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Stop Complaining About Your Country; Create Your Desired Environment

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Saturday January 13, 2018 – STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE NIGERIA ENVIRONMENT; CREATE YOUR OWN ENVIRONMENT!

By Gbenga Adebambo

If You Live In A Nigerian Environment, You Will Always Obtain The Nigerian Result

“Champions make adjustment not excuses”-Anonymous

The best way to live in Nigeria is to create an environment around you that is not Nigerian; if you live in a Nigerian environment, you will ALWAYS obtain the Nigerian result! I have learnt the secret of creating my own environment, in this way, I find it very easy to get my desired result. Though, situations and environment can stop us temporarily, but we are the only one that can stop “us” permanently. No situation must be the reason why you fail in life; rise above the challenges. I have come to realize that until we cultivate the habit of living above our excuses, we will continue to live an inferior life.

Why do you keep complaining about the educational system in Nigeria when you are living in a global village where educational opportunities abounds everywhere? We now have numerous free on-line programmes with which you can improve on yourself and further enlarge your CV. There are various scholarship programmes in many foreign universities that are easily accessible.

Two young men went to India to invest their resources; they both saw the Indians walking barefooted, some did it out of tradition and others, out of poverty. The two friends pondered deeply on the prevailing situation and eventually, they made their choice. One said: “Business will be bad here, let’s change location”. Then the other gave it a thought and said, “No, let’s change the situation”. The more optimistic young man started producing cheap plastic shoes that the Indians could buy. This young positive man, Thomas Jacob Hilfiger became a multimillionaire in dollars and the owner of lifestyle brand, Tommy Hilfiger Corporation.

In Bill Gates’ time, there was just only one computer in his high school; sometimes he did some menial jobs in school then just to have access to the computer. Today Bill Gates has pioneered a revolution that ensured virtually everyone in a family has either a Personal Computer, a laptop or a tablet! Gates didn’t wait for the perfect condition; he created his own! Steve Jobs made up his mind to redesign mobile phones in such a way that they will be able to perform the work of a PC. He once said that his mission is to put the PC in phones! Today, there is virtually nothing that your PC does that you can’t do on the mobile phone! Bill Gates and Steve Jobs weren’t complaining about their environment, instead they designed a better one!

The change we are seeing in the world today didn’t come from people that were complaining about their environment, it came through people that decided to create theirs. We really need to understand that we can’t create while we are complaining! In fact, complaining drains innovation and initiatives. Stop whining and start winning. If you keep complaining about the Nigerian environment, you will always be frustrated by your result. I will implore Nigerians to take ownership and responsibility for their lives through the following listed points:

CREATE/DESIGN YOUR OWN ENVIRONMENT: Abraham Lincoln once said, “The best way to predict the future is to design it”. Instead of complaining about your situation, why don’t you create one?

SEE OPPORTUNITIES INSTEAD COMPLAINING: Benjamin Franklin said, “Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.” Personally, I don’t see problems in Nigeria, I only see opportunities! What keep people ahead in life is simply the opportunity that they seized. The real genius of the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, is in his ability to transform challenges into opportunities and opportunities into wealth. When other entrepreneurs termed the Nigerian environment unfavourable and uneconomical, Dangote surmounted the hurdle to open economical doors where hitherto there were walls. Do you really know why Dangote is the richest in Nigeria? It is because he is the one that least complain in Nigeria. Have you ever see Aliko Dangote complain about the Nigerian situation? The guy is so busy looking for solutions that he forgot to complain! And you sit there every day complaining, no wonder why you are so poor! He just listen to people’s complain and look out for how to solve it-this is the secret of his wealth. Your complaints actually are his own inspiration! Excuses and complaints will always be there for you; opportunity won’t.

LIMIT YOUR LIMITATIONS: No matter the limitation you are going through in the Nigerian environment, you can limit your limitations! Circumstances does not limit a man; it only reveals him to himself. Victor Frankl once said, “Our lives depend on decisions and not conditions”. Though there are so many limiting factors in the Nigerian environment, but we must aggressively work towards limiting their effect on our aspirations.

ALWAYS BE POSITIVE: Tom Ziglar said, “Negative people don’t want solutions. Solutions mean they have to work to find something else to be negative about”. Some people are so negative about the Nigerian situation that they’ve become blinded to the possibility of a better and new Nigeria. The way Nigerians talk negatively about Nigeria is actually one of the things that have perpetuated the decadence in this nation. I have never seen any country attracting much vituperation from her citizens like Nigeria. The major problem that we need to overcome in Nigeria is our myopic and negative views about the state of things. It is apparently true that you can’t feature in a future you can’t picture. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

DON’T WAIT FOR PERFECT CONDITIONS: The Bible made us understand the fallibility of human environment, when it says, “If you wait for the perfect condition, you will not get anything done”. If you really want to achieve greatness while still living in Nigeria, never wait for the perfect condition. The reason is that it simply doesn’t exist!

BE PART OF THE SOLUTION AND NOT THE PROBLEM: Steven Covey said, “Be part of the solution, not the problem”. When the only thing one can see is problem, then one cannot see the solution. In life, you are either part of the solution or part of the problem. Don’t find fault, find remedy!

STOP THE VICTIM’S MENTALITY: People with victim’s mentality always believe that their problems are not their fault, and always see themselves as victims of life’s situations. They believe strongly that someone, something, or a government is responsible for their predicament. They are not capable of being honest with themselves and accepting responsibility for their lives. They are unable to see how their own steps, actions, inactions and negligence have brought them to where they are presently. Most of our youths are thronging out of the country for the wrong reasons because of their victim mentality. The Nigerian environment has nothing to offer to people that see themselves as victims!

BE THE CHANGE: The world is changed by your example, not your opinion. I have realized that with a change of perspective that what we are really complaining about might just be what we’ve been called to change! Nigeria has become a country where everybody is desirous of change but nobody wants to be responsible for that change. Barrack Obama once said, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) inspired a whole nation with one of his awe-inspiring quotes, “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. We must intervene in the Nigerian situation and stop leaving everything to the government. Mahatma Gandhi said, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”.

Albert Einstein said, ‘’Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them’’, we are in serious need of youths that can think differently. Youths that will proffer solutions to the avalanche of problems that have beleaguered the nation. I want to emphatically encourage the Nigerian youths to have a major shift in their approach to national problems; the problems that abound around us are an invitation for us to be creative, dynamic and impactful. Let us all join the revolutionary march for the evolution of a new Nigeria. Our greatest opportunity will ultimately come from our nagging problems. Our problems are not meant to stop us but rather give us direction!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “When I lost all my excuses and complaints, I found my result”-Anonymous

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  1. Danti

    January 14, 2018 at 1:32 AM

    Bro, the world we live in is multi dimensional and is being bombarded by variables and time will like to accompany every circumstance and present humanity with equal privilege,but our beginning had been thoroughly compromised by that horrible matter called Satan. Everything you’re saying is just a reminder of catalogues of human events; the big men in this piece are exceptionally conscious” human beings that heaven has given supreme advantage over others. No matter how many poem or essay you can write, if your situation is devoid of God and important help from relevant human, you will attain nothing!

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