Have you ever wondered what life would be, or would have been like if you read more, loved yourself more, made good use of opportunities, prayed more, lived more, made good use of your time, focused more on your strengths, believed more? The African mentality is built on believing in having enemies and having too much competition and this gives us excuses to fail. Just like saying, you blame the devil for every bad action you do because you believe the devil is up to no good, when in reality you have the power to resist. A man will wake up and pray: oh God my father, deal with any power that doesn't want me to be rich. But in reality, he wakes up at 10 am and watches tv through out the whole day. No discipline, no aim, no life. You complain about your government and how there's no job or food. Yet you don't have a voter's card and show ignorance towards politics or government. What are you doing for yourself? YOU were given the power of choice and you determine how far you go.
As far as i'm concerned, your life is in your hands. You decide, you can choose to be good, you can choose to be great, you can choose to have all you want, you can choose to believe what is not true, you can choose to fail, you can choose to be happy. Life is choice. What are you doing to yourself today? What choices are you making?
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Some people have not fully discovered their potential, some people do not even know what they carry, some people haven't even mastered control of their thoughts. Some are still struggling because they refused to grow physically, mentally, socially, psychologically and spiritually. Whatever one tells them, they do. they do what others are doing because they are successful.Some people do not understand the power of positive thinking, the power of determination, the power of knowledge.
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When we fail, we blame the devil, or time for being too fast or slow, or life for giving us such difficult challenges, or teachers for not teaching well, or our parents for not being there every time. All these excuses are blinding people from seeing that the real problem is with them.
What do you do with your spare time?
How many books do you read?
How well are you boosting your IQ?
How well do you motivate yourself to do what you do best?
How flexible is your mind set?
What exactly do you want to do with your life?
You keep up with the Kardashians, are you keeping up with the right attitude?
Are you doing what you're doing because it's your passion or because another man succeeds at it?
What are you doing about improving your life?
How are you handling difficult situations?
Life is not a bed of roses, in fact roses have thorns but they do not use that as an excuse not bloom. I have met a few category of people who do not realize how bad they hinder themselves.
"THERE IS MORE TO LIFE THAN LIVING"
No one has an excuse for failure, you let yourself fail. No one can make decisions for you. No one can motivate you unless you choose to be motivated. No one can love you more than you love yourself. No one can give you true happiness if you're not happy with yourself. No one can live your life for you and no one will definitely take the blame for your inability to succeed. Failure is a one man thing.
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ARE YOU GOING TO BE YOUR OWN ENEMY?
I want you to understand that you have the power to allow, or dis-allow influence. Understand that what ever you do now, deciphers where you'll be tomorrow. You will not win all the time. In fact, you will fall so hard at one point and things will be discouraging. Only then will you know the measure of your strength and passion. Your life depends on the choices you make today; either to stand up and fight, or cower in silence.
DO NOT LET YOURSELF DOWN !
