What's your story?

I recently came across the story of Helen Adams Keller, and reading about her was so inspiring. She was a blind and deaf disciple of Anne Sullivan Macy, who despite being physically challenged did not consider her own self to be handicapped, made a name for herself as a women’s liberation activist. She was a writer and a social worker, more than that Helen Keller was the first “deafblind” person to earn Bachelor of Arts degree.

The story of how she passed through the isolation imposed by the almost complete lack of language and blossomed to a woman who people came from far and wide to listen to, became widely known and recognised through the dramatic depictions of the play dedicated to her; “The Miracle Worker”. Her birthplace in Alabama is now a museum.

The story of course is very intriguing, but what really became of concern to me are;

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In this continuous cycle of life and time, where every night leads to another busy day, and every moment runs out almost as immediate as they come. Each day for many of us is filled with various important activities lined up to keep us occupied or productive.

And every now and then we hear phrases synonymous to phrases like "Time No Dey" which means there is NO TIME. Actually there is sufficient time for Eternity. Time isn't limited, but we are limited in time. As important as it is to live in this consciousness and fully maximize our time, it is even more weighty and redeeming to schedule periods of silence into our lives.

The classical composer Claude Debussy said, “Music is the silence between the notes.” We fall under the spell of a piece of music not simply because of what we hear, but because of what we do not. Without enough silence between the noise, even the most beautiful music is transformed into a disorganized cacophony.

Similar to composers, we arrange the music notes of our lives in bits in our limited space in time, but as against symphonies we as composers use the power of our everyday thoughts in composing. Every thought appears like a musical note giving order and rhythm to the tune of our lives. The best you are at composing, the best for you. The song we create either moves us towards our dreams or keeps us stuck and this becomes the story we tell and the testimonies we share.

When we make out time to rest and reflect on our inner lives, our core values, deeply held-on beliefs; when we keep that silence, skip those busy notes and allow ourselves to reflect about ourselves and our future; ask questions about our existence, contributions and purpose, we will have clear definition for our life and true answers for our questions.

What are your thoughts like? Do your thoughts create a pleasant melody or do they sound like crashing thunder? Where can the symphony of your thoughts take you? For our lives to be healthy, powerful and attuned to our best purpose, we must engage daily in two things; firstly, reflecting on our deeper and inner self and secondly, having the confidence to tell the truth to ourselves, considering the truth of our inner being.

In our age of continuous busy-ness carving out time may be a bit disconcerting. But the benefit of engaging in meditative reflection keeps our mind in an active but inwardly focused state which allows us to discern who we really are and not just what we are, how we want to live our lives without the interception of our ego. Afterwards, we can then move forward with what we have learnt and spark positive changes in ourselves and the World around us

BE FREE enough

There's this story about some farmers who were to plant pumpkins on a piece of land. Owing to mistake, a particular farmer's pumpkin seed fell into a glass jar hanging by the vine and he decided to have it grow in it. At harvest time, he saw that the pumpkin had grown in perfect proportion to the shape and size of the jar and all the other pumpkins well planted were far bigger than his.

Many of us wouldn't expect more.
That pumpkin had walls built around it, and it could only grow as much as the capacity of the Jar. Apparently two things were wrong with that pumpkin; Firstly it grew under restrictions and Secondly it was growing in the wrong environment.

Interestingly those farmers are each and everyone of us, and the pumpkin are our thoughts. The greatest human restrictions are not the physical walls of prisons, the greatest human prisons or restrictions is in our mind, in our thoughts. We only are responsible for the building of these walls around ourselves. As difficult as it might be to cross physical boundaries it is even more challenging  to cross the boundaries you create in your head. The boundaries you set in your mind becomes the limit to whatever you can create, who you can be and how far you can go or how much you can grow.

Our boundaries control how we maximise our capabilities. The truth is we are all blessed with unlimited capabilities and resources, we can BE FREE enough to explore them. It is said that you are what you think and you can never be better than who you think you are, why not just think the best.. so you can be the best.

Asides the limitations, another problem the pumpkin had was Environment. It couldn't have been well rooted, it couldn't have got the best nutrients for growth. Many a time coupled with limitations or not, we trap ourselves with environments, habits and people that wouldn't let us grow. And we know because we are built to work best doing things that we enjoy doing and keeps us connected to our source. It is very important that we surround ourselves with the best possibilities for growth.

Go ahead and break those walls, BE FREE, think outside the box, make ridiculous decisions, break protocols, bring out the best in you and do all u can to be continually better than your best, expand your horizons  because  there is a lot of unexplored horizons out there. And more importantly surround yourself with the best possibilities for growth.

THE CINDERELLA WAY.

Over and over again we have heard and talked about being successful. We all want to be successful but many of us don't know how to go about it. This is probably not the first article or book you have had the chance to read but I am  going to show you success in Cinderella way, from the greatest fairytale ever told "Cinderella" .

STARTING THE RACE- racing series

      

   Have you ever participated or witnessed a race and just from the beginning you could take a good guess of who would win. I remember the incident that occurred during my state's biennial inter-school games (2010).

STILL IN THE GLADE?- Racing series

     

   Often, more than norm we have come across the aged saying- "life is a race". Now what do you think?. Is it really a race or some other thing. For me this realization came clear when I got to the senior

AUTHORS NOTE

Hello readers,
             I want to express my profound gratitude to you all. Thank you very much for your support. It has been a source of encouragement to me and now I feel like giving you all the best of me, but as you might know am still growing though #smiles. I have decided now to begin a series titled RACING.
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