Lagos, the most populous city in Nigeria had the privilege of playing host to Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, yesterday. While in Lagos, asides his visit to the iconic Afrika Shrine, Macron took the opportunity to motivate and challenge everyone during a town hall to strive towards living a life of no limits. His …
Year: 2018
Lift up your eyes
We live in a world filled with negativity - bad news sells and travels faster than good news. Sometimes, people unconsciously go looking for bad news. The headlines of newspapers and TV breaking news are usually littered with news of accidents, deaths, scandals, and just name anything negative. It is a fact that newspapers sell …
Rewriting your life’s script
Several years ago, while I was undergoing the compulsory one-year post graduation national service (NYSC: National Youth Service Corps), I was invited for a wedding celebration of a family member. At this time, I was barely managing to make ends meet, the meager income I earned was hardly enough to take care of my basic …
Success Habits: The Power of Repetition
The dictionary defines repetition as "the action of repeating something that has already been said or written, the recurrence of an action or event" Every successful person I know or have read about seem to have this one thing in common. They have repeatedly carried out an action over time that they become experts in their field. …
THOUGHTS ARE THINGS (2) – 5 Things you should know
Everything we see around us today started as a thought in someone's mind. Think about the airplane, bicycle, pen, shoes, clothes and the phone or computer in front of you now, it all began as an idea in someone's mind. In essence, everything is created twice. Steve Covey calls them mental and physical creations. I …
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5 KEYS TO ACHIEVING SUCCESS
I have often been asked about what one needs to do to achieve success in any given field. In this article, I will attempt to provide some insights from my personal experience and journey and I do hope you find them useful. 1. Decision This is arguably the most important step you have to take, …
How to get more from life
Life was not designed to give us what we want, but what we deserve. A farmer does not reap a huge harvest because he needs it, but because he deserves it. A student doesn't pass exams because he needs it, but because he deserves it. Anyone who ASKS recives. The one who SEEKS finds and …
Learning from Mistakes
If we desire to move ahead in life, we need to learn to keep looking forward. If a person is traveling from Lagos to Abuja misses his way, and as a result of that, he keeps looking back, chances are that he might not get to his destination. If he is lucky, he will get …
Resilience: Attitude of Winners
I read a book over 20 years ago written by Robert Schuller. In it I found several nuggets of truths which has since stayed with me. They form part of the philosophy of my life today. Robert said "Tough times never last but tough people do". I want to ask you " how tough are …
Thoughts are Things (Part 1)
All things are created twice. First there is the mental and then the physical creation.Come to think of it, every action or word of ours are created twice. We first think about it in our minds, then we say it or do it. Everything we see today started as a thought. The aircraft, shoes, clothes, …
