Extraordinary

The past week we lost a great man. He had so many hats to fit in. He was an administrator, Christian, mentor, counselor.

Chief Francis Kariuki, aka, tweeting chief knew his purpose. He chose to defy the odds of living an ordinary life. He chose to impact. He had his motto laid down, doing ordinary things differently, in an extraordinary way. He ensured all our homes had water filters. I sat in meetings where he was a keynote speaker and without a doubt, he was filled with wisdom. He always had some punching lines that would make your seat uncomfortable. He made people get uncomfortable living in their ordinary ways. You just had to have a paradigm shift.

One time, I had a sit down with him, close to two hours lecture where I had to share my plans and what I wanted with life. After stating all my plans, he just asked me, "How are you planning to be extraordinary?" While he shared some ideas, I had to go back to the drawing board. Though the curtains have fallen, your name still lives in us. You came and did things in a different way, you touched lives. You gave room to learn lessons that will be used in our lives. 

This got me thinking. 

What do you have in your hand? What skills do you have? What knowledge do you have? 

We live in a world where we want perfection, to have everything so that we start on our projects.

We live in a world when we want the perfect time.

We think to be perfect we have to be rich and have positions.

But what if you were meant to be where you are? What if you need to have a paradigm shift to move you to the next level?

You don't need a perfect world.

You just need to do things extraordinarily.

Be the janitor who cleans amazingly.

Be the general doctor who treats extraordinarily.

The husband/wife who loves extraordinarily. 

Take time and reflect if you are using all the normal things you have extraordinarily. 

Probably, the world will be a better place if we all went the extra mile if we used all we had to make an impact.

Maybe families will be complete, happier, loving if we went the extra mile.

Probably, our workplaces would be conducive if we did things exceptionally.

One day the curtains will fall, but I hope you will have used all you had to make an impact and that your names will be curved in our hearts and minds and not just tombstones.

 I hope you will die empty as Myles Munroe kept on saying. Use up all that you have, your gifts, and better yet go the extra mile, do it extraordinarily.

Can you breathe? Then you have something in you. It may seem ordinary but use it differently, change the world, touch lives. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is promised, you have today.

Rise.