Part 2- “Nothing Good Happens when You Hold Back”- Home Run

What good are we speaking of?

A man once shared his life story, how he came to become a fluent man, bold and a great public speaker, he said to me “I lived an intimidated and a shy life before my encounter. There was a day when a great woman, who was good enough to control an entire congregation of a church asked me to take over and control a certain aspect of the day’s service, I didn’t know how to say No, as this was what I always wish to do, and I didn’t know how to say Yes, as I didn’t have any skill nor experience in public speaking, but am sure if she asked, if I was willing to do it, I would have said yes.”

“While waiting for my time to mount the podium, I could hear my heart beats drumming. I had a cold palm, I had a dry throat. Unwillingly, I had to go to the bathroom more than twice, and the woman would say to me, “make sure you don’t go far, you time is close”.

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Part 1-“Nothing Good Happens When You Hold Back.”- Home Run

“Jump, and you will find out how to open your wings when you fall.”- Ray Bradbury

Have you heard of this before? Some days ago, I stumble upon this phrase “Nothing good happens when you hold back” in the movie, Home Run. What does this mean, I asked myself.

So many people hold back too often. Holding back from a thing, that you know in your heart that you are capable and deserving of, has kept you from emerging in your destiny.

To hold back simply implies, refusing to take action, refusing to make a decision, refusing to make a change, refusing to take hold of opportunities.

Why do people hold back?

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Becoming The Best There is to Become

Is the person you are capable of taking you where you wish to go?

Our world is changing, yesterday is not today and tomorrow cannot be today. There is no time new things do not emerge and existing ones submerge. To be a better you, you must be constantly emerging.

Becoming a better you is a conscious effort which includes many different aspects that you may not really like, but if you are sure that you want to be a better version of you, you must do them still.

The communication system today cannot be compared with the communication system that existed ten years back. I am pretty sure the human generation back in time did not have any problem using a large phone. None of them knew the potentials that was hidden away in those telephones. But through constant work and investment we arrived at our present day mobile phones, small and portable. Who knew and who knows?

The human system is built with the capacity for upgrades. When you fail to consciously and constantly work on yourself you remain outdated, in other words submerged in the human index. The original version of which you were born with was never enough for you to survive in a harsh world like ours. To make sure you possess the version that will enable you to survive your parent upgraded you through the school system.

However, this was only to help you survive, not to die. Now it’s up to you to decide how you wish to survive, do you want to live and die a failure, mediocre or the opposites? This choice is yours to consciously make, and it determines how better you will be.

There are limitless potentials left untapped within you, and until you decide that you are no more comfortable with your level existence you can never discover them. There is a better you in you, waiting to be discovered.

So many people live and die a little different from how they were born, they never discover what they are capable of, such a wasted potential.

If you want to get to anywhere in life, you have to be better than you are already. You have to know a little of everything, you have to know how to blend into anywhere, you have to know how to use your mind, you have to master yourself and you need to be a person of principles.

Originally you were created without any software. The creator consciously left those empty spaces for you to fill the way you like. What you were born with is likable to a computer hard ware. Refusing to be better is like refusing to install the necessary software which will help you maximize the full potential of your computer. The computer manual may say that you will be able to input words through typing, the computer company may promise all this things but if you don’t install the Micro Word software you will never discover that potential.

Until you bring into your being the right components consciously and consistently you will never discover your full potential. In the computer aspect new software are being replaced by newer software for best experience. Same with the human system. What you know at this moment is not enough. But to keep learning is how to stay afloat. There are four ways in which you can constantly keep emerging.

How To Constantly Emerge and Remain Floating.

1.  Master yourself: you cannot set out to do a thing and do it till completion without self-discipline, and until you master yourself you can never tell it what to do. Its only masters that tells the subordinate what to do and it obeys. To become better you, you must possess first of all the spirit to shun habits and method which does not move you any further as much as it pushes you backward.

2.    Invest in yourself: you have to invest in yourself constantly. When last did you pay for a seminar, when last did you attend a workshop training? You are not reading books. See yourself as your only turning point. Favor yourself. Continuously put more money into you. That is how to invest in you. When you invest in yourself you become an asset. People value you.

3.    Use your mind: think. Stop living according to fate. Think out your path, choose the way you want to be and start working towards it. The mind is the most powerful asset that you possess, there is nothing the mind cannot achieve. You should never ignore the mind if you want to be better.

4.    Know yourself: most people are living a life that is not their own because they fail to discover their true self. They are fascinated by other people so they spend a lot of time studying and copying them. You have to spend time with yourself to know yourself. Give yourself a break from always going with the crowd and go alone. Stop taking permission for the things you want.

Make a plan to consistently keep yourself moving. Know clearly that what you know is never enough. Analyze yourself at every moment. What do you know? Is that all you are capable of knowing? How far can this take you in life? Becoming a better you is a conscious decision which a person must make for himself. 

