KEEP AT IT.

Hello People! Hope you are doing fine. In life, it is easy to imagine that successful people are those people who have their lives all figured out, their breads are all buttered on the right side. Hehehe...A benevolent Spirit cracked their nuts. Oh, yes! No hassles, no challenges, et al. Akuko.
Some of the most successful people are the ones who have overcome the most, they've risen above their own pains, disappointments, challenges and whatever to become successful.
If you doubt me, ask Albeit Einstein, ask Thomas Edison, or Mandela, or more recently, Malala.
It is not every time that a fighter feels like stepping out for a fight, it's not every time that a farmer is in the mood to plant. But then, a fighter fights anyway, whether in the ring or out of the ring, a farmer farms anyway, whether in the mood or out of the mood. This is how life is. If we work only when our mood permits us, we would not achieve much. In John 9:4, Jesus said, "I have to do the work of him who sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." We do not always have time but the time we do have should be put into good use.
Okay, so what do we do with our vision when we are down? When we are not in the mood? When we just feel like dropping the bulb and letting the light go off? You know what to do? Hold on one more time. Take time and appraise the journey so far. Rest, Review and Refire. God did not promise that every step on the journey will be rosy but we can trust that when we seem to be alone and hear only one footstep on that lonely part of life, we can trust that the footsteps belong to God and He is carrying us in His hands.
The best thing to do with your vision is to keep at it. Some people who have gone really far invested energy and more especially, time. How much have you invested and investing currently before thinking of giving up? Don't let people's side talks stop your bold steps on the side walk of life. For that your big, bold and bright future to live, KEEP AT IT.

SO YOU HAVE AN EXCUSE (II)

Sometimes, excuses can seem genuine, but no matter how we see them, many in the past have been able to rise above those same excuses, maximize their limitation, incarceration or whatever. Recently, it occurred to me that Apostle wrote more books in the Bible than any other person. Research shows he contributed 14 books of the new Testament! Yet he was the most jailed. My Boss' driver recently reminded me what is often said, "Things no easy for Ezekeil, if not, him for no write only one book for Bible." Of course I laughed and reminded myself how Apostle Paul had a conviction that even Jail could not deter. Prison was no excuse, instead it became the reason the books had to be written.

 While in incarceration in Rome, he wrote what is today known as the prison epistles which include Ephisians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon. In 2nd Corinthians 11:23, he said, "I've been in Prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again"

 What will you find? A reason to get the job done or an excuse not to? No one celebrates excuses, rather we applaud those with reason enough to move on despite contrary evidence, those who win in spite of daunting challenges.

 So what good reasons do you have for not attaining your destiny, write it down on a paper, put it on the Atlantic and allow it to set sail to the City of Oblivion. Dust yourself and see the Sun lifting your worries, the wind beneath your wings, your excuses giving way and your destiny coming forth. Do have a wonderful day.
Happy Weekend with loads of Love!

SO YOU HAVE AN EXCUSE? (I)

Excuses are safety nets for those who revel in their shells. The nets that they cast over their courage, so they could feel safe within the borders of their weaknesses. These people are Stars, shining in the blame game, glittering over opportunities because it came looking like work. It happens to people in far away places, yes, it happens to aliens living in Mars. The thing no dey happen to us. ‪#‎Aisweh. Abi nah? If na my sister Chommy, she go say, "I pray oo."Lol.

Indeed, it does happen to us, not to aliens. It happens to yours sincerely too. We're always waiting for the rain to subside, so we can revel in the sunshine, we're always afraid and vaguely unaware that it is our dance during the rain that garnishes the drum beats of our progress.

Somehow, I've lost opportunities by procrastination while life speeds by, I've also met very pressing deadlines even when I had enough reasons not to. It all rises and settles on the dust of our convictions. It is true that while we are postponing, life speeds by but to justify our procrastination by quality excuses has never made a good sailor learn how to sail, it has also never assisted a Pilot learn how to fly. We must learn to sing our song, yes, even in the midst of the storm, we have to learn to dance, even to the beats of the rain....(To be continued tomorrow)

WHAT THE IROKO TOLD THE SEED.

Tree: *Clearing throat, sways graciously from left to right**speaking**

Hello Seed, I saw you weightless under the wind yesterday. Then later, you were tossed around by some little bird. How are U enjoying the Sunshine today?

The Seed: I'm envious of you. Whenever I look at you, I see myself, what I can be that I've not already become. Your girth swallows up my pride, your size dwarfs my courage. Birds nest in your branches, resting in what has become the glory of your strength. These same birds toss me about. I thought we have the same gene?

Tree: Yeah, we do have the same gene. Do you know how long it took me to become this big? Do you know how much summer and winter I've seen? The time when I was swayed here and there by the wings of the wind? What you see is my length and girth alone, you are missing something.

Seed: And what is it that I'm missing?

Tree: You've not noticed my foundation. What is keeping me up is down, deep down.

Seed: Why do you speak in so much parables? ‪#‎Adongerit‬.

Tree: ‪#‎Udongerit‬? Oya, stay there and be doing phoneh. #Udongerit? You know what? I was once like you. A seed, a small seed with little relevance. But until a grain of seed falls on the ground and dies, it remains a single seed.

Seed: Are you saying I have to die before I can become like you? How preposterous!

Tree: Cool down and learn, calm down and drive slowly. The death process is the transformation process, the time when the old dies for the new to come, when you metamorphose into something with a new ability to begin your journey towards becoming an Iroko that you are meant to be.

Seed: *Shrugs* Everything was going on well until you brought death into the picture.

Tree: I see you are afraid to put off the old. But then, you can't become an Iroko tree just by lying dormant there. You have to be ready to lose your old self to slip into your new self.

Seed: Okay, so how soon can I become like you?

Tree: It will take some time. But you know, it is said that the best time to get planted is 20 years, and the second best time is now.

LEARNING NEVER ENDS.

Whenever I see Professors in any field, I am excited. I want to shine light on their brain and look under its sheets. I want to survey the filaments of their professorship under the microscope. My heart runs the length and breadth of my mind, I become the questions in a questionnaire; I am searching for answers.

You see, the University of Life is not like a conventional University where you listen to a professor speak. It's a University in which everyone is a student and Life itself, being both Chancellor and Professor of sorts, takes us through tests and hard knocks and graduates us with Experiences as our certificate. 

With the rising and setting of the Sun, new hopes and dreams arise that remind us that the more we try to know of one thing, the more we know of what we don't know. Our resources are limited and time is a scarce commodity, hence the need for specificity in learning. Yet, every day gives us the grace of some new learning. But some people are like a cup laden with stale water; water that has been dormant for too long a time. 

There's need to be receptive to the fresh knowledge of innovation. There's always something to learn; from the standing and falling of a crawling baby, it becomes obvious that life is a process of rising and falling until one becomes finally able to stand. There's something to be learned from the breaking of night and day; that when your time to shine comes, nothing can stop you. There's something to be learned through the stuttering lips of a lying politician, that it is not all about what people say to you but rather, it's more about what you say to yourself. 

When Archimedes discovered what would later be known as Archimedes Principle, he was in the most unusual of places, in a bathtub when he displaced an amount of water that illuminated the puzzle that has been on his mind for some time. Then he shouted "Eureka! Eureka!"

Our greatest discoveries must not be when we are straight faced and serious but rather, those simple moments when we open our minds to learn from the simple discussions on the dinner table, to appreciate the sincere singing of a grateful bird and to hear our own inner voices remind us that learning never really ends.