What's up my people?
That has to be the worst intro I've made so far but hey, it is what it is.
I hope you guys are doing well.
I hope God is revealing himself to you in ways that cannot be comprehended by
other people but can only be fully understand or understood by you.
So I managed to record my first episode yesterday and I think it went well.
I managed to edit it yesterday.
You know, Zongue Zongue.
Everything is going well so far.
I just wanted to kind of take this time to, I don't know, try my luck again.
Not really.
Take this time just to make the second episode and in this episode I think I'm just going
to focus and touch on one topic.
It's not going to be a long podcast.
I'm aiming to have my podcast episodes at least, no, no, at most be 10 minutes.
But if they go beyond that, please bear with me.
So I think I was talking to, I was talking to this other young lady I think a few months
ago.
Well, she sent this message to me a few weeks ago actually.
But I've been talking to her for months because she kind of approached me asking about top
achievers, asking about my experience within the program, asking about the way I do things
and the things that kind of worked for me.
And this is something that I've been doing for a while but I feel like I meet different
people and I get to advise different people at different times.
So with regards to her, she kind of told me about a problem that she noticed.
She would watch videos, motivational videos and would get this energy from them.
She would get this motivation from these videos but she noticed that as she kind of worked
through from that energy, that energy would kind of run out and she would be left in the
same place she was in before or worse maybe tired because of the work she might have put
in.
And she asked me what is the main thing that causes this and how can she actually get to
a point where she can grind on the regular.
And I think that this is something that comes up often.
We watch videos and we hear people talk about discipline and motivation, the difference
between the two.
One person, I think we've seen videos where people have been, have told us the truth that
discipline person will always outpace a motivated person.
But the thing is that there are various aspects that we do not take into consideration with
regards to this issue because it is simple for us just to kind of make a difference between
the two but I think there are more foundational differences between discipline and motivation
that need to be addressed.
And this is one thing that I was kind of passing on to this young lady.
I was telling her that with regards to being motivated, hearing someone in the crowd or
maybe watching a video of someone who has done well, there is this energy that you get,
this thirst, this hunger and this feeling of motivation you get usually is short lived
if your foundations and your systems do not change.
So if you have the same why, the same system, the same outlooks, you are going to get the
same outcome despite you borrowing energy from someone else who has a different foundation,
a different system, a different way of doing things.
So I kind of sat down with, well I didn't really sit down with her but like we kind
of talked about this and I brought to light something that I noticed in my own life with
respect to this topic.
I noticed that for you to be able to replicate the results of very successful people in different
fields, whether this might be in your academics, whether this might be in your career, whether
this might be in your walk with God, one thing that you need to do is to replicate the way
these people think, replicate the systems in order to have a similar foundation as they
had. So instead of trying to make the same fruit that they have, we ought to instead
try to plant the same tree that bore them fruit.
And I think this in itself seems like a concept that we kind of know but we tend to ignore
because it requires a lot of labour. It requires us actually looking into ourselves, debugging
our mental software, debugging our systems and having to actually take in and learn new
systems, learn new ways of thinking.
And I think this in its own kind of makes some people leave the idea and rather choose
to make a system where they would like maybe watch videos for motivation or make a system
where they would feed off of the energy of others. And this might be good maybe in the
short term, but in the long term it kind of comes back to bite you. I think even in the
school setting if you have a friend who is highly disciplined or highly motivated and
you kind of feed off of that energy, if they go to study, you go to study, if they do this,
you do this and kind of following them works out for you. The main reason that you are
getting the results you are getting in that moment or in that time might not be because
of what you are doing or who you are, but it might be because you are replicating the
mindset and the systems that this person is using. And it is sad to see sometimes that
when such people leave our lives or maybe when such people are not there, our own systems
now come into play if we have not fully adapted their systems and we go back to our, to bearing
our own fruit. So I think there is an importance in us checking our foundations, checking the
types of trees that we have within our gardens, the type of trees that bear fruit in our lives.
Because if you have a certain vision and certain goals that you have put for yourself, these
goals will need certain trees and these trees would need a certain amount of care, they
would need watering and this generally represents the effort that you would need to use to actually
take care of this tree and get to a point where it bears fruit. I think this is the same concept
as the concept we find in John. I am so sorry, I did not look for the verse before this but
this came to me as I was talking right now. But there is a verse where Christ says, Abide
in me and I in you and he says, Let my word also abide in you and he talks about how he
is the vine and we are the branches. So the thing is that with regards to life, there
is no fruit that is going to be brought forth by a branch that normally doesn't bring forth
that fruit. So I think as people we have to check our foundations, we have to check our
vines with respect to different parts of our lives. If it's more on the spiritual side,
you have to make sure that your vine and everything with respect to your life has its source and
its foundation within Christ and His Word because from there everything you do with
respect to meditation prayer only acts as you watering the plants that are within your
life and would give, would make sure that you bear fruit. But with respect to different
things I feel like maybe your finances, your academic goals and other things in your life.
You still also need to make that intentional decision to check how things are happening
in your life, the results you're getting or the fruit that you've been bearing and you
need to actually check the foundations, check your beliefs, check your systems and see how
you can change them. I think one thing that has helped me a lot with respect to this is
being able to look for certain models, certain people who are doing well in places that you
want to improve in, then trying to replicate their way of thought, trying to replicate
the systems they have. So in times where maybe I meet such people or maybe I listen to such
people, I found out that the easiest way for you to kind of replicate their thought or
their thought processes is by listening not only to the words but also listening to the
character of the person and how they actually do certain things, what attitudes they have,
what daily character, what daily habits they have. And by so doing one thing about principles
and laws is that they don't really care who is using them. So if you make sure that you
remove the principles that you had before and follow the principles that are put for
you with regard to Christ, those are principles within His word. It does not matter where
you are from, who you are and what you have done but if you follow such principles, you
will get a certain outcome because of the promises of that principle and the same within
life and within different aspects of life. If you follow certain rules that are supposed
to yield you certain results, they will yield you certain results. This does not mean that
it's going to be easy, neither does it mean that your first trial would actually have you
produce immediate results. So I think it is important to be disciplined consistently
but disciplined making sure that your foundations are proper, they're strong and they are the
right foundations in the different places in your life. So that's a young episode from
my side. I think this is how I'm going to start rolling out the episodes because I've
been trying to record myself, I'm kind of having a hard time with that. But I pray that
God sustain you in everything that you do. May His light shine upon you in all your ways.
This is your boy, Tapanjorn Malathedi. This is, I almost said this is Totsu Jadani. This
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� sweet child.