I remembered this story from a very popular daily devotional earlier this year 2014. It is a story about three men who had spent three months looking(prospecting) for diamonds, in the Venezuelan coast. One of the three men named Solano Rafael, woke up one morning feeling very discouraged and exhausted, told his friends he is through with searching for diamonds, he said "I have picked 999,999 stones so far, and there is no trace of a diamond, if I pick up another , it will be 1,000,000 so what's the use I am quitting'' but one of his two friends encouraged him to pick another to make it a total of 1,000,000 stones at least. Solano put his hand on a pile of stones pulled out one (the last one) but, the last one was a very odd looking stone, when he looked closely behold it was a diamond and Solano was paid $200,000 for that diamond and it was the purest diamond ever found.
There is a saying that a man without a dream or goal in life is a dead man. We all have various dreams and aspirations in life, but what are we doing to achieve such dreams? Here are some tips
1) Be focused. Always be focused . Don't allow yourself to be swayed by people who don't understand your dream.
2) Surround yourself with friends that will encourage you. Like the story above , if Solano had not been encouraged to pick that last stone which turned out to be a diamond , you probably would never have heard about this story.
3) Always work towards achieving your dream. Rome wasn't built in a day, it was been built daily till it got to what we all see. Start small and daily build that dream.
4) Never be discouraged. Never ever give up. Always keep pressing on You might end up with more than a diamond.
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