Esteem Thoughts Nugget 11

                                                     DETERMINATION - TEARS IS ALLOWED

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The Thought Exposed

Determination is the principal route to your dreamland. Ingenuity is simply a product of determination. To be determined means to be sold out. The determined does not make promises; he lives under an oath of necessity; under compulsion in spite of inconveniences. The language of the determined is “I must” while the undetermined keeps wishing and hoping. Jesus said

                             I must work the works of Him who sent me while it is day; - John 9: 4

That is why He (Jesus) was ever successful. He ended up with His purpose fulfilled. Why? He had a firmness of purpose - determination. Friends, this is the only way to land in your dreamland.

If you love your future and you want to land in your dreamland, you must make your daily friend, this 13-letter word weapon called DETERMINATION. You’ve got to learn from the bee. To produce one pound of honey, the bee must visit 56,000 clover heads. Since each head has 60 flower tubes - a total of 3million clover heads is visited. Do you know that 360 thousand visits are necessary to give us that amount of honey for the breakfast table! This is determination! Meanwhile, that worker bee has flown the equivalent of 3times around the world by estimate to produce one pound of honey. Hear this! To produce a tablespoon of honey for medicine or meals, the little bee makes 4,200trips to flowers! It makes about ten trips a day to the fields, each trip lasting 20 minutes on the average and 400 flowers! Oh! A worker bee will fly as far as 1 kilometre just to find a ripe flower.

Therefore, when you are feeling discouraged or feeling lazy or low, always remember the bee! It displays such an unparalleled determination. Friends! Determination will pay off for you! Keep keeping on! Never stop working! It is even more dangerous at the top! This is your time to land in your dreamland, but you will need to pass through the route called “stubborn determination”

Prophet Job understood the mystery of the bee. Despite all he went through for over 350 days he still said with confidence and determination

              For I know that my redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth. - Job 19:25

Be such a man! Talk like that daily no matter the trials you are swimming in. See a bright latter day! A bright future! Don’t quit mid-way off any dream. Remember there is no joy in victory without running risky defeat. Friends, opportunities never come to those who wait. Those who are determined capture them. Keep seeing your goals and never allow anything distractive or “urgent” to crowd out the important. Be disciplined!

                         “Determination makes sure that the urgent does not kill the ultimate.”

Yes! Your ultimate - your original destination is very important, if you must land in your dreamland. It is determination that can ensure that the urgent does not kill your goal. Never forget that

                                            “Quitters never win and winners never quit”

Be sold out to your assignment. This is what the wise do in the kingdom. You will get there!

Thought lessons:

There is no joy in victory without running risky defeat.

To be determined means to be sold out

Ingenuity is simply a product of determination

Quitters never win and winners never quit.

Thank you for taking out time to read through this week's Esteem Thoughts. Your life is just about to begin. So see you next week. God bless you and keep you safe.


                  Nick Imoru
                  Director
                  Esteem Motivation, Inc.