BECOME A FIGHTER

FIGHT YOU WAY UP

A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity while an opportunist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

                                             Winston Churchill.

Most often we try so much in getting our desired result in life, but we end up failing. This does not mean we should give up, this means that we should keep on giving our best. This difficult time are just but temporary defeats and should not become our reality that we will never make it in life. We all fail in life on one way or another even the billionaires of the world also experienced such defeats, speak of warren buffet, Richard Branson, Bill gates Steve Jobs all did not become successful without facing challenges, but they did not give up they kept moving forwarding no matter what difficulty or challenge they faced.

The best thing to ever do is not to quit, for we only fail when we give up on ourselves. We have to learn to persevere the challenges of the world. To get to the pick of a mountain we have to go through the valley and once we get at the top it’s the person you become that matters for you will have not conquered the mountain but conquered yourself. In every difficult comes an opportunity that you will only discover when you do not give up on yourself. Fight your way to the top it is upon you to decide whether you are a pessimist or opportunist the choice is you to make so be diligent and decisive enough in making that decision.

No matter how good we are in what we do, we will always experience some pain in and we cannot run away from it. I love what Erick Thomas says “pain is temporally, it will last for a day a month or even an year but eventually it will subsidize and something different will take its course but if you quit it will last forever.” We will never realize our true potential when we give up. We have to learn to endure the pain of life and keep moving forward. It was Martin Luther king Jr that said “if you cannot run you can walk if you can walk you can crawl the most important thing is to never stop moving forward.” I draw lots of motivating from this words and it gives me hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and for me to come to see that end of light I have to keep moving forward. I have to trust the process and not rush through it.

“I have often said that a man’s character is not judged when he has successfully won a battle, but when he is up against the wall and he decides to fight the pain for him to realize his strengths.” Great words from the WWE champion John Cina it is not what we get in life that really matters but who we become at the end of the day and that comes from fighting your way up. If Nelson Mandela had given up South Africa would not have fought the apartheid menace, if Mahatma Gandhi gave up the British would have never stopped oppressing the Indians. These are great leaders who stood for what they believed in and fought their way up. They did not rest until when it was done. It took the late Nelson Mandela 27 years for him to realize his dreams of a free state. He endured the pain of harsh terrific and horrific conditions in the prisons, yet still he did not give up. Who are we to give up just because we have experienced a few challenges and difficulty? Winston Churchill made it clear that “ we should never ever give up on ourselves.”

For us to get to our dreams; we must never give up, we must never lose hope, we must never give in to negative forces, we must believe in our self and we must learn to fight our way up the stairs. All we need to do is set our eyes to the star and focus to it until you get to it. Do not get your eyes off your goals. Work hard and work smart to get to the top always ensure that you settle for nothing else but the best. I would love to complete by motivating words from less brown, “aim for the moon for if you miss you will land yourself among the stars.” Keep moving towards your course and let you purpose guide you. No matter what happens along the way keep moving forward and fight the challenges and the difficulties that you shall encounter and you will discover the strengths in you.

Please don’t just read and keep it to yourself pass it round help a bother, a sister, a friend, a workmate overcome the challenges that they are facing. We can only make a significance impact when we share to our family, friends and relatives.

Maina Azimo says, “Success is what you achieve for yourself, purpose is why you achieve it and significance is how you use your success to help others.”

BE SIGNIFICANT

SING A NEW SONG

DANCING THE SAME OLD SONG?

So here we are in the second week of 2018 and you are still the same old you. Singing the same old songs and dancing to its rhythm yet you expect different result. Let me make it crystal clear that it will not happen. A week before the of 2017, we were so positive wishing our friends, family, workmates and relatives lovely inspiring messages of “happy and prosperous new year.” Then followed inspirational quotes and messages of how 2018 is going to be great. Setting goals and resolutions for the New Year was the norm to a majority of us. That’s wonderful and the best way of staring a new year.

