The Sunday News
Purpose
This is the reason for which something is done or created or which something exists. Many people die and live a frustrated life.
It is important to identify the unique assignments that you were born for, realising that you were not born to breathe and be unproductive.
Discover your unique purpose and when you discover that, it is the moment you become so powerful. Discover who you are and become the best in you.
Passion
Find passion. Passion should be a strong desire. Identify that thing that pushes you out of bed every morning or every time.
Identify your passion, that thing that you do effortlessly, some people talk effortlessly, some run effortlessly. When you operate in your passion you won’t struggle.
Many learners don’t want to find their passion, they want to go for other learners’ passions. Don’t copy anyone. Know yourself, this is important. Invest your time in knowing who you are.
Don’t pursue money, pursue your passion. In your passion that’s where money is. If you master your passion, you easily master money.
Work on your position
Work on your environment. Environment can stretch you or reduce you. The way you are thinking is because of your environment.
Get exposed, mingle with people who are visionaries. Surround yourself with successful people.
Planning
This is the process of thinking about and organising the activities required to achieve a desired goal. You must be able to plan the life that you want to live.
Many people are afraid to die but have no reason to live. Why are you living? You are struggling spending one day. What is your plan, what are you going to do after school or after university? Plan your life, what’s your plan to greatness. If you don’t plan, you are planning to fail.
Preparation
This is the process of preparing or being prepared for consideration. Work on your plan, work on your destination.
Preparation saves you from unnecessary stress. Sharpen yourself, make yourself ready, make yourself effective. Nothing will change in your life until you change.
Principles
Live a life of principles. It’s a proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of beliefs or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning.
If you want to grow, be principled. Who are you, which value do you consider, be a person of value, what are your principles? Don’t lack positive principles.
Persistence
This is the fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition. Don’t give up, keep moving, don’t give up on that vision. Be patient, it will eventually work.
Accept or tolerate delays, problems or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. You grow over time, don’t want things now, hold on, give yourself a chance.
Extracts from the Novel The Right Steps Written by Manners Msongelwa. Manners Msongelwa is the president of History Teachers of Zimbabwe and a Teacher at Camelot College in Kwekwe.
