the goal by paul shola oguntade

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THE GOAL the history of everything and what matters most Copyright 2013 Paul Shola Oguntade.

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My name is Paul Shola Oguntade, at this writing I am three years above two decades. And HONESTLY, I have

lived a MAJOR part of these years DOING NOTHING.

I grew up like everyone else; from suckling to crawling, crche, Kindergarten, primary school, secondary school,

university; with a few other menus in between.

Growing up I have always been a bright child, loved by everyone and well known in the schools I attended, and

a star among the group. Good grades were common to me, though at no time did I top a class, but I was always

doing well.

Along the line I did some paint works, I also wrote a drama that was presented at an organisation I once

worked with. I've had articles written, some published and some not published. At a point I wanted to be in the

banking sector, at another I started considering rap music, later it was to become an electrical and electronicsengineer. I have had so many dreams, I had sometimes decided to go into book writing; first it was academic

books, then religious books, then novels.

All along I had been having movement of some sort.

Talking about IDENTITY CRISIS, I have had a good share of it. PEER PRESSURE, LOW-SELF ESTEEM, Urban-

Culture and its DISTRACTIONS, you name it; I have been there before.

PROLOGUE


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All these made me ask the question every sane man had asked himself/herself at one point or the other in his

life. How we have individually phrased the question could have varied but the intent is the same.

So I asked myself, WHAT IS THE GOAL OF MY LIFE, or rather WHAT IS THE GOAL OF LIFE in general. I knew I

needed a holistic understanding of the whole picture in order to know where and how I fit in.

If you have been as inquisitive as I have been, you would have gotten answers that could have all together

succeeded in confusing you today. I not am writing a critic to others expressions, all I am doing here is to share

with you my experience and what I have discovered.

So here it is; in this e-book I have decided to title THE GOAL-the history of every thing and what matters most, I

would share with you my discovery on life's most important question. I do not plan to add to the list of

answers we already have on bookshelves and MP3 CDs, NO! What I am here to do is to paint the WHOLEPICTURE and then allow you to go ahead to make your decisions about life.

I DO NOT HAVE A FORMULA TO GIVE!

At the end of this e-book, I would have succeeded not to tell you what to do with your life, or how you should

define your life. What would happen is that I would reveal to you the course of life, and allow your God-given

conscience to point the direction in which you should go.

PROLOGUE


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SECTION 1 THREE THOUGHTS

#1. THE TOP

#2. SUCCESS#3. HUMAN-BEINGS AND ANIMAL BEINGS

SECTION 2 THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING

THE BIG PICTUREGOAL 1

GOAL 2

GOAL 3

SECTION 3 EQUILIBRIUM

CONTENT


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THREE

SECTION 1


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#1.THE TOP

So what is your TOP?

Now you know it is vague and shallow to just say I want to be at the top. How do YOU define the top? Since THEY

ALL (the good, the bad and the ugly)got to the top, which of the tops do you aim at, and how do you measure it?

There is got to be a compass then!

You would notice they had all gotten to the top based on some inner compass, value, criteria, template or

whatever words could describe their guide. The gang lord wants something and he believes the means to an end

doesn't matter, as far as you get it, the end justifies the means.

What exactly would do for a compass?

I can tell you many things, in fact there are volumes of materials that have described and dictated what things

should be the basis of our actions. But right here, I would rather not suggest any; instead I would paint the WHOLEPICTURE so that your God-given conscience can direct you in the path that you should go.


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#2.SUCCESS

To succeed is simply to achieve your goal(s).

By that definition the gang lord, Tiger Woods, Osama, Obama, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Mugabe, are all

successful.

So how do you place your own success?


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#3. HUMAN-BEINGS AND ANIMAL-BEINGS

I like the scripture that said in Psalm 82:6 ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. another is

Jesus' response to Satan in Matthew 4, when he said man shall not live by bread alone and also the

injunction given to us after creation in Genesis 1:28. They all bring to consciousness a better perspective

towards man's existence.

Contrary to the popular opinion of biological science, man is beyond being an animal, a mammal and a primate.

Man is essentially a spiritual being that possess a soul and lives in a body. This book is based on a living that is

beyond the animal plane.

