TILL MY STARS ARE OUT Umole

By Alex

TILL MY STARS ARE OUT

BY ALEX UMOLE

TILL MY STARS ARE OUT Umole

By Alex

Go little book! With the breath of the maker of the Universe, Go, encourage the disheartened. Go, strengthen the weak. To the young dreamer, Ignite within him a mighty desire and set his spirit on fire. ALEX UMOLE AUTHOR

TILL MY STARS ARE OUT Copyright by Alex Umole All rights reserved. No Portion of this publication may be used or printed without the express written consent of the publisher or author, except for brief excerpts in magazine, articles.

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CONTENTS Introduction: Defining Moments: We are all Painters: Dreamers and Strivers: The Force of Frequency: Elevators go down too: You will win: Epilogue: Recommended books:

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INTRODUCTION A few months ago, I sat in the neighbourhood library. I was preparing for a professional exam which was to take place the following month. I sat that day engrossed in my handbooks, working! I was ensuring that I sink into my mind every legal detail required for me to sail on top, to come out in colours. Although within my doubtful heart lingered a ray of fear; the fear of failure, which somehow propelled me to study. This fear notified every single nerve of my body and hot drops of sweat rolled down from my forehead as evidence that I was indeed reading! Meanwhile my mind began to wander, my eyes were fixed on the black ink on white paper before me, but my mind was close to Mount Everest! In the midst of all this, a female colleague walked behind me and whispered to my hearing, Well done. Thank you, I said smiling, I was happy about the idea that I was caught Reading. It feels so good to be caught doing the right thing! How are you Alex? I am fine and you? I am okay, just trying to jack. (The word Jack is a slang meaning Read). Alex, we have so much to jack. Yea, I know, but we have no choice, do we? As I said this, I reasoned; do we really have a choice? Sure we do. Life is made up of choices. We can decide to give up, sit back and do nothing. We still have made a choice; A choice to fail! Thats the choice I rather not make. When do you plan to leave the library? She continued. Well, I guess I would keep reading, jacking and then start soaking till the library closes. (I was humorously using the word soaking to mean the advanced stage of reading.) Really? Thats good. For me I would rush off now to cook for my parents at home. Then I will sit down to read. I will surely stay up and work till night time, till the stars are out and till my stars come out!

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We then exchanged good-natured remarks. She left the library leaving those heavy words hanging in the already dense atmosphere; ...I will surely work till my stars come out! I kept thinking about those fiery words, and the significance they conveyed. Those words exploded like a shooting star and increased the fire of desire within me, a desire to achieve my dreams and goals, to excel. The words stirred up a growing desire and a burning hunger for my stars and a desire to reach the highest heights. There and then, a fresh goal was born in me, so was the title of this work. I must work till my stars are out, that is what I resolve to do. Yesterday, a young Ethiopian girl named Adanech recounted her thrilling life story in an interview on T.V. She lost her an arm and one leg in a ghastly train accident. But inspite of her impediment she made up her mind to do everything a normal person would do and do it well. She decided to work till her stars come out! She spent hours training herself to use what she still has effectively. Today she plays football, keyboard, Basketball, baseball and swims for her school - all with one leg and one hand! She is now the student president of her school. She resolved to work till her stars are out. The essence of this little book is to inspire you to work on your dreams. May it fire you up to remain persistent in reaching forth for your goals and to dream big continually. To aim for the moon so that even if you miss it, you can still land among the stars. May it motivate you to know the essence of being yourself. May this work cause you to keep dreaming in the midst of setbacks, so that ultimately, all said and done, youll have the confidence, no matter what happens, that indeed - You won!

