Sunday Meditations: Take Care of Your own Race

By Zion Emmanuel Obeten

An athlete gets disqualified by the referee when he runs on another athlete’s track/lane and he gets disqualified by himself when heconstantly looks behind to see who is trying to catch up with him.

In the former, he becomes detrimental to the other athlete and in the latter; he becomes discouraged by the athlete trying to overtake him.

Such an athlete HARDLY wins by any of the two aforementioned acts. This is because he is not running his own race but someone else’s. These questions now come to the fore: If you run another man’s race, who gets to run yours? Even if someone gets to run yours, how certain are you that they will run it well as you would?

Only one person can do it as best as you and that is YOU. Only one person can RUN your race effectively and that is YOU. Only one person can replace you and that is YOU.

You may be running at a very slow PACE, and while running you may be mocked in your FACE. People may try to run you down to take your PLACE but never stop or quit to run your own RACE. That is the attitude of a winner.

A wise man said, “The best I can do is only what I can do…”

Let’s take our eyes off other people’s lane and take CARE of our own RACE.

Zion Emmanuel Obeten A banker by profession, a motivational and inspirational speaker and writer with a passion. He is by the help of God touching lives around the world with his gifts. He aspires to be a bestselling world class author and send hope to every part of the world through his write-ups and words.

He can be reached here

Sunday Meditations: A Reset Mindset

By Zion Emmanuel Obeten

No matter how handsome, beautiful, wealthy or skillful a prisoner is, he is at the mercy of the prison warden so long as he remains in that prison.

His activities are controlled and his movements restricted. His ideas do not profit him and neither do his skills make him a hero. He is totally in subjection.

Permit me to say that every man is a prisoner of his mind and his thoughts are the prison warden. Your activities, lifestyles, movements, heights are at the mercy of these thoughts.

In this world of technology, WISDOM should NEVER be replaced with westernization. The mindset is supposed to be changed and upgraded before the handset. Unfortunately, people tend to do the reverse. So, a man may have an iPhone or an iPad but without the right thoughts, and so, he only has an advanced handset, but not an advanced mindset. Consequently, he can barely get the best from such a device because his mindset is not stretched to operate the handset.

Talents and ideas are wasted when a man’s thoughts are limited and restrained by his environments.

Skills are restricted when a man places his inabilities above them. When we feed our inabilities, we make them grow to overshadow our abilities.

But, when we feed our mindsets with the right concepts and precepts, they are being retuned to accept the good things we expect.

So, the crux of the matter is for us to always RESET OUR MINDSET, because the mind will always wander easily to where it’s not fit for you and me.

Remember, a man’s MIND will either make him BLIND to or make him FIND what is good for him.

Zion Emmanuel Obeten A banker by profession, a motivational and inspirational speaker and writer with a passion. He is by the help of God touching lives around the world with his gifts. He aspires to be a bestselling world class author and send hope to every part of the world through his write-ups and words.

He can be reached here

Sunday Meditations: There is a Star in Every Good Start

By Zion Emmanuel Obeten

  

Isn’t it good to know that there is a STAR in every good STARt?

But in a bid to compete in the rat race, small jobs are often neglected, small tasks are rejected and so, bigger opportunities that come in the clothing of these ‘small things’ are unconsciously relegated.

Most people want to make it so big the first time and so, if the start doesn’t fetch them ‘good’ fortune in a short time, they, out of frustration, push it aside.

What’s more? They keep going round in same circles while looking out impatiently for great profit and hence, miss that STAR in what they thought was a small STARt. They miss the PROFIT because they are running away from the PROBLEMS.

But there’s a call to the fact, though hard to accept by many, that no labour is without flavour, no work is without a worth and no task is without a taste.

What adds colour to all these is dependent on our perspective towards them.

The start, even though so small, should not make the man small, but rather, the man should locate and bring out that shining star out of that start. He should be able to bring out what’s ideal from that ‘little’ idea. Simply put, the difference between a star and a start is a ‘T’. All we’ve got to do is to Think big, Try harder and Trust our capability.

When all these happen, just know for sure that you are on a Transformation journey to becoming a SHINING STAR.

Remember, don’t despise a little beginning.

Zion Emmanuel Obeten A banker by profession, a motivational and inspirational speaker and writer with a passion. He is by the help of God touching lives around the world with his gifts. He aspires to be a bestselling world class author and send hope to every part of the world through his write-ups and words.

He can be reached here