When you are faced with making
decisions that are crucial to your progress, decisions that could make you
leave the situations that you do notlike – by which you can step on people’s toes and still get away.
You may want to reconsider your
decisions by asking yourself, ‘what if I am wrong on this move?’, ‘what if
people do not support me?’, ‘what if nobody believes me?’, ‘what ifs…’
This gets you holdup on a spot in
life. Although, you cannot do without people’s opinions – you need them to
measure your progress in life. At the same time, you are the only one who holds
the key your destiny’s fulfillment.
Kenneth Copeland, when he travelled
into Africa for ministration made a statement that aligns with the sayings of
‘what if’, and later berated such sayings:
When I was
in Africa, the Lord told me that He is holding the body of Christ in every
nation responsible for winning their own lost. It takes money to finance a
revival. How can they believe for any prosperity in Africa or India, where
drought and famine have become a way oflife? That is a major part of my calling.[1]
The choice of is all
yours: no one needs your permission
If you notice the quote above, you
will see an underlined statement, with the following statement berating excuses
on decision making: the last part of the whole statement gave reason why you
cannot afford to stay on ‘what if?’ before making decisions for your life.
Like we said (above), you need
people’s opinions to measure your decisions but you do not need their
permissions to make the decisions that affect your life positively, when their
opinions are against your focus.
In this case, after considering
people’s opinions (carefully), you will have to sieve the ones that are
meaningful to ‘your decisions at hand’ – then do it: make that bold steps
towards your life. That is the only time that you will not regret your life,
knowing that it is your decision that get you there.
Considering opinions
does not require you to go for all
You are the only one that are seeing
the vision before you, and until you realise them nobody will believe in you.
We cannot overemphasise the fact
that you need people’s opinions to help shape your decisions but you cannot
utilise all the opinions that you are getting.
from: tazi-san.deviantart.com
A guest on #Horizon with
#DarmmieWords (a weekly youth show hosted by Damilola Awonuga on Amen Radio),
Emmanuel Edward said, “people are too busy to notice what you are doing, and
unless you are successful nobody cares to notice you”.
Does this give you enough reason to
take your decisions into your hands and forget the ‘what if’ as you advance in
life?
Many time, when people advice – it
is always against the vision that you have before you. At the time when our
organisation started out with Leadership
Ethics Conference, LEC, somebody
counseled that we should put a hold on it for now because we are still young.
Whereas, a couple advised us on the
certificate that we issue to those who take the tests in the conference. ‘Why
not change the Certificate of Integrity to
Certificate of Recommendation?”,
they said. We effected the change after that and we got positive responses.
You cannot be too careful when you
are determined to make it in life: be decisive, follow your passion, go against
opinions that set you apart from your visions (that are positive) and see, for
yourself, if there will not be a turn around in your standard of life.
[1] Kenneth,
Copeland, PROSPERITY: THE CHOICE IS YOURS, Pg2.