Michael Botu's Blog

That we are living in very trying times is an understatement, we are in the precipice and Citizens are disillusioned and despondent, which accounts for the sudden upsurge in the rate of Suicides. It's easy for one to become hopeless as we don't see any action on the path of those we have mandated to stir the ship of state that inspires hope for a better tomorrow. The late Sage Pa. Alfred Rewane was right; "Yesterday we wept for a better tomorrow, today we weep for a better yesterday" It's easy to get caught up in the Murmuring and complaining about what is wrong with the system, even though we know murmuring and complaining never changes anything.

Successful people succeed because of mindset and failures in life fail because of mindset. If I say Basketball, it's very likely your mind will immediately go Michael Jordan, yet he retired from Basketball about Fourteen years ago. Michael Jordan is to Basketball what Mohammed Ali is to Boxing, Pele to Football etc. Jordan became such a phenomenon like all greats by overcoming challenges.Early in life he was told by students and his coach he was not good enough for the Basketball team and he was cut off from the team, that only made Michael worked harder, he said "Obstacles don't have to stop you, if you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." Jim Rohn puts it this way "If you really want to do something, you will find a way. If you don't, you will find an excuse." It was Ralph Waldo Emerson who said "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, ...