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/jour…/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.
SETBACKS ARE A SETUP FOR YOUR GREATEST COMEBACK
With you in mind
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