The Versatile Achiever

Life can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Life is to me the most versatile thing.

We live in a versatile world. daily the same you is expected to be many different things. Sometimes this can be very confusing as we can easily mess up our roles and responsibilities. This need not be so as we can be as versatile as our responsibilities require by simply adhering to the following:

Know your roles and responsibilities: Many people do not know who they are and what they are supposed to do as a result of being that person. Many of us are like actors staged by a director only for him to discover we don’t know what role we are staged to play.

In a football field, there are eleven positions and eleven responsibilities. Each player takes on a position based on the responsibility he has on the field to ensure the victory of his team. A twelfth player is not needed on the pitch because there are only eleven responsibilities. The role determines the responsibility.

Act like wet clay: Clay can be hard when dry. Buildings constructed with clay bricks can stop the penetration of a bullet. Dry clay is durable - don’t be like it! The case is different with wet clay. When wet, clay becomes plastic and can take whatever form the potter decides to mold it into. That is how we should be with the several roles we have and the responsibilities we must live up to. Sometimes we pick up the responsibility of one of our roles and try to play it in all the roles we are involved in. Such will act like bosses to their children and fathers to their wives. Get this straight; you are not a clay brick! You are a dynamic creature equipped with the ability to be all you are expected to be at any point of your life.

Focus on which role you are acting:  Once you identify which role you need to play at a particular time, try all you can to focus all your energies on the responsibilities of that role. Focus on each role’s responsibilities and play it properly at each moment. This requires sensitivity from you. Once you identify the role and its responsibilities, focus on them until another switch is required.

Have fun: if we enjoy all the roles we are expected to be responsible for, we won’t make a mess of them. Each role will be something unique that we long to exercise our responsibilities in if only we add the ingredient of fun on each of them. You have to enjoy being a husband, enjoy being a boss, enjoy being an employee, enjoy being a father, or a mother, or a sister before you can perform satisfactorily in it. Nobody runs away from what he enjoys.