I remember a time when I had a little challenge with a piece of electronic device a few years ago. I took it to a friend of mine and all he did was to restart the device and it picked up its functionality. From this, I learnt that in life, some challenges will only require you to have a fresh start and the solution will be right before you. Everyone has a fair chance of having a fresh start when things turn out as it had not been planned - just like the case of my former electronic gadget.
It does not matter how long the wrong thing has been done or for how long you have continued in a wrong format, time will not make it right, nor will the continuity in it make it right. For you to be right, you have to make a turn from the wrong path and face the right path. Just like it has been said often that "in the journey of life, any day you make a turn will mark a fresh start for you and it is never late to do that". This reminds me of this very popular quote from the neighborhood I grew up:
The time of the day that someone wakes up will automatically become the person's morning.
This is truism. When you decide to turn to the right path, the progress you have made in the wrong path will not hold you back and you will have a fresh start. However, why many people find it hard to initiate a fresh start is because of how long they have spent on the wrong lane but even at that, it will still not make it right with time. Take this instance: If you are travelling to Abuja (North-central Nigeria) but you are facing Ebonyi (Southeast Nigeria), no matter how hard you accelerate, you will not get to Abuja. Speed is not a substitute for accuracy. As a matter of fact, the more you speed towards Ebonyi, the more you are farther away from arriving at Abuja.
However, it takes a considerably degree of maturity for someone to know when to progress in a path and when to initiate a new beginning or a fresh start. As a matter of fact, the point were you recognize the need to start all over again should be counted for you as a step towards success because it shows that you are mature enough to know when to progress on a path and when to regress.
If you want to have a new or different result from the one you had, then it is of utmost importance that you change your approach. You cannot continue to try out an approach that did not work early and expect it to suddenly start working. No matter the resources you have put into an old procedure it may not be as potent as a new procedure. So know what to change.
Even though the destination you have in mind (which is your goal) is constant, but the processes, approach, formats, procedures, and formulas to get to it should be dynamic. When one does not seem to work, the demand of wisdom is that you should not dwell so long in exercising in futility, you should quickly come up with another formula and try again.
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