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A hopeful life is a successful life. People who bury their hopes and crave for someone’s success never know that their diamond is hidden as they envy other’s silver!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Refuse to be small no matter how many times people insist on squeezing you. The same people who carelessly call you “Hey” are the same people who will cheerfully call you “Hi” when you continue to drive your life positively!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Pick the axe
—  chop off the anger
You can’t believe in your dreams if you don’t believe in the giver of the dreams. In all things, put God first. He is willing to put you ahead for excellence!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger
—  it destroys at the speed of light!
Shake hands with today
—  it is here already. Bid farewell to yesterday
The only way to smile at harvest time is to appreciate the invisible fruits in the visible seed. Hungry people are not those who have no seed. They are those who kill seeds!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
She figured that the main problem in physics is physicists, that most of them are caught in a mind trap because they're so used to things being made of smaller things. So they instinctively believe that reality, at its most basic level, must be made up of and regulated by almost infinitely small elementary particles.
— Rajnar Vajra, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2013 January/February
Every big castle was once started with a single block
—  despise no small beginnings. A little step taken every day builds up the hope of greater accomplishments. Do something every day!
Make it a promise to be all that you must be. When you dream of reaching the 100th step
—  take the 99th as the beginning of your journey and you will go beyond the 101st!
Just look at the track record of these giveaway programs," I protested. "Broken mills, lower production levels of rice after 20 years of work and money. This can't be right...the only way this will work for the farmers is if they own it themselves, if they can see their own lives getting better because of their efforts and ability to control their own futures and not have to wait around for the government.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.
— Z. Vally, The Green Line Divide: Romance, Travel, and Turmoils
Encourage yourself and do it bit by bit. It may appear tough, but every single bite of it every day is an endorsement that all will be chopped off sooner. Nothing is too difficult!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Lift up your two hands
—  remember one is for helping others while the other is for helping you. Give a helping hand to whoever needs help. I believe you need help too
Pamper no temptations! Once you are the driver on the steer of your life, choose to knock down every obstacle and challenge on your way to fulfillment.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
It feels great to know that whatever you need to achieve your dreams are in you. Whatever the spider needs to make a cobweb is not in the housefly. Look to yourself
—  you have what it takes to weave your success!
I love animals, especially with barbeque sauce.
— J. Richard Singleton
You care, you dare and you share; this is the unforgettable rule of every true believer and achiever.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Someone needs your actions to inspire his actions. Never forget, your little broken cake is someone’s daily meal! Care to share you little cake!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
You will rise above all limitations once you begin to live life with the right attitude. People who fail and fall are the people who see difficulties in every opportunity and call it "impossibility". Rise up!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Change for the better... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Aside your dreams to improve your community, country and continent, dare to save a soul for God. Show compassion, show love... Feed hungry souls and let God be glorified!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Dare to make it to heaven and in doing so, carry many people along! Be a soul winner!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
All people are standing
—  you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds
Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
You can’t keep your feet on the ground, hoping to enjoy the fruits of your labour. The fruits are on the top; keep climbing till you pluck them with your hands!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Never say "I don't care"! We are all looking up to you. Dare to break the fence that confines you! Make it happen!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The reason why salt and sugar are known to be sweet is that they season other things. Care to share and dare to do it every day!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
There is no harm in trying... Trying improves your skills, enhances your stamina and encourages you to excel. Give it a try... Even in trying moments, keep trying. You will never regret it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Stand up for what's right for you when the time's right. Wake up to grab it as soon as possible. Shake up when you wake up
—  never miss opportunities that could clearly set you up for a breakthrough!
Aspire higher to attain excellence in whatever you do. But be careful when you reach the peak, where the only way is the way downwards. Maintain your standard!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Fight the good fight of faith
—  ignore all callings of doubt regardless of how loud they sound. Arm yourself always against disappointments by planning and preparing very well.
No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived
—  it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!
Live everyday like your birthday and drive your life with all varieties of appreciation. A life live with thanksgiving every day is never tired of being lived again and again!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Don’t embrace mediocrity
—  its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off… Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!
