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- 3. This book is designed to equip people with ideas on how to demolish barriers to success and greatness. It is also designed to equip parents, teachers, youth workers and anyone who has a heart for young people, with ideas on how they can do this. To become a slayer of giants, one does not need elaborate and sophisticated weapons. All they need is a *mind that is equipped to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. GREATNESS UNLEASHED Copyright © 2019 by Munatsi Sande. All rights reserved. Printed in South Africa. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations em- bodied in critical articles or reviews. For information contact : (Coach Natsi +263773 809830, +27735229343) http://www.coachnatsi.com, munatsy@yahoo.com Book and Cover design by Spencer Gore For Ziric Media Publishers Edited by Babra Mafusire ISBN: 9781779066527
- 4. DEVELOP UNSTOPPABLE TRANSITIONING POWERS TO TAKE YOU TO YOUR NEXT DIMENSION. CHAPTERS 1. PREFACE 2. POWER OF VISION 3. POWER OF DECISIONS 4. POWER OF TRANSFORMATION 5. POWER OF PROCESS 6. POWER OF TRANSFORMATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS 7. POWER OF EXPOSURE 8. TRADERS VS DIGGERS
- 5. 4 eople who have achieved greatness have made the necessary sacrifices to be where they are. Each one of them started exactly where you are now. Very few people have greatness thrust upon them, although we like to think it is so. It takes courage to travel to the top, riding the waves of success. It involves making the right choices and decisions. You have to give up spending too much time on useless activities such as lounging for long hours in front of the television watching movie after movie. Greatness does not come automatically. You make it happen. No one else will make it happen for you. If you are expecting approval from some people, then you are going to wait forever. This book teaches you that anyone, including you, can and has the capacity to become great if you set your mind and heart to it. Like everything else good, it takes time and great effort to get it off the ground. That’s why heroes and legends receive acclaim from all over the world because people know the effort they have put into becoming who they are. It is very easy to be lazy, to stay in bed all day long and to make excuses why you cannot try it, to not do anything or to tell yourself that you will do something when you feel inspired. All you have to do is do nothing. There are no rules for that. That’s why you don’t find any books teaching people how to be failures. All the books and lectures harp on principles of success. Libraries and archives are full of stories and legends which place heroic people on a pedestal. No one wants to know how you failed. No one praises or emulates a failure. S P P
- 6. 5 Everyone wants to know how a great, successful person achieved their greatness. So, you want to be great but you have not done anything about it. Is it because you’re not sure how to go about it, it’s too hard, it requires too much effort or is it because of a belief that greatness is not for you but for others? You know how it feels to see someone who has acquired the level of greatness that you yearn for but you have to quickly squash the thought, as you remind yourself that this is not for you. Because you doubt your own ability you do not even entertain the idea of becoming great. As soon as the idea pops up its head, you snuff it out of your mind as fast as you snuff out the flame of a candle. Decisions Decide Destiny. Destiny Decides Decisions The decision to change your life from mediocre to great is up to you. Make the decision to change right now. What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for the world to give you permission? You cannot ask for permission from people to be great and expect them to say, “Oh yes, go ahead and be great.” Very few people are interested enough to want to spend time on you, let alone do it for you. They have their own problems and lives to deal with without having to get off their own train and help you. Besides, people will often short change you so the process of changing your life to make it better is solely yours. You make the decision and you execute the decision because no one will do it for you. When you have decided to be great, the first thing is to make an announcement to yourself then to the world around you. Besides making you feel good about yourself, this raises your energy to motivate you to higher levels of attainment. You will start examining the environment you are in. You can never transition to the next level of greatness if you are not willing to move from your current environment. Life will always offer you options on a daily basis. Life is fraught with fences that we surround ourselves with, cages that we lock
- 7. 6 ourselves in and enclosures that we surround ourselves with. I’m talking about the limitations that we put on ourselves. These trappings prevent us from making solid decisions to change our lives. Because of them, we fail to notice opportunities which are right under our noses. My journey has been amazing, as I have evolved from very humble beginnings to be what I am today. Though I’ve yet to reach the heights I set for myself, I am grateful to God that I am not what I used to be. I have come to realize that I will never know the full extent of my growth as long as I’m not prepared to shift from one level to another. To view life from the top, I have to be at the top. We all have a choice whereby transitions happen by default or by choice. We are left feeling like victims when transition happens by default or we are left feeling like victors when we