26. Live Your Potential!
26. Live Your Potential!
I can do
all things through Christ who strengthens me. Phil 4:13
Today I want to
show you how you can Live Your Potential!.
Welcome to Intervention, an outreach of VISION
BUILDERS designed to help undergraduates contact divine intervention for
academic victories.
Intervention brings you inspirational messages and Study
Tips to enable you be your best academically! Through this message, we believe
that God is set to bless you by removing every barrier against your academic
success and fulfillment.
Flea
trainers have observed a predictable and strange habit of fleas while training
them. Fleas are trained by putting them in a cardboard box with a top on it.
The fleas will jump up and hit the top of the cardboard box over and over and
over again. As you watch them jump and hit the lid, something very interesting
becomes obvious. The fleas continue to jump, but they are no longer jumping
high enough to hit the top. Apparently, the pain from hitting the lid forces
them to limit the height of their jump.
When the
lid is taken off the fleas continue to jump, but never out of the box, not
because they cannot. Reason is, they have conditioned themselves to jump just
that high. Experts call this Neuro
Associative Conditioning, and it occurs when a particular result is
associated with either pleasure or pain. For the fleas, jumping to the height
of the lid became associated with pain so they started jumping just lower than
the lid’s height. The trainer’s goal for the flea is jumping to the height of
the lid but the pain became a deterrent. Truth is, until your academic work is
associated with success in your mind, you will never see a reason to work hard
at your academics. Your conditioning determines your height of academic
achievement in life. If, unfortunately, you accept a lower limit, that's the
best you will achieve!
Today,
ask yourself, “What do I stand to gain by becoming an academic success”. Do not
permit your past failures or difficulties, never restrict yourself to any level
below your potential. Determine to jump beyond the lid of any box that the past
or even the fear of the unknown future may try to place over your mind. Decide
today that only the top is the acceptable standard for you. Refuse to blend into the crowd when you can
be the trail blazer. Do not allow the fear of failure keep you backstage when
you can perform centre stage.
Did you
know that you can actually be the best?
The only difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is the little ‘extra’. Focus on doing that extra!
Don’t
compromise on your good habits, stay focused on your academic goals and
whatever happens know that God will come through for you.
Continue to expect the best from yourself and continue to maintain a
great attitude regardless whatever happens.
I’ll be glad to hear from you. Kindly send your testimonies, questions
and prayer requests as responses on this blog. To
ensure your friends, class mates and room-mates are also equipped by Intervention
Messages and Study Tips, kindly share this message with them. .
Thank you for joining me. I remain your host Tope Banjo and this is Intervention. God bless you mightily!
You will succeed. You will make it!
Contact:
Tel: +234 817 2239 319, Lagos-Nigeria.
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