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Becoming a person of impact

Opinion & Analysis
lJonah Nyoni is an author, speaker, and leadership trainer. He can be contacted on Twitter @jonahnyoni. WhatsApp: +263 772 581 918

If you don’t release your purpose, the world will ignore you. Your value in life should be attached to your purpose. You feel empty when you live outside your purpose.

If you walk outside your purpose, it’s like you are taking a wrong direction in your life. Your purpose is found in solving a specific problem.

There is a difference between showing the trappings of success and being really fulfilled. We have people who have things, but don’t have fulfilment.

It all starts here!

Purpose is your reason why you exist. Do you know why you exist? According to Myles Munroe, God created you with purpose. God is a God of purpose. Where purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable. For you to know your purpose, consult your Maker. For you to fully understand your purpose, consult the mind of your Creator. Purpose is fulfilment, meaning and impact. You become valuable by becoming a person of value.

Stop acting like a normal human being

Great people have specific habits. Average people generally break principles for success. Remember, you don’t necessarily decide a life you want, but you decide your habits and then your habits decide your life. “Successful people do daily what ordinary people do occasionally”, says Mike Murdock. Your ritual becomes your reality. So you create your habits, and then your habits create you. The Bible says, “He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich” Proverbs 21: 17

Life is created by small daily habits that add up to a greatness. Great people are not known for many things, but one thing; their habits. You become great by doing specific and special things in a great way. Great people are consumed or obsessed by a specific goal. “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings: He shall not stand before mean man” — Proverbs 22: 29. 

Generative thinking for generational impact

Someone once said poor people think and talk about people, average people talk about events and great people talk about ideas. Remember, the world is controlled by ideas. If you don’t have an idea, you will be controlled by someone’s ideas. If you don’t have an idea, some clever people will create an idea and you work hard to fulfil their ideas. When will you work on your idea?

Your brain is not for decoration, but for impacting the world. Most people stop using their brains and fall into the trap of boredom and monotony. Greatness is wrapped around your thinking. Most of your life is trapped in the domain of your thinking. To improve the quality of your life, you must first improve the quality of your thoughts. Ideas are everything. Remember, if you don’t dominate, you will be forgotten.

Its never enough to be born

With some people, we know them by their date of birth and date of death. Some of you we only celebrate your birthdays, and mourn your death days. Birthdays are normal/ordinary, and that’s why people that are not going anywhere celebrate them.

Graduate from celebrating only your birthday. The world doesn’t celebrate avaregeness, mediocrity or ordinary things. It’s never enough to be born, but it’s more impactful to release your potential.

Don’t confuse humanity, in making us believe it’s only your birthday that matters. There is a life between your birthday and death day: That life is called impact.

If you impact the world, you are invited to high tables. When you impact the world, people are willing to place value on you. When you impact the world, you create value even when you are dead, or in the grave. Do you know that some people are making less money than dead people? Their impact is less than dead people.

Don’t die before you die

When you die,you must be able to leave an inheritance for your children’s children. “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.” Proverbs 13: 22.

You must live wealth that should be enjoyed, not only by your children, but by your grandchildren. You die looking exactly like your ideas. Some people die at 18, and are buried at 81. They have no impact in the land of the living.

Parting point

Don’t die with your story. Don’t die with your song. Don’t die with your sermon. Don’t die with your voice. Don’t die with your book. Don’t die with your baby. Don’t die with your business. Don’t die with you ideas. Don’t die with your dreams. Don’t die with your poems. Don’t die with your power. Don’t die with your purpose. Don’t die with your ability. Don’t dies with your creativity. Don’t die with your assignment. Don’t die with your spark. Don’t die with your seeds. Don’t die with your fruits. Don't die before you live!

 

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