I saw some football
fans gathered round in a certain drinking bar after their team had woefully
disappointed them in a recently tough-to-decide match in the champions’ league
tournament. They were so frustrated that they quickly laid the cause of their
defeat on some key players as the source of their loss.
Some of them, depressed
and angry have to resort to alcohol or alcoholic beverages to see if they could
forget the trauma caused by them remembering the “slow motion” of the single goal
netted by their opponents that bid them a premature goodbye in the classic
league of champions! Worrying or no worrying, I imagined in my mind that this
would not solve the issue!
I later thought of the
fact that due to the passion with which these depressed fans followed their
team, they could have done everything possible to make that team take the
trophy if they had been put among the 11 men decision making squad on the
pitch. Yes! But unfortunately, they were outside the field and their being outside
the field has absolutely no influence on the results on the score board!
In life, number one;
“you don’t have to leave your chances in the hands of someone whom you know is
not competent enough to cause effects using your opportunities and think you
will celebrate your success”.
Number two; “you don’t
leave those opportunities not attempted and expect a positive result”. It is
unlikely to happen today, not tomorrow and never forever!
Success is not luck!
Excellence is as a result of a deliberate effort to lift your bar from inch to
inch. You can’t make statements like “I was just coming back from church, them
all of a sudden, I became excellent”. What’s that?
It is good you dream as
big as the blue ocean, but the dreams become a reality when you take hold of
the opportunities available to you to step into the world and work those dreams
out.
Don’t confuse motion
with action. Motion means your legs are carrying you all about; but action
tells that you are being carried about a business that matters! Believe in your
dreams, work and live them well through action!
“To believe something,
and not live it is dishonesty”
~ Mohandas Gandhi
Perhaps you have been
wondering about how you will win the tournaments of life. This is an important
moment of your life. Just know where your goals are. Dress in the jersey of
action and enter the game of vision! Work with your talents, skills, and
tactics and with determination!
Don’t commit any foul;
don’t put yourself on an offside position. Be at the right place at the right
time. Attack your failures and defend your goals; look up and watch the time
because the whistle may blow at any time. Don’t waste the chances you get!
Target the goals and with winning in focus, you will be there!
Believe it; 25 years
from now or less, you will be voted for or appointed by the actions you are
taking today! Guess what the vote will mean. Will it be an election for you to
occupy the edifice of failure or to be the administrator of the kingdom of
success? Listen!
