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Take Charge Take Control Take Responsibility For Your Life by benzion72(m): 6:49pm On Feb 13, 2010 |
Have you ever imagined the work of a driver in a bus? Turning the steering wheel, engaging the gears, ensuring smooth movement of the vehicle, the task is essentially the same for a pilot and a sea captain. Smooth journey, sail and air safety point to the same goal of efficient and effective movement from place to place and safety of lives and properties. Can you now imagine a fast speeding bus, train, ship or plane without a driver? What comes to your mind? Accident, disaster, loss of lives and properties. The same is true of a life that is not taken control of; such a life is heading to no where but disaster. We must learn to take control of our life, of our destiny. We must utilize every resources of nature within us to realize our dreams, our goals and aspirations. We must learn to do one thing and that is to take personal responsibility for how our life turns out. Often times, we gave the control of our live to external people, we surrender our lives to them and when we fail to live up to the expectation of our dreams, we blame those we surrender our lives to, for their failure to realize our dreams for us. Citizens blame their government for bad roads, lack of electricity, poor standard of education and so on. Husbands blame their wives for their failure and bad luck, wives, blame their husbands for promises of heaven on the earth that refuses to materialize. Workers blame their employers for low wages and unfavorable working environment, organization blame their staff and management for low productivity and returns to stakeholders. Friends, we must learn to take personal responsibility for our lives whether good, bad or ugly. We must be ready to bear all the praises and the blame for our life. Most people we depend upon for help also have a litany of their own headaches. They do not have enough room on their heads to bear other people’s headaches. It is your personal efforts that really count. Man is designed to stretch himself by all means. We live very close to nature and we could see that the elements are dynamic and in constant motion, working around the nucleus and vibrating eternally, working in harmony with the law of nature. Man, being part of the nature is supposed to join the dynamic motion of the elements. If he can not fly, he should run, if he cannot run he should walk, if he cannot walk, he should crawl and if not, he should roll on the ground. The rule of the jungle is to wake up and start running less we are consumed. The law of nature recognizes not the weak; the weak are destined to extinction. Life is about the survival of the fittest mentally, spiritually, physically, financially economically and so on. Man, due to freedom of choice and freewill, often choose the least path of resistance, he wants peace and ease. We choose to believe contrary to the universal law and act contrary to the law of nature itself. We act by the law of belief and hope that some how, someway, through some mysterious and miraculous our goals will be realized, our needs will be met. We erroneously believe the word of the master out of context, that the bird of the air neither sow nor reap yet your heavenly father feeds them, forgetting that the bird must leave its nest and fly in search of food, locate the best field and watch out for stones and other predators, before they can partake of the food provided by the master. We have also forgotten that the intelligence that created our world worked six days and night before resting on the seventh day. Most of us believe that we do not have the right tools or the necessary capital input to create or take charge of our lives. But nobody has capital to start with in the first place. The capital you need is your brain that has billions of active cells, your two hands and two legs. What capital did the infinite intelligence have in creating the heaven and the earth? What capital did the pilgrims have in creating the United States of America? What capital did Henry Ford have in creating Ford Motor Company? In fact he was working double shift in the morning with Edison Electrical Company and in the night in his garage. What capital did Bill Gates have to create Microsoft? Friend, nobody starts with capital. The only capital is you. All you need is refinement. Refine your speaking and writing ability, become more persuasive so that you can impress people to buy into your idea. Refine your language, refine your intelligence. What capital do you need to refine yourself? All you need is time, discipline, books, cassettes, tapes, teachers, mentor, Pastor, Imam, Priest, Internet and so on. You are the epitome of the creation, the envy of the celestial being, the crown of the creation with a divine mandate to dominate. When I consider what man has done, what he is still doing and the possibility of future accomplishments, I marvel at possibilities in man. In the last century, man has been able to travel to the moon thousands of Kilometers away into the space, he has succeeded in placing countless satellites into the orbit that beam telecommunication waves to the earth and weather satellites which now forecast rainfall, sunshine humidity with precision. Man has been able to shrink time through the internet, email, text messages, GSM and so on. Man can now travel at a speed faster than sound. You can eat breakfast in Lagos, Nigeria, Lunch in Heathrow, London and dinner in Tokyo, Japan. Man has been able to harness the power that is in the atom both for good and for evil. No wonder David Jesse said we are fearfully and wonderfully made. Friends, why are you crying, why are you fearful, if mere mortal men have stepped on the surface of the moon, designed supersonic jet, conducted brain surgery, then you are powerful beyond comprehension. Having realized the stuff you are made of, it is high time we stand up and take charge and take control of our lives, by taking personal responsibility for our success and failure. We must know that things don’t just happen. Remember Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of motion “Every object continues in a state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line”. Are you static in one place? Move to action; take a personal responsibility for your life thereby starting a uniform motion in an up line direction. Not doing something everyday means that you are in a state of rest. Let this message serve a law of momentum to you, an external force acting on a stationary object, forcing it into motion. This can be simply done by having a purpose like Henry Ford whose purpose is to make cars for the people from best possible materials at a reasonable price which is affordable to all men, earning average wages. Like Andrew Carnegie, the organizer of United Steel, whose major purpose is to make money for the first part of his life and invest it in people for the second part of his life, which he did. What is your own purpose, your dream, your aspiration? Make a goal out of it, break down the goal to weekly, monthly realizable goals and start working round the clock to achieve your goal. Never wait or complain for lack of tools, for better tools will come your way when you effectively and efficiently use the tools that you have at hand. Remember that many people are in your shoes, who do not have the opportunity that you have but with the little opportunity they had they are self reliant today. For you to be able to read this write up means that you are literate to a level. Some can neither read nor write but they have millions of money at their disposal. With your own more than twenty years plus of education you are still a weakling, needing help from your parents who have fend for you for so long. It is time to severe that tie and launch into the world by taking personal control and charge of your life. Olukunle Alabetutu is a teacher by gifting he love to read, teach, think and write. He can be contacted at alben2002@gmail.com |
Re: Take Charge Take Control Take Responsibility For Your Life by benzion72(m): 6:54pm On Feb 13, 2010 |
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