You Are Not Less Than What You Ought To Be - Part 2

“The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.” - Dr Myles Munroe

Identity Crisis

As I continue from where I stopped in part one of this subject “You Are Not Less Than What You Ought To Be”. I want to delve into the importance of "knowing our Identity". 

My dear reader I strongly believe that when you know who you are, no one can manipulate you and it puts you in a position to rise above every challenge. Joseph was thrown into the pit and sold into slavery but that did not deter what he would become. He remained a faithful servant even when he was jailed. He had already had dreams and conceived the revelation who was and what he would become, this is an amazing story that is told over and over and it reminds us that there is so much at stake but we need not fear but rise to the occasion.

There is an Identity crisis and this is something we shouldn’t shy away from. There are young or old people who still haven’t discovered who they are. They have modeled their lives on someone else’s life (the way they walk, talk, dress, act etc). The peril of comparison is fueling this more than ever, because people have refused to be content with how they were created and aren’t appreciating their uniqueness. They are copy cats and that's a bad thing.

When you search the internet, you get to find that people are spending billions of money to look a certain way, women are doing plastic surgery to change the way they look, I happened to stumble on a video of a person who spent millions of dollars to look like Angelina Jolie and another to look like Brad Pitt, these so called stars have made their own names and done whatever it takes to take their craft to greater heights that's why they are celebrated, others are trying to emulate them but they are doing it the wrong way by photocopying.

In part one of thearticle, I said this, “Sometimes we need to show people their worth and tell them, what others do, they too can do and only do it better". In telling them so, we are igniting a fire and a passion for them to rise up from the pit of despair to the top of the mountain of possibilities.

Story of Arthur G. Gaston, Black Titan (Making of A Black American Millionaire)

In this book, the authors Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines wrote; -

Some of the men you see and cannot see are convicts, leased out by the state to bring in revenues; some are war veterans, newly returned to face few opportunities and ample disdain. Nevertheless, one of these men, bruised like all the others by the demands of his working life, is on the verge of taking his first step in the direction of becoming a bona fide millionaire—one hundred times over.

Before this man is through, he will serve as an adviser to President John Kennedy. He will play a pivotal movement. One day he will even be likened to the great giants of American industry—Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie among them. Like just about every other black man in Alabama in the early part of the twentieth century,

Arthur G. Gaston started with next to nothing: His mother was a cook in the kitchen of a prominent white family; he never had more than a tenth-grade education. After the war he had taken his position in the mines as a means of survival—only to emerge utterly determined that his life was worth more than what the mines were offering. In Summary, he broke the status quo, he undid stereo types in a time of high slavery, he traded the path that many did not walk, he was involved in (banking, insurance, motel, restaurant, real estate, construction, funeral homes and cemeteries, radio stations, senior housing, and a business college). He was involved and supported the civil rights movement lead by Martin Luther King jr, he supported financially and in many other ways.

“What I did any man can do, if he has willpower, determination and a plan” - Arthur G. Gatson,

 From the story of this man, we get to understan

1. He was a product of the slave parents and being a slave means so many things, less opportunities, oppression etc.
2. He never had a tenth grade education.
3. He worked in the mines as a means of survival.

 To read more about Arthur G. Gaston, you can get this book from Amazon.

Knowing who you are pushes you to discover your purpose

His story doesn’t stop there, while working in the mines for survival, he gets a revelation that his life was worth more than what the mines were offering. Such revelations come to this who view themselves differently, those who get to really know who they are. I am stretching the point of IDENTITY, what can stop you if you get to know who you are, I believe nothing. When you get to know who you are, it pushes you to discover more of yourself and in doing so, you eventually get to know your purpose.

Believe in who you are, focus on who you are, don’t live somebody else’s life – you are unique, embrace it

Have you looked down on yourself, have you believed that you were just created a biomass and for nothing, have you believed that you have no purpose, all those thoughts are lies, you were made for more and the dreams you have had are valid, the ideas you have thought about to solve problems of this world are valid. As much as you haven’t started to work your dream out, it doesn’t mean you can’t start now. My dear reader, you are valuable, you have so much worth, so much potential, choose to empty yourself and let your god given talents and abilities begin to flow. You are not less than what you ought to be. I read this somewhere, “If you are a fish then don't spend your life trying to climb trees, you will never be great at it. Just keep swimming”.

Check out part 3

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