summer sanders says "To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It's not about winning and losing; it's about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It's about embracing the pain that you'll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge"....Martin Luther King, Jr says "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy"......since it is said that everything happens for a reason, people now take it as a key reason to respond on the events of their lives forgetting that sometimes the reason of failure is caused by fears and the attempts of living life as a copy of someone or somthing else. sometimes things fail in your life because you are afraid to face challenges, you are afraid to be in difficult times, you are afraid of pain and risks... the best of you is determined by the challenges you overcome in this life. stay strong and never be afraid of anything or anybody........#rootsofsuccess

THE WAY OF SUCCESS 2

The road of life is mostly shaped in pains and tears, worries and struggles, but it is your duty to create joy. It is so true that success doesn’t bring happiness, but it is happiness that brings success, for whatever thing you do willingly and with joy, you surely shall succeed and be happy with your life. Take a close look at the people who are rich because they sacrificed other people’s life to get rich, those who get positions by evil means, are they happy now, and some made vows and now they are paying the price. Can’t you be strong and be patient with your progress than in need of things very fast. You only need three keys which leads to success; patience,  persistence and perspiration; these three combinations invokes the feeling of excitement and rise the emotion of happiness in your heart and mind, and thus whatever while you are happy, you'll surely be successful in it.

The most unfortunate thing is the fact that people run errands in competition, because your friends and primary school mates are driving cars then you also wants to drive even though you don’t have a driver’s licence. Yes life is a competition, but some competitions don’t need you to sacrifice your future in order to win, you just have to enjoy playing the odds and fate will ensure that you get what you worked for. The very best way of revenge to whatever you’ve been going through is massive success, the sense of proving that every event that you’ve been through was all worth it in the end. Most people strive the road of success without hard work, that’s far more like trying to harvest where you’ve not planted. It takes a seed to grow, fighting hard against harsh seasons, but at the end it bears sweet fruits that you enjoy without thinking what the mother seed could have went through to give you what you want.

People fail to try because their fear of losing is much greater than the excitement of winning; the kind of people who are successful are not those who were born rich, but those who had visions and worked hard to achieve. Failing is another factor that strengthens your ambitions and strategies needed for you to win, not a reason to quit. When people look at a successful person, they only see the public glory, never the deep private sacrifices they made to reach where they are. You'll notice that the harder you work, the more opportunities you create for yourself and other people around you and hence the more lucky you get in succeeding. The real fear of success is procrastination, because success is so heavy and carries many responsibilities with it, and then it is simple to procrastinate and live in other people’s failures.

Every person is meant to run their own race, our distances are not the same, if you are meant for 100m then why bother about 200m strategies?. Learn more about your journey, work hard in your lane and it will all pay off. Asking permission from people will only discourage you from working your way to the top, take to note that there are three types of people in this road, those who are afraid of making things happen, those who watch when things happen and those who make things happen. The people who are afraid to make things happen will give you quotes and examples of people who tried and failed; those who watch things happen will tell you that this and this are for this kind of people, they never include themselves in any good thing. And finally the people who make things happen will tell you that nothing is impossible for them that believe and the dreamers who work hard to make their dreams true.

The error of not designing your own life plan is you falling into someone’s plan which is not enough to carry what you have within you and thus leads you into complete failure. When you are not prepared for a journey, chances are high that you are likely not to reach the destination. Chances are very high for a person to do things that are less productive very efficiently the things that should not be done if they don’t have a vision. Before actions and hard workings, preparation is the best key to success; prepare yourself efficiently before engaging your commitment to your journey and you surely shall be successful. It is therefore good to not try to be a person of success, but be a person of value, in that way your success is described.

It is your attitude and not your aptitude that determines your altitude, is you don’t value your own time, and then don’t expect other people to do so. Unless you stop giving away your time and talents to useless things then you won’t see the greatness of what’s within you and the success of it. Success is determined and described by how high you bounce when you have hit the ground; when you fall once, it’s your opportunity to get up eleven times and run forward towards your goals and visions. The exact difference between a successful person and others is not the lack of knowledge or lack of strength, but it’s the lack of will. Because success is so attached to actions, successful people keep moving forward in such a way that when it happens they fall along the way, they don’t quit, but gather their momentum and keep running the race with courage and will.

The most important strategy is to aim for success that aiming for perfection, don’t be afraid to get it wrong, always secure the right to be wrong, and don’t forget the fact that fear is always lurking behind perfectionism. The best way to journey successfully is to start where you are, using what you have and doing the best you can. Being miserable or motivating yourself is always your choice, take the right path and it will show you its beauty. Making use in the right way this time create an advantage for next time to be fruitful unto you. The real failure in life is when you fail to recognize how close you were to your destination or success the moment you gave up, and its called failure to the exponent infinity.

Dreamers don’t quit, yet work extremely very hard to achieve their dreams; your life is not miserable because there are no jobs around you, but because you are lazy to use your brains which if you do, would create jobs for many. “…your doing small does not serve the world...”

who are you not to be great!!!!

“WHO ARE YOU NOT TO BE”

We are all defined by what we do, what we speak, how we do things and our behaviour in everything we encounter. The journey of life is not easy, yet simple to live and go on accomplishing our godly given purposes, the plans and visions we have. However though, there is still a mountain of confusion in everyone’s mind, people tends to question a lot of positive thoughts and ideas, there is too much at stake when something great is discovered within you than when nothing is discovered. When a situation is present and somebody has to rise against it, there are a lot of why and how questions, people ask themselves who are they to be brilliant, what makes them think they can conquer, what makes them think they can be heroes. And bodily speaking, it’s not about the situation, but it’s about who you are, it’s about what made you and what you are capable of.

