Conceive it, Believe it and Achieve it

Welcome to omegabone.com. If you can conceive it and believe it, you will achieve it. Thank you for joining me. If you can conceive it and believe it, you will achieve it. I know this sounds corny but this was the title of a essay I wrote in the fifth grade for an oratorical contest. I believe that this helped to influence the rest of my life. I love Roberta Flack, and she went to Howard and met Donny Hathaway and they were a great success. So I was going to go to Howard, met some great musician to collaborate with and I was going to be a great success. It didn’t quite happen that way, I went to Howard for a minute and it was there that I got reinforcement on the same concept. A friend of mine who was the music director of the tour to South Africa that I did in high school lived in DC, and he invited me to his church for New Year’s. The pastor had us write down our wants, our desires, our goals for our lives on a piece of paper about no bigger than my hand. And it wasn’t I wanted this new CD or I wanted this new car, it was what you wanted for your life. On the paper I wrote that I wanted a husband and some children and a career as a singer. And that was in ‘93, December ’93, January ‘94, you know, New Year’s. A month shy of 10 years later I got married, 6 months after that I had a singing career, and here today I have two beautiful children. This process takes a long time, but the sooner you get started the better off you’ll be. 
The first step is to visualize, to conceive your goals. If that’s to be a singer, if that’s to be a superstar, you need to write that down. You need to say exactly how you see yourself. On stage, bright lights, tens or hundreds or thousands of adoring listeners, however you see it, whatever genre, you need to conceive it and write it down. That’s important because it needs to be real for you to believe it. Just speaking words alone aren’t enough. Writing it down will give you something tangible to look at and say this is what I want, this is my life, this is what I want for my life. If you can conceive it and believe it, you will achieve it. Thank you for joining me.