Man was the last thing created by God. After creating all other things of nature, God was happy for the beautiful things he has created. Even though he was happy he was not satisfied because he thought of creating something that would take care of these wonderful creatures. Then, he said “Let us make man in our Image and likeness”. This wonderful resolution occasioned the emergence of man.
In regard to the time and process taken to create man unlike other creatures who were a mere product of word, man is therefore not by accident but a product of the wishful thought of God. After the creation of man, God was elated for having his duplicate in the world but still not satisfied and he thought and resolved of creating a helpmate thereby causing the man to go into deep sleep and he removed one of his ribs from where he fashioned the woman.
God did not stop in creating them he desirously provided them a place of glamour, a place bereft of suffering, a holy place called Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were allowed to roam in this wonderful and holy place under the total provision of God and God been their custodian, they lived there in the Ignorant of evil and good until the serpent visited which accessioned them knowing that they were naked and consequently became abashed. God being a jealous God could not condone this singular act of recalcitrance. He cursed and forced them out of the garden and told the man that he will from that day live by his sweat. But out of his abundance love and generosity endowed man with a lot of potentials to actualize and these potentials Includes physical strength, mental strength, energy of mind and will power.
Even as he has done these gracious things to man, he still went further to reconcile with him even when he (God) is not guilty of any offence to man. This he achieved through his only begotten son Jesus Christ who came to the world and died for the sin that he is not guilty of. Christ on leaving this world promised to send to the disciples a comforter the Holy Spirit who later on the Pentecost day descended on them and imbued them with variety of gifts. These gifts includes the gift of tongue, wisdom, knowledge, power to heal, faith, power to work miracles; the gift of speaking God’s messages, the power of discernment and the gift of explaining what is said.
But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person. (I Cor. 12:8 – 11)
These etal were the natural endowment in man to enable him meet up to God’s initial plan for him which he has lost by his act of disobedience. God’s initial plan for man was to live in abundance and in lack of nothing. Man is therefore expected to take advantage of these free gifts of nature to enable him function effectively for his good, the good of others and to the glory of God.
Man been created in the image and likeness of God acquired the potential to create. The different between God and man is that man’s creative ability is controlled by God and man is to create from the available creatures. Motor vehicle for example is man’s made from already made raw material
Thursday, April 21, 2011
INTRODUCTION TO SUCCESSFUL,PURPOSEFUL AND CREATIVE LIFE
“You don’t get in life what you want, you get in life who you are”. (Less Brown) God endowed man with a lot of potentials which when maximized will amount to greatness. When God sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, he did not leave them with any material things; they only exploited their natural ability and provided themselves with their primary & secondary needs. Food, Cloth, Shelter, Money, Car etc. were man’s inventions to meet his Comfort .Those were products of man’s mental strength and knowledge about his environment and what it contains.
Apart from mental strength (the power of reasoning), God left them with the physical strength (good health), and energy of mind. Mental strength includes reasoning; knowledge, wisdom, creativity e.tc and Energy of mind include burning desire, determination, persistence, diligence, hope, faith, optimism e.tc.
These abilities are equal but of different functions. Without physical strength man might not live to creates wealth. Therefore health is wealth.
Also without mental strength man might not find solution to his problems and would therefore die off and without energy of mind, man might not have continued to work out solutions to his problems and above all provide for himself.
It will be difficult and a mistake to place them in other of their priority. It were said and I quote
“Health is wealth” (Physical strength)
Our future is shaped by our thought (mental strength)
Energy of mind is the essence of life (Aristotle). Following the above assertions, it will be rarely possible to attain greatness in life without these natural abilities been combined and channeled towards an expected end.
Arranging them in the ascending other, mental strength could be placed first followed by the physical and finally energy of mind.
This is because you cannot feature (mind factor) what you have not pictured (mental factor)
This mean that you can only act to your level of knowledge and you are limited to your knowledge and you also require good health to follow up your dreams doggedly and passionately. Apart from the fact that they are interwoven, they have advantages over the other in success actualization.
In demonstrating the advantage of mental strength over physical strength in success actualization, we can use this common experience – A barrow pusher and a banker.
A barrow pusher uses more energy than the banker but gains lesser than a banker .here the input is far greater than the output. A banker in the other hand will be in his office doing his mental work under a cozy and conducive atmosphere and at the end earns a reasonable salary. Here the output is greater than the input.
Apart from gaining less, a barrow pusher uses more or less of his income in buying drugs to easy off pains associated with stresses – tears and wears characterized of barrow pushing and other associated duties .
This shows that success requires more of positive thinking, initiatives coupled with determination and diligence than physical strength.
You are therefore required to think, to create a mental picture (dream) and work hard towards transferring this mental picture into visible concrete things. The title of this book shows that you don’t get money / wealth rather you create wealth.
You don’t get something when you have nothing to give for that. Success is therefore using what you have and get what you don’t have. Professionals / Artisans are paid for their services (Knowledge) and not for any other things. Lecturers/ teachers are paid for the knowledge they offer limited to your level of knowledge. You can only create wealth out of your initiatives, positive thought, and knowledge e t c.
No wonder the scripture said that “your future is shaped by your thought” (As a man thinketh, so he is). Hence success is a product of constructive and functional reasoning. Napoleon hill in his book titled think and grow rich depicts how positive thoughts could yield success.
Take advantage of your natural endowment and exploit your potentials. Your future, your luxurious home and glamorous cars you hope for are in you. You cannot find them any where.
Think! Think! Think! , create a mental picture, have a dream goal today and follow it diligently. Try to isolate yourself sometimes and think over your future. Whenever an idea comes to your mind write it down and access its workability. You are a product of your thoughts.
The best thinking has been done in solitude and the worst has been done in turmoil. (Thomas Edison). There are lots of multifarious factors that affects total exploit. Some act as catalyst and some as Inhibitors. Your reaching to your expected ends depends wholly on your ability to make effective use of your potentials and ability to overcome your weaknesses.
Determination & purpose will drive you safely across all odds. Embrace them. Most of the preclinical hedges to total exploit are Doubt,
Discouragement and Despair (3D). Never get discouraged, never doubt your ability and say it is over until it is over. (Despair)
Apart from mental strength (the power of reasoning), God left them with the physical strength (good health), and energy of mind. Mental strength includes reasoning; knowledge, wisdom, creativity e.tc and Energy of mind include burning desire, determination, persistence, diligence, hope, faith, optimism e.tc.
These abilities are equal but of different functions. Without physical strength man might not live to creates wealth. Therefore health is wealth.
Also without mental strength man might not find solution to his problems and would therefore die off and without energy of mind, man might not have continued to work out solutions to his problems and above all provide for himself.
It will be difficult and a mistake to place them in other of their priority. It were said and I quote
“Health is wealth” (Physical strength)
Our future is shaped by our thought (mental strength)
Energy of mind is the essence of life (Aristotle). Following the above assertions, it will be rarely possible to attain greatness in life without these natural abilities been combined and channeled towards an expected end.
Arranging them in the ascending other, mental strength could be placed first followed by the physical and finally energy of mind.
This is because you cannot feature (mind factor) what you have not pictured (mental factor)
This mean that you can only act to your level of knowledge and you are limited to your knowledge and you also require good health to follow up your dreams doggedly and passionately. Apart from the fact that they are interwoven, they have advantages over the other in success actualization.
In demonstrating the advantage of mental strength over physical strength in success actualization, we can use this common experience – A barrow pusher and a banker.
A barrow pusher uses more energy than the banker but gains lesser than a banker .here the input is far greater than the output. A banker in the other hand will be in his office doing his mental work under a cozy and conducive atmosphere and at the end earns a reasonable salary. Here the output is greater than the input.
Apart from gaining less, a barrow pusher uses more or less of his income in buying drugs to easy off pains associated with stresses – tears and wears characterized of barrow pushing and other associated duties .
This shows that success requires more of positive thinking, initiatives coupled with determination and diligence than physical strength.
You are therefore required to think, to create a mental picture (dream) and work hard towards transferring this mental picture into visible concrete things. The title of this book shows that you don’t get money / wealth rather you create wealth.
You don’t get something when you have nothing to give for that. Success is therefore using what you have and get what you don’t have. Professionals / Artisans are paid for their services (Knowledge) and not for any other things. Lecturers/ teachers are paid for the knowledge they offer limited to your level of knowledge. You can only create wealth out of your initiatives, positive thought, and knowledge e t c.
No wonder the scripture said that “your future is shaped by your thought” (As a man thinketh, so he is). Hence success is a product of constructive and functional reasoning. Napoleon hill in his book titled think and grow rich depicts how positive thoughts could yield success.