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DEFINING MOMENTS Brace yourself. Get thinking, Get up. This is the moment when you meet the man in the mirror, so lets begin the introduction! I was asleep that night, and in my dream world it was as if I was in the cinema hall watching myself in a movie! I cannot exactly remember the details of the experience, but my sweat-soaked bedsheet indicated that it must have been a tough one. All I can remember was that I suddenly woke up with the words on my lips; know yourself and dont let your lifestyle sabotage your vision. I awoke that weird night, I got thinking; was someone trying to tell me something? Was I ignorant about my life? Was I living right? Was I trying to be someone else? I picked up the telephone. It was late; there was a nebulous darkness across the moonlit sky. I dialed the number of one of my friends. His phone rang and he picked up the phone. Hello my man, this is Alex, sorry I called you at this unusual hour. I hope I didnt disturb you? Even though I knew I did, to the extent that I knew that if he had a gun he could have shot me through the phone! Oh no, not at all, he responded yawning, which went to show that he was only being polite. I went ahead and narrated my dream, or you may call it ordeal. I told him as much as I could remember. I think I have to get to know myself more, I said. Sure, everyone does. He replied and continued. The bottom line is that we all have to be ourselves to know ourselves, we are truly more than the body we see. One of the major problems around now is that most of us are trying to be like someone else. He muttered, still yawning.

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Conformity kills originality, I opined and continued, I really think that the opposite of courage is not fear, its conformity. For we insult the creator to his face when we try to extinguish our peculiarity and embrace uniformity. Someone said; where the two of us are exactly alike, then one of us is irrelevant. I became so excited about what I was saying (It started becoming a sermon), so I suggested to my friend that I come over to his apartment. He liked the idea, but he really needed his sleep. Alex, I would really like to sleep now, he asserted. Ok, anyway thanks for talking with me. You are welcome Alex. But before I drop the phone I will like to say that the moment has come for you to know more about who you are and what you are meant to do. Alex, be the person, you are meant to be. Search for your definition. You are more than what you do. So never allow your sense of self to become associated with your sense of job. Discover you! Its the task only you are entrusted with. Goodnight Alex, we would see tomorrow. He said these words and dropped the phone. I went back to my bed to sleep, but I couldnt sleep. I began to think about the man I would become, that I could become. I began to paint pictures. I began to dream.

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WE ARE ALL PAINTERS Last year, I visited the Albertina in Vienna, Austria; an art building containing works of famous artists. The works of Michelangelo were the art-works that thrilled me the most. It reminded me of the story I was told, that one day the great artist Michelangelo saw a block of marble that the owner said was of no value. It is valuable to me, said Michelangelo. There is an angel imprisoned in it, and I must set it free. His vision and his capacity to paint pictures in his mind created masterpiece sculptures from what others saw as junk marble! We all think in pictures. It is this capacity that is referred to as IMAGINATION. We all carry photographs in our mind. These images are what make us the men we are and they often, with time, cloth themselves with physical manifestation. I recall the touching tale of the young girl at the Special Olympics track-meet, who had the courage to see herself as she wanted to be, she cultivated her ability to paint a good picture of herself. The girl won the 50-yard dash and was jumping all excited. She yelled out to her parents, Look, mum and dad, I won. Her parents instantly burst into tears. The young girl proudly stood there as a medal was placed around her neck, then she ran over to her parents, who were now crying even more than before. Three of them hugged as her parents kept crying. An official in the games, who had watched this whole scene, became concerned and went over to the young girls parents and said, Excuse me is anything wrong. Through her tears, the mother said, No nothing is wrong, everything is right. We just heard our daughter speak for the very first time!

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The young girl was born dumb, but in her mind she pictured herself talking. She held that picture in her heart and carried it as she trained to be the best, that very day her thoughts revealed themselves. She talked! We are all painters; we are products of the pictures we painted in our hearts and minds. I know this to be true; if a man holds a dream long enough in his heart, soon enough he will hold it in his hand. Pictures, thoughts and ideas held constantly in ones mind will always manifest themselves at the earliest opportunity or at worst, eventually! I sincerely believe that not until you capture a picture, (like a camera would) you cannot capture your future. So every young man should set out in life carrying only images, pictures and thoughts of what he wants in his life and future. Carter G. Woodson, the author of the book, The Mis-education of the Negro people said; If you can determine what a man can think, You never have to concern yourself with what he would do. If you can make a man feel inferior, you never have to compel Him to seek an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. And if you can make a man feel justly an outcast, you never have to order him to go through the back door, he will go without being told, and if theres no door, his very nature will demand one. The truth is that; you will become as small as your controlling desire but only as big as your dominant aspiration and as great as the pictures in your head. Decide you wont idly think or lazy around. If you snooze, you lose. Dream! Then stay awake to realize them. I am told that the two founders of the successful Google, an internet search website, where just average Stanford University students. They were young, but they were dreamers, they were good painters. They painted a great idea and a picture of a great company that has generated millions of dollars today.

