WHAT DO YOU SEE?

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WHAT DO YOU SEE?

What would you do, when at the age of 17, you drop out of school to go into business in the city and later get locked out of your apartment?

Stranded as you are, you're fortunate to have some money to keep you in a hotel for a night. Your money however, is enough only to get you a room with virtually nothing working; sockets damaged, lights not functioning, taps not flowing, basically everything is in a 'mess'!

I guess you'd leave first thing the next morning, NEVER TO RETURN!

And you're absolutely right! The normal human being would do just that!

Anyway, let me tell you what 17 year old Ritesh Agarwal chose to do in such a situation- which would go a long way to change his life forever!

Ritesh is supposedly the first Indian drop-out entrepreneur to have had a successful run. At the age of 22, Ritesh is the CEO of India's largest hotel network, because he chose to see the other side of a problem that had been overlooked by many. Ritesh dropped out of college, aged 17 within days of joining without the consent of his parents in his quest to succeed in life. He moved to Delhi but had no option than to move from one hotel to another for accommodation. However, in his stay in these hotels, Ritesh encountered similar problems cut across; hotel rooms with virtually nothing working! They were just not up to standard!

Ritesh claims that,"My experience as customer was very bad, you call the hotel owner, he won't answer, you reach the hotel but you find doors locked, you get in the hotel and find receptionist sleeping, switch-boards in the room not working, washroom has water leakage ...".

This led him to first establish Oravel Stays which sought to manage hotel rooms; to make sure everything was working and customer service could be easily accessed.

Ritesh, through hard work was fortunate to receive a Thiel scholarship of $100,000.00 which helped him develop Oravel Stays to Oyo Rooms, still with the same aim of managing these hotels.

Oyo Rooms currently manages 2500 hotels in 125 cities across India with a monthly revenue of $3.5m, starting with just 1 hotel and a startup of $900.00.

The young man who only turned 22 last November saw a different side of a very big problem- THE OPPORTUNITY and used it to change his life and also that of his over 1500 employees.

Agarwal says," If you think crazy stuff, that is when it becomes a lot more doable".

What Do You See?

Make An Impact!

#StayBlessed!

BOUNCE BACK, DONT STAY DOWN!

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BOUNCE BACK, DONT STAY DOWN!

Anyone who's had an experience with basketball can boldly tell you how interesting a sport it is, and before long you'd have fallen in love with it! Those scintillating dribbles with the ball, the fiery attacks for the ball, and making "baskets" makes the game simply fun! 

As kids playing the game, when we made "3-pointers", our heads became bigger than our necks could carry. Watching professionals make all those outrageous 'slam dunks' would make even a blindman fall in love with the game. Those memorable Fridays at training on my school's court with such a great number of onlookers would make everyone want to perfect his game to be a pro at it.

More than loving the game of basketball, the unique qualities of the ball, especially its ability to bounce on a hard surface teaches so much. The harder it hits a hard surface, the higher it bounces up. And whether it is hit against the ground intentionally or it falls off a higher surface to the ground, it will still bounce! 

Today, it's time to bounce back like the basketball. Situations may have caused us to fall, people may have lured us, or we may have fallen by our own wrong intentions and doings. We may have started the year with such high hopes of achieving a lot this year, and with barely 3 months to the end of the year have given up hopes of achieving our set goals. We can still bounce back! In fact, the harder we fall, the higher we can bounce back up. There hasn't been any great achiever so far in history who hasn't had to bounce back from one struggle or another to attain a set height!

The Bible couldn't put it any better in (Proverbs 24:16) where it says,"For a righteous man falls seven times and rises again..."

Look in history and see all the great men who fell. Steve Jobs was sacked from the job he created, Peter in the Bible fell, JK Rowling fell, Thomas Edison fell, Albert Einstein fell, just name them... and they all bounced back. 

Are we still swimming in our "fallen" state? It's time to bounce back up! 

God is waiting. . .

DECIDE TO BOUNCE BACK TODAY!

Make An Impact!

#StayBlessed!

THE 1BILLION MAN!

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The 1Billion Man!

"Contribution to children, world peace, and/or human rights".

Today i share with you what one  individual in a small nation such as Ghana is doing to better not only his nation, but his continent as a whole!
His name is Prince Adu-Appiah!

