Positioning your self to change the world is a great way of improving your self to make the world a better place for your present and future generation. The world was created a blissful place for the habitation of mankind, but our negative contributions have made it to produce pain instead of gain. In the midst of this pain we are beginning to see what we could have done better or differently. We have come to realize that if the world must be a peaceful place for us to achieve our best of endeavors and fulfill our loftiest dreams; we must put up certain attitude. Attitude determines destiny! Until we become responsible in our effort to change the world by first changing our selves, the change we dream of seeing in the world will never materialize. We must be the change that we want to see in the world, and in doing this we shall all one day bask under the contentment our positive contributions to life. Positioning your self to change the world will require the following effort in a consistent manner:
1. Be the change you want to see in the world: All those who have contributed to this world the good and desirable in them, do so by deliberately positioning them selves as change agents; they became the change they want to see in the world. You cannot think of having a great life when all you give to life is negative input. Negative input only produces a life full of pains, frustrations and perpetual conflicts. Mahatma Gandhi believed strongly in this concept. Armed with this conviction he was able to help India to gain its independence. Though he was a revolutionary man, he helped India to gain independence without resorting to violence.
Whatever change you want to see in the world is possible if you look beyond the confines of religion, ethnic ideology, and cultural biases, to contribute your best in your own little way. Trying to change the world with biased concepts is a futile effort because those negative mental concept will becloud your good intention and condition you to sow negative seed into your environment which will ultimately give you a bad life; a world full of evil. To change the world, you must first change your self. When you are changed, you will then be in a better position to change the world by example.
2. Persistent Commitment: All changes throughout the history of mankind where not done through wishful thinking or through forming mental pictures and do nothing to transform your mental pictures into reality. Men who brought those significant changes were men and women who committed themselves to the course. Dreaming of a change world alone will never manifest a better and best life. To see the change you desire requires persistent commitment. The desire to change the world is a noble ambition, but not one without a price. And only those who are prepared to pay the price in full can ever see, touch, feel, experience and enjoy a the benefits of a changed world. To dream of a better life is a noble ambition, but what are you willing to give up in order achieve your dream? What price are you willing to pay? Are you willing to commit everything you have, even your life to the realization of this dream?
People like Albert Einstein, Clara Barton, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Archbishop Benson Idahosa, Papa Ayo Oritsejafo, Thomas Eva Edison, Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedekpo, Bill Gate, Donald Trump, Catherine Kulman, Joan Ark, just to mention a few, achieved their noble dreams of making the world a better place because they were persistent in their commitment to contribute the better part of their wealth, creations, ideas and efforts to changing the world. Today the world is blessed for their having lived.
3. Realize that nothing is trivial: Your actions may be personal, but they are not private. Whatever action you exhibit, whatever words you speak, they are all seed sown in the soil of life, and they will one day germinate and bear fruit which inevitably bless or plaque you, your children and others around you. Everything you do, every word you speak and fail to speak counts in your pursuit of changing the world. It is all a question of time! Some words and actions have short life span, but others have long life span. Everything you do has a way of creating or plaguing the world. The world may be a big place in your eyes, but in reality, it is a small place where everything counts. Are you a problem or a solution to the world? Are your actions or words creating a better world or a painful and frustrating one? Think about it.
4. Realize that you have an irreplaceable Mandate: You must understand that you have a great role to play in changing the world, and this responsibility is that which no man can assume for you. Each of us has been mandated to contribute our creativity, potential and best effort to making the world a better place. When each of us responds adequately to his or her responsibilities, then we shall inevitably fulfill our dream of a better world for all. You do not have to be elected to a political office, or go to the most expensive universities to contribute to making the world a better place for the present and future generation. You do not have to be eloquent or be particularly well educated. You do not need a degree from Harvard University or Oxford University to be able to make your contribution to making the world a better place. All you need is a willingness to do the little positive effort that makes the big difference. You can start right where you are with what you have and nature and divinity will supply all you need to make your dream a reality as you progress.
5. Take Personal Responsibility: Until you take personal responsibility for the task of making the world a better place, the world cannot be better. Never wait for the government to change the world, but make up your mind to be the indispensable change agent in the hand of government. Whoever you are; whatever be your gender; whatever be your financial status; whatever be your size; whatever be your color or religious background, you have a sole responsibility of making the world a better place for present and future generation through the intelligent application of your talents and gifting.
Never allow the negative mentality of ‘No one man can change the world’ to becloud your mind. Remember that to change the world, you only need to contribute your own best, and let others do their own. You do not need everybody’s co-operation or permission to make the little changes that will bring in the big change.
6. Employ the power of your imagination: All meaningful and lasting changes starts first in your imagination and then works its way out to logical conclusion through the application of persistent effort. Imagination combined with the appropriate knowledge is fundamental in the effort of changing the world.
7. Increase your awareness: Awareness is the power that drives change. Where ignorance prevails change is denied. You must begin to seek knowledge about the world you want to change. You must keep abreast with what is going right and what is going wrong so that you can implement strategies that forestall the change you desire to see.
8. Never wait for perfect time: The time to begin is now! He that waits for a perfect time will wait forever, and shall inevitably not have anything done. Change is messy. Things will never be right until people commit themselves to make things right. Look at how those who have brought change to their world did it-they establish change in the midst of great uncertainty. Teddy Roosevelt said, “Do what you can with what you have where you are”
CONCLUSION: It is an indisputable fact that you cannot change others by enforcing change on them, but by changing your self. You cannot force others to change; you can only change your self. Therefore, concentrate all your effort at positioning your self to change the world by changing your self. When you change it changes everything. In so doing you become the change agent to bring the massive change that is needed to make the world a better place for all.
There was a great man who once lived in this world; in fact he was an Anglican Bishop in Westminster Abbey (1100AD). In his early days, he dreamed of changing the world. He made several efforts to change people from their devilish and unpurified mental attitude, but his approach did not yield the desired result. Finally he died. On his tomb is inscribed this words of wisdom,
“When I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world. As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change. So, I decided to change only my country. But it too seemed immovable. As I grew into my twilight years, in one desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have non of it.
And now as I lie on my death bed, I suddenly realize, if I had only changed myself first, then by example I would have changed my family. From their inspiration and encouragement, I would then have been able to better my country, and who knows, I may have even change the world”
Friend, to change the world is a noble ambition, but you must begin by changing your self first and in so doing you will through example be able to change your family which together with their new improved mentality can join force with you to change the world. This is the fundamental steps in the direction of positioning your self to change the world.
Consciously and unconsciously, every one of us does render some services or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not our own happiness, but that of the world at large. And when this happens we would have fulfilled our vision of changing the world.
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