One
day, a small opening appeared on a cocoon. A man sat and watched the butterfly
for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole.
Then
it stopped making progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could
and it could not go any further.
So
the man decided to help the butterfly; he took a pair of scissors and opened
the cocoon.
The
butterfly then emerged easily; but it had a withered body; it had tiny and
shriveled wings.
The
man continued to watch because he expected that at any moment, the wings would
open enlarge and expand, to be able to support the butterfly’s body, and become
firm. Neither happened!
In
fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a withered
body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What
the man in his kindness and goodwill did not understand, was that the
restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through
the tiny opening, were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the
butterfly into its wings, so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved
its freedom from the cocoon.
Most
often struggles are some of the basic ingredient that we need in our life to
succeed.
If
God allowed us to go through our life without any obstacles, it would cripple
us. We would not be as strong as we could have been. Never being able to fly.
“I
ask for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I
asked for Wisdom and God gave me problems to solve.
I
asked for prosperity and God gave me a Brain and Brawn to work.
I
asked for courage and God gave me obstacles to overcome.
I
asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help.
I
asked for favors and God gave me opportunities.
I
received nothing I wanted but I received everything I needed.”
- Author Unknown.
Every
form of success achieved in this life comes after a struggle. If there were no
form of struggles in life, everybody might as well become successful but it is
this struggle that differentiate the successful from the unsuccessful.
Les
Brown once said “Many of us act as if we were born with the great expectation that
life was going to be easy. Well, if someone told you life was going to be one
smooth, easy ride, I’ve got a special announcement! THEY LIED!”
Smooth
sail doesn’t make a skilled sailor; success comes to those who overcome some
form of obstacles to be able to reach their targets.
It’s
necessary to apply your brains and brawns if you must achieve success in life.
No matter how easy you may see some people succeed, deep down within them, they
know the form of internal and external struggle they scaled through to achieve
their success.
If
you don’t pass through some form of struggle to get success, the chances are
that you won’t value it. Struggles develop your character, and it’s your
character that determines how long you will remain successful.
Remember,
an electric current will follow the line of least resistance, but the truth is
that a light bulb glows precisely because there is resistance. Even the lion
that is the king of the jungle will always struggle to get its meal and there
after still struggle to eat it, because it will still contend with the vultures
and the flies that will always be around to partake in the meal.
Come
to think of it life from birth to death is a series of endless struggles. So
never run away from struggles, embrace it and you will see how success comes.
En-route
success unlimited™, we know that;
“The strongest
trees are not those in heavily protected forest, but the trees which stand in
open spaces where they are in constant struggle with wind and all the element
of weather.”
-
Napoleon Hill
“Struggle is a
clever device through which Nature compels humanity to develop, expand and
progress. It is either an ordeal or a magnificent experience, depending on
one’s attitude toward it. Success is impossible – unthinkable even without it.”
- Napoleon Hill
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