HOW YOU SHOULD MOVE FROM PAIN TO POWER

I’ve observed we live in a dispensation and a society where and when people a repugnant to any form of pain. We hate discomfort of any kind, we love life, we love ease; we love convenience and cheap success. We do not like to make sacrifices but expect the best life’s got to offer.

This in my opinion is why many of us, despite our hard work still don’t have much to show because the key to real success is sacrifice not just hard work.

Sacrifice is the will to give up benefits, comfort, convenience and ease for a greater good or reward from the future. And sacrifice is usually quite painful.

The most successful people in history are those who understood the power and purpose of pain and used it well to their advantage. People of the past with no relevance in today’s history are those who wouldn’t tolerate or endure any hardship and they interpreted pain as unfair and unnecessary suffering; hence couldn’t decode the opportunity and profit hidden in the pain. They wasted great opportunities and advantages – they made no mark in life. However, there are some who did extremely well.

Let me illustrate by this true story.

EQUIP YOURSELF AGAINST THE POWER OF POVERTY

To every situation, circumstance, substance or creation there is an invisible power energizing and making it function and keeping it active.

The human body, no matter how perfect it is, without the spirit living within,it is inactive and lifeless. A car can be very beautiful and exotic but without power from the battery, it will never move. A perfectly built brand new aircraft, without jet fuel, it would never fly. Your fantastic and expensive brand new phone, without the internet, without wifi, you can’t possibly upload or download anything.

Every creature, invention and even situation is powered mostly by an invisible force. It is impossible to master, manage or manipulate anything in this life successfully if the power behind it is not identified and managed appropriately.

In my observation and understanding, God does not directly bless anyone with wealth, God gives every man the power to create wealth. If you don’t know and can’t control the seven powers behind successful wealth creation, you will never be able to create and retain wealth.

As there are powers, in other words keys for successful wealth creation, there are also powers behind the state of poverty.

HARNESSING THE POWER OF DESTINY - A GUIDE

So there’s this man who has totally messed up his life and family. He lost his job almost 10 years ago and since then things have really gone haywire for him and his family. A father of three teenage children who right now don’t relate with him and can hardly see him eye to eye. These teenagers in their earlier years at the university are actually fending for themselves and sponsoring themselves through school. Their mother can’t do much to help as she’s now down with a terminal ailment.

After her husband lost his job, she wanted to support in every way possible and decided to work very long hours in a chemical factory somewhere not far from their house where proper protection was not enforced for the factory workers. Eventually the work environment affected her health badly and right now she has very severe respiratory problems. She’s very weak and can’t do much work.

This man after losing his job wouldn’t take on another employment. He developed a victim mentality and began to blame everyone and everything for his failure in life. He would daily read newspapers and listen to the radio to find out what new thing the government and everyone else is doing wrong and he would criticize and condemn the government and many institutions all day long with his other associates who seem to be  going nowhere in life. No job is good enough, no employment pays well enough, the country is terrible, the government knows nothing and his current condition is the fault of everyone else but him. That’s his rhetoric; his pomposity.

HARNESSING THE POWER OF PURPOSE - A GUIDE

One of the most overwhelming questions on the mind of a lot of people is the question of Purpose? Why am I here? Why do I exist? Why am I in this world? What am I supposed to do? What is the reason for my being alive? And on and on goes the questions in the minds of a lot of people.  And when they’re not sure of the answer, they become exasperated and push the matter aside somewhere in their mind.

Many people are afraid especially when they begin to advance in age, about not living in, or fulfilling their purpose. They are afraid of missing it in life, they want to be sure they don’t turn out to be successful failures in life – pursuing aggressively and achieving that which was not meant for them to accomplish.

Many people have been taught and have reasons to believe purpose is what an individual is passionate about in life. To discover your purpose, locate your passion and that is it. But there is a fallacy with this answer in that it is very possible to be passionate about so many things in life and it naturally becomes confusing when you don’t know which one of the many things you’re passionate about defines your true purpose.

HARNESSING THE POWER OF POTENTIAL. - A GUIDE

Individual Scarcity and lack are basically a consequence of not having the capacity to gain, obtain or retain. The whole world today is full of resources – Natural, material and human resources that can more than satisfy the needs of all humans. The wide gap and disparity between the rich and the poor in different nations and societies however, is basically lack in ability or capacity to gain, obtain and retain.

Unfortunately some who lack these three capacities and are unwilling to develop these capacities have resolved to illegitimate means of obtaining resources – either money or materials, through means not legally approved.

The difference between the legitimately rich and the very many that are not so rich is basically a matter of know how. Some people know how to make money, many other people don’t. Those who do not know how think it’s a matter of hard work, prayers and luck. Those who know how to make money know it’s a matter of knowledge, ability, connection and attitude.

THE POWER OF AN EXCUSE - WHAT'S YOUR EXCUSE

Do you want to be happy? Do you want to be successful? Do you want to be rich? Do you want to realize your dreams in life? Do you want to be a man of honor? Do you want to be a woman of substance? Do you want to be relevant, important, powerful, exposed and influential? Do you want to live a meaningful life? Do you want your friends, family and loved ones to be proud of you? Do you want Nigerians to make you a reference point when boasting about our great nation to other nations? Who are you? What are you? What have you achieved? How old are you? How far have you come? How far do you want to go?