“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you use. One man gets only a week’s worth of a year, while another man gets a full year’s worth of a week.” -Charles Richards.

There is no doubt that the greatest capital a businessman has is time.

What a paradigm of effective time management and rejection of mediocrity was Abraham Lincoln. Affectionately called Abe, Abraham Lincoln practiced reading and writing every night. He had attended “blab school” less than 12 months in his entire life. There were no books, in which the students repeated the teacher’s words aloud. Robinson in his book, “Lincoln as a man of utters” referred to him as a self-taught man. Nancy Lincoln, his mother, said of him, “The only time Abe loses his temper is when he doesn’t understand something he reads or hears.”

The farmers and merchants, the lawyers and litigants with whom he associated in the 8th Judicial District of Illinois had no magic with words. But Lincoln didn’t waste all his time with his mental equals and inferiors. This attests to the fact that those you spend your time with determine the kind of jump you get in life. Decide if you will continue to drag yourself with a shortage of information or fly with an avalanche of ideas. Ideas rule the world, he recalls. He made excellent companions for the elite minds, the singers, the poets of all ages.

Make your niche with the big boys and you will definitely end up being great. Keep in mind that if you mix with those whose mental capacities are equal to yours or seem less than yours, you have begun to plan your mental drift.

He could repeat all the pages of Burns and Bryon and Browning from memory. Even when he was in the White House and the tragic burdens of the Civil War were sapping his strength and scarring deep furrows into his face, she often found time to take a copy of Hood’s poems to bed with her.

That is why Professor Williams James, a man I respect so much, had these words in his words;

“Let no young man worry about the result of his education, whatever the line of it. If he keeps faithfully busy every hour of the working day, he can safely leave the end result for himself. He can with perfect certainty, Count on waking up one fine morning to find yourself one of the pros of your generation, in whatever pursuit you’ve chosen.”

Professor Emerton sweetly described Abe thus: “He was no longer in school, he was simply educating himself by the only pedagogical method that had produced results anywhere, that is, by the method of his own energy.” untiring in continuous study and practice”.

Being a thief of time. Master your seconds, learn to steal the moments. Abe reads books over and over again. He had etched into his mind that one moment of carelessness could end his life.

He was earning 31 cents a day on the farms of Pigeon Creek in Indiana, once he read about John Bunyan and decided he wasn’t going to end up in the woods. He said to himself, “I too can be extraordinarily useful.” You make a firm resolution about your success and take the limits off yourself.

It’s heartbreaking how many people have settled for mediocrity. John Mason once said, “Life is too short to think small.” He also wrote that “the answer to your future lies outside the limits you have now.”

Lincoln had a burning desire to improve himself. He loved the woods, but he didn’t want to spend his life cutting down trees. When he read George Washington, he was moved and engraved these words on the ground: “The good guys who apply to his books will be great for me little by little.”

If you have followed to the end, you will have noticed that Lincoln reads a lot. He was once urging an acquaintance to read a lot, but he was like, what’s the need and he only cared about his academic success. He manages his time well and develops his complete man.

He disciplined himself to produce crisp, clear, and simple sentences. He once wrote to a friend: “Always keep in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than anything else.” That’s why the Rev. Sam Adeyemi said, “You can’t change a person’s life without changing his perspective.”

Your life of dissatisfaction is worth emulating at your current level. Always be hungry.