Are You a Broadcasting or a Receiving Station?

Dear loving people,

You will agree with me that one’s life here on earth is a gigantic episodic stage play. At any one time, you play a particular role. How successful we sail through the hurdles of life thus depends on how well we can play our respective roles along the line. For example, in a given learning process, there is the role of a speaker and that of the listener. You are either a speaker or a learner.

In school, you are either the teacher or a student. Back at home, you are the father, mother or the child. You are either writing or reading what somebody wrote. You are a reader at present reading this article because I’ve been the writer. Role-playing is thus an integral part of human existence.

Thomas Emerson wrote, “It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak and the other to listen.” Orderly speaking and listening are indispensable components of any profitable conversation but then in speaking and listening, it takes a broadcasting station and a receiving station (emitter vs receptor) to complete the process. Once again, we are back to the law of polarity isn’t it? If there is going to be progress or profitability in a given communication process, it will be hinged on how well each of these terminals play their assigned roles.

A broadcasting station that emits the wrong messages or the right messages in the wrong way is as good as no broadcasting station at all. It could rather constitute a danger to the growth of those at the receiving end (the receiving stations.) In the same way, a wonderful broadcasting station with an excellent communication strategy and enriching messages would just be as good as a medical doctor in the cockpit of a bomber jet if there is no receiving station tuned to the right channel to receive the information.

Receiving the right information is as important as acting upon that information to realize positive results otherwise the learning process would have no meaning. Good information received should be able to set into motion the right internal transformational mechanisms that will lead to the right actions and strategies of attaining desirable results otherwise, it becomes another species of seeds falling on rocky grounds as in the parable of the Sower.

Today, we are living in an information era wherein a lot is said in varied formats such that some feel as if were being flooded with tons and tons of information. Rather than subject ourselves to getting ‘drowned’, we have a choice to construct a sort of Noah’s ark and to get inside in time by tuning our receiving stations to capture the right instructions and messages from the right broadcasting stations. Noah succeeded to get all that was needed in his ark because he had tuned his receiving station to God’s broadcasting station. He was there to receive every bit of information and instruction that God gave him and most importantly, he was ready to act upon that information to produce the right and convenient ark. It was only on those terms that he survived the devastating flood.

How many of us today are tuned in to at least one of the numerous stations broadcasting information on how to get your life on rail? If you have read this article up this point, you might just be one of the few but then, how many of us have that burning desire to assume the role of readers, listeners or students to learn what the Chemistry of success is all about? Often than not, some find themselves grappling with concepts that they have not taken time to master? Being willing to learn is a first step to being willing to be willing even when you are not willing.

Self-development and motivational programs have been on for decades now and yet many are still more confused than ever before about what they represent, can contribute to their lives or what true success is all about. Our receiving stations especially in the third world (mostly in the mind) are tuned to other issues. We worry over politics, economics, militarism and false democracy; we cling to and dangle around power; we worry over territorial boundaries while giving little attention to the fundamental aspects of our lives – personal health and success. Corruption, structural adjustment programs and poverty reduction strategy papers blind our vision and rob us of the little energy left that could have been channeled on gainful integral human development programs.

You are certainly agreeing with me that this is clearly a demonstration of what happens when receiving stations don’t get the right signals from the broadcasting stations. The underlying truth is that the only way to get the world economy better is for us to have our own individual economies better.

Taking your own destiny into your hands and working through all huddles to add meaning to your life here on earth requires that you are tuned in to the right stations and receiving the right information being broadcast. You must act upon this information such that it modifies your behavior.

Receiving Stations are there because there are broadcasting stations, if you are not a broadcasting station, endeavor to be receiving station.