CHAPTER ONE
THE COST OF CHANGE
There
is no rise without a price. No one succeeds by accident.
I
believe it is time we accept full responsibility for the change we desire, lest
we perish as liabilities.
In
my view, every blame on governance is rooted in a bad citizenry, after all, the
leaders are chosen from among the people. It is only a responsible citizenry
that can produce a responsible leadership.
it
is time to begin to empower the people through the transmission of
life-applicable and life-transforming information that will motivate them into
action and turn them into world changers.
Only
those who are willing to pay the price ever win the prize.
Things
fall on their own but a force is required to enforce a rise.
I
agree that some things do change with time but I also know that time itself
changes nothing.
Waiting
for a change without doing anything makes no sense; it is the application of
relevant forces that guarantees a change for the better.
There
will never be a rise without a price.
I
believe discipline is the capital price you pay for every desired change.
Discipline in my view, can be defined as doing what is required to get what is
desired. It is doing what is demanded not what is convenient.
George
Washington said "Discipline is the soul of an army; it makes small number
formidable, it procures success to the weak and esteem to all."
I
believe discipline is the key to success.
Every
man is the cause of 75% of his problems. If someone else has a share, he can
only be responsible for a maximum 25% of the blame.
A
failure would have still failed with or without anyone's help.
Only
those who believe in the need for change remain in charge.
If
you are through changing, you are through.
"Stubbornness
and an unwillingness to change is the energy of fools"
"He
that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils"
There
cannot be a change for the better without a cost.
Mahatma
Gandhi said, "we must strive to become the change we want to see."
Someone
else also said "Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it is
the only thing.
It
is time we stopped wishing for a change. Let's start working at it.
Socrates
said "anyone who will move the world, must first move himself"
It
is only changed men that become world changers.
PONDER
POINT
Dr.
David Oyedepo
Source: Ruling Your World (Chapter 1)
Copyright © 2005 by David O. Oyedepo
Great insight. Challenging: can we take the challenge? Indeed, that is the starting point. Shalom. Thanks Bro. God bless.
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