EASY STEPS TO ACHIEVE THE MOST DIFFICULT AND UNCOMFORTABLE GOAL (The goal you will always procrastinate when solving them)

Every goal is achievable but some goals are difficult to achieve or even start due to their nature and difficulty. Sometimes it gets so tough to the extent that, you feel like giving up. Sometimes the difficulty of it will even demoralize you before you even start. This in turn will make you procrastinate or give up forever. But with the help of experienced people, knowledge and a best strategy, every goal can be achieved no matter how difficult, boring, uncomfortable, and unachievable it may be. I learned this from great speakers like brain tracy, Jason Nazar, jim rohn and zig ziglar. I will like to share these few principles with you in the below steps. Hope it helps improve you ways of achieving goals.

 

·         Ask yourself the WHY question: if you find yourself procrastinating in solving a particular goal, sit back and ask yourself why you are doing that. Come up with many reasons for your procrastination. List them down in a form of table. By their side, try and come up with ways of overcoming those reasons. Eg

REASON FOR PROCRASTINATING	WAYS OF OVERCOMING THEM
I don’t get enough time to start	Start planning my day, use my  leisure times, wake up and work at dawn, work at launch time, weekend free time usage, create time table etc
I don’t have money and help to solve my goal	Ask for help from others, sell some properties, get loans, start writing proposals, etc

         Change your perception towards that particular goal: it’s unfortunate but the reason why you are finding it difficult to achieve your goal is because of the way you perceive it in your mind. If you think the goal is difficult, boring, impossible to solve, it will start reflecting in the way act towards it. You will give up in your mind and kill the enthusiasm to solve it. You will not be encouraged to even try. It won’t be fun or challenging to do. I remember those days when I was trying to learn new lessons under my profession. I always found it difficult to learn. The reason was the way I perceived them in my mind. When I learnt the need to change my perception towards those lessons, I found ways to enjoy those lessons. If you tell yourself that a goal is difficult and impossible to solve, it will be difficult and impossible to solve. So start changing your way of looking at things, ways of solving these problems will come easily and simple. 

·         Break ways of solving the goal into million small steps: Difficult goals can easily be solved if broken into many steps. I learnt this from brain Tracy in his interview with Vic Johnson at 2004 Jim Rohn weekend event. He quoted henry ford statement and said that, the biggest task in the world can be accomplished if broken down into various small steps. This may include, creating time table, making a phone call, making little research, changing perceptions, reading a single page in a book, talking to a friend about your task, writing proposal, etc. break down the steps into many small steps as much as possible. Start working on the small steps little by little till you achieve all of them. With this formula, solving any task will be less difficult than you think. 

·         Focus on the benefits of achieving the goal than the problems accompanied with the goal: i was one day listening to an audio tape from Anthony Robbins and he spoke about the use of pain and pleasure principle in achieving a particular goal. He said that, in order to achieve a particular goal, you have to associate it with the pain and pleasure principle. You need to ask yourself what you will lose if you procrastinate and what you will benefit if you achieve your goals. If you know for example that, you will lose a big contract, money, opportunity, pride, integrity, respect if you procrastinate, the thoughts of procrastination will leave your mind. If you also see the benefits you will gain by achieving your goals, the pleasure in it will empower you to take action. Associating pleasure to taking action and regrets to not taking action is another step in overcoming or achieving the most difficult goal in your life. 

·         Ask for help: You can’t design a website if you not a web designer or graphic designer. You can’t build a house if you not a building contractor. Some things in life need others to achieve them. If you get an idea that is way beyond your profession, achieving such goal needs experts under those fields. So it will be easy if you contact the experts than trying to achieve them all by yourself. When I started my entrepreneur journey, I wanted to do everything myself. But a friend of mine told me the time I was wasting, trying to do everything myself. He advised me to find help from experts. I tried some by paying, begging, signing contracts, partnering, selling shares etc. but it all worked in my favor. i was able to achieve more goals, work faster, effectively and professionally. Try it and see. But remember that, it will be a little difficult or less difficult to find those experts. But with determination, you will get it done.

·         Truly Desire the goal and Never Stop Persisting: Napoleon Hill, in his landmark book, Think and Grow Rich said that "The starting point of all achievement is desire. I have studied this quote and found it to be true. Keep this constantly in mind. Less or weak desires bring weak results, no matter how you pray to God. So, if you want to achieve your goals. you've got to really desire for victory no matter what happens. This in turn will deepen your persistence level, encourage you when the going gets tough etc. 

You will be able to achieve or complete any difficult task if you follow above proven steps. You will be able to perform small and impossible task if you stick to these steps.

Get up today and start doing something. Nothing is impossible to achieve or complete. 

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Creating Man on fire in Photoshop

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HOW TO CHANGE DARK SKIN TO LIGHT SKIN - PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL

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How to create a cartoon version of any picture with Photoshop

 

Creating a cartoon version of people is very easy to do. You can use various softwares such as Corel-draw, illustrator or Photoshop. All will work but the tools used in doing this may differ from one software to the other. I am great with Photoshop, so I decided to use it to create the illustration.

 These are the procedures I used in creating the work

1. Create a New document. Go to file choose New and set the size to any size you prefer 

2. Drag the image from your folder and drop it on the workspace

 

3. Now let’s start tracing. Zoom in to the face of the person. Take the pen tool and start tracing the picture 

 

4. After tracing, create a new blank layer. Go back to brush tool. Select hard edge and reduce size to (3-5 points). After that, select pen tool. right click and select stroke. When a dialogue box appear, select brush tool instead of pen

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  5. After that, click ok. After stroking, right click and delete path (make sure you are still using the pen tool 

H                     6.  Hide the picture to see your stroke. Just like this 

 

7. Now, we are going to trace other parts of her body. Now show the picture and Trace these parts like we did for the outline. After that, create new layer, choose pen tool and stroke. Use this procedure to trace all the various part of the person. You will end up with something like this   

   8. Merge all the stroked layers as one. Now, we start adding colour to the image. To do this, one, create a new layer and change the blending mode to multiply. With this blend mode, we can easily see the strokes of the illustration even when we colour on them. 

        9. Now select the brush tool, choose colour and start painting the face of the person.  

 

10. After painting the face, create a new layer, change the blend mode to multiply and start painting her spectacle.   

 

11. Now create a new layer, change blend mode to multiply and lets paint the lips and eyes of the woman. 

  

 

12. Now let’s paint the hair of the lady. Create a new layer, change blend mode to multiply and lets start painting her hair and eyebrow   

 

13. Now select and paint the hat and dress the same way we painted the rest of the body. Final work should be like this.   

 

14. Now let’s start adding tones to the illustration. To do this, Place the original picture by the side of the illustration like this   

 

15. The tools used in creating the dark and light tones are Dodge and Burn Tools. To darken the tone use Burn tool, to lighten the tone, use dodge tool.   

16. Let’s start shading. Select the face layer, choose burn tool (reduce exposure to 15%) and start shading the face. Shade the face according to the real picture. 

17. After adding dark tones to the face, let’s add light tones to shinning parts of her face. To do this, select the dodge tool and start shading high tones of her face according to the picture 

18. After adding tones to the work. Merge them all and Reduce saturation with hue and saturation. Go to Image – Adjustment- Hue and Saturation and reduce saturation. 

19. You can finalize this by adding gradient background to the illustration. Then you are done with the illustration.   

 

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