Take Two by Brian Otachi Nyakundi - HTML preview

Chapter 6

LIVE AGAIN - TIME FOR 'TAKE TWO'

“You are not a failure because you failed, only if you refused to stand up, shake off the dust and try again”

You may be wounded, discouraged, hurt or broken due to the way life has treated you through different circumstances. Relationships might have hurt you to the point of you don't want to be in them anymore. Your career might have put you in a position you want to quit and let go. Your business might have taken so long to catch up or doesn't bring you the anticipated growth. Your education might have come to a stand still since you couldn't afford to pay for it. Your parents might have forced you into what you didn't want to do or they may have passed away and you don't have someone to look up to.

You might have made a wrong decision that has landed you in a mess. You might be in a situation right now that you wish you were not, but this is not the end of life. The reason that you woke up this morning is a proof that you still have a chance to do things right. You don't have to hate your boss or friend so as to pay back for the sorrow they caused you.

The reason you are alive today is a proof that you have a chance to make right and if this was the last day you are alive, would you die a happy person or someone in pain? How do you wish us to remember you, as someone who persisted till the end or someone who gave up? If you had exactly two weeks to live, will you spend time thinking about the unhappy times and being bad to other people or will you forget about all the unhappy moments and troubles and be merry till the last day.

Friend, “ life is too short to spend it carrying other peoples burdens of hatred”. Am not saying that you wont be broken at times, but don't let the night fall without letting go. Allow yourself a chance to be happy no matter the position you are, you can be happy now. Believe that you are bigger than what is being seen in you. You can be anything you want to be. Reset your life and start today by laying a new foundation. Its never too late; all you've been going through has been preparing you for this moment. You can be a deliberate creator of your own destiny.

Stop blaming others for the position you are in and start today to change tomorrow. Today may be not so good because you flopped yesterday, but you can make tomorrow brighter by changing today. A saying goes that “the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago; the second best time is today”. Wont you rather enjoy a mature tree twenty years from now than wish you had planted a tree today, twenty years from now?

Learn to have a positive outlook on things. Smile, its free therapy. Look into the mirror and smile at that person you'll even find yourself laughing as it makes your heart warmer. Appreciate yourself and love yourself than the whole world will appreciate you. don't compare yourself to the others. don't listen to what other people say cannot be done. Since you are unique, none can be able to tell you what to do because they don't know what you can do. don't focus too much on the destiny and dreaming of how it will be interesting until you forget to do anything right now.

Let your mind be there but let your eyes enjoy the journey because “true happiness doesn't come from finishing but from the journey there”. Let your destiny motivate you to be happy today. Cherish each day. “don't wish to travel so fast since you wont only miss the beautiful scenery around and along the journey, but you might also lose focus on where you are going”. Step by step, one travels.

Try to find pleasure in all that you do. Change the dreams you once had. Maybe, your dream box was too small for God to fit in it. Enlarge your boundaries. Include in your dream, helping others to achieve their dreams and that is the fastest way for you to accomplish yours.

“There's only one force that I know that defies all the other principles and that is the power of God”. Believe in him and put him first. Have faith and receive it now. Allow him to direct your steps for he alone can see you through. He knows you better for he made you with a purpose. Have a personal relationship with him and instead of parading your problems, tell him because he alone can help you through. Remember you have the power to change your own life and you can begin right now to sow the right seeds for your tomorrow. Sow the right seeds that will change the world for you and your children.

Don't be part of the problem or part of the complainants, be part of the few that are bringing about the solution. “The people around you aren't there to help you, but to be helped by you”. God has already prepared a wonderful place for you, your job is to cultivate it and make it habitable for you. Add passion to what you do. Write down the things you want to do. Start dreaming again for what you focus on is what you get. Expect to change. Expect a better life. Refuse to stagnate. Refuse to give up.

“Don't keep going back. If a door has been closed then it means that its time to move through a new level”. Do not stay in the familiar; try something new, for “Gods new is better than your old that you are familiar with”. God closes the door sometimes behind us so that we cant go back even if we wanted to. He cant close one if he hasn't opened another one. don't be discouraged when some people leave your life. “When things start stirring its a sure sign that transition is on the way”.

God has new levels for you to take. You're going to do things you never dreamt of. God wants to amaze you. That is why he wants to take you somewhere you are not familiar with. He wants you to leave the familiar and step to the new levels he has opened for you so that you may experience the wonderful purpose of living as you shine forth his glory in abundance and fulfillment. It is important that you start now, don't wait another day.

“Choose today… Choose to start afresh... Choose to be wealthy... Choose to be a better person… Choose to Shine…help others to shine too as they reflect your light…” It doesn't matter where or what the problem that got you here was, where you end up next, is completely a choice for you to make. Get up, wipe off the dust and move on.

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