Wednesday,10th.July.2024.
THE GAPS BELAYING SUCCESSES:
- Comparison is the thief of joy. The 26th. American President Theodore Roosevelt Junior.
- Imitation is limitation.
- In HIS transcendent grace and Divine wisdom, the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD created me and thee the pukka, smudges and veneer void authentic master copy. Regrettably: the lion’s share of those under the sun die mere, mediocre and raw-baked cheap photocopies of other selves.
- Ndege mwigo hana mabawa.
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. Alexander Pope.
- A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. Poet Maya Angelou.
- The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. Philosopher Socrates.Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t , you’re right. I can’t is the brother to I do not want. Sir Henry Ford.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. Prime Minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.Vince Lombardi.
To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1.
(I). The Assumption Gap:
I give the cold shoulder that automatically and spontaneously I shall soar mentally, physically, socially and spiritually.
The still person loses no energy; however they do not grow. The man and the woman in motion loses energy; they grow mentally, physically, socially and spiritually.
The refurbished to the innermost core whetting sword is consumed lock, stock and barrel by rust.
Human life is iron: if you wisely utilize it, it tears and wears away; if you do not, rust consumes it hook, line and sinker.
(II). The Comparison Gap:
Others are more better than me, myself, personally and I.
1st. Samuel 8:5.
Regrettably: the American and German Constitutions were copied, pasted and cocktailed into the Friday, 27th.August.2010 promulgated Kenyan Constitution.
(III). The Expectation Gap:
I thought that it would sail through suavely.
- Hope for the best; prepare for the most worst and embrace jejunely what cometh to pass.
- Yesterday is just a dream; tomorrow is a vision; undeniably every day prudently and wisely lived maketh every yesterday a dream of joyfulness and every tomorrow and the future the visions of hope.
- Yesterday is a bounced banker’s cheque; tomorrow is only a promissory note; today is the ready cash at hands. Prudently and wisely utilize it.
- The past is in the tomb; the future is in the womb; the only place you will ever be is today.
(IV). The Inspirational Gap:
I do not feel like doing it.
- Even the turtle never moves ahead unless and until he sticketh his head and neck outside.
- Be the postage stamp: stick to something until you get there.
By perseverance, the snail made an inroad into the ark.
(V). The Knowledge Gap:
- I do not know how to grow. I have not amassed all the nitty gritty.
- You do not have to know all the alphabets of safety. The A, B, and C will save you if you follow it:
- Always, Be, Careful.
(VI). The Mistake Gap:
- I am afraid of making mistakes.
- He who never made mistakes, never made discoveries.
- An error gracefully acknowledged and admitted is victory gained.
- Kosa moja halimwachishi mke.
The sage possesses the intrepidity to make clean breast of his or her goofs and pitfalls; knowledge, understanding, wisdom and witticism enough to learn, relearn and unlearn from them and authority, power and strength enough to deter their recurrence.
Upon successful invention of the incandescent light bulb, the Members of the Fourth Estate asked him whether he had failed 10,000 times and he reverted,”Ladies and gentlemen, I did not fail 10,000 times in inventing the light bulb; I discovered more than 10,000 ways of not making the light bulb. Read my lips. I rest my case. Period. Thanks.” He is the Scientist Thomas Alva Edison.
(VII). The Perfection Gap:
- I have to find the most exquisite way before diving into the course of action.
- Pursue progress rather than perfection.
- Determination determines destiny.
- The road to success is incessantly under construction.
- Success has a forwarding address.
(VIII). The Timing Gap:
- It is not the right and ripe time to act or speak.
- The time is always right and ripe to act.
- By the time we’ve reached the w of now, the n is ancient history.
- Nothing should be done in haste except catching fleece.
- The time shall come to pass when the bone-chilling and spine-chilling winter shall audit thee intrepidly,”What wast thou doing all summer?”
- Time is the only deposit that each one of us has the bank of the ALMIGHTY LORD GOD and absolutely no one knoweth the balance.
By Professor and Philosopher Daniel Masese.