366 days of wisdom (April 30, 2020)

Day 121 of wisdom

“The best way out is always through.”

Robert Frost

One of Nigeria's finest business man and motivational speaker Ubong King (UK) also known as the *trouble maker* , is renowned for the statement "the best way to get out of trouble, is to get into trouble." Sometimes, when there are storms on our path, we don't sit down and expect the storm to pass, we don't know how long the storm will rage, so, the best way to get out of the storm is to go right into it and through it, that is the only way through which we can get to our destination quicker.

When we are faced with situations that are beyond our abilities, we should know that those situations have come to make us better individuals. It is in difficult situations that we develop some of the life saving skills, and capabilities. The lessons and experiences shape, and toughen us.

Every challenge is an opportunity to grow, and one must always maximize those opportunities, because they are the real time experiences that does the transformative magic. Some of the most successful people in the world were those who have been mostly hit by difficult circumstances, the most talented people in the world have discovered their talents while passing through hard times.

The end of a thing is always better than the beginning, so when challenges come, rather than being discouraged, and feel downcast about the situation, we should see the positive possibilities, and productive end of those circumstances. We should see them as stepping stones in place of stumbling blocks.

Beginnings are tough and bitter, but endings are sweet, and pleasurable.

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366 days of wisdom (April 29, 2020)

Day 120 of wisdom

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”

Michael Phelps

There is no limit to what a man can achieve in life, the only limit that exists is the limit one sets for himself. However big a dream is, it can be achieved, the more you can dream, the farther you will go. What you will ever become is dependent on your dreams, and visions for the future.

Every great accomplishment always begin with small steps, but no small step begin without a dream of the desired destination established. Dreaming is a free gift, but pursuing your dreams, visions and purpose in life comes at a cost. Sometimes, it may be demanding and very expensive but at the end it is always  worth it.

Visions, and dreams must always be accompanied by imagination. If you can't imagine what you want to become, how can you become that thing? You must be able to have a clear picture of who you want to be, where you want to be, and how to be, and get to your desired end. Albert Einstein said "imagination is the preview of life's coming attraction", by implication, imagination is the way through which one sees the possibility of what could be, and the great future ahead of you.

The human mind is a master manufacturer, manufacturing unlimited thoughts per time. One must train his mind to constantly manufacture good thoughts. Our thoughts determines our dreams and our dreams ultimately determine our life. Someone once said, " if you can dream at all, you should dream big" and if you can think at all, think big.

Thinking big, and dreaming big, makes you big.

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366 days of wisdom (April 28, 2020)

Day 119 of wisdom

“Where hope grows, miracles blossom.”

Elna Rae

One of the best gifts God has given us is hope, without hope life would not be worth living. According to Google dictionary, hope is a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen. It is the hope of a better future, the hope that things would change for the better, the hope that tomorrow will bring the life of our dreams that oftentimes keeps us going.

Without hope it is impossible to have faith, it is the hope for a thing that births the faith that such things can come to reality. Hope births faith, but faith is the force that activates the realization of what is being hoped for. Expectations may be so far from fruition that there seems not to be an appearance of what one seeks, but keeping hope alive gives one the courage to keep moving despite the bleakness of the future.

You must always nurture your hope with good thoughts, thoughts of a bright future, and everything good, because where there is hope, miracles are bound to happen, life finds a way to grant us our heart desires, that which is hoped for, but hope must surely be accomplished with works.

If we expect a miracle, if we expect that good will happen to us, if we expect to live a better life, we must keep hope alive, nurtured, and sustained for in this we can achieve our dreams.

Stephen King said, “Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

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366 days of wisdom (April 27, 2020)

Day 118 of wisdom

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”

Leonard Cohen

One who will be king must no go around acting like a slave. If you want to be successful, you must discover the habits, behaviours, and thought patterns of successful people and try to imbibe them in a way that will bring us the positive results that we expect. If practice makes perfection, then acting like you want to be makes you what you want to be.

If you don't see yourself as someone who could become a thing, you can never become that thing. Everyone who have gotten to certain heights in life has either dreamt, or thought of it, or something close to it. You don't achieve anything great by mistake.

Success come only to those who prepare for it. What you want to become affects your all round behaviour including the way you dress, and the way you are dressed determines how you are addressed. Fela Durotoye once said, "at the entrance of your future, dressing admits", this implies that, your vision of where you want to be, will determine how you dress, how you dress eventually affects your acceptance into your desired future.

Practice what you want to become, act like what you want to be and soon, you will become what you want to be. Without a clear vision, and picture of what you want to become you can not become anything.

Dream big, act big, become big.

