Some one dispensed some wrong information and its is hard to believe that the parents were the ones that were responsible for giving to their children false information.
There are many children who are looking at their parents lifestyle and desire to live the lifestyle of the accomplished as soon as they begin working. There are too many children who believe they should be on par with their parents when it took the parents many years of hard labor to be able to afford their present lifestyle.
There are also too many children who have gotten their priorities wrong.Somehow their thinking have been warped to believe that instead of hard work they should be enjoying a life of luxury. It is true that life is warped to facilitate a few young having excessive amounts of money but this is only a small minority. They majority of young people will have to struggle throughout their lifetime to make ends meet. It is unfortunate that many persons reach old age without accomplishing their dreams.
Someone should show the present generation of children that the hardship that life throws their way are not meant to hinder or break their spirit but are designed to build character. Life also throws hardship their way to bring out the hidden qualities that otherwise may remain dormant throughout the lifetime. It could be a case also of great potential and qualities are waiting for the right conditions to flourish.
It remain a great thing not to be handed gifts on silver platters but to toil and at the end of the day know you are enjoying the fruit of your labor.
Life throws our way some rather interesting situations. We can focus on ourselves and miss the opportunity to serve others. We can also focus on what others possess and miss out on improving our own situation.
Life allows all of us to dream and the bigger our dream the more opportunity we will attract.
Monday, November 30, 2015
Monday, November 23, 2015
Bridges
My wish as always is that you will have a Happy Monday and also to wish those celebrating Thanksgiving this week a Happy Thanksgiving.
Success is a goal to be pursued and should not be viewed as a possible option. It should be pursued with a passion that demand it is either succeed or die in the pursuit of achieving a set goal. This attitude is necessary because life will present obstacles in the path of the pursuit of success to test how committed we are to achieving our goals.
There is a popular song with the words "Don't you burn your bridges behind you, The bridge you burn today you may need it again to cross over." The pursuit of success demands burning the bridges and eliminating any possibility of returning to a former state. Life makes no provision for returning to the past and the pursuit of success requires making no contingency plans in the event of failure. In the pursuit of success failure is not an option.
Contingency plans are preparation for failure. In fact contingency plans are worse than preparation for failure because contingency plans leaves a person suspended in mid air. The person is neither committed to moving forward or going backward. This is an ample description of doubt. There is the ever present desire to want to return to the past instead of viewing the glory of the future. This is why there is most time the desire to have a bridge to link both.
The great Almighty was well aware of the desire to return to a former lifestyle so he executed a plan which eliminated any possibility of returning to the former lifestyle. We should learn from this example because even when asleep and dreaming the images portrayed by the mind are images of the potential that resides on the inside.
The mind will always project that which it has experienced, seen or imagined. The mind cannot conceptualize things that are outside of it ability to achieve. It is for us to having grasped these thoughts and ideas that are conceived by the mind to tenaciously follow through. This is why it is necessary to break with the past in order to progress into the future.
There will always be the proverbial monkey on the shoulder constantly whispering it cannot be done. That proverbial monkey can be exchanged for the little bird that whispers "There is a way but you will only find it if you persist.
Happy Thanksgiving and happy pursuit of success.
Success is a goal to be pursued and should not be viewed as a possible option. It should be pursued with a passion that demand it is either succeed or die in the pursuit of achieving a set goal. This attitude is necessary because life will present obstacles in the path of the pursuit of success to test how committed we are to achieving our goals.
There is a popular song with the words "Don't you burn your bridges behind you, The bridge you burn today you may need it again to cross over." The pursuit of success demands burning the bridges and eliminating any possibility of returning to a former state. Life makes no provision for returning to the past and the pursuit of success requires making no contingency plans in the event of failure. In the pursuit of success failure is not an option.
Contingency plans are preparation for failure. In fact contingency plans are worse than preparation for failure because contingency plans leaves a person suspended in mid air. The person is neither committed to moving forward or going backward. This is an ample description of doubt. There is the ever present desire to want to return to the past instead of viewing the glory of the future. This is why there is most time the desire to have a bridge to link both.
The great Almighty was well aware of the desire to return to a former lifestyle so he executed a plan which eliminated any possibility of returning to the former lifestyle. We should learn from this example because even when asleep and dreaming the images portrayed by the mind are images of the potential that resides on the inside.
