The bigger picture
What is your picture? what picture do you see? and what is the picture that you have of yourself? these are but for some few questions that we may ask about the picture, (the imaginary picture for now).It is important to have an imaginary picture of yourself and of things, that is the least you owe to yourself but that picture should be a good picture.
It is important as well that you see a good picture of yourself, can you imagine you going through your picture collection and all that you see is the bad pictures you detest and which gives you negative reflections of yourself. Who wants to see a depressing picture of themselves or of the people they love? I guess no one in his or her rightful mind will want such a thing.
What picture you have of yourself is also a important, do everything possible to gave a good picture of yourself, after all what matters is what you think of yourself first, them what other think of you second and not the other way round as we often find ourselves doing. We think of what picture people have of us first and what picture we have of ourselves second. That is completely wrong lets change such mentality, it doesn't help, it wont help and it is not right.
It is important to look at the bigger picture all the time, otherwise we may easily loose all that we have being working so hard for and settle with the little things in life.
The small gains that you have now, which is making you think it is enough to let go of your big dream is not worth it, you have come this far and just in a little while you may reach your goal and achieve your dream big time, dont be short sighted and regret in future for not pressing on a little further to achieve real success.
I have a student who after completing most of the subjects in his professional course and showing progress in his studies, decided that he wanted to take a break because he had gotten the permit to work in the UK and so he rather will (ordinarily put), sacrifice his last few papers to complete his professional course and focus on working in a menial job instead, and I was like WHAT? you think you can make a future with this job in the future at the expense of your professional qualification in accountancy? You don't know what you are saying or you don't know what you are about to do, I wouldn't advise that not in a million years.
OK he said, what about if I just want to take a break for sometime and then after a year or so, I will come a finish the remaining papers (like trying to convince me)? I said what are you talking about, between you and I, you know once you stop or postpone something that you need to do now and decide to do it in the future, chances are that you may not come to do it any sooner and possibly you may not come back to do it again. It is only human, we will often not get back to do what we left sometime ago. Life is always ongoing and when you refuse to do something you can do now and postpone it till later, it is possible that something else will come along to engage you and your time and you may never get the time to come back to do what you left.
This is what I meant by the bigger picture, what picture do you have of yourself, will you, like my student let a small success or small gain now let you forget about the bigger picture.
Honestly, it is not just about my student alone, it is about all of us, we often wonder away from the picture (the imaginary picture) and we look so hard and for so long at the depressing pictures of ourselves - that is when we start to focus on the smaller things in life instead of the bigger breams that we wish for.
The bigger picture is important, lets look at the bigger picture in every decision that we take and every move we make.
Thank you for seeing the bigger picture of yourself first and of others second.
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