Voice Of My Heart

Dear lovely people,

“I see a vision, it’s the vision of tomorrow, no force can stop it from manifesting, not even the sun nor the moon.” ― Auliq-Ice

It was a month after the memorable fire incident. That fateful day when Janie watched her clothing business burnt down to ashes by a conflagration. All efforts put in did not save even a dress. She was up to the neck in debts and was underperforming on all counts. It was as if she’d been dropped into an abys all of a sudden with no head way. Sited on her veranda with a cup of coffee in hand a month later, she was buried in thoughts and wondering why life could be so cruel on her. Then a stanza of Michael Bolton’s ‘Voice Of My Heart’ started playing in her mind.

Searchin' my soul, searchin' for somethin'
To find a way to make you believe, yeah
And what can I say? Words don't mean nothin'
Oh, what can I do to prove what I'm feelin' for you?

Just like Janie, you are certainly going to run into problems in your quest for success. Everybody does. Difficulties come in all forms and sizes, and the only thing you can be absolutely certain about is that you will have some and sometimes, in their numbers. The main trick in dealing with obstacles is to adopt the right attitude. Difficulties are an integral part of your active life. They aren't something to be avoided. They are something to be used. They provide invaluable opportunities for learning. The reason we are all stuck in life's bowels is that we ceaselessly run from our problems and after our desires. Sitting back to reflect each time we fail just like Janie, provides us with a laboratory situation in which we can examine this condition and develop strategies for dealing with it.

After so much reading about the quest for success and from my own experience this far, I have come to clearly understand that “If you have never failed, then you have never lived”. As we live our day-to-day life, we tend to forget this very important aspect. We end up thinking that everyone that succeeds has had nothing but outright luck all their life and that they had it easy. Often, by the time we hear about someone making it, the focus is on the success, not on the long hard struggles that underlie the rough path they traveled to get there.

Just as I would tell Janie, do not fear failure. Whatever happened in the past is past; do not worry about it happening again. Before you meet with success, failure is natural and necessary. Before you can ride a bicycle, you keep falling to the ground over and over, is this failure? Learn to listen to the ‘voice of your heart’, it’s all coded inside there by God Himself.

Simply by acknowledging that failure is part of the process in your search for success can be a great stepping stone. When you can stare any form of adversity in the face, you will no doubt have the strength inside of you to achieve anything you set out to achieve. For sure, Janie will not remain in reflection, she will get up and get to work restarting her clothing business in a much better way. That is what she would do if running a clothing business is her fondest dream.