Over Turn

Eccl.10:¹⁰ “If the ax is dull, and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed but skill will bring success”

Energy even though finite is a variable. You can increase your energy level physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually by doing the right type of exercise and eating right accordingly. Time however, cannot be increased. While time is linear and cannot be concentrated, energy fluctuates and can be concentrated. And the increase in energy given in the same amount of time, will lead to increased productivity.

Fifth Evaluation: How well do you use your time and energy in a day? On a scale of one to ten:

• If you have wasted your time and energy just sitting in font of the television, that is a one.
• If in a day the summation of what you do is invest your time doing good things, that is a five.
• However, for people that not only invested their time in doing things for today, but invested time in doing things that will pay off in future, that is a ten.

Be totally honest with your self-evaluation and write down your score.

The sixth principle from Solomon’s six winning ways is Resolve To Stick To It. Winners do not know how to quit because it is not in their dictionary. There is a myth that “successful people do everything right”; everything just goes well for them. It is a big lie. Statistics show that the best basketball players make only half of their shots –only half! And this statistic is based on the best players so the average player makes less than half. Top oil companies, even with expert geologists find oil only one in ten times and each time the attempt at locating oil cost a lot of money. But they keep investing because they know it will pay off.

Statistics also show that a successful television actor is turned down twenty-nine out of  thirty times he or she auditions. Also winners in the stock market make money only two out of the five times they invest. The man called Honda was turned down for a job as an engineer in Toyota motors. He started making scooters at home and spurred on by his neighbours, started his company. Today, a lot of people drive Hondas. I pray that the ‘Toyotas’ of this world will not give you a job so that you can start the ‘Hondas’ of this world in Jesus Name [say Amen].

Prayer: Father, I declare that I will not be a quitter, but rather transform every closed door into a stepping stone to a greater height, in Jesus Name. Amen!