We are not frightened by the hard times we encounter as we live, we are not discouraged by our incompetence which rises high when we face gigantic problems, and we are not even afraid of the darkness we seem to have fallen into, but we are frightened by our own selves, it is the ability and power within us that we redirect in the path of discouragement, yes it is our light that we are afraid of. We tend to think hardly against ourselves than initiating protocols that are needed to overcome the dilemmas of this world, we wrestle against our life giving ideas because we fail to understand ourselves and what we are capable of. If you are asking yourself about who are you to be rich if you were born in a poor background, also ask yourself who are you not to be.

From generation to generation people suffer from the same thing, people are caged in the same cell without burglars and lockers, you are only waging war against the air, no body caged you, yet you’ve arrested your own self, with your mind being the door keeper. You think you are trying but you also are not doing anything, you think you can change your situation, but the situation doesn’t need to be changed but to be transformed. It is unfortunate people are still running around looking for miracles forgetting that they themselves are miracles. Thoughts are always nourished by what you expose yourself to, you’ve been motivated and inspired for thousands of times yet you’ve never acted even once, you are narrating wonderful achievement stories about other people, where are the lines of your story, if surely they have been and they made it, then who are you not to be?

Time after time we beat ourselves by things we cannot change, a minute that has just passed cannot be retained, yet the one ahead can be fruitful if utilized rightfully. Wrestling against the wall with your bear hands cannot bring down the wall, you need hammers and other equipment to do the job for you. You can’t just close your eyes and expect things to happen by themselves, get up and get things rolling, there are a lot of people looking up to you, when they see you they see a lifetime motivation and believe that they will soon do more than you did, and unconsciously it might happen it be in a negative form if you continue to being negative. What makes you think that to be brilliant is only for certain individuals; top achievements do not have name tags until one decides to name it his/hers. Like it is said “your doing small does not serve the world”.

The concept of laying low doesn’t mean you should not do anything at all, it only mean that in whatever you do, you don’t do it with the tendency of being seen, you do great things, yet not too prideful to think that you are the only person to do it. Perhaps we should look at life in simple terms and do things that'll benefit us and the world around us. If it’s a relationship kind of life, live it until devil himself get jealous, excel in your academic life until there are no more papers to record your excellence, grow higher in business until here are no more spaces to build new developments, live that holy life until the angels decides to learn from you, write those books, articles until you run out of words since there are only about 26 alphabets in the English language. What I'm saying is, in whatever thing you are doing, do it to the best of your ability without limiting yourself with such questions that tend to question  your ability, if you do happen to ask yourself those questions, also ask yourself who are you not to be.

Sometimes we do things because we don’t have other choices, but before that we had a lot of choices, so it is wise to make a good choice and a right decision while you still can. Yesterday is an era of thoughts and past events, today is the right time to do things better than yesterday and tomorrow is the future of excellence, the moment of greatness and the time worth planning if you are still living today. Therefore living in yesterday ruins everything in your life, today can be made meaningless if one drags the negative thoughts of yesterday, tomorrow can be destroyed if one brings the failures of yesterday into the future. Yes you did fail yesterday because you were not prepared enough, but today you have enough time to prepare for all the odds of tomorrow. And I will ask you that with such knowledge, who are you not to be what you always wanted to be.

We are all given opportunities to prove ourselves, to show our strength and to demonstrate our capabilities that we can do even better. Only those who take their chances are described as not losers, no matter how many times they fail and fall, life keeps giving them another chance to rise and shine, to do even greater things than required per their abilities. And yet you still scramble and beat yourself together by throwing such heavy question upon yourself, discouraging your potential, suppressing your abilities. Whatever great thing you are asking yourself against, also ask yourself that who are you not to be.

Education for massive Transformation

We all know and believe that education is a key to a bright future, it is a key to success, and yes to live in this developed era one needs to be educated about a few things; education does open doors to all people by expanding the way in which the mind thinks, developing skills that are required to solve problems of any sort. However to many it seems like education has become a passport to knock into companies and industries looking for jobs, it has become a dilemma that hinders many from accomplishing what they longed dreamt for. Resumes are being rejected every second by companies all over the world, yes companies need educated people, but just like Darwin said, it’s survival of the fittest, only those with high pass rates are employed in some places, and only those who have insiders are also employed in some corrupted places.

Now, tell somebody to go to school, college or varsity, and tell me if they will have guts to do so if already a bunch of degrees and certificates are rotting under mattresses because there are no enough jobs to suite all those who hardly worked for their education certificates. People have forgotten the main aim of education or going to school, and that is to acquire knowledge, one cannot expand their skills or potential if they have not acquired enough knowledge, another reason the bible describe that people perish from the lack of knowledge, and I would also say that those who are seated with their degrees at home, waiting for a good Samaritan to bring them a job are still lost in a dungeon of darkness and lack of knowledge. You didn’t go to school so that you can add the queues of people looking for a job, but to use your knowledge to unleash the ideas that can bring about developments that also can create jobs.

It is common that for every Goliath in every place there is a stone anointed to bring him down, yet the stone needs David and his swing to be thrown in the right direction of the target. The villages and communities are rich with great minds and people who are only side minded, only waiting to hear about which company has open positions, where can they drop their CV’s, is your potential only limited to submitting a resume, is your knowledge too narrowed that you only think of working for others, how could it feel if people were working for you, yes that moment you don’t even have time to check their CV’s but delegates someone to do that for you, is that not what knowledge is about, is that what education is meant for, to create jobs for other, to develop the neighbourhoods by unleashing the ideas fully packed within you?