If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "Can I pursue this till the end? Am I sure I will never give up on it?" This is persistence.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "am I ready now? When can I begin and have it done without giving up?" This is preparation.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Never worry about what others have
—  worry about what you have and refuse to use. Someone else will also worry about what you have when you begin to make use of it!
When searching for help, look for the one that will push, not the one that will pull! Your machinery needs a pusher; just avoid every puller and you’ll keep going forward!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Everyone else believes in you. The major problem is that not all can let you know as in the way you may wish. Some will only let you know through their tests of criticism!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The secret for mastery is concentration
—  the success of concentration is in elimination. Avoid everything in general and focus one thing in particular. You will be a master!
If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this going to send me any far? How far can it send me? This is planning.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this what I was sent to do? What do I have to have it do well?" This is potential.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you are going to devote your time to do something you claim you love, take this thought; "is this productive enough and worthy to be done? How useful will it be?" This is purpose.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a hopeless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His purpose, but He will never see you as a hopeless being.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God loves.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The 9th key may be the door opener. Don't give up after trying the 8th. Keep doing it!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the “try-angle”. You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don’t try at all. If you fail…rise up and try again and again!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Be careful you don’t give up on what is yet to give you victory. Many people quit when they were yet to win. Successful people never quit and I believe no quitter had ever been successful too.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
It is never too late or too early
—  you are never too young or too old. You can do what you can do.
Decide to dream big dreams and make them happen. Never let procrastination and excuses squeeze your dreams to become small. Do it early and do it big!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Whatever is difficult for you become easy if you take a bite of it every day. Try again and again!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Mastery is not dispensed on the podium of quitters
—  but purchased on the counter of consistent application of self-willing can do spirit and an outstanding endurance to persevere with persistent endurance till the end!
When life gives you a passport dream, order for a reprint. Try again till you have the bigger image. Be passionate you become the real you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
It is highly impossible for you to be successful at what you don’t love. Do what you love and love what you do.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
When you believe in yourself as a great asset God created for a reason, you will rename your major successes as mere stepping stones because there are greater things that eyes have not yet seen through you, and all are embedded in the value you have in your room; remember that value is you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The best decisions you can ever make are the decisions that will guide you to enhance your gifts in order to create a better life for you and others.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Not now” easily grows to become “never”
—  You either do it now or lose it forever!
Your success lies in your own hands. You must therefore not wait for the grass to become greener by magic. You have the hands to irrigate your own territory by doing what is expected of you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Change anything about your life that cannot be accepted. Accept everything about your life that cannot be changed and move on with your big dreams!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
When it comes to seeing opportunities in the midst of unhopeful situations, the positive brain, (not the pair of eyes) is the sense organ for the sight.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Ensure that your daily chores, thought, actions, speeches and steps are taken with the purpose of giving you a good brand. Decide to be who God wanted you to be.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Mostly, people who do not love “change” always go into disagreement when it is suggested. The worst part of the matter that sends their neck veins bulging in vengeance is when that change for progress was meant and would need to affect their position!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Create an opportunity for change to have way in your attitude and lifestyle. Sometimes, it not us, but our perceptions scare away change!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Change the size of your dreams if that’s what’s keep you static. Go for bigger dreams, but start in a small way. See the bigger picture and live by the desire to become excellent!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Don’t forget, success is a product of choices. One of those choices is the willingness to make changes. Make changes and achieve your big dreams!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Never surround yourself with people who are envious of your ambitions. Decide to be at the right place at the right time and save yourself for greater opportunities.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Decide be a success; decide to be great, decide to be above average, decide to do the very best of you. Do you know who a P.O.O.R person is? P.O.O.R people are those who are “Passing On Opportunities Repeatedly”!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You can become good at procrastinating your opportunities by giving flimsy excuses. But never forget that it is rather your success that you are skipping away.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Accept advice from others and be sure they are positive before you set of to execute them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, --as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow! How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? --from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
— Edgar Allan Poe
There is no harvest without hard work, therefore never expect chance to solve your problems of abject need for you. You must take deliberate actions!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Be determined that you will let every dream of yours be released to the fullest capacity. Brighten your picture!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. Think of good things and do good always!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.
