How to Get More From Life by Ekekere Samuel Ufot - HTML preview

CHAPTER ONE

THE WANT MORE DESIRE.

The introduction to this book might have given you at face value the measure of the characteristic of the want more desire. Some school of thought might view this desire as morbid and perhaps unhealthy. Their point of view is only from their own selfish stance desiring only for themselves and not seeing the vital element in other people’s desire that could also lead to the overall development of their own good.

The cause of conflict in the world is not farfetched. These falls on the failure of humans to actualize the want more desire. Followers want more from their leaders, leaders want more from their followers and around the thin line is the center of conflict which if not managed has the capacity to inflict grievous wounds as in the case of wars fought in the middle east and other parts of the world.

Your mind cannot afford to live in conflict, when it has the capacity to attain the common good and get the more it so desires and deserves. I have accepted this viewpoint that the reason I live is to get more. I now reject the thought that I am selfish considering that it would not be a great life being stagnant. Think about this. A flowing river that gets more water stays fresh while the pond that only holds water stays stale except it is refreshed.

There is constant refreshing that comes with a knowledge that you are getting more of whatever you are doing or want. It’s a natural feeling that is instinctive in every man. You obtain satisfaction when the quality of your input is being seen in the increased output all around. The conflict with self comes when you observe the discrepancy of input and output which either keeps you where you are or where you were, which your target isn’t. You discover you are losing sleep, deep in thoughts about getting more and how to get it.

A classmate walked up to me one afternoon at the university and asked “how can I read and understand what I am reading like you do? I really wanted to improve on my grades.” I replied that myself I wasn’t where I wanted to be but that I was on the road. If he could jump on my vehicle, we could ride on together. He thought I had achieved. He was suffering from a personal conflict because he seemed to be expecting some improvement in his grades from reading and he never did and now he needed help. Was I the help? Perhaps a limited help, because personally, I also was unsatisfied with where I was. I needed help too. But if he joined me , he could learn fast and improve to where I was but he soon would observe that once he starts getting C grades, he will desire B grades, once he gets B, he would desire A

Here we see relativity at work. Einstein was probably right when he said that there is relativity in everything which includes our want more desire. What could be some persons ‘want more’ is some other person’s starting desire. It is this continuous increasing desire that keeps the cycle of life refreshing and changing, ups and downs.

You desire more? Accept it as a natural instinct.

The want more life has the following attributes

• It is a WILLFULL desire. It is a desire that comes deliberately and intentionally as you live life. Because no one loves to stay stagnant, it is deliberately triggered when you pull for change.
• This desire is AROGANT in nature. It is determined and this causes it to push for more, to leave where you already are for a higher ground, some place you have never
• being but hope to be.
• It is NEO-PROGRESSIVE. This means that if you truly desire a change towards progress, you are in a right direction having this desire.
• It is TRANSFORMING. You can get more than you bargain for. Because it triggers you to act towards what you want with possibilities for more
• It MUSTERS. The enormous capacity about this desire is that it helps you gather, collect and assemble whatever you want and need.
• It is OSDURATING. It develops in you the stubborn persistence to push for what you want even when faced with road blocks.
• It is REVERBERATING. It keeps coming and doesn’t easily leaving until it is met.
• It creates EAGERNESS for change. You can’t have change if you don’t show some eagerness to have it.

The desire for more is what keeps the world in an upward development trend. Nations at the top of the development cadre think they have not gotten enough and those up developing want to attain the status of the developed.

Those who are underdeveloped want to see some signs that they are developing. This desire fuels the fire that springs forth chains of high risings, roads, hospitals and buildings.

If you are satisfied with where you are, it may mean there’s something wrong with your thinking faculty. You may be a moron. We need to anticipate better things.

There may be that tendency for staying put at that place when you seem attaining some degree of success but the want more desire instigates you to get ahead and achieve more. If you truly want to achieve more, you have to instigate that desire, trigger it and see it do more than you ever anticipated.

Life is a lot more fun when you get the things you want. You will certainly agree that when everything you need is at your fingertips, you will find life a lot easier and stress less. The want more desire is what elevates your thinking faculty towards desiring a much easier life as much as you can.