BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN THE COMPASS AND THE CLOCK: Aligning Purpose with Productivity

In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to get caught up in the relentless ticking of the clock, prioritizing efficiency and productivity over direction and purpose. However, we must pay attention to our internal compass to avoid disconnection and unfulfillment. The gap between the compass and the clock represents the tension between following our inner guidance and conforming to external expectations.

THE PRODUCT OF MIND

Your mind is the most powerful tool that God has blessed you with. Your mind translated you from being an ordinary to the supernatural realm. Suppose you productively engage your mind thinking through and imagining positively. In that case, there is no situation in life, there is no obstacle, no negative situation in this life that you will not break through. Whether it is the Red Sea before you, or whether the Egyptians are pursuing you on horseback, there is no situation that you will enclose in negatively that you will not find yourself out of it. In your mind is the solution to that problem. Ask me what I love doing most, I will tell you to always be alone and listen to my conscience.

Let me give you an example of what

NEVER REJECT THE GIFT OF REJECTION

I am sure I got your attention? 

Oh! Did I hear you saying, "Tolu, you are really missing it! You are just plain funny with your positivity by calling rejection a gift. Rejection hurts too much to be good for me in any way." 

Sure, I can relate to your viewpoint because I used to feel that way too. All I ask of you today is that you read through this note to the end, and contemplate the ideas I share. You just never know how your perspective might expand if you do.

Sometimes ago, I wrote about “Failure as a stepping stone to Success”, and one of my followers emailed me later asking, "How do I handle rejection?" He told me about the rejection he recently experienced then and how dejected he was. As I engaged him in private discussions, taking him out of his dejection, I decided that I should devote my time to put up an article on REJECTION since rejection is such a major and very common aspect of our daily and lifelong experience. It happens to almost all of us, doesn't it?

We experience it when we are young. Parents criticize us -- some may even walk out of our lives or force us out of theirs. Friends call us names on the playground and talk about us behind our backs. The deep sting of rejection continues into puberty as our boyfriends and girlfriends leave us. I'm sure

DO NOT BE AFRAID OF BEING AFRAID

'If you want to be successful, you just have to be willing to make a fool out of yourself”. Cristian Mihai.

Until you come to a point where you just don’t care about getting the approval of others, until you come to a point where you are not afraid of the pain of failure, you are not entirely free.

Unless you are willing to take a risk of being an embarrassment, you are not ready to succeed exceedingly. Great artists, creators, and entrepreneurs are men and women who placed themselves at the vulnerability of painful failure, ridicule, and embarrassment. They were ready for anything. As Helen Keller says, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing”.

If you are still afraid of being afraid, you are not there yet. If you are still embarrassed about being embarrassed, you are not truly liberated. Being general and casual about life allows you to just be merely alive. You never blaze new traits, you never tread upon no go zones and push your own perceived limitations. You will die without ever having lived your life.

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