As a young leader, Prince Adu-Appiah made two crucial discoveries early in life; that good leadership is his passion and that Africa’s major advancements forward require good leadership. With a strong desire to commit to the leadership he felt so deeply connected to, Adu-Appiah initiated making connections and forming relationships with those around him in Ghana.
Soon after, he began leading and volunteering in many youth empowerment and leadership development groups, committees and organizations including The Human Empowerment and Living Potentials Group, Oxbridge Africa Mentorship Programme and Hult Prize at the University of Ghana.

To further his impact in empowering fellow Africans, Prince Adu-Appiah founded 1Billion Africa, a movement developed aiming to solve Africa’s greatest challenges. This movement seeks to turn the '1 billion' problems in Africa into '1 billion' projects to empower and create opportunities for Africans. 1Billion Africa seeks to embark on key projects for social change and transformation and is currently in nine African countries with the help of country ambassadors.

Adu-Appiah is a TEDx Accra 2015 speaker influencing 1000 youth and children of Ghana and other African countries through his leadership roles, commitments and article publications. He was honored with the Unsung Hero People of Distinction Humanitarian Award in New York City for 1Billion Africa and community based initiatives.

Through his work and service as a leader Adu-Appiah sees what he does not as a temporary occupation but rather, a life-long commitment and firmly believes that  are more than capable to transform the world if they commit to excellence, leadership and innovation.

Prince just got selected in JCI Top 20 Outstanding Young Persons in the World! The other 19 people are from Brazil, Puerto Rico, Zimbabwe, India, Zambia, UK, Ireland, Turkey, SA, USA, Cameroon, Venezuela, Singapore, Australia, Haiti and Bulgaria.

There is however an ongoing Online voting to select 10 of the above to be honoured during 2015 JCI World Congress in Japan and to promote their Visions, and that calls for your support in voting for Master Prince Adu-Appiah to help him push the #1BillionAfrica project.

The JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World (JCI TOYP) program honors ten outstanding young people under the age of 40 each year. These individuals exemplify the spirit of the JCI Mission and provide extraordinary service to their communities in diverse ways and create positive impacts on a local and global level.

These ten young active citizens will be honored during the 2015 JCI World Congress on Friday, November 7th in Kanazawa, Japan.

Since 1983, JCI has honored nearly 300 individuals from 57 nations. Past recipients of national awards include such well-known personalities as Orson Welles, Howard Hughes, Nelson Rockefeller, John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, Benigno Aquino, Bill Clinton, Strive Masiyiwa and many, many more, all named before the age of 40 and before they had achieved national prominence. 

Kindly visit  www.jci.cc/toypvote/?n=1 and VOTE Prince Adu-Appiah, representing Africa on the Global Stage. Kindly Share also.
Voting ends on 19th August, 2015.

#MakeAnImpact!
#StayBlessed!

SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!

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SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!

Have you ever heard of Victor Lustig? Probably not. Well, He is one of the cleverest conmen ever to have walked the surface of the earth. One of Lustig's trademark cons involved a "money-printing machine". With this scam, he would sell a machine that printed real 100 dollar bills. He would demonstrate the capability of the small box to clients, all the while lamenting that it took the device six hours to copy a $100 bill. The unsuspecting greedy clients, sensing huge profits, would buy the machines for a high price, usually not less than $30,000. By the time you realized that the machine contained only two real hundred dollar bills and a load of paper, Lustig would be long gone, along with your 30,000 plus dollars cash.

But even Lustig is no match to the American con artist, Joseph Weil. This man scammed people with all kinds of tricks, from selling them cheap "Indian Oil lands" the government had "no record of", to betting on fixed races and promising to double and triple people's investment with a "money printing chemical", Weil found a way of appealing to the innate corruption in everyone he met, and exploiting it for his personal gain. Over a lifetime, he made over 8 million dollars from people's greed. It is even believed that in 1889 Weil managed to sell a chicken to a wealthy prospector passing through Illinois for the price of a golden nugget! It is from this rumor that the term 'Chicken Nugget' stems from.

Recently, the Police recruitment scam rocked the nation Ghana, and much was made of it. Many of the victims of this scam believed they were paying for the opportunity to join the Police service without going through the usual entry requirements. They wanted to achieve their goal without doing what was legally required to obtain it. If they didn't have this corrupt mindset, would the scam have worked on them?