Take advantage of your natural endowment and exploit your potentials. Your future, your luxurious home and glamorous cars you hope for are in you. You cannot find them any where.
Think! Think! Think! , create a mental picture, have a dream goal today and follow it diligently. Try to isolate yourself sometimes and think over your future. Whenever an idea comes to your mind write it down and access its workability. You are a product of your thoughts.
The best thinking has been done in solitude and the worst has been done in turmoil. (Thomas Edison). There are lots of multifarious factors that affects total exploit. Some act as catalyst and some as Inhibitors. Your reaching to your expected ends depends wholly on your ability to make effective use of your potentials and ability to overcome your weaknesses.
Determination & purpose will drive you safely across all odds. Embrace them. Most of the preclinical hedges to total exploit are Doubt,
Discouragement and Despair (3D). Never get discouraged, never doubt your ability and say it is over until it is over. (Despair)
FACTORS THAT AFFECT ONES EXPLOITS ARE;
DESTINY
“ I choose you before I gave you life, and before you where born I selected you to be prophet to the nation” Jeremiah 1:4
Destiny is a determinant factor in ones future. It is the predetermined purpose.
Purpose is that which one is meant to do, get or become e t c. It could be said that purpose is the reason why you are created. You are created for a particular single purpose without which life could be a waste of time.
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose goes forth in action; action forms habits, habits decide character and character fixes your destiny.
Therefore your destiny is that thing you usually do, you drive joy doing it and can do it well without been thought or guided. it is different from talent, career or profession.
Talent is the natural power to do something well. You can have more than one talent that gear towards achieving ones single purpose. You may be a good preacher, singer e t c. These abilities were given to you to enable you convert souls which may be the reason why you are created (Purpose).
Profession on the other hand is that in which you are been trained on. Your area of discipline.
The relationship between destiny, talent and profession is that:
Destiny is the purpose of being; it may be to save life.
Talent is that ability that enables you to save life. Profession helps you to improve on your talents.
Try and discover your purpose in life don’t live a purposeless life.
There is nothing like bad destiny. Bad destiny is only a product of one doing what he/she is not created to do. It is like one reading engineering without the good knowledge of mathematics which is the core subject in the field of engineering. He will continue to fail unless he changes course.
Sometimes what we called bad destiny may be as a result of our Ignorant about life and what it takes to succeed. It may be what was done in the past by your predecessors and of course, you may be a child of evil covenant. When the going gets tough, try and trace your roots. Ask questions about the past (ancient) – before you were born those things that have happened in your family and kindred and like Jabez, you can change your destiny.
In Jeremiah, God gave us power to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant. It might be your neighbor, your friend even your family members find out and break it.
For lack of knowledge are my peoples destroyed………………
Note also that success does not come so easily , you may have failed several times in your attempt to succeed in life continue to try until something new happens. Success sometimes disguise in temporary defeat. Don’t quit in your attempt to succeed.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Nobody was destined to be poor. It takes Ignorant, lack of diligence, poor reasoning to be poor because your parents are poor. Most of the today’s rich men came from poor background families. Try and do that which your parents could not do.
Your parents may not be educated, try and educate yourself and discover the cause of your parent’s poor condition.
“Success offer comes to those who dare and act, it seldom goes to the timid that are ever afraid of the Consequences” – Jawaharlal Nehru.
Act now!
“ I choose you before I gave you life, and before you where born I selected you to be prophet to the nation” Jeremiah 1:4
Destiny is a determinant factor in ones future. It is the predetermined purpose.
Purpose is that which one is meant to do, get or become e t c. It could be said that purpose is the reason why you are created. You are created for a particular single purpose without which life could be a waste of time.
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose goes forth in action; action forms habits, habits decide character and character fixes your destiny.
Therefore your destiny is that thing you usually do, you drive joy doing it and can do it well without been thought or guided. it is different from talent, career or profession.
Talent is the natural power to do something well. You can have more than one talent that gear towards achieving ones single purpose. You may be a good preacher, singer e t c. These abilities were given to you to enable you convert souls which may be the reason why you are created (Purpose).
Profession on the other hand is that in which you are been trained on. Your area of discipline.
The relationship between destiny, talent and profession is that:
Destiny is the purpose of being; it may be to save life.
Talent is that ability that enables you to save life. Profession helps you to improve on your talents.
Try and discover your purpose in life don’t live a purposeless life.
There is nothing like bad destiny. Bad destiny is only a product of one doing what he/she is not created to do. It is like one reading engineering without the good knowledge of mathematics which is the core subject in the field of engineering. He will continue to fail unless he changes course.
Sometimes what we called bad destiny may be as a result of our Ignorant about life and what it takes to succeed. It may be what was done in the past by your predecessors and of course, you may be a child of evil covenant. When the going gets tough, try and trace your roots. Ask questions about the past (ancient) – before you were born those things that have happened in your family and kindred and like Jabez, you can change your destiny.
In Jeremiah, God gave us power to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant. It might be your neighbor, your friend even your family members find out and break it.
For lack of knowledge are my peoples destroyed………………
Note also that success does not come so easily , you may have failed several times in your attempt to succeed in life continue to try until something new happens. Success sometimes disguise in temporary defeat. Don’t quit in your attempt to succeed.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Nobody was destined to be poor. It takes Ignorant, lack of diligence, poor reasoning to be poor because your parents are poor. Most of the today’s rich men came from poor background families. Try and do that which your parents could not do.
Your parents may not be educated, try and educate yourself and discover the cause of your parent’s poor condition.
“Success offer comes to those who dare and act, it seldom goes to the timid that are ever afraid of the Consequences” – Jawaharlal Nehru.
Act now!
DREAM/GOALS
A dream is a vision, an ambition, a goal. It is a picture on one’s mind, of what one wants achieve in life. If you don’t have a dream then you don’t have a goal, an aim or a focus in life. Dream inspires creativity, it motivates one to action as all your effort & actions are slanted towards attaining your desirous future. Dream is a more and valuable mental picture that is required to be worked into a concrete & visible outcome. It is not an end rather a better means to an end. The end is to be happy and to be fulfilled in life.
To be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, Banker, Builder e t c. Are all dreams. Try to have your dream today it is worth having, you cannot do without it
Functions of a goal/dream
Goals direct your actions: It helps one to focus doggedly and tenaciously towards achieving the end.
It motivates to action: Goals wakes your dormant mind to work. If you have a goal it will compel you to work without relenting until it is achieved.
It inspires creativity: Having goals rouses your creativity. In your attempt to attain your stated goals you are forced to device a means.
Goals help to measure success: Goals help you to access your level of improvement and discover your shortcomings and work on them.
It tells you the extent you have gone in life. It also discloses your weaknesses
Characteristics of a goal/dream.
Specific: Your goal must be exact. (That is defined). It is either you want to go to school first then after you go into business. It should not be ambiguous.
Measurable: It must be a type you can measure its success at any point in time.
Attainable :It must be some thing possible not building a castle in the air, Not that you want to be a Rev. father but your have a wife and children.
It must be realistic and time bounding.
For you to achieve your goal/dreams, you must have reasons while you are pursing them.
The quality of reason you are able to build up will determine the intensity of your drive.
To be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, Banker, Builder e t c. Are all dreams. Try to have your dream today it is worth having, you cannot do without it
Functions of a goal/dream
Goals direct your actions: It helps one to focus doggedly and tenaciously towards achieving the end.
It motivates to action: Goals wakes your dormant mind to work. If you have a goal it will compel you to work without relenting until it is achieved.
It inspires creativity: Having goals rouses your creativity. In your attempt to attain your stated goals you are forced to device a means.
Goals help to measure success: Goals help you to access your level of improvement and discover your shortcomings and work on them.
It tells you the extent you have gone in life. It also discloses your weaknesses
Characteristics of a goal/dream.
Specific: Your goal must be exact. (That is defined). It is either you want to go to school first then after you go into business. It should not be ambiguous.
Measurable: It must be a type you can measure its success at any point in time.
Attainable :It must be some thing possible not building a castle in the air, Not that you want to be a Rev. father but your have a wife and children.
It must be realistic and time bounding.
For you to achieve your goal/dreams, you must have reasons while you are pursing them.
The quality of reason you are able to build up will determine the intensity of your drive.
PLANNING
“He, who fails to plan, plans to fail”.
To have dream is one thing and the means of achieving it is another thing.
A plan can be defined as a set of decision for action in the future- it can be arrived at either through planning, or through some other rational methods of decision (Dior 1963)
Planning in the other hand can take different definition -:
Planning is about making choices among options that appear open for the future.
