shaping the dream - by israelmore ayivor

Shaping the dream ~ Israelmore Ayivor

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SHAPING

The DREAM

~ Israelmore Ayivor

(Author / Speaker)



SHAPING THE DREAM

Copyright © 2013- Israelmore Ayivor

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A Brief Description of the book;

Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part

of that proportion! This book was written purposefully to safeguard

the dreams we have about the future every day and make them

become realities. Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as

real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! This book “Shaping the

dream” is a major contribution to inspirational literature, which

exposes the action plans to take when you have a dream and want to

see it actualized! This book provides you with the knowledge you

need to create make you an achiever!

In “Shaping the dream”, you will discover 101 thought provoking

principles that will guide you to make your dreams become realities

with emphasis on attitude building, personal branding and time

management among others.

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CONTENTS PAGES

Chapter 1- The FACTS, the PROOFS and the RULES ………. 6

Chapter 2. DREAMS; alive or dead?........................................ 10

Chapter 3. God first!............................................................... … 20

The principal principle for fulfilling your dreams!

Chapter 4. Getting started with the journey!................................22

Twenty (20) principles for beginning the race with your dreams!

Chapter 5. Building the right attitude………………………… 27

Twenty (20) principles for building the right attitude for

accomplishing your dreams.

Chapter 6. Make a good personal brand!.................................... 32

Twenty (20) principles for qualitative personal branding for dream

fulfillment.

Chapter 7. Take initiatives! ……………………………………. 38

Fifteen (15) principles for taking a goal oriented initiative to

achieve your dreams.

Chapter 8. Manage your time effectively! ……………………… 42

Fifteen (15) principles for effective time management for dream

accomplishment.

Chapter 9. Get connected to the right people!............................. .. 46

Ten (10) principles for connecting with the right people for dream

accomplishment

Chapter 10. Final messages from IMPACT WEB………………. 50



Appreciation:

To my mum, Precious; my sister Hawa and my brothers,

Akpenyo and Eyram. It’s great having you!

Dedication:

This piece of work is specially dedicated to:

Mr. Richard Brempong.

~ The former President, Nurses’ Christian

Fellowship ~ Ho Nursing School for

2009/2010 spiritual year.

You stepped into my life at the most

appropriate time and God used you to lift

me from “there” to “here”. Your hands

really cared! I am grateful!



Chapter 1

The FACTS, the PROOFS

and the RULES

“Never rate yourself too low; you will be

whoever you think you can be provided you

are willing to pay the price!

Are you a dreamer? If “no” is your answer, what makes you

think you are not? If your answer is “yes”, what makes you

think you are? What are the dreams you have dreamt so far?

How many steps out of thousands have you taken to have them

fulfilled? What is keeping you from dreaming if you don’t do

so? Why do you narrow your minds to small dreams instead of

extra-large and big dreams? What do you know about dreaming

big?

If you still don’t have ready answers to these questions, just get

it right, “it is not too late to dream”. You can do it now! This

very moment, I mean right now! Your dreams today are

answers to what you are to do, where you are to go and what

you have to say in later days of your life. You must start

dreaming big now. In this book you will discover steps to make

your dreams work out well!

The FACTS:



1. You have to accept and agree with this short notice that

“having is different from fulfilling a dream”. “To have

a dream” is just a bargaining process; “fulfilling it” is

the real purchasing hour!

2. Whatever you dream, you can achieve it provided it is

the will of God for you. Once the Lord Jehovah is in

approval of it, just dream it; He placed the power in you

to do it abundantly!

3. You were brought to where you are standing now

because the decisions you took some time back have

held you by your hands and dragged you this far. Your

decisions determine where you will or will not be in

later days to come.

The PROOFS:

People who are achievers were once dreamers; but not all

dreamers eventually become achievers. Before a person gets to

become who he/she was meant to become, he/she must be

responsible and take the necessary steps expected.

Sampson in the bible was meant to become the man who should

have delivered the Israelites from the Philistines. However,

having taken the wrong step, he rather committed suicide and

died together with some of the Philistines. King Joseph was a

big dreamer in the Bible, always having the enthusiastic desire

to fulfill his dreams of becoming a great leader. Although his

dreams attracted negative people, jealous minds and enviers,

majority of whom were from his own household, he never gave

up on living a life of integrity to become an achiever!



The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream”

declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream

meant for liberation, success and fulfilled life can become true.

In reality, the fulfillment of such a dream is what liberated the

black Americans! Dreams can either die young or become

realities; the evidences are enormous!

The RULES:

Every game has rules. Life’s a game that has its respective

rules; obey the rules, win the game! If your dreams must

become realities, something definitely must happen. What are

the simple rules? Get them right;

1. Tune in to the goals created from each dream and stay

focused. You might miss the goals if you are not focused.

2. Switch on your stamina; your passion leads you to your

winning styles. Build a good passion!

3. Give a try; give a shot. Sometimes, you must not only

expect the way to be too clear; strike when you can!

4. Never lose hope; until your bones are rotten, never give up.

Once the final whistle did not blow up, keep running hard!

