You will either be like your environment, or your environment will be like you. You will either smell like your environment, or your environment will smell like you. You will either control your environment, or your environment will control you. Unfortunately, in this part of the world, we are surrounded by mediocrity, poverty, fear, inferiority complex and so much that leaves little to be desired from our environment.
However, you don’t have to be like your environment. Dare to be different. You may have been born in the slum, but the slum was not born in you. It does not matter the part of the world you are located, you can rise to new dimensions; you can set the pace for others to follow. Let me show you a few things that if you apply yourself to can move you from mediocrity to becoming a celebrity.
HAVE A VISION
Your destiny will be shaped by the vision in your heart. Do you have a vision for your life? Can you see the possibilities of your future? It takes vision to rise beyond the limitations that surround you. Vision shows you what could be. Craft a vision for your life, based on what God has placed in your heart. Put it on paper. Your life will then become focused and disciplined. Every outstanding individual live according to their vision, not according to their culture.
BE COURAGEOUS
It takes courage to dare. There are many of your friends, relatives and even church members who will try to shout you down because you refuse to act like them. But to provoke outstanding results to command exploits, you must learn to say no to the crowd. The truth is that when you succeed, the same people who tried to put you down will come and celebrate with you – that’s human nature. Courage is the ability to do what is right, even in the face of criticism. Only the courageous will experience miracles.
THINK BIG
The quality of your life cannot be better than the quality of your thoughts. We are not limited by God, we are limited by our thoughts. Only big thinkers get big results. Deliberately decide to accomplish what nobody else has ever done. Become a pacesetter and record breaker. Continually raise the level of your thinking. To breakthrough from your limiting environment, you need to think beyond the scope of your environment.
Life is too short for you to waste it trying to follow the norm. Step out the crowd and create a path for yourself. It is your turn to make a mark that cannot be erased.