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366 days of wisdom (April 26, 2020)

Day 117 of wisdom

"There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them."

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our journeys into the future will not always be smooth and hitch free, there will always be challenges on our way, there will always be obstacles, there will be discouraging circumstances, but how we respond to all these situations, and circumstances determines what we get out of it.

We can turn our challenges into opportunities, our obstacles into stepping stones, and our discouragements into motivations, we can turn the negative situations into positives, we only need to see what we want rather than what is happening. When you are focused on what you want, you will always get it, but when  your sight is on the problem, it will hold you down.

Not all challenges come to destroy us, some come to build us, not all storms come to hinder us, some come to clear our paths. We must therefore always look beyond the problems, and see the solutions, we must always set our sights on the goal, the vision, the target, rather than the obstructions.

A river always have it way not because it is strong, and powerful, but because it knows that despite the obstacles, there will always come a road, it rubs, and wash, gnaw and knead, eat and bore its way through the obstacles on its way, and eventually a way is made for the river. Its persistence, consistence, insistence, and confidence in its ability paved the way. Just like the river we must be determined to have our way to the future of our dreams, or else we would never get beyond our obstacles.

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Molière

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366 days of wisdom (April 25, 2020)

Day 116 of wisdom

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”

Peter F. Drucker

Listening is the ability to accurately receive information, and adequately interpret messages for effective communication. If one lacks the ability to listen effectively, messages will easily be misunderstood, or even not be passed at all. So, if we must get the best out of every communication, we must be good and effective listeners.

Listening is not only about hearing what is being said, but also what is not being said, it entails paying, and giving attention to the critical, but unworded aspects of communication. Presence, open mindedness, relaxed mind, attentiveness, calmness, and focus are the ingredients that make up for effective listening, and ultimately effective communication.

A lot can deciphered from unspoken words. During communication we can interpret a person's mood, approval, disapproval, enthusiasm, boredom, or irritation from their expressions, cadence of voice, and tone. A great deal of messages are being passed through these means, and this must be adequately understood.

What do you hear? What is the universe telling you? What is the situations around you telling you? What is nature telling you? What is your head, heart, and mind telling you? What is God telling you? You may not be hearing loud audible, or small still voices, but something is being said, Are you listening?

The most important words, the most critical statements are not being said, but if you listen well, you will hear them.

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366 days of wisdom (April 24, 2020)

Day 115 of wisdom

“Although the world is full of suffering, it's full also of the overcoming it.”

Helen Keller

Chaos, problems, and suffering rules the world today, there seems to be no way out of the current situation ravaging the world at this moment, and tearing people down, but there is no problem without a solution. Problem only persists because we haven't sought the solutions enough.

The world have experienced far greater problems in the past than what she is dealing with at the moment, but the solutions came, though some appears to be unsolvable it finally came to an end. These problems have come in different forms, like wars, natural disasters, pandemics, and human disasters, and afflictions, but the world saw their ends, this current pandemic wouldn't be any different.

If we must overcome our challenges, we must be united against it, we must see the battle as a battle for all, a battle to save our world from destruction. We might have been so terribly hit, we might have lost a lot of soldiers in this battle, but we must not relent, we must not give up, we must continue to fight,, and sooner than latter, we will have our victory, our enemy will be totally vanquished. To have this victory we must adhere to the strategies, the tactics of the generals who lead this battle, we must pay attention to the details, and also be our brothers keeper.

Let us cast out every form of fear, but keep our faith nurtured, and our selves strong. Fear weakens a man, but faith gives him the strength to carry on. Though the night be dark and dreary, we must remember that, just before a bright day is the darkest night; just before victory sounds, is the battle fiercest; just before a caterpillar metamorphose into a butterfly is the pain the hardest.

Keep hope alive, for victory songs is just about to being sang.

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366 days of wisdom (April 23, 2020)

Day 114 of wisdom

“A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.”

Margaret Becker

Giving is not loss, neither is it reduction, it is simply creating room for more to come, it is emptying the old for freshness, it is preparation for reception. Anne Frank asserted that, “no one has ever become poor by giving”, poverty never visits a giver, as a saying goes givers never lack.

Luke 6:38 admonishes us to “give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” We never loose a thing when we give.

In times like this, when a lot of people are faced with lack and hunger, when families seek only for survival, we must from our abundance give to the needy, we must show kindness, love, and empathy, and seek to be a miracle to others, for the greatest miracle that van happen to a man is to be a miracle to others.

Winston Churchill said ”We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” what we get helps us live, but what we give make us a life. At the end of life, when you have lived and ready to go, when your life on earth is over, it will not count what you have in your account, garage, house, or even in your name, what will matter most to you and the people around you is what you have given, the life you were able to positively affect, the people you have given hope.

