Create your own perfect circumstances

There is always a way but the reality is that if you really want to do something you will find that way but if you don’t want to you will find an excuse and blaming conditions has been a very valuable ally of losers for centuries. PHOTO | FILE

What you need to know:

  • That is a scary place – when people understand our conditions and as a result do not expect much from us. I have been called a very hard person because of my seeming lack of sympathy for conditions.
  • When I was in school even if there was no power, I had to figure out how to read in spite of the dark because the condition that there was no power would not be acceptable to the examiner.
  • When you think of classical music, no one thinks of a slum yet Elizabeth Njoroge was able to create a symphony of melodious harmonies from the discordant sounds of the Korogosho slums in Nairobi and the Ghetto Classics Orchestra was born.

Today I want us to look at a very interesting word – the word CONDITIONS. It is a very powerful word but also the word that many have used to limit themselves. People do not act because they say conditions are not right.

However the living bible translation of what king Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 11:4 says that ‘If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.’

Now that is awesome. Think of the number of people that are getting nothing done with their lives today in different areas simply because they are waiting for perfect conditions. Ordinary people wait for perfect conditions but achievers create the conditions that they want with their decisions. Yes. Your decision can override your conditions. 

Blaming your circumstances is a public display of a frozen mind.

GHETTO HARMONIES

There is always a way but the reality is that if you really want to do something you will find that way but if you don’t want to you will find an excuse and blaming conditions has been a very valuable ally of losers for centuries.

Like I wrote last week, Henry Wanyoike could have blamed his conditions. There was nothing positive about the condition of losing your sight at the age of twenty. And the interesting thing is that if he had blamed his conditions, everyone would have understood!

Now that is the scary place – when people understand our conditions and as a result do not expect much from us. I have been called a very hard person because of my seeming lack of sympathy for conditions.

 It is because the people that condone your excuses and lack of action based on conditions do not really like you. When I was in school even if there was no power, I had to figure out how to read in spite of the dark because the condition that there was no power would not be acceptable to the examiner.

 Henry was once running at a Marathon and was assigned guides to accompany him. He outran each one and went through eight of them by the time the race was over. In one race as he approached the finish line the guide was slowing down and Henry literally dragged him past the finish line. Again, he could have used the lack of speed of his guide as an excuse — as a condition that he could blame failure on but he chose not to. His decision overrode his condition.

When you think of classical music, no one thinks of a slum yet Elizabeth Njoroge was able to create a symphony of melodious harmonies from the discordant sounds of the Korogosho slums in Nairobi and the Ghetto Classics Orchestra was born. Again, no one would have held her for anything if she did not do it.

Amjad Karim was at the point of suicide. He looked around him and his conditions told him that he was a failure. One day he came across some information that changed his life forever and today he is a speaker and an author running his own successful business.

SCALING MOUNTAINS

Countless are those who have been slayed at the butchers table of unfavourable conditions but many are those also who learnt that as water is to fire, so are right decisions to unfavourable conditions. Learn to create the conditions you desire with your decisions. History will thank you for it.

Nana Wanjau is a beautiful and charming property developer and the president of the Rotary club of Nairobi East. She climbed Kilimanjaro to the summit and now is getting everyone (including me whose only experience of climbing has been climbing my stairs) to climb for a good cause. She could have found so many reasons not to embark on this but again, her decision overrode conditions.

To jump start your journey and to get a dose of inspiration that will absolutely transform your life, join Nana, Wanjau, Henry Wanyoike, Elizabeth Njoroge, the Ghetto classics,  Amjad Karim and myself tonight at the KICC from 6pm. Admission is absolutely free and it is our way of giving back to a country that is not only a hotbed of champions but indeed a hotbed of greatness.

See you tonight!