5. Never be disobedient; take a coach, take a mentor and be

instructed!

I agree that dreaming in not a crime, so I can dream as big as I

can. Never rate yourself too low; you will be whoever you think

you can be provided you are willing to pay the price!

Discover more about yourself, dream wild dreams because what

others see in you right is just a mild chapter of you; the wild



chapter will unfold sooner! Dare to dream and shape the dream

every day!



Chapter 2

DREAMS; alive or dead?

“Most of the dreams that have suffered to

death were murdered by their own owners”

Dreams are like living things; they can grow, they can suffer

disabilities, they can have deficiency diseases and they can also

die off when they meet unfavourable and favourable conditions

respectively. For a dream to die, something so tragic would

have definitely gone wrong! Unfortunately, most dreams that

have suffered to death have been murdered by their own

owners. Be careful you don’t kill your own dreams.

The following factors have been arrested as the armed factors

that are responsible for the influence of many millions of

dreams. I have shared them on Facebook, twitter and other

networks and they’ve really gone a long way to influence

people. The first category is made up of 5 selected watch words

that can keep your dreams alive; and the second category is

made up of 4 factors that can kill your dreams!

Get them now, and keep your dreams alive;

Five (5) selected watchwords that can

keep your dreams alive!

Persistence is the key!:



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 of your life! Time

will tell, so you got to persist!

You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and

persist in times of difficulty and you will get there. Every tree in

the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt but they

endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their

barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make

medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make

their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!

“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”

The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for

excuses. 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! Majority of

excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never

be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up!

Insist, Resist and Persist to the end!

Quit the blame game!:

The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt

dressing up to play it! Blames create no change; winners don't

apportion blames; only losers have the potentials to do that!



Stop blaming people for not making you to achieve your

dreams. The question is "are they the people having those

dreams?" 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. No matter how you are taught by your

teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear

your teacher's smiling face to the stage. You got to change your

own face into a smiling one!

The desired shape your dreams take is directly proportional

to the practical presentation of the theoretical skills that you

have learnt. People will teach you but that does not do

anything about the size of your dreams until you rise to act!

You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you

have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by

the power put in you! Avoid the penalties of the blame game;

you are destined to be an achiever!

Be hopeful in all situations!:

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People

are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't

believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

Success is no magic; grab a handful of hope and never let it go

till you get there!

Don't be a patron of disbelief; nobody fights and wins battles in

the hand gloves of doubts. If you are convinced about your

choices, go with full hope that you will get there by the grace of

God! Don't entertain fear; it does not entertain you either; it

only scares you!



“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”.

Hope fuels your inspirations while doubts assault your

aspirations! Hope greets your desires warmly while doubts

insult your efforts bitterly! If I am to choose between fear and

doubts, I will go for the third choice; thus "nothing"! This is

because doubts are deadly chemicals that kill viable dream

seeds; and fear is a compacted concrete soil which prevents the

dream seeds from germinating! Stay on course; be hopeful;

have the faith and you will get what God prepared for you!

Go for the best coach!:

The role that people play in your life can determine how far you

can go. 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!

You’ve got to be around people who encourage you, advice you

and want to see you go even higher and higher than they

themselves are! Friends who mock your dreams are not

qualified to keep dusting your door step with their footprints

every time. There comes some special times that you got to

keep "impossibility thinkers" behind you and walk with those

are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only

option to keep you going!



Watch your dreams and watch our friends. Take time and

watch your friend again with sharpened eyes. Turn on your

dreams again; watch them again; then watch your friends

once more and know who to keep away and who to keep

nearer!

A good coach can be a caring parent, a wise teacher, an

exemplary pastor, a passionate friend or a devoted mentor. Keep

in touch with all of them especially at the time they are needed.

However, the best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is

Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all

things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!

Leave their dreams; Live your dreams!

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! Dream thieves are those

who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other

people's dreams to work on. They suffer do attempt what they

can't do, instead of concentrating on what makes them happier

every day!

Don’t be either a dream murderer or a dream thief. "Celebrity

life" had caused us more harm than Good. People are eager to

walk in other people's pair of shoes that does not fit them. The

result is that, their dreams begin to imitate a "tortoise" walk and

that I guess is already uncomfortable!

“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”

Never stop learning to be who you are meant to be just because

you have found someone and decided to be like him/her. You

go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something

else by travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps

waiting at the bus stop for your unfulfilling return!

Fit yourself where you are before fix yourself where you can

be! Your dreams are your solid rock; all other dreams are

sinking sands! Recreate Your World and I believe you can!

Four (4) negative factors that can kill your dreams

Negative attitudes:

Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific

intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to

choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other

bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless. You may know

how to do it, but you have to choose to do it. The binding factor

between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When

your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work

output will bind well.

“Attitude determines everything; it helps mold dreams into

desirable shapes. Your attitude will determine if you will

have a triangular rejected product or a rectangular

accepted one. Fair enough, your attitude again will

determine if you will have any product at all”



Apostle Paul advised; "whatsoever you do, do it heartily as

unto the Lord, and not unto men" (Colossians 3:23). Do what

you choose to do with all your heart, head and hands! Your

attitude determines how passionate you do what you chose to

do. 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!

