Saluto my diamonds out there! It’s Arua here on the other side of the mirror.
As I was talking to this fellow of mine he just reminded me that there might be many of you thinking like him out there.
Well it’s not wrong to think like he thought because that’s where his view ended but it is wrong not to accept that you need to widen your view.
He is what this fellow was telling me, he was telling me about how there is a financial crisis that is affecting everyone and leaving out no one, that life is getting harder and harder every day.I look at him and said you should be grateful, you should celebrate. He looked at me surprised and asked celebrate? I look at him and said yeah
You heard me right …..Celebrate
He asked how ? I told him my friend life is happening for you not to you. Challenges are coming to build you not to break you but they surely can break you if you want to be broken,It’s all your choice.
Okay …….Did you read what I called you at the top ? I called you Diamonds. See diamond are carbons but not like any carbon …….. not like graphite or coal or anything cheap though they are all carbon.
What makes diamonds what they are?
It’s the pressure that diamonds go through the tough times that make the carbon bonds in the diamond to not slip over each other anyhow, that makes the electrons in
The carbon to not be mobile moving anyhow conducting here and there
So you just like any human be a “diamond”,be different!
Go for hard work when other human are quiting because at the end of the day it is going to make you stronger and focused and not waste your time conducting here and there moving anyhow.
You have to understand that winners are not quitters and that quitters don’t win and that as an entrepreneur a problem is an opportunity for you to rise.
These hard times root out “unserious entrepreneurs” people who are there to say let’s try and see if it works
People who are not there giving it their best, people who are not ready to do whatever it takes to get there, people who are just wondering, people who don’t have dreams and goals.
These hard times are here to give you space to rise because most of them are going to quit. This is the time for you to be open to opportunities, opportunities like buying a company at a cheaper price, buying a house at a cheaper price ,buying land at a cheaper price because quitters will feel it’s done and their dream are crushed and will start selling everything. You are not a quitter.you are a winner and you know that this is not the end of the world.Hard times come and go and they don’t come to break you but to build you.
Think to yourself… Is this the first crisis the world has been into? Is it the worst of all that ever happened? ?I bet no.
For the world was once down in ashes after the world war but it rose up again and who would have ever thought a homeless man on the streets could be owning billions of dollars today?
Who would have believed that
Everyone on the streets passed by him laughing but he kept going because he had a dream and he believed in it?
If he was to tell anyone about his dream of being a billionaire by that time everyone would have seen him crazy.So he used the hard times to build himself in and worked on his dream every single day with everything he had.
He will tell you the day he went hungry but still worked and believed, he will tell you about those little cents …… The last ones he had in his pockets how he used them to pay for a ticket to the city to come and work ….. because he believed in his dream. He will tell you how he worked hard when most of you were asleep because he believed in his dream. He chose to prime his mindset for positivity and winning. He worked like most of you don’t want to work but now he lives like most of you can’t live no matter how much you would dream to.I tell you again, without hardships and pain you can’t grow. When you can get everything easily you don’t feel like there is anything you have to struggle for but when you know that you only eat after you sweat ,Now that’s when you make a difference.
I advice every one young or old, Go find something you are passionate about and work on it every single day because you will get transformed, you will be better.
Don’t be scared of hard times. They are here to give you space to rise and make a difference.You might be telling me, am poor I don’t even have food or water or clothing or anything,…Yes,you don’t have it but you have a mind, time,health,you are still breathing. So be positive. There are so many people with money but without health, with food but without water and if you hard it all you wouldn’t know how worth it was. You would take it for granted. Now that you don’t have it, is when you know how precious it is.
So just stop complaining and wake up and take the first step.Go and talk to people, tell them what you can do because that job,trip,prize,beautiful woman or man of your dreams, that soccer coach,chef, that investor won’t find you in your bed.
You have to wake up and go find people and show them what you are capable of .Some will give you a no and you can be sure you will hear so many Nos but keep going because we usually quit at the minute to a miracle. If you don’t do anything,nothing will happen but if you try at least you have the hope
When I personally look back at life people who have been here for me supporting me and helping me be a better person, It’s not the people I have known all my life it’s not the people I talked to every day in the past. It’s those strangers that I walked up to and guess what I found out …..I found that they have been looking for me too.
They have been looking for an author like me they have been looking for an entrepreneur like me,they have been looking for a public speaker like me and now these “once strangers” in my life are the most important people in my life.
A friend and fellow entrepreneur told me the other day That there is a good, a goal,a dream,a prize written on your name and nobody can take it away from you. All you have to do is make sure you don’t waste your time on this earth and leave your good here.Stop being afraid of the competition.You are unique in your own way so don’t try to be fake.
Go and give the world a drop of you. Go and show the world what you are capable of because nobody wants the same thing every body is offering. We want some innovation,we want some creativity and I know you have that.
I believe in you and that’s why am here pushing you. If I didn’t believe in you, I wouldn’t take an irreplaceable part of my life (time) to tell You this.
I love you all my precious Diamonds. Don’t forget to check out more opportunities and more stories from www.ndangira.net and i hope you make a right decision now.
Arua Khamis