Don’t stop moving towards greatness
Do not let what you are going through stop you from moving towards greatness. Where you are going to is more important than what you are going through.
THE pain of the moment cannot be compared with the glory that will be manifested. Keep moving, thinking, dreaming, doing and reaching for greatness.
Use your towel wisely to wipe off the sweat of effort because you have been moving.
Do not throw that towel into the ring in despair and surrender. Sweat is invisible in the rain.
Every setback that you face is preparing you for a great comeback. Every pressure that you face is positioning you for springing back. Do not give up simply because things are tough.
The pressure is cooking something great in you.
You may experience failure and set backs but do not let that defeat your resolve.
No mountain of setbacks is reason enough for you to retire to a life of bitterness and gloomy existence. Stage your comeback by using a different pair of eyes to look at your situation.
Your frames matter. Your mental models determine your movement. Your holding on and keeping on matters even more.
Every setback you face is a setup for a comeback. There is something so strong in you.
When life punches you in the face, open your eyes wider, there are stars that you will see. When you hit a brick wall, do not despair, knock that wall down. When people thrown stones at you use the stones to build better. Do not stop moving. Things that look weak may not be as fragile as you may think.
Your spirit is stronger than your body.
Your resolve is stronger than the obstacles that you face. So long as your feet have some space to stand on, there will be room to move forward.
Your determination and resolve to win are stronger than any obstacle that stands in your way.
The obstacles on your path are your stepping stones to greatness. Your future is more exciting than your past.
There are inexhaustible possibilities that lie ahead. Keep moving and do not stop dreaming, doing or dancing.
Failure in Context
Put failure in context and do not stop moving. Never let past failure stop you from trying and making another attempt.
Come back to the ring and do not die in your winter or wilt in your wilderness moments.
Do not deify your challenges, they are not worth worshipping. What you are facing has likely been faced before.
Where you are, likely, someone has been there before. What you focus on will also focus on you. Choose a solution mindset. Stopping chopping your feet and drilling holes in your confidence.
If you move around curating problems, you may find that yours are so small that they are worth all the drama.
Focus on your path and keep moving.
True greatness takes time, effort and sustained focus.
Never let other people’s ignorant complaints and negativity become an epidemic you catch and pass on to others.
His company was started in 1976 with a big dream to revolutionise the world of personal computing.
He worked hard, made good money and had fame.
He met obstacles that he refused to quit and kept moving.
In 1985 he was dismissed from the company he started. He walked away in deep pain. Pain is too precious an asset to squander feeling pity for yourself.
He did not spend too long a time in unending grief and personal horror stories.
He did not stop moving. Do not stop moving either.
He had a great dream. A new dream about computing.
It all did not really work as expected, but that is part of the work.
He also made a different type of movies in that time.
He took to new interests and adventures that broadened his mind and perspective.
Nonetheless he was still in the wilderness.
Do not spend your wilderness moments in “park or sleep mode”. Keep sharpening the edges of your pencils.
He spent ten years in the wilderness (1986-1996), but proved that the wilderness is not a barren place but an opportunity for growth.
In 1997 he moved back to the company he started and loved.
He moved back with new operating system, maturity and wisdom. This is the story of Steve Jobs of Apple.
Your Moving Story
Your life is a moving story, a special drama.
You have a story and you are the main actor in the story of your life.
Do not let your story be dry, uninteresting and one that just end abruptly.
If your life was turned into a book, would anyone be moved to read it. Move out of your shell, leave your comfort zone and live.
Determine to make your come back a success story. Do not denominate your life in the currency of the past.
Do not let discouragement be your life’s narrator. Stop playing
despair songs as your background music.
Your wilderness moments are too precious to be wasted telling scary stories to would-be great dreamers.
Your story is not ended yet, move to new chapters and verses. No adversity is strong enough to stop you.
No personal tragedy is big enough to move you off your path of greatness.
Do not take yourself off the shelf before your sell-by date.
Life is too big to be wasted in empty living and discourses of dismay and disaffections.
Disheartening jeremiads are not an investment business case.
Moulding Experiences
Some people call them “sovereign foundations,” and others call them, “personal crucibles.”
These are experiences that you pass through in the process of your growth and development.
Moulding experiences start at birth.
They are affected by family situation, environmental factors and historical events.
Everyone has a growing up story to tell. For others it is a story of depravation and tragedy.
For others of abject poverty and neglect. Yet for others it is a story of abuse.
Whatever places your growth journey took you through decide that you will not be a victim of the past.
No experience that you pass through is ever a waste. Your attitude is more important than your circumstances.
Forgive the past and move on. Learn from the past but do not build castles and rot there.
Never let the pain of the past occupy all of your present and maim your future.
Do not use history as an excuse or crutch. Reframe your moulding experiences into a machine for moving forward.
Squeeze the juice from your moulding experiences and let others benefit from your pains of the past. Do not stop moving.
Do not play hostage games and keep reliving that pains and experiences of the past.
Instead of replaying the past, replay the future. Vision is more powerful than history. Break the mould and recreate your life.
The defeats of the past should never be the defeats of the future. The pains of the past should never be allowed to be the lived realities of the future. Move forward and do not stop.
Moving Base.
Greatness is about moving bases. Every failure that you face is a set up for your come-back.
Do not despair or give up too soon.
Failure is not fatal so long as you are willing to learn from it and keep moving.
Dust off the ego-injuries, stand up and face the music again.
When you fall on the dance floor, that does not mean that the party is over. Stand up and dance with life. It is too early to go home. Move with the moment.
Make failure a stepping stone to something bigger and better.
Make it an access point to a victory that could not have been experienced without a momentary failure and set back.
Anyone who has never risked failure never achieved anything worthwhile.
Dream big, live humbly, keep moving knowing that to fail is not to forfeit your dream.
Move the Mourners
Do not wait to die to decide how you will move those that never met you and those that will attend your funeral.
Write out your epitaph. Make it inspiring, aspirational and moving. Then live everyday with passion, focus and make that message reality that will move someone.
If you do not decide how you will be remembered, you may easily be remembered for the wrong thing.
All memory was once a vision. I am sure that you will not want to be remembered for giving up, being too afraid to start again, too timid to try and too lazy to keep moving. Live with the honour of momentum.
Life is too big to be lived in an uninteresting and unchallenging manner.
You are destined for greatness. This is your birthright.
There is no shame in trying, trying and moving on and on despite the odds.
Committed to your greatness. Milton Kamwendo is a leading international transformational and motivational speaker, author, and a virtual, hybrid and in-person workshop facilitator. He is a cutting-edge strategy, team-building and organisation development facilitator and consultant. His life purpose is to inspire and promote greatness. He can be reached at: mkamwendo@gmail.com and His website is: www.miltonkamwendo. com.