Chinemerem Lucky Efughu

Chapter 3 EXPLORING YOUR BEST I have had an intensive study on gold miners and have come to the deduction that they are passionate workaholics. They do not stop there. They still put extra effort into digging tirelessly into the sub-soil til they find gold. After exploring and exploiting, an ecstatic feeling grips the miners. One thing is to say "the gold is mine"; another is to act on the saying. Gold miners are active in life s pursuits. They are neither carefree nor passive but allergic to procrastination. Here, there are two categories of people – first, the people who verbally claim the gold, and then the people who actively work out their best to get gold. World record breakers relentlessly work out their bones and flesh, never compromising their mental power. They start with little effort, increasing their strength banks, galloping over challenges, believing in the best, and never quitting. Consequently, it is unwise to quit once you are ready for a course of action. Never give up till you get what you need or want as long as you are sure of getting it. If you want to be a superstar, start letting your star shine, even in a little way. It does not matter if your star is little or faint. What matters is that you have started. Zig Ziglar said, "You don t have to be great to start; you have to start to be great"! As your star twinkles, the world will wonder while you ponder magnificently on metamorphosizing the once-perceptive little star into a great diamond. That is how to explore a golden world like this. But first of all, you must realize you are a star before you can shine. The realization of a quality is directly proportional to the actualization of that quality. Nigeria never realized the rich quality of oil in her land. The colonial masters capitalized on such ignorance and exploited Nigeria of her greatest asset (oil). It was not until she took cognizance and recollection of her greatest asset and inalienable right to stand as a sovereign state that they got their independence. There is a quality in you that refuses to be exploited or intimidated. Nobody will take you for a ride unless you have chosen to be ignorant of who you are. Whatever you want to be, let it be a good one. As such, I propel you to start now. Perfection is the sequel to perpetual rehearsal, and until you start now, you can never be a star later. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? The future is promising, but you don t have to wait till you get to the future. The future holds nobody. It is in your hands. What you do with it now determines what it will unveil tomorrow. You are the future. What are you doing with yourself and your quality time now? Are you aspiring to be a doctor in the future? That is a great ambition, but what have you started doing about it? You have to be science-inclined and study insatiable. Get into a medical school; stuff your head with medical books. Don t be an idle or lazy fellow. It does not work that way in the medical field or any field of life. Intense hard work and a demeanor of professionalism are pre-requisite skills one must cultivate around oneself in every field of life. For instance, if you want to be a medical doctor, you have to think, act and behave like one. A medical doctor with poor hygiene is wayward and quack no matter the knowledge acquired. Somebody else might want to be a footballer, another a musician, some other person an accountant. A friend of the medical doctor might aspire to be a pilot. It all goes on and on. It all depends on your choice and passion for the field you want to delve into. Always try to go deep into any field you choose. The deeper you go, the better knowledge you acquire and the more witty experiences you gather. The future always applauds those who go deep. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO GO DEEP? Peter and his friends sort all day to get a bountiful number of fish but to no avail. They struggled and mumbled all day in agitation of the atrocious situation they found themselves in. These guys had toiled all day to catch some fish, but to their greatest bewilderment, they could not. They relied on their synergy, but the insight was far from them. Before the sun could go down, they got exhausted. Their synergy failed them even when they needed it most. Meanwhile, they had been on the edge of the water, going in little by little and setting up their net and fishing apparatus, but they never went so deep into the underlying and bottommost part of the sea. I presume that was the secondary factor they lacked; they never went deep. Until they met the monarch of the universe, their activity caused no productivity. Jesus was the primary factor they had been missing all the while, and when they got in contact with Him, He unveiled the secret behind "the deep"! Within seconds and probably minutes, their net could not carry the bevy of luscious fishes they caught. In the deep lies the reservoir of fortunes. A person who does not go deep never meets the gold in the deep. If your pursuits in life are golden and worth far-fetching, you will take every risk involved to get your dreams actualized. Life itself is risky, and doing nothing at all is stupendously risky. So get out of your comfort zone, delve into an aspiring field, and go deep in that field. When you do so without moving your eyes away from the focal point of your life s pursuit, your genius will echo till the end of the world. You have to put in your best when you want to go deep. Continue to try, strive, strike, and be ready to fight through all situations. Big fishes like sharks and other aquatic animals live in the deep. Until you go deep-rooted, you can t tap from the great things of the deep. Deep inside of you is positioned as a very great banal talent. Don t bluff away this golden talent right inside of you. Keep working and practicing it with much aplomb. When done as a habit over time, such a person is never far from apogee. Being quixotic is not a habit of those who want to go deep. If you want to go deep, you have to think deep, act deep, and work deep. It is not fantasy but reality. The moment you realize that your destiny lies within is the period you receive a queer momentum propelling you to the destination of your life, thus resulting in the fruition of your career pursuits.