Some of the few things I have resolved to do flows from certain guiding principles I had to recall to heart, and they include in the following points. The first is that only those who are committed to actions rather than speeches make great leaders. Like a few friends have counseled me, there is a place for talking, especially as it brings awareness to others and encourages people to switch the light on their consciences and empowers their collective will. However, when there is an opportunity to act, speech should never be the preferred occupation, because in the end, people want to follow him who knows what to do and not what to say. So now I scan my involvements to see where is it I can lead by taking proper action instead of casting my words to the air and hoping that someone somewhere catches it and makes sense of it. Even the one who a lot of us follow; Jesus, the Bible records that he first began to ‘do’ before he taught the things He had done.
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I have decided to sit down and take stock of my life and the direction I would have it go. It’s not that I haven’t always done this, but it’s a necessary step that I must do to continually appraise my progress and evaluate my goals, measure my successes and effect my impact assessment. This is just one of those series of processes which I subject myself to as I walk through what always seems to be the valley of deaths’ shadows. In this latest of reviews, I have detected a potentially destructive tendency which has silently crept into my life, to the point that I have grown lethargic and insensitive to its full functioning within me. If someone else told me, I probably would have denied with every ounce of passion in me. But this was classic case of looking into the mirror and not seeing your heroic grandfather’s contrived image, but a direct reflection of me talking back to me through the bathroom mirror. I call it the bathroom encounter. The great thing about such periodic personal encounters is that they become the hallmark for major changes in your life, and a reason to be self motivated in doing the right things. This was one of those moments.
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