Tuesday, May 23, 2017
RE-INVENT THE WHEEL
Most people are struggling to curve a new road to the future;
they are cursing the present and keep on nursing wounds of the past, or
continue wallowing in the pleasures of golden old days. It is their inability
to cut the umbilical cord to their past that lives them in dilemma. They are
people that hate the present because they did not do well in school, they were
born in poor families, they lost parents when they were young, they lost jobs. Over
concentration on what may have happened or ought to have happened limits our
vision to the future of our dreams. It is appropriate to note that spring does
not last forever. Keep your enthusiasm even when you are failing because you
can only fail yourself to success
Stephen Berry is right in the book Strategies if the
Serengeti as he says: ‘in our commercial world we continue to observe champions
of previous decades becoming the carcasses of the current decade. In our
business environment we see the continued use of strategies which were once successful
but have now been rendered obsolete. Technologies change, markets change,
perceptions change. Managerial functions change and all will only continue to
do so at an ever increasing speed.
The fact of life is very simple, if you had a glorious past
then suddenly the world turns upside down, it entails therefore that along the
way you stopped doing the very elements that propelled you to the pinnacle of
success. You got lost in the comfort zone and were complacent of business as
usual. Life is cruel; it never keeps rewarding a person on the basis of past
glory. Life wants immediate success stories. It is appropriate to note that all
of us are looking for an area in which to matter, to make a difference and to
perfect that area to levels that we have perhaps never dreamed of before.
The great German philosopher Goethe said that if you commit
to a purpose that matters, a purpose that is personally motivating and powerful
for you, you can achieve that levels that perhaps you never dreamed of.
You may not have had the opportunity to attend university education
in your youthful days but it is never too late. What does it help to hate the past;
to complain that what you do not have you could have had so many years ago? Go
back to school and get the academic papers of your choice. Do not hate the
present scenario as market forces push you out of relevance thus threatening your
survival. Life will keep on changing, hate not the change, keep crying not for
the past. Re-strategize your life and move on. Nobody has interest to listen to
your glorious past, if anything people would use your glorious past to tell
tales of how life can move from god to bad and worst in one’s lifetime.
Challenge people, start afresh, write new glorious chapters of your life.
The reason why people break records is because life requires
something new all the time. A record is a record only for a period. Top
athletes break their records to place the bar too high. Break the records of
your past. Beat the feat that you managed to set in your personal, business or
corporate life. You may go down, but never give up. Work hard on a come-back
philosophy. Never lose hope, never give up, keep on working hard on the edge of
the unknown. You were there possibly unknown, build upon the failures you know,
remember all the sadness and frustration and let it go. You are the one with
the power to re-invent the wheels to the future of your choice.
Leadership guru Paul McGee says, when you let go some stuff,
you create a room for more stuff. If you want to develop your life, if you want
to develop your business, you have to be ready to do the things that you don’t
like doing. McGee, in a few words advocates for what he calls SUMO – shut up
and move on. If you have to move forward, never keep on complaining, close your
ears to the madrigals of the past, stop admiring your past achievements, the
failures of today will not be compensated by the achievements of the past.
It is possible to make life a new. It is possible to achieve
more. Zig Ziggler tells us: ‘at the end of your days, do not be the kind of
people who say, I wish I had, I wish I had, I wish I had. Be the kind of people
who say, I am glad I did, I am glad I did, I am glad I did’
Men do not attract that which they want but what they are so
says James Allen. You will attract success if you work hard towards achieving
success. You will conquer fear if you are strong minded and cannot give up no
matter how tough it seems in life. You will move forward if you learn not to be
carried over by your past. Be a person of action and move forward