“If you want something, give.”

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366 days of wisdom (April 22, 2020)

Day 113 of wisdom

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

Moliere

Real growth happens slowly, and yields the best result, any growth that happens rapidly either does not last or crashes unexpectedly. When maize is planted, it starts to sprout in about three days, and in three to four months it is ready for harvest, and afterwards dries up, it came up so quickly and dies quickly. The cocoa tree on the other hand takes between three to five years to bear its first fruit, and can live for as long as one hundred years before it finally dies.

Patience is very important to the growth process of any man, growth should be gradual and steady, may be slow but consistent, hasty growth can lead to hasty destruction. There is a saying that whatever grows up, stays up, but whatever goes up must surely come down. Steady growth guarantees long lasting success, it guarantees the sweetest kind of success.

The story of the Chinese bamboo tree captures wholesomely how success must be achieved. It is said that the Chinese bamboo tree has a very hard seed, that when planted it requires daily, consistent watering, and nurturing for a period of five years, within these five years, no physically visible changes occurs within the ground, and a day of watering and nurturing must not be missed, but after five years this tree sprouts from the ground and grows to as much as ninety feets in thirty days.

If one must achieve massive success, one must go through the rigorous process. Just like the Chinese bamboo tree, even if there is no existential evidence of progress, keep at it, stay in the process, remain true to the course, and one day you will eventually break through.

In the words of the great Greek Philosopher; Aristotle, always remember that, “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

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366 days of wisdom (April 21, 2020)

Day 112 of wisdom

“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

Aldous Huxley

Changing the world is an easy task, but what makes it difficult is attempting to start the change process from the wrong place. A popular saying goes, “charity must first begin from home”, One who attempts to change the world must first start by changing himself. The most important part of the world that needs a change is that of the one who wants to change the world.

The world will become a better place when everyone decides to change for the better. When everyone is determined to improve themselves, a ripple effect is being generated, and the entire universe will begin to experience a better world. If we ever hope to have a better world, if we want the world to be a more conducive and friendly place for everyone of us, we must work on ourselves as individuals. It is easy to change the world when everyone change themselves.

There are few kind, compassionate, generous, patient, and loving people in the world, the world needs more of these people, to be a better place. If we can choose to be one, if we can choose to change our attitude towards the earth and the people in it, if we can just decide to do more than we have always done, then changing the world will be just easy.

Shonda Rhimes said “Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” Do you dream of changing the world? Get to work, start by changing yourself, and soon you will see the change you want in the world.

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366 days of wisdom (April 20, 2020)

Day 111 of wisdom

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

Sir Winston Churchill

Courage is the small still voice within you telling you you can, when you don't even have the strength to push forward. Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the ability to act even while being afraid. Life is difficult for the weak and feeble minded, but the courageous beats it with ease, not for the strength they possess, but for the will, and tenacity they apply.

Sometimes, people take advantage of our innocence, they ride our meekness, and take our tolerance for granted, but if we must truly live our best life, and get what we deserve from life, we must be ready to stand up against injustice, and prejudice. We must defend that which we know to be true, we must stand firm on our beliefs, and be ready to fight for what is rightfully ours. No one will give you what you deserve on a platter of gold except you fight for it.

Courage could also be the ability to be calm in the face of harshness, and hostilities, it sometimes would require courage for us to be humble enough to learn new skills, to be taught, to gain more knowledge from someone who we probably are better than, older than, or even superior to. Courage is the virtue that gives us the strength to bear truth, and accept the consequences of our actions, and inactions.

In the words of Maya Angelou, “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently”. Faith, hope, meekness, kindness, love, gentleness, sympathy, and all other virtues cannot be consistently practiced if you don't have courage.

Courage is not outside you, it is within you, use it.

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366 days of wisdom (April 19, 2020)

Day 110 of wisdom

“Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.”

Hansa Proverb

Life does not always give us all we need, and desire. Sometimes, we receive only a fraction of what we earnestly crave for, but our reaction to what we receive will determine how much more, or less we would ever receive again. Someone once said, “gratitude turns what we have into enough”, this can't be far from the truth, as gratitude is revealed in contentment, and contentment is the satisfaction we derive in what we have no matter how little.

A Yoruba proverb when translated says, “if a child is thankful for yesterday's good deed, he will receive another”, gratitude always open the door for more. We may not always get what we want from life, but we must always be grateful for what we get, because what we are grateful for we receive more of.

Dale Carnegie, in one of his books wrote “it isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it” what you think about your current situation determines your happiness, or unhappiness. If you must find happiness, you must think contentment, you think gratitude, and you must appreciate all you have, and you will receive more.

