FROM YOUR BREAKDOWN TO YOUR BREAKTHROUGH (PART ONE)
*Knock Knock* Hello there! I feel glad coming to meet you on this space again. Today's post is about why you should not let a break down prevent your break through. You see many times we have a thousand and one excuses and most times they are very legitimate ones. Maybe you almost clinched your aim the last time and at the last minute every thing tumbled or maybe it's your background that made you under privileged. Whatever that is, we can sum that up into one word: "Excusitis". Yes Excusitis is that disease that allows the germs of complacency to set in. By all means we should try to avoid it. I will tell you a story. This story is about one of the world's greatest who had every reason to have succumbed to Excusitis but he never did. His name is Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's life was a profile in discipline and courage. From a wood splitter, Lincoln came to school with an old arithmetic book, dressed in raccoon cap and buckskin clothes, his pants were so short that they exposed six inches of his calves. A friendless, uneducated, penilless boy who separated from his father at age twenty-two.
Painfully aware of his want of education, Lincoln embarked on a rigid curriculum of self-discipline. He taught himself mathematics, a subject that held a lasting fascination for him. (Did I hear you say wow! Yes mathematics! - one of the subjects I found complex in secondary school by the way) Though he was advised that becoming a lawyer was the surest road to political success, Lincoln balked because of his lack of education.
Although most students in his days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own. He memorized Blackstone's commentaries, Green Leaf on evidence, Chitty's pleadings and Story's equity. By the summer of 1861, Lincoln's day had become a set routine. After a sleep, light and capricious, he rose at first light and was at work in his office by seven. Lincoln was a distinguished orator and politician. He is famous for his Gettysburg speech even though Edward Everett was the "chief speaker." His speech ended with the words, "...and that the government of the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth."
*Knock Knock* Hello there! I feel glad coming to meet you on this space again. Today's post is about why you should not let a break down prevent your break through. You see many times we have a thousand and one excuses and most times they are very legitimate ones. Maybe you almost clinched your aim the last time and at the last minute every thing tumbled or maybe it's your background that made you under privileged. Whatever that is, we can sum that up into one word: "Excusitis". Yes Excusitis is that disease that allows the germs of complacency to set in. By all means we should try to avoid it. I will tell you a story. This story is about one of the world's greatest who had every reason to have succumbed to Excusitis but he never did. His name is Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln's life was a profile in discipline and courage. From a wood splitter, Lincoln came to school with an old arithmetic book, dressed in raccoon cap and buckskin clothes, his pants were so short that they exposed six inches of his calves. A friendless, uneducated, penilless boy who separated from his father at age twenty-two.
Painfully aware of his want of education, Lincoln embarked on a rigid curriculum of self-discipline. He taught himself mathematics, a subject that held a lasting fascination for him. (Did I hear you say wow! Yes mathematics! - one of the subjects I found complex in secondary school by the way) Though he was advised that becoming a lawyer was the surest road to political success, Lincoln balked because of his lack of education.
Although most students in his days read with an accomplished attorney in his office, Lincoln taught himself entirely on his own. He memorized Blackstone's commentaries, Green Leaf on evidence, Chitty's pleadings and Story's equity. By the summer of 1861, Lincoln's day had become a set routine. After a sleep, light and capricious, he rose at first light and was at work in his office by seven. Lincoln was a distinguished orator and politician. He is famous for his Gettysburg speech even though Edward Everett was the "chief speaker." His speech ended with the words, "...and that the government of the people, by the people shall not perish from the earth."
Although we may not have been creators of our past, we we should not be prisoners of it. Moses told his people to go forward. Isaiah said, "consider not the former things."
Paul said: "Forgetting those things that are behind." Although your beginning seems small, friend, yet your latter end will greatly increase. A new day is dawning for you!
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