actively participate by making choices about our transition. Many changes that have happened in my movements from one stage of life to the next; be they spiritual, social, emotional or intellectual, have been by choice. Having transitioned in different roles in life whether be it in family, church, business or leadership roles and responsibilities, no one transition left me the same person. Even though there are moments when I wish that I had known what I know now earlier in life, I’m glad that the life I have now is the one I participated in creating through quality choices. I have spent forty years in Zimbabwe, the country where I was born and bred. Growing up in the community of Mbare, in Harare, as I explained in my first book Greatness Awaits, I was a hopeless individual. I remember working at the local church as a caretaker when I was a teenage boy. I never imagined that one day I would amount to much. There are many people whom God has used to help me leap from one stage of my life to the next. I was able to faithfully take up the tasks others would regard as demeaning or below them without flinching. While serving in the youth ministry, I took care of God’s people until I climbed the rungs to become the National Youth Director of our ministry. I witnessed the goodness of the Lord as I moved from serving
- 8. 7 the young people to becoming the pastor of the church. I transitioned from pastoring one local assembly to overseeing nineteen other branches in the zone and that change also came with different dynamics and challenges. Still, I had not yet attained all that was meant for me because I felt that I needed to look at other areas that would supplement my love of helping others. Starting a Consulting Company that does team building, leadership development and coaching was a huge transition for me. This move opened up my worldview and exposed me to different platforms that I am forever grateful for. As I pondered on all these changes in my journey, I started realising that life is all about transitions. At one point or another, we all have to move from one place to another, from one relationship to another, from one financial status to another, from one way of thinking to another or from one post or role to another. The question is no longer if you’re going to move but how, where and why you will move. I have observed the nation go through dramatic alterations. Land redistribution, a chequered economy and the recent leadership change, all have contributed immensely towards the country taking the center stage in the world. Even those people who had never heard of this country are tuning up their hearing. I am proud to be Zimbabwean and I will always love my nation even though I have had to make a huge stride, one that I had never imagined nor entertained: I relocated to another country. If you’re in another country and you mention that you’re from Zimbabwe, the inhabitants look at you as if you’re an alien from another planet. The looks say it all. You’ve messed up your country, now you’re running away from your own mess. Shame on you. Through this amazing book, I am hoping I will be able to take you through an interesting path that will help you to transition to the next level of your lives. After listening and watching many people struggle with transitions, I decided to pencil my life lessons. I’m hoping that someone somewhere will benefit from this. If I’m able to touch a few
- 9. 8 lives to awaken a spirit of greatness, my job would have been done. In life, you can either try to learn everything through your own experiences which often is very costly and life is too short for that or you can learn from other people’s experiences. The greatest problem with trying to learn from your own experiences is that you are the worst commentator of your own life. Most of the things that you will say about your own life will be biased anyway. It is very difficult to write a truthful account of yourself or even examine yourself with clarity; warts and all. Most of us would rather tuck away the bad bits and pretend that everything is fine so we expose only what we want others to see. Even in self-examination, we cannot face our own faults. So it is better to take the time to learn what someone else has done. Many people naturally struggle with transitions because we all want change yet we do not want what comes with the change. The sooner we realise that change is all part of our growing and learning process and that it is within us, the better. The instinct to have and to do more is natural. If we do not change, something inside us keeps telling us that there’s something missing. Life is a series of changing seasons. We can’t remain in one season forever. Seasons of transition are perilous because they tend to rock our stability. No matter how we enjoy a particular season, we cannot be stuck in one season. We have to learn to adopt and adapt to seasonal changes in our lives. We need to know how to behave in any particular season even though we don't have full control in every season. When you are in a season of plenty, prepare for a season of scarcity. When you are in a season of more get ready for a season of less. I remember growing up in Sunday school when we used to sing, “Down the valley, up the mountain, Jerusalem is my home. What I seem to get from that song is, no matter what season you are in, good or bad times, always focus on Jerusalem (the ultimate goal). One has to decide to enjoy every season in life and endure some seasons. I have observed parents who do not enjoy different stages of their
