#MondayInspiration When I Become Rich and Famous – Gabriel Olatunji-Legend

Welcome to another Monday, another week, and another 168 hours. I have often emphasized that a new week is an opportunity to make more happen for ourselves with our own hands as. It is a blank cheque that has been handed over to us all, irrespective of our height, colour or deficiencies as human beings.

I heard more of Praiz’s (the Nigerian musician) song, ‘When I become rich and famous’ during the weekend, thanks to my friend who didn’t give my ears any form of rest. The song highlights the singer's desire to be rich and famous, while he details all the things that would have happened to his status as an entertainer when he is finally certified ‘rich and famous’. Think about it, what would you do when you become rich and famous? Would you paint the town red? Would you go from one club to the other just to prove a point to your adversaries and people around you that ‘you have truly arrived’?

The journey from grass to grace, from poor to rich, from unknown to famous is an internal trip. The status of a man is not certified when he is able to but ten cars and build a mansion in Lekki. Yes, the general public sees that as the main thing but those with wisdom know that before anything happens in real life, it has to first happen in the mental realm.

In other words, your life will continue to smell of failure until you begin to see yourself as a success in your mind. Those who are successful today in the real world were first successful in their minds yesterday. Today is the perfect opportunity to dream of the tomorrow that has not yet happened; you have the capacity to shape tomorrow in your mind because that is the only place where you are not limited by space or time. Inside your mind you can imagine yourself sitting next to Oprah Winfrey having dinner or lunch, you can visualize yourself living your dreams and achieving purpose even though it hasn’t happened yet in real life. But until you get it right in the place of your mind you will not get it right in your place in life – it is called the Law of Attraction; what you see is what you get, and what you got was what you saw.

I am sure someone is reading this who has probably given up on life; you have considered suicide a number of times; you are not happy with the way your life is going; you see your age mates and you fall into moodiness and sadness; you want to be rich and famous. That is not a bad thing, neither is it an impossible dream. You are probably more intelligent than some of those who are called rich and famous today, the difference in your results can be found in their ability to see it in their minds, research what it takes to have it in real life, and doing all that they have discovered. I want you to know that it is not the end of the world for you, as you have the latent capacity to accomplish whatever you set your mind to achieve. If ANYONE has done it before, it is proof that you can also do it. There are principles that govern life and help achieve success when you align yourself with them. FIND it and DO it!



Gabriel Olatunji-Legend is an astute entrepreneur and a solution strategist. I am open to further discussions on my twitter handle @OLATUNJISPEAKS