Reflections from the North

Dear lovely people,

One blessed morning in 2001, I sat in a bus heading towards a place I could not have imagined a week earlier, to face a future I had no idea about.  Looking back fifteen years later, I feel a stronger heart in me; I see a thoughtful mind, a determined soul, and an ambitious spirit. These are the products of my life in the northern part of Cameroon where I worked in a petroleum pipeline project running from Chad to the cost of Cameroon. Actually, I got to the North of Cameroon from a difficult life in Bamenda, a life full of self-imposed turmoils and worries about my incapacity to finance the many projects I developed for myself. When I got recruited by a white lady who came all the way from the North to locate qualified ICT experts trust me, hope gradually found its way back into my disturbed soul. 

For once, the light of success shone upon me and I could radiate the positive message I had imbibed at Gold Touch International for over five years. I immersed myself in the experience of a turbulent cooperate world. Out of the blues, I joined the ranks of senior managers, working as a deputy in the earthworks department of a multinational construction company, had to cope with rigorous and tight schedules and yet found reasons to dive into uncertainty by taking the big risk to resign two years later without knowing where I was heading to order than the fact that I needed to make a change.

When I got to the North behold, I was nervous about leaving my family for the first time and fitting in with people from various backgrounds and whose culture and customs seemed different from my own. However, my stay and work there gave me new perspectives of the world around me. I was committed to taking my career to a new level and the job was a good starting point. I gained valuable experience in scheduling and working under rough conditions, which would be important for my future career in the development world.

During my free times, I moved through the stunning undergrowthless woods, reflecting on my future and by the time I resigned two years later, I had planted the seeds of success beyond belief deep within my subconscious. Success Beyond Belief can be defined in two ways: (1) A lot of success - like, an unbelievable amount! (2) The success you are capable of when you move beyond your current beliefs about what you could (or should) be, do and have.

Whether the successes you want to achieve are personal or professional, physical or financial; whether you want to change the world or simply be happier, the person who can do it is already inside of you. At Living Lectures, we could help you set that person free. Come join us!

In all, I realized that “You will never outperform your self-image. You must see yourself as someone who can achieve success! That was my moment of breakthrough. What you currently have is indicative of how you are currently seeing yourself. If the gap between what you have and what you want is too wide, you can change your desires to match what you are already experiencing, or you can decide you can be, do and have more. The big issue is that too many people resign themselves to, that’s just the way I am. Euphemism and that is one of the biggest killers of self-motivation!