Ideas And Person
AKHIGBE FRIDAY
There is this common saying “Ideas rule the world…Idea which time has come can’t be stopped”. Every invention, every achievement, everything that has been accomplished by man started with as an idea.
There is positive and negative ideas. The idea you adopt into your life determines the outcome of your output.
A minister once said that man cannot fly that is why he was not given wings like a bird and his own sons proved him wrong by inventing the first air plane and flew it themselves. Their idea about man flying was different from that of their father.
For more than 2000 years, the idea that the earth is flat and the center of the universe was the norm everywhere in the world, until it was questioned by Copernicus and Galileo researches. Even this idea of a flat world was taken as an article of faith among some Christian circles. Galileo was silent on his idea and discovered heliocentric theory.
The first man with the idea of a wireless mobile phone was seen as lunatic and placed under treatment. The heresy of yesterday is the truth of today. The so called impossible of yesterday is the reality of today.
If nobody believe or support your idea, do not give up your idea; work on with it. Leonardo Vinci was a man of ideas beyond his time yet he never abandoned his idea. He was an artist, a surgeon, a philosopher, a humanist, an engineer, a scholar, a mentor to many and a writer; many of Vinci’s ideas are the inventions of the scientists today. He was the first to work on the idea of man flying in the sky.
Every idea needs blood to become a reality. The blood an idea needs is resource. The resource can come in form of money, a mentor or other leverages.
When we come to the issue of idea, man and money we have four types of men:
1. A man who has an idea and no money
2.A man who has money but no idea
3.A man who has no idea, no money
4.A man who has an idea and money
Out of these four sets of people, the best is the fourth set, followed by the first set. The worst is the third set followed by the second set.
To be an investor or big business owner, you must either be in the first set or the fourth. These are sets of the rich and wealthy. Everyone is welcome to this group.
As I have said before, everyone has the ability to bring out an idea from the wealthy part of him. The symptom of no idea is a sign of laziness created by man as an excuse for not moving forward. You are not a product of mistake; you are loaded with potentialities. Work on yourself; you do not need to go to outer space to get an idea on how to move forward financially. It is all there in you and out of you. There is no idea that became a reality without action. You must work on yourself and tell yourself “I will not make myself a person without ideas. I am full of ideas and I will work on my ideas. I will develop my ideas and make my impact in the world by God grace”.
More on ideas in subsequent articles. Stay inspired!
Akhigbe Friday. A. writes from Ikeja, Lagos.