Fortunate enough we all know that there are about 6 billion people or more on earth and yet our fingerprints are far different, our thinking capacities and capabilities can never be the same either, we cannot all run amiss looking for jobs, there should be job creators, there should be opportunity makers, from one business to another, from one state to another. With the power of the knowledge we have acquired through education, who are we not to be brilliant, yes education is a key to success, but only if the person has eyes to see where the locker is and where the door is situated. Running around like headless chickens does not serve the world right, “your doing small does not serve the world”. Everyone did see the pictures of your graduation, yes on that nice attire that did cost someone a little fortune, but what is it that you are doing now, what will you do after if you’ve not yet graduated?

It is also true that some of you did what was never your choice to do, but will beating yourself together reverse the time. I hardly or not believe that events of our lives do happen by a mistake, we all know the saying that it is not a rejection but a direction, what if you didn’t do medicine but computer sciences because your company deals with computers and not medical stuffs, what if you didn’t do engineering but communication studies because your company will soon lead all communication networks around the globe, education is a key to success, yes only to the one with a locker or the one who can tell where the door to unlock is, for every person acquires skills which unlocks the secret room full of unique ideas that can revive the world around.

We are living in a strongly and highly competitive and globalized economy, the world keeps transforming every day of our living and it happens that the olden strategies of graduating and getting a job have long expired, it is an era to graduate and initiate programmes and projects that will create jobs, it is high time to use the mind at its best than the strength and keep consuming energy. The world is facing a lot of dilemmas that needs great minds to set it free, the likes of AIDS consuming the sons of men needs thoroughly equipped minds to free the world from, the sickness of other countries politics needs gigantic wisdom fully packed within you to deliver the weak from the corrupt. See, there is a lot to do with education than to just focus on that job, there is a lot to be achieved, a lot to be accomplished.

Whatever many countries and people are doing today is trying to survive the competition of life than living life itself, these are developing and developed countries, educated and highly educated individuals, yet trying to fit in and work under that one idea one had hundreds of years ago. Fortunate enough we are never limited to think, to have ideas of our own, to start something that can change lives, which can transform all our situations and problems into liberating solutions. What the world is doing today is trying to be pastors at the same church, trying to be doctors at the same surgery, trying to be pilots of the same airplane, what a complication of life. It takes years to build wisdom in you and only few seconds to be an idiot, education was not meant to destroy your future, but for you to build your future concretely through such beautiful knowledge you have acquired all these years of struggles and sleepless nights. And now I bodily say that people don’t get more poor because they are not educated, but because of their mind-set about their education. And i say education is meant for massive transformation of lives!!!

MOVING FORWARD

Life is never meant to be stagnant, life is all about moving forward, it’s all about changing levels, for where there is change there is growth and liberty .we all know that liberty comes with nothing but nourishment of the soul, body and the mind. We being called and appointed for different visions and missions, we are required to respond with a grateful heart, which will be demonstrated by our devotion unto these callings and visions. You being devoted and doing it with a diligent heart moves you from your present state to an advanced state, meaning a better you is definitely guaranteed, your light keeps on shinning brighter and brighter and the world is cheering and giving you a round of applause in a mighty way because what it lacked it’s finally coming it’s way. The world knows exactly how distinct you are, wow a solution finally came its way, and to the world you are like an answered prayer.

If there is one thing that a person should take pride in and fill free to do is to follow his / her destiny, is to never be ashamed of travelling your own journey with joy because that’s what you were called to do, that’s who you are, that’s your identity and that’s the true definition of who you are. When it comes to your journey be as free as the wind, do not compromise and accommodate them that do not understand whom you are, to yourself be faithful as a dog and about your journey be proud as a peacock.

Why is it so vital to respond to our visions and callings? Well it is because he (GOD) that created us created us because he saw it as very significant act, the world would not make him happy if he looked at the world and found that you are not present. The world had to make him happy and proud when he looked at it but how could it be so without you?… you are so special ,in his sight you are as good as gold .you give this world a great meaning that even words failed to describe, although your picture is not enough to move God and make him content but what is deposited inside of you makes him happy as king  once perceived and put into an exercise and what is deposited inside of you it’s a vision, a dream that will make you take a journey to reach it. In other words responding to our God given visions and callings fulfils Gods heart.

Be of a grateful heart, on behalf of your grateful heart let your actions demonstrate how happy you are to be appointed for such a great opportunity (your vision/calling) by responding to God’s will about your life and fulfilling his hearts desire. Be obedient, you’ve got nothing to lose yet a lot to gain, he that makes God proud shall live his life to see God’s faithfulness. obedience is better than sacrifice, in your journey of obedience to the maker, in your journey of self discovery you will encounter a lot of pain, disappointments, barriers that want to inhibit you, some punches on the face, actually a lot of tragedy but take heart, be of good courage, let not your heart faint ,never open a door of disappointment never be a friend of “ settling for less than what you’ve been destined to be”. let your vision be your motivation ,what you face should never get the best of you to such an extent whereby you utter words of defeat no, face such dilemmas head on, if God is able to  entrust his vision in you and believe that you are the right person to do this then why are you doubting yourself? Why are you giving in, are you bigger than the master? Do you love yourself better that God? if your answer is NO then shut your mouth trust God, fight this thing, triumph over it have an attitude that says nothing is impossible and I cannot die without reaching my vision, understand that it was Given to you because you thee only one who can handle it you’re the only one who can defeat all odds in order for the vision to exist and make a difference that influenced the creator to make you

God saw a solder in you that will fight for his desire, he saw a lawyer in you that will win his case, he never saw you as a failure, he never saw you as the one whose unable …he saw the light of the world. The one that and take a leap of faith and make things happen. Refuse to be stationary that’s not your nature you not serving the purpose. get up and show the universe that life is all about going forth regardless of who is watching or saying what get up and prove to them that gave you an opportunity that many would kill just to have that by picking you a great and a wise decision was perfectly made, by moving ahead each time letting go of fear, understanding that inferiority is foreign in your land.

