He Has Not Forgotten U

Yes, the year of our Lord 2008 is fast coming to an end and you are once again feeling like He has done what He knows best to you again, which is leaving you to your own peril. No, God has not forgotten you. He has not forgotten about you because you are so precious to Him. It is the devil that is making you believe He has forgotten you and your supplications to Him to change your place in life and set your feet on higher grounds.

I want you to know that God is trying your faith in Him. Keep praying to Him, keep trusting and hoping that He will surely lift you up. The year 2008 might have not met your expectations but I want you to know that you have something some people who are cooling their heels six feet in the belly of earth are not laying claim to. You are alive and that is what matters most. Whenever God decides, you will surely be moved from Egypt and taken through the Red Sea so that you will reach the promised land. You might have crossed the Red sea and the Pharoahs of this world have lost their lives for you to live. So keep believing and trusting in the Lord who made you.

Look ahead of you and you'll see the promises of year 2009 and you will surely get to the promised land and not be given Moses' treatment for being in such a furry with his God.

My prayer for you is that the year 2009 will not pass you by. Keep your faith intact for He is observing your innermost yearnings. Why wouldn't you? Afterall He made you in His own image and wouldn't ever forsake you.

Merry christmas and a prosperous new year to you my dear reader!

Quotes To Make Your Day

"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." Frank A. Clark

Arthur Golden in the booklet: "Memiors of a Geisha" wrote: "Adversity is like strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we can see ourselves as we really are."

Need I add anything to the above? Your situation is for a purpose. You'll surely see it at the end of the day if you'd be patient enough.

Have a great week.

Anything Can Happen With God

I believe you know the story of Joseph the dreamer who earned his brothers' deep-seethed hatred, thrown into a dungeon, sold into slavery and his history with his boss' wife and being incarcerated but ended up becoming the Prime Minister in the land of Pharoahs?

But with you, you will not experience Joseph's travails. Even in your present situation in life, God will visit you and still make a big deal out of you for the rest of humanity to celebrate you.

Don't loose it yet, keep keeping on for your time shall surely come. With God, anything and everything good can happen in your life still. Trust Him.

God's Ridiculous Ways

God works in ridiculous ways that tell that He is a clown whom we find too unbelievable to believe. Why did I say this? Alright, you know the story of David and Goliath or don't you? How David - a youngster defeated Goliath - a well-trained warrior and a giant with nothing but stone is a story in the Bible we know too well. Now tell me, isn't that funny? Can you believe that of all the exposed places on Goliath's body it is only on his temple that the stone flung from David's hunting catapult could hit the giant and send him to an early grave?

Why am I talking about God's unbelievable and mock-worthy ways of showing His supremacy in situatios that concern us? I'm trying to point out to you that God can use anybody anytime to see you out of that situation you have resigned to fate on, waiting for the end to come. Or why do you think He used a murderer like Paul to propagate His kingdom more than any other? Why did He use Moses to teach Pharoah His ways albeit the hard ways. God can kill anybody to prove a point about how dear you are to Him.

Do not despair for He is aware of your inner yearnings and cries at night. Learn to believe Him no matter who He's using. Learn to listen to all opinions, even when they come from your children, siblings, wife, husband, neighbours and your pastors. Sometimes a mad man has a message for you from God. Just pay attention and pray him to lead you to achieve His will for your life.

Believe Him no matter your situation, He'll surely make a way for you if that is what you earnestly desire. Cheers.

A Quote To Guide You

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Albert Einstein

This quote is from Albert Einstein who was born in 1879 and died in 1955. He was a United States of America citizen though of German-born. A world-renowned scientist who became famous for his theories of relativity. He was awarded Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 and was an accomplished violinist in his youth.

Interpretation

This quote by Albert Einstein is asking you to be curious through asking of questions. Anything that is not clear to you is bound to attract a barrage of inciteful questions from you so you can learn and learn fast. But please don't go about asking stupid questions.

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My Prayer For You In This Month of December

As December unfolds,
God will mark you for glory,

Tick you for honour,
Note you for His choicest blessings,
Name you for favour,

Push you for wonders,

Till you fall into plenty.

Did I hear you say Amen?

