“Billionaires don’t care
what the odds are. We don’t listen to common sense; do what’s conventional or
expected. We follow our vision, no matter how crazy or idiotic other people
think it is.”Donald .J.Trump
The greatest asset on
earth is human being but they can be the greatest liability if they don't
understand their assignment as those that are meant to help humanity to live,
learn, love and leave the legacy for the entire world too run with.
A dark tall young man in
his forties is the man I was introduced to by a friend. A politician
representing his locality with passion for youth development and keen sense of modeling
excellence exchange pleasantries with me and became uncomfortable. He was feeling
superior and expecting me to lay on the floor all because he is the serving in
his locality house of assembly and I am not. He said “don’t you understand what the culture
says about saluting your leaders? If you are talking to your leader, you must
be on your knees, listen to everything he says and don’t say anything".
But to his surprise, he met someone bold enough to confront him calmly. He
became offended because he learnt the real reason for living as against allowing
his positing to determine his personality. Enough of story!!!
When position or
possession became the surrogate for the real reason we are living, our identity
is tied to things. Who we are is tied to power and we oppress the people we are
meant to serve. But if we will see greater days, we have to model the change we
want to see in our world. Change is constant. People do not like change because
of the pain it comes with. And because people don’t like it, they become
grounded by the same change they don’t oppose. For example, of what use is
importing low cost typewriter?
Sometimes people don't know why it is
important to change. As a leader, the responsibility lies on us to be the
change and the moment we are, our people will follow our footstep. The
challenge is when the leader refuses to embrace change. It is when we have the
greatest challenge. General of the Air Force Henry H.Arnold that “The
principles of yesterday no longer apply ..... We must think in terms of
tomorrow. We must bear in mind that air power itself can become obsolete” will
give us more reason for continuous improvement in order to become relevant and
be the change that will recreate the world.
Becoming the change is a responsibility. It is
abandoning the bird eye look to feel what people are feeling. It is functioning
from a mountain top by seeing things the way it should be and not the way they
are. This is what will instigate our thinking in creating a solution that will
put smiles on people face daily.
In Africa, where culture
of devaluation is what many are practicing, the culture that makes you leave
the most important things for irrelevant things, making people to put their
trust in money and not God that made the money. The culture that allows many to
loose their voice all because of their
inability to recreate themselves, the culture that promotes selfishness-those
who are to be the change are living a selfish life has contributed to the
definition of success as material acquisition which has lead to gross
diminishing of values that will have made many become the solution. The extent
of selfishness in people has gotten to the extent that man is being selfish to
himself. They deny themselves that right of greatness God has given them all
because they have lost their sight in recognizing things the way they should be
as against the way they are. Their focus is on what they can gain not what they
can give. Note, no one is more deceived than a selfish person, what you do for yourself
stays with you but what you do for others is eternal.
“If you refuse to change, you will be grounded
by the same change”
Tayo
Olumadewa
All around the world,
change is in the air. You can smell it, you can feel it, and you can touch it.
But then, we should not be under any illusion that change ever comes easy, or
on a platter of gold. It is like circumcision, which is usually accompanied
with aches and pains. We desire change, we hanker for it, pant for it as the
hart pants after the water brook. Ty
Boyd said “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way
things turn out”. —When a season is over, learn to allow it to go. Embrace the
change that will make you the instrument in the hand of God. “What was good for
the past was good for the past.” - Joel Osteen” We do our best that we know how
at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it." - Franklin
Delano Roosevelt
By Olumadewa
Adebusuyi Olutayo
lalambano@gmail.com
0817 900 1267
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