Everything is possible. Henry Ford in agreement with this claim reached a conclusion that “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are right.” Regardless of your point of view as touching anything in life, you’ll always be right. No wonder the Holy book asserts that as a man thinks, so is he.
Since it has been established that what we eventually become is more of what we believe we can be, won’t someone rather choose to be the best instead of the opposite? What we become in life primarily as Christians is a function of two major things; our relationship with God and trust in His sovereignty, and then our belief in the inner strength God has given to us to be whatever we want to be.
Becoming the very best should be the desire of every individual as it is also stated in the Christians’ manual that we should be fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth and replenish it. Man as it were, is still the most advanced of all the creatures of the Most high and will continue to be.
Everything is possible especially with God. Often times, we focus so much on our inability that we tend to ignore the ability that has been bestowed on us. Recognizing the fact that we’ve been created with divine ability and gifting may avail us the opportunity of using such to benefit humanity.
Most great people are those, who have defied many obstacles to become the best in what they choose to do. The opposite is also true as majority of those who have chosen to settle for less have always got the result commensurate to their expectation.
While reading a book titled “Think and Succeed” by Rev. Sam Adeyemi some years back, I came across a story that was originally told by Bill and Dee Stringfellow in the book titled, “You can go up.” It was a story of a national convention of the Barbers and Hairstylists of the United States. Considering a better way of telling the entire Americans how important they are, the Barbers and Hairstylists hired a young public relation executive to implement the job.
Conclusions were made on the terms of the job and the young chap went to work without more ado. Searching for a better way to execute the job, the young executive decided to visit the slums of New York City and picked up a young man who was a beggar with soiled and tattered clothes. The tramp was unkempt from the very hair on his head to the sole of his feet.
There was a bargain after which a deal was completed between the tramp and the young executive since some dollars was involved. After this agreement, the young executive took the tramp immediately to the photographer’s and his pictures were taken exactly the way he was; dirty and totally unkempt.
After this first round of photographs, the young executive gave the tramp a face-lift: a steam bath, a shave and a hair cut, and then took him to the photographer for another round of snaps. But he was not finished. The PR executive took the young man from the slums to town and got him professionally made suits, shirts, ties and shoes. Then the third rounds of photographs were made.
On the day the convention started, the young executive positioned three life-size photographs of his subject at the lobby of the hotel. And he wrote at the top of those pictures, “See what the Barbers and Hairstylists of America can do to a man.” The story immediately hit the headlines across America. For effect, the well suited tramp was positioned at the hotel lobby to shake hands with people as they came in for the convention. Needless to say, the campaign was a success.
However, the sad part of the story was that the assistant manager of the hotel in which the convention took place was moved by the rapid change the tramp has undergone within a short period of time. He decided to offer the tramp a job at the hotel. At the end of the convention which signified the end of the existing contract between the PR executive and the tramp, the tramp just collected his due and went back to his ‘normal’ life back in the slums.
The tramp never returned to the hotel to resume the job promised, instead, he went back to where he used to be; the slums. The conclusion here is that though the Barbers and Hairstylists through the PR executive decided to change the young man outwardly, he still remained unchanged inwardly.
No matter the amount of outward effort applied in changing an individual, if it doesn’t correspond with a proportionate inward strength, it will surely be fruitless because as a man thinks, so is he. The quality of your life is traceable to the quality of your thought. Finally, I need to let you know that you only ponder on the information available within you, and so I will suggest you stuff yourself with the word of God; which is able to build you up. That is the only raw material you’ll chew and your life will never remain the same.Remember that your thought pattern will always equal your life pattern!
Since it has been established that what we eventually become is more of what we believe we can be, won’t someone rather choose to be the best instead of the opposite? What we become in life primarily as Christians is a function of two major things; our relationship with God and trust in His sovereignty, and then our belief in the inner strength God has given to us to be whatever we want to be.
Becoming the very best should be the desire of every individual as it is also stated in the Christians’ manual that we should be fruitful, multiply, subdue the earth and replenish it. Man as it were, is still the most advanced of all the creatures of the Most high and will continue to be.
Everything is possible especially with God. Often times, we focus so much on our inability that we tend to ignore the ability that has been bestowed on us. Recognizing the fact that we’ve been created with divine ability and gifting may avail us the opportunity of using such to benefit humanity.
Most great people are those, who have defied many obstacles to become the best in what they choose to do. The opposite is also true as majority of those who have chosen to settle for less have always got the result commensurate to their expectation.
While reading a book titled “Think and Succeed” by Rev. Sam Adeyemi some years back, I came across a story that was originally told by Bill and Dee Stringfellow in the book titled, “You can go up.” It was a story of a national convention of the Barbers and Hairstylists of the United States. Considering a better way of telling the entire Americans how important they are, the Barbers and Hairstylists hired a young public relation executive to implement the job.
Conclusions were made on the terms of the job and the young chap went to work without more ado. Searching for a better way to execute the job, the young executive decided to visit the slums of New York City and picked up a young man who was a beggar with soiled and tattered clothes. The tramp was unkempt from the very hair on his head to the sole of his feet.
There was a bargain after which a deal was completed between the tramp and the young executive since some dollars was involved. After this agreement, the young executive took the tramp immediately to the photographer’s and his pictures were taken exactly the way he was; dirty and totally unkempt.
After this first round of photographs, the young executive gave the tramp a face-lift: a steam bath, a shave and a hair cut, and then took him to the photographer for another round of snaps. But he was not finished. The PR executive took the young man from the slums to town and got him professionally made suits, shirts, ties and shoes. Then the third rounds of photographs were made.
On the day the convention started, the young executive positioned three life-size photographs of his subject at the lobby of the hotel. And he wrote at the top of those pictures, “See what the Barbers and Hairstylists of America can do to a man.” The story immediately hit the headlines across America. For effect, the well suited tramp was positioned at the hotel lobby to shake hands with people as they came in for the convention. Needless to say, the campaign was a success.
However, the sad part of the story was that the assistant manager of the hotel in which the convention took place was moved by the rapid change the tramp has undergone within a short period of time. He decided to offer the tramp a job at the hotel. At the end of the convention which signified the end of the existing contract between the PR executive and the tramp, the tramp just collected his due and went back to his ‘normal’ life back in the slums.
The tramp never returned to the hotel to resume the job promised, instead, he went back to where he used to be; the slums. The conclusion here is that though the Barbers and Hairstylists through the PR executive decided to change the young man outwardly, he still remained unchanged inwardly.
No matter the amount of outward effort applied in changing an individual, if it doesn’t correspond with a proportionate inward strength, it will surely be fruitless because as a man thinks, so is he. The quality of your life is traceable to the quality of your thought. Finally, I need to let you know that you only ponder on the information available within you, and so I will suggest you stuff yourself with the word of God; which is able to build you up. That is the only raw material you’ll chew and your life will never remain the same.Remember that your thought pattern will always equal your life pattern!
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