Are you aware that you are a star, designed by the Creator to excel at any activity you set your mind on? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a star as a person who is preeminent in a particular field.The implication of this statement is that you can indeed become preeminent in any career.
How do you become a star? Is there an activity that excites you? Do you have a burning desire to achieve some particular goal in your life? I am telling you here and now that it is possible to become what you have always dreamt to be in life.
Remember the men at the Tower of Babel. Their minds were set and made up to build a tower that would reach into the heavens. And God Himself said nothing can stop them from achieving their goal. Read Genesis 11: 1 – 9.
Now here is the thing. You can excel at any chosen career, even one that is construed as ‘wrong’ for you. In my post last week titled ‘Your career, your natural gifts and your contribution to the world’, I strongly suggested that you strive to make sure there is some alignment between your chosen career and your natural gift. Nevertheless, what if you were born a gifted star sportsman but you chose say a banking career and it only dawned on you at age 40 or 50 that you were indeed born an athlete? The bitter truth is that you cannot start training to become a pro athlete at age 40 or 50. Yet, it is possible to focus on your banking career and become a star in banking at any age. How to become a star at your chosen career will be dealt with in another post.
However, let me say, the days of looking at and treating yourself as an underdog are gone. Yes, those days are over because you were born a star. You just don’t know that you are! Not yet.
The difference between you, the ordinary ‘poor poor pitiful me’ as you call yourself, and the star is the discovery of self. Do you know yourself? Don’t tell me your name is X or Y. Yes, your name might be X, but do you, Mr or Ms X, know who X truly is? Don’t get confused. What I am trying to say is that you are not a name; your name is an appellation that identifies, in the physical world a star hidden in the body named X. See what I mean?
Here are a couple of differences between you, the hidden star and the star who is already established.
1. You both feel an urge, a strong desire and a pull towards some activity as you grow up from childhood to adulthood. Your ‘pull’ could be towards tennis, like the Williams sisters must have felt when they were little. The difference is: while Venus and Serena made up their minds to work hard, endure pain and rise to become the superstars that they are, you the hidden star are doing absolutely nothing about your ‘pull’, or you are busy pursuing the wrong or easy activity. If your ‘pull’ is towards the go-to-school-and-get-a-job insidious philosophy, go for it but make sure you work hard to become a star at the career your certificate has created.
2. Both you and the accomplished star hear voices in your heads. The loudest of those voices tells you day and night to give up, to stop dreaming and listening to the ‘pull’ and do something else with your life; it whispers everyday that you are not good enough. Yet, while you may have chosen to pay attention to this negative voice, the star chooses to defy the voice, refuses to give up and instead embraces hard consistent work until he/she becomes. See?
3. The accomplished star falls many times as they work their way to the top. Consciously and deliberately, even painfully, they keep grinding towards their goals. On the other hand when you fall just once, you adapt to the fall and make a new plan while you’re still down; you become comfortable and choose to remain in the ‘fallen’ state. The result? You get a job and earn a living while you’re down, deceiving yourself that you are doing just fine; some even call themselves ‘stars’ while they are in this state. I believe such an approach to life might be a good way to waste your time in the only life God has given you.
4. The accomplished star refuses to make excuses and chooses not to be afraid as he strives to achieve his goals. You, on the contrary have all sorts of excuses and can expertly justify why you haven’t become. Permit me to say that your destiny is in your hands. Justifying failure will not take you to your desired destination in life.
5. Identify your ‘pull’ early in your teens or early twenties and start working towards that ‘pull’ if you will indeed become. Like I already mentioned, you can’t start training to play pro football at age 50. Redeem the time, for the days are evil (Ephesians 5:16). What this Bible verse is saying is that you may never get to live on earth for as long as you think. There is therefore a need to get up and move before it is too late when you can do nothing to become the star you were born to be.
6. Before you become exasperated with me, if you can’t become a pro athlete any longer, strive to become the best at what you are doing. Study (2 Timothy 2: 15), develop yourself, improve your skills and become even better at what you do. Who said you can’t be a superstar academic, salesman, janitor, driver, woodworker or teacher?
You can become a superstar at any chosen career because you were born to be one. Yes, you can!
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