By Pamela Agboga
Every New Year we make declarations and cast and bind the enemies of our progress; those people keeping us from realising all we are supposed to achieve this year. Few of us know that we are binding ourselves. If we do a thorough soul search, we’ll find out that no one holds our destiny other than these ‘people’:
Fear
Worry
Laziness
Disenchantment
Complacency
Of all these the hardest to detect is complacency. Complacency convinces you that you are OK. You made it into the new year, so eat, drink and be merry. Things are okay with you, you have ‘arrived.’ What it doesn’t tell you is that while you are stagnating, everywhere else there is motion. Currencies rise and fall on the stock market, costs rise, people grow older by the second.
You cannot afford to be complacent because the cost is too high. Complacency can cost you a promotion, a job, a family, even a life. It is that bad.
This year, review your life and start pushing yourself to look forward to progress at every achievement flag. A mountain climber checks his markers daily, when he reaches the summit, he plots how to get back down, and after coming back to terra firma, he begins dreaming of the next climb. The last one was not enough.
When one dream loses its lustre, entrepreneurs quickly seek a new one, entering into new ventures and markets. If you are stuck in a rut, and wondering how to get out of your complacent state, read the biographies of people you consider your mentors; if the books are hard to get then Google them and see how no matter what they achieved, they kept looking out for the next best thing. Do NOT be complacent this year.