God created man and gave him most powerful gift on earth called free will (will power).Man is therefore expected to make full use of his freedom.
It is this freedom to choose between alternatives that make man to take responsibility or consequence of his action.
Planning is often regarded as rationality and the utilization of knowledge for individual, social and institutional action.
It can also be the working out in broad outline the things that need to be done to accomplish the purpose set for the entire prize.
It is the process of selecting a course of action (a set of means) for the attainment of ends (Banefield 1959)
For example if you long for rich, it is either you go into business or you go to school to get your certificate and get employed or acquire skill for entrepreneurship.
It involves the best and safer means in term of cost, time or reliability.
Planning is not an end; it is a means, a means for better use for what we have.
To be educated does not guarantee one to be automatically rich, but a better, safer and reliable means of becoming rich.
It is about the best way of allocating the scarce resources since wants are voluminous.Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice, and Possibility for American Cities
To have dream is one thing and the means of achieving it is another thing.
A plan can be defined as a set of decision for action in the future- it can be arrived at either through planning, or through some other rational methods of decision (Dior 1963)
Planning in the other hand can take different definition -:
Planning is about making choices among options that appear open for the future.
God created man and gave him most powerful gift on earth called free will (will power).Man is therefore expected to make full use of his freedom.
It is this freedom to choose between alternatives that make man to take responsibility or consequence of his action.
Planning is often regarded as rationality and the utilization of knowledge for individual, social and institutional action.
It can also be the working out in broad outline the things that need to be done to accomplish the purpose set for the entire prize.
It is the process of selecting a course of action (a set of means) for the attainment of ends (Banefield 1959)
For example if you long for rich, it is either you go into business or you go to school to get your certificate and get employed or acquire skill for entrepreneurship.
It involves the best and safer means in term of cost, time or reliability.
Planning is not an end; it is a means, a means for better use for what we have.
To be educated does not guarantee one to be automatically rich, but a better, safer and reliable means of becoming rich.
It is about the best way of allocating the scarce resources since wants are voluminous.Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice, and Possibility for American Cities
CHARACTERISTICS OF PLANNING
It is a process- this means that planning is not instantaneous (i.e. today today). it involves stage by stage implementation.
For instance a student who want to pass his /her exams stages-:
Paying the school fees on time to avoid disturbance.
Attending classes (i.e. been punctual)
Coping notes and reading them.
Buying or borrowing text books and other relevant materials, reading and using them respectively.
Using the library
Reading at least 6hours a day mostly in the night.
Forming a symposia or tutorial classes.
Eating good foods and of protein, fruits and vegetable.
Registering for the exam.
And finally writing it
Observing the above stated steps must surely see you at the top.
N.B: Reading is worrisome if you are not disposed to reading. If you develop or cultivate the reading habit it becomes pleasurable. It does not lead to madness or mental problem as people affirm.
It is future oriented: planning is all about preparing for an action in future – ie reading your books, attending classes, doing assignment or home work in other to pass the exam in the future.
- It is also about learning business or going into apprenticeship in future. In the act of achieving this that one is expected to exercise the following qualities: self mastery (self discipline), self denial, patience, Humility, Sincerity, Transparence, Obedience, Carefulness, Diligence and accountability etc.
- Planning Exercise choice – at the level value formulation, means Identification, and effectuation, planning exercises series of choices – choice of the method to adopt, choice of what to do and what to avoid without such choices, the set of decision which planning substantially series to bring about cannot be meaningfully attained.
- Planning seek the achievement of ends.
The planning process cannot operate unless it has more or less defined formulated goals.
Goals and objectives are ends. They (goals) are not static ends because they can be changed with new information and or preferences.
If you continue doing things and it is not yielding any meaningful result or outcome, change the pattern. Continue changing the pattern until it materializes & achieve consistence with a pattern that is effectual (highly effective).
Don’t be static in your pursuit of ends.
Planning should be a rational action for an end to be attained. Anything less rationality will precipitate to failure.
The means justifies the ends.
Plan your life/ future today.
Use your limited recourses sagaciously.
Invest your time, money on things that will outlast it. “if you fail to plan you plan to fail”.
For instance a student who want to pass his /her exams stages-:
Paying the school fees on time to avoid disturbance.
Attending classes (i.e. been punctual)
Coping notes and reading them.
Buying or borrowing text books and other relevant materials, reading and using them respectively.
Using the library
Reading at least 6hours a day mostly in the night.
Forming a symposia or tutorial classes.
Eating good foods and of protein, fruits and vegetable.
Registering for the exam.
And finally writing it
Observing the above stated steps must surely see you at the top.
N.B: Reading is worrisome if you are not disposed to reading. If you develop or cultivate the reading habit it becomes pleasurable. It does not lead to madness or mental problem as people affirm.
It is future oriented: planning is all about preparing for an action in future – ie reading your books, attending classes, doing assignment or home work in other to pass the exam in the future.
- It is also about learning business or going into apprenticeship in future. In the act of achieving this that one is expected to exercise the following qualities: self mastery (self discipline), self denial, patience, Humility, Sincerity, Transparence, Obedience, Carefulness, Diligence and accountability etc.
- Planning Exercise choice – at the level value formulation, means Identification, and effectuation, planning exercises series of choices – choice of the method to adopt, choice of what to do and what to avoid without such choices, the set of decision which planning substantially series to bring about cannot be meaningfully attained.
- Planning seek the achievement of ends.
The planning process cannot operate unless it has more or less defined formulated goals.
Goals and objectives are ends. They (goals) are not static ends because they can be changed with new information and or preferences.
If you continue doing things and it is not yielding any meaningful result or outcome, change the pattern. Continue changing the pattern until it materializes & achieve consistence with a pattern that is effectual (highly effective).
Don’t be static in your pursuit of ends.
Planning should be a rational action for an end to be attained. Anything less rationality will precipitate to failure.
The means justifies the ends.
Plan your life/ future today.
Use your limited recourses sagaciously.
Invest your time, money on things that will outlast it. “if you fail to plan you plan to fail”.
KNOWLEGDE/INFORMATION
“You are limited to your knowledge” It will not be a mistake to say that ones level of success in life is a function of his level of knowledge/information. There is a common saying that knowledge is power.
For lack of knowledge my people perish (scripture).Lack of information results to deformation (i.e. if you are not informed you get deformed).
For example- knowledge/information will help a rabbit hunter to continue excavation even when he founds that the mouse has ended due to a blockage by the rabbit and still catch the rabbit. Some rabbits encase themselves while getting to a certain depts. For defense or protection from their prey. If you are conversant with this phenomenon you can easily catch the rabbit by mere breaking the barrier But if you lack the knowledge you would quit at reaching the barrier to the mercy of the rabbit.
Knowledge is indispensable in our success in life and can be sourced from the following:-
- Book
- Conversation.
- Jokes and Riddles.
- Mass media- Radio, Television, newspapers, journals, magazine, internet, cyber café etc.
- Revelation (revealed knowledge).
- Experiment- (empirical knowledge).
These etal are the sources of knowledge at your disposal.
Knowledge is classified into two major forms visa:-
- Generalized knowledge
- Specialized knowledge
For lack of knowledge my people perish (scripture).Lack of information results to deformation (i.e. if you are not informed you get deformed).
For example- knowledge/information will help a rabbit hunter to continue excavation even when he founds that the mouse has ended due to a blockage by the rabbit and still catch the rabbit. Some rabbits encase themselves while getting to a certain depts. For defense or protection from their prey. If you are conversant with this phenomenon you can easily catch the rabbit by mere breaking the barrier But if you lack the knowledge you would quit at reaching the barrier to the mercy of the rabbit.
Knowledge is indispensable in our success in life and can be sourced from the following:-
- Book
- Conversation.
- Jokes and Riddles.
- Mass media- Radio, Television, newspapers, journals, magazine, internet, cyber café etc.
- Revelation (revealed knowledge).
- Experiment- (empirical knowledge).
These etal are the sources of knowledge at your disposal.
Knowledge is classified into two major forms visa:-
- Generalized knowledge
- Specialized knowledge
GENERALIZED KNOWLEDGE
Generalized knowledge is knowledge obtainable from the most of the above mentioned sources of knowledge such as books, news papers, journals etc.
This type of knowledge is important but has marginal effect in course of exploitation.
For instance, if you are in a class of thousand students graduating the same year coming out with varied results. Some with first class, some with second class upper, some second class lower, some third class, some with pass and other with their school ID card.
