Self Discovery Part 2
ikechukwu joseph
Self-discovery involves what I termed the 3 C’s –
The Concept (deposited at conception), the Context (your relationship to your environment), the Content (your worth and what you offer). Don’t add to the reservoir of duplicators, photocopies, maskers, masqueraders, imitators, impostors or pretenders. Be yourself. There’s self-image. Are you the image (corresponding shadow) of the object (the real) or the object of the visible shadowed image? God is a creator and not an imitator or impostor.
Beware of imitation and imitators. He created you original and not a carbon copy or blind carbon copy. Someone said, “You are created original, don’t die a carbon copy”.
God created you the default and there is no duplication of who you are. Remove your mask now. Stop pretending or impersonating others and show your real identity. There are pretenders among us. Don’t try to be like another. Someone said, “We were created equally but differently. We compliment each other”. Discover Gods deposit in you – the gem, diamond, gold or the treasure island . Working from this starter will remove struggle, contention or competition. Only imitators, pretenders, carbon copies compete for relevance, access and acceptability. When you are your God-given self and stuff there will be no superiority or inferiority complex. God has customized you for a role no other can play because He created you original and unique.
In self-discovery we deal with the concept, the context and content of your life.
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Do not define yourself by what you do. A manager? No, you are not a manager but you work as a manager. A maid? No, you are not a maid but you work as a maid. An accountant? No but you only work now as an accountant
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THE CONCEPT (inside you – God given): Here is the inside view. Something thought up, formed in the womb, the origin. The original raw deposit and seed It deals with only you. God created, formed, or customized you to a default. The self-concept or self-identity you make of this determines how you fare. Concept is idea, impression, theory, hypothesis, view, belief, and seed in your heart. It is a prototype of a product yet to be released that you were ordained to manifest and project. So discover the “you in you” that makes you unique. For the earth, the people, the multinationals, the industries, the churches, groans and waits for the manifestation (showing forth) of the Sons of God (Rom. 8:19).
THE CONTEXT (outside you-your surroundings): Your potentials need a contextual setting to operate in – a background, circumstance, situation, framework, milieu (formal) environment, a perspective. Your identity must be related to the environment to succeed. You need others or partnership to survive. Offer yourself to others to access your work and evaluate your identity. Your identity’s interaction with the right environment processes it to a finished product. Your psyche and emotional know-how (internal) need a technical know-how (external). Your contextual ability is in relation to others, your environment and working tools. You cannot work as a solo Island. The contextual setting brings the inner ideas and concept to bear and embedded into a larger expression. Contextualize.
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Who disabled you? You are not disabled for it is only God who can enable or disable. Inability is not disability. Reset yourself to your God-given default
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THE CONTENT (inside and outside-acquired and experienced – your worth and what you want to offer): Content is defined as amount of something in a container, the subject matter (question, discussion, and topics), meaning or message, available information, materials, capacity of a container. Your identity or potentials need to develop relevance, get education, possess content, technical improvement to be relevant to time and the present context. The anointing of yesterday will not do for the work of today. Your identity must develop expression, be fitting and suitable. It must be adaptable and adoptive to the recipients and present receptacles that will need and contain or carry it, i.e. it must be marketable in order to be relevant. To be marketable it must have a worth, a value, cost effectiveness and quantifiable.
Self discovery involves identifying and implementing these active ingredients (Concept, Context and Content) in your way to success and exploring, exploiting and developing and harness them to productivity and profitability. Awaken the sleeping giant in you. Prove the potential leader locked up inside you. Germinate the viable potential seed and grow the seedling in you. Manifest the genius in you. Extract the juicy nectar in you. Sweeten the honey deposit you were born with. Grow the life inside you. Regenerate and maximize your potentials.
Keep searching, browsing, probing, questioning your total life and make it relevant to all around you. Keep looking upwards to God (heaven thrust). Keep looking inside you (Inward thrust) and keep looking outward (environmental thrust)..Don’t ever stop no matter the pains. Keep moving, and discovering yourself.
“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. By all means keep moving”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
(Culled from my Book Discovering Yourself)
Edifying Quote:
"The champion Eagles wait for the opportunity and follow the unknown wind that destroy things in its pathway and spread their wings and let go – plunge into the unknown. They follow the wind just like the giant fish follow the tide. They glided into discoveries of adventures'."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph
