You Can Start Again

You don’t have to always look into the past and start counting your loss. Where ever you are at the present has the capacity to launch you into your greatness. It is confidence in your ability that spurs you on to greatness, not you level of competence. How! You might ask. In 1914, a spontaneous combustion has broken out in Thomas Edison laboratory that destroyed everything in just minutes. Fire companies from eight surrounding towns were unable to put out the fire because of the intensity of the heat and low water pressure. At age 67 he watched all his assets going up in flames and destroyed. The damaged was estimated to be over two million dollars then. His son ran up to him and said “Dad everything is gone”. Seeing his son he shouted “where is your mother?” he said further “find her. Bring her here. She will never see anything like this as long as she lives further”. The next morning he got up, looked at the ruins and said “there is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew”. Three weeks after the fire, Thomas Edison delivered the first phonograph. What an attitude! Don’t always expect life to be a bed of roses, you will sometimes experience pain. But each pain comes with a purpose of taking you to the next level. Find purpose in your pain; look at the bright side of life. Never give up, believe in yourself, your idea. Hope for the best and it will surely come. Don’t be scared to fall, but be scared of not wanting to rise up, all men fall but only great men rise again. It is attitude like this that made great men turn misfortune into great fortune. You don’t put your back to the ground, because you fall to the ground. Get up and start again, because you have life, and it gives you the opportunity to start again. If you feel your experience can be likening to that of Thomas Edison, I will like to hear from you. kennethimu@gmail.com till I come your way again. Remain on top.