We are breaking out of all limitations and pleasures that have been holding us back.
We are pressing into new frontiers. We are breaking barriers and raising bars.
It is happening today at the ‘Step Out of the Confines of Comfort’ seminar.
See you at the venue by 10am. Gatecrashers will receive mercy. 
God bless us all.
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Integrity plus skilfulness will take you to the upper class of the best of the best. However from experience, people hardly develop skills in what they don’t have passion for. This is where the third door opener comes in.
3. Passion is a necessary ingredient for attracting positive recommendations. See a man diligent in his business, he will stand before Kings and not before mean men. Proverbs 22:29. You can’t be diligent at what you don’t like, it is just not possible. You will find it boring, burdensome and dreary. It is thus important that you do what you love. When you do what you love, your work ceases to be a job and becomes an art. All over the world, men seek for people with integrity, skilfulness and passion. Your passion for it drives you to seek for excellence, which is the fourth point.
4. Excellence is a state of flawlessness. When you score 100% in an exam you will be graded as excellent. You can become excellent at what you do when it is what you are passionate about. When you make excellence your hallmark in what you do, you will necessarily attract positive attention. Doors will begin to open to you of their own accord.
Be a man of integrity. Become skilful at what you do. Do what brings out passion in you. Make excellence your hallmark.
As you do this, doors will begin to open for you.
God bless us all.
Good morning!
We discussed integrity yesterday and I need to add this. Integrity speaks across borders, races and languages. It is also often given priority above skills or qualifications. Skills can be transferred to you, but not integrity, it is a product of your thought patterns, values and choices. This is why sometimes less skilful person but with integrity is chosen among more qualified candidates.
2. Another door opener is your skill. Your ability to do something better than others is a great door opener. Why do organizations headhunt as against just throwing vacancies in the open? They do so because they want to choose among the skilled ones. You must therefore sharpen and hone your skills. Be the best at what you do. Don’t settle for average. Average is the greatest enemy of success. It keeps you below your potentials. Learn more about what you do. Study. Ask questions. Read.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
Be so good at what you do such that when a need for your skill arises anywhere, you will be the preferred.
When you are dexterous and also have integrity, you have taken yourself beyond the crowds and risen to the class of champions, which is usually less than 5% of the entire population. Where would you rather belong?
God bless us all.
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See you this Saturday at the ‘Step Out of the Confines of Comfort’ seminar. 👍
Until the door to a room is opened you cannot access the contents of the room, unless you break in. Sometimes we go shopping in malls and find some shops closed, maybe for the day or for some reasons. At such times, though we can see the contents of the shop through the glass, we can’t buy because the door is locked.
Likewise in life, we often have what it takes for some positions or jobs or appointments but we don’t get them because the door has not been opened to us. No matter how hard you struggle, if the door is not opened you can’t get it. It is therefore important that we know the factors that can trigger a door to open. This will be the focus of our discussion in this series.
1. Integrity: One of the rarest attributes in our world today is integrity. It is this rarity that is largely responsible for failure of leaderships. Integrity is the quality of being honest and fair, or a state of completeness or wholeness. Integrity is also doing what is right whether you are being watched or not. Another word for integrity is honesty. It is a state of honesty of actions, intentions and words. Being true to your actions, intentions and words. In the race for wealth, many people have thrown away this rare and precious attribute.
When people are being sought to occupy a position, integrity is one of the key attributes looked out for in the candidates for such positions. And integrity is not just something you own, it is something also perceived by others. You own it, but it is perceived by others. It is those who have perceived this in you that will recommend you for such positions. It may be positions you ordinarily would not have had access to or be aware of, but your integrity will make someone recommend you for the position.
Integrity still opens doors and will keep opening doors, so you need to guard it if you still have it, or start repairing it if yours has been damaged.
God bless us all.
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Yesterday I was observing my okro garden and I saw something that is worth sharing. I observed that some of the plants have grown taller and bigger than some others, even though they were planted the same day. It caught my curiosity and I began to meditate on why the huge difference.
Here are two reasons and lessons from this scenario:
1. Access to Water: I observed that the ones that are taller are closer to the source of water than the other,so they are growing faster than the others. Water brings life, and water can be likened to Grace. In our lives, we often wonder why some people seem to be moving faster than us. One of the reasons for this is Grace. Some people are just unmeritedly graced and they do things with ease. So instead of envying them, ask for Grace of Ease upon your life.
Divine Positioning: I planted the seeds myself and I didn’t select one seed for one position, I just planted with open mind. But some of the seeds were fortunate to be not just near water, but far away from where people tread, so they are shielded from being treaded upon. Same way divine positioning can make a seemingly less knowledgeable person to achieve more than those who have all the qualifications. Pray to be divinely positioned friends. Often, location determines allocation. Why would someone with a score of 185 gain admission while another with 230 be denied admission? Because cut off marks for different areas are sometimes different. The race is not to the swift, neither is the battle to the strong…
So while we are diligent in our work, let us also ask for Grace and Right Positioning so that our journey through life will be easier.
God bless us all.
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Registration for the ‘Step Out of the Confines of Comfort’ seminar ends today, ensure you book your place today.
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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.
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Registration for ‘Step Out of the Confines of Comfort’ seminar ends tomorrow. Book your seat today, you won’t regret attending the seminar.
You may not know that where you are now is a confine of comfort. Information brings about reformation, which leads to transformation.
The purpose of this seminar is to spur us from wherever we are to hunger and thirst for more. It is going to be fun, exciting, informative, instructive and inspiring.
Let us meet at Travel Lodge next Saturday by 10am.
Speaking with me is Mr Peter Oshinoiki, an entrepreneur per excellent.
Don’t miss this great opportunity.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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