A Great Quote To Make Your Day Successful

It is from no other than B.C. Forbes,

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

Possibilities - A Poem

If you believe in yourself,
If you believe it in your mind,

If you wish it,

If you want it,
If you believe you deserve it,
If you can achieve it,
Then, you'll get it.

It is a world of dreams and possibilities.

Dare to dream!

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Quotes To Make Your Day

"Mind is all that counts. You can be whatever you make up your mind to be." Robert Collier

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." Dale Carnegie

The Meaning of MIRACLE

Your definition of miracle might defer from my understanding of that great word, but I know that miracle is divine and lacks scientific understanding and approach. For the benefit of this blog, I dare say miracle is described as a dumb telling a deaf that the blind saw a cripple run across the road to help a barren woman carry her baby.

What do you think? It behoves human imagination though but it has happened over and over again.

Why not start by expecting yours today?

ajulu: Coping With Pressure In Your Work Place

ajulu: Coping With Pressure In Your Work Place

ajulu: Coping With Pressure In Your Work Place

ajulu: Coping With Pressure In Your Work Place

ajulu: Coping With Pressure In Your Work Place

ajulu: Coping With Pressure In Your Work Place

Coping With Pressure In Your Work Place

Most times, friends have complained about one witch-of-a-boss in their offices who are bent on ruining their peace of mind by always taking on them whenever anything goes wrong - be it their own fault or another person's, they would be haunted and punished for another person's mistake. Heaven help them if the mistake is theirs, they stand to loose a part of their monthly income via surcharge.

Now the issue is how to cope with such hater-bosses in your place(s) of work. They put you always on the edge and tell everybody in their boasts that they want you out of job. Hmm! A sadistic boss? God help you!

Yes, it is only God that can help you out of your emotionally tasking situation brought on you by a non God-fearing boss. The first thing you must do about your boss and your situation is to investigate how he/she got to his/her position of authority. This is necessary considering the fact that some people attain certain heights in life through mediocrity and nepotism. After you have concluded your investigation, go on your knees and talk to God about your situation. Every king's heart is in God's hands. Your boss is not yet a king and can always be disciplined by God without much fanfare and appeal from Him to turn a new leaf for your sake. Just go ahead and pray and if you can afford to, add fasting to it.

I can assure you that either your boss is booted out of his office or he is demoted. He had messed with God's own and must be alive to bear the consequences.

Quit complaining about a fellow human being moreso when it is Jehovah Jireh that secured you your job. Who is that person, a human being with his/her flaws, that will take your joy away from you? Whatever the pressure and burden the antagonism of your boss might have brought you, tell God to bear them on your behalf as you are aware of His strength to keep you even when the storm is raging.

Now, this problem of yours has brought you closer to God and you will see yourself reaping more and more from God's goodness towards you.

Keep trusting Him and the pressure will definitely shift and become to portion of your boss.

ajulu: My Prayer For You In This New Month

ajulu: My Prayer For You In This New Month

In This Luvly Nite

In this lovely night,
I pray to the blue moon
to protect u throughout the night.

The wind to blow away your srtess
and the twinkling stars to
guide you till morning.

Sleep well my dear ones.

Have You Been Pessimistic Lately?

Ooops! What does pessimism mean again you might be asking yourself now. It means in my summation, as having all the wrong thought-process on everything in life. Every time you look at yourself moving forward, all you see are nothing but hedges along your path. You spend your day(s) wallowing in negative thoughts about your success and your being. At the long run, your health is suffering and not your health alone, your pockets too and your social and moral life as well.

Anyone who comes close to you is a suspect for mocking you. If they smile, it's you they are smiling at and their smiles are nothing but mockery of your position in life. If you sight two persons gisting away, then it's you they are gossiping about. You see darkness everywhere you look at even when you are under the sun. Every little thing irritates you and every noise around you grates your nerves.

Gosh! Your life is in quagmire and you'll end up a nerve-wreck in no distant time. So what must u do to avoid being pessimistic even when nothing seems to be going your way? The answer is simple. Go on your knees. When you get on your knees, say the following short prayer and you'll have peace descend on your shoulders rather than your burdens descending and eating you away:

Oh lord, come into my life and take absolute possesion of my entire being.
I confess that I have been carrying these burdens
all alone and have never welcomed you
into my life as my lord and personal saviour.

