Consciousness (The Act of Being Deliberate) PT 2

Following the first part of this work, this second part goes further to talk about why we need to be deliberate about our lives, discovering ourselves, identifying and taking opportunities are some of things that being deliberate will fetch us in life as we are going to see below.

There comes a time in life where we remove ourselves from the strings of our parents, no matter how wealthy they are, we always want to carve a personal niche for ourselves, so we go out to make our own name and create our own way, at this point in our life, the act of being conscious and deliberate about our action is of the utmost importance and that is why the first point to be discussed would be identifying ourselves. The first important thing a person is tasked with in life is knowing herself, immediately you’re off age, whether by law or by design, you’re tasked with knowing what is good you’re good for and what is good for you and this is the process where you begin to identify the person you are and the purpose to which you are that person. This stage of life is where so many people get it wrong because they fail to be conscious and deliberate in finding themselves. There are unique qualities that informs the purpose that a person carries, these unique qualities are not always the most obvious and the clearest things about us, but they are always there, manifesting in small part and showing influences on us at all time, for this uniqueness to be cultivated, we need to identify them and groom them into qualities that would make us achieve our purpose in life. The only way for a person to identify and groom this uniqueness is to be conscious of one self. We need to be deliberate in assessing our life all the time in order to really identify who we are. You are not a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant, a pastor or a musicians, these are either titles we’ve been given or acquired one way or the other, but there is something that is unique about being that lawyer, that doctor, accountant, musician or a pastor, that uniqueness is who we really are and without it we are just another person stuck in a professional web or stuck in the circle of life doing what we are told to do. We cannot discover this uniqueness by being blind to ourselves, by living life as it comes without any form of calculation and consciousness of ourselves. We need to study the traits that we display without being told to, without struggling for it and we have to determine which category they belong to, negative or positive, then we need to groom the positive aspect of it to pursue and fulfil the purpose which we were created for. Until you identify who you truly are, you are just another number in the headcount of life making up the world population. Men that lives without fulfillment often times are not the ones who didn’t have money or the things they want in life but the ones who has failed to discover themselves, because without self-discovery there is no purpose and without a purpose life is a wasted adventure. So many time we misguide and limit our opinion about not making it in life to money and materials things alone, but we forget that there are so many rich men that do not want their own children to be like them, they want them to be better even with all the riches, why? Because not making it in life goes beyond the materials and the money but goes deep down into know who you’re, pursing it and fulfilling it and a man who has not achieved this in his lifetime is the real description of not making it in life. The act of being deliberate and conscious helps you identify the hidden uniqueness about yourself and how to groom them into achievement but when you just live without being conscious, living freely, you will miss this important uniqueness and then life becomes more and more tedious later on.
What comes next after knowing yourself is growing yourself and for a person to grow in life, you need opportunities and this is one of the qualities and advantage that being conscious and being deliberate offers you. Thus, our second point of discussion is identifying and taking opportunities. Just as it was stated earlier, a person after knowing who he is and ready to groom his uniqueness needs opportunities to do this growing and in life opportunities comes at all time in different form in a way where if you’re not conscious of what you want most of these opportunities would be missed. So many people only identify an opportunity when someone else tells them that it is one, but for someone who wants to grow and achieve purpose in life, you must be conscious enough to identify opportunities and take them when they present themselves. Of course, this cannot be done by someone who has not identify who he is, this is why one these first two point goes hand in hand. A person who doesn’t know who he is would not know what he needs to achieve the purpose he hasn’t even find, thus, identifying and taking opportunities through the act of being conscious and deliberate is a tool that can be used by a man who has gone through the first process which is self-discovery. Opportunities comes and appears in several manners and in different places in different forms, to identify all these, you need to be attentive, you need to be conscious and also access everything deliberately. Your consciousness makes you identify various opportunity because being conscious about everything and your action keep you aware and being deliberate helps you take and use these opportunities. Often time people are conscious enough to identify there is an opportunity but are not deliberate enough about their action to seize and make use of such opportunities. Often times people identify opportunities and go ahead to let people sway them off what they’ve identified because they’re not deliberate enough about what they want to do with such, they just want to try and see or give it some time and see whether people are right about it or whether it will work out. At the first sign of challenge they give up on the opportunity and this because their actions right from the moment that opportunity was presented has not been deliberate, they were only “trying to see”. Someone who understand the principle of being conscious and the act of being deliberate works and seize opportunities with a defined plan and not a person that is just hooping along to see if and how it would work. People that are not deliberate finds it hard to achieve results because challenges appears to them like failure and they stop trying before they even fail and since they don’t fail, they don’t learn and since they don’t learn there is nothing to apply in pursuing the next opportunity and they end up being on the same mediocre point for so long that stagnancy feels normal to them. If you want to go far in life, you need to live everyday being conscious of the tiniest details about how your day is because inside the bits are some things that can propel you to achieve your purpose in life and when you identify these bits, you need to be deliberate about the actions you’re taking next and not just working on maybe or because people says. Nobody is asking you to put all the piece together at once, but you must put some pieces together to move forward.
stay glued and look forward to subsequent part. God bless you all.