There is no greater gain than being content, and having the fear of God. Be grateful for the little, be thankful for what you have, and you will receive more of what you want. Godliness with contentment is great gain.

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366 days of wisdom (April 18, 2020)

Day 109 of wisdom

“We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. ”

Robert Orben

Realist tells us what things really are, how things really works, how they have always been, and how things will most likely be. People live their lives based on reality which is perfectly normal and sane, people look into the future with the binoculars of reality, almost everyone believes in reality, but we could better our realities with some optimism.

Reality stirs us in the face every waking day, but optimism begs us to take a stir at the possibility of a better reality. Optimism is the belief that the best is yet to come, that a favourable outcome is expected, and good will eventually triumph. We have dealt with a lot of reality, reality is everything that we have experienced, and are still experiencing, but we can turn the hand of things by being optimistic.

Optimism is not lazy, its expects the best by working towards achieving the best. In so many cases we have always known how some things will turn out, but optimism lets us have another perspective for a better outcome. If we always expect reality to take charge, we might not experience our best life. Optimism involves risk taking, it involves hard work, it involves belief in ourselves, and our abilities, and it involves faith in God.

The course of life has been altered by Optimists who saw beyond reality, to bring into reality things that realists never thought could be. Countless inventions have transformed the way we live, all because the inventors saw beyond reality, they were optimistic that if they could try, they could change some things, they could alter reality. It is for these optimists sake that we live better lives today.

Reality is life, optimism is the best life.

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366 days of wisdom (April 17, 2020)

Day 108 of wisdom

“Where there is unity there is always victory.”

Publius Syrus

Unity is the first and most important strategy a group of people must have to be assured of victory. A team that must win in any endeavour in life must be ready to work as a unit in other to achieve their goal. A popular saying captures it wholesomely, "united we stand, divided we fall." If a log of wood was to be made to stand upright alone, it can fall easily at any slight touch, but if we were to bring together several of such log, and tied together, it will take a lot of effort to pull it down, such is the  power of unity.

The strength of a team is each member of that team, and the strength of each member is the team. Each member having the same mind, devoted, and dedicated to the course of the team will ensure victory for the team and every member of it. It is also important to note that, a team is as weak as its weakest member, so, each member should look out for the other, and find ways of strengthening one another.

The key to team success is individual success, and the key to individual success is team success, no one can success without the help of another, by ensuring your partner succeed you are only ensuring your own success.

Helen Keller once said, "alone we can do so little, together we can do so much." Winning any battle requires that as individuals we commit ourselves fully to the objectives of the team, we work hand in hand with our neighbours, and partners, and  abide by the code, conducts, rules, and regulations of the group, it is with this that victory can be assured.

Together Each Achieve More.

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366 days of wisdom (April 16 2020)

Day 107 of wisdom

“You're amazing just the way you are.”

Bruno Mars

Every human born on earth is unique, and endowed with special talents, abilities, and capabilities, no one is a duplicate of another man, and no one can be duplicated, every man has their selves to become, and not some other persons. As special as your physical make up is, so are the non physical.

Every man is special even with disabilities. Sometimes, disabilities are also special abilities taken for granted. Rather than been seen as disabilities they should be seen and regarded as different abilities. If we were to take a look at lots of so called disabled people who have become superstars, and celebrities making a difference in the world, we would understand that their disability only gave them an advantage over their able counterparts who possess same, or similar abilities. Disability when properly channeled can produce unexpected, and life changing results.

Never strive to become someone else, your efforts should be to ensure you become the best version of yourself, your story is unique, your place in the future is patiently waiting for your arrival, your destination will be empty if you don't occupy the space, because no one can take your place. Your ideas are unique just as you are, and only you can bring those ideas to life, there is something the world expects from you, and only you can give the world that thing. Don't let your slot in destiny be a waste, don't be a disappointment to those who believe in you.

You are special, you are unique, you are amazing just the way you are, nobody should have the right to determine what you think of yourself, you are the sole proprietor, chief executive officer, brand ambassador, and manager of your own self, your description of yourself is the same same description the world will put on you, so, give yourself the best description you can.

Be yourself, you can never be better than someone else, but you can be your best self.

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366 days of wisdom (April 15, 2020)

Day 106 of wisdom

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”

Rachel Wolchin

Plants and trees are some of the most important elements to human existence, they are planted to grow, take roots deep into the ground to the extent with which it will sustain itself and remain firm in the ground, they produce fruits, seeds and leafs for human consumption and use, this is the whole essence and purpose of plants, and trees. This is not so with man.

