Prepare Yourself

Prepare yourself to accept the responsibilities of manifesting your dream. If your dream is going to become real, it' s up to you. If you don’t nurture your dream, no one will.

An African farmer who is waiting for the onset of the rainy season clears the field, prepares his seedlings, and makes arrangement for additional labour hands that would be required. An expectant mother usually prepares for the arrival of the new baby by buying baby clothes, nappies, soaps, towels, baby bed and keeping some money aside in a savings account.

The period of preparation will enable you to incubate your vision, clarify your purpose, plan well, increase your energy level, develop new habits required for the actualisation of your purpose, and drop limiting habits.

Spend quality time nurturing your vision. The more attention you invest in contemplating the picture of what you want to achieve, the clearer and more definite it will become. Clarity of purpose eliminates doubt and increases your desire for the goal.

Prepare yourself for success. Pretend that you're already successful. The mind doesn't know the difference between a real picture and an imagined picture. So "fool" your subconscious mind to accept that you're already living the wish fulfilled.

Preparation includes gathering information, researching, studying, training, apprenticeship, and planning. Find models and mentors. Get other people to buy into your vision - if they are required for its actualisation. Negotiate resources that you don’t control, including other people’s time and mental resources.

Prepare for changes. A change in your habits is required for you to bring your dream into reality. Drop habits that are holding you down. Take on new empowering practices. Take control of your time and attention. Cultivate new positive friends that are successful. Drop complainers, gossips and negative thinkers.

If you set any worthwhile goal and feel you can achieve it by remaining the same person you are now, you’ll be disappointed a million times.

Success requires discipline. How many are willing to imbibe these new attitudes? Success requires throwing away old habits and acquiring better ones. Success demands the supplanting of dis-empowering beliefs and attitudes with empowering ones.

Success asks you to guard your time jealously. It insists that you sleep later and wake up earlier. Action and not talk bring about success. (Unless you're in Oprah Winfrey's line of business!) Talk is cheap. Only activity produces results. Results lead to progress.

Your daily disciplines have to change. New habits have to supplant old habits. You need to expand your belief system.

You get angry easily? Then you need to learn tolerance, patience, and forgiveness. Do you wallow in the three evil Cs: complaints, criticism and condemnation? It’s time to learn how to let others be and be more grateful.

Improve your health. One of your greatest assets in manifesting your goals is good health, a high energy level and vitality. We all desire to get healthier and be physically fitter.

The first step is to gather information on what it means to be healthier and fitter. Seek professional advice if it is available. Having observed the relationship between what you eat and your health, improve your diet.

Try food supplements if your food doesn’t offer you all the nutrients your body requires; or if your food is overcooked, over-frozen, over-processed, or you make special demands on your body. Work out an exercise program for yourself, taking into consideration your health and age. If you’re up to 40 years of age, seek a doctor’s opinion before embarking on any exercise program. Let the exercise be something you enjoy.

If you love your dream, if you passionately want it to become manifest, obey the Law of Silence: Tell it to ONLY those people who will give it the same love and devotion as yourself.

Prepare to appear. Prepare to be seen. Improve yourself presentation. Need we say more?