A lot has been racing through my mind lately and I find my innermost peace when I write because its just my way of life.
I added an old friend on bb messenger yesterday and the first thing he said was 'When are you going to win your literature price Simi?.. Marriage shouldn't diminish your talents ...'
His words perked my spirit and alerted me to the danger in wasting the talents and gifts the maker has deposited in me. I reminded myself that I shouldn't pretend to play mum while others are trudging through. Opportunity is sometimes difficult to recognise because we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
Opportunities are never lost, another man grabbed the ones we missed.
I'm good at speaking to myself and that has helped me over the years.
I took time out today to have my moment of sober reflection. I reflected on my life-It hasn't been a labyrinth neither has it been smooth all the way but the journey has been worth it because of my encounter with the man that makes everything beautiful in His own time. Can't thank God enough for all He's been to me.
While I was enjoying my solitude and reminiscing on a lot of things, one word kept coming to my mind."SUCCESS" I must admit its importance has featured a lot in my conversation with people these past days. Two weeks ago, a lovely friend of mineYemi Adebayo visited and we seriously talked for hours about this simple but yet complicated Formula.
No wonder Abraham Lincoln said "We should always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing" Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
A man is but a product of his thought; What he thinks,that he becomes. When you change your thoughts, you change your world. Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit and man is definitely his own gardener.
Someone once said.."if you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters. You can't expect to make a place in the sun for yourself if you keep taking refuge under the family tree" These words keep coming to me and it reminds me that striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into their nest. Does He? Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with hands in your pocket.
So what excuse have I got, if a man with no family tree has succeeded because he branched out for himself. Pennies do not come from heaven, They have to be earned here on earth. I must get involved to have an impact. I can't keep building a reputation on what I'm going to do. I've got to dig the well before I become thirsty.
To my readers out there. Its not too late to re-trace your steps. Well done is better than well said. If you don't budge, don't expect a push. Theodore Isaac Rubin said "If you don't make waves, nobody will know that you are alive"
Trust in God friends but do something and make WAVES...
