Deng Thiak Adut: From a Child Soldier to a Successful Lawyer

Hi Friend,

Welcome to another moment of inspiration and motivation. If you have been in a situation where you feel you will never rise to stardom, where it appears a cloud of hopelessness has beclouded your view so much so that you cannot see a great future, and you conclude that there can never be a great future for you, then, spare me just 7 minutes of your precious time to read and digest this story. 

Deng Thiak Adut was born into the Denka tribe, the largest ethnic group in South Sudan. He grew up in the remotest sub-Saharan region of Sudan with no clothes, no education and no contact with Western culture.

At the age of 6, Adut was taken away from his mother and conscripted into the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). He was trained to use the AK 47 rifle. For 9 years, he fought in the war that eventually split his country, Sudan, into two, maiming killing and destroying lives and properties. 

With the help of his elder half-brother, John Mac Akuek who was 12 years older than him, he was moved from Sudan to Kenya where they spent 18 months in a mud hut in a blistering hot refugee camp, before their visa for Australia was approved in 1998. This is made possible with the sponsorship of Christian Aid workers, Bob and Christine Harrison.

Education

At Sydney, Australia, the illiterate, penniless Adut taught himself English while engaged in several part time jobs to earn a living. He later enrolled in an intensive English course at Blacktown TAFC and frequented libraries. He often slept in his car so that he didn’t come late to class. Eventually, he was accepted to study law in two universities, but he chose Western Sydney University (WSU) where he later bagged his LL.B. degree.

The dean of the school of Law, WSU, remarked: “He is a remarkably good lawyer.”

Legal Practice

In 2001, he nationalised as an Australian citizen. Presently, he is fully into legal practice and had acquired a level of local fame as “a defender of the dispossessed on the multicultural streets of Blacktown, Australia.”

Adut, who is described as a dedicated and energetic community leader, co-founded a law firm known as AC Law with Correy, his colleague in the legal practice. Correy, his partner in their law firm, remarked that Adut is “an alpha male personality and in court, he’s a fighter who never takes a backward step.”

Motivation

A respected lawyer and an advocate of the refugees in Australia, Adut is a testimony to the transformative power of education. Bob Harrison, one of Adut’s sponsors, said of him: “He was eager to learn and learned very quickly.”

The word of Adut’s quiet and extraordinary achievements spread far and wide after his Almer mater (WSU) posted a video telling his story. Within a week, 300,000 watched the video. So far, several millions of people had watched his video.

In an interview with 702 ABC, Adut said: “I put the video up as a form of telling everyone that no matter how many journeys, how many problems, how many obstacles you have on your way, you have to acknowledge that your disadvantage is not entirely your disadvantage. It could be your advantage if you followed a way with the right ingredients or the right training or the right kind of people.”

Philanthropy

On philanthropy, Adut said, “What I do for other people is what will make me happy.” Perhaps, this is what motivated him to run John Mac Foundation, a charity established in memory of late John Mac Akuek, his elder half-brother, who moved him from Sudan to Kenya and thereafter to Australia.

Dear friend, you will agree with me that the story of Adut is a story of determination, optimism, courage and hard work. I have no doubt in my mind that if you are willing to move from where you are and you are determined do so, and you make a commitment to do everything you can to achieve great success, doors of opportunities will be opened for you to walk into a life of fulfilment.

Until I come your way soon, go and live victoriously!

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Keeping Your Dream: Five Lessons from a Great Achiever

Dear reader, welcome to another moment of inspiration and motivation. What are those things you desperately want to achieve? What is it you passionately want to become?

The fact is, you can achieve anything you desperately want to achieve, if you keep the dream with you. If you are willing to keep the dream with you, you will eventually achieve it, no matter how long it will take.

One success story that powerfully buttresses the power of keeping your dream is that of Monty Roberts. As narrated by Jack Canfield, America’s number one success coach, in his bestselling book, How to Get from Where You Are to  Where You Want to Be, when Roberts was in high school, his teacher gave the class an assignment to write about what they wanted to do when they grew up. Roberts wrote that he wanted to own his own 200-acre ranch and raise thoroughbred horses. His teacher gave him an “F” and explained that the grade reflected that he deemed his dream as unrealistic.

