MANN UP!! (Maturity)
I was walking a street and someone says with bitterness in her voice..."Grow up! How can you do such a thing?!" I had turn to see what was going on since the lady seemed to be very irritated. When I turned, I could not see any child or teenager, it was an older man, probably in his late thirties!! Then it got me thinking, growing up is not necessarily how much age you accumulate....!
Are you starting something or changing something positively in your life, like starting a business? well I have some manly advice for you..."If you're going to start, don't stop!!" "And if you're going to stop, don't start!" Men have ultimate responsibility for their decisions, and if you will achieve anything anything as a full man(or woman) then it is time you face the consequences of your decisions and actions whether positive or negative. The essence of maturity is the acceptance of responsibility. And maturity is the essence of manhood.
The popular notion is that maturity comes with age. Not true. You get old with age. Maturity comes by acceptance of responsibility- in every area of life. Acceptance of responsibility for failures is that substance on which success rests. No one can be responsible for success unless he is willing to accept responsibility for failure as well. This is true in business, marriage and all of life.
No one should be ever be surprised by the latest statistics on runaway children/street children. They are`sad, but they should not shock us! Runaway children are only mimicking what they have learn t from their runaway parents- most of them fathers! In Africa, thousands of women live alone with their children because their husbands ran away from home.
Those thousands of African(and worldwide) men could not, would not, or did not choose to accept the responsibility of being a husband and father.
Divorce was not good. Today, it's fashion! Still this is usually just a cover-up for the evasion of responsibility!
Some men will move around from woman to woman, place to place. The ability to procreate is not necessarily the evidence of manhood. In truth these are childlike/childish men, immature in spirit, infantile in understanding, living on a thin surface of life, rootless, without depth, without character!
Some men are mature at seventeen. Others are immature at seventy! Where do you belong as a man (or woman)?
Remember, being a man is an opportunity to serve, and note: I said being a man and not being male!
Mann Up!
(©2011 Eric Kimaita. This is the third part of the four part series of the article “Mann Up”. I urge all the men and the women who miss real men who used to be to follow through patiently to the fourth part of this amazing article that will hopefully open our eyes as men as to what we might be missing out or leaving out in our leadership!)
I was walking a street and someone says with bitterness in her voice..."Grow up! How can you do such a thing?!" I had turn to see what was going on since the lady seemed to be very irritated. When I turned, I could not see any child or teenager, it was an older man, probably in his late thirties!! Then it got me thinking, growing up is not necessarily how much age you accumulate....!
Are you starting something or changing something positively in your life, like starting a business? well I have some manly advice for you..."If you're going to start, don't stop!!" "And if you're going to stop, don't start!" Men have ultimate responsibility for their decisions, and if you will achieve anything anything as a full man(or woman) then it is time you face the consequences of your decisions and actions whether positive or negative. The essence of maturity is the acceptance of responsibility. And maturity is the essence of manhood.
The popular notion is that maturity comes with age. Not true. You get old with age. Maturity comes by acceptance of responsibility- in every area of life. Acceptance of responsibility for failures is that substance on which success rests. No one can be responsible for success unless he is willing to accept responsibility for failure as well. This is true in business, marriage and all of life.
No one should be ever be surprised by the latest statistics on runaway children/street children. They are`sad, but they should not shock us! Runaway children are only mimicking what they have learn t from their runaway parents- most of them fathers! In Africa, thousands of women live alone with their children because their husbands ran away from home.
Those thousands of African(and worldwide) men could not, would not, or did not choose to accept the responsibility of being a husband and father.
Divorce was not good. Today, it's fashion! Still this is usually just a cover-up for the evasion of responsibility!
Some men will move around from woman to woman, place to place. The ability to procreate is not necessarily the evidence of manhood. In truth these are childlike/childish men, immature in spirit, infantile in understanding, living on a thin surface of life, rootless, without depth, without character!
Some men are mature at seventeen. Others are immature at seventy! Where do you belong as a man (or woman)?
Remember, being a man is an opportunity to serve, and note: I said being a man and not being male!
Mann Up!
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email. eric.kimaita@africamail.com
email. eric.kimaita@africamail.com
(©2011 Eric Kimaita. This is the third part of the four part series of the article “Mann Up”. I urge all the men and the women who miss real men who used to be to follow through patiently to the fourth part of this amazing article that will hopefully open our eyes as men as to what we might be missing out or leaving out in our leadership!)
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