— Travis J. Dahnke, Write like no one is reading
Brighten your picture! Refuse to be blurred
—  agree to be bright!
Do not be tired of doing good things. Victory comes after the battle; the crown follows the fight; the same way, behind purposeful actions is a great deal of success. Don’t give up on the fight. Fight till them end; win till all is won.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The only God who can lead you out of trouble when you are pursuing your dreams is the one who gave you that assignment. Neglecting him from your plans is tantamount to commitment of suicide.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Choose to be great in your field of choice and work it out. Choose that your harvest will be abundant and strive for it. Choose to be a success and prepare for it. Choose to be a winner and fight for it. Success is a choice!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea. The fact that you start with a small choice does not mean you will be on that narrow road forever.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you fall into the category of people who want to make a great use of their existence, you need to ask yourself these two questions; “what am I doing now”?; “Where is it taking me to?
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don’t implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Your choices are very essential; without a better choice, you are risking to drive a destination whose name you know, but address you forget!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If you fall into the category of people who want to make a great use of their existence, you need to ask yourself these two questions; “what am I doing now”?; “Where is it taking me to?”.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
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When you unleash your divine talents to produce better articles, people will pay for them and that creates wealth for you. Spend time well!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Never make choices that will make you hurt others. If you will not help them, don’t hurt them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people’s pockets and they will never get the guts to call you a thief.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You owe it to yourself, to refuse to surrender to obstacles that are meant to stop you from reaching far in your endeavours. Be determined that you will never be a captive of your environment.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Living life dangerously is the key to recognizing that you can do whatever you want when you stop limiting what you believe in.
— Monika Zands
Never stretch your neck to see who is not doing it big. Look into your bosom, and realize that you can do it bigger! Go, create a brighter picture!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You can’t expect to be who God wanted you to be if you don’t improve on upon your talents, abilities, and actions to the peak of the potentials you carry.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Time and talents are the most expensive gifts God gave to us at no cost. However, they are the main things that are easily abused. To abuse something time and talents is to take them for granted and not appreciate their values.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Bear it in mind that tomorrow must also have its own brand of assignments. Shifting today’s work to tomorrow is an inevitable step towards massing up difficult tasks for yourself, whose risk of leading into failure is high.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The difference between where you are now and where you will get to later defines your range of work which you have to be responsible for.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You can never have a successful end if you expect things to change as a result of miracles. Things will never change unless you take up the challenge to change them yourself.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You can’t be a big dreamer if you don’t where you are going. You can’t know where you are going unless you first know where you are.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Be responsible. Your abilities ensure that you respond to the responsibilities that you encounter daily.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Be inspired, raising the bar of excellence in your life every day. Act better than before; grow higher than usual; think faster than normal.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Do all to change your environment
—  don’t allow your environment to change you.
How you brew your life is how it’s gonna taste on your tongue. You have the choice to make it bitter or sweeter. It all depend on the actions that you take day in day out.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called you for a multitude! No matter the circumstances, find yourself doing something relevant and do it till all is well done!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Nothing is too difficult unless you decide to keep shifting it to tomorrow till you can’t do it any longer.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Where procrastination and excuses reign, success is highly missed than delayed. Opportunity they say comes but once. You must therefore be prepared to tap every good opportunity that appears on your way
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Be clear, conscious and circumspect about your dreams. Claim your blessings with your mouth.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
— D.M. Timney
Dream big and see further! Sharpen your eyes
—  you have the eagle’s sight. Quicken your steps
Stop the blame game
—  you can't win it! All fans of blame are defeated in every way... Don't join them!
Building up a dream is like building a room; the foundation must be deep, strong, firm and dependable.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly
—  repent and move on.
Don’t give up
—  try again. Be still and work it out till your good becomes the best! Dream high above the sky!
