Sometimes i wake up with a million worries swarming in my head like angry bees,it get so disturbing that i find it hard to concentrate on anything.These worries are born out of every man's greatest fear, which is the fear of failure. Questions like what?,when?,who?,where ?,how? keeps on falling on different parts of speech,all born of my apparent feeling of insecurity. Everything around me seems not to be in my favor and i could go on blaming my problems and anything ranging from my challenging background to the bad economic situation,family problems,terrible infrastructure,non-functional system ,this,that,those,them and adopt just about any form of defense mechanism to shy away from reality.
People like to give excuses for their problems,i have been a victim of that myself several times and the shame of it is that the problems persist, they never really go away afterwards.I took pains to introspect on myself with respect to the realities that surrounds me and I saw that if you truly pursue an ambition you need to have the right mental attitude towards achieving your goal.Like a quote from Thomas Jefferson "Noting can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal,noting on earth can help the man with wrong mental attitude". hmm...He said "NOTING ON EARTH CAN HELP THE MAN WITH THE WRONG MENTAL ATTITUDE", Forget, Case closed. In other words ,moving forward requires one to stop basking in the waters of giving excuses and look within oneself as a move towards self reliance.
In my bid to find practical solutions to my fears i swam into a very interesting expression that says "Carry a message to Garcia which means ; to accomplish one’s assigned task in an
independent, resourceful, self-sufficient manner; to do one’s job
without making a fuss. This Americanism alludes to Elbert Hubbard’s
article “A Message to Garcia,” written during the Spanish-American War.
The piece addressed itself to the inability of most people to act
without quibbling and procrastinating, citing Major Andrew S. Rowan of
the U.S. Army as an exemplary model for his behavior in carrying out the
order to find and deliver a message to the Cuban General Garcia. The
expression was popular in the early part of this century but is now less
frequently heard.
Now when insecurity lurks around the corner or when a setback is encountered ,it is better not to capitalize on the odds but to look at the chances regardless of how bleak it might look for it takes just a sparkle of light to crack any depth of darkness.I would suggest that people start looking within themselves as to having the right mental attitude towards dealing with their problems.I believe if you are a lazy man in Lagos ,you will as well be a lazy man in New york and will never live the dreams of your village talk-less of the American Dream.
I am not a pastor or a motivational speaker or any kind of authorized advocate for moral teachings and all,i am just saying that it will be of a great help individually and collectively to first of all ask ourselves questions like "What have i done for myself today?...My answer to that is that i have reminded myself that i cant fail and i need to get out of here now and face today's problems squarely , rectangular, triangularly,circularly physically, spiritually and in all realities as the case may be.
(special thanks to theyoungandtherestless for the source of the inset image)
People like to give excuses for their problems,i have been a victim of that myself several times and the shame of it is that the problems persist, they never really go away afterwards.I took pains to introspect on myself with respect to the realities that surrounds me and I saw that if you truly pursue an ambition you need to have the right mental attitude towards achieving your goal.Like a quote from Thomas Jefferson "Noting can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal,noting on earth can help the man with wrong mental attitude". hmm...He said "NOTING ON EARTH CAN HELP THE MAN WITH THE WRONG MENTAL ATTITUDE", Forget, Case closed. In other words ,moving forward requires one to stop basking in the waters of giving excuses and look within oneself as a move towards self reliance.
In my bid to find practical solutions to my fears i swam into a very interesting expression that says "Carry a message to Garcia which means ; to accomplish one’s assigned task in an
independent, resourceful, self-sufficient manner; to do one’s job
without making a fuss. This Americanism alludes to Elbert Hubbard’s
article “A Message to Garcia,” written during the Spanish-American War.
The piece addressed itself to the inability of most people to act
without quibbling and procrastinating, citing Major Andrew S. Rowan of
the U.S. Army as an exemplary model for his behavior in carrying out the
order to find and deliver a message to the Cuban General Garcia. The
expression was popular in the early part of this century but is now less
frequently heard.Now when insecurity lurks around the corner or when a setback is encountered ,it is better not to capitalize on the odds but to look at the chances regardless of how bleak it might look for it takes just a sparkle of light to crack any depth of darkness.I would suggest that people start looking within themselves as to having the right mental attitude towards dealing with their problems.I believe if you are a lazy man in Lagos ,you will as well be a lazy man in New york and will never live the dreams of your village talk-less of the American Dream.
I am not a pastor or a motivational speaker or any kind of authorized advocate for moral teachings and all,i am just saying that it will be of a great help individually and collectively to first of all ask ourselves questions like "What have i done for myself today?...My answer to that is that i have reminded myself that i cant fail and i need to get out of here now and face today's problems squarely , rectangular, triangularly,circularly physically, spiritually and in all realities as the case may be.
(special thanks to theyoungandtherestless for the source of the inset image)
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