separation exposes you to the possibility of elevation

There is every truth in the saying – you are the average of five people you spend the most time with. You want to be successful; you have strong desires to do better, to improve in every aspect of your life. Take a look at the people you surround yourself with, being around people who believes in you, people who are aware of your potentials and capabilities can make a huge differences in your life. You have every reason to surround yourself with people that reflect who you want to be.

Separation from our old selves, old lives and old habits is not always easy but necessary. In order for you to reach your next level, you often have to get your heart and mind ready for separation. And this is one of the problems with this generation, we do not like separation – we don’t know how to leave things behind, leave lower level thinking behind, leave old relationships behind and walk up into our future. Separation is a part of elevation, you will always have to let go of something or loss something to be able to reach the next level – you have got to drop some weight and move forward.

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Elevation begins with separation – when you throw a stone, before that stone will elevate, it must firstly separate from our hands. If the stone doesn’t get separated from your hands, it won’t progress. That’s how separation works; detaching yourself from one point to get to another point in life. Separation is part of the natural order of life; a young bird leaving it nest, a man separating from his parents to start his own family and so on. And also essential in scientific phenomenon – when a rocket is been launched, at mid-air it will need to separate with some part of itself in other to reach space. In order to move up, you will have to move away – mostly from something or someone.

Even in the bible, it is evidence that separation is the initial step towards being blessed. When God wanted to bless Abraham, he said to Abraham “leave your father’s house and go to a land that I will show you,” leaving his father’s house meant separating himself from his family, his friends and relations in order to get God’s blessings. You get the call to separate from certain things or break certain bonds when God wants to bless. The book of Hebrews tells us “we need to lay aside every weight” and sin, but take a look at the verse, the first thing it says is ‘the weights’, separate from the weights stopping you from elevating and moving forward.

There are cases where you set out to start as a group; starting a business with friends, study groups in school or maybe a causal relationship. Whichever, there is a limit and difference to individual capabilities, when the time comes where your current ‘click’ have nothing else to contribute or add to your life – regardless of the fact that you all started off together. You should make every effort to separate and move on. We all have different level of success to achieve, because your friends have gotten to theirs’ doesn’t mean you have also reached your level of success, move away and attain more height. With that been said, I will like to conclude with a Tony Gaskins quote “not everyone who started with you will finish with you, be willing to go without them if you have to.”