Stop wishing, start acting
One of the main reasons that most people do not achieve success is failure or refusal to implement their dreams. This book entitled “Stop Wishing, Start Acting” co-written by Olushola Alabi and Olanike Alabi could not have come at a better time to help those people. Olushola, teacher, preacher, counselor, and motivational speaker is the executive director of Roll the Gold Konsult. Olanike has a first BA in Forest Resource Management and a MA in Information Science from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria.
According to Olushola and Olanike, many people only have dreams, but they never leave their realm of thoughts to act and succeed. These authors say that this book is full of nuggets that will motivate, inspire, teach, challenge, and encourage people to discard their desires and embrace action in order to achieve their goals in life.
Olushola and Olanike say that you are welcome to the world of celebrities, emphasizing that you are the next celebrity the world is waiting for. They claim that this book has come to announce that their time to shine has come. You are not inferior to anyone on earth and your season will definitely come, expats Olushola and Olanike.
These authors advise you to tap into your latent potential because this is the way to be celebrated by people. They say you should worry less about what’s going on around you. Olushola and Olanike emphasize that the world does not have a positive message to offer anyone, so anyone who wants to be successful must offer themselves positive messages that will declare their enthronement.
This text is divided into six chapters. Chapter one is titled “If Wishes Were Horses.” These authors ask how many business ideas have been lost this year. Olushola and Olanike add that most people’s business ideas have not gone beyond the realm of dreams and desires. In his words, “How many financial plans have you made this year? They never left your planning table. What about the creativity strategies you read about in the newspapers or the ones a friend sold you?”
They ask if one could imagine where he would have been today if he had followed that intuition by telling him to meet that need in the neighborhood. According to these authors, desire is a strong desire to do something but not reinforced with action.
Many people have great business ideas that will be of benefit to humanity and the youth of this jet age are blessed with outstanding talents that can transform their generations and the generations to be born, say Olushola and Olanike.
They educate that the richest place on earth is the cemetery since many people die and are buried there without achieving their purpose in life. In his words, “Great physicians, politicians, intelligent legal luminaries, wise businessmen, seasoned scholars, professionals, talented celebrities … die without acting in accordance with the vision and talent that God has given them. All true potential of God has a future. He needs to be persecuted spiritually, physically, financially and with everything that one has at his disposal. “
Olushola and Olanike state that action is a positive step to make a vision or dream come true. They go as a literary allusion to quote Mike Murdock like this: “The secret of success is to start from scratch and keep scratching.”
The authors say that no one succeeds in the school of success without passionately, vigorously, and spiritually pursuing their dream. His performance in that vision, dream and talent is evidence that he believes in them, Olushola and Olanike emphasize. They reveal that your helpers of destiny may be around you patiently waiting to see you pursue your dreams and they will rise to support you.
These authors educate that this is not the season for wishing or daydreaming. Rather they say that it is the season to act on your dreams, work on one’s dreams, and face one’s dreams with courage. You will be amazed at how you will be celebrated and honored, Olushola and Olanike submit.
Chapter two is based on the theme of the mysterious mind. Here, the authors teach that your mind will always act on whatever feeds it. They say that the mind is mysterious because it is the center of creativity. The authors claim that the mind is the gift that God has given mankind to trade. The positive mind attracts positive results and the negative mind attracts negative results, they expand.
According to Olushola and Olanike, the dominant image in yesterday’s mind is the raw material through which one’s destiny is built today. They add that no one will change their mind for you, since it is the choice you make. Change your mind so that your destiny changes, let these authors know.
Olushola and Olanike say that once one’s mind is dominated by thoughts of failure, fear, stagnation, backwardness, and hopelessness, the end result will be failure. They say that when one’s mind is controlled by thoughts of hope, joy, prosperity, increase, enlargement, and promotion, the end result will be prosperity. The authors add that the dominant thought of greatness produces great people while that of failure produces frustrated people. These authors reveal that the mind can travel far and near, breaking down barriers, causing dating disappointments.
Olushola and Olanike teach that it is not the title or qualification that determines one’s success. They note that they have seen illiterates rise to stardom due to their positive mindset, while wealthy and wealthy men fail miserably. Olushola and Olanike say that it is a battle of the mind, so they advise one to engage the mind in a positive way, as the sky is not the limit for one.
In chapters three through five, these authors radiograph concepts of a problem as a necessity; believing that you can start; And the present moment is the right moment.
Chapter six, the last chapter, is dubbed “Take a Bold Step.” Olushola and Olanike say that many great talents are being wasted today, just as a great deal of potential is seriously underutilized. They add that big dreams are thrown away.
Style-wise, this text is fine. The language is simple while the presentation is brilliant. The design of the text is unique because it is a mixture of prose and poetic structures. The exterior cover design is communicative non-verbal as it reinforces the overall theme. Even the textual visual distinction of “Stop” and “Start” on the cover amplifies the theme. There is the use of graphics to achieve a visual reinforcement of readers’ understanding, for example, the use of the image of the horse in chapter one entitled “If wishes were horses.”
Biblical and literary / classical allusions are used to achieve conceptual amplification and give credibility to the text.
However, there are some errors in the book that need to be corrected. One of them is “Acknowledgments” (pages iv and vii), instead of “Acknowledgments”. Another is “Potential” (page vi) instead of “Potential”. On a page 10, we have “I wish I could …” instead of “I wish I could …”
Despite these errors, the book is intellectually and conceptually valuable. It is a must read for anyone who is ready to take action and achieve their goals in life.