The Sunday Mail
Hunt for Greatness
There are things to run away from and there are other things that you should run towards.
There are things to run away from and there are other things that you should run towards.
Sometimes the best strategy is fleeing. Greatness comes through fleeing the negative and pursuing the beacon of your crystallised goals with determination and focus. Obstacles are those frightful things that you see beckoning for attention when you take your eyes off your magnificent goals.
Where you face with your feet determines the destination you will reach. You are your thoughts, focus in motion. Thoughts are things and they create things. First a thought, as a seed, then the deeds and harvest. To change the harvest change the seed and you will have effective change. Your life will never change until you change the way you think. To change your life change the way you think. When the way you think changes, the way you act will also change. You cannot sow one type of thought and reap a different kind of harvest. To reap the positive, sow the right kind of seed. How you think determines the direction you will go and where you will deploy your energy and effort.
Think and dwell on the negative and you will start seeing the negative everywhere. Thoughts held for long open new views. Think positively and new light starts shining through your life’s windows. Think negatively and you dim the rooms of opportunity.
Know how to use your feet well. Know when to flee, what to flee from and where to flee to.
Flee Negative Thoughts
Negatives are what used to drive the printing industry and plate technology. You moved from the “negatives” in order to create the positive picture. You had to carefully look after your “negatives” if you needed copies. The pride of photographers used to be the custody of the negatives. Things are changing fast and unfortunately, the mind and life computes differently.
The pictures that you hold in your mind are the reality that you will manifest and the faith you will exercise. To move towards greatness, change your mental pictures from being negative to being positive. Hold firmly in your mind pictures that correspond to your faith, desires and prayers. Focus on what you want not what you do not want. Faith feeds on pictures and pictures intensify desire and crystallise focus.
Fear also feeds on pictures and saps all energy, initiative and creativity. Negative pictures do not serve you, they just discolour and confuse your world. They throw dark shadows into your soul. Bright pictures light up your world and mind. Keeping negative thoughts does not serve you, it eats you up and corrodes your soul. Never breed a bad thought and evil feelings about anyone. Flee negative thoughts.
Flee Negative People
In the book, “Our Iceberg is Melting” written by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber, there is a penguin character by the name “NoNo.” For the ever knowing NoNo, the default answer and response to any idea, suggestion or recommendation was always the same — “NoNo”. The book is a fable that distils the lessons on facing and managing change. In real life there are also NoNo people. For NoNos everything does not work; what works will soon break down and what breaks down, they knew would break down long ago.
A mind filled with cynicism and negativity is a hard burden to carry. It is true that you need to assess your risk and evaluate the situation and the opportunity.
However, negative people can never see anything good about anyone, anything or anywhere. The sky is always falling for them and those doing something are always unknowing fools. Flee such negative people who generate more ideas of how things cannot work than how they could be made to work. NoNo will never move or achieve greatness. Say no to people that are negative and say yes to opportunity and possibility. If someone is comfortable with their negativity, that is them. Never let someone’s negativity and cynicism rub off to you. Flee negative people.
Flee Negative Situations
If everything you see around you is dark, it is possible that this is because you are standing in the shadows of life. Very little will change if you keep yourself in the shade and do not dare to do something differently. To see the sun of opportunity clearly move away from the negative situations and put yourself within the rays of light and possibility. Never forget that above the clouds of despair, the sun is always shining. There is a wide country of opportunity beyond the mountains. Fly beyond the negativity sound barrier and gravity pull. Never let negative circumstances make you negative and cynical about life and its rich opportunities and abundant possibilities. In shortage, think abundance and opportunity. In challenge, think windows of opportunity.
Fleeing negative situations does not necessarily mean that you move geographically to a new place. Sometimes it is a matter of changing your orientation. Sometimes it is going where you are valued. Sometimes it is changing the relationships that no longer serve you. You do not afford the luxury of staying in negativity. You cannot just sit as a victim in a situation that is suffocating you and sapping your energy. Life is too short to be spent sulking and wasting time. There are times to take a stand, and there are times to flee. Think with your head, not just your feet.
Flee Negative Words
Words are the children of thought and they have power to create. All words are spirit and they carry life or death. What you speak determines what you become. Your words attract possibility thinkers or negative comrades. Use words to build and amplify good. When your thoughts change, your words will always change. Decide the words you use. Mindlessly scattering negative words is irresponsible behaviour. Anyone who understands the principles of life knows that words are too powerful to be squandered on negative fair. Flee negative words, the people who spew them and minds breeding them.
Milton Kamwendo is a cutting-edge international transformational and inspirational speaker, author and coach. He is a strategy and innovation consultant and leadership coach. His life purpose is to inspire people to release the greatness trapped in them. He can be reached at: [email protected] and his Twitter handle is: @MiltonKamwendo.
