Are you comfortable? Time’s up for the next level

Many people associate me with the word transformation. I talk it all the time. It is my passion, and today, I wish to take the discussion to a new height called transformative pressure.

Often, when people find it difficult to state what the next form of their lives will be, it is because they are so comfortable in their present form that the thought of another form does not cross their mind.

This is the same thing that causes companies that have had great success to fizzle out. They become so comfortable in the present that they pay no attention to the future.

Usually, the more successful we become, the more the dividing lines between forms become blurry.

This is why we must never allow our imagination to suffer at the expense of our memory. We must never allow our greater tomorrow to become trapped as prisoner of our comfortable today.

When I watched Bill Clinton speak at the Democratic Party convention recently, I couldn’t help but think of Africa.

Here was a former president who had become so much more honourable and distinguished in his new form that he had the power to endorse the current president.

Clinton (pictured) has been named the most influential political figure in America today.

People like Muammar Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, and others like them were stuck in one form because they could not conceive another form after presidency.

If you don’t have a plan for your future, your present will plan for your stagnation and ultimately your extinction.

I remember the story of a very popular Hollywood figure in the 1980s. He made millions and millions of dollars and he lived large.

But he apparently had no plan for the future. He was so comfortable in his present form that he could not imagine another form.

This gentleman died a few years ago. His last job before he died was that of a security man at an office complex in Los Angeles.

People who do not plan for the future become its victims and casualties. People who do not plan for the next form of their lives will eventually get to a place where they will be referring to the good old days.

Their conversation will be heavily skewed towards the past.

Just as the earth is in constant motion as it rotates around the sun, and we have things moving within the earth, so is the issue of transformation.

The world around us is moving but we must also be in motion from one form to the other.

If the motion of things around us is faster than the capacity of our minds to move to the next form, we will become the casualties of our present forms.

It does not matter how glorious your present form is or how much money you have. If you are not proactively planning for your next form, you are at risk of becoming a casualty.

One way to jolt yourself to reality is by asking yourself a simple question: “If my present comfortable form is suddenly taken away from me, what will I do?”

This is where transformative pressure comes in. If you push a ball filed with air under water and then release it, it will shoot right back to the surface of the water because the pressure inside the ball is greater than the pressure of its environment.

If, however, the ball has a puncture before it is pushed into the water, it will sink.

Many people have zero transformative pressure in them, and as such, they sink deeper and deeper into their present form.

If the transformative pressure inside you is lower than the pressure of your present form, you will never leave that form.

However, if the transformative pressure inside you is greater than the pressure outside you, the pressure of your present form, just like the water and the ball, will not hold you down. Your present form will not be able to hold you for long.

Transformation is therefore the natural bye-product of increasing the transformative pressure within us.

Just like we inflate a ball with air, we need to constantly inflate ourselves with the air of transformation by engaging our minds in the exercise of taking us on trips to our next form and by effectively preparing ourselves for that form ahead.

Have a truly transformative weekend.

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