How To Create Your Own World of Influence

Vision for excellence is the first factor you must have to reign in life.
Vision is that purpose that drives you toward a target.

To translate your purpose into reality in your life as regards your vision, it is required that you maximize and optimize God-given potentials, passions, talents, gifts, skills and other innate or intellectual (mental) resources at your disposals which have been deposited inside you. These are the factors that determine your creativity, and they are tools for developing your vision. Creativity is the application of these tools.

In effect, vision is a concept, an idea that defines some specific purposes in one’s life. It is not just a wish but an essence of life itself such that where there is no vision, there is nothing to live for. Well, any idea that is not workable is a bad idea. It is mere fantasy. Sure, every person has an idea that will make him or her great in life but the idea is like deep water in the mind, and only persons of understanding (insight) will draw it out, and only persons of applied creativity will achieve it.

All the faculties of human life form an aggregate of a discrete packet of ideas that one needs to reign in life, according to God’s purpose.

Now, consider the nobleman who gave some resources to his servants for investment purpose. “And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by TRADING. Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound gained ten pounds…” Luke 19:12-26.

In the first place, this profitable servant must have thought out what he could do with the money for profit making. What he could do was inherent in him. That was the idea, and how to do it was by virtue of creativity. Deep thinking gives room to inspiration, inspiration births ideas, and ideas are secrets of God. “Trading with the secrets of God guarantees your excellence.” (Pastor J.A. Babalola).

Every idea is a function of timing, vital information, opportunities, and an imaginative, sound mind which is characterized by wisdom, determination and optimism. These are real assets of an idea that add value and meaning to life. Great men have control over these assets.

To make profit, work with what you have. Life is a mirror; the quality of the self-image you reflect or manifest in the areas of ministry, career, spiritual, marital, financial and social excellence, is an indication of the manner and magnitude of wisdom, grace, talents, gifts, principles, beliefs, and vision which are on the inside of you. And, creativity is the process of bringing the invisible to the visible by a combined process of imagination, goal setting, implementation, and application of both natural and acquired skills.

Every product you see around you, whether concrete or abstract is a figment of a person’s creative imagination; every invention is a manifestation of someone’s imagination. Vision is in imagination; goal setting is in action of having defined steps to reach or achieve the vision within a specified time frame. Goal setting is an act of developing one’s vision by the application of available resources. That’s creativity.

Your vision is your vocation, and for fruition, you must put in your creativity. It is worth stating that if you are engaged in a vocation, most especially in the areas of careers and professions, primarily because of livelihood – the making of ends meet – rather than a vision that gives meaning or purpose to your existence, then you do not yet have a clear-cut vision and direction. You must chart every course of your life with vision and purpose.

Many people go for a certain business, ministry, career or marriage without being driven by vision or motivated by purpose. As a result, when they encounter adversity such that they seem to be at a disadvantage, they think of doing something else. They have forgotten that quitters never win.

Know these:
• Your business is a vocation
• Career or profession is a vocation
• Ministry is a vocation
• Your marriage is a vocation
• Everything that revolves round you is a vocation.

In effect, the whole of your life is a vocation. Productivity is an expected outcome of a well-directed creativity which, as stated earlier on, is a combination of innate potentials, passions, gifts, skills and other kinds of resources.

We would realize that the Creator Himself is the Author of all creativities. He is a creative Being. God’s creativity is standardized and is always directed towards the performance of a specific purpose. We also share in that nature as individuals who are products of His original creativity. Also, the creative act of God produced the heavens and the earth according to His will and purpose.

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