You
don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.
~Richard
Branson
The philosopher Peter F. Drucker says this about
building a leader and I quote “Leadership is not magnetic personality — that
can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing
people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high
sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the
building of a personality beyond its normal limitations”
Every man and woman was born a leader of their
own destiny because everything we see and experience all fall within our
different realms of perceptions and focus. No two people will ever go through
the same experience in the exact same manner. Therefore, what each one
experiences is a setup from God, knowing beforehand that God has already
invested sufficient resources in the person to overcome whatever, challenges
lay ahead. This is the confidence that we all should have that any battle I can
face, I already have enough armour resident in me to win.
Nature has shown us this phenomenon which can be
referred to as the principle of least resistance. When one plants seeds of
maize in the ground, we do not doubt that the soil in which the seed is planted
will give way to the growing plant with least resistance. When a woman
conceives she will not do anything to make the baby grow with human aspects and
parts because everything has already been programmed in the seed to be achieved.
Humans play no part in ensuring that a baby in the womb has the head, hands
legs etc. because all these parts are already designed to form effortlessly in
accordance with the divine law.
Learning from the foregoing, the ability for the success
you require to achieve is already invested in you, way before you were born. The
only reason everything seem not to be working is that you are trying to figure
out how to do it. People have told you that you can’t and you have believed them
or there are no mentors around you who also don’t know that they don’t know that they
need to succeed beyond the norm of the society you live in. Sometimes you want
to be sure it can be done. Martin Luther King Jr. puts it perfectly that you don’t
have to see the entire stairway to get started. The only thing a child who is
trying to learn to walk needs is simply to see others walking and the child
will not be afraid to get started without following any specific rules. No
matter how many times the child falls and cries they never stop trying until they
begin to walk and run. You are no different. If you are able to read this, then
I know that you will keep on trying and failure is not final for you.
The only thing you need to know whether you are
in Africa, America, Asia or Europe is just to see the evidence that others have been successful
and started their own business. It does not matter how hard people may say it
is to do it, just be bold. It is true that you will fall along the way but no
matter how many times you fall, rise up and keep trying until you win. What’s
the worst thing that can happen when you stick out your neck? Someone says no
or the situation doesn’t work out as planned. The best thing that could happen,
however, is that you become wildly successful. So why not give yourself an
opportunity to win? Take more chances. But don’t calculate a doomsday scenario
in advance. The odds are in your favour. Remember: When you play it overly
safe, you miss incredible opportunities that were ripe for the picking. Open
your eyes to the universe of all possibilities.
See you
part 6
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