There is no future without the past

" Your dream is not big enough if it doesn't scare you."
Matthias Schmelz

 

As a motivational speaker, I often get approached by many people from the different spheres of life. It amazes me every time to see how easy people can take other people’s forms, and pursue to be other people.

Many young people often become ashamed to tell their friends, collegues about their background.

The big question is why?

We have absolutely no control about our place of birth, the parents we have and the kind of environment we grow up in. It has always puzzled me, how easy it is to blame either one or all of these elements when we meet with difficulty in life.

All of us, at one point or another, we have blamed our parents, where we grew up and everything else about our background.

Many people in our society are in denial of all these elements (where they grew up, their parents etc) about their past. As a result, our society today is full of people I call clones-- people in pursuit of being other people.

And once you pursue to be someone else, the maintenance becomes too high because you don’t possess resources to fulfill that person’s purpose. It goes without saying that, the end is disastrous, disappointment and dissatisfaction for the clone—the person pursuing to be someone else.

We need to learn to be satisfied with who we are. I have said this before, God gave you those two people you call parents for a reason. He knew that they possessed the right genetic make-up to make you the person He wanted you to be.

You might have grown in up in the most poorest of environments, but maybe that environment had the right type of lessons, mistakes and the right education to develop the character you will need to fulfill your destiny.

Thapelo Jonas [Your Very Own...Life Coach]

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