Strike while the iron is still hot, do not procrastinate neither doubt, keep on pressing forward, keep on keeping on, do away with excuses, the vision can become your reality but then it all lies in your hands, if you believe that you are the right candidate for this vision then I tell you, you’ll be unstoppable, discouragement will not have power over you because the spirit of moving forward is in you and as long as you keep on moving forward you’ll definitely get there. Rome was not built in one day neither should you reach your destiny easily, it all takes time and a lot of fighting but at the end it is worth it, victory is with them that do not give up but them that keep on moving forward no matter what they encounter, what they see does not move them but what is ahead and what needs to be full filled does, be that kind of a person.

by Ndzalama @Vakatekile

life turns out the way we speak! power of the tongue

Life is the most beautiful thing to be proud of, the most excellent privilege to be thankful for and the most gift worth everything one can have. However life’s progress is determined by the utterance of the host (the one living). All parts of the body making up a human being are extraordinarily powerful and strong to can make one’s life miserable as well as making it worth a living. The most key agents are situated in the brains, the power of the thoughts which we hear many writers talking and write about, the matters of developing positive attitude for a positive future, understanding the power of thoughts, understanding the advantage of using at least more of the capacity of our brains. It is few people who focus on the small part of the body which is also a key to a lot of functions, this is the exact fire station which can destroy the entire future or can both build and protect it when directed wisely.

Biblically the tongue is said and believed to have power over life and death; “the tongue has power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruits” (proverbs 18:21 NIV). Most people (including Christians/ church goers) however think of this concept as just a saying, as a myth, many have not yet recognized that the events of their lives are truly the fruits of what they have spoken a long time ago. Yes sometimes we speak things unconsciously, when we are excited or angry, forgetting that every word that is spreading out of our mouth is a seed and it indeed shall bring forth fruits at the due season. Like a single fire stick that can burn a big area or a building, so are the words we speak, truly when we speak something our heart automatically believes in it, and whatever a person believes comes to appearance, it happens the way you believe it.

I personally grew up observing and paying much detail in a lot of things in this world, the life that we’ve been blessed with. There is a lot of negativity we speak than what is positive, and instantly there are a lot of negative events happening to us than the positive ones. And I strongly believe that if we can shake things a little bit and try to be positive, try to speak sense about the future; try to speak life rather than death, then in that way we could see our heaven on earth with our naked eyes. How much negative things we speak against our governments and then they turn to be more worse than before, how much of negative things we speak against what we later want to be our salvation to whatever we’ll be going through, is it truly them or it’s you, a question you should answer by yourself.

It is in the nature of human kind to blame other people for one’s mistake, people don’t really stand in the position of taking responsibilities to themselves, everyone seeks what’s suitable for their benefits forgetting that their intentions can turn against them. The tongue is fire itself, it burns everything when it utters words, and God Himself is faithful to look after His words so to bring them into pass, another reason it is said that a man will reap what he sow. I know of a lot of people who didn’t die because it was their time to die, but because they spoke of their death than their life, in their songs they declared their death, in their writings they declared death, in their talking they decreed their graves to swallow them; that’s another reason for you not to listen all kinds of negative singing, nor give yourself to foolish writings that cannot benefit you.

It does not only imply to those who believe in the bible, but to everyone who’s still breathing the free oxygen in the air. Whether you are deaf, dumb or fully functional, the power of words still rules over you and depending on your thoughts and your utterance of words, so shall you reap the fruits. Every one of us is willing to live in the bright future, but how much of the future do you speak than the past, you remain poor because your thoughts and words are more attached to the past than the future, you remain weak and withered because your roots are pumping bitter waters from the wells of the past. Come on and shake things up, shoot your roots to the future, see the bright side of your life, automatically transform your destiny into your language, speak life and success, speak a way even when you are facing a huge high mountain, see yourself across the deep dark sea ahead of you.

It is really not in some of us, it doesn’t only imply to the wise, we are all living in the same world, all breathing the air contained in this planet, the sun shines upon all our heads, and therefore I emphasize that it’s in all of us, the power of words, the fire of the tongue implies to us all, we are all affected by the principles of life. Therefore you need to take charge and be in full control of what you speak, what you think, for it is also said that from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks; go ahead and begin to speak life, begin to declare prosperity and success upon every area of your life, unconsciously that will stimulate the world around you. Never spit words of death from your mouth, never declare failure in your life, for what you speak today will surely manifest in the near future, there is too much power in your tongue, the kind of fire that can either burn down your future, or light up all the paths of your success. You were never born to suffer, don’t bury yourself alive, begin to spread words of life, climb that mountain proclaiming that you are already at the top.

It is with the mind!!!!!