Take these burdens especially that of pessimism off my shoulders,

I have become weak and can't continue like this any longer.
Ever since I realized you can do me this favour,
I have come in humble supplication for your grace to become optimistic in life.
Remove my heart of pessimism and bless me today and always
with a heart of optimism to the glory of your name,
for in Jesus' name I have prayed. Amen!

Waoh! Myself I'm feeling relieved already. How about you?

My Prayer For You In This New Month

It is another new month. Thank God you made it through October. What are your plans for your life in this new month? How are you planning on battling with those little devils that harass you every now and then making you loose focus on the important things that would've taken your life to the next level? Never despair for I have another prayer for you today to be with you for the rest of the month.

May all your goals and dreams
forever come true.

You'll never lack anything good
in this life, and abundance shall
always be your portion

In Jesus name. Amen!

ajulu: My Prayer For You Today

ajulu: My Prayer For You Today

ajulu: My Prayer For You Today

ajulu: My Prayer For You Today

My Prayer For You Today

Today, mercy will reach u,
Grace will compass u,
Favour will distinguish u,
Peace will keep u,
Help will not be far from u.

Rise for the Balm of Gilead
Has traded ur sickness n burdens
With healing
N success.
Believe, 'cause it is well.

ajulu: Friend: It's True Meaning

ajulu: Friend: It's True Meaning

Friend: It's True Meaning

A friend is dat special person whom
U treasure as an exotic gift.

Someone whom when u just think of,
Would bring smile to ur face
N gladdens ur heart.

A Prayer For My Loved Ones

May you stand when others
Are sitting,

When they stand,
May you standout.

When they standout,
May you outstand.

Have a great day always!

All That God Does For You

God is above you
To Bless you,

Below you
To support you,

Before you
To lead you,

Behind you
To protect you,

Beside you
To comfort you,

And in you
To sustain you.


Need I say more? You are a blessing.
Just get up and get cracking, kicking and you'll smoke
and catch fire. Hahaha!

According To Maria Carey

Hero (A song by Mariah Carey)

There’s a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don’t have to be afraid of what you are
There’s an answer
If you reach into your soul and the sorrow that you know
Will melt away

Chorus
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you’ll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

It’s a long road
When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand for you to hold
You can find love if you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt will disappear

Chorus

Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don’t let anyone tear them away
Hold on
There will be tomorrow in time
You’ll find a way

Chorus till fades


Hero – Interpretation

Mariah Carey is simply telling you to look inwards. There is a cache of strength in you only that you are late in realizing your potentials. What you will be is sitting pretty inside of you. Be patient but persistent. Always remember that life is full of difficult puzzles. That is why I advised in my upcoming book; Motivation: A Personal Guide, that all should go on their knees to ask God certain pertinent questions that will help them discover where their inner strengths lie. Prayers work wonders hence, they are said to be miraculous - the outcomes. You might not believe in God as an atheist, never mind, try prayers and you will be confounded when your dreams come rushing out and God’s choicest blessings pursue you, overtake you while you remain mesmerized and thankful to God for the rest of your life.

The Path I Have Chosen (A poem by Ugo Okeke)

I cherish an environment of calm serenity
With greenery trees of mango, orange, guava
Adorning the paved or otherwise roads,
Streets or natural bush paths,
When I lie down underneath any of them,

I get to hear the enchanting splattering murmurs
Of a spring running on rocks
And the chirping of grasshoppers and the birds
Conversing with me,
It captures my mood and inspires me to
Wave-making level of creativity.

I am a child of nature.
I go close to anything or being, human or animal
That owns bountiful folds of love
Which could draw me closer to the world
Of healthy fantasies for my inspiration.

Engaging in this pastime takes away nay,
Takes care of my worries, stress and pains.
That is the reason kids my unassuming friends
Worthy of emulation by an honest man
Warm up the most to my heart.

When I was young, I hunted grasshoppers
And bitter leaf stalk bugs at the government field
But never fed them my sparrow birds,
Set them free I always did after playing with them.