Combing these people with other graduates in the same or related professional from more than hundred tertiary institutions in the country and above, you will discover that their will be high intense competition in labor market resulting to the survival of the fittest.
Experience has shown that first class is not a guarantee for a well paid or any how job in this country & above.
If you go oversees like Europe you will discover that first class here doesn’t make a sense there because of our university conditions and management.
It is even apparent that today most of our banks go for cheap labor thereby employing and training low certificate holders like SSCE, OND, NCE to the experience of Degree or HND holders. Therefore gainful job today requires more certificates.
It is becoming a thing of capability and competence.
These calls for total maximization of our privilege as students to edify, ourselves for self employment, self dependent, self reliance, and above all to be a creator of job instead of job seeker in a country like ours.
It is self fulfilling to provide for oneself and others without wholly depending on the government, individuals or corporate bodies.
This type of knowledge is important but has marginal effect in course of exploitation.
For instance, if you are in a class of thousand students graduating the same year coming out with varied results. Some with first class, some with second class upper, some second class lower, some third class, some with pass and other with their school ID card.
Combing these people with other graduates in the same or related professional from more than hundred tertiary institutions in the country and above, you will discover that their will be high intense competition in labor market resulting to the survival of the fittest.
Experience has shown that first class is not a guarantee for a well paid or any how job in this country & above.
If you go oversees like Europe you will discover that first class here doesn’t make a sense there because of our university conditions and management.
It is even apparent that today most of our banks go for cheap labor thereby employing and training low certificate holders like SSCE, OND, NCE to the experience of Degree or HND holders. Therefore gainful job today requires more certificates.
It is becoming a thing of capability and competence.
These calls for total maximization of our privilege as students to edify, ourselves for self employment, self dependent, self reliance, and above all to be a creator of job instead of job seeker in a country like ours.
It is self fulfilling to provide for oneself and others without wholly depending on the government, individuals or corporate bodies.
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE
It will not be an overstatement to infer that greatness is a product of specialized knowledge.
This type of knowledge is not common among school leavers, even when in the same profession.
It is a product of being creative, intuitive and talented.
It means that you must know what your talent is and it could be music, writing, acting, teaching, playing football & others, being a good speaker etc. and you must harness these potentials. So many people depend wholly on their certificate without knowing that they have something wonderful in them which amount to greatness – extreme sense of riches. It is the ability that makes any person a unique being. It is undisputable that most of the pronounced and renounced rich men and women in the world today are musicians like – Michael Jackson, puffy daddy, miss Eliot etc., foot balers like Beckamp, kaka, Essien, Okocha, kanu, Micheal Obi, etc; Actors and Actresses like – Nkem Owoh,(Osuofiason)/ Pete Edochie, Patience Ozokwor, Genevive Nnaji etc.
Investigation unveils that some of the fastest growing industry in Nigeria are movie industry and music industry.
Some of these peoples are school dropouts, some are graduates and some are still undergraduate, some are professionals in the field while some are not.
One the other hand there are some rich practicing doctors, lawyers, Bankers, Engineers, Environmental scientists etc. but their riches are limited to their salaries, allowances and areas etc. Through the essence of all these, Endeavour to be happy and observe your responsibility and functions.
Note that money does not always bring joy and happiness. Be gentle about making it. Remember that what we are talking about is greatness – extreme sense of riches, a state of being a national and international celebrated figure.
To attain this, you need both specialized and generalized knowledge.
Move on to where people are less congested and where there is less congestion through talent discovery and development. Be a computer literate. The world is fast moving to computer age. A time is coming when employment will be only for the computer literate regardless of your academic status.
Access information through the internet for excellent in your carried or life endeavors. You can as well carry out transaction both locally and internally via internet without getting there and still maximize more profit.
Enroll in ITC schools or programme centers and avail yourself of this opportunity.
Information provides opportunity. The level of information you have determines your opportunities in life. Embrace information media like radio, TV, Newspapers, magazine, informative movies, etc. and then meet me at the top.
This type of knowledge is not common among school leavers, even when in the same profession.
It is a product of being creative, intuitive and talented.
It means that you must know what your talent is and it could be music, writing, acting, teaching, playing football & others, being a good speaker etc. and you must harness these potentials. So many people depend wholly on their certificate without knowing that they have something wonderful in them which amount to greatness – extreme sense of riches. It is the ability that makes any person a unique being. It is undisputable that most of the pronounced and renounced rich men and women in the world today are musicians like – Michael Jackson, puffy daddy, miss Eliot etc., foot balers like Beckamp, kaka, Essien, Okocha, kanu, Micheal Obi, etc; Actors and Actresses like – Nkem Owoh,(Osuofiason)/ Pete Edochie, Patience Ozokwor, Genevive Nnaji etc.
Investigation unveils that some of the fastest growing industry in Nigeria are movie industry and music industry.
Some of these peoples are school dropouts, some are graduates and some are still undergraduate, some are professionals in the field while some are not.
One the other hand there are some rich practicing doctors, lawyers, Bankers, Engineers, Environmental scientists etc. but their riches are limited to their salaries, allowances and areas etc. Through the essence of all these, Endeavour to be happy and observe your responsibility and functions.
Note that money does not always bring joy and happiness. Be gentle about making it. Remember that what we are talking about is greatness – extreme sense of riches, a state of being a national and international celebrated figure.
To attain this, you need both specialized and generalized knowledge.
Move on to where people are less congested and where there is less congestion through talent discovery and development. Be a computer literate. The world is fast moving to computer age. A time is coming when employment will be only for the computer literate regardless of your academic status.
Access information through the internet for excellent in your carried or life endeavors. You can as well carry out transaction both locally and internally via internet without getting there and still maximize more profit.
Enroll in ITC schools or programme centers and avail yourself of this opportunity.
Information provides opportunity. The level of information you have determines your opportunities in life. Embrace information media like radio, TV, Newspapers, magazine, informative movies, etc. and then meet me at the top.
SELF MASTERY
“A part of control is learning to correct your weakness”.
Self mastery is an act of self discipline.
That is having total control over your environment both internal and external and it can also mean “doing what you need to do and not what you want to do.”
Needs here means those basic things required for actualizing greatness.
While wants entails both good and bad things that pleases man like sex, drinking etc.
In course of total exploit there are three things you need to take care of and there are:-
- SELF
- SIVER
- SEX
SELF – The first and the foremost achievement in life is self vanquish. That is to have dominion over yourself. This encompasses your feelings, appetite, inferiority complex, procrastination, laziness indecision etc.
Conquering oneself simply means doing what you need to do the time you need to do it. Simply put knowing the time for everything.
SILVER-- Silver encompasses all the material needs of man ranging from primary to secondary. Restiveness has cost some people their desirous future. For you to attain total exploit you must exercise patience. For examples, some youths cannot wait to finish secondary before the quest of making money early in life. Experience has shown that most young people have denied themselves the privilege that could have seen them through in life.
Acquire managerial skill to enable you retain the wealth when it is created. It is insidious to fall from grace to grass.
Don’t sale your birthright because of things that do not out last. Invest your life on something that will out last it (William James).
SEX --“SEX is two edge sword and those that understand it at first always enjoys it but those that are ignorant of it always regret”
Sex is a wonderful gift of nature made primarily for procreation and secondly to establish a stout rapour between spouse. Therefore sex is good. In the other hand, “all that is good is not expedient” (scripture). This means that most of the alluring things of nature have a becoming time for them and in my first book on right information: the secret of exploit, “I said that there are some things that one will enjoy now that will end his joy.so don’t enjoy what will end your joy”.Sex is a gift of marriage. Hence only the married are meant to exploit their sexual ability.
Sex as a terrific gift of marriage or life can also be a calculated dangerous instrument or destruction.
A lot of men have become potent and lost their dignity because of sex and most women their fertility. The devil has taken advantage of our sexual weakness and amorousity to destroy a good number of young and old people through his agents.
Pri-marital sex can lead to unwanted pregnancy among young females and most times can succeed in marring their future and aspiration if it does not destroy them.
Unprotected sex and promiscuity can lead to the contamination of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
Most of the natural and artificial birth control methods or contraceptives employed today are not reliable and have afterwards caused negative effects to the users.
I hereby implore youths to abstain from pre-marital sex, unprotected sex Avoid promiscuity. It is possible and it is all about having a purpose attached to your life.
Better tomorrow and forever than today and never. (Louis). Be careful
Self mastery is an act of self discipline.
That is having total control over your environment both internal and external and it can also mean “doing what you need to do and not what you want to do.”
Needs here means those basic things required for actualizing greatness.