It is extremely powerful for a person to listen or expose him/herself to something that enhances positive change. Life is more about choice and faith, you choose what is and what is not meant for you as you live, and you strongly apply faith in the sense that everything you choose will surely come to pass. I once learned that failure is not a rejection but a direction, a guidance to what will in the end brings an everlasting joy to your soul, happiness to your heart and spirit, and an ever shining smile in your face. Faith is behaviour, the sense of strongly believing that whatever you aim for, what you need, what you press forward for, whatever you dream, your vision will come to pass without evidence. This behaviour controls your instincts, your ambitions and hence focuses your eyes to what you don’t see, to something great that have no meaning to the world when you are not there. Without faith it is impossible to please God, without faith it is impossible to achieve a thing in this world, it is impossible to set for high things, to see yourself as a hero to your own destiny. This faith is the centre between your challenges and your promise, serves as the accelerator to what you believe on. That’s the other reason why many people died before reaching their goals, they believed somehow in their failure, and their faith made sure that they fail. Faith shapes your destiny based on what you believe and hope for. It is not only to receive, but can also cost you to lose a lot if you are not careful on how you behave it. Poverty is not a rejection a direction for one to work out riches, for if you are born rich, how then can you testify that what you end up with came from your own hands and hard working. A person with a vision will let every challenge to come his/her way, will allow hard times to occur knowing that it is all not a rejection but a direction. I wanted to study medicine some time back, but I couldn’t get a space in all institutions that I applied to, I became angry, disappointed and so hopeless. But then I realized that things happened so hard in my life just to shape and direct me to where I am supposed to be, that’s the reason I have evidence that all that is happening to you now is not a rejection, nor abandonment, neither a cast down, but all is you being directed to the rail that leads to your exact destination. Don’t hate to be hated, don’t run away from hard times, and don’t sneak away from the cage of your tears, all happens to produce the best of you. The power to change your life is in you, it relies on how you behave toward your goals, toward your destination. No one on earth can push your inside in order for you to be successful, inspirations and encouragements are only there to challenge your thoughts, that by other means you can instigate change upon your priorities and begin to look on everything with an eagle’s eye.

It is also thoughtful and brilliant for one to build a good character that leads to positive faith behaviour. This is the combination of different qualities that differentiate individuals; it makes you unique and special. These suggest that you don’t need people to make you special, but naturally you have characteristics that define your uniqueness. For gold to have value and obtain its unique characteristics it has to go through fires and hard beatings, for you to be pure and desirable you have to build your reputation and character, the likes of the gold processing protocols should be applied to achieve the special and unique you. And all this leads to success and prosperity. The processes of changing your life are not on the outside but strictly inside you. Life led by a godly positive character is always essential and of great honour to the surroundings. Life is surely determined by time and time management requires a good and positive character. It surely takes a good character to move from nothing to something.

POSITIVE ATTITUDE LEADS TO POSITIVE FUTURE

The way you feel about yourself and everything around you contribute much effectively towards your destination or future. Your reactions in respect to the events occurring in your life can either fail or prosper you. Consider a simple form of attitude that most people don’t consider as a bad influence; modern companies uses private numbers to call people who applied for a certain position. Different people have different attempts on how they answer private numbers that calls them, some says “private number speak what you have to say I don’t have time”, some says “private number hallo”, some say “ I am listening”. Who do you think between the ABOVE individuals can be considered for a job if they were called by a company? That’s your question to answer, but my point is to say that don’t be intimidated by small things that can cost you an opportunity that could be a breakthrough in your life. Working and living around people requires you to be moral and true of whom you are, your behaviour influences your future in many ways. A good conversation between people can be determined by how they started their conversation, either by greetings or throwing words at each other, it is therefore good to greet even strangers. Many people got opportunities due to their well-defined interactions with different people, even those that they never knew. Every small piece of a thing that we encounter in our lives counts towards our deep fall or success. It is indeed true that a positive attitude helps you cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it would bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. This is to say that with a positive attitude one begins to develop positive thinking that helps you expect success rather than failure, which encourages and inspires you, that helps you believe more in yourself and your abilities to make it even when in deep situations and challenges of life. This positive attitude develops optimism, the sense of believing that good things are yet to happen in the future, though not being evident now, it enables you to show self-esteem and confident even in very depressing times, hence makes you to look much for solutions instead of dwelling on problems. Your bright future begins in your attitude, build your attitude to be positive then you will cherish in your own land of possibilities. It is not as simple as A B C to build a positive attitude, but it is always a key to live a desirable life. To build your positive attitude:

ü  You have to look at the other bright side of life

ü  Choose to be happy even for no reason

ü  Have strong faith and believe in yourself and the powers within you

ü  Learn to associate with people who don’t value challenges but ways of overcoming what they encounter (bad company corrupt good character)

ü   Expose yourself to inspiring shows, readings and activities

ü  Always visualize everything that you want and not what you don’t

ü  Choose also to be optimistic and moral

ü  Have millions of reasons to smile and only one not to

ü  Learn to take responsibility and account to the outcomes of your acts

ü  More effectively, learn to forgive yourself even when it’s not your fault

ü  Have the language of success in your tongue

ü  Listen to advice and accept instruction

Nothing beats your intuition.

