Confront issues in life: Rabison Shumba

By Rabison Shumba

One thing most people shy away from is confrontation. Most people will find great excuses just to avoid coming into collision or contact with sensitive personal issues. Some devise smart and creative avoidance mechanisms.

Growing up, I soon realized that for my success and future prospects, I needed to be intentional about the things I needed to confront.

For a long time I thought other people needed to help me confront the issues I had gathered over time but quickly realized it was my sole duty.

Now I can tell others about it because I have confronted the issues below and will continue to do so. It is a life long process. 

• Past – Many fail to make strides into the future because they have literally given license and rights to the past issues to jump into the present. Face your failures and learn from them, look at your successes and aim higher. Don’t rest on them.
• Your past remains your past. You have no control over it. Today you have a chance to rewrite the “new past” that will be talked of in your future. Confront your issues so that you don’t keep blaming it on what happened before. Take responsibility with both hands now.

• Purpose – There is no one who can stand with others and claim not to have purpose. It is there. You may not know it yet. Your job is to confront this issue genuinely seeking to find where your passions are.
• You cannot roam around resting on the purposes of others. You have your own mandate why you occupy space. Discover it and run with it.
• The longer you take to confront the matter the shorter you may live a fulfilled life. You only get fulfilled when you do what you love best even without being paid for it.

• Personality – no one can ever deal with your personality for you. People usually shy away from who they really are when no one else is watching.
• A good personality is usually the one that stands heads and shoulders above others receiving so much favor with man.
• If you fail to confront your own personality you will always think people are hard on you. Be realistic about this issue. Your life depends on your personality.

• Perception of self – How you see yourself matters. Confront the mirror every so often. It is not madness. See your own perception.
• Hear yourself speak and see yourself smile. If you do not know what you are good at, people will take you for granted and ride on your low self-esteem. Square your shoulders always and realize you are somebody.

• Present circumstances – Where you are presently has a bearing on how far you will go in life and how fast that will take. Where you are now should be scrutinised in view of the vision you set for yourself.
• If you cannot interrogate your present circumstances then time will fly past and you are bound to be in the same place in the future. You can change your present circumstance for the better.

• Plan for the future – You should not just stumble on your future. One should plan for it and ensure they walk into a defined and well-envisioned future. If you cannot see yourself in the future then you will not be able to walk towards it.

• Potential – You are as good as the potential in you that is realized. It is not good enough to say “I think I am capable of this” when in actual fact you are not prepared to confront what you are good at. Unrealized potential remains exactly that.
• It remains a pie in the sky, a wish never realized. Everyone is somebody even when no tag is put on your forehead. You have potential only if you exploit it to the maximum. Expose yourself to environments and situations that enhance your growth and development. Who says you are not the next best story.

Rabison Shumba is an author, speaker and life-coach. His books include “The Greatness Manual“, “Fountain of Inspiration – Vol. 1 and 2” and an anthology entitled “Showers of Inspiration”. He co-authored “101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career” and participated in several international writing contests You can visit his website: www.rabisonshumba.com