Becoming your best
Lets paint a picture. Lets bring different kinds of people together,(all these people are the best globally)
4 of the best lawyer from the best universities in the world,
4 best computer engineers,
4 of the best painters,
4 of the best song writers,
4 of the best fish farmers,
4 accountants,
4 of the best quantum physicist.
4 medical doctors
And lastly 4 religious leaders.
All these fellas are their best in their various fields.
Lets try an experiment, let each try to learn the others profession, let the doctors try to become painters,
Let the religious leaders try to become quantum physicist.
Let the physicist try to become lawyers.
Just fit in each into any other field.
What are we likely to get…..hazard.
Even if you give each 10 years to adjust and try to become the other, they will not be able to do it,they will fail fail and fail again.
? Why.
They are not meant for such function. though they are the best in their field, they lack the required impetus to be what they are not. This does not mean they are inefficient, it only means they are designed for other things, those things they have invested their time and energy on and are doing it successfully.
As leaders,our rudimentary task is to identify our innate function,
what we stand for,
what arouses the best in us,
what we can do with passion,
what we will be doing if money was not an issue.
Once known, our destiny is then in our hands, we can either chose to fly to the stars or we can aim below our nose. In whatever direction we head,how we will get there with enough work and determination.
“Sucexfully people are not extraordinary people, they are ordinary people with extraordinary determination” – unknown
Once we known this function and apply ourselves to it,Sucex is inevitable. Sometimes leaders fail to understand understand this inner source of strength and pain come their way in life.
They become like a doctor who wants to practise as an attorney
or the quantum physicist that wants to paint a beautiful landscape to impress Michealangelo or Pablo Picasso
or the engineer that wants to do surgery on a patient.
We all represent something of value to our world, something that makes us unique and empowers us to be sucexful in our right, not by the worlds materialistic yardstick used to measure Sucex but Sucex by fulfilling that function which can be as simple as putting a
– smile on peoples faces,
– leaving a heritage light,
– inspiring those needing inspiration,
– Giving the little advice we can
– Living an exemplary lifestyle
– making others see the best in themselves
The list goes on.
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of
intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn
the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the
betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find
the best in others; to leave the world a bit better
whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life
has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to
have succeeded.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Believing in yourself is the greatest adventure of life. It comes from a deep understanding of the role you play in the greater scheme of creation or in societal development.
We are all born with greatness within though sometimes we wait till the challenges of life force us inward to realise and activate the best in us.
Greatness is not just a responsibility born with the advent of a greater understanding of ourselves, it is a lifelong walk/work meant only for the brave at heart, those strong enough to dare to believe in their potentials as reflected in the “image” within.
When you believe you can,then you will can,then the universe will conspire to aid you achieve you aim,it would cos you have dominion and command over life. Life is not what happens to us but what we make our experience in this school of existence.
For the earnest expectation awaits our revelations, a revelations that can only unfold out of what’s already there. Just like petals unfold from within but not without sunlight,soil, water and and a terrible weather to put up with, yet petals are so soft to touch. Roses never fade cos the beauty they inspire lasts a lifetime.
Greatness can only be expected from us because we have it inside.
Believing in yourself then constitutes the first rung in the ladder of greatness.
Believe you can do it…..the
Don’t take no for an answer
Don’t wallow in self pity or any other.
Believe in you,for an “image” greater than you will forever power you to Sucex.
May this month lead you unto greatness in diverse facets.
May you walk into unexpected favour,
May you meet great people through your diligence
May you shine the work of your hands into humanity
May posterity benefit greatly from your effort even as she looks to her past for strength. A strength we alone can build. If we care to.
May solutions come from your brainstorm session.
May you move from strenght to strength and mount on the highest hights
May The sky be your springboard to Sucex
May every new sun usher in a new Sucex chapter in your biography.
Have a most wonderful “may ”
May you add your own “may” to powerful affirmation everyday
Cheers
I believe in you
Eleas Stanley