Man is the most unique, most distinct and most valuable creation, created with multiple and unlimited potentials most of which are hidden and untapped until it is explored. Man is made for dominance, man is made to be more than he can ever imagine, man is made to fly. If man was supposed to be stagnant, unmovable, and unprogressive he would have had roots rather than legs, he would have been planted rather than been born, he would most likely have been a dummy without brains and the ability to be creative but adaptive, and reactive.

Though man is made for more, the road to greatness may not be clearly mapped out, but we must understand that, until we take the first step to move we would remain stagnant for as long as we remain indecisive. An American writer: Novelist, Poet, and Author, Nancy Willard once said, “I haven’t a clue how my story will end, but that’s all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, that’s when you discover the stars.”

You are a reservoir of untapped potentials, with so much  to give the world, but if you don't dig deep and explore, if you don't determine to give the world the best that you have, you may never shine as the star that you are. So, explore, dig deep, spread your wings and fly.

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366 days of wisdom (April 14, 2020)

Day 105 of wisdom

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”

C. S. Lewis

Some of the most beautiful things in the world have gone through the most difficult situations in life, they have been through the toughest times, but found ways of hanging on. Coal (a form of carbon)  have to pass through intense heat to become Diamond; impure Gold have to be refined in fire to become pure, and fine. True beauty is revealed through difficulties, and hardship.

Hardships are sometimes a preparation for a better place, a better future, and a better self, it doesn't always come to destroy us, but to build, make us better, and reveal the best in us. When faced with difficult moments, we should see them as challenges, and not as problems. Problems mostly destroy, but challenges makes one better when one is determined to ride on it.

If everything was easy, there would be no motivation for success, one would not need to dream, there would be no reason to aspire, ordinary men would remain ordinary, and men would not explore their hidden potentials. Difficulties bring out the best in men, makes men to desire the feeling of champions, and creates in them the hunger and thirst for winning.

Hang on, things may be tough, the situation may be unbearable, you might not be getting the right answers, and you might have been despised, just remember that you have a big fan, one that will not quit on you, but will always cheer you on until victory is won, that one fan is: YOU. Do not disappoint yourself by giving up, but believe in yourself, and you will win.

Challenges are the horses determined men ride into greatness.

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366 days of wisdom (April 13, 2020)

Day 104 of wisdom

“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.”

Anthony Douglas Williams

Knowledge is the awareness of facts, and information, it is skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. Wisdom on the other hand is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgement; the quality of being wise (Google dictionary).

Knowledge is acquired from a deliberate act of learning a particular subject, and may be applied to that subject only, but wisdom is gotten from the daily life experiences. One can be paid for the amount of knowledge he has, but no one can pay anyone for the wisdom he posses, wisdom is priceless. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

As important as knowledge is, its scope of validity is limited, it carries one through a specific aspect of life and may become invalid in other areas, this is why it is important to acquire knowledge in different areas of ones life, so you can apply the suitable one for each situation. Wisdom is universal, it is all encompassing, wisdom knows no boundary, it is therefore much more important for one to get wisdom.

Knowledge is knowing what to do, wisdom is deciding what is best to do. Knowledge is a product of schooling, wisdom is a product of lifelong learning. Knowledge is a branch in the tree of wisdom.

“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”  (Proverbs  4:7)

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366 days of wisdom (April 12, 2020)

Day 103 of wisdom

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.”

Jimi Hendrix

In nineteenth century British historian Lord Acton, made a statement saying, "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." This statement finds credence in the fact that, most people who vie for power do so only for their own sake, and not for the sake of those who they want to lead, they don't fight for power because they love the people, but because they love themselves, and want power so they can have all they want. When these power seekers get power they become incorrigible, proud, and insensitive to the plight of their subordinates.

This love, and quest for power is the reason the world hasn't known peace, it is the reason, the world has experienced wars, conflicts, chaos, and unrest. Nations fight nations for power, and control, they want to take charge, and determine what happens in other countries, they want to be absolute in rulings, and decisions. All these wouldn't be of concern if there was love.

Love is the most powerful force in the world, love has no weapons, but subdues enemies, and turns them into friends; love does not take advantage of the weak, and vulnerable of the society, rather it cares for them and lift them up; love considers does not consider his own well being alone, but also that of his neighbours, and acquaintance, only love can guarantee the world the peace it so desperately desire.

Love is the reason for the moment, it is the reason a Saviour died for the sins of the whole world, to reconcile a fallen people back to their creator, love lead Christ to be sacrificed for the world, He died in our place, and rose again, love has given us eternal life. Hallelujah.

Love is the most potent weapon of peace.