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You are a student; begin to think of yourself as an excellent student. You are not unintelligent! You are as good as the brightest student in your class. But you have to think of yourself as so, only then can your genius find expression to give you the enthusiasm to work and excel. I read of one man named Biodun Marguis in 2001, he claims credit for having created Nigerias first computer. I am not sure of the foundation of his assertion, but the report says that he started manufacturing his own note-book computer, which he named pragmatic notebook. From his own mouth, he asserted that he stumbled upon the idea of manufacturing laptops, because he had always had the thoughts of producing technological equipments from childhood! True to the words - Every man ultimately becomes a self-portrait of his dream. Everyday, dreamers make their dreams come true. Everyday, great scientists are discovered and their inventions uncovered. Theres room for you. Theres always room for good painters, but you have to develop the hunters attitude knowing that wherever you go, there are ideas to be discovered and caught. In the year 2000, a man by the name Alexander Amosu was playing around with the composer facility on his Nokia 3310 phone and realized how easily he could re-create his favorite RnB tunes, by keying notes into the memory, which he did and then sent it to his brother. His brother was at school at the time and his phone rang and all his friends asked; Where did that ringtone come from? By the end of the day, Alexander Amosu had seven people contacting him for the ringtone. With this discovery, he set up his own cottage industry out of his parents council house. Within four months the ringtone company which he formed had moved into its own office in a choice place in the U.K and was employing more than 20 staff.

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In 2002, Alexander Amosus company turned over 1.2 million pounds, the truth? Amosu was a great idea-hunter, or better still, a good painter! I like what Henry D. Thoreau said, If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them. Theres something you must do, it may be something in you were meant to develop. It may be a hobby you were designed to turn to an industry or an idea you were meant to make big. So get up and do it. Most times you do not need a University degree to do it. All you need is that simple insight into that thing you must do. Dont let anyone talk you down. Anything anybody says about you is merely an opinion, except you accept it. There are no limitations except your mind says so. You are your limit!

DREAMERS AND STRIVERS In recent times, one of the events that have intrigued me is the controversy over the genuineness of one mans claim to have found the HIV/AIDs vaccine to cure the disease. His name - Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka. The medical establishment argued against the possibility of a cure being found by Abalaka on the premise that theres no empirical explanation for the said vaccine yet. In other words, they were saying that a cure cannot be found yet. This is what I like about dreamers; they are always ahead of their time. Remember the Wright brothers? The whole academy of science gathered and concluded that it is impossible to fly a piece of iron on air. The Wright brothers proved them wrong by making the Airplane fly!

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I like dreamers! They challenge the norm and even though a dreamers claim turns out to be wrong. One thing remains; he has expanded the possibilities for mankind to one day make that claim a reality. Only dreamers can change the world. Indeed, they are the only ones that ever have. For sure, the dreamers change is not made without inconveniencies. When Alexander Fleming woke an unbelieving world early last century with this claim of discovery of penicillin, the reception was predictable: Laughter. But years later, everyone hailed him as a hero. You must dream! Do not follow the path others have, instead go where theres no path and leave your footprints. You must never follow the crowd, if you want the crowd to follow you. Millions saw the apple fall, but Isaac Newton was the one who asked why. Learn to question the norm. As every inventor has the burden of proof, every dreamer has the burden to make his dream come true. So beyond dreaming you must be a striver. Strivers achieve what dreamers believe. Dream, then act! Have dreams made of rainbow, plans made of steel and actions made of a Lions heart! Be a dreamer and then be a striver. You will win. Last week, I was fortunate to drive a cross town with a wealthy man in his luxury car. The comfort and the coziness I felt inspired me. So I became desirous of finding out how he made it big. I asked him. He said simply, I dream a lot, even before I have the time to sleep. Before he went further, I interjected and asked him whether he has read any major book on wealth like, Think and grow Rich. He said, No. What of the book, The Richest man in Babylon? He said, No. Then how did you become so big? He then replied, My major stride comes because I strive until I arrive. Dear reader, you dont really need to read any more books than the ones you have already read. In you is all it takes to succeed. Success is a natural outcome of spending your time doing the