The mind will always project that which it has experienced, seen or imagined. The mind cannot conceptualize things that are outside of it ability to achieve. It is for us to having grasped these thoughts and ideas that are conceived by the mind to tenaciously follow through. This is why it is necessary to break with the past in order to progress into the future.
There will always be the proverbial monkey on the shoulder constantly whispering it cannot be done. That proverbial monkey can be exchanged for the little bird that whispers "There is a way but you will only find it if you persist.
Happy Thanksgiving and happy pursuit of success.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
I am the Lord
For those persons who need some hope.
November 17
I am the LORD, and there is none else,
there is no God beside me …….
Isaiah 45:5
The nation of
Israel had not kept her part in the covenant with the Lord God and had
accommodated idols and the gods of the surrounding nations. For many centuries
the Lord God had been proving to the people of Israel that the gods of the surrounding
nations were as helpless as those who made the gods and that what some nations
worshipped as gods were actually the things that he the Lord God had created.
It was through
the prophet Isaiah that the Lord God declared his credentials that he was God
because as the Lord God he is able to tell what will happen in the future and
he has the capability to tell what happened in the past. The Lord God looked
two hundred years into the future and named the man that he would raise up to
fulfill his purposes concerning Israel. The Lord God declared that it was he
who formed the light and created the darkness also it is he who controls peace
and times of evil.
In a time when
there were many gods clamoring for the devotion of the people of Israel the
Lord God declared to the people of Israel that he was God and there is no God
beside him. When what he has spoken happens then all the nations would know
that there is no god to be compared to the Lord God and there is no other being
who hold the title of being God.
There does not
exist another omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, immutable being in existence
beside the Lord God.
Something to think
about: The prophecies of the scriptures still remain the litmus test of the
reality of the Lord God’s existence.
(This reading is taken from my book "Crumbs under the table")
Available in print and Kindle
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Gray haired ideas
My wish as always is that you will have a Happy Monday.
Yea whew! It is hard to believe, but the season of joy, cheer and happiness is here. It is time to begin summarizing the past year's achievements and make plans to finalize accomplishments. It is also the time to plan and set goals for the coming year.
This time of the year is also the time to gloat without being proud because in spite of the songs and choruses that it is too difficult for you, the naysayers have been silenced. There are results from pursuing your dreams and visions which cannot be denied so you have proven to the doubters that they are wrong.
We are called to stand out but it is not easy to be outstanding because this requires standing up to the strong and putting the cowards to flight.
The effectiveness of the strong do not necessarily rest in their strength but in their unity. The courage of cowards rest in their numbers because they draw from each other. The outstanding must have the smarts to overcome both of these two groups and their mode of operation.
The strong attack from ambush and in numbers because the strong knows the risks associated with attacking a prey. Even a lion knows the risks associated with attacking a prey and often uses fear as it greatest weapon or attack from ambush or in the dark and uses numbers to their advantage.
Cowardly animals will make even lions back down if they have sufficient numbers.
In life there are not going to be many persons who want to see you succeed and are prepared to help you get to the top. There will be even less persons who regard you as the better man and want to help you get ahead in life.
These are some realities that you and I must face. The strong who will attack in large numbers and attack from ambush. The cowardly who will try intimidating by virtue of large numbers but are quick to take flight in the face of courage. The good news is that you and I can overcome both these groups because we are dreamers and visionaries. Our dreams and ideas are the ideal weapons to defend against both the strong and the cowards.
January 1st does not have to be the beginning a new year. Any day can be the beginning of a new year. It can be the day that you begin acting on your thoughts and ideas. This is what you must do if you want to stand out and to be outstanding. The material that we need to be outstanding can be found inside of us.
Some of us have thoughts and ideas that are growing gray hairs from waiting to be given a chance to come to live. Give some thoughts and ideas a chance of live in this season of joy and happiness.
Yea whew! It is hard to believe, but the season of joy, cheer and happiness is here. It is time to begin summarizing the past year's achievements and make plans to finalize accomplishments. It is also the time to plan and set goals for the coming year.