Leave no stone unturned. Leave no bone unbroken. Drive your life with care and don’t dose off while you do so. If you don’t wake up, you are likely miss you way!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The line you tow is a sign that all will be fine!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Shift yourself away from the slippery ground of bad attitudes and you’ll not drift off!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Kill the blames and you will put your shames into blazing flames. Look for solutions, not problems!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
See the bigger picture of yours and refuse the passport size creature that people think you are! Your nature is large
—  go for it. Feel free to wake up and print your bigger picture!
Take the broken pieces of your life, bake a master cake out of it. Don't stand still like a lake; keep flowing like a stream!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
If everyone followed through on their resolutions, the conseqences for humanity would be dire: The fast food industry would collapse, the gyms would become unbearably crowded, and lifestyle magazines would have nothing left to say.
— Amanda Foreman
Get rid of pride
—  it'll only ride you to the wrong side of life. May God's words guide your faith to abide in true humility. Kick off pride
Understand that you can’t achieve your dreams if you don’t connect with people who guide you to improve on upon the skills you have.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
No food is edible, if you don’t feel like eatingStanding is incredible, if you hate sitting
— Munia Khan
You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what do. - Archer Sloane from the book Stoner.
— John  Williams
When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Wake up for your call no matter how many times you fall; Stand tall and stretch yourself once more. Rise up from the ground, roll the ball and be hopeful you will score!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Wake up and dare to try... Time doesn't care to fly!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Don't be discouraged when your life boils hot. With just a little more toil, you'll reap from the soil. More oil to your elbows. Stay awake and make it happen!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
The kind of dreams you have determines the kind of people to get connected to.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don't obey the commandments of obstacles. Resist every opposition schemed to break you down. Wake up!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Be prepared to say “no” to some things. That is the key. When you say “yes” to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don’t let your phone calls, online chats, and other trivial activities manage you. You have to manage them because they don’t have the dreams to fulfill; you have the dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t expect someone who doesn’t know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Prioritize activities under the captions “important” and “urgent”. Do the urgent things first and the important things later.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
One of the greatest statements you can ever make on earth is to say “I am right, but I may be wrong”. Find out where you go wrong and make corrections!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Submit your brand to the general public. Your brand may be well made, but it has to be well known.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Give full attention to what you do. If you give a rapt attention to what you do, you can have what you could have done in 3 hours well completed within 2 hours or less. Concentration is the key word.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Be prepared before you begin. You save yourself from delay if you are fully prepared. Preparation sets you for excellence.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Find out your most limiting tasks and deal with them as early as possible. Use a diary, and jot little points of reminder about specific tasks for reference later.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You are the driver steering your own dreams. Choose to knock down whatever crosses your way.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don’t cluster tasks on your way. Some tasks would definitely have to be postponed to the next day. You can’t do all things in one day. You can’t chase two rabbits at the same time. Both will escape.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
When you have a lot of goals to accomplish, it is very important you do your own “Kaizin”. Shift those that are unnecessary now to the following day and carefully deal with a bigger task in smaller bits
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Planning of the next day’s activities should be done a night before. This makes you not to be destructed by people and events that do not contribute to the success of your dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don’t depend on the thoughts
—  “I need more time”. There are only 24 hours in each day. You can’t make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit.
They say “time is money”. But I want to say “time makes money”. This means time is greater than money.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Take time to regularly assess how you spend your time. Be ready to make changes that suit the goals pursue at a particular time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Be bold and never feel shy to consult people. You may appear like a stupid person for few minutes if you ask questions
—  but you are likely to be a fool forever if you don’t ask at all.
Create a link through which you can market your dream products. Create a blog or a website of your own depending on what you want to be recognized for. Share your experiences through these media.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You don’t have a silver spoon in your mouth. You have a golden spoon in your palms. Use it and feed yourself
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
If you are determined to achieve your dreams, you must be ready to accept and affirm positive things about yourself. Affirm positively! Say positive things and encourage yourself that you can make it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
I believe most people are small dreamers because they dream about great things, however, they think those great things are going to come to them when they wait
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
We are narrative creatures, and we need narrative nourishment—narrative catechisms.
