Race for Complete Greatness!

June 18, 2009 by Milton Kamwendo
Filed under: Unleashing Greatness 

The rat-race can be tiring and winding. The pursuit of greatness can all seem like vanity. It can only be so if we narrowly define greatness in one single measure excluding everything else that makes a person complete. Our view of greatness and success should encompass the whole person, not just a part of a person. Complete greatness should consider family, health and wellness, mental fitness and growth, spiritual growth, contribution and personal achievement.

 

Family and significant relationships

Success that does not include a focus on the family and significant relationships may feel empty and worthless at the end of the lonely road. Sacrificing our families for greatness in just one area of life is too high a price to pay for anything. It is easy to become a public success and a private failure. It is easy to be respected by the whole world except those that are closest to us. It is true that there is no perfect family but this is never an excuse enough for neglecting the family. While we can delegate many things this is one area of life that cannot be delegated. John Maxwell, the leadership guru, says that to him success means being respected by the people closest to him.

 

Health and wellness

Our bodies are our temples. Without the body it is impossible to do anything else in this world. Since we cannot exchange the bodies that we are born with we are responsible for caring for them so that they are efficient and the can carry us to wherever we dream of going and being. Irresponsibility is being too busy, too distracted and too careless to care for how we use, feed and exercise our bodies. If we are always too busy driving to forget to refuel and service our vehicles, how much more our bodies?

 

Mental fitness and growth

Our minds are the precious and delicate computers that control all the activities of our bodies. Steven Dowshen, MD writing for children on the website: www.kidshealth.org gives some basic advice of how to keep the brain fit:

·         Eat healthy foods containing potassium and calcium, these two minerals are important for the nervous system.

·         Get a lot of playtime (exercise).

·         Wear a helmet when you ride your bike or play other sports that require head protection.

·         Don’t drink alcohol, take drugs, or use tobacco.

·         Use your brain by doing challenging activities, such as puzzles, reading, playing music, making art, or anything else that gives your brain a workout!

 

It is amazing how many diseases come from poor mental habits, inability to handle pressure and other mental related issues. Mental wellness is important and like everything else that is related to health, prevention is better than cure.

 

Spiritual Growth

We are not just human being having an occasional spiritual experience but spirit being having a human experience. It is important for us to keep spiritually fit and to start valuing our spirits as much as other part of our being – our minds and our bodies. Anyone who can kneel to God can stand up to anything. Prayer is the power that transcends time, geography and space. If we can learn to release our spirits more we would achieve success at new levels.

 

Contribution and society

The lowest level of living is to live for one’s own personal comfort and convenience, no effort except the minimal is required to do this. The higher plan of living is to live for other people. Most of the great people that we know are not recognised for what they did for themselves but what they did for others. None of us is so poor that he or she cannot give. All shortage in the world is artificial because there is always enough to go round if we are willing to think more about others than ourselves. The world has been made better by men and women that were determined to make a difference.

 

Finally personal achievement is important also. Money is normally used as a yardstick by many but money is not success: it is a result. Money is the fruit but not the tree or the root. Greatness then begins at building foundations and taking care of the roots that allow for the complete tree to grow for generations not just a short season.      

To your greatness 

Milton Kamwendo      

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