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resolve, grit, tenacity-  being resolute, ardent, unfazed, undeterred, never backing down. this is a character trait that’ll be needed to strike a chord in time that posterity will remember positively you for. you have to understand that life has it’s ways of testing your vision, as if to say- do you believe it? how far are you willing to go for it? what prices are you willing to pay? what sacrifices are you willing to make? what choices are you willing to make with the options available to you? what if you have to walk alone for a long time before others catch up? how long are you willing to wait for it? what if no one ever understands you enough to form an alliance with you and your vision? how many brick walls are you willing to run through? these are questions life will pose to you time and time again and you must have a response, each time. they say everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the face or hit in the gut, this is true. life will give you that punch time and time again, how will you respond?

resolve is the ability to never get weary even you’re tired, the strength to take one more step, to make another right choice, where there’s no applause, no encouragement, when nobody sees the sacrifices or the discipline and consistency. the inherent quality that helps to you press because you know that the mountains before you will only be leveled by the choices you make and these mountains have no respect for your emotions no matter how genuine they are. life responds to and is governed by laws, physical and spiritual and one of such laws is the law of inertia, widely referred to as newton’s first law of motion, this law states that an object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction, unless acted upon by an unbalanced external force, meaning it’s motion only changes if a net force pushes or pulls it. it’s self explanatory, nothing moves or changes in motion unless there’s a force applied to that effect and the force in this context is a resolution, a choice to move it, a decision to weary the resistance, a motion to push as many times you have to until there’s a shift. 

if you’re going to be a visionary that’ll do things that haven’t been done before, you have to agree with taking up responsibilities that others would shelf or shy away from, you’d have to pay prices others don’t pay; you must be willing to make choices others won’t make, chart courses others would rather not, but God’s laws of the universe would ensure that the world would celebrate you for the choices you made, eventually. i find it expedient to explain briefly what eventually means in this context, it means time will reveal the excellency of the aggregation of the choices you made,so it might take a while – months running into years, even decades but eventually the vision will speak. to birth new things or pioneer things bigger than you, you need to be stubborn, thick skinned, comfortable with the audience of one and dead to the idea of impressing others.  you must be willing to walk and be alone if the occasion serves it because a lot of times you alone will see the vision, sometimes for a long time. you must be wiling to put in the work for as long as it takes for people to catch up to your vision. 

belief is another essential building block, a non negotiable that walks in tandem with resolve. there’s no vision if you do not believe in it even if you’re the only believer. regardless of what it looks like, you can’t afford the luxury of listening to the voice of the circumstantial evidence around you. you must be tuned to the beat of a different drummer, having sights set on something beyond the now, a defined reality, a destination, something you’re willing to doggedly work on until what is around you matches what you see. for a long time it will seem as though you’re wasting away, you will feel like you could be doing something else, something easier or trendier. the path of vision is a largely lonely road and without rigid belief, challenges, roadblocks and even the scourging tongues of men can derail or deter you. you can’t work on something that’s proving to have a semblance of unfruitfulness for a long time without rock solid belief. in the absence of incentives, rewards, positive feedback and encouragement, belief in the goal would be the pillar you lean on when it gets overwhelming. it’s the only source of energy that’ll keep you going when every odd is stacked against you. giving up is the easy part, finishing what you set out do regardless of how rough the road is the very hard bit of it. if you’re sure that your vision is correct and not corrupted, if the end goal is defined and you have a picture of victory in your heart, with resolve and the power of belief behind it no challenge will be big enough to stop you, it will only be a matter of time. 

resolve is built on a mindset, mental modules and structured belief systems that keep you going even in the face of adversity, and i believe that there’s a grace from God to top it all, because nothing comes to man except God gives it. everything good and perfect comes from him and you can decide to ignore that fact but it doesn’t make it less true. human strength no matter how brute, is frail and will fail. it is written that by strength shall no man prevail. resolve isn’t being immune to emotions, it’s taking steps in spite of the emotions, and using the very emotions as the fuel that influences you to make the right choices. resolve is the force behind discipline and consistency. in conclusion, i believe that with the right structures, honour for precepts and principles, value for proven patterns and the help of God, challenges will always crumble. i write this for me, and for the generation that will be inspired by the wonders God will produce out of my life to the glory of his name. this is a post card to the future, i’ll read this someday, fall to my knees in gratitude and thank God that i didn’t give up. you shouldn’t too. 

scriptural references :-

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

— 1 Samuel 2:9 KJV

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.

— John 3:27 KJV

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

— James 1:17 KJV