We have needs; biological, psychological, social, material and economic, and spiritual needs. Any other category

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THE HISTORYSECTION 2


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The Big Picture

Think of it, how would you say the WHOLE PICTURE form a whole?

There are numerous human activities, and diverse fields of human engagement, all contributing to the entire

human system one way or the other, some were mentioned earlier. There are the teachers to supply

knowledge and equip people. The farmer is to provide food for the teachers and students, and the tailor is to

make cloths for the cover of every one. The lawyer is needed for justice to be established, the clerics areneeded also, and the entertainers are wanted.

As much as it is honourable to be the CEO someone has to be the cleaner, the driver, the cook, the chauffeur,

or better still the gateman.

It's a jigsaw puzzle we are in, and whether we choose to believe either of these two:

That there is a pre-written script that we are all playing or That we experience only those we have chosen, and allowed.

Either way the fact remains that there is need for us to be in a role playing a part.

While we all don't see it that way, we are all in someway playing a part in life. For some, it is the desire to be

rich, and so they do all they do, for others it is to get fame and or power. Whatever our understanding or

motive is, one truth is that we are filling a space, and making a contribution of some sort.


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The Big Picture

So, let's take a look at the big picture, I believe a holistic view of everything would help in understanding were we

have come from, where we are and where we are going. It would advance our understanding of living beyond the

animal plane, and also the GOAL of everything. How I like to do this is with a diagram I call Time-Line.


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The Big Picture

I choose not to hide this truth from you; we are created by God (Yahweh), and the story of creation is

very accurate. The beginning of the world is the first stage in both diagrams. Shortly after that, sin

entered into the world and so the fall began(1).

If you take a look at the diagram, you will see that the second division (Lifetime) has a set of goals,

which are Reconciliation and Living and Role Playing. The second diagram is without Reconciliation.

Here is why;

After the fall, there was need to redeem man, hence the coming of Christ(2), and his death for ourredemption. So at the second stage (Redemption or Re-Birth)(3), the fall was put to an end. However,

only to those who accept the work of Redemption, to them it turns out to become Redemption and a

New Birth (Re-Birth). That is why we have two diagrams and in the first diagram, the dotted linesended at the stage of Re-Birth.

To everyone was Redemption made available to, but only those who accepts it gets a Re-Birth. Titus

2:11- For the Grace of the God that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men. However, we get

saved this Grace that comes to all men through faith (acceptance of grace) Ephesians 2:8.

So all through, there are two goals and responsibilities; Living and Role-Playing, only Re-Birth brings

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The Big Picture

THREE GOALS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

So far in life we have the goal and responsibilities; To Live, For Role-Playing and For Reconciliation.

Their relationship is better explained with the table below.


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GOAL1

GOAL 1

Naturally we all have the goal to live, and so we have the need for survival, for growth, to thrive, and

to be fulfilled.

The Need for Survival

To survive here means being able to meet our basic needs sufficiently (maybe not in excess, but

enough for our balance and effectiveness), the basic needs of;

Food,

Cloth,

Shelter

Reproduction and

Security.

In the animal kingdom, this is the sole goal, and that is all they live for. Sad as it may appear; there are

Homo sapiens, who have this goal also as their only one. By that, I have not stated that this goal isunimportant, what I simply mean is that to have this alone as a goal or singular pursuit, is low level

playing, and animalistic; we are more.

The Need for Growth

Another goal that we have and that differentiates us from the animals is the goal for growth, most

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GOAL1

GOAL 1: LIVING

The Need To Thrive

Here the need is to succeed.

To succeed means to achieve optimum performance in our career, finance and in our various roles in

life. It means to do well in our roles. Though we define it differently, we all mean to do well.

You would do well to observe that because of the need to thrive; many are doing all that they do. Thisapplies to the student furiously seeking admission into the university or pursuing high grades. It

applies to the graduates doing everything to get a job or even the employee striving for promotion.

We see this need apply also in how companies strive to remain in the market. Even the criminal is up

to fulfilling this need.

It is a very important need that must be met. However it is not the most important. In my opinion,

none of the needs or goals mentioned in this section is more important than the others. What ishowever true, is that the lack or at most the insufficiency of one could affect an entity (a person, an

organization or, a country).

For example, when people can barely meet their basic needs, or have lower income than it is normal

for effectiveness in their society, what happens is that, other goals and needs might not be pursued.