On self-mastery. Master or be mastered

"Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself."– Buddha –

There are two entities in the person you are. There are two bearing your name. One is your body which is YOURSELF and the other one is your mind which is YOU. To master YOURSELF you have to operate from your mind which is the higher ground. The body may succumb to environmental factors but the mind succumbs to none. The body has no problem doing what the mind commands but the mind is too great follow the leadership of the body.

Your goals cannot be achieve without self-discipline and self-discipline can only be achieve if you have mastered YOURSELF. Therefore it is important that you gain mastery over YOURSELF, which is the mind controlling the body. It is important that you master yourself and not the other way round. When you master yourself you tell it what to do and it will do it. But when you are mastered by yourself or you are in the same level with yourself, you cannot tell it what to do, it either refuses or tells you what to do instead.

Self-mastery is getting out of bed anytime your alarm goes off. It is the ability to drop unwanted habits. Most people go through life without ever discovering the joy of self-mastery.

People speak of freedom but there are far from it. They are drug addicts who are bent towards the desires of their flesh, who will do whatever their body urges them to do, their control over themselves is weak and so they are controlled. They are slaves under a weak master who more than often leads them to destruction. That is how the body leads.

Take control. Refuse to be a slave to yourself. The greatest mastery a man will ever have is over himself. Be in control. Do not bend to what your body wants, but to what you want. That is how to discipline the SELF. What you want is what will take you far in life, but what yourself wants is often temporary.

Feed your conscious and subconscious mind with the important of actualizing your dreams, let it become part of you. Let it become your conviction. When your belief becomes your convictions you no more find it hard to chase your goals, because it has become part of YOU which in this case refers to your conscious and subconscious mind, and YOU have made it a common principle to YOURSELF which in this case is your body, not to ever quit from your dream and YOU, YOURSELF now lives according to that principle. The principle you created.

When Your Size Affects Your Career. How To Get Bigger

What are the effects of your height to your career? Is it possible that someone who is an inch taller than you could have a better chance at a job interview than you? what are your chances against the tall girls in that pageantry? If you were a job owner which would you choose?

Heights to a certain level can determine your success in your career. But while you can’t do much about your height you can do much about your career. Study shows that people with taller height often gets the best out of their profession in contrast to their short allies. They often get the best pay, why is this so?

We are living in a society were appearance is one of the major element of culture. People seem to see tall as capable and short as incapable, even when this is not true. And so the tallest among us are often given first attention. God is perceived as tall, if you were imagining what God would look like it is likely that you would be seeing a tall and strong figure. Hence our society believes that tall is next to Godliness, which is filled with capabilities.

Height realities seem to be much present in men than in women study shows, maybe because men are often the aggressors and are supposed to be the defender of the family. A study conducted by Oxford University showed that feeling shorter in height made people paranoid, distrustful and scared of other people.

Furthermore according to judge, tall people may possess more self confidence and self-esteem than shorter people and tall people are often seen to be much leader like than short people.

Our societies help exaggerate this differences in terms of who could be picked first in a job interview, who could get better promotion in offices and even in school who receives more attention from the teachers. This however have placed the shorter folks in a very uncomfortable position.

Being tall is okay if you are about average, more than that most people would say you are suffering from gigantism. It also has its disadvantage, for instance in a concert taller people are shipped to the further back to allow the shorter folks enjoy the concert. In the buses in our streets you could envy shorter people how they could fit in perfectly and you are just suffering from cramps. Most tall people like the short ones do not like their appearance. However, this cannot be changed.

When your natural appearance affects your career what do you do about it? You make people look up to you. People prefer the taller folk because they believe that anything you look up to is capable and anything you look down to is just the opposite. So like I said earlier, you can do very little about your appearance but at least you can still be a giant and be looked up to in your field of endeavor. How do you do this?

1.  Be more than average: while the tall folks are getting busy being okay with average you have to do yourself the favor of working extra hard so that people have no other choice than to look up to you for what you know.
2.  Be updated and upgraded: keep yourself updated and upgraded, be the first to know.
3.  Love yourself: you have to understand that there is very little you can do about your appearance. But then you can stop it from applying to you career. What you lack in appearance make it up in other areas and stand out. Do not let people tell you that you can’t.

Stop being paranoid, I know it could be annoying that people keep thinking you are under 18, but just understand that they don’t know. Use your height to your advantage. If you know some short people in the movie industries and in the military who have been successful then you know you are better. Do not let your appearance cripple you. Double up in other areas and become a giant that people look up to.

You are never in this fight alone, even the taller folks that you wish you were like have one time in their life wish they were shorter, who really likes to be spotted in the crowd so easily as if they were some sort of giraffe, they can’t hide and go away with it. If you let you stature get hold of your mind till the point that you are even scared to step out of your door post then you have lost already.

When you have made yourself a giant you have succeeded in forcing the wind into your sail. While the bigger ships are struggling with their engines and all their sophisticated system, you sail across life effortlessly like a small giant. Which would you choose?