Like the uprightly sunning leaves in a green forest
Awaiting the rain showers of life to bestow on them
With love saintly of no half measure
I always prepare a stoic me for foreseeable
And unforeseeable eventualities.

As unassuming as I am,
I have come painstakingly to realize
That the world smiles not the way of a pair of happy eyes.
Happy eyes are the evidence of inward intactness.
I take solace in the fact that the Creator of nature is not
A human garbing the mischief and hate infested heart that
Has captured the thoughts and moods of humans.

For sure, human beings with love-besieged thinking caps
Parted on them on the day of creation do exist to exude love
To the appreciative hearts around them.

The world is more on the lookout for mistakes
And hardly will help you find your feet
By leading you to the book of wisdom.
Every intention is twisted, every gesture criticized
And misconstrued, but I live above aboard

Nothing whatsoever by
His grace has sent me sprawling on my pants
From helplessness to hopelessness.
That is to say that the criticism doesn’t hurt. It does.
Over the years I have learnt to rise above criticism.
I do not dwell on them and allow them dictate to me.

The irony of it all is its usefulness in giving me
The strength I never knew I had.
Criticism I’ve noticed has given me the much-needed support
In pursuing my vision, a sense of direction and belonging
And the credibility and the moral strength to continue
Along the path I’ve chosen. This is to love all.



Interpretation

Be sure you know who you are. Choose your life's path and career carefully so you will live a life of contentment instead of a life filled with regrets.

Engage in functions and hobbies that best suit your personality and please don't try to live the life of another person. That amounts to self-denial. Just be yourself and be strong for you will derive strength from your exceptionally explored talents.

Search your mind and you will arrive at the best for yourself. There are many opportunities in this world for you. get up and seek them out.

Remember always that there is a divine purpose for which you were created.

An Inspiring Quote To Take U To Da Next Level

I want u to know that, "When God wants to reveal your song to u, He visits u through a circumstance of tears." Ugo Okeke.

That problem u are going through now has an expiry date. Be it spiritual, financial or physical, a time shall come when you'll look back and give God a healthy smile. All that is needed of you is patience, perseverance and learning to be humble enough to go on your knees. He will definitely remember His reason for making you. Cheer up.

To The One Whom I Love

Taking your hands n

Fingers to my lips

I want to love every inch of you
Taste every part of your body
As if I can drink your blood
Through your very pores

I want to get lost in your eyes
Consumed by your kiss as ur
Tongue set my body on fire
Quench the fire in my blood
With sweet caresses
Touch my soul
with your passion

Lay down beside me n
Feel my body crying for you
Let's get lost in each others touches
Touching, exploring, n tasting

We will exceed passion,
go beyond bliss
For this is our night
A night u want me like no other
A night I need you like the air
That I breathe

Together, in one mind, one soul
We r fused together
in the heat of passionate love
Existing in this moment.
Forever I'LL LUV U
MY HEART !

My Prayer 4 U Today And Always - A Poem

I said a prayer for you today,
For you and those you love.
I prayed you'd feel God's presence,
Feel His guidance from above.

I asked Him to keep you safe and warm,
To send an angel before you,
To make a path and light the way,
In whatever you might do.

I have put you in His loving care.
I trust Him with all my heart.

He's faithful in His promises,
From you He will not part.

When tomorrow comes please tell me
That you said a prayer for me.
Friends praying for each other is what our Father loves to see.

