Take Possession of Your Greatness

May 12, 2009 by Milton Kamwendo
Filed under: Unleashing Greatness 

Greatness is the most available thing. It is available for those who are willing to take possession of it and to pursue it. There are certain qualities that make it easier for one to attain greatness. These qualities are in no way heriditary neither do they follow some selective and exclusive traits. Greatness is more than anything else a conscious choice. Would you choose greatness today?

The Dreamer
Dreams are things. Before greatness can be attained there must first be a dream – big, bold and bright. Any body who desires greatness must paint, in his or her heart at least, a billboard of the desired greatness. Anyone who has lost the power to dream has no more capacity for greatness. Greatness is for those who do not see the world as it is but as it can be. It is for those who do not see sign written: “it can’t be done – we once tried it also” that hangs in so many places. Greatness is for those who are willing to see solutions where others see darkness. 

 

The Soldier 
This is one of the oldest professions on earth. A good soldier is not an irresponsible fighter. At his disposal is some lethal armoury, yet he will not just display it to fools nor use it wantonly. Greatness is a battle. Success always comes at a price as we all know that the only free cheese is found on the mouth of a mouse trap. Fighting is not the soldier’s greatest role but strategy. Anyone who fights without a strategy or battle plan is a joke. The same is true with life. Living life without some plan is planning not to be great. In the world of great one has to devise a plan, no matter how simple, then deliberately work the plan. Inspired execution follows inspired plans. 

 

The Musician 
The true musician is a funny type of person that non-musicians will find hard to understand. He will practice a single note over and over and over. Just when you think that he has mastered something, he will keep going back to it and practicing the same old basics and then adding more. Music never ends, mastery is a life-long journey. To possess greatness one must have the discipline of a musician. One must seek to practice the basics of his art until he attains mastery. Mastery does not mean that one abandons the basics – no! Mastery requires patience, persistence and discipline. Many people love the glory of greatness but few love the discipline of training. Before one can be a public success there must be a personal resolve to become a private success. Whatever we do in our private lives away from the floodlights and and the applause determines what we ultimately become. A musician does not become one the day he records an album. The same is true with greatness. Whatever people see is not greatness but the result of it. 

 

The Wholehearted 
The heart has two separate chambers. However, the two chambers need each other for the heart to function. In the world of greatness there is nothing like being half-hearted. Half effort, half-commitment, half-work and half anything equals to no greatness at all. Greatness in any arena is for those who are committed and are willing to go all the way. It is not for those who are trying to test the waters or to prove certain things. Greatness is for the wholehearted. No one can be half-hearted at anything and hope to win. 

 

The Spider
Wherever a spider goes it is certain that it will spin a web. It builds a network. The same is true with great people – the develop an increasing network. The lone ranger may look sophisticated and seem to be responsible and capable. To succeed in Africa we have to now recapture the “village” network mentality. Everyone knew the other and everyone who came would become some sort of relative due to totem or some association. There was a spirit of goodwill – everyone trying to help the other succeed. Without a network of goodwill success takes long and it is very hard. Networking is more about giving than getting. It is more about helping than just wanting one’s end. It is more about farming than hunting. Hunting may be fun and fast but it is not one of the skills of ranching or farming. Farming seems slow at first but in time it yeilds a harvest that is beyond mathematical tabulation. Greatness comes easily to those who increase the circulation rate and volume of dollars in their networks. A network will generate more referrals and business than a general advert scattered to the mercy of any willing reader. 

 

The Bookworm
We all remember the bookworm. Carrying around a huge encyclopaedia and making strange references to things we had no idea of. For most of us the bookworm was always the boring type. No games, no jokes, no dates – just books! Well, school may get finished but learning never does. Libraries get closed but building a personal and home library of resources should never. Greatness is for readers – intelligent readers. These do not just read anything so long as it is printed but they have defined their area of focus and every day they are seeking for material and information to accelerate their vision, enlarge their thinking and enlighten their path. The pursuit of greatness helps one discover his ignorance. And this is a vital step to greatness. Books get out of print. New ones are written. But the book never dimishes in importance on the road to greatness. Books bridge times, civilisations, cultures and people. In mental space we are all peers. 

 

The Dignified 
Greatness belongs to those who love and honour greatness. It belongs to those who see dignity in what they do, respect their work and see it as a worthy contribution to mankind. These are the people who value the sanctity of work and see money as a reward for thinking, contribution, effort and contribution. Those who see money as an object of violence and vice should never walk the path of greatness unaccompanied. Without this sense of respect for it greatness will be ever so elusive. There are short cuts to wealth and greatness but these only lead to heartaches, headaches and in the long run great person ruin, sorrow and disaster. Greatness belongs to those who see the dignity of climbing up the staircase of life since the free lift to greatness is always broken down. However, hard labouring should never be confused with hard work. Working hard without thinking hard is insanity and a huge waste of resources. Thinking is the hardest work there is, hence some would rather avoid than engage in it.

To your greatness,
Milton Kamwendo
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One Response to “Take Possession of Your Greatness”

  1. vincent on May 15th, 2009 4:54 pm

    Wow! you speak words of wisdom my brother. you inspire me lots. May God continue to add abundance to your resources.

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