The Season - 2016 is Your Appointed Time of Harvest

Just one day to go until we enter into a brand new year, 2016, and believe me, a new dawn is coming in our lives. It is a period of harvest, and like a farmer, who sowed seeds on a fertile ground, a time will come when he or she will begin harvesting. This is the season we all want to experience.

It is a time of joy, and also a time to take stock of our individual accomplishments, those things we have put in place that are yet to yield fruits, and others we have unfortunately missed out on. In so doing, you either result to regrets or feel a sense of exhilaration at the what is, what may have been, and what lies deep in the horizon.

Besides all of these feelings and emotional ramblings which often overwhelms the mind, there's one thing that you must take into cognizance at all times, and this is to with TIME or SEASON.'

As they say, "everything has a season." This is so true, and it is one that rings true even in my personal and professional life, as well. 

A perfect quote which summarises the subject matter was written by Henry Cloud, who said that, "Everything has seasons and we have to be able to recognise when something's time has passed, and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires a pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings."

 

What are you going through this minute? Are things going the way you plan them or perhaps, you have implemented a dream of yours that seems not to be going the way you planned? Are you expecting a breakthrough in your life, and wonder if it is ever going to materialise? You see, often we find ourselves in uncomfortable situations in life, and consequently, we feel a sense of discombobulation, delusion and disenfranchisement. But, what if I tell you that this is a normal transition in our learning in life's voyage.

Transitions are difficult and testing times. It is is a period that separates the men (or women) from the boys (or girls), and one which demands only the matured and resilient at heart. Put, simply, there is a season for everything. When your season comes, it will become apparent, and magical. All the pieces of the puzzle will begin to fall into place without much effort from you. This is a period to relish, because, in the same manner that it came, it can easily dissipate into the thin air. Today, it is here, tomorrow, it is gone.

How to sustain your season?

Let's take the case of the former heavy weight boxing champion of the world, Iron Mike Tyson. In his prime he was unstoppable. In fact, in many encounters with numerous formidable opponents, he decimated them all. I'm sure during that period, if he had been told that he would lose to an opponent in the person of Lennox Lewis and the likes, he wouldn't have believed it and simply shrugged it off. As you can understand, that was his time or should I say, his season of monumental achievements and rightly so, things were happening as a confirmation.

The question in our minds would be, if he indeed was able to sustain that season? I think he did, for as long as it lasted. At the age of 20 he became the youngest heavy weight boxing champion of the world against Trevor Berbick, on November 1986. However, after many issues relating to his life and personal conducts he lost both substantial amounts of money and numerous fights. In a nutshell, he was unable to sustain his season when the harvest was unquestionably plentiful.

To sustain a season, one must be focused, diligent, determined, and above all, prayerful. One minute, it is your season, the next minute, it disappears and you start to question or try to retrace the issues and wonder if you could have done something to remediate the situation that has led to you losing out on that very moment.

No sane mind plan to fail, but, we must all do the needful to keep our dreams alive and strategise to take those aspirations to the next level, so to ignite the next mind that will revolutionise your idea(s).

The year 2016 can be your season, if you will it and put it in prayer. There is nothing our CREATOR cannot do. I prayer for more fruitful seasons to come in your life, as you work and put your thoughts together and keep improving and imbibe the culture of working SMART.

I am not a believer in the saying that, "All fingers are not equal."

We can all be wealthy.

We can all be geniuses.

We can all impact the world with our gifts and talents.

We were all born to shine.

We were all born to lead.

We were all born to multiply and dominate.

We were not born to be subdued and live in perpetual enslavement.

We were all purposely and beautifully created without limits to our destinies.

So, stop thinking so low of yourselves and prepare for your season NOW.

Have a wonderful and prosperous 2016 and beyond.

(c) Dr Dickson Aleroh