This time of the year is also the time to gloat without being proud because in spite of the songs and choruses that it is too difficult for you, the naysayers have been silenced. There are results from pursuing your dreams and visions which cannot be denied so you have proven to the doubters that they are wrong.
We are called to stand out but it is not easy to be outstanding because this requires standing up to the strong and putting the cowards to flight.
The effectiveness of the strong do not necessarily rest in their strength but in their unity. The courage of cowards rest in their numbers because they draw from each other. The outstanding must have the smarts to overcome both of these two groups and their mode of operation.
The strong attack from ambush and in numbers because the strong knows the risks associated with attacking a prey. Even a lion knows the risks associated with attacking a prey and often uses fear as it greatest weapon or attack from ambush or in the dark and uses numbers to their advantage.
Cowardly animals will make even lions back down if they have sufficient numbers.
In life there are not going to be many persons who want to see you succeed and are prepared to help you get to the top. There will be even less persons who regard you as the better man and want to help you get ahead in life.
These are some realities that you and I must face. The strong who will attack in large numbers and attack from ambush. The cowardly who will try intimidating by virtue of large numbers but are quick to take flight in the face of courage. The good news is that you and I can overcome both these groups because we are dreamers and visionaries. Our dreams and ideas are the ideal weapons to defend against both the strong and the cowards.
January 1st does not have to be the beginning a new year. Any day can be the beginning of a new year. It can be the day that you begin acting on your thoughts and ideas. This is what you must do if you want to stand out and to be outstanding. The material that we need to be outstanding can be found inside of us.
Some of us have thoughts and ideas that are growing gray hairs from waiting to be given a chance to come to live. Give some thoughts and ideas a chance of live in this season of joy and happiness.
Monday, November 9, 2015
We are tomorrow's heroes
My wish as always is that you will have a happy Monday.
Every generation and every people need their heroes because they are writing history. The heroics and achievements of the past are vital because they provide benchmarks for the present. If there is nothing to gauge the present then there will be no way to measure present progress for shortcomings or surpluses.
It is not good enough however to live in the past but rather magnanimous goals should be set for the future. The present need it heroes to demonstrate that what was achieved in the past by others can be repeated and surpassed in the present.
Those persons reading this page that are familiar with Judaeo/Christian writings will be familiar with the story of a pair of twins. The elder twin by virtue of being the firstborn inherited certain rights and privileges. He was careless and refused to live up to the responsibilities of the firstborn and his twin wanted what he ignored. One day the elder twin came home hungry and saw his twin brother with a cooked meal. The elder twin figured that he was about to die of hunger and asked his brother for some of the food. The younger twin told him that if he died the birthrights would become his anyway and since he would be saving the older brother's life then he should turn over the rights and privileges of the firstborn. The older twin agreed. There are two things that are stark in this story.
1. The older brother did not value what he had coming in the future.
2. The younger brother was rapacious and ready to take advantage of his brother.
It remains debatable whether the elder twin was really hungry to the point of death and if so whether his brother would see him die of hunger.
There are lessons to learnt from this story and the underlying principle in the story is as relevant now as it was when it first occurred.
1. Learn the true value of your possessions. There are many benefits that will only be realized in the future. ( Every persons born on this earth are entitled to a name and other identifying features. Records are kept so that future accolades may be bestowed although the person may have died). There are many persons who are signing away these presently.
2. Be on the look out for the covetous and rapacious. There are many who recognize the value of what you possess and will try gaining it for very little.
It is true that there are persons and organization that have the resources and means to take your ideas and inventions to heights that are outside your wildest imaginations. The question remains, should you sign away all your rights?
Here is the reality of life. History has left its heroes who have set the benchmark. The present have it heroes who are in the process of reaching the benchmarks with the aim of surpassing yesterday's heroes. It is not good enough for you and I to sit on the sideline observing what is taking place. We have the opportunity to be today's heroes. We have the opportunity to rise to the top and become the example for the present and those coming after to emulate.
Every generation and every people need their heroes because they are writing history. The heroics and achievements of the past are vital because they provide benchmarks for the present. If there is nothing to gauge the present then there will be no way to measure present progress for shortcomings or surpluses.
It is not good enough however to live in the past but rather magnanimous goals should be set for the future. The present need it heroes to demonstrate that what was achieved in the past by others can be repeated and surpassed in the present.
