MOTIVATION: Keep hope, faith alive

29 Mar, 2015 - 00:03 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

You cannot let what is so precious in you die.

The challenge of life is not merely living from day to day, month to month and year to year. Routine with no purpose is tiring. The challenge is to keep what matters alive in you regardless of what you go through.

Never let anything happening outside you kill what is in you. There is always something so strong inside if you let it find expression. Keep your flame burning inside you and you can ignite a thousand fires wherever life takes you.

Keep hope and faith alive at all costs. Hope is that little undying voice in you that whispers at the end of a hard day that there is a tomorrow and you will wake up to try again.

Hope anchors your soul and gives grit to your faith. Hope is that little flicker of a flame that says you did it once and you can do it again, and again at an even bigger scale.

Keep hope alive, do not run away or choose to die today. There is more to live for than you can imagine at this time.

This too shall pass

Nothing in this world is permanent. No problem lasts forever. No pain lasts eternally. No winter lasts for the whole year. No night endures forever. No blazing storm falls forever. No torment will last forever unless you guard and nurse it.

Problems are nothing special because they can come to anyone, any time.

Everyone has a fair share of problems.

What is special is the quality and power of the human spirit. It is the facility of the hope that bubbles within. What is special is not what died, but what cannot be killed inside you. Never let the passing winds tempt you to stop believing in your dreams and your vision of greatness.

The story of the person who gave up, lost hope and died is not interesting because it is too familiar a story.

It’s the story of courage, hope and perseverance that is worth binding in a book and turning into a movie. Keep hope, your hope alive. By keeping the flame of hope burning you may just be writing your adventure story that will inspire generations unborn.

The seed of hope

Any seed regardless of its size is a promise of an abundant destiny. Any seed you hold is hope in action waiting for its moment to bloom.

You hold seeds in your hands and count them, but you can never fully account for the potential in each seed, where it will go and what harvest it will bear. Whatever you have been through is just a seed.

Whatever you have handled in the past was just another seed. Whatever you have seen was a seed shaping in you. Whatever plan you once scribbled down was a seed enveloped with vision. Whatever business plan you had was a seed of the great empire to come. Inside every struggling business, there is a potential multi-national empire struggling for release.

Whatever presentation you gave was a seed worth harnessing. Whatever trip you took was a seed of the journey of purpose. Whatever business card you received was a seed of connectedness. There are seeds everywhere just waiting for the rain to fall. Never let the barrenness you see tempt you to think that the seeds are dead.

Seeds do not die, they just wait in hope for their moment.

That my friend is the facility of hope. There is more in you waiting to germinate than you can ever guess.

There is more opportunity ahead of you than behind you. There is more to do than what you have done in the past. There is more that you know than you think. There is more in you than people know or notice.

Never let your current status make you lose hope. Throw away the badges that do not serve you. Just keep your hope alive and faith throbbing. The super-myth of the rise and rise and rise is only that – a myth.

Life has mountains and valleys; meals have bitter and sweet. There are tears of joy and those of sorrow. There is always a tomorrow, after a yesterday. Keep hope alive and just keep your seat belt on, it is not time to get down yet.

The outlet of emotion

Keep hope alive in the high road to your dreams. Your emotions are not an accurate interpreter of reality. You may feel frustrated but that does not mean that you are a frustration.

You may feel disappointed, but that does not make you a disappointment. You may feel dejected, but that does not make you into a reject. You may feel like laughing, that does not make you into a spineless joker. You may feel empty, that does not mean you have nothing to give.

Never let what you feel interfere with reality and tamper with hope.

Give your emotions their space but never let hope die. If you feel like crying, cry on until you have no more tears to spare. If you have no shoulder to cry on, do not feel pity for yourself, get some good soft pillow and wet it with your tears.

If you feel like laughing, laugh until your ribs ache. Laugh out so loud, because that is where your victory could be. You can not don a sullen face for ever. A happy heart is medicine for the soul.

If you feel like dancing, dance as if no one is watching. Never let your situation reduce you into a wimp that has no passion, emotion or action.

Do whatever you need to do until you burst out in full bloom and recapture your momentum.

There at Montagu

On the 24th of October 2009, just after 2pm, I found myself in a mad rush to Montagu Shopping Centre in Harare.

Someone had called me to advise me that our Innov8 Bookshop outlet that was located there was on fire. It was almost unbelievable, but it was true. When I arrived the Harare fire brigade was already at work.

Our precious stock and shelving was all being licked by flames of fire. It was a painful agony watching this happen in real life. It took about two hours for the fire to be fully contained.

The stock was lost and the building afterwards looked like a bombed place. The bookshop was all charred and rubble.

Our insurance cover had just expired and we were exposed. It was a grave loss and sad day. Our creditors did not relent.

The real challenge was not how long it took for the fire to be put out, but what it would take for the fire within my team and me to be put out.

At that moment, I could feel that there was a great fire burning within me with more ferocity than the fire that burnt the bookshop to the ground.

The fresh stock, now reduced to rubble, was not enough to kill the dreams in me. Hope was still alive.

It happened to me and you also have your own flames to deal with. You also have had your fires and failures. What does it really take to kill the fire in you? If I were to guess, it takes nine lives to extinguish the fire within you now.

What is happening inside you is far stronger than something happening outside you. There is a flame within, fan it into a wild bonfire.

Keep hope alive.

 

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 WhatsApp number 0772422634.

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