A closer look at the world’s system reveals that it tends to trade more in the big, sensational and stunning issues and ideas rather than the small, ordinary and so-called insignificant ones. But this seems at variance with nature’s principle of life and growth. Is there anything on earth that started as it is rather than from the miniature stage? In fact, the biggest creatures lend more credence to this fact. Check out at the proverbial mustard tree, the whale, the elephant and even humans; didn’t they all begin from one tiny (microscopic) cell and eventually grew into their present huge frame? Why then do we despise small things and depict them as insignificant? Why do we refuse to start from the little beginning and ascend gradually but steadily to the highest peak of our imagination?
I was opportuned to witness a premature birth recently and couldn’t help but imagined if those massive figures we watch in WWF wrestling TV shows, all started from this miniature beginning!
But unfortunately today, most people will not want to begin with the little they can amaze or are entrusted with. Everyone will prefer a million dollar business at a go, so they can buy that house and drive that car as soon as now. Not that I am against thinking big, in-fact this should be our guiding precept, but starting big is a different ball game and needs more than the wisdom of Solomon. If you don’t have the wherewithal of simple beginning, you are bound to blow your big opportunity.
The great Teacher said “whosoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much” (Luke 16:10). So you can be surprisingly disappointed that failure awaits you if you are striving for a bigger start instead of a better start. This is because in the kingdom of success, bigger is not necessarily better and nature tend to work through the small, ordinary and insignificant beginning instead of the high and mighty.
Recently, I raised a question among some young graduates in an Entrepreneurship Meeting on how they intend to kick-start their business life. Almost every one of them needed their take-off grant in millions so they can settle down with their life quickly. This feels more like the pulse of every modern day young person. We are so much in a haste to succeed without laying the right foundation of a concrete and humble beginning.
According to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Most of us would readily succeed in small things if we were not so troubled with blind (sensational) ambition” Once again let me stress here that having big ambition is fine and encouraging but it should be pursued from the right (not blind) perspective. A blind drive to be bigger and mighty can land us in sickness; keep us awake all night and even deprive us from enjoying the natural blessing the Creator has already put in place.
Start from the little you find yourself and work to the peak you aim yourself. Better maybe harder to measure and not as easily achieved or glamorous, but our inner stability that comes from gradual and steady success due to hard-work and perseverance is more valuable, satisfying and long lasting.
Think about it!!
God bless you.