The belief of his teacher was that nobody in the calibre of Roberts living in a camper on the back of a pick-up truck would ever be able to amass enough money to buy a ranch, purchase breeding stock and pay salaries of ranch workers.

Well, Roberts’ teacher gave him another opportunity to rewrite his paper and get a higher grade, but Roberts replied, “You keep the F; I am keeping my dream.”        

Roberts refused to rewrite his paper, but finished high school and went on to own his own 154-acre ranch, which he called, Flag Is Up Farms, in Solvang, California, USA.

There in his ranch, he raises thoroughbred horses and trains hundreds of horse trainers in a more humane way to join him to train horses.

Dear reader, there are many lessons to learn from the success story of Monty Roberts, but here are five  lessons I have distilled which I believe will be invaluable to every success seeker. The lessons  are:

1.   Dream Big

Big dreams have one thing in common – they look unrealistic, they appear impossible. When Marconi was struggling to invent the radio, people laughed at him and tried the best they could to discourage him because they thought it was impossible for any person to discover a way of transmitting messages over a long distance through the ether. Marconi’s friends even planned to take him to a psychiatrist thinking that he had gone insane, for insisting and  believing that he could invent the radio -  something that appear unrealistic and impossible at that time.

When Professor Graham Bell was busy doing the best he could to invent the telephone, people laughed him to scorn because they thought it was unrealistic and impossible to come up with an invention that enabled persons to communicate with each other regardless of the distance between them.

The fact is, every worthwhile goal looks unrealistic, but you should not let that scare you. IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN ACHIEVE IT. Your passion, your desire, your yearning for achieving your dream is a prophecy or a pointer to what you are capable of achieving.

Begin to dream big dream now and hold unto your belief that you can achieve it even when no believes you can.

   2.   Don’t Allow Any Person  to Write  You Off

The fact about big dream is that they are no respecter of persons. Big dreams are not the exclusive preserve of a privilege few. Dreams have nothing to do with your background. Where you are and what you are today do not determine what you will become in future.

The mistake of Roberts’ teacher was that he used Roberts’ background to write him off. He thought it was impossible for any person from such a humble background as that of Roberts to achieve massive success, but he was wrong. Roberts proved him wrong.

The lesson here is: NEVER ALLOW ANY PERSON TO WRITE YOU OFF. Never allow other people’s negative opinion about you to hurt you or discourage you. Let others keep their evaluation about you, but you keep your dream.

3.   Don’t Write Yourself Off

The starting point to achieving great success in life is believing that you can achieve whatever goal you set for yourself. The fact is, you can succeed if no one believes in you, but if you don’t believe you can succeed, you will not succeed even if every person believes you can.

 

Like Marconi and Bell, your belief is what counts. Your belief is what keeps you working tirelessly towards achieving your dream. NEVER WRITE YOURSELF OFF. Regardless of the situation, regardless of how many times you have ried and failed, you can still make it. As long as you are still alive, all things are possible. We live in a world of possibility and when you believe you can make it, you will surely find a way of making it.

4.   Hold Unto Your Dream

Some of our dreams will remain unfulfilled not because we cannot achieve them but because we let go of them. To achieve our dream, we must hold unto it, not some of the time but all the time.

Often, we allow challenges to make us give up our dreams. When we don’t seem to make meaningful progress, we get discouraged and abandon our dream. It is important we remind ourselves constantly that we cannot make our dream come true without confronting and overcoming myriads of challenges on our way.

It is our reluctance to confront the challenges on our way that is making us to abandon our dreams. To achieve our dream, we must make up our mind today that we will not abandon our dream until we achieve it.

5.   Pursue Your  Dream

Dreams don’t come true by merely holding unto them. We have to get up each day and do something however little to keep moving towards the realization of our dream.

And as you apply the lessons contained in this article, it is my hope that you will soon get from where you are to where you want to be.   

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