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right thing! In this case it is to know and take the relevant action to maximize the seasons you go through. Get up, dream, decide, then do it. You would pick some of the things you need along the way as you move. Nobodys guaranteed a great start, but you can influence your finish. I read an old advice given by a father to his son and it went thus; ...my lad, youve all that the greatest of men have had, two arms, two hands, two legs, two eyes and a brain to use if you would be wise. With this equipment they all began, so start for the top and say, I can. Strive, be willing to move and walk over the edge. Act as if it were impossible to fail, because for you it is! For heaven is behind you. Dr. Holmes said, Never tell a young person that something cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing. Break the glass ceiling, break every limitation! Let your reach exceed your grasp. Talk about your dream with enthusiasm. Walk towards it with conviction. Say only good things about yourself. If you keep saying that things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet! Use your mouth to construct your future. I remember the story told by Conrad Hilton about an illiterate man who went to a bank to seek out a job as a janitor (office cleaner). The bank manager who interviewed him for the job asked him whether he could spell his name he said NO. The bank manager then told him that he was of not useful; hence he was not employable. But the man told himself that even though he could not spell his name, he will one day be successful! The man decided to act on his dream and he travelled to the United States. Many years later, a wealthy businessman called a press conference in Washington and the reporters and pressmen began

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to ask this uneducated but wealthy man many questions, one of which was how he became so successful, he answered all their questions to their utmost satisfaction. Then one reporter stood up and suggested to this wealthy businessman, Why dont you write your autobiography? I cannot read or write, he responded. Supposing you can read and write, how far would you have gone? Asked the reporter. The wealthy businessman replied, I would have been a janitor! You may not look like the world now, but you look like your future. So get on fire with your dreams! When you are on fire with your dreams, the world will come to watch you burn. But you must first dream and go after your dream like a sea-seeking river and its force. Have a purpose that never swerves. The strivers lifestyle is best encapsulated in the thrilling words of an old poem; If you want a thing bad enough, then go out and fight for it! Work day and night for it; give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it. If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it and if you can gladly sweat for it, fret for it and plan for it and loose all your terror of the opposition for it. And if you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity. If neither cold or poverty, famine nor gall, sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from that thing that you want. If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it, with the help of God you will get it Its my earnest desire that you dream and strive, so you can go to the top, because its the bottom thats overcrowded. Dream and go to the top, because thats where you are meant to be. Strive and go to the top, because you are more than the eyes of men can see. Now go for it!

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THE FORCE OF FREQUENCY At the Atlanta Olympics, one woman made a leap that shocked the world and it put her countrys name on the global athletics map. Her 17 metre leap, an African record, demolished all opposition in her way. Her name? Nigerias Chioma Ajunwa. This historic performance came after a four year ban. When she was banned, virtually everyone thought the career of this policewoman turned sports woman was over, but if the world gave up her, she didnt give up on herself. One of the reasons, she explained, which made her to survive what she called; The years of the locust, was that she concentrated on frequent training. Eventually the ban was lifted. The rest is history. Her achievement gives credence to the statement that: The man of the hour spent many nights getting there. Success is habits, all else are details. The milestone of champions comes as a result of their ability to consistently take steps that keep them at the level of champions. Though their goal is to do great and noble tasks, but they make it their chief duty to accomplish small tasks daily, as if they were great and noble. At a seminar I was invited to speak, the speaker before me recounted the inspiring story of a re-known pianist. One day this famed pianist walked into a room, only to find a complete stranger behind the piano, playing it with tremendous skill and dexterity. The re-known pianist observed that this stranger played so well, better than anyone he had ever seen before, even himself. This is the greatest pianist on earth, he thought to himself.