We usually complain about corrupt officials, but we must also examine our national psyche and honestly assess our own attitude to corruption. How do we feel about those who obtain riches by cheating the system? Do we revile them? Or do we revere them?

As human as we are, we always want something for nothing. Unfortunately, the bad nuts among us are fully aware of this fact, and will exploit it always.

We want to pass our exams but are not ready to sit and study for long hours!

We want to be successful but are not ready to put in Hard work!

We want to be the best at what we do but are not ready to sacrifice!

Isn't it appalling!

We always want the easy way out!

We always want something for nothing!

The smart conman, Joseph Weil once wrote:

"The desire to get something for nothing has been very costly to many people who have dealt with me and with other con men". He adds, "But I have found that this is the way it works. The average person, in my estimation, is ninety-nine per cent animal and one per cent human. The ninety-nine per cent that is animal causes very little trouble. But the one per cent that is human causes all our woes. When people learn—as I doubt they will—that they can't get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall live in greater harmony."

Friends, Napoleon Hill, the great American author sums it all up when he says,"THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SOMETHING FOR NOTHING", and truly there's no such thing!

As a matter of fact, you may end up losing more than enough trying to get something for nothing!

Let's put in the HARD WORK and smile at the SUCCESS when it arrives!

Let's put in something for that which we so much desire, and enjoy it when we finally succeed in getting it!

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SOMETHING FOR NOTHING!

Make An Impact!

#StayBlessed!

.......AND OTHERS!

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.......AND OTHERS!

As busy as i was, one thing caught my attention, the words "AND OTHERS!"

"AND OTHERS?", I exclaimed in unison with my roommates. Although the radio was on, we were all busy going about our individual activities until that statement was uttered, and suddenly succeeded in bringing to an abrupt break all our activities, plus becoming the topic being discussed.

It was the congregation of a particular batch of students from the University of Ghana and quite surprising and unusual, during the presentation of honors, a particular

 group had been addressed as "And Others", after a few from the same faculty had been presented with theirs. The questions we asked refused to see any end.

How possible was this?

Had they not spent the same number of years in school?

Of course, they may have not performed to an expected standard, but addressing them as "And Others" on their graduation day, I found very unfair and 'derogatory' if I should say!

But come to think of it, would the outcome have changed or remained the same if they had taken their lessons and as a matter of fact, education a lot more seriously in school? The answer I believe we all know.

Days after, as I still sought to find answers to the current contretemps of 'And Others', I realized that there are lots of us addressed/regarded as 'And Others' in life. We all observe clearly that there are major shareholders in the writing of history/success stories, and they are those who stand out of the lot! Others however find themselves in the bizarre department of 'And Others', simply because their impact wasn't felt.

As a student, I have observed keenly how some of us(students) come to school with a particular aim of studying to become successful, but lose it along the way, pursuing others that are far from our primary objective.

We tend to be swayed by unprofitable activities that yield nothing but gradually inducts us into the group of 'And Others'!

You have a purpose on earth, and finding and achieving that purpose takes you away from the group of 'AndOthers'!

Failure to identify your purpose on earth and only following others who are pursuing theirs is a giant leap towards joining the 'And Others' society!

I refuse to be addressed as 'And Others' on my graduation!

I refuse to be addressed as 'And Others' in life!

I believe you do too!

Choose to be addressed as YOU and not Others!

Make An Impact!

#StayBlessed!

THE HUNGRY GIRL: YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!

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THE HUNGRY GIRL: YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE!

Afua was hungry. It wasn't an unfamiliar feeling to her. She was almost always hungry. Her parents would have fed her if she had been at home, but she wasn't at home.

She was in boarding school. Grandma had spent good money to send her there, so she dared not show ingratitude by asking for money to buy food as well. No, she just wanted to study as hard as she could, to make her grandmother proud. But she was hungry.

Studying on an empty stomach was hard. Maths was complicated enough after a hearty dinner, but Afua hadn't eaten for two days. It was a pity though, when there was so much fresh food at home: Yam, kontommire, plantain, tomatoes, eggs, fish… just thinking about it made her all the hungrier.

That weekend, she went home to visit her parents, and on her way back to school, brought along some fresh produce. The jeers and taunts of her schoolmates as she crouched over a makeshift hob to cook everyday was the least of her worries.