Those persons reading this page that are familiar with Judaeo/Christian writings will be familiar with the story of a pair of twins. The elder twin by virtue of being the firstborn inherited certain rights and privileges. He was careless and refused to live up to the responsibilities of the firstborn and his twin wanted what he ignored. One day the elder twin came home hungry and saw his twin brother with a cooked meal. The elder twin figured that he was about to die of hunger and asked his brother for some of the food. The younger twin told him that if he died the birthrights would become his anyway and since he would be saving the older brother's life then he should turn over the rights and privileges of the firstborn. The older twin agreed. There are two things that are stark in this story.
1. The older brother did not value what he had coming in the future.
2. The younger brother was rapacious and ready to take advantage of his brother.
It remains debatable whether the elder twin was really hungry to the point of death and if so whether his brother would see him die of hunger.
There are lessons to learnt from this story and the underlying principle in the story is as relevant now as it was when it first occurred.
1. Learn the true value of your possessions. There are many benefits that will only be realized in the future. ( Every persons born on this earth are entitled to a name and other identifying features. Records are kept so that future accolades may be bestowed although the person may have died). There are many persons who are signing away these presently.
2. Be on the look out for the covetous and rapacious. There are many who recognize the value of what you possess and will try gaining it for very little.
It is true that there are persons and organization that have the resources and means to take your ideas and inventions to heights that are outside your wildest imaginations. The question remains, should you sign away all your rights?
Here is the reality of life. History has left its heroes who have set the benchmark. The present have it heroes who are in the process of reaching the benchmarks with the aim of surpassing yesterday's heroes. It is not good enough for you and I to sit on the sideline observing what is taking place. We have the opportunity to be today's heroes. We have the opportunity to rise to the top and become the example for the present and those coming after to emulate.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Bring out the heavy equipment
My wish for you as always is for you to have a Happy Monday.
Success is comparable to victories. If there are no battles to be fought then there are no victories to be won and if there are no obstacles to overcome then there is no success to achieve.
In life it should be remembered that courage and bravery are not qualities to be exhibited with pride. Both these qualities border on being foolhardy and it is only the outcome that determines if one was courageous and brave or foolhardy and was tempting fate.
I grew up near bauxite mining operations and sometimes it was possible to hear the heavy equipment at work in the distance. The siren at the plant served as time piece for 7:50 am (get ready to begin work), 8:00 am (work begin), 12 noon (lunch time), 12:50 pm (get ready to go back to work) 1:00 pm (back to work) 4:30 pm (work day ends). The factory was located in a basin so it was easy to see the heavy equipment at work from a distance. Sometime the mining operations were taking place next door to residences. (If this sound strange I should point out that the bauxite deposit was located on or close to the earth surface.
My father was a farmer and it was a common practice for the farmers to lease/rent land from the bauxite mining company to plant crops and to rear animals.One of the things that I never fully understood was the value of the earth in which my father planted the crops. The same spot where so often we cook out in the fields or roasted sweet potatoes, green corn or yellow yam would later be mined by the bauxite company. The heavy equipment would come in remove the top soil and the bauxite transported in heavy haulage trucks to be converted to alumina then exported to be smelted into aluminium. It was hard to grasp the idea of the red earth in which I planted food crops finally being converted into aluminum and probably was on the roof of the house, or may have made the pot in which I cooked or may have been made into a part on the airplane that was flying overhead.
My home was in the mountains and there were many natural hills, gullies and basins among other natural land formations. One of the infrastructure that the government put in place and improved was the roads.
I should probably mention the railway tracks first because the engineers who were responsible for putting into place the railway tracks when a hill was encountered did not run the tracks over the hill but tunneled through the hill.
There were many small hills that I had to climb up and then down as a child. When the roads were being built then the heavy equipment simply cut through these hills. Many of these hills were small mounds of earth that were naturally formed. Where I lived was limestone and there were also solid hill made out of rock. The use of dynamite and the heavy equipment cut a road through these rocks and left towering cliffs on either sides of the road.
There was a time when halfway through a road being constructed that the engineers came to the decision that the road was too steep for cars to navigate without danger. That road was abandoned and another built in a circuitous way.
