It’s Never Too Late
It’s never too late for a fresh start; it all begins with the mind. If you can believe it enough, then you are likely to achieve it.
Is it too late for me to become a Medical Doctor? I think it is because I don’t have the capacity to believe it and to achieve it. That wasn’t the case with a certain middle-aged man who pursued a career in Medicine. Mr Atomic Leow was the oldest qualifying medical doctor at the age of 66 in 2015. If it took him ten years to qualify, he probably started at the age of 56.
Indeed, nothing is impossible to them that believe! However, if you have a lazy mind, a lot of things will be too late for you. Just go for it! Run the marathon, write the book, start the business, follow your dream. Your worst enemy is fear because it paralyses you and enlarges all the problems; real and imaginary. It will give you a thousand reasons why you can’t make it, why it will fail, how the loan won’t come through, how you don’t really have what it takes to run a business and you don’t want to embarrass yourself again. The list is endless.
What do you do when you’ve done all that you know to do, given all that you know to give and nothing seems to change? What do you do? What you do is, to stand there and dig deeper for more. In some instances, giving up would not be an option. You must believe enough in what you desire and not allow yourself to be mentally defeated. There is nothing greater than a mind made up, a mind that decides “enough is enough”. When you get to that point, you are suddenly overcome with a supernatural energy. You feel almost invincible.
The mind is a powerful thing. Success and failure start there. There is an interesting story I came across some years ago. It was about a man called Nick Sitzman who froze to death in an unplugged freezer. Although he was fit and healthy, he was also a notorious worrier. He always feared the worst. One day, he was mistakenly locked into an industrial freezer in his workplace. He called out for help but to no avail. The freezer was not even connected to power and yet, Nick froze to death because of fear.
We must be careful about our thoughts and what we allow to plague our minds. The Bible says “as a man thinks, so he is”. If our thoughts dwell continuously on being a failure, a failure we eventually shall become. It’s almost as if negative thoughts attract a negative force to make that thought a reality. It is so crucial to watch what our minds dwell upon.
This is a good reminder of the well-known analogy of ‘a glass of water’. For some, it’s always half full while for others, it’s half empty; all a matter of perspective. Do you have the capacity to believe it’s ‘half full’ even when its looking ‘half empty’? I’ve realised that being positive in adversity is a lot of hard mental work. I am naturally a “half empty” kind of girl. My natural disposition is not to take risks and to view everything with fearful scepticism. I must however add that I have come a long way.
With the realisation of my natural disposition, I intentionally watch out for any malaise and create an alternative positive thought trend. I look for words in the Bible that would inspire me and I speak them out to myself. When you do that sufficiently, you begin to believe what you hear. You will also be inspired to do something in line with it.
It is never too late to believe for better. It is never too late to want to change things, to improve your life. You begin by identifying what you’d want to do, have a plan, appraise your plan, and start doing something.
The Bible also says that “faith without action is dead”. It simply means that it is not enough to believe and to speak out positive words, we must do something about it. Don’t be afraid of little beginnings, of small steps. May we all have the guts to do something different, even if we have to do it afraid. In Jesus name, Amen