Her biggest concern was the fact that most her fresh produce would often go bad before she had a chance to cook it. With time, she figured out that if she ground the tomatoes, parboiled her plantains and greens, smoked her fish, all in advance, and packed them airtight, not only did they last longer, but they took less time to cook. Afua now had the time - and strength - to study just as hard as her classmates.

The results were phenomenal. In 1936, Afua won a scholarship to Achimota School. She was now in the big leagues. But instead of savouring her achievements, Afua was worried about what to do for food, now that she was so far away from home.

Her school mates were rich kids - children of diplomats and British expatriates with larders full of all manner of foreign goodies. Afua spent ages marvelling at exotic jars of marmalade and tins of sardines in her schoolmates' chopboxes. How was it that the white man could make these foods last long enough to travel by ship from England to Ghana, and she couldn't make her kontommire last from Peki to Accra?

Well, if there was anything Afua could do well, it was adapt. Her parents hadn't named her Esther for nothing. Before long, she had started making Marmalade and Orange juice using the sweet local oranges. They tasted so good that her mates started buying from her. Soon, the teachers joined in, and by the time she graduated with a Cambridge School Certificate in 1941, Esther Afua Nkulenu had a contract to supply Achimota School with enough Marmalade and Orange Juice to feed all their staff and students.

By 1949, Esther had a roaring enterprise. She was the first Ghanaian to run a formal food processing business in the country. With sponsorship from Achimota, Esther travelled to study cooking in London, and Food Preservation at Bristol University. When she returned, she immediately put her skills to use protecting local food producers from the cheap competition from imported foods. One year after independence, she organised the nation's first ever Made In Ghana Exhibition. Kwame Nkrumah noticed her efforts and pushed her to stand for President of the Federation of Ghana Industries. And that was how Esther Nkulenu (now Ocloo) started an illustrious career of public service.

Most people find it hard enough to run a small business, but Esther Ocloo  successfully managed and grew Ghana's biggest food processing company for many years, while holding several public offices at the same time. Through the fifties, sixties and seventies, she served as Executive Chairman of the National Food and Nutrition Board, adviser to the Council for Women and Development, a member of Ghana's National Economic Advisory Committee, and a member of the Council of State in the Third Republic of Ghana from 1979 to 1981.

Throughout the eighties, Esther devoted herself to the economic empowerment of Ghanaian women. She promoted the availability of credit to women as a founding member and the first chairman of Women World Banking from 1979 to 1985.

By the time she died of Pneumonia in 2002 at the age of 83, the hungry girl from Peki had made such an impact, not only in the Ghanaian food processing industry, but also in the economic lives of women around the world.

She had evolved from the girl who struggled to feed herself into the woman who fed the nation.

You Make A Difference!

Make An Impact!

Stay Blessed!

 

Copied from: Kojo Yankson(The Morning Man) via myjoyonline.com 

TO AVOID CRITICISMS, SAY NOTHING, DO NOTHING AND BE NOTHING!

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TO AVOID CRITICISMS, SAY NOTHING, DO NOTHING AND BE NOTHING!

At the tender age of 10, Johan was touted to be one of the very best vocalists his generation would see. His vocal prowess was second to none, his age not withstanding.

By age 15, he was in high school and decided to audition for the school's annual talent show.

He was full of confidence to sail through the auditions and win the ultimate.

Contrary to expectations however, not even one of the three judges gave him a pass. As a matter of fact, they laughed heartily at him and used all manner of words to describe how terrible his voice was.

They even 'advised' him not to take up music as a career, if that's what he ever thought of doing, as he was never going to succeed at it!

Johan listened well, and very well indeed, and from that day, cussed never to sing again. He changed schools as well as course of study(from music), with the intention of starting all over again! Music which was once a passion, had became a great enemy. Johan sought to do just one thing, AVOID CRITICISM, and like Aristotle rightly said, "to avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing and be nothing"!

Johan became successful in his own way anyway. He became a banker and resorted to living quite a reserved life.

Several years had passed and the little music loving Johan was now a granddad who had taken up the task of helping his little granddaughter at her school's annual family night. Coincidentally, she had chosen to sing and that meant Johan was singing too(his first after sixty years). He cared little about what the out come was going to be as he sought only to make his granddaughter happy and "having some fun himself wasn't a bad idea", he thought.

