Dare to be DIFFERENT

Watch out for the movement of the crowd, and tilt away from it. The natural tendency for the average man is to seek security and move with the crowd. There is a general believe that it’s the safest place to be. At least, if you will die, you won’t die alone. Even if you die alone, there will be people around to bury you. That’s the ejaculation of the majority. 

Well, I beg to differ. I any case, my mentor Les Brown would say: “There is no safe position in life”. Afterall, you can’t get out of life alive. He who moves with the crowd is not safer than the one who moves against it. Life comprises no safe position. The bold is just as unsafe as the coward, the king just as unsafe as the slave and the rich just as unsafe as the poor.

Why then are we finding it difficult to dare to be different? The insecurities are always going to be there anyways. Can we for once stop being so cowardly? The world does not need another coward. It is already riddled with so much of them. The universe in times as this is in need of those who can take the bull by the horn not minding the insecurities that exist.

There was a man in the BIBLE called Zaccheus. The reason we can make reference to him today is simply because he climbed a TREE. Not just because he climbed a tree, but because he did it while others were walking on the ground. He understood that the only place that is crowded in life is the bottom. He didn’t want to be there. He needed to raise his pedestal to create some difference in himself. He understood that no man has ever been celebrated based on his similarities with anyone. The world celebrates DIFFERENCES. You just have to be different if posterity will hold on to our greatness long enough. You have to climb a TREE.

What trees exist in your industry, workplace or school? A tree can be a shade, an obstruction  or a platform to leverage. Leverage on the heights that exist around you. They are Trees and are meant to announce you to the world. A tree is that different technique or person you need to connect with.

If there are no ‘trees’ around you, plant them. Trees don’t drop from heaven, they are planted. Plant and grow your tree. You can only grow to the height of the trees that exist around you. Find the right tree and leverage it. Find the right DIFFERENCE and be it.

When others are walking, CLIMB. When others are climbing, FLY. When others are flying, just do MORE. In everything you do, go the extra mile and do differently. Leverage a TREE and grow with it into the skies.

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 'Dimeji Mudele

(c) July 2013