Capacity Building: Expanding Our Limit To Receive

Introduction:

Welcome my friend,

Of course, all week I've looked forward to today when I can join you as we share yet another impactful thought in the few minutes we'll be spending here together.

Word by word, line by line I hope we're able to have a good time worthwhile for you, especially because you've left other things to show up at this time. You're indeed a true companion and I don't take your support for granted.

When this discussion is done, we'd be returning to the rest of our activities with a clearer insight on the relationship between what we get out of life and what we give to it, especially as it concerns our skills, abilities and services to others.

Discussion:

We'd always find ourselves praying for more blessings and wishing to have more than we already do.

The thought of more comfort, convenience and security make up most of our desires yet we see ourselves fall short most of the time just because we're not well equipped to manifest them in our lives.

For instance, if we don't already have a high paying skill, the reason we're not doing the jobs and someone else is, and getting paid for them is simply because they can deliver and we can't since we lack the know-how.

As simple as this is, we make it complicated because we don't have the same willingness and the corresponding effort it takes to create that life of ease to match our expectations of "good life"; so we'll rather act unaware.

Put another way, to create and sustain wealth is to be willing to do the hard work of upskilling ourselves through constant learning and self development such that we don't "chase the bag" having become the bag, with our resourcefulness.

■ For What It's Worth

We all want the best for ourselves; and due to this high demand with fewer opportunities, mere desire alone isn't enough.

The most wonderful things are reserved for those who deserve them by simply demanding for them through productive actions.

For instance, unless in an inheritance, making money involves an exchange of value either in the form of goods or services with the amount paid determined by what it's believed to be worth in numbers.

This means that those who get paid, are the ones that provide solutions to the problems others are willing to part with their money for them to get solved.

Most importantly it also shows that those who through the struggle of learning, develop the capacity to provide solutions to complex problems like in health, finance and business, and in these times, technology, all earn high for what they're worth.

Just as those who provide simpler solutions like the front desk assistant, cashiers and cleaners also earn for the questions they provide answers to.

■ Knowing Our Worth

If we all played the same role then the world will lose its balance which is why everyone is as important as the next person.

Some of us born in small communities with access to barely standard education start off from a disadvantaged point because we're not readily equipped with relevant training early enough compared to the headstart a child the same age living in the state's business district gets.

For the urban child, his dreams are well advanced as he maximises his access to most of the tools running his course requires.

Yet for the other child, his dreams begin from simple things as "just having enough to feed his children" traumatised by the sad look of his mother each night she's watched them sleep hungry.

From this, we see that life deals different hands to each one of us, such that we begin to build our capacity from different levels.

It's this understanding that allows us acknowledge ourselves on the basis of how far we've come, rather than where we're at, which is a good judgement of our worth.

■ Improving Our Worth

If knowing our worth is having a sound self image of who we are, improving on it is rightly demanding more of ourselves.

If we have billion dollar dreams it'll be difficult to achieve them doing hundred bucks jobs, while the big jobs keep going to those that have the skillset to execute them.

Unless we just want to keep dreaming, the first step to wealth creation is improving our value by acquiring high quality skills that pay us enough to generate cash flow for investments and other passive income streams.

Capacity Building is about improving our worth having understood that in order to receive the blessings we want out of life we have to give as much, by being of greater service to those around us.

Also, for those of us that have reached ages where we may no longer have the drive to upskill, we can make sure to push our own kids or mentees by giving them better than we had, thus providing them with a more enabling environment to thrive.

■ Making The Most of Our Worth

Our desire should always be to get better.

To shun mediocrity as we do more with the talent and gifts available to us.

Whether we're the consultant neurosurgeon or the janitor in the same facility, we can be outstanding in our respective positions just by being our best at all times.

When we're dedicated, we stand out in every place we find ourselves and such excellence often pushes us in positions of reward and growth, consistently scaling up the ladder of life overtime.

■ Less Than We're Worth

To those that have more it's only fair that more is expected of them.

If others rise from difficult circumstances by sheer desire and strong willpower then those of us with more access have no excuse.

For instance, in this present day, social media platforms have made the world a global market where we can interact with more people that may need our services or products even more than those in our immediate environment; this is an improvement to what used to be obtainable before now.

When we ignore opportunities for change and growth to remain in our comfort zone we give back to life less than we're worth having not lived to our full potentials.

Summary:

To simplify what capacity means:

The volume of water a bucket can contain is about ten (10) litres while a small plastic jar may just contain about two (2) litres.

Most of us have only developed our capacity up until the level of the jar but come to the river of life expecting to draw as much as a bucket.

Many times the blessings we want are yet to come to us because we've not yet developed the capacity to receive them, which is what the process of effort, learning and experience is all about.

Never stop giving yourself a better shot at life.

Master Apprentice.

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