Many of us many times get confused about life. We look at so
many things and developments and wonder why things turn out the way they do. We
have so much expectations from life and work very hard to accomplish our goals
and many times we end up frustrated and wonder if life is fair to us after all.
Ladies and gentlemen, life can be tough and rough not just
because of what is happening all around but also a consequence of not having a
clear understanding of the realities of life itself. A nation is not just a
geographical expression, it's about a people. When everyone clamours for change
and improvement but as individuals we prefer to remain the same then we would
hardly see or experience any great change or improvement. The reality in life
is this, things never change if the people don't change.
Every negative experience we have as a nation is an outcome and
consequence of how people are and what people are doing. Bad things don't just
happen, people do these bad things. We can choose to place the blame anywhere
but I assure you, you will hardly experience any personal improvement and
progress in your own life if you do not personally carryout any change or
improvement in your life.
It doesn't matter your location in this world and the quality of
resources available to you, if as a person you resist change and don't invest
in self-improvement and development, I'm afraid, life will remain tough and
rough for you.
You see, this world runs on certain laws and principles you
can't afford to disdain, reject or neglect if you want to excel. Its beyond
desire, passion or prayers; you must do what you must do to see the kind of
results you want to see in your life.
If today you are having less than glowing results in life, you
must become brave enough to confront yourself and take at least, some
responsibilities for your life. Everybody else but you cannot be guilty and
responsible for your difficulties and troubles in life.
Dear friend, what are you not doing right? What are you failing
at, struggling with and escaping from, what are you afraid of, what are you
denying?
Ladies and gentlemen, every success in life no matter the
surrounding situations or condition starts with the individual. Your great life
starts with you! You must take responsibility for your own life.
You see, to succeed and excel in the midst of harsh
socioeconomic conditions you must develop an unshakable self-confidence and
sense of responsibility. Once you give up the charge and control of your life
to another person, institution or nation, you suddenly become a victim.
To succeed, you must take full, complete, systematic and
purposeful control of your life's direction.
Let me share a secret with you, almost everything in your life
today found its way there through your mind. Good, bad or ugly, almost
everything in your life didn't just jump in, they accessed your life through
your mind.
You see, most of the time, things don't happen to us in life, we
happen to things. Hmm.
Our life trajectory actually operates on the four premise of
knowledge, thoughts, choices and action. You know something or someone, you
think about that thing or that person, you make a decision on the thing or
person, you take action on the thing or person then you get your results on the
thing or person.
Almost everything in your life came into your life and set its
course by you observing this process either deliberately or subconsciously.
You literacy level, you skill or profession, your employment
type, your employer, your life partner, your friends, your quality of life and
guess what; even your income. Knowledge, thoughts, choices, action.
What you earn is a matter of knowledge all the way to what you
do. You can choose to improve your income and your life quality today by first
improving what you know, thinking and meditating thoroughly on your new
knowledge and information, making choices and decision based on the new
knowledge and doing all that is necessary to achieve your desired results.
You know, many people do all they want to, not all that is
necessary, that's why they often fail. You should push yourself to do all that
is necessary to get all you want and you'll reach your goals in life.
The difference between you and others doing very well in your
environment despite the prevailing common challenges is primarily in what they
know. They know something, or so many things that you do not know.
The reason why they have great results and you may not have such
fantastic results is that they process and meditate on information and
knowledge you do not have. The reason their success keeps appreciating is
because they make better and informed choices you cannot. The reason they
deliver back to back positive results in life is because they think harder,
deeper, wider and more comprehensively than you do. This is simply because they
know what you do not know.
Ladies and gentlemen, a 21st century
achiever has his secret in knowledge and information not just hard work. Hard
work will not deliver for you if you're not working right. Working right is
working hard on the right thing, in the right place with the right people and
with the right information.
The reason many of us are struggling in life and stagnant is
because we don't value or chase after the right knowledge and information. We'd
rather spend hours on traditional and social media taking in so much gist and
news and gossip that don't in anyway help our personal growth, creativity and
productivity. We crave for updates on what's happening in the lives of friends
and celebrities; we subjugate and ignore information and knowledge that will
improve us personally – improve our thinking, our minds, skills, abilities,
choices, actions and outcomes.
We prioritise what's going on in the lives of others over how we
can make better our own lives. We spend money on data and TV primarily to keep
up with the trends and dirty details in the lives of others, we don't Google or
search for materials, videos, and information that would improve our personal
skills, capacities, abilities, relevance at the workplace and fire up our
dreams. Entertainment is more important to us than personal growth. Entertainment
really, ought to be a distraction and a season of recess from working hard on
our lives; entertainment shouldn't be our primary life obsession.
We find it easier spending money on shows and movies than on
training and seminars. We prefer to go for the fun and easier instead of the
tough but useful. Hmm, Dear friends, is our life experience today not our own
making?
Let's take the time to ask real and germane questions this
morning, what new thing have you learnt since the start of this year, where and
how have you grown, how many new good books have you read, how many training
and seminars have you personally attended and paid for? What exactly are your
top three goals this year? What are you doing about them?
I come across so many comedy videos, banners and remarks on
social media, I come across so many religious videos, prayers and faith
banners. These go viral very quickly and the ‘likes' and ‘shares' climb into
thousands very quickly. But hardly do I come across new knowledge, new ideas,
powerful videos on creativity, personal success, accomplishments and business
ideas that is made in Nigeria going viral that fast. It's sad but the truth is,
many of us don't want to do what is required but what we desire hence, we
hardly succeed.
To see change and improvement, dear friend, you must change and
improve. Stop being jealous of those working right and getting results because
you are just working hard without knowledge. Working hard in ignorance will
frustrate you and make you blame others for your failures. Choose, this year,
to spend more of your time on knowledge acquisition and personal development
than entertainment, lounging and sleep; and see if you wouldn't be happier by
the end of the year.
Many do claim they indulge in so much entertainment, sleep and
lounging to distract themselves from their many troubles and challenges, but
why engage in distraction when you can actually decide and do things to solve
the problems?
Dear friend, how your year will end is your making, make it
worthwhile.
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