While wants entails both good and bad things that pleases man like sex, drinking etc.
In course of total exploit there are three things you need to take care of and there are:-
- SELF
- SIVER
- SEX
SELF – The first and the foremost achievement in life is self vanquish. That is to have dominion over yourself. This encompasses your feelings, appetite, inferiority complex, procrastination, laziness indecision etc.
Conquering oneself simply means doing what you need to do the time you need to do it. Simply put knowing the time for everything.
SILVER-- Silver encompasses all the material needs of man ranging from primary to secondary. Restiveness has cost some people their desirous future. For you to attain total exploit you must exercise patience. For examples, some youths cannot wait to finish secondary before the quest of making money early in life. Experience has shown that most young people have denied themselves the privilege that could have seen them through in life.
Acquire managerial skill to enable you retain the wealth when it is created. It is insidious to fall from grace to grass.
Don’t sale your birthright because of things that do not out last. Invest your life on something that will out last it (William James).
SEX --“SEX is two edge sword and those that understand it at first always enjoys it but those that are ignorant of it always regret”
Sex is a wonderful gift of nature made primarily for procreation and secondly to establish a stout rapour between spouse. Therefore sex is good. In the other hand, “all that is good is not expedient” (scripture). This means that most of the alluring things of nature have a becoming time for them and in my first book on right information: the secret of exploit, “I said that there are some things that one will enjoy now that will end his joy.so don’t enjoy what will end your joy”.Sex is a gift of marriage. Hence only the married are meant to exploit their sexual ability.
Sex as a terrific gift of marriage or life can also be a calculated dangerous instrument or destruction.
A lot of men have become potent and lost their dignity because of sex and most women their fertility. The devil has taken advantage of our sexual weakness and amorousity to destroy a good number of young and old people through his agents.
Pri-marital sex can lead to unwanted pregnancy among young females and most times can succeed in marring their future and aspiration if it does not destroy them.
Unprotected sex and promiscuity can lead to the contamination of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
Most of the natural and artificial birth control methods or contraceptives employed today are not reliable and have afterwards caused negative effects to the users.
I hereby implore youths to abstain from pre-marital sex, unprotected sex Avoid promiscuity. It is possible and it is all about having a purpose attached to your life.
Better tomorrow and forever than today and never. (Louis). Be careful
DELIGENCE
According to Thomas Edison “diligence is the ability to use mental and physical strength or energy in solving problem without growing weary”.
This means that even when the tax of achieving your target gets tougher you really need to hold on until you achieve it.
Having reasons and purposes attacked to your target will go a long way in achieving diligence.
The indispensability of diligence is that
- It helps to achieve competence
- It begets confidence
- It checks corruption and malpractice.
- It enhances total exploit of your God’s given ability.
- It guarantees self dependence, self reliance etc.
- It attracts favors
- It improves quality and value.
- It encourages professionalism.
Favor is a factor that adds flavor to ones labor.
This means that for you to win favor either from God or man you have a path to play; God is not a magician.
Don’t live an idler, a sloth, it is cancerous and can lead to perpetual suffering and most times death.
In the act of diligence one is paid more than he works for.
For you to be paid more than you work for, you must work diligently.
SUCCESS = Labor + Favor. Be a workaholic. Never give up. “God who created you without you can not save you without you”. (ST Augustine).
This means that even when the tax of achieving your target gets tougher you really need to hold on until you achieve it.
Having reasons and purposes attacked to your target will go a long way in achieving diligence.
The indispensability of diligence is that
- It helps to achieve competence
- It begets confidence
- It checks corruption and malpractice.
- It enhances total exploit of your God’s given ability.
- It guarantees self dependence, self reliance etc.
- It attracts favors
- It improves quality and value.
- It encourages professionalism.
Favor is a factor that adds flavor to ones labor.
This means that for you to win favor either from God or man you have a path to play; God is not a magician.
Don’t live an idler, a sloth, it is cancerous and can lead to perpetual suffering and most times death.
In the act of diligence one is paid more than he works for.
For you to be paid more than you work for, you must work diligently.
SUCCESS = Labor + Favor. Be a workaholic. Never give up. “God who created you without you can not save you without you”. (ST Augustine).
RELATIONSHIP
This is a state of social interaction among men.
This social interaction can exist among men in the following forms:
- FRIENDSHIP
- MARRIAGE
- POSTITUTION
FRIENDSHIP is the most common aspect of relationship which every person born of a woman is eligible to partake actively irrespective of age.
It is either erotic or platonic.
Erotic – centered on sex.
Platonic – devoid of sex.
Friendship to my understanding is divided into three stages namely–
- Psycho physical friendship
- Psycho social friendship
- Psycho spiritual friendship
- Psycho physical friendship.
- It is erotic
- It is jealous
- It is emotional
- It is self centered.
- Partners see each other as object of sexual satisfaction.
- It is devoid of true love.
- It mostly exist between a man and a women, man and man (homosexual), woman and woman (lesbianism), even person to him or herself (masturbation).
- It is destructive (can lead to unwanted pregnancy and disease contamination).
- Psycho social friendship.
It is less erotic and has much to do with joy of being in friendship.
- It may be just for friendship sake.
- It can transform to sexual relationship.
- It is lees or more possessive depending on the individuals.
- It is less emotional.
- Psycho spiritual friendship.
- It is platonic
- It is free
- It is caring without expecting a reward either in cash or kind.
- It is not jealous unlike psycho physical and psycho social
- Knowledge precedes this relationship
- It achieve openness
- It can exit between a man and a woman .
- It exercises endurance, fore clearance and above all warmth.
- It is the ideal and safer of all types of friendship.
- It may involve sex but not the central aim
This social interaction can exist among men in the following forms:
- FRIENDSHIP
- MARRIAGE
- POSTITUTION
FRIENDSHIP is the most common aspect of relationship which every person born of a woman is eligible to partake actively irrespective of age.
It is either erotic or platonic.
Erotic – centered on sex.
Platonic – devoid of sex.
Friendship to my understanding is divided into three stages namely–
- Psycho physical friendship
- Psycho social friendship
- Psycho spiritual friendship
- Psycho physical friendship.
- It is erotic
- It is jealous
- It is emotional
- It is self centered.
- Partners see each other as object of sexual satisfaction.
- It is devoid of true love.
- It mostly exist between a man and a women, man and man (homosexual), woman and woman (lesbianism), even person to him or herself (masturbation).
- It is destructive (can lead to unwanted pregnancy and disease contamination).
- Psycho social friendship.
It is less erotic and has much to do with joy of being in friendship.
- It may be just for friendship sake.
- It can transform to sexual relationship.
- It is lees or more possessive depending on the individuals.
- It is less emotional.
- Psycho spiritual friendship.
- It is platonic
- It is free
- It is caring without expecting a reward either in cash or kind.
- It is not jealous unlike psycho physical and psycho social
- Knowledge precedes this relationship
- It achieve openness
- It can exit between a man and a woman .
- It exercises endurance, fore clearance and above all warmth.
- It is the ideal and safer of all types of friendship.
- It may involve sex but not the central aim
MARRIAGE
Marriage is an extreme sense of friendship.
It is a legal union between a man and a woman made valid by payment of the bride price after observing the proceeding lay down procedures stipulated by the girls’ tradition. It requires eligibility and preparedness for success to be guaranteed.
Eligibility has to do with age as well as other qualification such as being single and unmarried without an existing lawful marriage for Christian marriage.
Readiness or preparedness has to do with a lot of other factors and which includes
- Requisite conviction and disposition.
- Personal maturity
- Economic factors
- Home keeping.
While it is obvious that most intending couples are eligible, it is also true that some are ill prepared for the challenges of marriage. The result is that many unavoidable problems are experienced.
We shall now discuss these factors.
AGE/BIOLOCIAL FACTORS
In our contemporary society, unlike in the yester years , the age range for marriage for both young men and girls has changed. Today, while most men marry the age of 30 and 40 , most girls get married between the age of 18 and 35.
Although, there is no fixed age for getting married when one comes of age, marriage should be neither two early nor too late.
Being of age does not necessarily mean that you are ready for marriage. Other factors have to be considered.
REQUISITE CONVICTION AND DISPOSITION.
You cannot claim to be ready for marriage without knowing the following.
- That marriage is full of ups and down and be kindly disposed to accept its tenets as well as its challenges.
- That marriage is life enduring covenant between a man and a woman and no party has the right to destroy it. Therefore, it is instituted and sealed by God.
- It is for better for worse – This means that you should be disposed to accept the good / pleasant moments as well as painful /trying times.
