Motivation
You are Stronger Than You Know
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Joseph Ayeni
Joseph Ayeni


Though life beats us hard and knocks us down, we get up each time and keep forging ahead because resilience is programmed into us.

Nothing has beaten us to submission yet. After a fall, there is a rise and we trudge on laboriously. We just never stop. We move.

Resilience is our personal power to bounce back each time we get pummelled by the hard fists of life.

How we often fail in our attempts to reach our goal. How impossible of attainment we imagine our targets many times but fail to show gratitude after we live in them.

How many times did we suffer rejection but end up with a better option through redirection? How we often reached down into our depths to unearth fresh resource and launch out to new heights.

Just like the plant germinating through the earth gets hindered by a hard rock or boulder. Yet, it finds another path and sprouts through the earth to the surface to enjoy sunlight.

You understand why some trees get bent or crooked from the stem regions? They sought the sunlight through redirection when hindered.

Such is the way we seek the path of light when darkness envelopes us as we inch to unearth and unleash our treasures on mankind for value delivery.

How often did men give us a negative in place of our highly anticipated positive and though we blank out thinking we have come to the end of the road, only to receive sunshine again to continue.

How many times has fear locked us away from the potential value that laid buried deep within? We feared that we would be consumed by imaginary fires only to be refined by them.

We are often given to a disconnection with our memory, hence we do not recall how often we have overcome the very things that phobia tried very hard to rob us of through prevention from attempting.

Our continuous failure to pay attention and offer gratitude to the things we were wary of long after we had overcome them robs of the proper thinking to evaluate our potency.

We fail to estimate the lessons in our mistakes as we journey to a specific destination. We forget that the real value of the journey is way beyond the promise.

The tough lessons of our mistakes, and failures are the values and virtues that would sustain the promise.

Character is the victory we earn when we overcome pain, stress, shame, and reproach that come from failure and mistakes. We come out toughened through sordid experiences.

How would nature be our tutor if it leads us through already gilded paths? Isn't ease our greatest foes, and toughness our biggest friend and cheerleader?

The greatest, most impactful and enduring lessons of life came from our passing through fire. Nothing is as invaluable as being comfortable in discomfort.

Every horse ridden on today was tamed having been captured from the wild. Such is the power of dominion that you have over all things.

Are you not much or all of these? Do you quit after each fail and begin a new process? Do you often start and never finish? You may need to shift your paradigm.

Thyself you must conquer first. This is thy will to do for except a man overcomes his excesses he cannot be accounted wise or reckoned of any value.

Art thou stronger than thou knoweth or art thou weaker than thou knoweth? Have thou not proved thy strength yet? The answer lieth in thy will.

"Mr Joseph Ayeni's book is a well researched compendium that addresses several, but salient subjects that can significantly enhance human dignity, success and fulfilment."
David Imhonopi
PhD. Covenant University, Ota,
Ogun State, Nigeria.

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