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The opposite of having faith is having self-pity.  Og Guinness

Every morning in the jungle a Lion gets up and says that he has to run faster than the slowest the dear or he would have to grow hungry. At the same time every day in the jungle a deer gets up and says I have to out run the fastest Lion or I will be dead meat. The moral of the story is that whether you are Lion or Deer, when morning comes you have to be running.

There is another interpretation of this fable, which states that it doesn’t matter if you are Lion or Deer you must have faith in your abilities or you will simply wallow in self pity. If you are a Lion you will be cursing your fate for not being faster than the deer or if you are a Deer you will be cursing the brute strength of the Lion. If we take our own lives we will notice that there are many times when we tend to compare our lives with those of others. Most times it will be comparing ourselves with someone who has something better than us and then we feel disheartened, dispirited and disappointed that we are so unfortunate or unlucky. Reality demands that we compare our abilities and our achievements so that we know how much more we can achieve.

Faith springs from the self belief, our confidence in our abilities, our setting up and focusing on our tangible goals and the inner resolve to keep going when we are weary and/ or confused. Self pity on the other hand is a convenient interpretation of the available facts which is skewed to meet a mindset that throws up excuses for failures, passes blame on to others or circumstances for our limitations and conjures up a million reasons why we won’t succeed. Faith adds zing to our lives whereas self-pity deflates our zest. Faith aims to energize us whereas self pity seeks sympathy.

Remember: Faith is putting a spotlight on your future and orchestrating a fabulous performance. Self pity is when you focus the spotlight on you whilst you are giving a bad performance.

Try these:

  1. Look up your new year resolution or your list of things to do. Focus on those tasks you have not yet started. How many of these have you avoided starting because you thing you are not up to it? How many have you ignored because you want additional help? Can you name a person, thing or task that is responsible for the delays in the tasks outlined but not completed. Can you cross your heart and only blame the person, task or thing for your inability to get the task done?
  2. Name the three greatest achievements you have managed in the last 1 year. Who do you credit for the success?  Why do you call these your greatest achievements? What was the reason / who was responsible / how did you manage to achieve these goals?  How much credit will you take for achieving these goals? When you started on the task did you believe you would successfully achieve your task?

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