Man goes from ground to the peak of his life and attainment; then man begins to tip downslope. During the period before hitting the peak and being there, would man know?
If man is fortunate enough to know out of the awareness of his intrinsic makeup and wiring, what should he do?
This is important because knowing is one thing, but doing is another. What you do with this knowledge holds the key to etching your being forever into the psyche of others.
It is called opportunity. Only those who watch; only those who are intentional; only those who are deliberate; only those who give themselves up for the creation and addition of value to others are those who can either spot opportunities or create same.
When you get to your peak, the years of your life’s victories and shortly before while it built up, what should you do with your achievements? Is it to the benefits of self through philandering and riotous living or to the value of building others?
What should you do therefore with your achievements? How should you spend your energies and resources?
Time will come when this physical strength you have shall cease to be and the wisdom of gray hairs shall be your strength, if you had lived virtuously and diligently.
Would you have mentored enough young people to the place of their being? Would you have sown into the lives of others enough to attract patronage and extract care? Would you have done enough for the youth that they owe you an obligation to recompense?
While you are of less strength spending more time in solitude than otherwise, would the values you inculcated in the young ones stand for you or would it be payback time for your rebellious and riotous past?
In 2010, Clayton Christensen, who first defined the theory of disruptive innovation, wrote about keeping sight of the most important things in life: “Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.” [HBR]
What are the things that you consider most important in your life right now? Or have you never given this a thought?
This is not a rhetorical question. This is a question that you must take into your meditation laboratory. It is a question that must open your mind up for introspection. This question is to give you the eye to see what you were probably hitherto blind to.
Whatever a man sows, the same shall he reap. The law of sowing is in tandem with the law of multiplication. You do not just sow and reap, there is quantum multiplication of reaping. The harvest of one or two seeds of corn is nothing less than two cobs of same in ninety days.
What seeds are you sowing today? Again, this is a question to process and get you to the point of realisation.
You will not always be strong. Time will come when strength will definitely fail you. When that time comes, what will stand for you? The answer is in what you are doing now. In what are you investing your strengths now?
Think on these things when you can because you will not always be able to, and it’s more painful when you desire to, but cannot because the resource energy is not what it used to be.