MASTER YOUR THOUGHTS

As different people we think different kinds of things and interact differently in relation to what we think. Thoughts are other essential attempts that can build or destroy your future. The power of concentration is extremely essential for every area of your life, it determines how you follow at work, home or any place you can be, self-improvement and mediation depends on this kind of ability. You cannot choose what to think at times, but you always have a decision to take after thinking. Mastering your thoughts helps you focus your attention on what you are doing which results in you doing a fewer mistakes or errors. It improves your ability to understand and paves your ways into faster rate of success. It is always true that meaningless thoughts, desires, and sense impressions, pass through the mind at every second of the day and night, attracting the attention, pulling it here and there, and making it almost impossible to focus the mind. The mind tends to drift to other matters when we try to focus it on a certain thought, subject, or activity. When concentration is lacking, a task that requires just a few minutes to accomplish, can take much longer. Thus mastering your thoughts helps you quiet restless thinking of your mind and increasing the ability of you making good decision at good times. This also helps you not to take a right decision, but taking a decision and making the decision right. For everything that appears in your mind requires you to choose and if you choose wrongly, then everything becomes useless, but if you choose correctly everything is worth it at the end. Mastering your thoughts does not mean you won’t think bad things, but out of the millions of bad thoughts that appear in your mind, you will be able to pick one good thought that will instigate change in your whole life, thus leading you to your desired destiny and future.

IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU FALL

Don’t be afraid to get back up to try again, to love again, to live again, and to dream again. Don’t let a hard lesson harden your heart. Life’s best lessons are often learned at the worst times and from the worst mistakes. There will be times when it seems like everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong. And you might feel like you will be stuck in this rut forever, but you won’t. When you feel like quitting, remember that sometimes things have to go very wrong before they can be right. Sometimes you have to go through the worst, to arrive at your best. Life has knocked me down a few times, I've seen things I never want to see again, But one things for sure, I'll always get back up, I will never stay down. When we fall ten times in life, we must get back up eleven times harder and stronger not afraid to give ourselves everything we've ever wanted in life. Everything happens for a reason. Life puts you down, only so you can get back up for the better things. Live life, forgive and forget. Let go of the past. Never give up, never lose hope. Always have faith, it allows you to cope. Trying times will pass, as they always do. Just have patience; your dreams will come true. So put on a smile and live through your pain. Know it will pass and strength you will gain. A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do at that circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. No matter how hard I try, life just won’t let me get what I try. But I won’t give up. If you ever feel like giving up, remember that you will accomplish nothing by doing so. Keep it moving and never give up. There's a point in your life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it's not giving up. It's realizing that you don't need certain people and the crap they bring. There is a big difference between giving up and letting go. Letting go means freeing yourself from something that is no longer serving you. It means removing toxic people and belief systems from your life so that you can make room for relationships and ideas that are conducive to your wellbeing and happiness. Giving up reduces your life. Letting go expands it. Giving up is imprisoning. Letting go is liberation. Giving up is self-defeat. Letting go is self-care. So the next time you make the decision to release something or someone that is stifling your happiness and growth, and a person has the audacity to accuse you of giving up or being weak, remind yourself of the difference. Remind yourself that you don’t need anyone’s permission or approval to live your life in the way that feels right. No one has the authority to tell you who to be or how to live. No matter how much we want things to stay the same, life is all about change. Sometimes change is for the better, and sometimes it’s not. I am letting go of Negative issues in my life and moving forward to a more positive existence. Too bad I had to learn that the hard way but I’m stronger and moving forward to being a real man I always wanted to be. It is hard to let go, but it's even harder to try to hang on with hopes that it will change. You lose focus on what's important and it can take over and control your mind and your life. Not healthy. Must let go and look ahead to a better tomorrow. Sometimes it's very hard to move on, but once you move on, you'll realize it was the best decision you've ever made. It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on. If someone won’t lift a finger to call you, see you, and spend time with you, it’s time for you to lift five fingers and wave goodbye......

HOPING FOR GREATER THINGS

Hopes stimulates our perspectives, accelerates our visions and dreams, even though sometimes we hope on the things that are never meant to happen, not in the millions of years to come. Every time in our lives, every time when we love we put ourselves in conditions of striving to becoming something great, someone worth of everything great around us, the good company, good partners and family. We perceive our ways and thoughts to be precise and correct, yet we still need counsel and proper advices that'll accelerate our ambitions and zeal towards what we hope and live for. Everyone’s life is surrounded by hopes, yet other hopes leads to destructions and unforeseen circumstances, wisdom is the key to overcoming such kinds of hopes.

Hunger for success is another form of hoping for greater things in the near future, knowing that success never knocks at the door nor does it come uninvited, one has to wake the snoring eyes, fasten the ear belts and put together the armour for future war. Kicking away all circumstances and obstacles along the path to your success need enough energy that’s from wisdom, knowledge and understanding. The sound of thoughts and ideas is very loud in our heads, yet only the best shall be made clear and perfect, only the fruitful shall be considered for greater manifestation of what one’s full off.

When you’re hoping for greater things you know that challenges are common in your path, it’s in your knowledge that disappointments are always looming large around you, yet you believe in your potential, you set up for greatness, you keep feeding your mind with positivity and life changing and transforming kind of words, thinking more about the future than the past. Yes, we all know that the past makes us who we are now, but that’s not our passport to live in the past; it is in the best of our knowledge that yesterday is only a history, tomorrow is another mystery and now, today is the greatest gift from the One and only Creator, make use of every opportunity that you have, make use of those sixty seconds of every minute you have, and know that time and chance happens to them all!