- That the primary goal of marriage is the good of the spouse and the procreation and education of children”
- That you {woman} will leave your home to another home and you may not have been or heard of before and become a part of the home. This calls for preparedness not only being a woman or attaining a certain age level. Get ready and get educated.
- That you {man} has possessed three families – your family, that of your parents and your in-laws and so many other that may need your support. Get ready and get money.
It is a legal union between a man and a woman made valid by payment of the bride price after observing the proceeding lay down procedures stipulated by the girls’ tradition. It requires eligibility and preparedness for success to be guaranteed.
Eligibility has to do with age as well as other qualification such as being single and unmarried without an existing lawful marriage for Christian marriage.
Readiness or preparedness has to do with a lot of other factors and which includes
- Requisite conviction and disposition.
- Personal maturity
- Economic factors
- Home keeping.
While it is obvious that most intending couples are eligible, it is also true that some are ill prepared for the challenges of marriage. The result is that many unavoidable problems are experienced.
We shall now discuss these factors.
AGE/BIOLOCIAL FACTORS
In our contemporary society, unlike in the yester years , the age range for marriage for both young men and girls has changed. Today, while most men marry the age of 30 and 40 , most girls get married between the age of 18 and 35.
Although, there is no fixed age for getting married when one comes of age, marriage should be neither two early nor too late.
Being of age does not necessarily mean that you are ready for marriage. Other factors have to be considered.
REQUISITE CONVICTION AND DISPOSITION.
You cannot claim to be ready for marriage without knowing the following.
- That marriage is full of ups and down and be kindly disposed to accept its tenets as well as its challenges.
- That marriage is life enduring covenant between a man and a woman and no party has the right to destroy it. Therefore, it is instituted and sealed by God.
- It is for better for worse – This means that you should be disposed to accept the good / pleasant moments as well as painful /trying times.
- That the primary goal of marriage is the good of the spouse and the procreation and education of children”
- That you {woman} will leave your home to another home and you may not have been or heard of before and become a part of the home. This calls for preparedness not only being a woman or attaining a certain age level. Get ready and get educated.
- That you {man} has possessed three families – your family, that of your parents and your in-laws and so many other that may need your support. Get ready and get money.
PERSONAL MATURITY
Marriage is for mature people. It is not merely a romantic relationship. With marriage, the man becomes a father and the lady a mother. However, there is more to being a father or a mother than just begetting children. If you desire to ascend this noble position of fatherhood or motherhood as the case may be, you need to have acquired the necessary maturity and discipline, which include – social, intellectual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual maturity.
SOCIAL MATURITY ÷ This has to do with being able to relate with others in a responsible and selfless way without thinking exclusively of personal needs and desires.
EMOTIONAL MATURITY ÷ This is the ability to control your passions and emotions. That is avoiding giving in easily and deeply to bad moods especially anger, and being ready to talk things over. It also involves being able to control sexual urges before or after marriage, having sexual relationship with none else except your spouse.
INTELLECTUAL MATURITY ÷ This has to do with the ability to understand the problems, challenges and situations of life and capacity to formulate ideas as well as proffer solutions to them without wholly depending on others.
PSYCOLOGICAL MATURITY ÷ This implies that your mind and decomposition are sound enough for marriage. That is, you do not have any phobia for marriage, probably developed out of past painful experiences.
SPIRITUAL MATURITY ÷ This has to do with having a good relationship with your God.
SOCIAL MATURITY ÷ This has to do with being able to relate with others in a responsible and selfless way without thinking exclusively of personal needs and desires.
EMOTIONAL MATURITY ÷ This is the ability to control your passions and emotions. That is avoiding giving in easily and deeply to bad moods especially anger, and being ready to talk things over. It also involves being able to control sexual urges before or after marriage, having sexual relationship with none else except your spouse.
INTELLECTUAL MATURITY ÷ This has to do with the ability to understand the problems, challenges and situations of life and capacity to formulate ideas as well as proffer solutions to them without wholly depending on others.
PSYCOLOGICAL MATURITY ÷ This implies that your mind and decomposition are sound enough for marriage. That is, you do not have any phobia for marriage, probably developed out of past painful experiences.
SPIRITUAL MATURITY ÷ This has to do with having a good relationship with your God.
ECONOMIC FACTORS
Marriage is a responsibility you are saddled to provide for your families to achieve peace and orderliness. There is need for money to take care of yourself, your children, your in – laws and your families including your wife or husband.
EDUCATION
“Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor” – H. Jackson Brown, jr. said that “A child mis-educated is a child wasted”, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.” – M.K Gandhi.
Education especially, formal education is very indispensable to the total exploit of our potentials and helps the married to withstand the challenges of marriage and life and offers excellent opportunities to them and their wards. Do not jump into marriage without sound education both formal and informal. It will destroy your aspiration, thereby making you less productive and a burden to your spouse and of no use to your children and society {especially women}. Join the bandwagon, enroll today, it is never late.
HOME KEEPING
Being able to observe the domestic care such as being a good cook, a neat woman or man, taking good care of the both in hygiene and in morality {moral instruction}. These increases the administration and affection between spouse necessary for total exploit
Education especially, formal education is very indispensable to the total exploit of our potentials and helps the married to withstand the challenges of marriage and life and offers excellent opportunities to them and their wards. Do not jump into marriage without sound education both formal and informal. It will destroy your aspiration, thereby making you less productive and a burden to your spouse and of no use to your children and society {especially women}. Join the bandwagon, enroll today, it is never late.
HOME KEEPING
Being able to observe the domestic care such as being a good cook, a neat woman or man, taking good care of the both in hygiene and in morality {moral instruction}. These increases the administration and affection between spouse necessary for total exploit
PROSTITUTION
This is the abnormal and immoral aspect of relationship. It is self endangering.
It destroys or debases the person involved.
It is inimical to health.
It erodes dignity and exterminates value.
It makes the person involve less human and more of wind animal.
It can lead to premature death or unwanted pregnancy
It is droids of feeling, hence it is materialistic.
Association of any kind, whether friendship, marriage or prostitution is a very delicate one and calls for a scientific approach.
It either make you or mare you.
Even as it is delicate, it is ideal in dream realization. This is because “No man is an Ireland unto himself.
It is therefore impossible to succeed without a partner and also impossible to succeed with a wrong partner. Be careful and wise in choosing a partner especially life partner.
Be a student of those that have succeeded in life. Avoid any relationship that never provides you with an avenue to improve in life.
Don’t give in so easily to sex. Be a friend to someone that shares similar or same purpose with you. Don’t relate with a rich man that you never gain anything from because you will soon spend all you have and become a mendicant. Associate freely with your good friends, neighbors, spouse e t c.
It offers veritable opportunities to improve in reasoning and creativity.
Manage your relationship with care. Don’t despise your old friends. Don’t also treasure your hope on your relatives.
If your father is rich thank God for that because you have achieved half of the whole thing. But if you sleep on your father’s riches rather than using it to attain the height your father could not attain you will one day while sleeping, that problem will cat the whole thing away.
You can do better than your father without even doing the same thing he is doing. You must also understand that your present position status is not a birth right, rather a privilege and you must work at retaining it or else, someone more qualified will be sitting behind you table before you wake up. It takes opportunity to get to the top and takes character to remain there. Build a strong and sound character today.
To build a character is to know the dos and don’ts. To know the time for everything. Simple put to discipline oneself and to try to control your temper.
Don’t, say to somebody “I can do without you” this quite devastating.
Experience has shown that you must do with them especially your relations, friends or any other person directly or indirectly related. A boy out of anger and frustration told his brother that he can do without him hoping that he can do with his beer parlor friends. Remember that while in beer parlor your friends can promise you heaven and earth but is always a mere promise. When this fellow got admission all his beer parlor friends dashed to the “thin air” leaving him with the brother he told he can do without. There is a friend of mine whom I thought would at anytime that i call, give me all the financial support I could need from him as a student but I was proved wrong the first day I asked for N 2000 only. Whenever I encounter this follow, he will be carelessly spending his money but if I happen to mention giving me some money for my school welfare, he will talk of expenses incurred last two years, last years and even a day before we met. After a week he told me of told me of a land he bought, fix deposit, renting a flat, even having a plan of have thing overseas.
Friends can help but good ones. All that glitters is act gold.
It destroys or debases the person involved.
It is inimical to health.
It erodes dignity and exterminates value.
It makes the person involve less human and more of wind animal.
It can lead to premature death or unwanted pregnancy
It is droids of feeling, hence it is materialistic.
