, and commit to applying these lessons while there is time.

MEN- THIS IS YOUR CHARGE : Commit to being an EPIC LOVER. There is no greater challenge, and no greater prize. Your woman deserves that from you.

Be the type of husband your wife can’t help but brag about

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father Who Art In Heaven...

Yes?

Don't interrupt me. I'm praying.

But -- you called ME!

Called you?
No, I didn't call you.
I'm praying.

Our Father who art in Heaven.

There -- you did it again!

Did what?

Called ME.
You said,
"Our Father who art in Heaven"
Well, here I am..
What's on your mind?

But I didn't mean anything by it.
I was, you know, just saying my prayers for the day.
I always say the Lord's Prayer.
It makes me feel good,
kind of like fulfilling a duty.

Well, all right.
Go on.

Okay, Hallowed be thy name ...

Hold it right there.
What do you mean by that?

By what?

By "Hallowed be thy name"?

It means , it means . . good grief,
I don't know what it means.
How in the world should I know?
It's just a part of the prayer.
By the way, what does it mean?

It means honored, holy, wonderful.

Hey, that makes sense..
I never thought about what 'hallowed' meant before.
Thanks.

Thy Kingdom come,..
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in Heaven...

Do you really mean that?

Sure, why not?

What are you doing about it?

Doing? Why, nothing, I guess.
I just think it would be kind of neat if you’ve got
control, of everything down here like you have up

there. We're kinda in a mess down here you know.

Yes, I know;
but, have I got control of you?

Well, I go to church.

That isn't what I asked you.
What about your bad temper?
You've really got a problem there, you know.
And then there's the way you spend 

your money -- all on yourself.
And what about the kind of books you read ?

Now hold on just a minute!
Stop picking on me!
I'm just as good as some of the rest
of those People at church!


Excuse ME..
I thought you were praying
for my will to be done.
If that is to happen,
it will have to start with the ones
who are praying for it.
Like you -- for example ..

Oh, all right. I guess I do have some hang-ups.
Now that you mention it,
I could probably name some others.

So could I.

I haven't thought about it very much until now,
but I really would like to cut out some of those things.
I would like to, you know, be really free.

Good.
Now we're getting somewhere. 

We'll work together -- You and ME.
I'm proud of You.


Look, Lord, if you don't mind,
I need to finish up here.
This is taking a lot longer than it usually does.

Give us this day, our daily bread...

You need to cut out the bread..
You're overweight as it is.

Hey, wait a minute! What is this?
Here I was doing my religious duty,
and all of a sudden you break in
and remind me of all my hang-ups.

Praying is a dangerous thing.
You just might get what you ask for.
Remember, you called ME -- and here I am.
It's too late to stop now.
Keep praying.  ( pause .. . )
Well, go on.

I'm scared to.

Scared? Of what?

I know what you'll say.

Try ME.

Forgive us our sins,

as we forgive those who sin against us.

What about Ann?

See? I knew it!
I knew you would bring her up!
Why, Lord, she's told lies about me, spread stories.
She never paid back the money she owes me.
I've sworn to get even with her!

But -- your prayer --
What about your prayer?

I didn't -- mean it..

Well, at least you're honest.
But, it's quite a load carrying around all that

bitterness and resentment isn't it?

Yes, but I'll feel better as soon as I get even with her.
Boy, have I got some plans for her.
She'll wish she had never been born.

No, you won't feel any better.
You'll feel worse.
Revenge isn't sweet.
You know how unhappy you are -- 
Well, I can change that.

You can? How?

Forgive Ann.
Then, I'll forgive you;
And the hate and the sin,
will be Ann's problem -- not yours.
You will have settled the problem
as far as you are concerned.

Oh, you know, you're right.
You always are.
And more than I want revenge,
I want to be right with You . . (sigh).
All right, all right . .
I forgive her.

There now!
Wonderful!
How do you feel?

Hmmmm. Well, not bad.
Not bad at all!
In fact, I feel pretty great!
You know, I don't think I'll go to bed uptight tonight.
I haven't been getting much rest, you know.

Yeah, I know.
But, you're not through with your prayer, are you? 

Go on.

Oh, all right.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.

Good! Good! I'll do that.
Just don't put yourself in a place
where you can be tempted.

What do you mean by that?

You know what I mean.

Yeah. I know.

Okay.
Go ahead. Finish your prayer.

For Thine is the kingdom,
and the power,
and the glory forever.
Amen.

Do you know what would bring me glory --
What would really make me happy?

No, but I'd like to know.
I want to please you now.
I've really made a mess of things.
I want to truly follow you..
I can see now how great that would be.
So, tell me . . .
How do I make you happy?

YOU just did.

You Must Learn To Exceed Yourself

This inspiring story is about Bruce Lee, a legendary martial art master.
“Bruce had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile].
So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.”

 Bruce Lee
I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-” if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.”
He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles.
Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?”
He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

Life Just Isn't

Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or got to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn't about that.

But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness, and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life's about.

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A word of welcome

It has been said that the journey of a thousand miles starts with one step. As sure as those words ring true, my journey has began.

I want to take this opportunity to welcome you to my blog. Here, you will get the opportunity to rub shoulders with a young man who is going to go down in history as one of the greatest men who ever lived. To me, success is not an option, it is guaranteed!

And my success will be your success as I desire to educe the greatness that lies in you.

this blog will inspire you, motivate you, educate you, entertain you and most of all, give you hope for every day. I assure you, you want to be part of this.

So sit back, relax and gear up for the ride of a life time.

Cheers,

Kelvin Wanyoike