Someone once said, “you can’t be stupid all your life”. At some point we all have to grow up, grow into that person that we are destined and designed to be. For years a number of us languished in mediocrity and nonsense and we accepted this as the status quo, that is just who we are. We have a ready and willing society to rubber stamp and assure us that this is our state and station in life. We see nothing wrong and of course nothing is wrong, average and below average is a nice tepid water to swim in. Any glimpse of greatness in us is seen as fluke, an intruder, an exception or an anomaly. This is the guest coming to visit and must soon leave, a visit that is utterly uncomfortable. It is worrisome how being less than we are created and designed to be is so comfortable and soothing. We fail to realise that the version of us that does not deliver to the utmost and peak performance is actually the guest. I call him the ‘Idiot’, that is a strong and unsavoury term but used for emphasis and shock more that to demean. Awareness of the greatness of man is a passion I live for. Some have keyed into this consciousness and awareness and are running the race, some of us still lag behind. But the voice will not be quietened and we will continue to fly the flag for greatness.
Things go wrong and we fall apart, “hands up if you are guilty” all my hands and legs are up in the air. I am guilty as charged, I allow the ‘Idiot’ to take charge and I blow it up further. I panic, take the wrong steps, fraternise with the wrong lot, speak the wrong words, hide behind the wrong rocks and join with the nay sayers. We as a country are in a difficult position, interest rates are rising so fast we can not keep up, most have stopped opening letters, leadership face some of the worse turbulence it has ever seen, financial markets are in turmoils, we can not comprehend inflation, one of the worse recession in a very long time is forecasted, relationships are failing, businesses are groaning, NHS can not keep up, all of these is resulting in health issues for many. Listening to the news is tantamount to gloom broadcast. How do we rise to meet all of these head on? This is not the time for the ‘Idiot’. The fearful, timid, despondent, whinny, complacent, discouraged and complaining version of us can not tackle this. This is not the time for tantrum and throwing out our toys. We are in hard times when we must unleash the superior us, the premium version, the stellar version of ourselves. It’s got to be our vintage self.
Someone said, “I don’t think there is anyone else here, this is all there is to me”. Unless we are operating at the utmost upper level, then that is a lie, there is a superior version of us overlaid by the ‘Idiot’ fronting the show. There is a better one. We are feistier than we ever know, stronger than we ever imagine, wiser than we think. We will be astonished at what will be unveiled once we start to embrace our awesomeness. I remember a beloved brother I met in the midst of the last financial crisis. He said “the Soldier either wins or die on the battlefield” and he was a soldier, he came out of that particular crisis better than he went in, a winner. He had a small Estate Agent Franchise in a ‘not so great’ area of town, by the end of the Financial crises he had his own chain of Estate Agencies in the most opulent part of town. It was all about the state of the mind, our attitude, who we allow to run the show. Let us open the window, the door and just let him out. We know who.
Beautiful Ivory 