I also knew of a prominent house because it was built on the top of a small hill. The time came when the house was demolished and the heavy equipment brought in. I was surprised that the hill was a natural mound of earth and it was completely leveled and the earth taken away (maybe as bauxite).
This page is about acting on out thoughts and ideas. The bigger our thoughts and ideas then the more impossible they will appear. It is the reality that our thoughts and ideas originate in our minds that make them possible to achieve. It is impossible for our minds to conceive things that are outside our dreams and experiences.
The bigger the dream then the more impossible it will appear but what if there were some heavy equipment that could be brought in to mow down and demolish the things that stand in the way of making our dreams, concepts and ideas possible.
The biggest failure that we can encounter is not to pursue our ideas and dreams. It is our dreams and our ideas so we have to deal with the problems individually. How we deal with the problem however could lead to some new invention that shall benefit the whole world.
Our heavy equipment could very well be the resolution with which we tackle our ideas and dreams.
© Prince W Bradford 2015
Success is comparable to victories. If there are no battles to be fought then there are no victories to be won and if there are no obstacles to overcome then there is no success to achieve.
In life it should be remembered that courage and bravery are not qualities to be exhibited with pride. Both these qualities border on being foolhardy and it is only the outcome that determines if one was courageous and brave or foolhardy and was tempting fate.
I grew up near bauxite mining operations and sometimes it was possible to hear the heavy equipment at work in the distance. The siren at the plant served as time piece for 7:50 am (get ready to begin work), 8:00 am (work begin), 12 noon (lunch time), 12:50 pm (get ready to go back to work) 1:00 pm (back to work) 4:30 pm (work day ends). The factory was located in a basin so it was easy to see the heavy equipment at work from a distance. Sometime the mining operations were taking place next door to residences. (If this sound strange I should point out that the bauxite deposit was located on or close to the earth surface.
My father was a farmer and it was a common practice for the farmers to lease/rent land from the bauxite mining company to plant crops and to rear animals.One of the things that I never fully understood was the value of the earth in which my father planted the crops. The same spot where so often we cook out in the fields or roasted sweet potatoes, green corn or yellow yam would later be mined by the bauxite company. The heavy equipment would come in remove the top soil and the bauxite transported in heavy haulage trucks to be converted to alumina then exported to be smelted into aluminium. It was hard to grasp the idea of the red earth in which I planted food crops finally being converted into aluminum and probably was on the roof of the house, or may have made the pot in which I cooked or may have been made into a part on the airplane that was flying overhead.
My home was in the mountains and there were many natural hills, gullies and basins among other natural land formations. One of the infrastructure that the government put in place and improved was the roads.
I should probably mention the railway tracks first because the engineers who were responsible for putting into place the railway tracks when a hill was encountered did not run the tracks over the hill but tunneled through the hill.
There were many small hills that I had to climb up and then down as a child. When the roads were being built then the heavy equipment simply cut through these hills. Many of these hills were small mounds of earth that were naturally formed. Where I lived was limestone and there were also solid hill made out of rock. The use of dynamite and the heavy equipment cut a road through these rocks and left towering cliffs on either sides of the road.
There was a time when halfway through a road being constructed that the engineers came to the decision that the road was too steep for cars to navigate without danger. That road was abandoned and another built in a circuitous way.
I also knew of a prominent house because it was built on the top of a small hill. The time came when the house was demolished and the heavy equipment brought in. I was surprised that the hill was a natural mound of earth and it was completely leveled and the earth taken away (maybe as bauxite).
This page is about acting on out thoughts and ideas. The bigger our thoughts and ideas then the more impossible they will appear. It is the reality that our thoughts and ideas originate in our minds that make them possible to achieve. It is impossible for our minds to conceive things that are outside our dreams and experiences.
The bigger the dream then the more impossible it will appear but what if there were some heavy equipment that could be brought in to mow down and demolish the things that stand in the way of making our dreams, concepts and ideas possible.
The biggest failure that we can encounter is not to pursue our ideas and dreams. It is our dreams and our ideas so we have to deal with the problems individually. How we deal with the problem however could lead to some new invention that shall benefit the whole world.
Our heavy equipment could very well be the resolution with which we tackle our ideas and dreams.
© Prince W Bradford 2015
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