You can only find few persons who haven't secured a stable financial life try to achieve the goal of

Role Playing effectively or even try to make a contribution to their society. I have seen this affect how

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GOAL1

GOAL 1: LIVING

To be fulfilled

Here is the need to be pleased with our living.

How well we have been able to survive, grow and thrive will determine the level of fulfilment we

enjoy (amongst other factors).

It is someone that is well that can treat the sick. As much as fulfilment is gotten from various meansby different individuals, those first three needs go a long way in determining our level of fulfilment.

When the need for survival, for growth, to thrive, and fulfilment are well achieved by an individual,

such life is characterized by the word EFFECTIVENESS.


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GOAL2

GOAL 2: ROLE PLAYING

Picture this;

A world without computers, airplanes, telephones, mobile phones, the internet, schools, books, biro,

cars, cloths, sunglasses, skate boards, brick houses, shoes, television, radio, wrist watches, alarm

clock, fan, heater, printing press, microphone, face book, twitter, e-mail, electricity, anti-biotic,

vaccines, chlorine, sodium-chloride

You can add to the list. How would it be like to not have all these around today?

What about a world without Bill Gates and his colleagues, or the Wright Brothers, Nelson Mandela,

mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus Christ, Martin Luther King Jr., John Wesley, Winston Churchill,

Zukarbarg, Sir Alexander Fleming, Fela Durotoye, Olakunle Sorinyan, Leke Alder, Charles Spurgeon,

Alexander Graham Bell

Majority have done quit well achieving the goal of living, and they are more in the minority who have

moved to this second goal.

The goal of role playing has three successive needs, they are;

Self Discovery

Self Actualization and

Contribution.


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GOAL2

GOAL 2: ROLE PLAYING

Self discovery

As much as there is a happy teacher loving his/her job, there are MDs hating Mondays and longing for the next

Friday to come.

If you ask me why, I will answer simply; SELF DISCOVERY.

To thyself be true goes Shakespeare. Abraham Maslow said and I quote; A musician must make music, an

artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one

must be.

I once heard some one said that when you find what you are meant to do, you will suddenly find all the energy

to commit to it.

SO, FIND YOU!


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GOAL3

GOAL 3: RECONCILIATION

This is where it all comes together, the goal that tops all other goals. In this goal does others find meaning, permit me

to call it the TOP GOAL. Not that it is the most important, but that it is the goal that gives a grand scale meaning to

others. Understanding of it, breeds meaning to how other goals are approached and defined, as well as their

corresponding needs.

All over the world, man has been in search of a God it is obvious in his devotion to the various religions of the world.Not until recently, the spiritual part of man has not been so much accepted as much as it is now. The truth is that, man

is a spirit who has a soul (containing mind, emotion and will), and exists in this body.

After having it all, records proves that the soul of man gets tired and sees how vain everything could be. Check death

bed stories, no one ever wished to get more material things. It is always about a desire for better things of

relationship, contribution, and fellowship with friends, relative, humans, and a devotion to God.

Check out the three goals; Living, Role Playing and Reconciliation. Observe their characteristics, it moves from being

personal, physical, time bound and decay prone to being selfless, intangible but substantial, long lasting, transforming,

universal and eternal.

The more we move up the goal ladder, the more we enjoy our existence and derive fulfilment.

MAJORITY stops at living, and even at that they don't even achieve it in fuller measure. Hence the reason for the

nature of death bed stories.


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GOAL3


Briefly, I want you to carry out an exercise and ensure that you do this before you read further.

Get two or more people to do this with you, you will have to promise each other to be sincere with this exercise. Then

instruct yourselves to close your eyes, having done that with sincerity, tell every one to point to the north (with your

eyes still closed). Then you can open your eyes having done that. Ensure that you are still pointing as you open youreyes.

You would notice that everyone pointed in different directions.

Two things are true;

You were all right

You all had different right views


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GOAL3


HONESTLY, I don't want to go into lengthy explanations and debate about this, but the truth is that, the God we seek

and yearn for or the extraterrestrial we long to understand, or whatever word we choose to describe our need for the

spiritual. The answer is found in Christ (the true north).

