Why you must change the project and keep the Vision. Management Lesson from Adam's Fall in Eden.
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Have you ever failed in
an attempt to get something right? Have tried your tried hard at a project, a
skill, a relationship [I mean really hard that it hurts] and it fails? Have you
been tagged a failure before? What is failure to you?
When you fail, what do
you do? Get up right away and continue from where you stopped? Life is all about
rising strong and not really rising fast when you fall. This is quite true when
we take a cursory look at people and our attitude to failure.
Failure itself is
good [Ojisi! Are you for real?] You heard me damn right! Failure becomes
positive when there are lessons learned from the past experiences. After he
successfully was able to get it right with the light bulb,
It has been proven that
when we lose one of our senses, the other 4 sensory organs become sharp, it is
the same with failure; but unfortunately, not many of us can be patient enough
to see this and then apply the necessary steps to getting it right. After all,
they say the road to success is always under construction. Hmmmm…
Now, the only constant
thing in life is change and especially when it is for the better. We must learn
that e\with every episode of failure we experience, we are called to retrace
our steps, have a retreat and re-strategize.
Now you remember the
story of creation? Don’t forget that God’s plan for mankind is eternal bliss [a
Heaven on Earth situation], in the Garden of Eden, [Eden means luxury: any
place of complete bliss, delight and peace], our first parents came on board,
to lead us into sharing in that wonderful love of God and a fulfillment of His
plans for us.
But something happened, the project failed [but the vision
remained]; now Adam had come into the world as an adult, same as Eve, and these
two came custom made and thus were rigid. They could not bend; they had no
teachers, no mentors, nobody to show them around; but most instructively, they
disobeyed God!
So what happened, they failed. They ate the
apple, put a dent in the project and there came original sin.
Why really did
Adam fail? What went wrong with Project Adam?
Like I said, he came as an adult; everything was available for his pleasure:
he did not create anything and as such, he could not appreciate anything.
But what did God do? Now this is the interesting part: when Project Adam failed, God went back, looked at His vision and adopted the salvific-redemption strategy and this time, When Jesus Christ came, he came first, not as an adult, but a child, not in Eden - the place of luxury, but in a manger – a shelter, where animals are fed. He had Mary and Joseph to guide and teach him, he created things because like his father Joseph, he learnt carpentry and if you look up the word in your dictionary, the result is what we are benefiting today for the worth of our being Christians is in the love of God.
Jesus is referred to as the second Adam
through whom God’s vision was sustained and achieved. thus Adam's fall became a Happy Fall, for if he had not, then perhaps we would not have experienced Jesus.
Perhaps you may wonder
that I sound too religious [I appeal to you to please not subject this piece to
a theological debate], I had to use this analogy to make us understand that
when we do not get it right at first, it is not the vision that failed, it is
the project. So all you need do is change the approach to the vision and you
shall achieve success. It is only a mad man who does the same thing all over
repeatedly and expects to get a different result.
Failure is when you
have done all the best you can and yet realize that, that is not all you can -
there is still more you can do and you do not do it.
If God can change
strategy, then you can because you got the power in you and you can do all
things through Christ who strengthens you. Yes, greater is He that is in you
than he that is in the world.
So I say do not
be ashamed to fail, of failing and / or
failure, but fail forward, change course, take your time [look at the time
between Adam and Jesus Christ, how many generations], but rise stronger.
May the odds
always be in your favour.
Always Believe in What
You Do and Do What You Believe In. God Bless you plenty!
#Believe #ReachWithin #Strategize #Rise
OjisiEmezie
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Compere, Volunteer.
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it! Believe it! Work at it! Achieve it!
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