God is great!
That is what my Instinct told me to start this post with. It is also telling me that this post
would speak to many - maybe even to me. God is great once again. Believe it or
not, I can already see the reward of the acknowledgement. God is great, I say.
Why not say yours affirmatively?
Aloha, Amigo!
How has your day
been? I do not know how to put this. All I can say is that I am in an
incredibly great mood. It has been long since I had felt like my heart is about
to burst. The feeling is as a result of visible improvements in various areas
of my life. Not that there are not low times, but I have been putting my mind
to focusing on the high times.
And this is one
of them.
Speaking of Highs
and Lows, what comes to my mind right now is the issue of Self-Esteem; and how
high or low it could be, varying from person to person. You surely must met
some people who, just by how low their shoulders hang and their heads bow, you
could tell how miserable their lives must be.
Yet, there are
some (admittedly few) who carry themselves as if there are no worries in the
Whole Wide World. This people are believed to be happier, more fulfilled than
their counterparts. Interestingly, they often are. You might want to view this
subject as a simple common sense. It is not that simple for some. And yes,
there are still a lot you can learn; so enjoy the post.
Recently,
I wrote about why some people manage to get trapped. You can read about it here.
Anyway, I mentioned low self-esteem as one of the reasons. Consequently, I have
got feedbacks from people who identify with and are touched by the write-up,
both online and offline. Trust me; Self-Esteem is the basis of many mind
problems Man faces today.
Let me tell you,
I have been engaging in physical body workout for years now, though not nearly
as active as some people (I do not go to gym. I just do the basics at home). If
there is one thing that I have seen at work most of the times, it is how easily
it is to build the chest and maybe the arms and legs.
However, when it
comes to the abdominal section, you would see that it is a different story.
Crunches are really more painful than push ups, ask any pro out there. If you
say no, I guess you are not exactingly ‘crunching’ right. It takes discipline
to work on the abs. I personally invest a large fraction of my workout time on
the abs. This is why:
When it comes to
strengthening the body, the core is the way to go. If you focus on looking
‘big’ to others, and you ‘build’ your body like a Macho Man without
strengthening your core, who are you deceiving? It is like a ‘sturdy’ house
with a weak foundation – A hard ball with nothing but Air inside. At the end of
the day, people who workout this way give out first. Look at how appalling
their stamina is when they need it. Clue: watch the Olympics Marathons.
Are you getting
the illustration? Now, let us return to the point. Many people want
improvements in their lives but fail to see that you should start the
improvement from the Core. The Mind. Here is the truth; to get high, you must have
a high self esteem. Those with low self-esteem subsequently go down low. No
joke.
If you have a
low self esteem:
- You may become frustrated;
- You may be less sociable;
- You may be stressed with no reason;
- You may find progress very slow;
- You may eventually sin more often.
You only get as
big as your mind, as your thought. You have to believe in yourself to grow. You
have to be comfortable in your own skin, before you get comfortable with the
fabillions (my way of saying ‘billions of billions’; uncountable) of other
entities in the Multiverse.
The main reason
why you are where you are is because this is how far you are truly seeing. Yes,
yes, I know if I ask you where you see yourself in five years, you probably
would mention some place bigger than Bill Gate’s Mansion, lol. But it goes more
than just mouthing the words. How strongly do you believe in it? (Let me
whisper this into your ear: how faithfully are you working to actualise that
dream.)
If the dream is
not sweet, one wakes into a bitter world. If the mind is not blessed, how then
could the body be, or the life, the career, the home, the study, the love? The
mind would either be your greatest ally or your greatest adversary.
I am not writing
this as a man who has this amazing mind that is not shaken at times. Trust me,
there are things that make you rethink about yourself. Heck, there are things
that make you lose your beliefs sometimes. Nevertheless, he who has a high
self-esteem would always find a way to get up and charge. Trust.
A pastor once
narrated a story of when he was younger and praying to God to build him a
bigger Ministry. He said, God told him not to focus on a bigger Ministry, but
on a Bigger Minister.
You can never
get bigger than your dreams. That might sound like a cliché, but you can never
be bigger than your self-esteem. You can not make what you do not believe in,
to happen. You have to believe in yourself and how big and important you are
already. There is simply no shortcut to success. It starts in the mind.
In your
Self-Esteem.
In my next posts,
I would write on Basic Practical ways to improve your self-esteem. When you have made those techniques your baby, you could as well move to the Advanced Practical ways. Yes, I am not a
preacher – I am a Teacher. A preacher tells you what to do. A teacher tells How
to do it. Watch out for my next post.
Over to You:
I hope you have
gained something from this post.
What are the
effects your self-esteem has had on your life? Please, cite example, so that
others may learn from you. Show you are alive. Don’t be shy. Drop your
comments.
*Waiting*
