Conquering Your Territory through Time Conversion
In life, every one must decide in what area of life he or she wants to be great. You must choose what territory you want to conquer. After deciding the territory you want to rule over, the next thing you must do is to invest your time into developing yourself and becoming the best in that territory. This means that you must convert all of your minutes and seconds into adding value to yourself in that field.
To become the king of that territory you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your skills in that area of life. You must arrest every passing time and convert it into growing your knowledge and prowess in that field. If you allow someone else to convert more time than you in your chosen territory, you automatically become a servant or a second class citizen in that territory and whoever it is who converted more time than you in that territory becomes your king and will lord it over you in that territory.
If you don’t want to just live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do. You must, first of all, evolve the consciousness of being the best in whatever territory you choose to explore and then invest all your time into it and you will be amazed how easy it is to become great. It doesn’t matter what your calling is, if you can invest all your time into it, then greatness will become your reward.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.”
Therefore the way to becoming the best in your area of calling is to invest more time than anyone else in that area of life. So you must decide what territory you want to conquer and give it all of your time.
Bill gates decided to rule over the world of software development and the world is enjoying Microsoft today. Can you imagine what the world will be like without Microsoft? Can you imagine what our school system will be like if there were no Microsoft in our world today? What about the banking sector, the financial sector, the internet world etc. There is almost no area of life that doesn’t need Microsoft word, office or PowerPoint today.
But you see, the world is enjoying Microsoft because somebody invested his time into developing a software and today he rules over that territory. Bill Gates doesn’t have to look for a government job or wait for a government salary to survive. He is the boss and lord over his territory and the richest man in the world. But how did he become lord over money too? He did that just by converting his time into money. So don’t forget “money is made out of time”
Steve Jobs decided to rule over the world of microcomputers {phones and minicomputers} and today the world is enjoying iPhone, iPad, Apple store and all other apple products. Can you imagine how the world will look like without these products? Steve Jobs is dead but his products live on in the hands of almost everyone alive today.
Why is it so? Because he produced the best phone product for the world. He didn’t just produce a normal product like other producers in his field. He invested time into producing the best. The amount of time you invest into your products determines the quality of the products. The latest iPhone was just released recently and the whole world is craving to buy it. Why are people ready to buy his iPhone at a very high cost when there are other cheaper brands of phones in the market? Why are people using the amount of money that could buy about five regular brands of phones to buy just one iPhone? I guess you know the answer. The reason is “quality” and that quality was a product of how much time he invested into developing the knowledge of the iPhone and producing the iPhone itself. Because he invested more time than other phone producers, he has become the lord in that territory with almost no rival.
That is what happens when you invest more time into something than others. You become the best among equals. You become outstanding. If you can decide to invest all your time into giving birth to a quality product, the whole world will celebrate you and everyone will be in need of your product. The world cannot do without his products even though he is dead. He was able to leave his footprint in the sand of history but only because he understood the power of time conversion. He became great because he converted his time into quality products.
Mark Zuckerberg decided to be the lord over social networking and invested his time into developing a product; Facebook. A product that almost everyone in the world is enjoying. There is hardly a person in the world who is not on Facebook or who hasn’t heard of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is only 32years old and has already ranked 5th richest man in the world with a net worth of $55.3b as at October 2016. He launched his product, Facebook on February 4, 2004, from his Harvard dormitory room at the age of 20yrs.
Now the question is how such a young man could be that wealthy and be the lord of social networking? The answer is “Time conversion” He invested his time into developing a product for the world. He converted his time into a product to benefit the world. Do you have any product for the world? Are you ready to convert your time into producing something that the world will remember you for? Have you chosen the territory you want to conquer?
If you must record some greatness in your account before you leave this earth, you must value time and understand the importance of time conversion. Only through the conversion of time can greatness be bought. Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered.
Someone may say, what if I am not a software developer or a computer literate? What if I am not into the world of science and technology? Well! The truth is that your territory doesn’t have to be the same as that of the great men mentioned above. You may not even need to have a formal education to conquer your own territory. You necessarily do not have to have gone to the university to become great. Just decide your own territory. It could be in tailoring. It could be in music or dancing. It could be in an artistic painting. It could even be in carpentry. Whatever your territory doesn't matter. What matters is the amount of time you are ready to invest into it to become the king of that territory.
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