This Might Get U Motivated

Be Motivated and Stay Motivated

Any time people come to me with questions on how to become motivated in life and remain motivated for as long as they live, I always ask them to look inwards and then look around them. Perhaps by doing so they’ll see what will inspire them, see what is in them and what motivates other people around them.
Do you know you can be motivated by the smile on the face of a baby? The beauty of your surroundings can magically motivate you to no end. The evil look on the face of your tormentor can inspire you to get on your knees and seek God’s help in stopping him in his track. The venomous nagging fits of your wife could make you a better person. And now this, the failure streak dodging your life could give you the break you have been yearning for.
Mind you, motivation comes from God alone. You might say someone motivated you into becoming what you are, but I strongly believe that such a person is His answer to your innermost yearnings.
There is a difference between one becoming motivated and having the vision beforehand to keep his/her ambition burning. Some people jump out to say they have become motivated without actually knowing what their passion is. It is like a handicapable non-Christian who was dragged to a crusade ground and fortunately for him, he received instant healing. He doesn’t know where the power that healed him came from until he reaches inside his soul to ask himself some pertinent questions concerning his newfound status as a Christian believer. Take for instant; a young man came to me to tell me how confused he was by not knowing exactly what the motivating elements in him were. I asked him what he had passion for and he said football. I then asked him what his problem was and he told me he does not believe his break in life would come through professional football.
I realized this young man was having doubts about his talents and how those talents could put him on the right track. He lacked the strength of inner mind that would make him see what would be of him in the nearest future. You find out it is the fame and fortune that professional football would offer him that motivates him. He was not called to become a professional footballer that is why he was having doubts about his ability to break even.
Now, how would a reader of this article discover what motivates him/her? Very simple! Start by figuring out what interests you most. This you do by looking inwards, by searching your mind to find out those talents of yours that would make a difference out of you among your generation. I know that everybody is blessed with one talent or more. Whatever that talent is, never you look down on yourself or start by building roadblocks on your way to achieving your dream in life. Nothing comes easy but if you have the push, you will definitely surprise yourself by coming out a success even in an industry that has a lot of comers and achievers.
Your motivation should be anchored on the belief that when you get started, you will stand when others are sitting, when they stand, you are bound to standout, and when they standout, you’ll outstand them. Motivation is all about your understanding of who you are - your weaknesses and your strengths. This involves how to conquer your fears and achieve success. Then look around you and discover what inspires you. This could be a person or an object, thought or an idea. Once you do that, you lap on to that which inspires you. Your vision comes in handy here bearing in mind that vision without venture is a marked failure and a vice (weakness). You make bold by reaching out to those who have the experience you need to start off on the path you have chosen. Ask the most important questions even those that would make out you are a numskull. Never mind, it is said that no knowledge is a waste.
At this point, you have set sail and your vision is what keeps you going. You learn to make bold decisions that might even surprise people into telling you off and advising you otherwise. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who wrote: “Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.” The message in this quotation is to keep busy and focused. No matter the challenges, hang in there. Nobody I tell you will carry your cross for you. Not even your parents or siblings and best friends. They have their targets and set goals and wouldn’t ever want to add yours to theirs. When you look behind to push your responsibilities to another person, you are either lazy or irresponsible with no sense of will and purpose.
If you want to remain motivated, you must learn to keep keeping on. Learn from the snail if that is what you are. When it meets with danger, it rolls in its eyes and when the coast is clear, it keeps going albeit at a very slow pace, but progress it is making. Money might be what would make a snail out of you, learn to talk to people and tell them your needs without making a weak person out of you. All you need do is impress it on them that if they invest in you, there would be good profit from their investments. Learn to be business minded and eschew selfishness. Your vision will definitely bring you pain, but you must learn from Naomi Wolf who wrote: “Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”
Do your research well and work out the modalities before going to anybody with your proposal. Dare yourself and be the success you have always dreamed of. Dreams come true of course!

Poem Titled - Untitled

When morning awakes me
From a dreamless journey
To the lands known
And unknown,
With the breathless calmness
Of the wind so harmless,
I appreciate God’s Son
For the beautiful sun
That has come with rays of hope
So sealed for my upliftment in an envelope.

Ugochukwu Okeke: Untitled
An unpublished poem, 2006.

Passion Killers!