The outcome was however unexpected, as Johan got every Tom, Dick and Harry present at the event teary eyed as they imagined how come such a great voice had been 'wasted'!

He recounted the events leading to him being estranged to music and had a simple advise to especially the younger ones present,"criticisms can make or break you, but the choice is always yours to make"!

Johan had spent all his life living a particular life because he wanted to avoid criticism and as such didn't make the impact he could have made. He allowed the criticism he received to break him!

True success is in finding what you love to do and doing it with everything you've got no matter the criticisms you receive!

Make An Impact!

Stay Blessed!

START RIGHT!

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START RIGHT!

It is unarguable that one great asset of every racer is his start.

Be it in moto-sports, car racing or even in athletics, it has been proven that great starts often lead to success.

So is it in human life, which in itself is a race.

The human race however, is the one race in which you need not compete with others, though you need to learn from others.Your only competition in the human race, is YOURSELF! You only strife to be better than the person you were a day before.

It is however not strange to find many people say that your start doesn't really matter so long as you end right.

Indeed, there are many who may end seemingly right(successful), but still have an endless list of regrets, which they realize could have been avoided if they had started right. Unfortunately, it would have been too late to make corrections to the past.

That notwithstanding, just like Napoleon Hill once said,"You can START RIGHT where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile".

Don't wait to regret later!

Choose to start right!

You're on course to succeed if you start right.

Make An Impact!

#StayBlessed!

TAKE STOCK, BUT DON'T STAY DOWN!

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TAKE STOCK, BUT DON'T STAY DOWN!

All so soon, a month out of twelve has passed, and already, some of us are wondering if those 'great' new year's resolutions we set can ever be met.

Unsurprisingly however, some of us have already given up after taking stock of the first month, forgetting there is always hope for the future.

The 'Great Heart of the White House', as he was affectionately known, was once considered a failure by many. As a matter of fact, in his youth, he went to war a captain, and returned a private(the lowest rank there is in the military). That was neither the first nor last of his failures, as many were yet to follow in his business and political life.

He took stock, YES! but giving up was never an option to The 16th President of The United States, Abraham Lincoln. Even at a tender age Lincoln once wrote,

"Abraham Lincoln, his hand and pen,

He will be good- but God knows when"!

That's how positive we should be no matter how difficult the present situation may be.

He later led the United States through Civil War, and helped abolish slavery.

Many of us always lack that attitude of perseverance and after a few tries and failures, tend to give up completely.

Family and friends may give up on you, but the greatest harm you can ever do to yourself is to give up on YOU!

Winston Churchill became a UK Prime Minister and Noble Prize Winner, even when everyone had given up on him.

Charles Darwin once wrote,"I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect". Probably, they judged too early and as such gave up on him, and so are those who have already given up on you.

Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, and the tall list of great people who were given up on, goes on and on.

After taking stock, you feel your recent failures cast doubts on any possibility of a bright future, but trust me, the only way your future may be anything but bright is you staying down and accepting people's 'failure tag' of you!

Successful people are those who commit to taking personal responsibility, and not people's perception, for their success!

Don't Stay Down!

Make An Impact!

#StayBlessed!

MORE THAN YOU BEST!

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MORE THAN YOUR BEST!

Giving off your best in life is not necessarily giving more.

Sometimes, what we consider our best is no where near the best and this is not enough.

Other times, our best is fettered by mediocrity, and sometimes also, just our desire to do a little just above the average.

Quite amazingly however, we all seek to be the best in whatever we do with our mediocre of a best!

Being the best in whatever you do means giving more than what you call your 'best'.

David Beckham, regarded one of the very best set-piece takers in the history of football gave more than his 'best' in his specialty, by staying a lot longer after the usual training to perfect his pieces.

So did Muhammed Ali, who considered himself the greatest boxer which he undoubtedly is, considering his record and according to pundits of the game, take extra hours of training as well as taking extra punches; more than the usual.

The tall list goes on and on.

Are you the best at what you do?

Do you seek to be the best at what you do?

In whatever field you may find yourself, you need to give more than your best to be undoubtedly considered the best.

You cannot be the the best if you don't give more than your best.

Never let the standards of everyone else be your standard.

Dare to stand out!

Today, I choose to be the best in my specialty!

What is your specialty?

Are you the best in your specialty?