— N.D. Wilson, Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
Master online branding. Online branding makes you known for something specific by people who have not even seen you physically, before.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Find a target. Know where your influence is heading towards. Find out those who will be interested in what you do and “why”. Now work hard to answer the question “why?
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Share your ideas with people of like-mind and get motivated by their encouragements and experiences.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Dare to be competent. Competency is what makes everyone remain at peace when things are being handled by you. Watch yourself if everyone feels uncomfortable just because it’s you doing it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Accept the fact that you are the pivot along which the loads of your efforts will turn. Acknowledge yourself as the chairperson at the center of affairs management for your dreams. Take the chair and be at the fore-front.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Promise people with the hope of not letting any fracture misalign you from fulfilling those promises. That gives you a recommendable brand.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Personal branding for dream fulfillment often comes like the process of building castles. You have to be attracted to the construction work carefully, consistently and passionately over time.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Attend seminars, forums, conferences, summits and sessions where interesting topics about dream fulfillment and personal branding are prioritized themes and topics. Get exposed to better ways of doing things
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Convert your fans into your customers by adding value to what you do.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Good character keeps good brand safely. Bad character destroys hard earned brands.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Maintain the name you build. It is easier to make a good brand than to maintain a good brand already made. Wining a trophy is not as difficult as defending it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Study whatever you were told very carefully. Make the best choices for the best brands and discard the rest.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Manna will definitely fall from above, but it’s gonna fall for those who cultivated “manner farms” on the clouds.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Embrace the social media and utilize it wisely to promote your brand. When you optimize the social media, you may go offline, but your brand will never go off-track.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Never ever compare yourself with other people. They may have what you don’t have
—  you also have what they may not have. Over-watching what they have is over-looking what you have. Use what you have.
Break away from the box confining you. Positive dreamers do not follow the status quo. They keep raising the standard of the bar higher and higher. Raise the bar.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Make a change of your steps when necessary. “Status quo” is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Never entertain anger. Great people do not become angry over unnecessary issues.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
People can still see you even if you enter the next door. Even if you are dead and gone, they can still see you. What is necessary is whether they see you for the good, bad or ugly reason.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Whether you like it or not, you are branding yourself. The concern is whether the brand is a positive one or not. It is therefore expected of every aspiring achiever who wants to make an indelible impact to first of all create and maintain a good brand.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Your brand resides in your dominant talent. Other talents and gifts are only there to connect you to the right people for the right choice and the right places for the right actions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
If you hide the talents, you hide your brand. It’s simple.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Come out with your unique signal and don’t always be compelled to go the common way. That is called innovation.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
If you plant your crops in the weather of pride they will grow tall and fall down. Take away pride and your dreams will stand.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don’t keep people in hatred. You might lose that very person who should endorse your next appointment letter if you are a skillful hater of people. Let love lead
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Build a name. Personal branding is all about name building. I don’t just mean alphabetical name, but a name that can be spelt in the skills you have and pronounced with the things you do
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Respond to critics with humility. Most people are experts in finding problems with whatever others do. That should not be a surprise to you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
It is one thing being disciplined to plan and it is another thing being a disciple of great work. Be your own disciplinarian.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Agree and freely switch on the heart that will take “no” as an answer to some questions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something great which will not be known.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Anger is the agro-chemical that makes the weeds of failure to germinate and compete with your crops of success. Don’t apply it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
When it’s not meant to make you up, it’s meant to fake you up. Just say no and act right. Be bold to say “no”.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Take excuses and procrastination as your enemies. Let them see you and frown their faces and bypass you without greetings. You will excel if you don’t internalize the habit of giving excuses.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don’t accept the available as the preferable. Go extra mile with extra speed.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Dream big dreams, but start small. A journey of thousand steps begins with a step.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Nothing good stands without the right attitude. You may know how to do it, but if the attitude is negative, all you can say is “I could have done it”.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Know that dreaming is a waste of sleeping time and energy if you don’t wake up to achieve them.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Dreams do not bear fruits unless the weather conditions are favourable. Your positive mentality makes your dreams germinate
—  your actions make them to bear fruits. Take positive actions. Be positively minded.
Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams. Think about the possibility of what you plan to do and approach it with an optimistic action. Stay positively.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile lands for a farmer’s dream seeds. Change location.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Quitters don’t gain what they have started working on
—  waiters don’t start what they could have gained. What is common there is failure.
Attitude determines how the “inner battle” is won.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Don’t despise little things that contain tiny miracles. Enjoy little actions!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Let your plans be assured from the end to the beginning. Let it be clear that the end is hopeful. Wake up.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Now-people” are winners
—  they say “now” and they do it “now”! Do not delay.
Be prepared before you set off to work on your dreams. Prior preparation is success divided by half. The more prepared you are, the easier your success. Set off.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Be conscious of the global elements in your dreams. When starting local, dream of taking it global sooner.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Whatever is difficult can be done with regular attention and actions. Stay focused.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Be disciplined and disciple to thrive in every situation and keep cleaved to your plans.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You must stay focused, concentrating on the work at hand. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Dream murderers are people who refuse to learn and optimize their own dreams. They discourage others from going ahead to make it happen. Why? Because they don't want go higher and they want everyone to be like them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting at the bus stop for your unfulfilled return!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Never stop learning to be who you are meant to be just because you have found someone and decided to be like him/her.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Take a step that has a purpose of leading you to where you have planned to go. When the destination is right and the direction is wrong, it is impossible to get there. Make a step.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people's dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can't do,
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Know what you really want. Know why you want it and how you will get it. That's the key!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Trial and error” is not bad, but not the best. If you don’t know where the crowd is going, don’t follow it. Get set.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Walk in faith. Do not let your doubts take the lead ahead of you
—  they will show you the wrong path. Being a pessimist is a failure plan uncompleted.
Choose a good attitude and that is the key to making great impacts! Never be fooled to follow the wrong direction
—  you dreams will be alive and grow into success!
Fit yourself where you are before you fix yourself where you can be!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Your dreams are your solid rock
—  all other dreams are sinking sands! Recreate Your World and I believe you can!
Begin each day with the hope of ending it with the bests of your steps. Plan the day ahead and ensure that the plans are worthy of ensuring your dreams are achieved. Get started.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Within every little dream seed is the potential viability of sprouting to becoming a great forest.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Dreams appear as seeds that when planted, must become a forest reserve.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen.It is the same with dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The beginning seems bitter to you, but the end is sweeter for you. However, you can’t get through to the end without having a beginning. You must begin by all means.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
God is not interested in the seeds he put in you
—  He is interested in the fruits that must come out of you!
God is the source of wisdom for dream accomplishment. This is the principal principle.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Negative brands are the main reasons why your dreams become too hard to change shape. Negative brand can cake your dreams to take undesirable shape without permitting for remedy to be made.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Whatever you do gives you the name it gives.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Not every environment accepts the dream shaping progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about, be sure it can progress very well where you are; Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile grounds for a farmer’s dream seeds. Go and relocate!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
You may know how to do it, but you have to choose to do it.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The desired shape of your dreams is different from the supposed shape of another person’s dream. When shaping your own, you may watch the process of another person’s dreams, but keep eyes away from the destination.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts insult your efforts bitterly!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Blames create no change
—  winners don't apportion blames
To shape a dream well, understand that it is going to happen through processes in which your hands must get on board. It takes your own responsibility to get the best dream shape
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Give a try; give a shot. Sometimes, you must not only expect the way to be too clear; strike when you can!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The shape of your dreams will not hold if you believe that disbelief is the mending glue. You will only turn back to see the pieces of your dreams if you have the impossibility mindset.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Success is no magic
—  grab a handful of hope and never let it go till you get there!
Football Coaches do play football matches
—  their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in the scores of the games they monitor and mentor!
As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your efforts.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream