HIT THE GROUND RUNNING

I remember a story I heard a long time ago of a guy who was able to “hit the ground running”. He was not held down by his challenges but kept finding new ways and opportunities to make life better. Actually, it might be a dream but then……………………..

Their once was a man whose wife went into labour and gave birth to a healthy baby boy, however, before the mother could get to know her child she died living her husband with a new baby with nothing to feed the child with. All the man had back home was a pregnant goat and the vegetable farm he had inherited from his father. His immediate challenge was how to feed the baby and how to move on.
He took his Son home and checked on the goat, it had given birth to two kids, seeing the kids feed an idea came to his mind, “the goat can feed my baby” and feed the baby it did.

HE HAD HIT THE GROUND RUNNING!!

It is said that this man eventually became one of the richest men in his own time. (Don’t ask me where I heard the story from). Why? He discovered that milk from animals is also good for babies and turned it into an opportunity to make baby food. He solved his own problems and that of a lot of motherless babies.

It is typical for us to wake up tumbling out of the bed or like a song said, “To wake up with the world on top of you”. But when you do tumble out of your bed and land on the floor, do you remain on the floor? Most would remain dazed for a longer period than is necessary, some would nurse the pain of the fall the whole day, some would simply go back to bed while some would see it as an opportunity to start the day wide eyed and ready to go.

Pain would remain if we continue to dwell on it and give it room to fester. The man could simply have blamed the fate that took his wife from him and his new baby, he could have looked at the child and blamed him for his problems, or he could have looked at the goat and its kids and seen additional problems.

“BUT INSTEAD OF DWELLING ON HIS PAIN AND SEEING ALL THE BAD SITUATIONS THAT HAD COME HIS WAY, HE SAW OPPORTUNITIES AND MADE GOOD USE OF THEM” THIS IS HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING!!

How do you hit your own ground? Do you hit the ground and just stay there not knowing what to do next? Or do you apply speed and keep moving in spite of all? Opportunities abound everywhere but most importantly opportunities are most seen in our most trying times.

LOOK, SEE THEM AND MAKE GOOD USE OF THEM!!

OUR DESTINY, YOUR DESTINY, MY DESTINY

Destiny?! A great word with the simplest of meaning, the meaning is so near you that we tend to fail to see it.

Destiny is like cake in the oven, beautiful and delicious, filling and satisfying. However, without the right heat the cake would not turn out as we expect. So is our destiny!

Destiny is like a well-laid out business plan, one that investors read and get moved to risk their money. However, without the right mindset, skills and motivation/innovation to implement and make it a success, the business plan is a waste of effort.

Destiny is like beautiful lyric to a song, it makes good sense and touches the soul. But without the voice and personality to carry it the beauty of the song is lost and has no value.

Destiny is like a well-written constitution that covers all the areas of importance to a nation and takes it people and their will into consideration for which it is written. But when the people have refused to read and understand it, or have no respect for it then it is of no value.

Destiny is a properly drawn out plan of a house, drawn with specification for a structural masterpiece. However, without workers and builders to translate the drawn out plan into a dream house, the house cannot turn out as it is on the plan or as the architect had drawn it.

Or maybe it’s like a building in which the contractor has decided to cut corners? The house would invariably crumble and maybe kill or injure people living in it.

Destiny is like a bundle of cloth that has been laid aside for a Princes, she decides the design and style that the cloth should be cut into. This she wears and must be proud of. THE CLOTH IS HER’S.

Destiny is like a beautiful clock bought and set in a place of prominence to mark time and sound the alarm but the owner forgot to set it to the right time. The clock would mark the time wrongly and wake its owner up at the wrong time.

Destiny is like a road to a magnificent house that has been left to crumble and overgrown by the owners, it becomes difficult every time they embark on a trip out and back to their magnificent home.

Destiny is like the ugly duckling, an eagle living with ducks. His life would be limited by the surrounding and environment he finds himself and it won’t be able to fly until it is among its own.

Destiny is like a talent that each and every one has, a talent like the proverbial guy in the bible who took his talent of gold and hid it in the ground, it would not multiply and yield fruit.

Destiny is like a beautiful lady who decides to not take care of herself because people have said she is beautiful believing that without care her beauty would continue to remain, and then wakes up one day to look in the mirror to see a fat and ugly woman instead of the beauty.

Therefore let us all remember that even though we have all come to this world with our own destinies, destiny is what we make of it. We have a choice to make good of it or make it bad. The life of man is like an open book and we have been given the pen to write the story of our lives. What you write in that book is dependent on you alone and no one else. NOT EVEN GOD CAN HELP YOU WRITE YOUR OWN STORY. Remember it is your destiny, your life and your story to tell.

Make your destiny your own today and take the choices that would take you on a journey of fun, success and the envy of everyone around you!