You are valuable

Largely in today’s world, people measure worth by how many things one has. But I don’t think it is fair to judge someone’s value or worth by the things they have – things which you can see. I believe value goes far beyond what we can see with our eyes. I contemplate that value is something which must be perceived. 

Take for instance, you get a piece of diamond and put it in mud, wrap it or smear it with mud until it looks like mud. Do you think its value would change because it is smeared with mud? The answer is NO. The truth of the matter is that whether the diamond is in mud or not, it is still valuable.

The value of something doesn’t change because of the environment around it. All you need to do is to get it, clean it and then you will be amazed how much value was wrapped in mud.

The reason why you need to keep getting motivation and inspiration I believe is because motivation and inspiration provokes the real you and makes you want to expose the value that you are. It acts like water which washes away the dirty and exposes the beauty to the world. To this effect, I strongly believe that you need motivation and inspiration as much as you need bathing.

You are valuable. Whether you know it yet or not, wake up to the challenge of exposing your value to the world. You are more than you think you are. Clean yourself up through motivation and inspiration. Provoke yourself to become fully you. Invest positive thinking in yourself and become you ultimately. Don’t settle for less, don’t settle for mediocrity. You are a valuable commodity which needs cleaning.

You are valuable just the way you are. Work hard and expose that value.

Keep the inspiration.

          :: Olly Moonga

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NO! is not the final response in any situation

A response is never positive or negative until it is percieved so.

Perception is very important. I think it is one of the important attributes of success or failure in any field of life. The response you give to any situation is usually the final stage in the geneology of action because after a response, action is always the result.

One day we went to the bursaries committe with friends to make changes to some details which we had earlier provided. When we got there, we asked the man whom we were pointed out to, who was responsible for our petition. When we approached him, he also said that it was not him responsible for our appeal. But as for us, we were sure that it was him who handled cases as the one we had. He then walked to a certain office, entered and closed the door behind but we remained outside waiting for him. We were troubled, we did not know what next to do. Then I told the people that I was waiting with, ‘Let us wait for him to come out and plead with him until he helps us.’ After considerably a long time, he came out and found us standing outside the door. He asked, “You chaps are still here?” we responded with a manner of unzone that we were waiting for him to help us and we were not going to go back or move an inch until he gives us the help we wanted. He smiled and then said, “follow me to my office.” We followed him and within very few minutes we had our details corrected.

I learnt that if we had left at the time he had told us that he was not the one responsible, that would have been our final response to what the man had said. When he had refused to help us, it was not the final response but if we had left, we would have given ourselves the final response. But when we stayed a little bit longer waiting for him, it meant that we refused to take his ‘NO!’ as a final answer.

Do not be intimidated by the first encounter of failure or negativity. Do not dismiss yourself. You can choose to stay a little bit longer at what you are doing until you get what you want.

Sometimes you will try doing things which may not work out at first but that does not mean that that is the end. The end is when you decide to give up. Refuse to give up. You are meant for great achievements and no negativity or failure can change that unless you let it.

I will never give up on my endeavers in life because I have learnt that as long as I am alive, I can never be defeated by anything unless I decide to give up.

NO! Is not the final response.

         :: Olly Moonga

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