Who are you looking to?

01 Sep, 2019 - 00:09 0 Views

The Sunday Mail

Where you look determines what you see, who you see and who sees you. Focus determines trajectory. Where you look reveals your attitude, beliefs and orientation.

Make whatever claims you dare make; it is your eyes that reveal who you are at heart and what is in you. Look up and you will see rays of hope; look within and you will see greatness seeking expression. Look back and you will see why you should not spend your life there. Look ahead, and you will be inspired by vision.

Where you look is important because it shows the quality of your spirit, the fulcrum of your motives and the depth of your vision. As you look so you see. Until you change the way you look at things, you have not changed at all. Not all turns or turnarounds are evidence of transformation. Change starts in earnest when you change the way you think and the way you look at things; principally the way you look at yourself.

When you look at yourself as a loser, you become one. When you look at yourself as a winner, you train with confidence. When you look at yourself as incompetent, so you rob yourself of energy. When you look at yourself as competent, you try harder and focus on mastery. When you look at yourself as a weakling, you lose grip. When you look at yourself as having strength, you attempt big things. When you look at yourself as poor, you start having beggarly tendencies. As you look so your believe.

As you believe so you become.

Until you change the way you look at anything and what you look up to, you will always be held back and held hostage. Things do not just start looking up. All events are neutral, until you start looking into them intently. The starting point is taking responsibility to look up and not down, to look in and not out.

When you think someone owes you an answer and a solution you become victim in your looking ways. When you look at others as your answer you cannot be innovative. When you subcontract thinking to others you mortgage the future. You impose on yourself a posture of inferiority and are blinded from your value and universe of assets. When you look to your past as your answer you get stuck in the past and you start rusting, instead of trusting your vision process. You cannot speed forward looking at the rear-view mirror. When you look to what you have no idea of as an answer you become a superstitious gambler and risk being deceived by charlatans. Do acknowledge your need but never be too desperate. You are the silver bullet. Watch carefully where you have trained your eyes to look.

True greatness starts when you start looking within, knowing that inside you lies reservoirs of power that is habitually unused, resources that are dormant and capacities that have barely been exploited. Until you become confident and courageous, you will have many fruitless miles to run before you get to the starting line. Believe in what you have, and you will see value in it. Believe in those others and you will see the potential to build. Believe and you will activate new powers of thought and vision. Greatness does not start outside you, but in you.

Someone is looking up

Someone is looking up to you; do not disappoint them or let them down. The steps that you take inspire someone to also walk your noble path. You may not be aware, but each footprint that you leave is a marker that will inspire someone. Do not give up in your battles because the pace is slow and success seems to be taking long. Do not despair in your lonely place because the pace is slow and greatness is delayed.

Most things take time to ripen and deliver. The world is not one big micro-wave oven to be pressed on instant demand. Your courage in the face of adversity inspires someone. Your tenacity to go through what you have to go through is an inspirational torch that others will hold up for a long time and use to find their own path. Stand tall, someone is looking and watching.

Posterity is looking up

Hindsight is a perfect vision because it looks back with a red-inked teacher’s pen, marking what might have been. The future is not waiting but it is here. It’s just that, it is not yet evenly distributed and seems not  available. The future is a loan from generations unborn. Your faith will unlock future treasures. It is irresponsible to leave for posterity unbearable debt-burdens in place of empowering inheritances and legacy. Responsibility is looking at today’s decisions with the eyes of the innocent, unborn, who are released from the excuses of the pressures of the moment. Those who do not see the future always abuse the present and burden the unborn. Until ways of thinking change, ways of behaving will always be the same.

Heart is looking up

Your inner-person is looking at your behaviour, thoughts and attitude.

Who you are is seen by what you do and how you do it. Challenge your limitations and do what you have to do. Be confident about what you have and believe in yourself, because God already believes in you. Look within and really stretch towards your greatness.

Every obstacle that you face has been overcome, be resourceful and take bold action.

Every challenge that you have can be overcome if you are looking at the right places. Impossibility is a mere state but never a reality. Quit using words like, “If, Lucky and Cannot.” Doubt kills creativity. Believing in fate makes you superstitious. When you surrender you kill innovation. When you think small you shrink imagination.

Look into your heart and the treasures within. There is something so strong in you.

You possess explosive potential. Your past record is not an evidence of the power within you. Take bold steps to mind the treasures within, with focus and diligence.

Walls are looking

Walls have eyes, ears, noses, mouths and hands. Just because you cannot see something does not mean that it does not exist. In the Bible, there is a legendary prophet called Samuel. He set a high bar for all leaders for all time.

One day Samuel gathered his people and delivered a speech in an open townhall meeting. Samuel addressed all Israel: I have listened to everything you have said to me, listened carefully to every word, and have given you a king. See for yourself: Your king among you, leading you! But now look at me: I am old and grey, and my sons are still here.

I have led you faithfully from my youth until this very day. Look at me! Do you have any complaints to bring before God and his anointed? Have I ever stolen so much as an ox or a donkey? Have I ever taken advantage of you or exploited you? Have I ever taken a bribe or played fast and loose with the law? Bring your complaint and I will make it right. Oh no, they said, never. You have never done any of that—never abused us, never lined your own pockets. That settles it then, said Samuel. God is witness, and his anointed is witness that you find nothing against me—no faults, no complaints.”

All leadership is a call to extreme responsibility. To be able to deliver a speech like that of Samuel is great character strength. What speech would the quiet walls deliver about you?

Committed to your greatness.

Milton Kamwendo is a leading international transformational and motivational speaker, author, and growth mentor. 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 Twitter:@MiltonKamwendo or WhatsApp at: 0772422634. His website is: www.miltonkamwendo.com .

 

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