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begin to be today what you want to be tomorrow


here is again one of my pieces of writing. excerpts from the staircase to your destiny
 
1.      BEGIN TO BE TODAY WHAT YOU WANT TO BE TOMORROW.
I can vividly recall that time when I was in primary five and my dad asked me what I wanted to be and I failed to give him an answer. He kept quiet for a while and later on told me ‘’ begin to be today what you want to be tomorrow’’. I was confused and did not understand him. I was tempted to ask what he meant.  This time, he was too impatient and he threatened to slap me. I kept wondering and asking teachers until I got the explanation. From that time, I have never looked back even when I was from that humble home with two grass thatched houses, I have never thought of failing in life. I developed my own belief ‘’ I have made it’’. Even when I was being sent out of school for school fees. I always had the strong belief that I had already achieved.
There is no time to think that tomorrow you can begin working on that project. You are cheating yourself and misleading others. The time is now or never. Barrack obama became the president of America when he was in the academy. Therefore, when do you want to become who you want to be?
Sitting and thinking that you can do something tomorrow is equivalent to imagining yourself a writer like Shakespeare even when you cannot construct a simple sentence.
 Get out of that comfort zone and act now, get out of those assumptions about life, about your neighbours who you feel are bewitching you and become the standard that other people would admire. Lina zedriga, one of the famous feminists in Uganda once said” when the world sits, standup and when the world seats stand be the standard and when the world becomes the standard be outstanding” Michael Owen, one of the greatest soccer players in this world, who once played for Liverpool football club, became a European champion when he was just 13 years. Do you think he started playing at that age? Absolutely no! Wake up my brother and sister and tackle your destiny. Life is like a journey on a road with hills and valleys. Sometimes you may reach the valley and you slope, sometimes you may reach a hill and you stumble and fall. Must you remain there after you have fallen? Get up once more and keep going my dear. Life is like a journey on a road with both sides having oceans and dangerous animals 0pening their wide teeth waiting for you to fall off the road. Keep your focus on to your destiny. Keep your eyes on your most likely destination. Do not look a side for you will see a nice fish in the water and you may want to fall in the water and pick it. Remember that there are dangerous animals in the same water; they will destroy you and tear you into pieces and that will be the end of you. Great achievers are self starters. Do not wait for some to do for you something before you can take it up. The scouts venture motor says look wide and the scouts motor says be prepared. And the persons with disabilities have a saying that nothing for us without us. You have all it takes to be that powerful business man in your country. You have all it takes to be that prominent entrepreneur in your region. Start now and begin to be what you want to be in the future. You cannot wait for tomorrow to come to be that good orator to be the next day. Everything that has an end has a beginning. It does not matter how you start, but how you end (Maria sharapova)
2.   

   ALWAYS BE POSITIVE IN LIFE
Being positive in this situation means having the belief that one time you will be successful despite the current prevailing harsh conditions. You’re not the first person to experience hardships and out of all the successful people, majority of them have grown up under difficulties. If they had not the thought of being positive, I do not think if they would be who they are now.
Great people do not doubt themselves; but always keep assuring themselves that they can be better people. Dr mwalimu musheshe one time narrated to us a story of his how he washed peoples cloths during university in exchange for money and how he always kept believing that one time he would be a better person. He further narrated of how he keeps meeting these people and they can no longer walk with their heads up at his sight.  Many have made it, who are you to believe that you cannot achieve? What did those people have that you do not have? First, God has given you all the senses though others have only a few. Use them to the fullest. Some people were cattle herders in people’s homes. Others are total orphans and some vend in streets and they become successful, others have stopped in primary five and are millionaires, what about you who have had the education who has both of your parents. Even if you are not highly learned, do you have to just sit back and assume that however much you try you will not achieve?
This reminds of a time during the think tank presentation in which one of the facilitators by the name of DR Ocici said that the greatest cause of unemployment is none other than negative attitude towards work. That how can people see me with my degree digging, what will they say? You are yourself not other people. Be optimistic in life and it will give you the courage and confidence to belief that you can never fail.
Marcus garvey once said that with confidence, you have already won before you start, without confidence you are twice beaten. It does not matter who you are, where you come from what you have, but the ability to figure out that something good can happen that matters. You may be poor, you may be educated, you may be rich but without confidence and optimism, you are a perfect looser. If you can never be positive in life, you will always be a discouraged fellow and if you are discouraged you can never have the energy to stand up and ask for water from a neither.
If nelson Mandela had not been positive in life, South Africa would not be having freedom right now. Without the positive mentality, president obama would not have contested in a white dominated country; he would not have contested for the presidency in the United States of America.
Assume you are a boxer and there is that opponent of yours right in front of you with his muscular giant body ready to do you justice, if you are not positive that you can win the fight, can you ever get the courage and confidence to face that fellow or complete all the rounds? Never! That is why you must first learn to be positive before you can build your confidence or courage in whatever you are trying to do.
Remember that, it is not the kind of the dog in the fight which matters, but it is the kind of the fight in the dog involved in the fight. It is not about money, not about assets or body size, but is all about your mental capacity to visualize and figure out how the end will be. Think of your future and think of your courage and confidence. The more clearly you view your future, the more positive you become in life irrespective of whether people discourage you or not. Attitudes can make life a hundred percent perfect if only you became positive in life. Without positive attitude, you can never associate with your neighbour and you may never have that dream woman or man you want to.

Comments

Ogiu said…
What a brilliant inspiring piece of writing!
6 February 2012 at 07:09
Unknown said…
thank you that motivational comment. hope to read from you again
22 February 2012 at 05:50
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