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366 days of wisdom (April 11, 2020)

Day 102 of wisdom

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplicity, regularity, and ordinariness of life, and living have been so underrated that we don't see any tangibility in our daily routine, and the process of living, and we therefore take these abilities, and privileges for granted.

Looking back at elementary school, and remembering a prayer we always made, one would realize how grateful we should be for some of the privileges we have. The prayer goes thus, "Some have food, they cannot eat; some can eat, but have no food; we have food, and we can eat,  glory be to thee oh Lord, Amen." As simple as this prayer is, it is loaded with a very big message which should guide our living.

There are countless individuals whose only prayer to God is for them to be able to pass out excreta on their own, by themselves, they don't pray for wealth or riches but just that single ability; some pray only for the ability to breath, as they are been kept alive through the aid of assisted respiratory equipments, and as in the elementary school prayer made above, some pray only for the ability to eat, because they are been fed through pipes, and hose, some can't even pray because they don't know what it feels like to live a normal, sane, and free life, they desire nothing, and therefore live for nothing.

It must noted that every of our actions, inactions, abilities, and privileges are *miracles* , and must be greatly cherished, and well appreciated. We must always show gratitude to the ONE who has given us all these without charge, and we must also understand that to wake up to these realities is true wisdom.

There is no greater wisdom than to know, and understand that the common things of this world, are great miracles continuously repeated.

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366 days of wisdom (April 10, 2020)

Day 101 of wisdom

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

Robert H. Schuller

Hope is an expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen, it is the belief that tomorrow will be better than today, and our efforts towards achieving success would not have been in futility. At any moment the future is the most important time of a man's life, but he (the man) must decide, and determine what the future will look like, by forgetting whatever hurt he has had in the past and focus on taking deliberate, and decisively impacting actions on how to get to a better future.

Everyone in life have at a point in their lives been hurt, beaten, bruised, and scarred, and if one hasn't experienced these, he should probably expect it and be adequately prepared to deal with it. Tough times comes, but tough people always sail through, and tough situation build tough people. When one is hurt, he must find a way of healing the wounds, lest it remains green, and this can be done by forgetting the cause, and forgiving the one who caused us hurt.

The future must be our priority, we should not always dwell on the hurt, rather, we should live in expectation of a better life. Holding on to the hurt of the past is like looking at the rear mirror while driving a vehicle, when there is a windscreen wide and clear enough to see through for forward movement, such person wouldn't get anywhere.

Let your dreams, and visions drive you to your desires, let them be the windscreen through which you see the future. Endless possibilities are embedded in an unseen future, we wouldn't get what we want in the future if we don't prepare for it, we must see the future with the eyes of optimism backed up with actions. "There will come a time when all the things which are troubling you won’t hurt so deeply. They will become stories of growth and pride." - Karen Salmansohn.

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366 days of wisdom (April 9, 2020)

Day 100 of wisdom

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

Nelson Mandela

The journey to success is through a long, eventful, and adventurous path, it is not always rosy on that path, and we don't always have all we need to run through that path from the beginning, we pick up some important tools along the way. Oftentimes, we will be faced with difficult and hard times, we often would encounter challenges that would almost put us to a grand halt, and stop us from moving forward, but our resilience, determination, and focus is harnessed to ensure we go through unhindered.

It is important for us to understand that, despite the toughness of the journey, the roughness of the road, and irregularities of circumstances, we need to be unrelenting in our effort to get to our desired destination, we need to give ourselves some accolades at some point on that journey, sometimes, we need to stick some badges to our chest. The journey is not always easy but in the end, we will always discover that it is worth it.

Every path that leads to a destination has milestones, so is your journey to success filled with milestones of little achievements. These milestones are as important as the destination itself, because without those milestones the journey will never be complete. It is therefore a necessity to celebrate these little achievements. Whenever these milestones are reached, we should bask in the euphoria of that moment, savour that moment in preparation for the road ahead.

Celebrating each, and every milestone on our path to success gives us the motivation, the drive, the confidence, and belief in ourselves, and our ability that we can get to the finish line. It reminds us of how far we have gone on that journey, and how close we are to the end, it tells us we have not been stagnant but progressive, it is a pointer that the end is nearer than when we started, and giving up is no more an option.

Cumulative small wins equals the big win. Celebrate the small successes, they open the way, and clear the path for the bigger ones.

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366 days of wisdom (April 8, 2020)

Day 99 of wisdom

“The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.”

Proverbs 12:19 (King Solomon)

Truth is a statement of facts; it is a genuine depiction or statements of reality; it is conformity to fact or reality; truth means correctness, and accuracy. A lie on the other hand is an intentional false statement, it is a situation involving deception.

