Keep On Hanging On!

We live in tough times. Human history has never witnessed a more complex time than now. Heartbreaks, terrorism (the most used word in present-day English), kidnappings, corrupt leaders and leadership, uncontrolled sexual expressions, racism, and assassinations summarizes today. In many ways, it isn’t fun to live but we live any way.

Since we are alive today – and will not take our own lives – we must make the best use of what we have at our disposal – our gifts and talents, our money and resources, our time and energies, our smiles – to build a world that looks something like the best picture we have in our hearts all the days of our lives. We cannot afford to drop our hands in defeat and live substandard and subservient lives.

If you submit to the trends of our age you would live through your life completely below the best of your capability. You will be discouraged to the point of throwing in the towel. You will abandon your goals program, desert the vision that once burned hard in your heart, and declare with your words, “I am tired and I give up!” even before half your life is over.

Tough times never last but tough people do! – Robert H. Schuller

So what can you do? First you must clearly understand the things you cannot control nor influence directly. Unfortunately these are the very things we spend the most part of our time bothering about – the weather, power failure, insecurity in the country, and countless others – that you can do close to nothing about on a large scale. Spend as little time as possible on these things and move on to your vision and goals program. If you reject this simple advice you will live your life fighting a battle you won’t win and lose the one right under your nose.

Build a microcosm of the huge issues around you. A miniature of some sort and ensure you do things daily to make your microcosm work properly. If we would all build smaller worlds and ensure we control what we can and influence what we can then we would have ended up built a larger world filled with the values and principles we desire to see in the large world.

First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with speck in your friend’s eye. - Jesus

I repeat: You cannot afford to give up on your vision and goals program. The world desperately needs it. We will succeed in changing the rot in the system but we will only do this if YOU realize that you were made for great things and that relevance in embedded in your system!