You are Strong, Even Though You May Feel Weak!

You are not weak but you are strong. Believe positively for you to progress positively. You may feel weak that does not mean that you are a weakling. You may be at your weakest, but that does not mean you are finished. 

The weak name the future the "Impossible Rock." When you are feeling weak you think that the future is too big to climb; too competitive for you to enter the race and too wide to embrace. Dare to challenge that narrative. Declare your strength and challenge your limits. Refuse to be boxed in mediocrity. 

Weakness is not the time to despair but to recharge. It is the time to declare and affirm that you are strong. So long as your spirit remains strong and resolute you can be delayed but you cannot be denied. Falling to the ground does not mean you have been defeated. You can fall but you will rise again to significance. 

No one and nothing can make you feel inferior without your permission. Once you have settled it in your mind and named the future as impossible, you cannot give your best strength. Never forget, weak today, strong next week. Never let the current tide discourage you from trying and growing. 

A little boy, David, will be the future king, if he can just confront and challenge his mountain. Never let the challenges of today stop you from seeing possibilities in the future. Hold on to your dream, possess your mission. What is impossible today will not always be so. The stubborn rock in your path, will give way. There is a way; there is hope. Do not die in the winter or wither in the storm. 

Rise with a new declaration of strength, confidence and assert your place in your space. You are strong! 

Committed to your greatness. 

Milton Kamwendo. 

Move Up, Don't Park!

My first taste of school was when I was enrolled by my parents at Tshabalala Pre-school. I loved the experience. I remember doing finger painting, taking soup daily, the sleeping session, the swings and then riding the tricycles at break time. It was such fun. I was taught one important thing: writing out my name. Soon it was time to enroll for Grade 1 at Masuku Primary School in Tshabalala, Bulawayo. I wonder today where I would be had I spent the next 30 years of my life learning the same lessons and never progressing. Apart from abusing myself I would have abused the system and clogged it. Learning, growth and progression are natural life processes. 

The only way that you can change is to learn and grow. Learning the lessons of the past many times over will not create new discoveries. You cannot learn if you are not exposed. You will not be exposed if you prefer darkness to light; stagnation to challenge and comfort to exploration. You have to get out of your comfort zone. 

You may never see how much you are regressing if you see yourself as the gold standard of achievement. Wake up to the brutal facts of life: you are not where you could be given your capacity, potential and the sea of grace you stand on. To take the fame you have in your village as global acclaim is self deception. For a kapenta fish to think and then behave like a shark is unfortunate. Growth and change comes from the humility to learn, the passion to progress, the fortitude to maintain focus and the resolve to keep growing. 

Go to the next grade, take the next class, pursue the next goal. Don't park!