CHAPTER TWENTY
UNLEASH YOURSELF
By God’s special design, you are loaded with so much stuff that you can’t afford to hide in one corner all your life. You are too gifted to remain under the bushel. You are meant for the mountain top. You are meant to be seen. The spotlight should be on you.
You are designed to make global impact; don’t die in your village. Your voice has to be heard. No one should talk you down; you are too loaded to be intimidated. Don’t remain a mediocre. The world has to feel you. God created you to impose positive impact; therefore you must unleash yourself.
Adjust Your Mentality
It is mentality that determines destiny. Your imagination is what sets the pace for your destination. Stop thinking small. Good thinking births good products. Ben Carson wrote a popular book titled “Think Big.” The title says everything. Right from when I first saw that title as a teenager, my thinking changed even before opening it.
Many people dream small dreams. You cannot make global impact unless you think big. Start exercising your potentials and expect to touch everybody on earth with them. Aim very high in whatever you do. There’s no limit to any height. I hear people say “the sky is the limit.” But the sky is not a wall, and there are places far beyond it. Therefore aim beyond the sky; it shouldn’t be your limit. Many people can’t see themselves anywhere outside that little job they are managing. There’s really no limit around your life except in your mind.
Be Courageous!
Life is full of challenges, but also of opportunities; and only those with a lion’s heart can have the lion’s share. You need to take bold steps. It is giant strides that make giants. Every big corporation, every great individual, every great institution…they are all products of great hearts.
Don’t be afraid to leave that job especially when you know it would take that to move to your next level. Many are afraid for job security. Those are people with small hearts. There is an institution inside of you. You can never be sacked when you are fulfilling your own potential. You are afraid for your job because you are not operating in your potential. It’s time to unleash your real self.
You need to start challenging yourself. Go out! Meet people! Introduce yourself and sell your potentials. The world is waiting for your manifestation. Someone said “a life without challenge and risk is not worth living.”
Take daily steps. Lao-Tzu said “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” But you must have the courage to take every step. Don’t let any day pass without doing a new thing and taking a new step that will add to the previous ones you have taken. That’s how to eventually become successful.