How to Take Your Important Place in a Challenging World
There’s a place for
everyone in the world. It’s not just a common place, but a
significant one for each of us whom God created. Some know how to identify and
take it, many others neither know how to find it nor take it.
Yes, the world has always been, and will continue to be,
challenging. Whether it is pre-coronavirus, or post-coronavirus times, people
living in the world had and will still witness some challenges.
This challenging nature of the world plays a trick on
the majority of mankind: unemployment, loss of jobs, rising cost of living and
falling purchasing power, pandemics such as COVID-19, political conflicts and wars,
crime, armed banditry, armed robbery, kidnapping, stigmatization, inadequate
access to education, healthcare problems, environmental issues, to name just
some of them.
The trick is that the problems, particularly at
individual levels, seem insurmountable. Some think, because of what they’re
going through at present, there’s no meaningful place for them in the world
anymore. That’s not true.
There’s great hope amid these challenges because the important places in this world are inexhaustible. They’re only limited by the scope and depth of our imaginations.
In his book, Developing the Leader Within You, John C.
Maxwell, captured an inspirational picture of people who still found their important
places in the world irrespective of all the odds that weighed against them.
In his words, “Bury a person in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a
George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty, and you have an Abraham
Lincoln. Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes a Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Burn him so severely that the doctors say he will never walk again,
and you have a Glenn Cunningham, who set the world’s one-mile record in 1934.
Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and
you have a Booker T. Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver,
or a Martin Luther King, Jr. Call him a slow learner and retarded – writing him
off as uneducable, and you have an Albert Einstein.”
Despite his challenging background, George Washington
was the first president of the United States. He played a major role in gaining
independence for the American colonies and later in unifying them under the new
United States federal government.
Of Franklin Roosevelt, the 32nd president of
the United States, I wrote in my book, Power of Contributions Impact of Legacies,
that “Without doubt, he secured a place in history as one of the most
influential presidents in the world. He made contributions that can be
described as landmark.” Neither infantile paralysis nor the Great Depression of
the 1930s could prevent him from finding and taking his great place on earth.
Booker T. Washington, according to Wikipedia, “was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite.”
Marian Anderson was an American singer of classical music and spirituals. George Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist, a famous botanist,
and inventor. Also known as the “Peanut Man”, he created
more than 300 products from peanut.
George was born a slave
on the farm of Moses Carver in Diamond, Missouri. His biological father may
have been killed in a farming accident before he was born. When George was only
a few weeks old, night raiders invaded the farm and kidnapped George, his
mother and sister. They were sold in Kentucky. Moses Carver, the farm owner,
engaged an agent to track them and bring them back. Only George was found,
recovered, and returned to his owner’s farm. After
slavery was abolished, the Carvers raised and educated George as their son.
In spite of their challenges, the
people discussed above fought for and secured their places in life. In a
revised version of the book, The Mind: Your Amazing Power to Take Big Places, I write that your thought habits are access key into you
important places. “And until we first see and enter into our unique place with
our minds, we can’t enter into it physically. Our thought world is so
essential; it is the greatest power to take our place in life.”
Clara Schesser wrote in Huffpost
that “Ninety percent of success in any walk in life is a direct result of how
the mind is used. Top athletes, top business executives, top parents, top
entrepreneurs, and the most successful individuals all understand the important
truth that the mind is what counts.”
Our consistent and habitual thoughts on
anything put us on autopilot for the accomplishment of that thing. It is in our
minds our realities are first created.
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James Allen, a British
inspirational author, wrote a classic, As A Man Thinketh. He explained
that “A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot
fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot
directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so
indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
So, daily create in your mind the place you want to occupy in the world. Dwell on those thoughts and imaginations, and back up with consistent actions; you’ll be surprised what marvels you will create in life.
Books That Will Help You Create Your World: Good books influence us to see the world far better.
They empower us to funnel our thoughts into energy with which we take relevant
and corresponding actions. That’s why in Inspiration 7, we make available books
that will deeply inspire you to take gallant steps and produce amazing results.
The ones below will really open you up into a brand new world of possibilities.
They are authored by Imeh David.
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