Something has just happened while still in the second week, that literally amazes me. We are still singing the song of oh no its ‘Monday’, thanks to god its ‘Friday’ song and wishing that this month can come to an end first. We have even developed some funny jokes like “wakale washikane wakimbize hii mwezi.” Very funny! right? But what does this speak of us? Singing this kind of phrase is diminishing. We want to make a difference yet we don’t want to change. We want better results but we don’t want to work for them. We want better lives but still holding to the past. 2017 is gone, it’s in the past and you can’t do anything about it. All we can do is look back and learn from the mistakes we did and take necessary actions to change that mistake so us to shape the result of tomorrow. Nothing is going to change unless you decide to change you way of doing things. This will only happen when you make a shift in your mind. You have to develop new habits of proactivity. Stepping up and taking responsibility of our actions.

We must learn to surrender to change for effectiveness, but the first thing we are obligated to, is to change our mentality about everything. I want to agree with T.D.Jakes that “you can buy a new house, but if you put the same old you nothing will ever change. If you buy a car and put in the old you nothing will ever change.” This New Year won’t be different when you keep doing the same old things you did in 2017. You have to come up with a new song of proactivity; a song of diversity and versatility, a song of competence and diligence, a song of accountability and responsibility. Develop a new dancing style to your tune, a style of decisive decision, a style of commitment, a style of determination, a style of endurance, a style of persistency, a style of discipline and a style of constant and never ending self-improvement.

The only way to achieve this is by changing our mentality. Develop new habits that would make you a different person. Our success can only be limited by our own way of thinking. Look around you and see what is pulling you back and let it go. If it’s your cynical friends or workmates let them go.  Change your thoughts and change your thinking, change your thinking and change your decisions, change your decisions and change your actions, change your actions and change your results. It’s time to embrace change and make things happen to us. If we are to make a significant difference in our 2018 we have to change our song and the rhythm of dancing.

You cannot be doing the same thing the same way and expecting different result. It’s time to change and it’s not late before you realign yourself and head to the right direction; a direction towards  your goals, a direction towards your missions and visions, a directions towards you’re your purpose and let you values and principle guide you. Keep your eye directly to your focus and keep moving forward, “don’t stop along the way and start throwing stones at every dog that back you will never get to your destination as was said by Abraham Lincon is a wise saying that keeps us from distractors.

“Aim high straight into the moon for if you miss you will land among the stars.” Very inspiring words from Less Brown. You are a shining star; you are capable of making it to your dreams and accomplish all your endeavors, only if you work it out. Stop the game of complaining, criticizing, blaming and pointing fingers and get down to work. Do not fallow the masses go to the direction where people don’t expect and live a trail. Write a new song and dance to a new rhythm.

Please share this to your friends, workmates, family and relative. Help them stay true to their course and purpose.

Thank you for reading and passing it round.

SHARPEN THE SAW

SHARPEN THE SAW

Samuel Mwangi is timber yard owner whose yard is stationed next to my house and every day when I go out for my daily activities, I have to pass by his store. For the last one month I have observed something that caught up with my attention and I was keen to know more about it. Every single day each morning, when Samuel opens his yard he begins the day by sharpening his saw and he has being doing it with lots of focus, vitality determination and concentration.

 One morning I decided to stand and watch him do his daily routine and I was amaze, for he was so passionate about it. I really wondered and asked myself “does he really have to do that every  single day?” to me it seemed so tiring and boring doing the same thing over and over yet he could just sharpen it once in a week save him the frustration of  sweating every morning before he could begin his work of cutting timber.

On this particular day I decided to ask him what was behind all that sharpening. “Good morning Samuel,” cheerfully I greeted him. “Good morning to you Washingtone, how are you this morning?” Joyfully he responded back. “I’m doing better than good, I thank God for it.” I answered back at him. “And so am I” he affirmed with a happy smile. Then I posed a question to him. “Samuel I see you doing this serious sharpening every single morning, what’s the key reason behind it? And must you be doing it every day morning?”  “This saw, while pointing at it, does 85% of the work in this yard. It’s main function being cutting, it has to be sharp for me to perform my work efficiently and effectively.

