PAY THE PRICE
What’s stopping you in life? Why do some people appear stagnant, tied down and restricted? Why are some other people growing and ascending from level to level yet, many others appear to be stagnant or retarding in life? Let’s share on that this morning, and today’s episode I’ve titled “pay the price”.
The greatest enemy to growth in life is easier choices. The fact that we have the power of choice as mankind has actually worked against many of us such that when we have to make a choice or decision, we decide or prefer to go for easier choices not the best choices.
The configuration of life is to return so much to people that give so much and to return scantily to those who give very little to anything they do in life.
Life is rules, what you sow is what you reap. Many however don’t sow well, sow correctly or sow right in life.
Ladies and gentlemen, life is not easy. To tow the easiest part in life is to miss out big time on life. Check out little children, I mean babies learning to walk, Life wouldn’t say because they are babies and too young to understand, the process of learning to stand and walk should be easy or automatic. No way, life would ensure even those little babies; young as they are, learn to stand and walk by paying the price. A little child learning to walk will fall several times on its butt. Sometimes the fall is painful and the baby would cry. Life wouldn’t because of that make that baby’s learning experience easier or automatic. The baby must pay the price if it wants to stand, walk and eventually run. Life is actually fair because it is unfair to everybody.
To progress, to advance and succeed in life, you must pay the right price. You can’t cheat life, you can’t cheat nature. Life is a leveller, if in any way you think you’ve cheated life, life will one day, sooner than latter catch up with you and demand full price for anything you obtained unfairly.
If you want to advance, progress, succeed and achieve greatness in life, you must first and foremost acknowledge the fact that there’s a price to everything. You must afterwards find out the right price for the kind of success you want, then later, decide how and when you will pay your full price for whatever you want.
Many of us unfortunately don’t do this because we don’t subscribe to this ideology. Religious extremism have made us think and believe being blessed is receiving something you’ve not earned or laboured for. You’re also told favour is obtaining something you do not merit.
Please permit me to put the facts straight regarding these thinking, you can never be blessed beyond your capacity. Whatever blessings you receive from God is according to your capacity to handle it because God will never put more on you than that which you can bare. Favour also is not the absence of labour, favour is not a selection out of the unqualified; it is being selected out of the very qualified. When you are picked out from amongst the most qualified and the best, then you’re favoured. This is because favour can only be retained through well-developed capacity and character to handle, and forming the right character and building capacity itself is enough labour. Favour is therefore not the absence of labour.
Ladies and gentlemen, the ideology of little effort plenty reward is not realistic and is ungodly. It violates the principle of sowing and reaping. Whatsoever a man sows, same shall he reap, when you sow sparingly, you reap sparingly, when you sow bountifully, you reap bountifully. When you work little you get little, when you work so hard you get so much. This naturally nullifies the religious postulation of little effort mega returns, no, it contradicts the law of nature and the law of divinity.
Diligence with hard work is what brings and guarantees promotion in this life, don’t get it twisted.
If you know anyone that appears to be working little and gaining much, believe me, that person is working extremely hard behind the scenes. The invisible work carried out by that person on the inside and where you do not see is what is generating the huge returns you can see and testify to on the outside.
Whiles you’re on your way to work, you see some men at 9am or 10am on their way to the golf course on a week day, there’s the tendency to think they’re working so little and enjoying so much, don’t be envious, don’t be deceived my friend, don’t think they’re lucky, believe me most of those guys probably didn’t sleep till 3am that morning. The work many people carryout behind the scene especially mental work is what is producing the billions in their bank accounts. Mental work is much more tedious and rewarding than physical labour. Ideas, these days rule the world. To come up with a good idea that will work within the dynamics of today’s world is not easy my friend. It is the creative people who do the mental work that make employment possible for those doing the physical work.
My dear friend, I want you to know that in this life, nothing good comes easy. The reason there are more poor people than rich people in any nation or community is because many people go for what is easy, what is easy is common and what is common is cheap. People who choose the easy stuff are many and common, based on this they are easily replaceable, and consequently, they are priced cheaply.
If you want to command very high price in your industry or nation, you must decide to learn and master what is tough and difficult and uncommon. You must discipline yourself and prepare your mind to go for the very difficult and rate qualities and competencies needed by many organisations, businesses and clients.
When very few of you or even only you can do a particular thing, you can call your price and customers will have no choice but pay you what you bill.
But when you play in the easy, cheap, popular and common field, you will not be rich or valuable. The supply of your type is too high, hence your price will keep dropping.
Dear friend, do you know nothing is life is actually difficult or easy? It all bores down to that determination and discipline to master things.
To many of us, driving a tanker loaded with fuel is quite a challenge and a most difficult task even for very good drivers. But as I journey by road around this country, I’ve come across those tankers and I find young boys in their early and mid-twenties manoeuvre and drive these tankers along unstable and treacherous roads for days with ease. For them they’ve mastered the art, it’s a piece of cake.
To a little boy in elementary class 3 or 4, committing to memory multiplication table from 2 to twelve is a most difficult thing. Even some of us adults today will struggle with 9 X 7 and 12 X 9, it will take us a while to remember. But this same child after gaining mastery of multiplication table will not only know the answers, he would also apply to more complex maths problems like algebra, calculus, surds, bearing, longitude and latitude and set theory.
My dear friend, nothing in this life is difficult or easy. Mastery is the key to all. If you’re willing to master anything, after a while it becomes very easy. Your body has been designed to stretch and accept and cope with new knowledge and skills every day. Once you submit your mind and body to mastering anything, it eventually becomes a part of you.
My dear friend, stop moving with the flock of the easy and the common, come out from amongst them and be separate. Be outstanding and most valuable in your capacity, ability and value delivery. Be the best or one of the best at what you do, and very quickly and easily, riches, progress and prosperity would locate you. Dear fiend, ignore the easier route, pay the right price.