I had an experience this last Saturday that reemphasised the importance of clarity of purpose or vision.  
I was invited to a meeting in the house of one of my former bosses whom I greatly like and respect,  and who has also become an elder brother to me. Each time I went to his house in the past, my return journey was always fraught with difficulty because I always missed my way back. I always ended up burning fuel and losing time on the road trying to find my way. 
But this last visit, I was lucky to have another party in the meeting who was heading my direction. So I told him I would be driving behind him till he gets to his own junction, which is a familiar route for me. When we finished the meeting and set out, I was amazed with the speed at which I arrived at the familiar environment because he was leading the way. 
I spent about one and half hours as against the usual two and half hours I would have spent if I had driven alone. My journey was made faster because I had a guide. Here are a few lessons from this experience :
1. Get a mentor or guide: One, always ask for direction or counsel on your vision. There may be people who have travelled same path before and learning from them will make your journey easier and faster, as they will tell you where to avoid. 
2. Get the right mentor or guide: Only ask from those who know the way or who have experienced what you want to embark one. My journey on Saturday might have been worse if my guide was only pretending to know the way. 
3. Be clear about your vision: When  you know where you are going, your journey becomes faster. My guide made me drive as if I knew the right, so I was sure footed and I drove past the unfamiliar areas easily and quickly. Clarity saves you time and efforts, thus giving you speed. 
4. Be humble to take advice:I followed my guide doggedly until he turned at his own junction. Sometimes we need to shelf our own idea and listen to others in order to move on. Don’t be too proud to take advice. 
I trust that these few lessons will help some of us who are about taking some decisions or are encountering challenges in some areas of our lives. 
God bless us all. 
Good morning! 
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You may not have all you desire, but you surely have what someone else desires. 
You may be living from day to day with no stable source of income, but you are still alive. 
You may even be lying on hospital bed right now and questioning God, but friend the dead in the grave can’t ask any question. 
Your children may be giving you headache and you are getting tired of shouting, hey dear, some don’t have any. 
Your vehicle may be giving you problem and you feel like throwing it away, but some don’t mind having anything on four wheels. 
You may not have money but you can sleep when you want, some have all the money yet sleep eludes them. 
Whatever your situation is, count your blessings and be grateful for them. 
God bless us all. 
Good morning! 
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We live in a fast-paced age, the age I call the ‘Instant Age’. We have instant noodles, instant weight loss programs, instant wealth creation systems, instant this and that. Technology has in no small way contributed to this phenomenon. Ideas can now be sold across continents within few minutes! Thanks to social media platforms and emails. 
Along with this phenomenon of ‘instant result’ has come the spirit of Hastiness. We have all caught the bug of hastiness. We rush out of our homes everyday, rush through the traffic and in the process become unruly and a menace to other road users, we rush through deliverables and miss out salient points or even make mistakes in the process. 
We are so impatient that we don’t even have time to explain things to our kids any longer. We snap at them when the innocent questions start coming, they keep mum and seek answers elsewhere, usually from the wrong sources. 
We also rush into relationships and head to altar with people we hardly know. When we begin to see their true colors, it is already too late to go back. We are hasty to become successful and so we don’t mind stepping on others to get to the top. The best way to the top is still by building others not by pulling down, so stop tearing others down. 
Even in spiritual matters, we often jump ahead of God when He shows us a glimpse of what He has in mind for us. We end up burning our fingers and ruining the show before it starts. 
Can we begin to take a pause and slow down a bit? Remember the race is not to the swift, neither is the battle to the strongest. He that believeth shall not make haste. Isaiah 28:16. 

Also note that this is not to be misconstrued as counsel to become complacent. It is a call to avoid hastiness, it is dangerous and can lead to permanent loss. 
God bless us all. 
Good morning! 

