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Needed Watering…
By Felix | March 25, 2008
Wow! … A whole week and nothing new on my blog? Interestingly I received a mail from someone who comes to this blog regularly scolding me for not writing for a week now, and it’s not like I haven’t tried to in the last two days, but I guess like my boss put it to me, “the reason we don’t write is because we learn nothing new…”
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not making excuses, just facing the facts the even those who water the plants need to be watered too. Everyone has a source, and when we stay too far away from our source, we most often times lose focus.
Focus… this reminds me of when I first bought a car back in my streets days, I became the new big boy of the block, everyone wanted to do business with me and this was, for one clear reason. “Everybody wants to partner with success”. When you climb up the ladder in life, you become visible and people want to associate with you, sometimes not caring how you got there, they just automatically believe you can handle success, because you got a break through. WRONG!
Anyway, I liked the attention and respect showered on me and after a while, this started getting into my head and in a hurry, I forgot what it took to get there. I forgot the hard work, the sleepless nights in the café, the prayers and fasting (yes we prayed and fasted too). I just got into the mix of the street routine, when you make it, or let me put it like this instead,… when it looks like you’ve made it, next thing is you start partying and lounging with the big boys who have made it too and your orientation changes, with the beliefs that you can never go down again when you are on top, because you have crossed over to a new level. WRONG AGAIN!
Big lie, they lied to me and themselves, because we relaxed and the ones we called the small boys came up and became good competition for us, sometimes even making more than we did. And today, I don’t see any of these guys in the big boys league.
What I am trying to say here is, the minute we lose focus, and forget the journey it took for us to get where we are today, we start going down, because the truth about life is if you are not growing up, you are growing down, if you are not increasing, you are reducing. Life was not designed to have a vacuum, you cannot afford to say you want to be stagnant, because there is no such thing! If you think I am not making sense, ask the following.
1. Bill Gates: what it took to be no.1 for over 10years as the world’s richest man, I am sure he kept being consistent at what he was doing and he kept innovating and following the new trends to stay on top, until recently when Warren Buffet took over and he was able to take over not by fluke, but because he also has been consistent and when the world market played in his favor there was no stopping him.
2. Mohammed Ali, was one time unstoppable and undefeated, but I remember when it got to his head before his fight against Joe Fraizer, he went to the gym with the press men where Joe was training and kept mocking him about not being good enough to face him in the ring and even went ahead to have a press conference describing how the fight would turn out mocking Joe all along and ended up not training for the match. As much as I liked his skill of beating guys before getting to the ring and as much as I admired his intimidation techniques, I knew not preparing for the fight at all was a little extreme and on the D-day, you guessed it right, Joe Fraizer beat Ali. Now not because he was necessarily a better boxer, but he prepared and Ali didn’t, because he lost focus.
3. Same thing happened to Mike Tyson, when being the youngest heavy weight to unify the 3 belts in boxing, this feat and women also got into his head and he was beaten by people who on his focused days wouldn’t have lasted 5rounds. A lot of great men in the past and present also share same stories of defeat when focus was lost.
Once focus is lost or your eyes are away from the goal, you are bound to go down no matter what your past credentials looked like… Back to the story… Yes after a few months I got broke again and couldn’t maintain or even fuel the big car I was driving, yet I was being called a big boy. I had to go back and start all over again like a small boy and that wasn’t funny, because it took a whole lot more effort to get back on track.
Basis of this stories is, as much as I needed rest for this long( I haven’t had 4 days straight in a long while) 4days Easter holidays we just had, my eyes left the target and I know some if not all my readers have been a bit disappointed.
Well I want to assure you that the fire is not gone, the reason for the blog has and will not fizzle out and I will keep writing and reaching out, till my voice is not only heard, but till a substantial amount of change takes place, only sometimes I might need to be watered too.
Last week, I wrote on opportunities that exist and are coming and about raising a network of friends who will benefit from the information I will share, well the time is here, for those that indicated interest, keep your eyes glued as some of these opportunities unfold.
I’ll end with this quote from the Buddhist religion…
“Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.” … Buddha quotes.
Topics: motivation, my story, success principles |
March 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Kudo’s
March 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
First, where did u get that picture? It’s beautiful!!
Second, too true that loss of focus can be costly. Most likely more than if we had kept it in the first place.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
NICE to see you are alive…. i agree on what u say to a point.. i remember one time in life staying so focused on something in my life only to fall.. wink.. xxx hagd
March 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
A lot of people race from one goal to another yet never feel fulfilled! some tyms we envy them,yet these achievers can’t see their worth.they attain but never enjoy it..What matters is how focused and true we are to our dreams.
Start looking at “the joy set b4 you” n you’ll be able to endure the present circumstances!
IT’S D BROKEN WHO BECOME MASTERS AT MENDING!
March 25th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Beautiful piece,
Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.” When u pray, and get focused, and put in hard work u will never stop flowing like a river without end.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Nice one.
we have been looking forward to reading,but i guess you also have to learn inorder to teach.
March 27th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Bros, I have been keeping an eye on your blog and I assumed you were just somehow busy. you came strong at start and we just expected you carry on with same strength but alas…. Being focus as you sounded is just CORRECT.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:45 am
a spring flow of watering thoughts.oops.was trying to juxtapose the illustration with the write-up.good sense appeal.inspiring too.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:50 am
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Put about 100 bricks in some
Particular order in a closed
Room with an
Open window.
Then send 2 or 3 candidates in
The room and close the door.
Leave them alone and come back
After 6 hours and then analyze
The situation.
If they are counting the
Bricks.
Put them in the accounts
Department.
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Put them in auditing .
If they have messed up the
Whole place with the bricks.
Put them in engineering.
If they are arranging the
Bricks in some strange order.
Put them in planning.
If they are throwing the
Bricks at each other.
Put them in operations .
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If they have broken the bricks
Into pieces.
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Technology.
If they are sitting idle.
Put them in human resources.
If they say they have tried
Different combinations, yet
Not a brick has
Been moved. Put them in sales.
If they have already left for
The day.
Put them in marketing.
If they are staring out of the
Window.
Put them on strategic
Planning.
And then last but not least.
If they are talking to each
Other and not a single brick
Has been
Moved.
Congratulate them and put them
In top management