You can be, if you give more than your best!

Make An Impact!

Stay Blessed!

You're Not Too Young To Make An Impact!

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You're Not Too Young To Make An Impact!

Under the sun, I've witnessed the well advanced in age pass on, and so have I seen the young die. 
But most significantly, I have seen the young die but leave behind a great deal of Impact on the lives of individuals and their society as a whole, and so have I seen the old die, only to be recognised for how long they lived. 

Do you think you're too young to make an impact? 
I guess you'd have to think again! 

David was but a boy when he slew Goliath. 
Tomorrow is never promised, and you may be too old to make the desired impact tomorrow. 

Great writers like JD Salinger, Stephen King and William Shakespeare didn't have to wait till they were 'older' to publish their first books. 
Shakespeare is said to have lived for just 52 years, but I guess we all know his impact on literature. 

How old was Jesus Christ when he made an everlasting impact on all mankind? I leave you to answer that. 
A friend once said, "there are 7 days in a week, and 'someday' is obviously not one of them". 

Choose to make an impact on the lives of people around you. 
Tomorrow may be too late, because it is not promised. 

You're not too young to make an Impact! 
Make An Impact! 
Stay Blessed!

What a Master Thinker He is! He thinks beautiful.

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What a Master Thinker He is! He thinks beautiful. 

When He thought of saving Israel from famine, He thought of the dreamer Joseph.

When He thought of the oppressor Goliath, the boy David came to mind.

When He thought of canceling man’s excuses, He thought; let’s bring in Helen Keller.

When He thought of the need for a Civil Rights activist, He thought; Luther King would be the perfect fit.

When He thought of a Computer revolution, He thought; this is time for Bill Gates.

Truth is, Your Purpose chose you.

When He thought of; an End time diligent minister, a corporate CEO, an amazing musician, a talented artist, a skilled poet, a true human rights activist; 

When He thought of someone; who would help pay the fees of those children, who would transform that community, who would deliver Africa, who would change the world, YOU CAME TO HIS MIND.

Never regret you are you. You are the beauty He thought of.

 

Whenever you feel like giving up, remember this;

When He thought of a particular NEED on earth, YOU came to mind.

THE MOPED STORY!

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The Moped Story!

A man once had a moped, but for some reasons best known to him, he kept on using the cycling function of this machine. He used it for so long a time, he felt he was using a bicycle and not a moped. Even in urgent situations when this moped could have served him well and a lot faster, this man stuck to cycling it.

The moped could be used as a motor-bike and could be a lot faster as well help the rider save much energy, but it wasn't being used as such; IT WAS BEING UNDERUSED! However, the moped, not being utilized to its outmost potential barely caused it any misfortune. The rider on the other hand, lost so much including his job for his failure to use the machine efficiently.

This moped refers to the POWER in us; that POTENTIAL to do great things! However, just like the rider, we fail to see and use what we have.

Our ability to use our moped efficiently, does not affect us only, but goes a long way in changing our society. We have that POWER to do GREAT things than we could ever imagine.

The WORST thing you could ever do for yourself and society is to DIE not living your full POTENTIAL because you had no knowledge of the POWERFUL person that you truly were!

Have a Blessed Week!

Make an Impact!

Stay Blessed!

DISCIPLINE IS EVERYTHING!

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DISCIPLINE IS EVERYTHING!

Some few days back, the Harmattan was awful at my end.

It was so severe and before I knew it, it was past midday and I had done virtually nothing since morning, but for my staying in bed!

"After all school was on break and it wouldn't matter staying in bed the whole day", I said to myself.

After a while however, I quizzed, "WHO DOES THAT"?

I had some clothes soaked in water that needed to be washed and I was still in bed?

I wasn't through with the book I had started, and I was still in bed?

I had even planned to go to the barbershop, and I was using the weather as an excuse? Who does that?

I later settled in one thing; I HADN'T BEEN DISCIPLINE ENOUGH!

How and why should I allow the weather to make me unproductive?

I remembered how one uncle in Europe always said they gave very little or no room for 'weather excuses', but went about their activities perfectly.

But was it me, or it was an African thing?

Here in Africa we were used to 'weather excuses' and I had grown up hearing several of them.

Discipline had made Europe a world Power!

Napoleon Hill once said, "if you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self"!

