Salamu
My Niggas!
I can safely sit before you and say that I have had interesting work experience. I have never been one to blow my own trumpet but when I look at my CV compared with others, I can safely say that I have experienced more than most.
I have had good jobs and I have had some rank shit jobs. I have had great bosses and I have had some mad crazy bosses. Before we go on, a word of advise. Beware the middle aged woman executive who does not have any kids and devotes her life to work. Mad Crazy with a capital M and C! Give these bitches a very wide berth! TRUST ME!
My current job is interesting. Although technically I am a copy writer that specializes in technology articles I have been told that I need to try my hand at writing motivational articles.
Although I never realized it at the time, I thought that my superiors were really losing it when they asked me to do this, but then a very good friend reminded me of what i have experienced in my life and I realized that I am more than well equipped for this task.
Below is my first attempt. I have been told it needs work so its safe for me to share on my blog as it is not the finished item and wont be published anywhere else:
Every human has been in this situation before. Its years after you have graduated from high school or college and you are a
working man or woman. Although you
literally have your whole life ahead of you, you have enough life experience to
realize that the image of the world that teachers and lecturers painted for you
is far from the reality of what life really is.
A fundamental truth about life is that it has its
challenges, and you have been presented with your first one. You can sit back
and ask why people were not honest with you about the truths about life. But
looking for someone to blame is not going to help you choose the right way to
live your life going forward. You have been knocked down, getting up is up to
you. Instead of blaming someone for the hand that life has dealt you, look
ahead at the infinite possibilities that present themselves to you.
Imagine being stranded in the middle of the ocean. You might
feel that you have completely lost orientation and that you are completely
lost. But consider the fact that if you are stranded in the middle of the
ocean, your possibilities are endless. Either direction you choose to travel
will lead you to salvation. Overcoming a challenge in life needs a similar
approach. The chances of things getting worse than they are at that moment are
far less than the chances of things getting better. And when you eventually
approach land after being stranded in the ocean one paddles faster towards
salvation. But what if that person approached the problem with the same
enthusiasm at the start? Would he/she have not reached salvation sooner?
Once you are back on track, you need to realize that you are
fully equipped with all of the tools you need to achieve greatness, there are
no missing tools in your tool box. There are many religions in the world, but
there are a few common truths. One such truth is that our existence is not a
coincidence; we have been created by a higher power to achieve a specific
purpose, a specific goal. And whoever created us did so with perfection in
mind. Although we don’t realize it, or care to admit it, we will never be as
perfect as we are at this particular moment to achieve greatness.
Achieving this greatness cannot be done alone. No human is
an island. We need people to push us down the right path when we face
crossroads in life. Think back to the life that you have lived and you will
recall the role that a family member, high school teacher, best friend or life
partner has played in the person that you are today. Open your mind and heart
to the role that influential people can play going forward. Base your present
decisions on selected past experiences. We have all had our share of break ups
or have experienced death, and the pain that you feel at that moment is very
real and is enough to make you apprehensive to let other people into your
lives. But by allowing hurt to control you, you are building a defensive wall that
will prevent you from taking advantage of present opportunities that life has
to offer. You might think that the people in your life merely exist by
coincidence. But the people in your life, like your existence, do not happen by
coincidence. These people have been carefully selected by the higher power that
created you and are brought into your life at the precise moment that you need
them. You just have to open your mind...and open your heart to acceptance and fight the urge to keep
these people at an arm’s length. Let them into your life and enjoy all that
they have to offer.
Live your life to the fullest. Give it all you have. Look
into the face of an approaching storm and have the guts to say: “Do your worst, for I will surely do mine!”
Approach each day with the devotion, dedication and discipline to achieve one
goal. It may be a singular goal or it may be the first step in achieving a
bigger goal, but humans are emotionally wired to be driven by achievement. At
times you will succeed and at times you will fail, but the lessons we learn in
success and failure helps us to achieve more.
Have you ever taken the time to watch the daily routine of a
small child? From the moment they wake up in the morning until they go to sleep
at night their sole purpose is to enjoy all that the day has to offer to the
fullest. It might seem irrational to say that an adult should approach life in
a similar way, but how irrational is it really? Imagine what you can achieve if
you take all the lessons you have learned about life and use them at the
appropriate time while living each day to achieve the fulfillment in life that
a child does.
Now that we have thought about living life with a childlike
enthusiasm we realize that we have heard the cliché a hundred times: life is a
journey. But are you merely listening to that cliché ? Or do you understand it? I have
spoken about some of the fundamental truths about life. But the one truth that
governs them all is that we can only learn these truths by living life. And with all of the living and all of the learning, we
have just scratched the surface. There are still infinite truths that we have
not discussed just as there are many more truths that I have not yet learned.
The day we stop learning about life is the day that we die. What you need to
realize is that nobody can teach you these truths; it is through living life
that we learn how to cope with it.
Within all us there is a storm, some believe that it will
never end. But a person who believes in the heavens can weather any storm.
Till next time my Niggas!
Mei jua daima kuwa kabla yenu, na
vivuli nyuma yako!
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