Lessons From The Egg

Lessons From The Egg: Can the egg teach us anything?

Imagine.

An egg sat on a table outside. Nobody pays it any attention after all it is just an egg.

Then one day, the egg cracks open and out jumps a chicken. Now everybody suddenly takes note. They are surprised and excited; they start to take picture of the egg that became a chicken. All major magazines swoop in on the event, and TV stations too, everyone wants to cover and take a glimpse at the egg which became a chicken. What they did not know is that even though it did not look fantastic or captivating, the egg has always had the chicken inside of it, and the chicken has always been in the egg.

What does this mean? What you can become is already in side of you. And there is no limit to what you can become or what you can achieve. In fact your potentials are so great that you can never fully comprehend the fullness of the vast possibilities that God has imbedded inside of you. There is greatness inside each one of us. Just like the egg, we all have that great man or woman, boy or girl sitting inside us waiting to be released, but until we realize it and release it out of its shells, the world will not applaud us. You need to bring out the chicken out of the egg. That means you have to go from inherent potentials to manifested potential.

That is where hard work comes in. There is no such thing as an overnight success. Success is a process, and it takes hard work and time. All the while the egg looked dormant, everybody ignored it, but within the egg, it was growing, developing, incubating and preparing itself. And that is the reason it could be celebrated. It is this process that ensured the coming out of the chicken which the world came around to celebrate.

Nothing great was achieved that was not the product of long hard work and preparation. The Olympic gold medalist practices for about 8 to 12 hours a day over a period of four years just to run a 30 second race. Thomas Edison invested long years of trying and a lot of resources to come up with the light bulb which we all enjoy today. Pablo Cassals the great cellist, and one of the best cellist and composers of all time, was described in an interview as a genius. Pablo’s reaction was amazing. He just laughed and said “genius? For 43 years I practiced playing the cello every day, and you now call this the product of genius. It is not genius it is hard work”. How profound.

We all love genius and talent, but time has proved that genius and talent by themselves are never enough. There are many talent geniuses who live as non entities because they lack the discipline to focus their energies and make something great with their talent. And the world has been more stunned by people who were given no chance at success but who have turned around and proved the world wrong through discipline and hard work.

Sheer discipline and hard work have proved to be of greater value than just genius or talent. To develop your potentials from inherent to manifested potentials is just like the egg hatching into the chicken. I believe nobody is dull, nobody is useless, they have just not realized the potentials they are endowed with.

If you are willing to apply yourself to anything, and to invest the necessary time, you will discover that the question is not whether you have potentials or not, rather, the question is whether or not you will develop your potential to become the best that you can be.

Our potentials is God’s gift to us, our gift to God is to discover and develop the potentials that he has given to us.