In every situation, man must always endeavour to speak the truth, stand for the truth, live the truth, and be ready to die for the truth, because if you are not ready to die for the truth you haven't found a purpose to live for. Someone once said, "It takes strength and courage to admit the truth", in saying, and accepting the truth, you must the ready to go all out, you might face oppositions from people you think are trusted allies, you might be rejected and disowned, but in the end, the truth always prevails.

One of the foremost human right activist that ever lived, Mahatma Gandhi said, "the truth never damages a course that is just." So, if a course is just, the truth will only further propel it into pronounced greatness, truth is a gentle force of nature, it is calm but never permanently subdued.

The good thing about saying the truth is that, you don't have to remember what you said, all that needs to be remembered is what exactly happened, but for a lie to be sustained, it must be planned, rehearsed, and memorised. Lies never last, it is for a moment, but the truth is established forever, no matter how pronounced, close to reality a lie is, it will eventually be discovered, and no matter how deeply buried the truth is, it will one day resurrect, and be openly established.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

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366 days of wisdom (April 7, 2020)

Day 98 of wisdom

“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”

Erma Bombeck

Worry is an activity that saps one of great amount of energy but never yields anything meaningful, or of value to any man who engages in it. Worrying magnifies a small issue, makes it bigger than it actually is, and empowers it to torture the *worrior*, according to Leo Buscaglia “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

Bobby McFerrin in his song 'don't worry, be happy' said, “In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double”. Worrying only doubles your problem, it doesn't reduce it nor take it away. Being intentionally happy when in difficulties brings the best out of us and gives us the strength to sail through the troubles.

Joseph Cossman said, “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.” I bet you can't remember anything you worried about even six months ago. Winston Churchill also said, “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”

Thinking could be an alternative way out of worry, rather than worry about things, you should divert your energy into thinking of positive ways to turn the challenges and turbulent situation into an avenue for growth and progress. Worrying is destructive, thinking is productive. One must learn to live a day at a time, taking things as it comes rather than worrying about what could be that may never be.

 *Worriors* never wins any battle, only warriors do. Warriors never worry, only *worriors* do, I am not worried, I am happy.

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366 days of wisdom (April 6, 2020)

Day 97 of wisdom

“Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.”

Chili Davis

Growing old is what happens to a man everyday he wakes up, growing up is what he takes responsibility for in his life, and what he becomes. Growing old is a phenomenon that requires no effort at all to achieve, one does not have to do anything to grow old, the mere fact that he wakes up everyday is a testament to his growing old, but growing up take much more than just sleeping and waking, growing up requires work.

Growing up means waking up to the realities of life, taking responsibility for one's life, and being ready to pay the price for a better life. Growing up requires determination, hard work, commitment, dedication, and sacrifice towards a desired result, or outcome.

Growing old, is like having a tree grow without yielding fruits, the tree becomes useless, and a waste of resources, but a tree that has grown up would definitely yield fruit to be enjoyed by those who planted it, and all those that pass by it.

To live a complete, and balanced life, one must in addition to growing old which is a mandatory process, grow up. One must give all it takes to grow up while growing old. Size, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, strength, composure, are all characteristics of a grown up man. Growing up is a wholesome, and complete process, and one must endeavour to go through the entire process, for proper growth to be achieved.

To grow up you must feed your mind with the food it needs for growth: reading books, exploring, acquiring knowledge and gaining experience for these will positively affect a man's growth rate.

Are you just growing old, or growing up?

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366 days of wisdom (April 5, 2020)

Day 96 of wisdom

“I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love ...”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The complete version of the above quote by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross says, “I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help. There is no mistaking love… it is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives.”

Without love, life would not be worth living; without love, the world would have been torn apart, and in shambles; without love, living would be one of the greatest tragedy if humanity. Love is the cord that bind families together, it is the tie on which nations remain one, love is the food that strengthen a man's soul, it is the source of human redemption.

Love is a divine mandate, we are commanded to love everyone, even our enemies. Love is a weapon of conversion, it is capable of converting even the cruelest enemy into a friend. Love is a forerunner of peace. If there must be peace in a place, love must be resident there.

If you want to be loved, love others; if you want to have peace, give love. Love lifts a soul; love strengthens a man; love is the most powerful force on earth, it is even capable of producing a man, it is the source of every man. Love must be unconditional, and without bias, a conditional love is no love at all.

Loving is like planting a seed, when it grows and bear fruits, everyone benefits, and enjoys from the tree of love.