- 10. 9 children's growth, stating things like, “I can’t wait until this is over and I can’t wait for that stage to come.” To achieve what I have so far is because I made a decision when I was still a young man that I wanted to grow from where I was to become someone important. If I had not made that decision, I would still be cleaning toilets at my local church. This is not to say that certain menial tasks should be shunned but in order to get to the top you have to start somewhere. You have to take that first step because no one has ever jumped from the ground straight up to the top rung. You do not become a great person overnight. You start small, with the worst, then you slowly climb upwards towards something better. I’m able to encourage you and make you see that it is possible to grow up from being a nobody to a somebody so I’ve shared part of my story with you so that you can learn and be encouraged by my experiences. Transition Transition is the movement, change or alteration from one form or condition to a higher and better one. There is therefore the state during pre-transition, which is the state you are in before. This is often followed by the transition itself, which is the process of transformation. Then post transition, is the state you are in after you have been transformed. Each of these processes is important. The goal in transition should always be to prepare oneself for the level you are getting into rather than to focus on the stage you are coming from. There are key questions one has to ask before, during or after every transition. Dealing with destiny: what am I transitioning to? Dealing with purpose: why am I transitioning? Dealing with process: how am I transitioning? Dealing with timing: when am I transitioning? Dealing with motives: why am I transitioning? You cannot talk about destiny if you are not willing to transition from one place to another or transform from one status into a higher status. The urge to pursue your destiny should to some degree be the same
- 11. 10 urge to let go of your past. Transition period is crucial for capacity building and growth. Any meaningful transition will be costly in terms of emotions and time. Sacrifices will have to be made. Let’s consider some thoughts that you need to ponder if you are to transition well. Preparation You must prepare carefully before you embark on anything. Try going on a journey without knowing the destination, form of transport that you are going to use and what you are going to do there. Preparation precedes progress. How well you are prepared will determine if the transitional process will be a joy or a burden. It’s important that you count the cost before you embark on this crucial journey; be it building a house, improving a relationship or changing a career. When you know where you are going, you know what and how to prepare yourself. You must be well prepared if you are to transition correctly by asking relevant questions such as, do I need to get extra equipment? Do I need to increase my knowledge in the area that I want to traverse? Who do I want to include or involve? What do I need from them? Positioning Positioning oneself is about alignment. Dress and talk like a successful person. Surround yourself with people who have attained what you want. See how they behave. Avoid people who discourage you. Alignment is the bedrock and foundation to how we will endure the process of transitioning. When you want to travel to Bulawayo by bus or train, you go and wait at the places where you will find the bus or train that is going there. Time is also of essence. In any transition, your focus should be on who you are becoming so that you align yourself to that end. Start to think, act and talk as if you are the person you want to be. At the start of each year, people make New Year resolutions. Have you ever wondered what has happened to those resolutions after the first two or three months? Why have they not been initiated? The main
- 12. 11 reason is because most resolutions are divorced from our lives’ resolutions. You must start with your long term resolutions which you break down into monthly, weekly and daily resolutions. Purging When in transit you need to watch for unnecessary baggage. There are people, habits and attitudes that were good at one level or stage in our lives but will not be necessarily good for the next level. What got you to one stage may not take you to the next stage or sustain you once you’re there. You have to make clear decisions about who or what to give up. Some of them have to be overcome and some have to be thrown away. This is not easy to do. Dropping something that you have gotten used to is more difficult than it sounds. You might need to move away from someone who is not helping in your transition but pulling you back. The difficulty posed sometimes is that you still have an emotional attachment to that person, thing or place. You have to be brutal with yourself. So purging becomes inevitable. Determine what and who needs to stay behind. Performance You will not be put on the platform until you are ready to perform. On every stage of your life, you will require new skills, people, posture, exposure and experience. There is a form of behaviour and protocol peculiar to each stage in life. When you are at a certain level, perform like you were born to be there. The attitude you must have at every stage is to perform like you will only have one chance to perform at that level. Give it your best shot for the next level is waiting. I always watch the cube game. You need to perform your best by earning points or lives at every stage to be able to transition to the next stage. So when you get to the next stage, do not let go of the awareness that the next level is waiting.
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