Before u jump to conclusions, I’m not about to talk about what goes on in a relationship. I’m here to bring to your notice certain deadly passion killers you’ll always have to be wary of.
The passion I’m talking about here is the one you have for whatever you once believed in then or now. And now these passion killers are after your set goals. These passion killers could be self-inflicted or spiritual. But with prayers one can overcome them.
Now, these are some passion killers that I have come to observe overtime.
· Words without action. Every time you have something in the pipeline, so to say. Nothing gets to take off. They take off only in your mind which builds words for you to keep deceiving only yourself. Match your words with action even when you have seemingly insurmountable challenges. Just get started and you’ll see things taking shape.
· Being busy without purpose. Everyday you keep busy and have no set goals. With prayers you’ll discover your God-given purpose for being created and still alive. So many people are ignorant of the fact that God has a purpose for their earthly existence. Don’t just keep busy to stay alive, find your rhythm in what gives you that sense of fulfilment and you’ll see you have stumbled on your reason for being here.
· Personal giftedness without spiritual power. This is where many people get it wrong. Take time to go on your knees and seek God’s clues that you are on the right path. You are free to choose a path to walk in life but with God’s support, you’ll excel more than your competitors.
· A Lack of Passion. Whatever you are doing and you lack the proper energy of vision and passion will surely collapse. Only what you have natural passion for will thrive and give you the break you have been yearning for. Complacency should be avoided.
· Short-term thinking. Your vision must be fashioned out to outlive you. Any vision you have must be well thought-out. Don’t bring in fear along your way and don’t tolerate the traditional ways of doing things. Research other ways starting with the reasons why traditional ways have failed others in the past.

Cheer up and take these seriously, you’ll surely excel.

It Pays To Smile

I woke up this morning with a head-splitting headache which I couldn't trace its source. It really unnerved me to the extent I became almost irritable. My anger was written profoundly on my face. When I came outside and into the street, I was seeing other angry pairs of eyes. People were exchanging hot words and all that. I said a silent prayer in my mind and asked God to take away the headache. It was after my prayer that a voice advised me to smile despite my health condition. I did but with so much pain that I knew I ended up looking awful. I persisted until a passerby smiled back at me. That was when I realized I was giving the world a good smile. By the time I got to my office, the headache is gone.

Waoh! I'm so relieved though I'll still have to go see my physician.

Darling, it pays to smile. A lot of our pains and burdens persist because we want the world to know how much we are suffering. No way! Self-pity is the worst thing u can do to urself. Quit that drama, it is no longer fashionable as it is no longer helpful.

Smile at the world instead and you'll experience what I experienced this morning.

Hahahaha! I simply can't stop. Try it and see the difference it's going to make in your life. Cheers!

Fear Nothing

Fear is said to mean, "...false evidence appearing real." Waoh! What you fear most will happen to u. Therefore, take a cue from the words of these great minds:

Rabindranath Togoro who wrote, "Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them."

Eleanor Roosevelt told his team, "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which u really stop to look fear in the face."

Nigeria's Obafemi Awolowo said, "It isn't life that matters, but courage u bring into it."

Therefore, fear nothing! Pray over everything and put that fear in God's hands.

A Notable Quote To Inspire U

"What I know is, is that if you do work dat you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come." Oprah Winfrey: US Talkshow personality and businesswoman.

Ur lifestyle Can Inspire Others

Your Lifestyle Can Inspire Others


Do you know that the way you live your life could be a source of inspiration to the people around you? Even to those who don’t know would be so impressed by the aura of your life that they end up dreaming of replicating your lifestyle in their lives. This I call character cloning.
So know it today that you are candlelight kept on top the table, which drives away darkness from wherever you find yourself.
How will you live this life of confidence that inspire others? This you can achieve by showing contentment and eschewing envying those who are better off. Always wear a smile on your face. This helps to brighten the inner mind and keep it open to inspire you to tap from your inner strengths in energies you never believe you have in you. It is equally advisable to go out of your way to show kindness to people you believe you are better off. Now look at it this way. What do you think this world would be like if everybody offers a help to people they are better off? Life will be more meaningful and inspirational.
Learn to give honest advice to people who believed enough in you to come seeking your counsel. It makes people accept you subconsciously as a pillar of support. I know of a couple in Nigeria that offers counseling services to couples in bad marriages and those having evil children. They also pray for them and their families so that their labour will be sanctioned by the almighty.
People are inspired more easily by people who show confidence in all their approaches to life’s varying situations. It is like success. Confidence exudes sense of self-worth and contentment. Therefore, it attracts interest from people who intend to live their lives the way you do. They will come to you asking questions when they know you don’t have everything in life yet, you are confident. There are many people who get inspired when they look into the eyes of confident people, therefore, show confidence in the face of life’s perfidies and you’ll succeed in making yourself a hero and a source of inspiration.


