Wisdom for PREVAILING PART I

You may be saying 200 years is a bit long
will you still be around then? Well the answer is yes. I am in Cape Town with
my family as I write this blog and on Thursday we did the Peninsula drive and
went through the Cape of Good Hope and the Cape Point and other historic sights
including the famous Cecil John Rhodes memorial. He died many years ago but he
is still alive in his values, beliefs and vision. The may be a lot we don’t
like about him and what he stood for but a lot of what he stood for is still
standing today. He became larger than life because he carried a vision that has
outlived his natural life. I was playing chess with my three awesome kids an
hour ago and I was coaching them on how to that chess is a game of strategy,
you have to think 20 moves ahead of your enemy, you have to anticipate what
they will do and have a counter move and still remain calm in all this.

I am getting carried away talking about
legacy here when I am supposed to be talking about wisdom. Have a look at the
Wikipedia definition of wisdom, which is similar to many other definitions.
Wisdom is
the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common
sense and insight. Wisdom has been regarded as one of four cardinal virtues;
and as a virtue, it is
a habit or disposition to perform the action with the highest degree of
adequacy under any given circumstance. This implies a possession of knowledge or the
seeking of knowledge to apply to the given circumstance. This involves an
understanding of people, objects, events, situations, and the willingness as
well as the ability to apply perception, judgment, and action in
keeping with the understanding of what is the optimal course of action. It
often requires control of one's emotional reactions (the "passions")
so that the universal principle of reason prevails to determine one's action.
In short, wisdom is a disposition to find the truth coupled with an optimum judgment
as to what actions should be taken.

Anyway wisdom
is a spiritual commodity that one has access to because they are in Christ and
are able to make decisions based on their fear of God and love for His word.
Look at the following scriptures and meditate in them so you can prepare for
your future well. When you live a wise life you will outlive your current
generation and we will still be reading your books hundreds of years after you
have gone to heaven.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore
get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. (Proverbs 4:7)
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow
thine ear to my understanding: (Proverbs 5:1)
Wisdom will help you live a deliberate
well-planned life that operates on definiteness and not ambiguity. You must be
able to see danger afar of and hide yourself and not be like the fool (one void
of wisdom) who just passes on without a clear definite plan and he perishes.
You lost money in 2015, your lost opportunities, relationship, investments and
possible successes simply because you were not wise. I wrote this article to
encourage you that indeed wisdom is the principal thing, the most important
thing you need so make every effort to get it as you plan for 2016 and beyond.
Live a life that leaves a legacy of value to the next generation and you will
live for a long time. Use December to plan and review, have a look at what
worked and what didn’t and make adjustments so your future can be clearer than
your past.
While we were playing chess earlier the
girls got flustered because we (My son and I) took their bishop and I had to
stop and say to them “to win you have to stay calm and focused, the moment you
are flustered you will not think clearly” Perhaps the failures and looses of
2015 have flustered your, angered you or have lost your focus totally. I want
to help you, stay calm go back to the plans that you had before. Look at those
plans carefully and reflect on why you did not succeed and draw a fresh plan
using wisdom and hindsight. Have some one look at your plans and walk with you
on the journey to success in 2016.
In my next article I will look at the 7
pillars of wisdom in your decision making process and making sure you have a
fool proof strategy for moving yourself to your desired reality. I encourage
you to read my book Success Paradigms 101 which has helped thousands of people
draw up “personal success strategies” you can order a copy from any of the
leading on line retailers as an eBook, or hard copy. Optionally you can email
me from our web site www.sp101.co.za and
we will email you a free PDF version of the book. Your success is our passion.
Even you can succeed.
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