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Suddenly, this stranger stopped. Stood up, turned to the reknown pianist and said, I am the man that you should have been, if you hadnt stopped improving yourself. He went further, Every time you play that piece on the piano, play it better than you played it before. Play it frequently. You will sweat, but keep at it. You can never have sweet without sweat. How true! Develop the force of frequency. Start working on yourself. Its your nature that determines your future. Perform little tasks. Do it frequently. Lets start with your day; when you wake up in the morning, what habits do you consciously cultivate? For a man is sculptured by each minute he leaves behind him, and what he does with the next determines how it makes him. What is your daily routine? Cultivate the habit of waking early. Have an alarm clock in your soul. Let your burning desire to reach your dreams fire you up! Wake before the cock crows, so that you can rise above a cock life. Then start to work towards your stars. Surround yourself with an enabling environment; for example put pictures around you that point to your dreams, paste your goals on your wall for you to see constantly, surround yourself with only right thinking friends. Dreams need fresh air to breathe in order to grow. Whoever or whatever does not value your vision, does not belong to your future. Bad habits creep on you, but good habits must be developed. So start now to create a great nature in yourself that leads to your great future. Tomorrow is the only day that appeals to a lazy man. Act today, Act daily. The truth is, when it comes to making excuses, the world is somehow full of manufacturers. Throw away excuses; you have no reason to fail! Cultivate frequency and persistency. Be persistent in all you do, doing it constantly. Remember the illustration of the stone cutter, hammering away at the rock, perhaps 100 times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the 101st blow it will split in two and we know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

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Someone said, To be the best, you must first beat the best, and for you to beat the best, you must do two things. Firstly, know what the best is doing and secondly, do it better. To do it better, you must do it frequently. Hey! There are things you know that are good for you to do, you must do them now and do them everyday. Great steps must become habitual to unlock the greatness within them. You must be regular, be committed. Autograph your work with absolute dedication. Talent without the frequency of cultivating it denies a man the luxury of the word; Success. An athlete said, after winning the Long distance race; All I had to do was keep turning left on my track. Keep doing that good action. Greatness doesnt come in halves, its start to finish. You must keep at it. Let your time each day be seed not bread. Sow it planning, sow it praying and sow it reading. Unleash the greatness in your actions; but they must first become habits. You must channel the force of frequency, till your stars are out!

ELEVATORS GO DOWN TOO You may be among the many having difficult times now, but it is soon going to become history. It will not last. Remember the

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phrase, Tough times never last, but tough people do. The tough times may linger but in the end you will come out a winner. I once wrote a poem and it contained these words; ...even the rain of blessing can become a flood of death... In it was expressed the idea, that in an apparent advantage may be found a major disadvantage and vice versa. What took you up may bring you down. But life demands that you take caution for the thorns, but you should only focus on the roses. Elevators (or lift) take you up, but go down too. As humans, we sometimes have failed plans, unmet expectations and discouragements. We are not perfect. Some suggest that these pains are a way the creator allows his purposes prevail over our plans. But I know that the hard times are meant for the good times, as every problem introduces a person to himself and prepares him for greatness. However, as much as we reach forth as go-getters, we must remain God-getters, in other to be prepared for all that life holds for us. Right before our mountains and down times we must learn to Trust in the lord with all our hearts and lean not upon our own understanding. Acknowledge your creator in your up-times as well as your downtimes. God is a glory-eating spirit. He wants us to see his strength in our weakness, so we can let him and his word, be our chief consultant. As the elevator of life goes down while we are in it, we must press the right button! Hold on to God and dont quit on life. Keep living. Overcome the obstacles, more will come, but overcome them. The more the obstacles you overcome, in it lies the measurement of our triumph. Les brown said, When life knocks you down, try to land on your back, because if you can look up, you can get up.

