FAILURE REHEARSALS (III)

Have you heard of people who are rehearsing for failure? Because from their rehearsals we can tell that they may likely fail. That’s the way the routines of some people are. The things that they do clearly shows that they are heading for disaster o’ clock. 

Another category of people who are undoubtedly going to be failing in no time except they do something about it are unchallenged people. You see, the world is full of unmotivated people; people who are fine with every status quo. Such people don’t believe in “no condition is permanent.” The worst set of people to be around definitely are those who care about nothing at all. Unchallenged people are onlookers. They are looking at everything; they don’t respond, they don’t participate, they don’t even react, they are just looking - Passive mediocres! They are people who should never be hung around. 

Unchallenged people lack quality passion that produces unprecedented results. They are people who have resigned to fate, they have submitted to unholy destiny believing they are not just the fortunate kind of people. Haven’t you met people who rather than take responsibility for being unchallenged, they quickly zero in and say that ‘they do not have a destiny and they were fitted for that purpose.’ They blame everything on destiny. They just agree that they were not fortunate and as such the benefits of life were not meant for people like them. 

Unchallenged people settle for average, they like what they presently have and enjoy but they do not aspire for better opportunities. They don’t believe that there is anything like a maximum life, or a progressive report, or that there is always a challenge and there is somebody who can trigger something in us so that we can do more. Haven’t you come across people who great stories do not interest? Check yourself, if you are beginning to notice that you really do not bother about your life and the direction it is moving, then it is a source of worry. When your friends come with a success story and you are not asking questions about how you can intelligently know the process and respond by doing the things that they did, but all you are asking for is a celebration (washing of a new car and drinking beer at their house warming party!) 

Hello there, I am not saying that you should be envious or that you shouldn’t celebrate people’s success. I’m saying if that is all you do and you are not in any way inspired to want to do more, then you are an unchallenged person. You were born to be celebrated also.

If you are going to ever taste greatness and if you are ever going to find your name on the hall of fame of great people, then you must learn to be challenged. When you are challenged your perspectives about things will change. Rather than focus on stupid things, you will ask the right questions. Challenge makes people buckle up and innovate. If everybody were to be unchallenged, then the world would probably be a millennium behind today. Life evolves because people are challenged; there is the hunger to surpass innovations and inventions. The economy rocks and rolls because there is a challenge going on there. In fact, one of the roles of government anywhere is to encourage healthy challenge and competition and discourage monopoly. So what makes life revolve and continue to make sense and become better is the fact that people choose to be challenged!

If you do something, we will do better. Not necessarily because we are dangerous rivals but because variety is the spice of life so we must learn the language of challenge. If you have anyone around your life who is not challenged, then they are rehearsing for disaster o’ clock because a time will come when the fruits of all their rehearsals will come upon them!

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Yours Sincerely
Paul Amusa