Saturday 24 November 2012

LITTLE BY LITTLE

‘It is little by little that a bird builds its nest’

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young ones. But it should be noted that it is not all bird species that build nests. Some species lay their eggs directly on the ground or rocky ledges while others (the brood parasites) lay theirs in the nests of other birds.

Today, our ancestors have chosen to talk to us about the species of bird that build nests. Our ancestors believe that bird nests are not just built in a day because birds are aware that their eggs are fragile and they wouldn’t afford to lose any of their eggs for lack of structured and well constructed bird nest. Eggs are very fragile and delicate, once they fall and scatter on the ground, the potential birds that are covered in the egg-shell are dead and gone for life. This is one of the reasons why birds take quality and special time to build their nests.

There are several things that represent a bird nest in our lives today. Whatever we use to groom or raise the things that are very important to us in life can be related to our bird nests. Our business, our job, our home, our level of education, our experience in life and our exposure represent our bird nest. The way we build our bird nest determines how we live our life and the future of our offspring.

If you don’t spend quality time in building your business or securing your source of income; your welfare and that of your children may not be guaranteed. You need to strive hard to build a reliable business, get a good and secured job, acquire quality education from school or get adequate experience in life before you could build a good home to raise your kids. If you are too hasty about building the home for raising your kids, you may not end up acquiring the essential things that would enable you to start the solid foundation of a secured future. You don’t need to wait for several years before you start a family, all you need is the right knowledge and the important things that will sustain the healthy growth of your family. There are a lot of failed marriages and broken home today because the builders built in haste or without a solid foundation.

Apart from that, your bird nest may not only be the home where you raise your kids. It may be the foundation in which your ideas, dreams and projects in life could be groomed, incubated and actualized. You need to acquire the right skills, knowledge and experience that would allow you to propel and secure your ideas beyond ordinary measure. The reason why many dreams, projects and ideas fail today is not only because their initiators fail to plan, it is because they fail to plan on a solid and secured structure. There is always a very big difference between a person who plans to do a project or launch a business idea because he feels that he is knowledgeable, wise, skillful and experienced in the field and the person who plans to go into business because he feels that he has the money (capital) or people that can do the business for him.

As from today, whenever you think of launching something that is very important to you, always remember the words of our ancestors that it is little by little that a bird builds its nest. May you not be too hasty to build your nest in life.

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