WHAT ARE YOU BECOMING?

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“Everybody is becoming something, either consciously or unconsciously.”

Our global competiveness as stakeholders in the future lies in our response to excellence. Your best must regularly prevail in all that you do. You can be good in a Nigerian system that allows for mediocrity but you can never be great in the context of the global economy and social system where excellence is the determinant of relevance.

That is why we need to ask ourselves, “What am I becoming?” Am I becoming a man of the future or a slave in the terrain of my own future? Am I observing the protocols of excellence and mastery?  Am I becoming more relevant to my future or less relevant? Am I qualifying myself for greatness or mediocrity? Am I getting stronger to take my future or getting weaker? Am I prepared or indifferent?
You need to constantly remind yourself that your future is not on the calendar; your future is in you. When this understanding sinks into your soul, your approach to some issues of life such as your work, career and relationship will begin to change. So when you get your next pay, take a long, critical look at that cash, and say to it, ‘My future is not in you; my future is in me.’ When you see your next academic result, take a look at that result, and say, “My future is not in you; my future is in me.” If your relationship fails, remind yourself that your future is not in that relationship; your future is in you.
You can be celebrating success when you are at the brink of failure. So while celebrating success, also be sure that you are actually becoming a person of success. You can be everybody’s hero while haemorrhaging to death under a heavy weight of addiction, failure or perversion.
This was the reality most celebrity ignored that they sank into oblivion. They were succeeding without becoming a person of success. That you are successful today does not mean that you will be successful tomorrow; it only means that you must keep becoming a person of success. Keep becoming a person of the future.
There are four classes of people: 
Those that have today that will not have the future
Those that do not have today but will have the future.
There are those that do not have today and they will still not have the future.
There are those that have today and they will also have the future.

So, take a long honest look at your life and ask yourself:
What Am I Becoming?

What Am I Becoming that is Dangerous To My Future?

What Am I Becoming That will Hurt Me Later in Life?

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