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FROM YOUR BREAKDOWN TO YOUR BREAKTHROUGH (PART ONE) *Knock Knock* Hello there! I feel glad coming to meet you on this space again. Today's post is about why you should not let a break down prevent your break through. You see many times we have a thousand and one excuses and most times they are very legitimate ones. Maybe you almost clinched your aim the last time and at the last minute every thing tumbled or maybe it's your background that made you under privileged. Whatever that is, we can sum that up into one word: "Excusitis". Yes Excusitis is that disease that allows the germs of complacency to set in. By all means we should try to avoid it. I will tell you a story. This story is about one of the world's greatest who had every reason to have succumbed to Excusitis but he never did. His name is Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln's life was a profile in discipline and courage. From a wood splitter, Lincoln came to school with an old arithmetic book, dres...

GOAL SETTING AND GO GETTING;  ANY NEXUS?  (PART ONE) "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." -ANDREW CARNEGIE Thomas Edison, the celebrated inventor, set himself an ambitious goal. It was to come up with a major new invention every six months, a minor invention every ten days. When he died, he had 1,092 U.S. patents and over 2,000 foreign ones. Edison knew that by setting such goals for himself and striving to reach them, he was bound to increase his output. It has been the same way for men all over history. Many men had overwhelming desires which they translated into goals. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a country free of prejudice and injustice. Bill Gates dreamed of a world in which every home has a computer that is connected to the Internet. Buckminster Fuller dreamed of a world where everybody had access to electrical power. These high achievers see the world from a whole different...

SUCCESS IS WHO YOU ARE I'm thinking about Satan's trick. Satan comes to a hungry Jesus in the wilderness and says "If you are the son of God, turn these stones into bread." In other words, all he was saying was if you are the messiah, prove it. I wondered for many years why Jesus did not actually silence his tempter by simply turning the stones to bread and proving his status as the messiah at that time. If he could "manufacture" food for thousands some months after that event, why didn't he just do it at that point? I got the answer recently. Jesus understood that his success was not tied to his demonstration but his configuration. In other words, it was not the miracles or his actions that made him a success. Success was simply who he was configured to be. It was his nature; his personality and not what he did. Some of us fall into the trap of equating ourselves with what we have done in the past. So because you had a failure experience; say you...

INFORMATION FOR TRANSFORMATION Hey guys, today I'm penning down a topic that is quite near and dear to my heart. I once read this quote from Dr. David Oyedepo that "To be uninformed is to be deformed; but to be informed is to be transformed." That got me really thinking on why you should place a premium on information. Let's get started. Information is derived from two words. I'm sure you know what "in" means. In talks about the inside and you know that it is in the inside that your power lies. Robin Sharma, the author of "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" emphasized this by saying that the same power that operates in the sun, moon and all elements of the universe also operates in you.  Isn't that amazing. Yes. You are that powerful. By the way, I will recommend that book, it makes for a very good read anyday. Inside of you is intangible which means you cannot see it. Now, those things you cannot see are even more powerful than the physica...

HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR PURPOSE AND YOUR PASSION Someone once said that the best direction to ride a horse is the direction it is going. In the same way, the very best way to drive your life is the direction you have a natural inclination for. You have to nurture your nature. The interesting thing about your passion is that when you discover it, you will no longer major on the minor nor minor on the major. Your goals become clearer and that which you should concentrate your energies upon become more obvious. So how can you discover it? First, you have to reflect over your life and fish out those things you do with ease, which brings results, which you gives you satisfaction and fulfilment. What do you love doing that you do not get easily bored with?  (Are your ideas flowing in already?) What would you spend your life doing if all you will ever need money for will be given to you free of charge? What gets you angry and what makes you feel like "life is unfair" and you have ...

AGITATIONS FOR SECESSION IN NIGERIA: AUGURIES OF A TICKING TIME BOMB    AGITATIONS FOR SECESSION IN NIGERIA: AUGURIES OF A TICKING TIME BOMB             The propagation of hateful and divisive rhetoric via the (social) media, terrorism, militancy, reinforced threats from Arewa Youths (in the North), agitators for Oduduwa Republic (in the South West), the Niger Delta Avengers (who agitate for Niger Delta Republic), The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (led by Ralph Uwazuruike), Indigenous People of Biafra (a younger generation, impatient with what they see as the snail pace at which MASSOB has been moving) led by Nnamdi Kanu all loom large on the socio-political horizon of Nigeria. The last three are stroking different chords in galvanizing a new symphony for the actualization of the Biafran dream through secession.          ...

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