Birth great things with your words

05 Dec, 2021 - 00:12 0 Views
Birth great things with your words

The Sunday Mail

Hunt for Greatness
Milton Kamwendo

Whatever you give birth to, bless it with greatness. Think great things and see the potential in small things. The month of December sees the world celebrate the birth of a special baby, Jesus Christ, a true global transformer and world changer.

His birth was in humble circumstances and from this we learn that it is not where you were born and the circumstances of your birth that matter the most. It is that you were born that matters most. Refuse to let the past hold you back. Birth great things and do great things.

When you get a new baby, do not curse the baby or throw the baby away. Every baby is a promise of a great future. The birth of a new baby is celebrated in different ways around the world. On the seventh day after the birth of a Nigerian Yoruba baby girl and on the ninth day for a boy, the child is blessed with special symbolic elements that the mother and baby must taste.

They are given water in order to have no enemies, palm oil in order to have a smooth and easy life, the Kola nut in order to have a long life, and pepper and salt in order to have a sweet life filled with excitement, substance and happiness.

As you enter this special season, welcome new things in your life and refuse to park in the past. Forgive, let go and do not let the root of bitterness canker your soul and eat up your health. Do not carry the misgivings, mistakes, hurts, abuses, failures and negativity of the past into the new season.

Open wide the windows of your heart and embrace newness and renewal. See light in the middle of the clouds of despair. Embrace the new season as a time of opportunity, improvement, change and progress. There is a future and it is bright and filled with opportunity.

In the Yoruba baby welcoming ceremony, a name is then chosen for the baby. Names are important, they are a confession, an affirmation, and a desire. Never name anything out of bitterness and do not anchor negativity.

Look around you with appreciation. Look at what works and build on it. Look at what is positive and embrace it. Look at what is lovely and applaud it. Lift things up and bless wherever you are.

Apart from the family name, the Yoruba child is given several other names. One of the names describes the circumstances surrounding the birth. For instance, the name Idowu means “child born after twins”.

Another example would be if an elderly respected woman in a certain community died just before the birth of a baby girl, in which case the girl would be called Yetunde, or “the mother has come back”. Names carry memories, meanings and messages. What you declare reflects your thoughts and mindset.

If you choose to think, think big thoughts. If you choose to dwell on anything in your mind, dwell on the positive and life-giving. Your words are important and they shape your future. Make positive declarations about yourself, context, organisation and nation.

There is no pride or glory in cursing your nation and broadcasting evil. Do not just name the year you are entering based on bitter experiences and circumstances, name the year based on faith, vision and immaculate possibilities. Your words have a moulding influence.

They shape and fashion your seasons of life and your mental model. When you decide to speak, do not speak like a fool that forgets that words are things and they shape and mould.

For the Yorubas, the parents often have a pet name that indicates what they hope for their child, such as Ayoke, meaning “one who is blessed” or Titilayo, meaning “an eternal happiness”. The parents then announce the baby name and the relatives are invited to add extra names if they wish.

Before they say the names, they are asked to place a monetary gift in a basket for the child.

After everyone has had a chance to give the child a name, the monetary tokens are collected and handed to the parent to open a banking account for the child. Each of the given names, whether official or not represents a wish or prayer for the baby.

Do not limit your life to a single name or single narrative. Expand your names and the spectrum of your wishes. Do not get stuck because other people are negative and gloomy.

Give your future many positive names and wishes to live up to. Do not worry or even be confused because of the many names that people give to a year — just add your own big bright names to it. It is not the number of names that a year carries, but your faith and focus that matters.

Your faith is stronger than your adversities. Your vision is much brighter than your shadows. Your plans are seeds of greatness planted on the rich soils of time. Give the new year, bold new possibility-filled names. Name it and you shall have it.

The run to the end of the year is a precious moment. Use the time to reflect on the year past and the years ahead. See the things that worked and those that did not work.

What is worth celebrating? Count your blessing and not just your miseries. Reflect on the challenges you faced and the lessons that you drew. No challenge or difficulty should ever be wasted in idle regrets or sawing sawdust.

A crisis is so important that it cannot be wasted. Never let a good crisis go to waste. It is an opportunity for you to do what you would have never done and learned at a pace that would never have been possible.

When things go wrong, do not just park the experience and fail to take any lessons from it. Do not let the problems of the passing season overwhelm you so much that you forget that there is a future. The future is bright and beautiful. It is full of possibilities beyond your wildest dreams and you will be standing on great platforms.

As long as you can still dream, you are not finished. As long as you still can stand up, there are possibilities. As long as you are alive, there is a chance to do something that you may have never done. Stop whining and start planning on winning.

Name the new season of your life and hold out great faith for great doors. You have a choice, to name the year based on the pains of the past or the challenges that you face today.

Stop giving problems celebrity status. Give the new year a name that reflects your faith, not your fear and your desire, not dread. You are the son of a Creator, with your words you fashion your world.

What you speak is what you become. Words are the creative code of the world. This world is controlled by speech. Wherever you put your focus determines the direction that you will move in. Put your focus on what you want, not what you do not want.

Whatever you open your mind to determines the thoughts that you will think. Your state of mind matters and your state of speech matters even more. Speak to your greatness.

Turn your focus, attention, energy, and prayer towards your desire. Your situation may not look positive and your environment may not look encouraging. Wherever your attention goes there your faith will follow.

Instead of focusing on shortage, focus on abundance and possibilities. Instead of focusing on what is impossible, think, “What if?” Instead of focusing on death, focusing on living. Get busy on the positive side of life.

Build your portfolio of possibilities. Take a serious audit of your mindset. Toxic thoughts only lead to a constipated year. Unless you change your mental focus, you may never change your life. You are destined for greatness.

 

 Milton Kamwendo is a leading international transformational and motivational speaker, author, and a virtual, hybrid and in-person workshop facilitator. He is a cutting-edge strategy, team-building and organisation development facilitator and consultant. His life purpose is to inspire and promote greatness. He can be reached at: [email protected] and His website is: www.miltonkamwendo.com

 

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