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You must try, even if you fail. You must keep trying. You must bounce back when you hit bottom and keep trying. You must have courage, the kind of courage that was defined by Winston Churchill; as the capacity to move from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Keep your heart strong, keep your head going the right direction and you wont have to worry about your feet. I must share with you, the poem written by Edgar A. Guest which went thus: Tis better to have tried in vain Sincerely striving for a goal, Than to have lived upon the plain, An idle and a timid soul. Tis better to have fought and spent Your courage missing all applause, Than to have lived in smug content And never ventured for a cause. For he who tries and fails, May be the founder of a better day. Though never his victory, From him shall others learn the way. Keep trying and striving towards your stars. The darkest night comes before the brightest morning. You will succeed. You are Gods very own champion, his shinning star! Just trust your future to God; he knows what lies ahead, because your future is his past. Let him write your story. He may bring in some pressures into the script, just to bring out the precious in you and make you his hero. So even when the elevator of life is going down, just hold on, stay strong. Dont stop. Dont quit. Keep faith and in the end, you will be glad you did. I must share with you the words of a poem titled I wrote sometime last year, it went thus:

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LIKE THE POSTAGE STAMP I choose not to give up, Till I get to the top. For persistency pays off, Often more than talent would, Ask the snail, he will tell you its true. I choose to remain strong, To always correct myself when I am wrong. Though the road may seem rough, I vow to be tough. I choose to be confident To face the world Like Gods very own champion, Which I am. I choose to stick to my dream, Till I get to the winners realm, I choose to keep my eyes on my goal, I choose never to let go. Just like the postage stamp.

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YOU WILL WIN Two things are guaranteed in life; firstly, you can do anything you set your mind to do. Secondly, no matter what happens, in the end you will win. You may have doubts, you may be uncertain but you will win. However you must have a will to win. The true measure of a man is in the length of his ideals, the depth of his convictions, the breadth of his actions and the height of his dreams. Someone said, The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to watch them. Most people are not really willing to win. They are merely desirous. Willing is not just desiring. Willing entails using your will to carry your work through. Life cant give you joy and peace; its up to you to will it. Life just gives you time and space; its up to you to fill it (unknown author). Let your actions reflect your will to win. Breed winning strategies to avoid losing tragedies. Its what you are on the inside that wins, thats the you inside of you. Hes the one that will make the you men see to work, to study and to win. The biggest crime you can commit today is going to bed as ignorant as you had awakened. So work on yourself. Be a winner. Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, was introducing a Nigerian at a certain gathering. The mans name? Fidelis Oditah, He is a lawyer and visiting Professor to Harvard University. This is what Tony Blair said of him; Here is a man, who knows practically everything about something and what he doesnt know is not worth knowing. That is a man who knows that one can never travel beyond his knowledge, and he made continued efforts towards knowing more and improved himself in everyway. He made himself a winner. Finally, I would like to charge you with the great and inspiring words of W.E.B. Du Bois when he said;

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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seedtime, now is the hour of work and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

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EPILOGUE You have read it! Now its time for you to act it! You have studied it, go now and make your life significant enough to be studied. You will not fail. Now, what are you going to do? What are you going to act on? It may be that idea you have overlooked or that hobby you enjoy doing but have taken for granted. Its time to turn that idea into an industry. Its time to turn that talent into treasure. You have all it takes. Get up and go! Go do that thing you kept putting off. Kill procrastination. You have slept enough, now start working! Begin now to make your life worthwhile. Go! Create that job that the unemployed graduate needs. Go; write that book that will change lives. Go; find the cure for that disease to save that unborn child. Sing that song that will bring melody to your world. Give that great speech that will inspire your nation! Your world is waiting to hear you. The world is waiting for you. God is counting on you. You cannot let them down. Go! Work, till your stars are out!

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This book will inspire you. In the pages of this work you will find the fire for achievement and fire to live your dreams lurking behind. It will urge you to keep at your dreams till your stars are out. The author Alex Umole fuses the art of storytelling and a strong motivational language to convey the obvious theme of this book: Life works, if you keep working it till your stars are out. It makes a pleasurable and fulfilling read.

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