Negative environments:

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!

Your bread assumes the shape of the pan you use to bake

your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can’t

use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the

pan and change the shape of the bread!

In one opinion, the house in which you stay, the church you

attend and the town in which you reside may not determine the

size of your dreams, but they can influence the rate of maturity

of what you have planted. On the other hand, your dreams can

change the environment which was not conducive for it at first!

However it is a good initiative for the dreams that would change

one society to be nursed in another environment, before being

transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change

process to begin!



Negative brands:

Whatever you do gives you the name it gives. When you do a

negative thing, you give a negative impression about yourself to

those who watch or get to know you. That is your brand. For the

sake of your dreams, don't create negative brands for yourself,

else you scare away opportunities that are meant to be your

turning points! Below are some negative brands you may hear

or experience. It goes with what people say about how you

behave.... e.g.;

>> That is the nurse who shouted at me when I was admitted at

the hospital!

>> That is policeman who was bribed by our driver when we

were on the journey!

>> That is the pastor who advised me to go for a second wife

when my first wife was giving me into trouble!

>> That is the teacher who coerced me to make love with him

so that he will give me a better mark in the examination!

>> That is the friend who betrayed me yesterday for the seventh

time only in this week!

>> That is the wife who disappointed me when I caught her

“doing it” red-handed!

>> That is the young man who cheated on me and told me lies

upon lies!

>> That is the politician who promised to give us the moon for

free, but has never lend us a torchlight since then!

>> That is the driver who always disrespect traffic rules!

>> That is the lawyer who took bribe to make my case flopped!

That is him.... There she is!



“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”

Avoid every opportunity that calls itself a privilege and is meant

to create a feature of negative brands on you. Stay blessed and

advice your conscience!

Negative people;

As long as there is life, there is a potential; and as long as there

is a potential, there will be a success! Never surround yourself

with negative people. They...

Demean your value;

Destroy your image and

Drive you crazily!

They Compress, Oppress, Depress, and Suppress your dreams

in every way by how they see you, what they tell you and what

they think about you!

Don't give yourself to people who try to belittle your ambitions;

be positive in your thoughts! Have a good image about yourself;

Develop the possibility mentality about your potentials;

Visualize your desired end as glorious and always be in focus as

a workman for God!

See your dream seeds as becoming fruits; negative people

are negative weather conditions that can make your dreams

wither before they bear flowers. Don’t plant when and



where the weather is negative. Reposition yourself for

greatness!

Live life so well that when you die, even your critics will

forever admit that “Napoleon” could not have done what you

did. Life is deliberate. Success is out of a conscious effort. Be

inspired to make your dreams come true!

~~~~~~~

I believe these and many more will guide you to share your

dreams into sizeable shapes!



Chapter 3

God first!

“God is the source of wisdom for dream

accomplishment. This is the principal

principle.”

The principal principle for fulfilling your dreams!

Get the principal principle for fulfilling your dream:

“Pursuing a dream without God’s approval is as dangerous

as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the

end….!”

Any time you feel like you are going through hard times, pains

become your often record, your dreams get crushing down,

thing getting hard; never feel like it’s you who isn’t making it.

God is just MOLDING you!

God does not want you to REMAIN how you are. He wants to

MOLD you into who He wants you to become. As a result of

MOLDING, you may be rubbed against something; you may be

twisted in distress, you may be crumbled under pressure; you

may be drenched by storms, twisted by chords, thrashed by

thorns and turned by trials and stopped by ramps! That does not

make your dreams a despised raw material... It rather tells that



you are useful clay whose beautiful destined shape will be the

talk of the world.

If you think about the MOLDING or the shaping process, you

may be offended and disintegrate yourself... But if you focus on

that beautiful art of your destined shape, you will surrender

yourself for your true destiny!

God has a master plan for your life and it must come through a

process. Be available for use by God. He is not interested in the

seeds he put in you; He is interested in the fruits that must come

out of you!

Surrender all parts of your body…unto Jesus...our blessed

Saviour for Him to MOLD you!

It’s a priority to consider God first!; Go, shape your dreams!



Chapter 4

Getting started with the journey!

“The beginning seems bitter but the end is

sweeter. However, you can’t get through to

the end without having a beginning. You

must begin by all means”

Twenty (20) principles for beginning the race

with your dreams!

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. Dreams appear as seeds

that when planted become a forest reserve. Within every little

dream seed is the potential viability of sprouting and becoming

great. Now how do you make the race, having obtained the

seeds? The simple word to give you is “Getting started”!

1. 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.



2. 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.

3. 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. To believe in your dreams, be

sure that God is in agreement with your steps. Go ahead.

4. Know what you really want. Know why you want it and

how you will get it. “Try 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.

5. Dream big dreams, but start small. A journey of thousand

steps begins with a step. Don’t be unwilling to take those

little steps; in them are residing great journeys. Move on.

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