Have you ever been totally content with the status quo, lacking the desire and hunger to do more than is required to just get by? When you do not go beyond a certain expectation but just want to settle, that's when complacency sets in. Complacency is all around us and can exists in any area of our life we give it the opportunity to thrive. It is the reason why it seems difficult to win honors in a field twice in a row and why its difficult for some persons to remain at the top of a mountain they've worked so hard to build and reach. It usually happens after some successes, when you begin to feel comfortable and confident enough to stop working harder. Complacency is a state of mind where an individual gets too comfortable with his/her current state to even venture into a new project or take up new responsibilities. It is the absence of the urge to aim for more, dream big and refuse to settle for the status quo. It is that point where one no longer grows but just ...
What man became great without encountering any obstacles on their way. The famous Martin Luther King Jnr faced obstacles. King faced many obstacles while on his mission for equality. He was arrested over twenty times for protesting. He was the object of several violent attacks, both to his person and his property. He received threatening phone calls, his home was bombed and set afire, and he was even stabbed. While Albert Einstein was trying to convince physicists that light could bend, he arrived at a point where he faced several challenges as people thought he was going crazy. He had to divorce his wife, and lose his children. He was also alone in his theoretical work, but only he remained convinced that his work was right. When you look deeply into the life of any great man/woman you see, it's made up of various challenges which they overcame and turned into an opportunity. Our definition of a situation as an obstacle or an opportunity depends on how we cho...