Association of any kind, whether friendship, marriage or prostitution is a very delicate one and calls for a scientific approach.
It either make you or mare you.
Even as it is delicate, it is ideal in dream realization. This is because “No man is an Ireland unto himself.
It is therefore impossible to succeed without a partner and also impossible to succeed with a wrong partner. Be careful and wise in choosing a partner especially life partner.
Be a student of those that have succeeded in life. Avoid any relationship that never provides you with an avenue to improve in life.
Don’t give in so easily to sex. Be a friend to someone that shares similar or same purpose with you. Don’t relate with a rich man that you never gain anything from because you will soon spend all you have and become a mendicant. Associate freely with your good friends, neighbors, spouse e t c.
It offers veritable opportunities to improve in reasoning and creativity.
Manage your relationship with care. Don’t despise your old friends. Don’t also treasure your hope on your relatives.
If your father is rich thank God for that because you have achieved half of the whole thing. But if you sleep on your father’s riches rather than using it to attain the height your father could not attain you will one day while sleeping, that problem will cat the whole thing away.
You can do better than your father without even doing the same thing he is doing. You must also understand that your present position status is not a birth right, rather a privilege and you must work at retaining it or else, someone more qualified will be sitting behind you table before you wake up. It takes opportunity to get to the top and takes character to remain there. Build a strong and sound character today.
To build a character is to know the dos and don’ts. To know the time for everything. Simple put to discipline oneself and to try to control your temper.
Don’t, say to somebody “I can do without you” this quite devastating.
Experience has shown that you must do with them especially your relations, friends or any other person directly or indirectly related. A boy out of anger and frustration told his brother that he can do without him hoping that he can do with his beer parlor friends. Remember that while in beer parlor your friends can promise you heaven and earth but is always a mere promise. When this fellow got admission all his beer parlor friends dashed to the “thin air” leaving him with the brother he told he can do without. There is a friend of mine whom I thought would at anytime that i call, give me all the financial support I could need from him as a student but I was proved wrong the first day I asked for N 2000 only. Whenever I encounter this follow, he will be carelessly spending his money but if I happen to mention giving me some money for my school welfare, he will talk of expenses incurred last two years, last years and even a day before we met. After a week he told me of told me of a land he bought, fix deposit, renting a flat, even having a plan of have thing overseas.
Friends can help but good ones. All that glitters is act gold.
FAILURE
“failure becomes a failure if the failed refuses to rise but once he rise it become a loose which calls for second trial”.
Important thing about failure is that it is a better means of sustainable successes. Don’t be afraid of failure; see it as Inevitable in the way of success. Be used to it and avoid it where possible.
Never accept defeat in life. Aluta continue Victoria ascertain. Success can disguise to temporary defeat don’t give up (Napoleon Hill).
God did not abhor failure rather he aids the failed to rise. This is evident in our redemption from the eternal damnation. David failed so many times and rises whenever he fails and God forgives him and made him a man after his own heart.
Be courageous in all you do in life, never allow being cowed. Live by faith, hope anchored by diligence and persistent.
Important thing about failure is that it is a better means of sustainable successes. Don’t be afraid of failure; see it as Inevitable in the way of success. Be used to it and avoid it where possible.
Never accept defeat in life. Aluta continue Victoria ascertain. Success can disguise to temporary defeat don’t give up (Napoleon Hill).
God did not abhor failure rather he aids the failed to rise. This is evident in our redemption from the eternal damnation. David failed so many times and rises whenever he fails and God forgives him and made him a man after his own heart.
Be courageous in all you do in life, never allow being cowed. Live by faith, hope anchored by diligence and persistent.
FEAR
Fear is a state of mind and mental weakness. fear is cancerous, highly devastating and insidious.
“Don’t fear” was mentioned in the scripture in about 365 places to tell how catastrophic it is.Fear imposes a lot of negative effect to mankind and which includes the following:
It causes lack of concentration and organization.
It leads to mistakes (dangerous ones)
It causes Incompetence.
It leads to failure.
It begets Inferiority complex
It results to mediocrity e t c.
We should not confuse carefulness to fear. Carefulness is doing something with your physical and mental power and trying to avoid mistakes and errors emanating from it.
Be careful don’t be afraid (fear) in your way of life / Success. Stand tenaciously with God.
“Don’t fear” was mentioned in the scripture in about 365 places to tell how catastrophic it is.Fear imposes a lot of negative effect to mankind and which includes the following:
It causes lack of concentration and organization.
It leads to mistakes (dangerous ones)
It causes Incompetence.
It leads to failure.
It begets Inferiority complex
It results to mediocrity e t c.
We should not confuse carefulness to fear. Carefulness is doing something with your physical and mental power and trying to avoid mistakes and errors emanating from it.
Be careful don’t be afraid (fear) in your way of life / Success. Stand tenaciously with God.
INFERIORITY COMPLEX
“A strong positive self image is the best preparation of success for life”
Inferiority complex is a condition where by somebody sees himself or her self below others owing to some factors or qualities.
Most of the causes of Inferiority complex are:
Incapacitation or deformity
Status
Illiteracy
Ugliness
Poverty
Sex (male and female)
Age (Young and Old)
Tribe / Origin
Nature of birth (Illegitimacy)
Size/height/Color
Some of the above factors are natural and some are man made defects .
Whether natural or man made, avoid them. If it is natural, God has a purpose for that.
Discover the purpose and enjoy the condition. No man lives without weakness or deformity. It worries me when I see some people (Mostly girls) apply bleaching cream to atone their skin color making themselves prone to cancer and burnt and make surgery complicated and a risk. It does not only expose you to cancer but also makes you stenchful.
If you reject yourself, others with reject you but it you accept yourself others will accept you. You are the cause of your defects.
“A strong positive self-image is the best preparation for success for life”
No man is an accident whether legitimate or illegitimate. You are a wishful product of God’s thought with a unique purpose.
Read this:
- I am the boss, I was born like any other person, but I am special in my way of doing things.
- I am the one everybody like to hear, talk, sing & pay to see.
- I return life, hope & future to people,
- I hear broke minds, revive demised spirits, & reposition life for best.
- Just because I sat down, think, considered & analyzed my thoughts, i discovered that there is something unique in me which when exploited will amount to greatness.
- My weapons were positive confessions, determination, diligence, persistent, devotion, & eagerness.
- All these I used to destroy my weakness & became strong & up & doing.
- As a result, kings are my friends and they listen & harken to my advice.
- They value me because I value myself,
- They care for me because I care for myself.
- I Influence peoples, I influence kings, I am now the king of all kings under God & by his grace I am promoted.
- I am the most wanted
- I am what I tagged myself
- I am the Boss.
- Go to movie industry, you will discover that some of the prominent characters there are deformed in one way or the other but we pay today to watch them, snap with them and even befriend them e. g .
How much more you that was born with every thing needed of a man or woman (though exteriority). Why feel inferior?
Build your strengths & destroy your weakness. You are inferior if only you accept you are inferior.
That you came from a poor family does not mean that you are poor but it means that your parents are poor and requires you to be rich to make up for their lapses.
Inferiority complex is not an act of humanity. Be humble & polite, it is what is required of everybody (whether rich or poor).
The level you are today & hope to be tomorrow is an important determining factor to your success.
The different because somebody that is in tertiary institution & somebody that is trying to get in is that, the other person is already there, & the other person is yet to get in.
The first thing in life is taking decision, another thing is having the necessary resources, which includes determination & finally implementing it.
That you are not already in tertiary institution or in business should not make you feel inferior and that your business is not flourishing today, tomorrow could be better. Be determined & persistence.
You could do better than any other person when you get there. Just be yourself & be humble.
But respect those that are already there because it is not easy to get there. You might need their assistant when you get there and they have gotten what you have not. Transform your deformity to celebrity. Happy exploit
Inferiority complex is a condition where by somebody sees himself or her self below others owing to some factors or qualities.
Most of the causes of Inferiority complex are:
Incapacitation or deformity
Status
Illiteracy
Ugliness
Poverty
Sex (male and female)
Age (Young and Old)
Tribe / Origin
Nature of birth (Illegitimacy)
Size/height/Color
Some of the above factors are natural and some are man made defects .
Whether natural or man made, avoid them. If it is natural, God has a purpose for that.
Discover the purpose and enjoy the condition. No man lives without weakness or deformity. It worries me when I see some people (Mostly girls) apply bleaching cream to atone their skin color making themselves prone to cancer and burnt and make surgery complicated and a risk. It does not only expose you to cancer but also makes you stenchful.
If you reject yourself, others with reject you but it you accept yourself others will accept you. You are the cause of your defects.
