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To think of being much without doing much is to find your life’s efforts a waste. Likewise, to dream of doing much without being much. Are you willing to choose the paths and make the sacrifices that will take you from where you are to where you ought to be? Who do you want to be in the future? Who do you want to be now? Are you willing to become the person you desire to be?

An adage goes like this, ‘when things get more difficult, be more determined than ever to succeed’. This implies that no matter how tough it is out there we are encouraged to keep pushing because it is only through determination that we can succeed. When the odds are against us, it is very tempting to choose the easiest way out – to give up. When we give up, we will never know what lies at the other end of the ocean. Also, when we are afraid, we give ourselves all sorts of reasons to stop trying. 

Where we are at any point in time is as a result of the choices we have made. The right to choose is the most precious gift given to us because it has the power to impact any situation we find ourselves, for better or for worse. The difference between being the smartest, most award-winning individual yet standing on the same spot year after year with no progress, and being not-so academically smart with no awards tied to your name yet moving from one level of promotion, progress, bigger and better opportunities, lies in what we have done with the choices at our disposal.