LISTEN TO YOURSELF
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If you want to know what kind of attitude you have, just listen to yourself.“
- Joyce Mayer
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You might be puzzed,
and convinced to ask; how can I listen to myself? and, what kind of attitude do
I have when I listen to myself? In response, I do concur with Joyce Mayer once
said; "If you want to know what kind of attitude you have, just listen to
yourself.“ Again, in the same line, I assert to say; it is better to listen to
yourself than listening to the noise of other people when they talk about your
calling, and that mark the right attitude you have about your world for success
in life.
The major intention of this section is to inspire
and enrich our thinking as it is mostly affected by the attitude we have from
the way we listen to ourselves.The way we listen to ourselves with the right
attitude influence-inspire our behaviour.
We can take charge to listen to ourselves to
find our voices, as it is our urgently calling to do marvelous tasks in this
world. Remember, we are living in this world with purpose for the other for the
common good. It has been encouraged to find our calling for the other by great author-Stephen Covey once said;
"Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs“. So, better find your
voice now to rescue others who are straggling in finding theirs.
We can listen to ourselves with our inner
voice "conscience“, a twin to an "attitude“ -the "eye“ of our
soul that is reflected to our behaviour; the twin helps us to avoid or tempt us
to do something as a reaction to the circumstances. It is the way we find ourselves in response to what we see and hear in the real world.Taking example
of yourself; when you are in a situation of dilemma-you may hear two voices hail from within -“inner voices“ one for "do it“ and the other
for "don’t do it“; that is a sense of doing right or wrong.The same to the
reaction you may respond with action-in practice, as your normal routine, the
way you see it is right for you and even sometimes not right to societal norms.
I insist you respond positively according to the goodwill of societal norms and
values.
Listening to other people about your calling
can drive you into a trap of taking it from negative people with negative mouth-"negative
attitude“ which has ill will to any individual endeavor to success in life.Ultimately,
you will not diverge from them, you will act the same and will be acting by
imitating life while paying no attention to listen to your inner voice.Although,
you can embrace advice and constructive criticism from other people while
standing bold to your calling.
As human beings, we act and respond
differently to the circumstances; as our response determined by our intuition
and the way we perceive and react to nature. You can imagine the goodness and
appreciate the impact of your real actions in practice when you respond from
listening to oneself in association with the kind of attitude you have after
you have listened to oneself.Responding positively to your inner voice can
create miracle and change the world, in that perspective, we can see changes we
want to see in the world as Mahatma Gandhi used to proclaim.Gandhi and other
heroes recognized their calling and standing bold to serve other people, regardless
of obstacles yet they change the world.
It is all-important to identify our calling
from listening to our inner voice, as it has happened, continue happening; the
important decisions are not made for the common good, no one to stop all forms
of environmental pollution-ideas are not revealed to save the world, issue of
climate change has no common ground, no more innovation-"copy and paste“
mentality, no one to come up with voice to end up corruption; all these and so
much more keep on existing because a
person like me and you have not yet take time to listen to the inner
voice telling the calling in serving others and make our world a better place
to stay.
When I point a finger to myself, I was a
victim of external influences from other people, I consider myself as being "manipulated“
apart from "being inspired“ in the way of thinking about reality.I had to
listen and follow my inner voice of excelling highly in education endeavor
without being contented with little paychecks in my first employment. The
position, the skills, the sharpened talents and creativity I have now, as products
of amazing educational change; also, the products of listening to myself to
change, change where I was before to where I am today, where I am heading for,
and now writing to you this piece of self awareness.
Once again, I insist that, take your private
time in silence under a tree to listen to yourself; the same philosophy I
adopted, that I encourage you to adopt- as I remember the good time when pursuing
my MSc at "Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology“ a
Professor in Ethics once insisted us to have a "moment of silence under a
tree" - it’s when imagination, creativity and so what we call innovation
come from and how you get connected to nature. Predominantly, as James Ross once said; “Stay true to yourself
and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.”
Published by Jielimishe Kwanza
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