Friday, September 28, 2012

Fly at High Altitude



Dear loving people,

Have you noticed that the bigger planes fly at a higher altitude than the little planes? Why do you think so? This is because internal combustion engines are just like people, they need oxygen to breathe. At higher altitudes, the air gets thin and there's just not enough oxygen to support combustion. Jets and turbine engines use compressors to draw in huge amounts of thin air to provide enough oxygen to burn, but small piston engines in the little planes just don't have that capacity.

What lesson do we as humans learn from this? This means that growing through different stages in life is like increasing your altitude. You need to develop an internal combustion system equipped with jets and turbines to draw in huge amounts of the air of opportunities such that it can provide you with the oxygen of solutions to burn the adversities and inequities you encounter on your way.

The higher in altitude that the plane goes, the lower the pressure. The lower the pressure, the less resistant the air becomes and so it moves faster.  As you strive to gain more skills, knowledge and focus on your journey of life, the more aware you become and better equipped to break through challenges and thus you become more efficient and grow faster.

The higher the plan goes, the more time it has to react to emergencies. That is same with people, the more you become aware, the greater your capacity to preempt. But if you inundate yourself with excuses for doing or not doing anything, you behave like the little planes that must fly low at the mercy of turbulent winds. For those of us who fly regularly, you know what it means to fly in a turbulent zone for 30 minutes. I have seen the faces of people (men and women alike) develop seven shades of pink from fright.

Safety is an important factor at high altitude; a greater part of the weather takes place below 30,000 feet, so it is a great advantage for a plan to fly above the weather, both from a safety standpoint and a comfort standpoint. When you as an achiever rise through life mastering yourself and your processes, focusing on the essentials, planning with God, you equally rise above the bad weathers of distrust, mediocrity and blind-rocking.

The bigger planes fly at high altitude in order to avoid airspace congestion. They don’t want to mix-up and get lost amongst the infinite number of small planes flying at low altitude. You don’t want to be battered by mediocre people; you want to be distinguished by your works, your good nature and the fact that you are a respectable human being. You want to learn the craft of purposeful living, you want to be a child of God and you want to be an envelope of success. Fly at high altitude!

Fly at high altitude, go out there and make a real difference for as a child of the universe and most importantly because you are a child of God, you deserve it.

Are you a bigger or a smaller plane? Be honest to your own self. If you were a smaller plane, its time you get big and start flying at high altitude.

2 comments:

  1. Many of us fly at very low altitude. This post should spur us to aim higher and fly at high altitude. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  2. Thanks Sir, as you rightly say. Just too many people ‘fly at very low altitude’ where the strong winds of discouraging messages, mediocrity, underperformance, low self-esteem etc. is a threat to their smooth flight (achievement).

    As you have always put it so well, the decision to change lies in the person who really wants to change and no one else. The moment we start flying at high altitude, the rest falls in place and we are sure that we will not crash to the land of failures.

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