​When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. –Lao Tzu

Moving on can sometimes be extremely difficult and near impossible, especially when it has to do with a broken relationship, loss of a loved one, business disaster, reputational damage, or natural disaster. Any of these occurrences can cause a lot of trauma and disillusion. Victims usually refuse to accept reality and often see themselves still in the pre-trauma period. 

Here are a few guides to moving on:

1. Acknowledge the loss: You must first of all acknowledge the fact that the relationship is over, the loved one is truly dead, the loss has been incurred, etc. This is very important because it helps you to live in the present and accept reality. 

2. Pour out your grief: Don’t try to hide your grief, cry it out, spill it out, do all you can to ensure it is not bottled inside. Talk to someone if necessary. Pouring out your grief makes you feel lighter and ready to make new decisions. Justin Timberlake said “Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.” Don’t blame yourself unnecessarily,even where you are at fault, scold yourself and free yourself. 
3. Face Reality: You then need to face reality. Accept the fact that your spouse or partner is gone. Can you go it alone or do you need a new partner? The loss has been incurred, how do you start all over again? What mistakes did you make in the past relationship? What are the lessons from the broken relationship? 
4. Give yourself to others: Sometimes it is helpful to get involved in some volunteer works before making new decisions,especially when a loved one has been lost. You may volunteer to help widows, orphans, homeless, etc. Doing so helps you to see the hurts of others, and you can provide comfort from the comfort you have received. 
5. Make new decisions: Don’t stay down in the trenches forever. When the war is over, soldiers leave the trenches and get back to strategy room. Don’t remain in limbo, it is time to make new decisions. Learn from the past, but don’t let it color your vision of the future. Opportunities come in different shapes and forms. 

6. Enjoy life: Enjoy your new life and live in the present. The past is gone, the present is all yours and the future awaits you. Don’t let the memories of the past blind you from enjoying the beauty of the moment. Remember you only live once. 
Finally, the time between each of these phases differs depending on the events, strengths of those involved and circumstances. It is just necessary to know when to move on. 
God bless us all. 
Good morning! 

We often suspend doing some good works because of some sense of inadequacy. We postpone writing our books, singing our songs, visiting the orphanages, taking up a community work, etc, not because we don’t want to do it but because we feel we are not fully prepared yet. And so days crawl into weeks and the weeks grow into months and before we realise it years have gone and the relevance of those good deeds is no more there. Sounds familiar? 
This is a struggle almost everybody goes through. We must understand that some strengths will not be revealed until a demand is placed on them, and demand will only come in the place of action. There is a potential energy (energy at rest) in each of us waiting to be activated into kinetic energy (energy in motion). This potential energy can only be activated in the process of movement. Until you take the first step you can’t see the next step. But because we want to see the entire step before we launch out, we often miss out on great opportunities to be a blessing. 
Stop waiting to see the entire step, you are adequately equipped for that step. Take that step and the puzzle will begin to take shape. Our lives are sometimes like a puzzle, until you take the first or second piece of puzzle, you may not be able to figure out the puzzle. 
This is why you should be at the ‘Step Out of the Confines of Comfort’ seminar. Happening on 22nd October. It is designed to activate that potential energy. See you there. 
God bless us all. 
Good morning.  

We are often trapped in the confines of our safety, familiar environment, familiar people, or jobs and become so used to such that we limit our growth potential. 
Even as a nation, we became so used to petrodollars such that when the bubble burst, we were caught off-guard and literally left stranded. We overstayed in the confines of a mono-economy. 
Many of us have plateaued when there are still more mountains to conquer. Many of us are afraid of taking steps beyond the known into the unknown. We have become victims of self-imprisonment in the worlds we created for ourselves. 
It is time to break all chains of limitations and leave those confinements holding us back. Your full potential is outside of where you are now. Until you reach out for the sky, you can’t touch stars. 
Break out and breakforth. Let us make it a date at the ‘Step Out of the Confines of Comfort’ seminar on 22nd October. You will experience a transformation. 
God bless us all. 
Good morning!