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STOP CHASING. START ATTRACTING

Dr. Walubita Siyanga
2 min readNov 1, 2020

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The best things in life are not acquired by chasing. They are acquired by creating an attracting and captivating environment that captures and subdues. From relationships to resources, jobs, contracts and money, its true that the best of these opportunities are literally harvested by putting more effort at being the person with the capacity, understanding and knowledge to accommodate and contain rather than putting effort in chasing.

“If you want to harvest water from the rain, it’s best to set a bucket in the rain rather than tire yourself chasing the drops in the rain.”

Chasing can be very exhausting. Attracting on the other hand is refreshingly more sustainable. Have you noticed in life that the more you chase after something, the more it eludes you? E.g Chase money or opportunity and see for yourself how exhausting and futile it can be. Chase them and see how you will soon resign, thinking that life is unfair. This is the principle: The most elusive opportunities no matter how difficult can be acquired by attraction not by chasing.

“You don’t catch a fish or a birds, by chasing them. You catch them by baiting/attracting them.”

A fisher man knows that fish swims too fast to be easily caught so he creates bait and a bird hunter knows that birds fly too fast to be caught so he sets traps and snares. In the same…

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Dr. Walubita Siyanga
Dr. Walubita Siyanga

Written by Dr. Walubita Siyanga

Training Consultant, Life Coach, Counselor, Motivational speaker, Branding/Media Consultant, TV/Radio Personality and Author

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