Living Beyond Your Generation

Let’s assume you are now 90 years old and sitting outside your house on a deck chair while the wind is blowing your dry and toothless cheek. Sitting there, you started to reminisce about how you lived your life. What life you would have wished you lived? What cause would you have wished you fought for? What life would you have wished you touched? What institution would you have wished you built? What call would you have wished you answered? What thing would you have wished you did better? Think about this for a minute. What are your thoughts? That’s exactly what I want to achieve with this article.

You are lucky to be alive and younger now. It’s time to start working on those thoughts. It’s not over until it’s over. You still have the opportunity to live a fulfilled life. No matter what rushed through the mind of that 90 years old man, there is little and nothing he can do again to turn the tides because he is old and weak.

What does it mean To Live beyond Ones Generation?

To live beyond your generation simply means to continue to exist when your mates are already gone, being relevant while you are no longer alive, and being current and useful, even when history has forgotten your age mates. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bob Marley were long dead, but they are still relevant even with children born today. Obafemi Awolowo’s name still comes up during political discussion today. Can we ever forget Graham Bell, the Wright brothers, Henry Ford, Bishop Ajayi Crowther, Steve Jobs, and even Bill Gates? What about Wole Soyinka, Aliko Dangote, Chinua Achebe, and many more? These names will continue to live with us forever. How will you feel if your name is still making money and opening doors for your generation yet unborn after you’ve gone? Some of you will say, but these are big people. 99% of these names were ordinary people before they embraced what I’m writing in this article. Anybody can live beyond his/her generation.

5 Benefits of Living beyond your Generation

•Fulfillment of purpose: You can only live forever in purpose. Therefore, almost everyone living to live forever are fulfilling purpose.

•Influence: Influence is the ability to make others make certain decisions. When you are living to live forever, automatically, people will follow you and you will have the power to influence their decision. Everyone should desire to be a person of influence.

•Recognition: People living to live forever are always recognized anywhere they go. They enjoy certain privileges, they are treated special, and they are recipients of awards. Even in death, they are still given a posthumous award.

•Fame: If you want to be known and famous, live beyond your generation. Fame is automatic when you live to live forever. Yes, all people living to live forever are famous.

•Wealth: You want to be wealthy, live to live forever.

How to Live beyond your Generation

•Discover, Develop and deploy your Purpose and Passion: This is fundamental in living beyond your generation. You need to know who you are, why you are here, what your assignment is, what you are passionate about, and good at. Everyone has a purpose in life, you need to discover it and work towards it.

•Solve Problems: One of the ways to live forever is to solve problems. Problems solver are not easily forgotten. The level of greatness you desire is largely determined by the kind of problem you are solving. Don’t be the one who will always point out the problems. Make sure you find solutions. People follow solutions. Stop complaining about situations and start looking for solutions. There are local, national and international problems. Solve them and you will live forever.

•Be a Creator: Inventors don’t die, they live with us forever. Do Henry Ford and Graham Bell ring a bell? You want to live forever, be a creator. Create products, write books, sing a song, create an app, create software, and create things. There is so much in you. You are more than what you are now. Your greatness is inside of you. In any industry you find yourself, create, be different, and be creative.

•Give yourself to the service of humanity: Yes, humanity! Humans don’t forget those who serve them selflessly. People like Martin Luke King Jr. who fought and die for equality in America can’t die, they live forever. Stand for a cause bigger than you and you will be remembered forever. This is the problem with Nigerians and Africans. We hate serving humanity. We are of ourselves. Greed has become our god. Stand and be counted and see if you will ever die. Mandela’s name will open doors for his children’s children for live anywhere.

•Be an exceptional leader: Exceptional leaders are not forgotten easily. Great leaders live forever. Mahatma Gandhi can never be forgotten in India. Leaders in the place of work, cities, states, religious bodies, nations and globally will live forever. Remember that leadership is a responsibility & not a position. Do you know how many people could be benefiting from this? But some leaders did not care to learn or bring their people to learn. All these must change. Selfless leaders. Leaders with sympathy and empathy. Their impact and memory can’t be erased with a duster. They are forever.

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