Change begins with us! To change the world change yourself

These words are inscribes on the tomb of an Anglican bishop

(1100 A.D) in Westminster abbey

(the state church where all the great souls of British history are buried) in London.

It says when I was young and free and my imagination had no limits, I dreamed of changing the world.

As I grew older and wiser, I discovered the world would not change

so I shortened my sight somewhat and decided to change only my country.

But it too seemed immovable.

As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family,

those close to me but alas they would have none of it.

And now as I lie on my death bed I suddenly realized; if only I had changed myself first,

then by example I would have changed my family.

From their inspiration and encouragement, I would have been able to better my country and who knows,

I may have even changed the world.

Change they say is not constant even Thomas Edison who created the electric bulb tried about 100 times and at each point he saw failure,

he changed his method and applied something different.

Most people try something once and when it doesn’t work, they give up, they run away. Imagine if Thomas Edison ran away or imagine if he gave up, we won’t be having the electric bulb today.

At every point in time that there is failure it automatically means that change must occur.

Change is very critical for success,

understanding the time to change is vital to achieving success in any area of life.

The bible records it in 1st chronicle 12:32-37

that the understanding of times is really important.

Knowing what to do and the best time to do it is very vital. Hence, failure time means a time for a change it does not mean a time to give up. There are so many things you could change to achieve success,

You can always begin with changing yourself,

change your mentality, and change the way you think or the perspective to which you see things.

Change your attitude towards people and towards business.

A young lady in her early thirties had a little business where she sells drinks to people,

but this business was not functioning the way she wanted it to,

it wasn’t growing as she wanted. The business was located in a popular area in Lagos Nigeria but was not thriving.

After digging deep and talking to her for a while,

I realized that all this lady needed was a change of attitude towards her business.

The lady is very hard working no doubt but she starts her work and opens her shop around 12pm in the afternoon and she closes by 4pm in the evening.

Opening by 12pm is pretty to late if you ask me,

she needed to change this attitude and once she saw the need too her business started progressing,

a change of attitude is important for success.

Even the way you treat your customers in your business or your place of work could determine your success.

Another vital area one could change is the method in which you go about your daily life or the method with which you go about your business.

Here is a story about a man who sold books for a living; selling books written by different authors but nobody seemed to buying it.

This man decided to change the title of the books and started selling them again,

and this time people bought the books in such high frequency that amazed him completely.

This goes to show that he changed his methods.

Harry Fosdick wrote

“we cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us singly and individually- takes responsibility for our actions.”

Yes you cannot change the outside world unless your inside world is changed. STARTS TODAY remain blessed.