When its blunt, I will end up wasting lots of time, struggling and straining to cut timber, I will also use lots of energy and force during my work and that will reduce my performance rate, hence will attend to less customer and that means less pay for me, so to save me all this I prefer setting the saw ready every morning so as to ease myself from the hard labor.” He completed his statement firmly. “Well I guess I understand you now,” cutting me short he retaliated, “also bear in mind that this is just how our minds work. It works best and delivers best when you keep sharpening it. Failure to which, you will end up not realizing your life desire and purpose.”

 

“Wow!”  I exclaimed.  “I didn’t see that coming, I take it as my life lesson for the day I will dig more into it.” Samuel then left me with a simple statement as I left in bewilderment. “As you cultivate your mind to work for you it’s the same way I do with my saw to work for me.” Thank you very much for the lesson.” I shouted back.  “It only works when you work it.” He concluded.

Come to think of it all that we are in the present moment are a function of our mind, all that we have achieved in life emanates from our mind. The actions we take are based on the decisions we make and the results we get in life projects back to decision making. Decisions and choices are made from our thoughts which only take place in our mind. Our brain is a battled field of activities most of them are on choices. If we only learn how to cultivate it well, it will best work to our interest. It is all about sharpening the mind and this is an ongoing process. Constant and never ending self-development comes from nourishing the mind with positive rich motivating and inspiring materials.

Reading positive uplifting materials, that challenge, inspire and motivate you to take actions in life.  These Materials add to our references to which we make decision on. I have been reflecting on the words of Albert Einstein. “The thinking that got you to where you are right now will not take you to your dreams.” In trying to understand the deeper meaning, I have found out that for effectiveness in life we have to know what to do, how to do and the why we are doing it.

We cannot act on something that you know nothing about. For instance if you are in the business or entrepreneur world and you find yourself stuck where the business is not growing or advancing or not moving to the next level. The problem is not the business; the problem is with you as the owner, for you have not taken enough measures to learn more on how to improve your business. The business can never grow beyond what you know. That’s why I keep telling my friends that “we can never see the world beyond that which we are.”

All that we are right now and all that we have achieved in life is basically a true reflection of what our mind holds. To affect change in our life we have to begin by getting to know more about us. You have to be aware of who you are and what you want and why you want it. To realize our potential, our capabilities, our skills and abilities we have to keep on working on us. To take our business to the next level we have to feed our mind with new materials every single day so as to improve and grow. The various ways of achieving this are; you could decide to get into a library and get all business oriented books and read and then try to implement what you have learned. The other way could be going back to school and learn more on business management and administration or find business oriented forums and take part in them. It is as simple as that. Learn more and make more.

If you are struggling due to luck of financial stability, you can only improve by learning more. By learning I mean feeding your mind with knowledge from financial intelligence materials. Please note that am not writing this out of the blues, but through the experience I have gone through and I’m still struggling to keep up to it. I have become who I am right now through the process of learning more. I’m not saying it’s an easy park that you just walk into, you have to decide and act and keep your commitments to self-development. Commitment being not accepting any excuse but result. It come s with effort, determination and persistence not forgetting constancy. Constant and never ending self-improvement.

2018 is here and nothing will change if you keep on doing things the same way you have been doing. You have to change your ways. You must start the process of improving yourself. You must change the circle of you friends. If you friends don’t help you grow then you have to say bye to them. Remember if you hung out with dogs you get fleas. Our life depends on our decisions and decisions emanate from our mind. So to make better decision which project to actions, we have to keep up the work of sharpening the saw. No one in this world is born stupid or poor we only make poor choices that slowly and systematically assemble us into that state of poorness or stupidity. This is a situation we can change by sharpening the saw. So what are you waiting for? The choice is yours to make. If you want 2018 to work for you, then you have to decide and act on self-development.

The only way to make a significant impact in life is to act on what you have learned here. Practice it until it becomes part of you and also share it to you friends, family and friends. If you have any concern please feel free to drop me a comment or if there is something you wish me to address also write back to me I will be glad to share with you. Thank you for taking time to read. May God bless your endeavors, let them come to fulfillment.  

HAPPY 2018