Dear lovely people,
It took Akilo ten painful years
to understand what the real problem with his life was. Akilo started off well,
things were on a good footing and one day, all went sour. He started facing
more challenges in a series than he could ever handle – he went out of business
- the business that had fed him for years in one move vanished before his very
eyes. He sold his house and moved into a rented apartment.
Akilo decided to get a job. With a
Masters degree, it was easy to get a job but it was not long before he found
himself being fired from one job to another for lack of performance. His relationships
were suffering and to make things worse, his alcoholic intake was increasing
exponentially. It was evident that anything he touched seemed to melt away from
his hands.
Year-in year-out, Akilo will make
solid New Year resolutions to change his ways, he will seek advice from
better-off people and try to implement them but before long, he will be back to
square-one. Akilo for many years could not place a finger on what had become of
his life. He could not understand why he will take all solid measures to
improve upon his life and always found himself at the same deplorable spot all
the time. He even went to his Pastor for prayers and soon started attending a
couple of churches hoping to find a lasting solution and yet after all he did,
things remained the same. Even with all the prayers, no miracle happened.
You might relate to Akilo’s story
right now. Why is it that after taking the firm, unflinching resolution to
change your life for the better, to work for your liberation from all sorts of
entanglements and for a financially fulfilling future, you seem to be moving in
the wrong track all the times? Why is it that you find yourself doing just
those things you told yourself you will not do? Why can’t you just stick to
doing the things that you really want to do?
Well, for Akilo, after dabbling with
such monumental challenges in his life, the answer came to him one morning
while he did his morning chores at home. He asked himself the question that
many fear to ask “what will happen if I truly change my mind?” Akilo realized that
if he changed his mind such that he does only what is right, he will eventually
change is ways and his entire life will change.
What a realization. The only way
to do this is to clearly understand that, you must not fool
yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. “We often try to prove
ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find
progress. Get me well, I am talking about a specific, extra type of integrity
that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you’re maybe wrong.”
It’s like a
habit you want to change. How do you stop yourself from addictive alcoholism? The
only way out is to decide it’s time to quit and you stop it and stay by that firm
decision. There is no other way out. When you stop that original instinct or
habit in you that makes you go for a bottle all the times, you will never think
of one again. But if you want to stop addictive alcohol while your brain constantly
replays memories of the flavor and pleasure you get in drinking alcohol, you
will never quit even if you spent a year praying on it.
Everything begins
in the mind. When you get your mind
to change itself, every other thing changes. Think of a carpenter who truly
decides and becomes a medical doctor, you find that his work place changes, most
of his friends change, the things he deals with daily change. He no longer
spends days cutting wood or making furniture, he rather moves around in hospitals
dressed in a white robe and resolving health problems not with a hammer or
nails but rather with a stethoscope.
The mind is
like a computer, you can’t load-in a template to produce a book and end up with
a leaflet. When you load-in the template of poverty, mediocrity, shortsightedness
into your human computer that is the mind that is exactly what you get in your life.
If you want progress for short, success, load-in the right template.
Trust
me, there is nothing as powerful as the right mind loaded with the right
templates.
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