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366 days of wisdom (April 4, 2020)

Day 95 of wisdom

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

Tenzin Gyatso

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Without purpose life is not worth living, and if one's purpose in life does not make someone else other than oneself live a better, happier, and easier life, then such purpose is not worth living for. It's been said that, "the best and fastest way to become successful in life is by helping others succeed."

Everyone grows by helping others grow. One is only successful in life by helping others become successful, and live better lives. Success is not in what you achieve for yourself, but in how many people you help achieve success. People need help, and assistance in different areas of their lives, and would be glad to have someone help them achieve what they dream of, and desire to have. It is in helping them, we find joy and fulfillment in our lives.

We may not always have all we need at our disposal to help others in whatever area of their lives they need help, or assistance, but we must be very careful not to hurt them in any way. We must endeavour to do our best in ensuring that we are not channels of destruction to another man's morale, drive, and visions. Our words, actions, and deeds can lift a soul, and can also be an avenue for destruction.

The most dangerous thing to do to a man is to leave him a worst person than he was before you met him, you should at least leave him in the situation you met him, rather than making his situation worse.

If we cannot lift, we should not pull down; if we cannot heal, we should not hurt; if we cannot justify, we should not condemn; if we cannot build, we should not destroy.

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366 days of wisdom (April 3, 2020)

Day 94 of wisdom

“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

Henry David Thoreau

Living is not in how long one stays on the surface of the earth, that is existence. Living is in the impact one is able to make while on the surface of the earth, and to make any impact you must be a dreamer, you must have aspirations for the future, you must have a better life in sight, even if your current situation does not look anything like the life you want to have, you must be determined to be more.

A better life is not reached, or attained by mistake, it is not achieved through luck, or given to anyone on a platter of gold. The better life is dreamt about, aspirations are directed towards it, and determined, dedicated, focused, and deliberate effort is made to achieve those dreams and aspirations.

A man without dreams, and aspirations is a man who is not living, but merely existing, he is a man who has nothing to live for, and a life without a worthy course, is a life not worth living. A life without a destination is a wasted life, an unlived life.

We must endeavour to dream, and not just dream but dream big, to aspire, and achieve greatness, because if we don't, we will not get anywhere. If we don't, our living would be on a journey to an unknown destination, and a journey to an unknown destination is a wasted, and worthless journey, a journey if no importance, of no impact.

The quality of one's life is not in the length of his days, but in the impact he makes in the days he lived, no matter how brief.

Dream, aspire, pursue, and achieve, that is living.

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366 days of wisdom (April 2, 2020)

Day 93 of wisdom

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Perseverance, and obstinacy are two attributes of man that has some similar characteristics, they are borne out of a strong desire to do or not do a thing.

Perseverance is flexible, obstinacy is rigid; perseverance comes with a willingness to learn, obstinacy comes with a strong desire only to do what it sees to be right; perseverance is wisdom, obstinacy is foolishness; perseverance says I will, obstinacy says I won't.

Most success stories are a chronicle of how focused, determined, dedicated, persistent, and persevering the person have been. No one have achieved great success without perseverance. On the other hand, most people fail not because they lack what it takes to succeed, but because they lack the ability to change; the willingness to learn, unlearn, and relearn; the flexibility to try new ways of approaching a matter, and retains the rigidity that only assures them failure.

If one must be successful in life, he must examine himself to see which of these two attributes he posses: perseverance or obstinacy. One must be ready to go in the direction that guarantees the best results.

John Quincy Adams once said "courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." Courage births perseverance, while obstinacy is borne out of fear.

Perseverance is an habit of victory, be persistent, be positive, and victory is certain.

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366 days of wisdom (April 1, 2020)

Day 92 of wisdom

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards ...”

Steve Jobs

Life is a forward journey, and the past determines a lot of our future. When some events happen in our lives, we sometimes, don't know why they happen, we don't know why we are going through what we are going through, but when we eventually get to the point of discovery, we will understand why we have to experience those things we experienced.

In one of his speeches, the late Steve Jobs said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

Whatever you do, whatever you have to do, whatever you are going through, you may not know the why, but you must believe, and trust that it will lead you somewhere. The future is unknown, it is a blank sheet, but the now is arrived at from a path through the past. If you will ever be happy, don't try connecting the dots into the future, it wouldn't work, but when you get to that future, the dots will easily be connected.

You must plan for the future, work towards achieving your plans, and consistently move in the direction of your dreams, you just must do your part, and believe the universe does hers. You may not get all you hoped for but you will never arrive at a destination you will not appreciate or be grateful for.

Keep hope alive, believe in God, believe the abilities He has deposited in you to achieve greatness, have faith, and most importantly work, and you will get to favoured destination.

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