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re you among those that make things happen or those who wait for others to make things happen for them? Mind you there is no sitting on the fence. After all, all of us are all players on the world pitch!
This life is about impact making. It could be in the sports arena, business, industrial, scientific, fashion, music, art, political or professional, academic, childcare, or Spiritual domains. Barrister George Amadi always says that the sky is too wide for two birds to collide! You have no excuse. You must be good at something of global, national or community benefit. Perhaps you have not searched enough within you.
The barren land of today may be the most valuable asset tomorrow while the child of today is the future of tomorrow! Enough of parasitic living, what will God, my parents, my brother, our government do for me? Or what is in it for me? Why not change your mentality and start asking ‘what can I do to better the lives of other people today? Are you provoked yet? Enough of living a mediocre lifestyle. Enough of being the downtrodden. Don’t you think that the experience you have gained so far in life is enough teacher to propel you into action? I want to make sure you are inspired and motivated in the course of reading this book to leap into action and start something worth the while. Enough of lazing about and giving of flimsy excuses of I am no good, I have no one to help me. The question is: those who made it who helped them? They chose to help themselves; they took a step and extra steps. The difference between achievers and non achievers is that achievers made up their minds to do extraordinary things others dare to do. While others sleep away the hours achievers make use of the hours experimenting and making attempts to change something. Which category do you belong to?
Make use of every phase in your life. As a child, fulfil what childhood demands before you leap into the new stage of teen age. Do not carry over something you are supposed to achieve at a certain age to the next. Do not wait until you step into your twenty before you discover your purpose in life. The fact that you are not yet married does not mean that you cannot do something that can be remarkable tomorrow. It may shock you to discover that you may not have the time and opportunity to carry out those plans you postponed to the time when you get married. I hope that it will surprise you that once you get married priority will change. You may see yourself preoccupied to help your husband or children excel first forgetting your potentials. I have been there. Before I got married I had published two literary books and was a fire brand minister of the Gospel because I had no strong responsibility or duty to anyone.
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hose that are making it around you do not possess special mechanism built inside of them, it is just that they seized the ‘TIME AND CHANCE’ that they had3. Winston Churchill said that “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”. Every now and then opportunities to reach to the top come our ways but how many of us recognise them talk less of making use of them. Jesus wept over the Jewish people that they did not know their time of visitations.
How often have you missed your times of visitation? It is important to be at the right place and at the right time and doing the right things at the right time. A young girl who is busy at age 16 or 17 gallivanting around the town with boys should not expect to excel in anything tangible. This is a crucial time to lay one’s foundation in life either in academics, sports or career. If a youngster misses it then it means that if he or she recovers at all he or she will begin this process in his or her twenties or thirties.