Living without a vision, without a dream or something to hope for is associated with living a false life, a broken life is a life without a vision. In hoping you’ve got nothing to lose at all, your life is maintained by the state of your positive mind, you live for greatness and you always shall conquer all the stakes of odd times. Believing a myth that gives you hopes for a better future is better than believing histories that'll never be again, never believe things you cannot change, never waste your hopes in the things that are not even near your life’s purpose. Living in the past is living a lie, trying to keep the dead is like digging your own grave. All the good of this world is worth fighting for, the righteous walk, the freedom of life, the success of dreams and fulfilment of visions.

If you don’t hope, then you're not living, if you don’t do anything for a better future then you’ve accepted to live in misery and shames, if you don’t love then you’re forever a lost soul. The best the world can give is a stage full of challenges for you to overcome on your way to your shining future, over and over facing all the difficulties and hard times, being rejected by those you love and trust, yet there is still hope for the living and you are not yet dead, live to shine again. Living to fulfil the purpose of life is always stimulated by levels of hopes, born in a poor background, yet hoping to be rich, born blind yet hoping to see, living in the streets, yet hoping for a home, living in rejection yet believing and hoping to be acknowledged among the rich and wise.

It is truly not over yet, you’ve failed several times and once you shall pass, tried so many things to transform your life, and maybe you haven’t done the right things that are capable of transforming your life for better outcomes. Everything is possible with strong hopes, nothing cannot be done, what has been done can be done again, what has never been done can be done, as for there is time and the beginning for everything. Casting away all pressures that burdens your shoulders in caring you vision of life is the first step of hoping in fulfilling those special things packed in you. Hoping for greater things begins with shaping your mind in a positive manner and allowing yourself to be yourself and living in today’s hours either than yesterday.

What you hear daily and think about frequently becomes part of you, do not underestimate the thoughts that are lodged in your brains, they either make you or break you, they have a power of making your hopes to happen, and thus chose to think positively and listen to what can influence your hopes to happen. Hoping for greatness is not really adequate for you to achieve what you want, and therefore you need to engage in activities that have a promising outcome on your hopes. A mind is like a garden,  you can chose for it to be the most beautiful garden or look like a an ugly garden with withered grass, your thoughts are like fertilisers upon the soil of your brains, every fertilisers has its task, and if applied to other things its task is compromised, and everything that is compromised cannot fully function to its greatest ability, and therefore feed your mind with proper fertilisers which are positive thoughts and brilliant ideas which are capable of accelerating your hopes into fulfilment of all your dreams and visions…….

THE POWER BEHIND A YOUNG PERSON

Nonetheless you are still despised and untrusted

They despise you all because they are afraid of you

They strongly know that you are so focused in whatever you do

Yet they neglect that knowledge and cause you to live in misery

However, in the cage you are in you still roar and conquer

The power within you is like dynamite

In you lies boundless energy which stimulates you in being idealistic

You never cease from your path until you reach your destination

You are way too passionate and zealous in everything you do

You achieve great things from the knowledge of not knowing what can’t be done

Nations would be flourishing in success if you were trusted enough

Organisations would be doing great things if they knew they could rely on you

Churches would be truly perfect if they groomed you and used you in the right way

It is God who entrusted you with such abilities, yet man despise it

Don’t blame them, they only believe in an illusion whispered in their ears

You never lose because you were born a winner

You never fail because you do everything that needs to be done

Your strength is under estimated yet you conquer worlds

You never become jaded by any life’s hard times and disappointments

Whenever you are inspired you rise and do great things

Giant situations and problems are simple solutions in your eyes

Any obstacle or hindrance is never a threat to you, nothing holds you up

You see the future with an eagle’s eye and grab whatever you want

Because you are easily inspired you sometimes follow the wrong path

You do things mightily, yet can’t really differentiate good from bad

Your visions are so clear and you do everything to achieve them

You sometimes never pay attention to the Old’s experience advises

Your idealistic nature causes you to narrate your own adventure of life

Your power is so naïve and sometimes extremely dangerous

You sometimes forget that you can’t do everything by yourself

Yet your power is so dynamic, so unstoppable

In all you do, you approach everything with clean slate

You have dramatic changes in your mind that invokes you to transform very fast

Never neglect yourself, you might lose it

You live to always see yourself at the top

You usually lack the value of experience, since it’s only a discourage to you

You live to set a radical change example, living in the world of possibilities

You live to fulfil a godly purpose and a holy plan

Your strength is undisputed, your goals unforeseen

It is the power behind a young person, stimulating your dreams, keeping you going

Let love decorate your passionate heart

Let respect and honour cover your steps and breathe

Hear council; accept advises

 and your path shall be made clear

Look after knowledge; seek for wisdom and understanding will keep you from all dangers

The power in you is enough to see you through, enough to lift you up on high

It is the power behind a young person, don’t despise it!!!

LOOKING UP TO THE HILLS

‘WHERE WILL MY HELP COME FROM’?

