FIND YOUR WAY BACK

My people have a proverb that goes like thus:

‘if you do not know where the rain started falling on you, you may not know where it stopped

The success of every business adventure results from two poles: reference to already set targets and directed effort towards reaching these targets or new ones if the already set ones are not met.

Life is that way. 

At some points in our lives, we must lose our bearing; either as a result of youthful inconsistencies or as a result of our lack of good mentors. Only those who are able to trace their way back have a greater chance of making it to the target on time.Of course, I mean on time because you may still make it to your target after you have circled your way round the world but by then, your target may have been overtaken by time or it has had its potentials diminished by the force of change.

Severally, we hear people say:  ‘let us go back to the drawing board’.  It means let us go back and see where our proposed straight line started its bend. Let us retrace our problem to its point of departure. Let us find from where it started raining on us. Most of the times, (though not always) the answers to our problems are buried in that point our line started to take a bend.

I know that some people are infallible but I am not, and I believe that many people like me are not infallible. To those people who retain in them the tendency to fail, this is the time for us to have a great introspection, self-examination and self-awareness to decipher where the dreams we built started falling apart. Good a thing, it is not all the time that we need to rebuild, we may well start all over. A friend of mine told his father that ‘it is not yet late to be a stone carver’. It is not yet late to start all over. You may be surprised how easy it is to get to the top when you restart to rebuild the dream.

I must warn you though, that, the most worrisome part of achieving a target is not building a future but waiting there while the future we build turn into past under our watch.

So folks LET US FIND OUR WAY BACK; MAYBE IT CAN LEAD US TO THE TOP ONCE MORE.