Lack Of Advantage Shouldn’t Be An Excuse
For Lack Of Performance

by Pastor Vincent Imwensi

So many people mourn their lack of advantage and blame their inability to excel on it. But lack of advantage needn’t result in lack of performance and achievement.

Some of the world’s greatest achievers have suffered from severe lack of advantage in one way or the other.
Their lack of advantage became the reason they succeeded. Becoming aware that they had obstacles, deficiences and problems others didn’t have, they doubled, tripled or even quadrupled their efforts. They became more creative with the little at their disposal and went the extra mile.

They treasured every little help along the way, paid close attention to instructions and took advantage of the opportunities which others took for granted. They made so much out of so little.
Thus many of them ended up as the heroes and great achievers for whom the world now reserves the front row in the hall of fame.

The will to succeed and excel is a necessary ingredient
It is amazing how this phenomena plays out itself again and again before our very eyes. You see people that have so little doing so much and those who have so much at their disposal doing so little in comparison. It is an irony.

The other day, my son was questioning me about my father – he wanted to write a biography about him as an assignment from school.
One of the things I told him was that my Dad did so well at school that he was awarded scholarship even in those days (and that is true).

Then he asked me “what was the name of the nursery school that he attended?” I laughed.
There was not a single nursery school in the village where my Dad grew up talk less of attending one.
In fact, I am not too sure whether the concept of nursery school had even been heard of in that part of the world at that time.
And yet, that did not stop him from doing so well and rising so high – excelling above many of those who had all the advantages.

It is not a question of brilliance – it had everything to do with the will to succeed and excel. After all, there are many brilliant people who end up as mere average.