Perplexed side to side, and intoxicated by the issues of life

The eyes blinded by situation that aims to consume a soul

In the deep dry desert surrounded by hills and mountains

My soul cry, my spirit mourn for my dreams seems to fade

Yet I look up to the hills believing that my help will soon come

They have taught me, but never made me learn

At the look of an eye all events of life seems to be vanity of vanities

The troubled heart is still in pain, the hard workers never see their fruits

I seem alive and happy yet my spirit cries for peace of mind

I surely have worked hard to achieve my goals, yet I encountered disappointments

I've been searching for a shade to hide my head from the heat of the sun

It is not the hails of the sky falling drastically that I desired

The green pasture covers itself away from me

The fresh flowing waters are millions of miles away from my path

Yet when I behold the hills and the mountains I hope again

But I know that time and chance happens to us all

And for everything there is a season, a time to measure the events occurring on earth

I have fallen, yet I will rise again and run with great momentum

I failed, yet I will step up and I've got nothing to lose

I look up to the hills and my help comes from the Lord

Behind the hills there is my hope and believe again

The journey is still long, though the path is just narrow

It is not the look that matters, but what you see when you look

When I look up to the hills, I see the Lord lifting me up

As the mountains are higher than the ground, so shall the Lord lift me up

Above my sorrows and shame I shall triumph

Above my disappointments and discourage I shall testify victory

With the eyes of my trust I look up to the hills, where will my help come from

For I know of God who is able, for my sake He’ll not be silent

He has rescued me before, He has enriched many, and thus I look up to Him

With the Lord I have nothing to lose, for behind the wilderness there is glory

My deserts shall be turned into rivers flowing with living waters

My desires shall be met with His righteousness and riches

Yet I will still live to see the days of great glory and victory

Yes I look up to the hills and my help comes from the Lord God Almighty

Born to live in glory, my head lies beside the still waters

In the mountains, when I behold in the hills I saw riches and I know I'm rich

I then saw and understood that I have no portion in poverty

I am born with a purpose that will heal and liberate the world around me

After looking, I saw myself because I am the solution

I look up to the hills and my help comes from the Lord God Almighty

YET YOU CAN DO IT

Born in bondage, tears and sorrows has become your daily bread, you eat it, drink it, clothe it and sleep on it. Life has shown you no mercy; opportunities are always running away even from your shade or smell. You find disappointments every time you turn on your left, and discouraged always when looking to your right; then you begin asking yourself a lot of questions, you begin to lose the little hope that’s left on you. There is no one who is morale enough to help, no one cares about your situation, it seems like you are born to suffer, yet that’s only a myth trying to manipulate your mind.

Waiting patiently on time, thinking that everything will work out, thinking that all the wounds will be patched and healed by fate, only to find that the days are only getting darker, the desert seems not to end. It begins to look and seem as if the earth is opening its door for you to pass to the land of the dead, your time was but little around the living, yet I tell you that you won’t die before you reach your destiny, not before you enjoy the goodness of what your life was truly designed for.

We all are born for a purpose, we have something that the world is hungry for, yet because our being itself not mentioning our purpose intimidates the opposition, then the opposition does its best to inhibit us from unleashing the greatest potential that’s inside of us .knowing that you’re a winner fuels you with hope, faith and sufficient motivation that helps you face them head on, yet triumph over them.

You’re so powerful, so strong and great, your greatness cannot be measured against ones greatness, if one starts to do so that somebody is losing perceptiveness of whom they are and what they are born to do and that my friend can make you to live a life that you not supposed to live, you would have stolen to the world the gift that you are and tell me who will fill in the void, no one , because there can never be another you in this world nor in heaven, you are unique and since there can’t be another you it means you became selfish to the world ,you stole from the world its precious gift ,you became unfaithful to the one who trusted that you'll definitely quench the thirst of the world, you showed that you’re ungrateful for being the only one that can liberate this world from its curiosity about what you can possibly bring in this world which has never been here before.

Even the stars cannot be seen all nights, because some nights are covered by clouds, yet the stars still shine in the inside. Not every day is your day, some days are packed and decorated with tears and sorrows, some are designed to test your patience and yet there are days of great triumph, days of great joy and happiness, and on that moment when you stand, everyone who despised you will regret they never did. Those hard times and trials are not meant to destroy or kill you, but to prepare and purify you for greatness. Those special jewellery you are wearing comes from ore, comes from something that has underwent a lot of processes, a lot of fires, they burnt until they are that beautiful, can’t you stand that little fire you are going through, for yet you can still do it.

Precious will be the moment and the time where you'll be able to see and testify that all was worth it, on that time you'll wish it could have been more than it is now, however, time and chance happens to us all. With nobody thinking you can make it, with nobody supporting your path, with nobody encouraging you, yet you can do it, you'll make it to your destiny, just hold on to what you have, stick to the path without looking to the right or to the left, stop comparing yourself with them, you are way more than that. Put on the whole armour of success, the armour of prosperity, righteousness and love, live your life today as if tomorrow you'll be no more.

Things may not be going your way, things may not be happening for you, life may be extremely hard on you, you may be sleeping and waking up with tears and pain on your face every day, you may not know what else to do to make your life worth living, you may be stranded and stuck in the place called nowhere, you may be feeling rejected and unwanted, you may be eating sorrows and drinking pain, your wounds are so painful in your heart as if it was pissed by a sharp knife, your hope and desire to do good and achieve your goals and dreams may have been compromised by time, by everything and everyone around you, but I tell you, keep watching and waiting, keep up the good work without giving up, losing everything you have and the most important things in your life, your reputation, your recognition, I say again, yet you can still do it, you can make it.

All your promising opportunities running into vanity, all your efforts into nothing, you’ve worked all day, all night, all years, yet nothing seems to take form, your life is shapeless, nobody wishes to be you as you think. The most discouraging and perfect illusion that can mess up your whole life is believing that you are nothing, its believing that you are born to suffer, believing that you are just like the rest. That moment when you accept the rest is when you have signed the contract of defeat, accepting that you are a loser makes you nothing but a complete failure that hides around time. Stop acting fake and live in your reality, because your reality has nothing to lose, your reality has nothing to fail, reality believes that everything worth working for is enough to yielding great results; reality believes that in your right path you'll always do it!