RAISE YOUR GAME

This life does not stand still.

Ask time. 

There is constant movement all the time. We all go to sleep and wake up to face a new day. And when we wake up into the new day, we all hope for a perfect today than it was yesterday. We expect our lives to be perfect. We expect our jobs to be perfect. We expect our businesses to be perfect. We expect our marriages and families to be perfect.We expect our aspirations all to be perfect. We expect our clothes and meals to be perfect. Hmmm. We all love perfection.

Unfortunately, perfection in this life really doesn't exist. If it did then there would be no need to want more; to want an increment in one's salary or one's business profits; there would be no need to look forward to a new day with expectations of something better happening, to my relationships being better, etc. What we can best attain is excellence. And excellence, like my worthy mentor Pastor GoodHeart Ekwueme would say, is simply the next level. Pushing the boundaries of our present circumstances a little bit in order to get something better from them. So, in reality, what we seek is an excellent life, an excellent job or business or marriage or family or aspiration. And to achieve that, we need to all push ourselves a little further and harder; we need to all raise our game.

Why is that so?

Because raising our game takes us up a notch higher the ladder of excellence and improves our lives one step at a time. It's the reason why we have celebrated and iconic institutions like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, Google, Apple, DHL, Microsoft, Facebook, Samsung, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Denzel Washington, Al Pacino, Hollywood, the English Premier League, the UEFA Champions League and many more just too much to mention. Oh....plus including me o!!!!! And don't laugh because I am an iconic person and an institution about to explode on to the scene in the very near future!!!!

Raising your game doesn't come by wishing it though, it comes by stretching your mind a little bit more than usual. Yes, for you to give your life a boost, you need to give your mind a push. You don't wish your next level, you think your way into it. And as you think of creative ways to move your life, organisation or relationship forward, you find yourself eager to push yourself into action. You can't face tomorrow with yesterday's thoughts and strategies. In fact, if you try to solve today's problems with yesterday's answers, you'll be gone tomorrow.

You can't afford to be complacent at your present level, even if you seem to be doing well in your own eyes. The problem with complacency is that it makes you too comfortable in the old. And when you become too comfortable in the old, you naturally do whatever you think is necessary to protect it. And don't forget, life does not stand still. There are many others doing all they can to improve their lot and possibly beat you to the top of the pile, and they are doing so with very good and intense creativity. You really think you can sing, write, act, organize, or even lead? So does someone else and that person most likely is pushing himself or herself to another level. Try and do the same, or better still, try and do better.

Your creative thinking should start by you asking yourself:

1.  What am I good at?

Then to:

2.  Can I be better at it?; and

3.  Can I be best at it?

Then you go to work to see how your creativity can be made to come to fruition, because it is possible. In fact, you must understand that creative thoughts are not exclusive only to rich and successful people. You too can have them and then push your life forward.

If you really want a better future and an excellent life ahead, you need to raise your game. And there's no question about that.

Are you ready to do so?