CHAPTER SIX
THE POWER OF SKILL
No purpose has a future without skill. Many of us have discovered our purpose, but we are not equipped to deliver it.
The quality of your skill is what determines the quality of your output.
Only experts excel; and expertise is a product of training and personal development.
Mere certificates hold little or no value in the market today, it is what you can do that sells.
Training, whether formal or informal is a device through which skill is acquired.
No matter where you are, skill will announce you.
The Bible likens our destiny in life to that of a builder, a farmer, a soldier, a sportsman, and a trader.
AS A BUILDER
Every pursuit in destiny is like putting up a structure; and we all know that the beauty of your building is a function of your expertise.
AS A FARMER
It is your expertise that determines the quality of harvest you get. Every "common sense" farmer would only get "common sense" results. It's takes special sense to get a special harvest.
AS A SOLDIER
The world is no more threatened by the size of your army but by its skill. If we are soldiers, we need skills, so we don't get killed in the war front.
AS A SPORTSMAN
Every professional sportsman has a coach, who is heavily paid to enhance his training for expertise in his chosen sport.
AS A TRADER
Money without financial literacy, someone says, is money soon gone.
Skills have to be consciously acquired, either formally or informally. When you leave your life to chance, you don't have a chance.
Time spent in acquiring skill is not time wasted; it is time profitably invested. Nothing happens by chance. You cannot accomplish your purpose without first engaging in the travail of training.
DON'T MAKE NOISE MAKE MOVES
You need to acquire up-to-date skills in order to maintain a leading position. The race of life is not a function of strength but of skill.
Build on your expertise, and the world will respect you for it. You don't have to make noise to make news. As a matter of fact, the more noise you make, the more of a nuisance you are likely to become.
It's time to make moves for needed skill acquisition so you can begin to cause waves in your field and begin to make news in the ultimate.
PONDER POINT
You cannot be committed and not be creative, you cannot be creative and not be productive and you cannot be productive and not be successful and you cannot be outstandingly successful and not be impactful.
Dr David Oyedepo
Source: Ruling Your World (Chapter 6)
Copyright © 2005 by David O. Oyedepo
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