TIME TO ACT IS NOW

Times have changed but the same can be said fifty years ago. I have come to realize that things only get worse. As humans, we are engineered to always feel that yesterday was better than today, we remember with nostalgia the ‘good old days’. However, what we fail to realize was that when we were living out “the good old days” we were still complaining about the “times” not being good.

Now, let us pause and think about the past, the hopes we had and the memory of our “good times”

In everything we can think of about our past, there is almost always a better time in the past than the present. It is for this reason that we ought to go a step higher. We ought to stop living in the past.

The future always holds a greater hope than whatever past we may think of. Hence, we have the responsibility  to strive to consciously make efforts that are geared towards securing a better future for us.

I have come to realize that most people just live out their days; they take life one day at a time. Now, while we hope to have a better future, we must realize that we are the change we seek.

We can start by visualizing in clear details what we want to achieve, that done, we can make long term plans about how to achieve our dreams and then break down these plans into short term goals. We need to set up plans, activities which we should be doing daily so that when taken in combination, we would be achieving the big plan. That is the power of synergy.

I perfectly understand that this might be taken for granted, but I also know that our happiness is our sole responsibility. Nobody at any time will ever think he or she has had enough of money, love, happiness or whatsoever. This is because by virtue of us being humans, when we begin to get comfortable and contented we begin to lose our innovative minds.

Let us always go back to the drawing board and aim high. Let us, like kids or young students always look forward to achieving our dreams and goals. It is with such mindset that we can take back our future; and set our lives in the path we are supposed to be.

Let us think and beyond thinking, let us start acting… it has often been said that the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago and the next best time to plant one is now. Please indulge me to leave with these parting words; the best time to start action, to start implementing our plans is NOW.

Thank you for reading all the way. I hope I passed a message… or did I?

Uchenna Ugah.