Valuable Lesson: “Faith in God includes faith in His timing.” Habakkuk 2:3 Picture this: When you place a cooking pot of water over fire, the water will eventually boil. But you cannot hasten or prevent the boiling by watching the water, by stirring i…
Valuable Lesson “You can be and have anything you want in life if you pay the price.” Kigwa Stephen I grew up around the hilly slopes of the second highest mountain in Africa. As the early morning light descended gently from the horizon, our homestead offered a very strategic view of the beautiful snowcapped mountain top. Interestingly, never did I or anyone in the neighborhood wake up in the morning awe stricken by the spectacular view of this mountain. Look, a mountain is such an amazing sight when you behold it for the first time. But after you have seen it enough times with monotonous frequency, the once impressive sight no longer seems to appeal to your eye. Instead, it becomes just part of the landscape- sitting there doing nothing.
However, this is not so with a volcano: When a mountain becomes volcanic, it becomes more than just being part of a landscape. It turns on, it comes alive and it lights up. It is quite a spectacle to behold. Everyone notices a volcanic eruption. A volcano produces more than just a flame. It splashes heated molten red-hot lava. Woe unto you if you stand in its path! Nobody dares to oppose the oncoming, unstoppable, constantly spreading, all-consuming heat. It is unstoppable!
Valuable Lesson “Everyone has a compelling subconscious need to be right-because to be wrong hurts their precious ego. To be correct provides a pleasant glow of self-satisfaction and it strengthens the feeling of self-importance. By disagreeing, you challenge and even undermine another's feeling of being right, of being correct, of self-satisfaction, of self-confidence, of self-importance and you trigger a subconscious resentment.”
Why do so many couples and people argue and quarrel? Often unintentionally, most people argue to flex their egos and to demonstrate their own importance or superiority. What does their blatant disagreement win them? Very little if any! It gets them the reputation of being disagreeable. Unfortunately, this has never been proven as dependable way to win friends and influence people. One of the most critical factors in personal influence psychology is to find as many ways as you can to be agreeable. And the best way to be agreeable is to agree. I am not in any way suggesting that you have to get through life without ever being disagreeable, but rather to point out that it is not required of you to express verbal judgment on all statements made by others. As a matter of fact most quarrels and disagreement, in many instances, center on very petty and trivial matters. You are not under any obligation to mete out your judgment or opinion on everything.
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” Walt Disney
The greatest pull on you should and must be the pull toward your future. For it to pull you, it must be very well planned. To plan your future, you must have goals. A goal is a dream being acted upon. You greatest goal in life should be to defy average. Goals are the vision for your future.
Your vision for the future is the ‘prophesy’ of what you shall be one day. Always think first class no matter how insignificant your present is-think big about your future. No matter what your current circumstances are, you will rise or fall in keeping with your vision. The ‘me’ I see is the ‘me’ I will be.
‘Leadership is inner inspection of your own character, integrity, gifts and talents.” Kigwa Stephen
The leadership assignment is a risky affair which requires more than just education and a personality to go with the credentials. Leadership is being visible when things go awry, and invisible when they are working well. Leadership is not a job cut out for the timid. It requires courage of some special kind: Instinctive and automatic.
Allow me to use an analogy to drive home my message. In the animal kingdom, leadership qualities are profoundly and unmistakably exhibited.
The leader of any herd, at the slightest provocation or indication of danger automatically steps out from the crowd and positions himself in readiness for action. Interestingly, he not only does that but also begins to walk towards the apparent danger. He has to do this all the time or otherwise he cannot continue to be the leader.
"The last job you pick will be as good and as bad as the previous you dropped." Kigwa Stephen
It is so sad and quite unfortunate that a lot of people in employment assume the assigned duties and roles merely as passive subjects of those to whom they report to. They let their jobs use them until they become what I would call worn out parts. The amazing paradox however is that anyone can and should use their job instead of letting their job use them. Would you like to know how? I will be pleased to show you how. Look-if you think of your job as drudgery, you will obviously come to hate it; if you think of it as a routine, with the passage of time, you will ultimately loathe it.
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