Have
you ever heard these words before? You are beautiful but without brains OR you
are beautiful but without character. I’m sure this rings a bell in the minds of
majority of us. A young focused man who wants to settle down for marriage does
not just bring a girl home because she’s beautiful, her character and qualities
without a doubt must be accessed by his parents and members of his family. Now
I want to inform everyone out there that no one in this generation wants to be
hooked unto a liability for life. If you are not useful especially as a youth
in this age and time then it’s a tragedy to say that you are just matter
occupying a whole lot of space that in real sense do not matter to his/her
generation (1 Timothy 4:12).
It
was Bishop David Oyedepo that said: “It is better to endure the pain of success
than to suffer the pain of regret”. Recently in my life I've realized that life
do not give you what you deserve but what you demand. However, most youths
today do not take out the time to be responsible. We have been too engulfed,
engrossed, enveloped and involved with the social networks today that we've forgotten that we have a destination and only determination can drive us to our
destination.Friends,
if we cannot carry the burden and weight or jump the hurdles that life brings
to us now, are we going to wait until we grow old before we take a decision to
do so? I know that most of us are unable to move from our comfort zone because we
are afraid of the unknown, for most of us procrastination has become a habit
others laziness has engulfed us totally (Proverbs 6:9-11). We think and ask
ourselves: what if I fail at it?, what if my thoughts cannot become a reality?,
what if the finances are not enough to continue?, what if I come crashing down?
What I’ll tell anyone in this category of life and I’m also telling myself is
that it is better to have tried and failed in something than never have tried
at all. Steve Harvey says that fear can either be F-forget E-everything A-and R-run
OR F-face E-everything A-and R-rise.
Failing once or twice or even more does not make you a failure, what makes you a failure is when you give up and stop trying (Hebrews 12:1). Always forget your past failures and mistakes and keep on keeping on. One of my mentors said: “Until you let go of the past you will end up passing away with the past and you become a past tense” (Isaiah 43:18-19b). So therefore the only way to be beautiful and useful in life is to take full responsibility of your life and destiny. Determine to be a lady or a young man with brains.
Some days back my dad asked me a question that I've not been able to recover from something that can never leave my heart and I’ll like us to ponder on it as well. If you were given the opportunity to write on your own obituary about how you lived your life, what would you write? Now, if what you are now is not what you want to see written down, then I urge you today to start making a decision of change. If all of us take a decision today to become useful in life as well as responsible then the generations behind us would not find it hard to follow and neither will they suffer. BE BEAUTIFUL AND USEFUL!!!GOD BLESS YOU!!!
It
was Bishop David Oyedepo that said: “It is better to endure the pain of success
than to suffer the pain of regret”. Recently in my life I've realized that life
do not give you what you deserve but what you demand. However, most youths
today do not take out the time to be responsible. We have been too engulfed,
engrossed, enveloped and involved with the social networks today that we've forgotten that we have a destination and only determination can drive us to our
destination.Friends,
if we cannot carry the burden and weight or jump the hurdles that life brings
to us now, are we going to wait until we grow old before we take a decision to
do so? I know that most of us are unable to move from our comfort zone because we
are afraid of the unknown, for most of us procrastination has become a habit
others laziness has engulfed us totally (Proverbs 6:9-11). We think and ask
ourselves: what if I fail at it?, what if my thoughts cannot become a reality?,
what if the finances are not enough to continue?, what if I come crashing down?
What I’ll tell anyone in this category of life and I’m also telling myself is
that it is better to have tried and failed in something than never have tried
at all. Steve Harvey says that fear can either be F-forget E-everything A-and R-run
OR F-face E-everything A-and R-rise.Failing once or twice or even more does not make you a failure, what makes you a failure is when you give up and stop trying (Hebrews 12:1). Always forget your past failures and mistakes and keep on keeping on. One of my mentors said: “Until you let go of the past you will end up passing away with the past and you become a past tense” (Isaiah 43:18-19b). So therefore the only way to be beautiful and useful in life is to take full responsibility of your life and destiny. Determine to be a lady or a young man with brains.
Some days back my dad asked me a question that I've not been able to recover from something that can never leave my heart and I’ll like us to ponder on it as well. If you were given the opportunity to write on your own obituary about how you lived your life, what would you write? Now, if what you are now is not what you want to see written down, then I urge you today to start making a decision of change. If all of us take a decision today to become useful in life as well as responsible then the generations behind us would not find it hard to follow and neither will they suffer. BE BEAUTIFUL AND USEFUL!!!GOD BLESS YOU!!!
Of a truth, the need to show tenacity and be bold in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances would always birth a great tomorrow; I must say, I am tremendously blessed to have read this now! Kudos!
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