The
world’s greatest and mostly untapped resource is not the oil
fields in the Niger delta, not the gold mines of Ghana, neither is it
money, No! It’s you, yes! You are the greatest resource in the
universe. Come to think of it, who discovered the known minerals and
technology for mining them? Man! Who is the seeming small, yet, most
intelligent being in the universe? Man! In the words of Rudyard
Kipling; “we are the opening verse of the opening chapter of the
opening page of endless opportunities”. Thus, we can assert that
the human being is the greatest resource on earth, yet the most
untapped.
If
you doubt this proposition, check the grave yards, and you will see
many unwritten books, scientific inventions that never saw the light
of the dawn, songs that where never sung, movies that where never
scripted, talk more of acting etc. the question remains, why all
these untapped potentials even among the “seemingly” living
humans? The answer is not far-fetched; lack of “potential
development”. In other words, the in- aptitude to harness the gifts
and talents that lie latent within the human spirit, or in
professional terms; “Human resource development”.
This
absurdity owes to the fact that are too engulfed in the “rat race”
i.e. the pursuit of food, clothing and shelter; as such, we settle to
maintain the “status quo” of natural existence as biological
species as opposed to being the super creative beings, we were
created to be. A vivid picture of the “rat race” is seen in the
belief that life is all about being born, going to school,
graduating, getting a “good job”, then comes marriage, and
children by implication parenting, then retirement from the “secure”
job, after which due to the meaningless of life after retirement,
death knocks at the door, and the rat race continues for the children
and the unborn children.
However,
as Douglas Mac Arthur rightly pointed out; …. There is no security
on earth… there is only opportunity. And guess what? Ann Landers
says; “…. Those opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people do not recognize them “. Permit me to say at this
juncture that the hard work here is that of paying the price of
potential development. For, we are mostly like eggs at present and if
we don’t hatch, we will end up as boiled or fried eggs, where we
had the capacity to become full grown chickens.
The
age we live in is called the information age, and in Francis Bacon’s
words; “knowledge is power” i.e. the person who develops the
latest skill sets and information in any field of endeavour is
considered as the most resourceful and sought after. So, the question
is; how much are you going about upgrading on your skill set? When
last did you R.E.A.D—Raise Every Area of your Destiny? Because
potential development requires “inquiry” i.e. working in the
quarry site of the mind, for nothing is created, which was not first
created in the mind.
Benjamin
Franklin puts it this way; “an investment in knowledge pays the
best interest” this owes to the fact that readers i.e. those who
improves themselves, end up being leaders – solution providers.
Little wonder why one of American’s greatest, Abraham Lincoln once
said, “Let me prepare myself, and wait, and may be my time would
come”.
Therefore,
in tandem with Tetteh Nettey, a Ghanaian author; “opportunities
present themselves to those who have paid the price already”.
Suffice it to say that the price is potential development so, don’t
sit and wait for “God’s time” to come No! You are too loaded to
wasted, IMPROVE ON YOUR GOD-GIVEN POTENTIALS. Get informed, so that
you will not be deformed in life. See you at the top.
