FEEDING THE HUNGER

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"Every time you want to elevate...and reach your peak, all you need to do is think of that thing you have achieved that is awesome, or focus on something you are about to achieve." - Tim Denning

Hello!!
I know it's a Saturday and most of us have plans to relax this weekend but I hope you would read this and think on it a little when you can.
Ever experienced that kind of hunger that feels so bad, you could hardly concentrate on whatever you were doing at that point? That makes you just want to take a break and go get food to eat? That paralyzing feeling you get when you are not satisfied with what you are doing or the state you are in? That feeling that you could do better and actually want to get up and do better?
That kind of hunger, whether for food, love, success, etc feels almost the same way. But we are not going to be talking about the hunger for food because eating can handle that. We are interested in that kind of hunger that eating food cannot satisfy. That hunger that makes you uncomfortable to be at the same place you are and makes you want to just get up and do something about it. That hunger...that feeling that tries to bring out the best in you. That is the one we are interested in.
I met someone at a seminar for young professionals sometime last year, and while we talked, I found out that he had gone through a lot of hardship in the past but had succeeded through it all. He had seen himself through school and had just set up a business. Stories such as this impress and motivate me and I wanted to know how he persevered through it all. He showed me a picture of a shack, made of wood, sitting on dirty water that looked like it was stagnant, 3 children were standing beside each other at what may have been the door to the shack, putting on clothes that at best were rags, and were smiling like they had no care in the world. He pointed at the tallest amongst the children and said that that was him at age 14 when his father had died. He had attended government schools as tuition in Lagos State Government schools was free. He had sold everything that could be sold to make money for his University education. And that whenever he had felt like quitting, that picture had been the reason why he did not.

As humans that we are, life deals us some tough situations and we have to find a way to deal with those situations. Some people give up when faced with tough situations or decisions, while some continue regardless, finding ways to get through whatever they may be faced with. It is not the situations that make us who we are, it is the way we handle those situations that matter. We all have things we long for, hunger for. But many don't achieve those things because they don't feed that hunger, they do nothing about it. They just leave it, hoping that, somehow, their desires will be achieved without lots of struggles or hardwork. Some try to do something about it but don't have the will or determination to do what needs to be done to achieve their goals, fulfill their desires.
Regret is a tough thing to live with. If you have something(s) you hunger for, having a pictorial image of it will help feed that hunger, push you, motivate you, until you have achieved what you want to achieve. It may be a photo in your head, a physical photo, or a vision board. Whatever it is. Keep feeding that hunger and working towards achieving what you want to achieve. Sky is within reach.
Have a great weekend!!


- The Lady

“Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.”

Genesis 13:17