“A strong positive self-image is the best preparation for success for life”
No man is an accident whether legitimate or illegitimate. You are a wishful product of God’s thought with a unique purpose.
Read this:
- I am the boss, I was born like any other person, but I am special in my way of doing things.
- I am the one everybody like to hear, talk, sing & pay to see.
- I return life, hope & future to people,
- I hear broke minds, revive demised spirits, & reposition life for best.
- Just because I sat down, think, considered & analyzed my thoughts, i discovered that there is something unique in me which when exploited will amount to greatness.
- My weapons were positive confessions, determination, diligence, persistent, devotion, & eagerness.
- All these I used to destroy my weakness & became strong & up & doing.
- As a result, kings are my friends and they listen & harken to my advice.
- They value me because I value myself,
- They care for me because I care for myself.
- I Influence peoples, I influence kings, I am now the king of all kings under God & by his grace I am promoted.
- I am the most wanted
- I am what I tagged myself
- I am the Boss.
- Go to movie industry, you will discover that some of the prominent characters there are deformed in one way or the other but we pay today to watch them, snap with them and even befriend them e. g .
How much more you that was born with every thing needed of a man or woman (though exteriority). Why feel inferior?
Build your strengths & destroy your weakness. You are inferior if only you accept you are inferior.
That you came from a poor family does not mean that you are poor but it means that your parents are poor and requires you to be rich to make up for their lapses.
Inferiority complex is not an act of humanity. Be humble & polite, it is what is required of everybody (whether rich or poor).
The level you are today & hope to be tomorrow is an important determining factor to your success.
The different because somebody that is in tertiary institution & somebody that is trying to get in is that, the other person is already there, & the other person is yet to get in.
The first thing in life is taking decision, another thing is having the necessary resources, which includes determination & finally implementing it.
That you are not already in tertiary institution or in business should not make you feel inferior and that your business is not flourishing today, tomorrow could be better. Be determined & persistence.
You could do better than any other person when you get there. Just be yourself & be humble.
But respect those that are already there because it is not easy to get there. You might need their assistant when you get there and they have gotten what you have not. Transform your deformity to celebrity. Happy exploit
IMITATION
Imitation is the act of doing exactly what another is doing without intention to improve or add to the knowledge acquired from the person.
Imitation according to a maxim, determines your limitation. As long as you imitate somebody, you remain a second class to the person. This is because the person you imitate will continue to grow and you will always remain after him. Don’t die a follower. Leadership is not anybody birth right. Work your way out.
You could be the next world richest person it you avoid imitation & do things in your way the best way for you. The Society has nothing to do with second class or mediocrity.
Imitation is the reason for half baked doctors, lawyers, Engineers e.t.c. Do the things you know best to do and you have the relevant resources to do them. Don’t go in to a profession or business because some other person went there & succeeded .You may not have what it takes to stay there comfortably & you are bound to fail. I wrote this book because I discovered I can write it. Discover what you can do well and that is why I always have the vision of being the best in any area that I found myself.
Imitation according to a maxim, determines your limitation. As long as you imitate somebody, you remain a second class to the person. This is because the person you imitate will continue to grow and you will always remain after him. Don’t die a follower. Leadership is not anybody birth right. Work your way out.
You could be the next world richest person it you avoid imitation & do things in your way the best way for you. The Society has nothing to do with second class or mediocrity.
Imitation is the reason for half baked doctors, lawyers, Engineers e.t.c. Do the things you know best to do and you have the relevant resources to do them. Don’t go in to a profession or business because some other person went there & succeeded .You may not have what it takes to stay there comfortably & you are bound to fail. I wrote this book because I discovered I can write it. Discover what you can do well and that is why I always have the vision of being the best in any area that I found myself.
COURAGE
Courage is that attribute in a man that holds him to his fate even in time of difficults and when it seems there is no hope. This may be in time of distress etc. The way of success is full of thorns & troubles.
It is not a broad & smooth way.
It is easy for those that have acquainted themselves with the fundamental principles of success. It is courage that makes a man to rise after falling & continues again. In the course of success you must accept the following facts:
- The word is not a bed of roses
- It is full of ups & downs
- It is requires positive risk. It is a positive risk so that you can achieve success & comfort at the same time. There are rich men that are not happy.
Think over this – If a prostitute, who stays at night on the road sides waiting for somebody she never know to carry her off, can channel such courage in good things like (politics) she will become a celebrity. But you hardly see a prostitute who is great.
On the other hand, if an armed robber who operates on the highways, Banks e t c can use this courage & reasoning in the army or other forces you will discover that he / she will quickly get at the helm of affairs in that force.
Note: The devil is never happy seeing you doing well if you don’t want to serve him and you will discover that whenever you are idle you will not have a problem but when you want to be serious or work problem starts coming in different shapes.
Have you noticed this as a student – some times when you go to bed you will find it difficult to sleep, but ones you open a book to read you start feeling sleepy? This is to tell you that devil is never happy with you succeeding through a reasonable means. Courage coupled with determination solves these problems. Courage makes a student to go to a teacher for inquiry of what he/she doesn’t know. It is courage that makes a student to ask questions in class. It is courage that makes a business man/woman to go into the kind of business that others are afraid of doing because of fear of failure or whatever best is known to them.
Embrace courage & discover that you can fly without a wing.
It is not a broad & smooth way.
It is easy for those that have acquainted themselves with the fundamental principles of success. It is courage that makes a man to rise after falling & continues again. In the course of success you must accept the following facts:
- The word is not a bed of roses
- It is full of ups & downs
- It is requires positive risk. It is a positive risk so that you can achieve success & comfort at the same time. There are rich men that are not happy.
Think over this – If a prostitute, who stays at night on the road sides waiting for somebody she never know to carry her off, can channel such courage in good things like (politics) she will become a celebrity. But you hardly see a prostitute who is great.
On the other hand, if an armed robber who operates on the highways, Banks e t c can use this courage & reasoning in the army or other forces you will discover that he / she will quickly get at the helm of affairs in that force.
Note: The devil is never happy seeing you doing well if you don’t want to serve him and you will discover that whenever you are idle you will not have a problem but when you want to be serious or work problem starts coming in different shapes.
Have you noticed this as a student – some times when you go to bed you will find it difficult to sleep, but ones you open a book to read you start feeling sleepy? This is to tell you that devil is never happy with you succeeding through a reasonable means. Courage coupled with determination solves these problems. Courage makes a student to go to a teacher for inquiry of what he/she doesn’t know. It is courage that makes a student to ask questions in class. It is courage that makes a business man/woman to go into the kind of business that others are afraid of doing because of fear of failure or whatever best is known to them.
Embrace courage & discover that you can fly without a wing.
FAITH
Faith consists of being hopeful, optimistic & undying to your quest. It can also means steadiness in your pursuit. Faith is indispensable to your achieving success. Hope encourages diligence. If you are hopeful of achieving something (goals) you would invest all the available resources in achieving it. Christ told his disciples that with faith they can move the mountain. You can work your miracle only if you have faith/hope. You have to always speak good about yourself, even when others are cursing you. Rebuke any curse against you.
Learn to say these to your self every moment.
- I am a new born & not a sinner
- I am a winner & not a looser
- I am the first & not the last
- I am a success & not a failure
Say these repeatedly & discover how it can affect your reasoning and perception towards your future. Your mouth is to confess good things about yourself, others & to testify the goodness of God. Your mouth or tongue is not for curse or devilish speeches. There is power in your tongue (Word)
- By word the world & its features were created.
- By word Lazarus was raised from dead.
- By word peter healed the cripple
- By word Christ shunned the raging water.
Imagine how wonderful the power of word is. In the time of trouble, have hope because that is the last instrument in problem solving.
In a nut shell, Try to get yourself organized to enable you discover your purpose in life.
Lack of organization courses poor reasoning & poor reasoning leads to low productivity
Nobody fails or succeeds when has not helped him or herself to do so. It is dangerous to think that God can do everything for you, likewise you thinking that you can do everything yourself. Do the ones you can do and God will do the ones you cannot do.
You must understand that you don’t get in life what you want, you get in life who you are. (Less Brown)
You must be over qualified in everything you do. Unless you attempt to do something beyond that which you have already mastered, you will never grow.
To become over qualified you will have to give more than is expected of you.
You must also understand that “A year from today, you will remain the same man you are, except for the people you meet & the books you read” you must understand that there is nothing that is impossible in life. Impossibility is seen in the dictionary the fools.
People are moving and developing themselves, don’t be left behind! Happy total exploit.
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