He who lacks discipline lacks the desire to succeed because the best way to succeed in life is to be disciplined!

Be Disciplined!

Make An Impact!

Stay Blessed!

TIME: BEATING THE BUZZER!

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TIME: BEATING THE BUZZER!

After following the game of Basketball for sometime, I've come to learn the importance of one thing, BEATING THE BUZZER!

BEATING THE BUZZER is simply a shot that is made right on the timer(right before the clock stops), and amazingly BEATING THE BUZZER most often than not changes the outcome of the game;EXTENDING THE GAME or CROWNING A WINNER!

BEATING THE BUZZER shows the ESSENCE OF TIME,and is a simple way in which Basketball tries to tell you that every SECOND in LIFE is of great importance and that you may BE A SECOND LATE FROM SUCCESS!

I'd like to urge you to spend your time 'WISELY' and with those WORTH it, bearing in mind that every second could BEAT A BUZZER and if wasted cannot and can never be regained!

We all serve a God who respects Time,and all throughout the Bible talks about the essence of time!

In Exodus 9:5-6, it reads, "The Lord set a Time and said,"Tomorrow the Lord will do this in the Land", and the next day,the Lord did it".

Dear friend, put your hand to do something, and fulfill it.....Do not procrastinate,for as the saying goes,"PROCRASTINATION IS A THIEF OF TIME"!

Do your very best to BEAT THE BUZZER THIS YEAR and trust me, YOU WILL SEE SUCCESS!

HAVE A BLESSED NEW YEAR!

MAKE AN IMPACT!

#STAYBLESSED!

MAKE THINGS HAPPEN

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MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!

Fortunately or unfortunately,almost all of us, if not all dislike politicians for one reason, WE CONSIDER THEM AS LIARS; NEVER FULFILLING PROMISES!

But have we ever thought of the 'politicians' in us,the lies we keep making to ourselves as individuals?

Year after year we make resolutions, and most often than not we fail to fulfill them!

How then do hate politicians when in actual sense there's no difference between us?

Could it be HYPOCRISY, or CRUELTY, or probably we showing how BIAS we can be!

Whatever be the case, that shows we'd do no different in their position.

Enough of the talk people!

This world is actually ruled by people who make things happen and talk less, and you can be one if you're ready to move from the TALKING ZONE!

Apple for instance is able to get the world speculating and anticipating their upcoming project, which often comes out not as speculated(could be better or worse)!

Choose to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!

Say to yourself, "ENOUGH OF THE TALK!"

Africa in particular needs more change makers and less change talkers!

Congratulations to organizations like 1BillionAfrica (1billionafrica.org), who are bent on changing Africa and making it a better place!

CHOOSE TO BE A CHANGE MAKER!

MAKE AN IMPACT!

STAY BLESSED!

ONLY THE ORDINARY DOES THE UNIMAGINABLE!

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ONLY THE ORDINARY DOES THE UNIMAGINABLE!

By the year 2002, over 200,000 people had died in the Liberian civil war which had erupted on the eve of Christmas in 1989. Almost all men including young boys, were involved in the war and there seemed to be no end in sight, until ordinary women did only what the ordinary does:THE UNIMAGINABLE! They did everything possible to ensure peace returned to the land, going every length, even as far as refusing their husbands some 'privileges' due them in marriage.

In a world filled with the ORDINARY, it is only feasible that the ORDINARY do the EXTRAORDINARY; THE UNIMAGINABLE!

These women refused to be caged by religion, and joined hands in pursuit of PEACE!

They saw to the successful handing over of power in a nation tattered by war, and did their possible best to ensure all ammunitions in wrong hands were recovered.

Women, the weak gender as we see them, saw to their  ability to do the UNIMAGINABLE as ordinary as they were, and helped a nation that was crying for help, get back on her feet and restart the race for growth and development!

The 'weak woman' in you is waiting to come out to do the UNIMAGINABLE, that can only be done by the 'stronger woman' in you!

What are you pursuing?and what are you caged in?

You can do the UNIMAGINABLE ONLY IF you're ready to do it!

Peter Gabriel,a writer,once said that,"All the buildings, all of those cars, were once just a dream in somebody's head"!

What is your dream?

Is it UNIMAGINABLE?

STEP OUT AND MAKE IT A REALITY!

Make an Impact!

Stay Blessed!