SUCCESS HAS BEEN KNOCKING ON YOUR DOOR PACKAGED IN WHAT
LOOKS LIKE PROBLEMS
Lessons from the Chinese Bamboo tree!
To be successful is not an
accident but a planned phase of anyone’s life. Let us use the Chinese Bamboo
tree as an example. This remarkable tree is different from most trees in that
it doesn’t grow in the usual fashion. While most trees grow steadily over a
period of years, the Chinese bamboo tree doesn’t break through the ground for
the first four years. Then, in the fifth year, an amazing thing happens – the
tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate. In fact, in a period of just five
weeks, a Chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet (the height of a
six storey building). It’s almost as if you can actually see the tree growing
before your very eyes. http://donmillereducation.com/journal/the-chinese-bamboo-tree/
The question is when does the
bamboo tree grow to the height of 90 feet? Is it in five weeks or five years?
The answer is obvious; it takes five years because before the bamboo breaks
through the ground, it grows and builds its root system deep enough to be able
to sustain the full height and weight of the full grown bamboo tree when it
shoots out of the ground. Let’s back up a little in this illustration and
establish a truth, in a bamboo seed there is a 90 feet bamboo tree already
encoded. Are you with me? Therefore, the bamboo seed does not try to become a
bamboo tree; it is already a bamboo tree. When the bamboo seed is planted in
the soil and the right conditions are present, the seed becomes what it already
is, that is the bamboo tree. Are you following? Comparatively, in every maize
seed there is a maize plant. Every human being is born with a seed of success.
However, humans have a choice whether to become successful or not. Does that
make sense? Stay with me on this.
Now, I know that everyone wants
to be successful, but like the Chinese bamboo tree in our example, success
requires preparation. Before any farmer plants their crop, they prepare the
field. Some wise gentleman said it is better to anticipate an opportunity in
the future and prepare for it than to have an opportunity come and pass you by
because you are not ready. Are you anticipating becoming say a lawyer? All you
can do is to go and study law because surely an opportunity for a vacancy for a
lawyer will come but what will you do without a law degree? Nothing, but only
“wish, would have, could have or should have”. But who does that help? Life
puts us through preparation periods, however, many times we ignore the lessons
and simply choose to complain or cry about the effects of our so called
troubles and for that reason the opportunity for which the lessons were meant
for you to learn and grow your roots deep, would pass you by. You may even
accuse the devil, but the truth is that you were not just ready (period). In life,
whatever you are going through right now no matter how difficult it may be,
please think and ask the question, what is the lesson I need to learn in this
situation? Look at the sum total of all the things you have gone through in
your life both good and bad. Tell me if right now there isn’t any one bad
situation you can’t thank God for because of the bigger blessing that came out
of it in your life. For some of you, because you were forced to leave the
cruelty of an aunty, uncle or cousin from wherever you originally stayed, what
might have come out of it could be that you found the love of your life,
opportunity or dream job in the town or place you thought you were forced to
run and seek refuge from. Do you see how difficulties push us to our destiny?
In this article I am not saying you should wait for difficult situations to
push you to your destiny, all I am saying is that you should take action
consciously towards your desired success. To be successful, you have to begin
to see yourself successful, mentally, emotionally and begin to make the
necessary changes in your life that are congruent with your desired success
even before your current circumstances begin to look like success. In God’s
eyes, you have the seed of success already embedded in you. Create the right
conditions in the soil of your soul, so that the seed of success can shoot out into
your life as success itself. I know that
someone might be asking, but how can I see myself successful when I have never achieved
any amount of success in my life before? Well, let me give you an idea, think
about someone in your life right now that you know has achieved a certain level
of success or wealth that you admire and list down the things, virtues you
admire about that person. In writing the things you admire about that person, what
you are doing in that moment is actually describing yourself, your true
essence. That’s your desire, that’s what you really are made off and want to
ultimately become but you are not aware. Don’t confuse admiration with envy
please! If you are not aware of success, it will not come. What you think you
admire in that person out there is actually inside of you trying to express
itself with a strong feeling. How else do you think you are able to identify
those virtues in others if that is not already in you? Why do you think you
feel something about helping the vulnerable groups and only the lack of money
or resources stops you? It’s because it’s part of the blue print of your true self
that wants to help. Believe me, you can do something about yourself and achieve
your desired level of success that can enable you make the difference in other
people’s lives and be fulfilled.
Life may have thrown you in the
darkest wilderness in this world looking after sheep like the story of young
David in the Christian Bible and it seems like no one cares about you.
Remember, it was in the wilderness where David acquired the skills of war and
fought lions and bears defending the sheep as part of his training, unknowingly.
These are the skills that David needed to kill Goliath, a significant event
that propelled him to ultimately become King of the nation of Israel. Your tough life's
moments right now are the propellers you need to your crown of greatness
SETBACKS ARE A SETUP FOR YOUR
GREATEST COMEBACK
With you in mind
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