The recession has swiped across the world. Many wounds were left and many today wallow in deep pain. All your savings may be gone and you are left with nothing. Many lost homes and other assets. My word to you to day is that you are not over yet. Such periods we have gone through in the past. The great depression is one such period. Where businesses were lost and many lost jobs and savings. My word for you today is that, ‘you are not over yet’. What doesn’t kill you makes you strong. The fact you are alive is testimony you can survive the turbulent times. Such times are not to be gone through with emotion but with strength of character and hope.

There are times in life where nothing seems good. It doesn’t seem like you are moving. Everything seems to be working against you. Your world seems to be collapsing. Everything you desire seems to be running away from you and you can’t help not feeling like a loser. Here is my word to you. It doesn’t matter what happens to you. What matters is how you respond to what happens. The problem many of us end up leaving in despair is because we focus so much on the process than we do on the vision and purpose for our lives. The process is never smooth and easy and focus on it will do nothing more that dampen your soul and dash your hope.

You are alive today so you can see a better day. You are here because you are not done yet. Your better days are yet to come.  You are yet to see the best in and for you. What you just need is hope and faith. Hope in the face of adversity, in the face of impossible odds, hope among skeptics and cynics, hope in the face of doubt and fear. Hope believes in all things. It has no situation or circumstance. Hope will strengthen you in the midst of no where. That your very unsure step will lead to a better day. Faith will make you hold onto the promise even when it doesn’t seem like. When you feel like you are sinking, faith keeps you afloat and going strong. This is the attitude that a turbulent world needs.

In an uncertain world, only those with a certainty mindset survive. If your internal condition is not that of faith and hope you will crush. That is the reason many end up committing suicide and suffering strokes. Only because they want an uncertain world to be certain. You have to be strong and run with your vision whatever the circumstance. The world will never be certain or safe in fact. We have to be prepared to face the world. An ever changing world we live in. nothing is predictable anymore and this puts us all in ceaseless anxiety. We wonder how our children will survive. We even wonder what they are becoming as we see the violence, immorality and lack of value system. They have become suicidal and self destructive. Drugs, alcohol and sexual morality are becoming so common and media seems to be pushing us to accept them as normal and our sensitivity is being reduced. The very values that have protected us as a species seem to be negated and we know without them we cannot survive. Responsible elders worry as they look at the dead end toward which the world is heading.

The economic policies we have believed in and trusted for so long just doesn’t seem to work anymore. We seem to be losing control as governments and nations. Our legal system seems to be drifting towards what we are not, hence detached from the people. We believe democracy was the rule by the majority but events are showing the minority to be taking over and we question the very ideologies that our societies are founded on. It becomes very difficult to overcome the anxiety in the face of such world realities.

Against such a background I take a stand to say, ‘you are not over yet’, so is your family, business and nation. There is a light close by shining into the depth of this darkness and restoration and renewal is coming. Just hold up your hope and your faith and everything will along according to purpose. Continue believing.

Hope you were inspired. Be the best person you know. Just be the best. 

About the author:
Pascal Nyasha is a leadership expert, management consultant, motivational and conference speaker. He is an author of five books on the subjects of leadership, motivation and success. Pascal is a syndicated columnist with over 200 articles published across Africa. An award winning public speaker, Pascal is the founder of Pascal Nyasha Seminars, a training and development organisation focusing on leadership development, motivational speaking and capacity building for organisations of all shapes, sizes and focuses

The SME Times Guest Author can be contacted at pascalnyasha@gmail.com.