WHAT'S YOUR PLACE IN HISTORY

WHAT’S YOUR PLACE IN HISTORY?

I was reminiscing on a question I was asked some few months ago, and this particular article peeped out of the window of that question. After delivering a talk in a place, an elderly man walked towards me, looking me right in the eye, he asked; “Son, what’s your place in history?” At that instant I didn’t know what exactly to say to him because I had never really thought about what my place was. But I simply told him; I want to play my part well, because I don’t want to be forgotten.

Today in our world, a lot of people are doing a lot of things; people wanting to survive, people wanting to succeed, and people wanting to build their own dream. Matter of fact, there are

YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR DECISIONS

YOU ARE A PRODUCT OF YOUR DECISIONS

I remember reading somewhere not too long ago, a beautiful quote by Stephen Covey which says that; "I am not a product of my circumstances, I am a product of my decisions". I paraphrased mine and I came up with; “circumstances do not define you, it’s the decisions you make in responding to those circumstances that define you”. The summary of this in essence is that; “you are a product of your decisions”.

In the real sense of it, the words that make up that sentence are not far from the truth, and the sentence itself makes a whole lot of sense, it’s not your circumstances that define you, rather, it’s the decisions that you make or you do not make in the middle of the circumstances you’re in that defines you. You need to brace yourself and make the right decisions, throughout the rain and the pain you need to make the right decisions, because ultimately, they will not only