It’s another great week, are you ready to run?
Life does not bestow favor to those who dream, think or talk about their
desired success rather to the ones running and doing something productive in
the direction of that success. So pack yourself up with whatever you have and
get on the track, your life is a daily race no one will run for you. Just as
every step taken is a movement away from where you were, it shortens the
distance to where you are going. So also every extra person who is value-driven
helps to reduce the workload done. Sadly, there is an orientation that has
subtly taken hold in our subconscious that makes us think we are all we need.
Although it is true, we are enough but just a small piece of a bigger puzzle.
When I hear people say they do not need anyone,
I wonder why they are on earth, because no one will disturb them in Mars or
Pluto. We are part of an ecosystem that thrives on our interdependence. In
school we were taught about the sun draining the rivers just to pour them back
as rain and the benefits to nature. Every component of nature doesn’t stand
alone but work in ‘collabo’ to sustain the beauty of life we awaken to see
every day. The ideology that "all you need is you" has made us
selfish self-centered beings with no regard for humanity. It has reduced our
possibilities and limited our progress. It has starved trust that “all man for
himself” has become a popular slogan that has no societal benefit. We will only
grow in hatred and ready to kill whoever steps in our way with such an
ideology. We need ourselves to survive. I want you at this point to take
responsibility of your life and be sincere; have you come this far really all
by yourself? Remember someone designed the medium with which you are reading
this just in case you felt like deceiving yourself with a YES for an answer.
Your life is a combination of the input of those around you physically and by
proxy via media.
Interesting the bible even says, one shall chase
a thousand and two will put ten thousand to flight, in my New Warri Version it
reads, ‘if one hussle na 1k but if we be two na 10k’, in other words, when we
collabo, we do more with lesser effort in lesser time. One reason we are
burdened in our pursuit of happiness & success is that we want to do it all
by ourselves. A lot of people have gone before us as a lesson we should learn
from to do better, why repeat their errors? Have you observed that the bigger
companies merge or partner? Why do we pride in the nothingness of our small and
lonely estate? Check out Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft etc, though you may
hear one name they were built on partnership and team spirit. Partnerships
work! There are a lot of us in our city who are doing good but will do great if
we collabo with others. Is it risky, YES
is it worth the risk…oooooo YES! There are tales of partnerships that
didn’t work, have you studied those that worked or limited yourself by the fear
of the few that failed? We have allowed our fears shrink us away from global
relevance.
Two are always better than one, this is not a
wedding statement but a reality in all aspects of life. Define what you want,
be objective not sentimental, state them on paper and run with an open mind.
Always communicate; this is the biggest challenge of systems and organizations,
the inability to communicate sincerely. Our fear informs us to accept
unfortunate outcome as our reality. Also, we have to start seeing everything we
do as a part of a greater happening. If your work only ends in feeding and
providing for you, you have abused the worth of your existence. Our lives were
designed to fit into a bigger picture, so the output of our lives should fit
into a grand plan. Ask yourself today, how will what I am doing help build a
better community, who do I need to know meet or work with to enable it happen?
If you don’t have answers, you have relegated yourself to the backseat of
insignificance. You will be amazed how many people out there are awaiting your
call so they can add their ginger to your fire. You should never underestimate the
value of the next person by you, probably all they need is your call; initiate
one and build a team.
Warri Arise! Let’s work together, them say ‘na
hand wash hand na e de clean’, no matter how much disagreement exists between
players of a team outside, in the field of play they have to work together to
score a common goal for the team to win. The vision of a #NewWarri is bigger
than any individual interest, however the lack of input from an individual can
sabotage the possibilities that abound. Are you the one sabotaging Warri? Put
in your bit today, explore, connect and implement with others that have ideas
Imagine what keke riders can help achieve, they are one fast activating way to
spread information yet we overlook them. They are yet untapped resource to
achieve great things that we have devalued. Imagine the chaos if keke stops
operation today. Everyone matters!
The #NewWarri arrives when we arise above our
selfish drive for success and include other. Don’t hire people just as staff
but let them see they are partnering in your vision so they could have
ownership and not just wait for salary. This is another day’s talk but collabo
is the way to go. My challenge to you this week, build partnership that works;
identify those who do what you do and see new ways to amplify the effect of
what you all do by synergizing. What are
you doing and how can I be part of it? Stop being satisfied with 1k when you
can get a fair divide from 10k. #WarriWorks
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