I said earlier that this goal stands on three pillars;

That there is a God (Yahweh)

That the world we know of today starts from Creation (Genesis 1:1) and

That salvation of men comes through Jesus Christ's death and resurrection

IN THE BEGINNING

God (Yahweh) has this basic intent over time; to fill everywhere and all things with himself. He is into big time

franchise and brand extension. He therefore decided to create himself in other forms multiplied.


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GOAL3


As man accepts GAOL 3, the following needs have to be met;

Transformation

Service

Reconciliation

Transformation is like the re-orientation programme for restored franchise managers, so that they can learn

the organisational culture, values, mission, and general practices. Hence to think believe and act as the gods they


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GOAL3


And that is it; Goal 3 defined and laid out in its simplest form.

From here we will move to the last section of this e-book, where the balance to all these goals and every thing would

be addressed. And also, the question of purpose and our roles in this life would be answered. However I have

promised not to dictate to you a formula, what I have done so far was to give you an understanding of the whole

picture. The same will I do in this concluding section.


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SECTION 3


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WHAT MATTERS MOST

In summary, goals 1, 2, and 3 are our

responsibilities as humans, and so what matters most

is that we all should ensure that we are functioning in

them. Let us ensure we don't end up at goal 1, or at

gaol 2 alone. How we do that, is left to us individually.

That is why the SKILL to be able to DISCERN our own

unique way of expressing these goals is very

important.

So we have to live well, play our role well, and

join in reconciliation. This should be thebackdrop of all our endeavours in life. The

different ACTIVITIES with which we express

them may vary, but the goal is the same.

Observe the trends; you will discover how

majority of human's endeavours are majorly under the first goal. This includes organisations their mission

statements, seminars and their topic of discuss, books and their content, projects and their objectives, and so


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DEFINING YOUR PURPOSE

We have been able to identify the three

umbrella goals and responsibilities of man. The good

question should be how we can achieve them; in order

words what can we do to go about them, impliedly

what ACTIVITIES would accomplish them.

The three goals are our mission. And purpose,

calling, destiny and any related words you can choose

to describe one's life engagement is just a set of

activities done at different times to achieve the end

goal.

PURPOSE is a journey, today you are at this

spot, the next you are at another. Hence, it is your

functioning per time; purpose is not a destination, it is

the actualization of a journey; the journey that would

end at a destination someday.


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SUSTENANCE

We have outlined the three goals of human

beings. In the first two chapters, we saw the example

of several achievers, the gang lord was inclusive, and it

was cited that he made decisions based on some

guiding protocols, in fact the exact words used there

was that they are being guided by some inner

compass.

At the core of every man are these three;

Spiritual Stance

Paradigm

Values

These three determine how you approach life and its various spheres. They affect how you treat yourself and

many of your engagements in life. They affect your discernment as was mentioned in the previous chapter.

Spiritual stance, Paradigm, and values; they count. They would determine how you would embrace a lot of

things. In my opinion, I think the only difference between Hitler and Moses in the Bible is their core.

My admonition;


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SUSTENANCE

There is a universally and eternally accepted way. Preferences and prejudices don't apply here, and that is why

if your core is well audited all preferences would not exit. I mean, God created the world, but we created the

system, hence we have brought about everything that exists due to every individual entity's preferences.

I accept diversity, uniqueness and originality, but not to the extent that we now include our weaknesses and

paint it as being one's self.

My admonition; Let us get it straight.

I would like to stop here; we'll meet again in the third edition ofthee-book series. But before then, let me

share with you MY GOAL!


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MY GOAL

My Mission Statement

My goal is to help as many as I can to change the way they

think, act, and behave to the way God would like them to. This

is how I would UNIQUELY contribute to the three goals and the

various roles I play in life are towards achieving bits of the

entire goal.

My Roles

Permit me to say that I am multi talented; I write, I speak, I

design, I am a serial entrepreneur, I am a Talent manager, a

Psychologist (without a degree), a Philosopher, a poet, a

brother, a son, a colleague, a neighbour, a mentor, a protge

and a steward in the body of Christ amongst many other roles.

Mini-Goals

These roles affect the mini-goals I set for my life, from book

writing, engaging in a training, church attendance, exercises, diets, release of a new product into the market,

taking up anew course of study, taking a trip, get into/out of a relationships, meeting someone, joining an

organization, making some donations, and many others.

Time-Use


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