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Don't Look Down On Yourself

In my chat with a young woman who came to me with a question bothering her mind after my presentation in a motivational talkshop last month, I have come to realize that certain expressions need to be explicitly interpreted for easier understanding.
This young woman probably in her early twenties came to me to ask me what I meant by, “acting like I’m the best thing to have happened to humanity”, “whether it does not imply adorning and adopting peacock’s plumage and approach to the rest of humanity?” It might have sounded easy to you but it is not quite easy, as I earlier had thought. This young woman had misinterpreted and misunderstood the lesson in acting like the best thing to have happened to humanity to mean becoming proud and arrogant.
I was quick to point out to her that the teaching in the expression is simply telling you not to look down on yourself no matter what you are going through in life. No matter what life is forcing down your throat, don’t ever act or take it to be the end to your very existence. You must always come out cheerful everyday with the best of expectations on your mind that your today will definitely be better than your yesterday. Every day comes with its possibilities and opportunities, and challenges. Your duty it is to pray God to provide you the clues for discovering opportunities and meeting with and as well as defeating their ever-attendant challenges. With prayers, you are more than a conqueror. Think of the wisdom in Melanchthon’s quote, “Trouble and perplexity drives me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.” Or this from Edward Young, “In every storm that either frowns or falls, what an asylum the soul has in prayer.”
Equally I gave her a scenario. Among people who live around you, some of them are happy seeing you facing difficulties even when they are related to you, while some would be there giving you moral support that will keep you going amidst your long-sufferings. And this is where the challenge comes in with having not what one is doing and being expected to face the world with smiles when there is no cause to smile. You suddenly loose your job and as you have no other source of income, your financial tap stops running. Your friends start leaving in their droves and those who are around you start looking down on you. They remain around you to show you how their lives have become better than yours. This you’ll discover when you ask for financial help from any one of them. Though you’ll say I’m generalizing, definitely, there must be some exceptional friends. All these will make you feel unloved, used and appear useless to humanity.
So you see, this is where you are most likely to catch my drift. When you have been made to eat the humble pie by your fair-weather friends, don’t let them know you miss them or that any one of them could put you down. Let them see a steely you who is un-put-down-able. You can even act like royalty. It will keep them bemused but you are in pursuit of happiness and achieving contentment even in your situation - situation they would not know how to handle in their own time except they come to you for help. It is then you’ll understand the beauty of the experience you have acquired not looking down on yourself when things went rough on you. Of course they’ll be shocked by your audacity and say all unfavourable sorts about you. The one thing they will surely say to your hearing is the fact that you are pretending to be having things going for you as they use to whereas you are only being too proud to let it show. Yes! Don’t let anybody read your mind’s construction on your face, in your words and actions. Remember, you are a man/woman of steel. You are sufferable but you will not remain down forever. And now, let me go spiritual. Everything happening in your life is divine-designed except those ones we brought on ourselves. Huh? So there are rooms for carefulness here.
You will learn to see the good side of life always so you will not loose the fight to your daily challenges. Also, you will remain focused as you explore every opportunity that comes your way as you work towards getting your life back. And mind you, one slip might be very dangerous, as it would mar you for the rest of your life.
The most important character trait you must be conscious of and eschew is pride. Now you will say I’ve contradicted my admonition to act like the best thing to have happened to humanity. No! Far from that! A cliché says pride goes before the fall whereas my teaching here is saying you must not loose your dignity - your sense of self worth when things go wrong. Always have it at the back of your mind that things can always get better. It is not about you looking down on people and feeling like no one is as good as you are. Do away with arrogance and pride and then you have shown the world you are a well-heeled intellectual with lots of wisdom going for you.
Now, put on that your most expensive wear and go out and don’t you dare turn yourself into a recluse – a social leper. You deserve more from life to let your challenges take you with them. So look them and your mockers in the face and tell them your best is yet to be celebrated.
I want you to know that you are on sabbatical and you’ll soon be all that you have always wanted to be. Now get up and show the world some smiles and find out your true friends. Cheers!