When Things go Wrong

You have planned everything well. Deadlines have been set; contracts signed. All that's left is just to begin the execution when something suddenly goes wrong - terriby wrong. An event totally unforseen occurs leaving you spellbound and your jaws

drop for the wrong reason.

For what looks like a weird blend of the moment and eternity in , you seem not to know what to do.

The go-getter/the man-in-charge within seems to be confused.

You realize that maybe you not REALLY in charge afterall. You see how vulnerable you truly are.

"How could i not have even had an inkling of the possibility of this happening? Things don't just happen; You get some signal - a thought or feeling you can't explain, a sign - any sign - of some sort" you lament. Well, true but only if you are sensitive enough to pick up the signals.

Life has a way of letting us know we're not all in all.

WHAT TO DO

When you have done everything on yur part diligently and things still go way of out your control, don't give up. Be humble enough to accept what you cannot change and acknowledge that not everything is in your control. I know it's somewhat humiliating but ego has got to give way. When times when you are totally helpless occur, it's a period submit to the supreme being - GOD who reigns in the affairs of men. Nothing lies hidden before him.

Then, be quiet. Quietness is a form of worship - an acknowledgement of your vulnerability and a confident yearning for superior intelligence to manifest. It is most challenging to do but this is the way out.

If you can bring your disturbed soul into a place of stillness, you open up and create an opportunity for the supreme genius to

manifest through you.

Man's biggest mistake is the subtle or outright arrogant belief that he is in charge of his life. This is because he can choose

what he wants to be.

HOW THINGS ARE

None of us is fully in Charge. We are only partly are. In fact to a lesser extent than we can imagine. Our desires are dependent on a myriad of factors that are beyond the spheres of our control. A times, we just have to make the most of the cards we have been dealt. Besides, we make mistakes and others make decisions that affect us positvely and otherwise.

But aren't the natural gifts that we have been blessed with not the sole bases on which this choice is made?

We didn't choose those gifts they were given to us without our consent. So what makes us think we're in charge? Ours is to

develop/perfect them and use them diligently and in the process earn, live a good life and make the world a much better place for others too.

ABOUT LIFE

Life is about juggling all our experiences together and still coming out tops - much better, much wiser, much humbler.

Life is a school - a school of hard knocks. You are only in charge when you realize that you are not in charge. You become

a free person - not subject to any form bondage from anything you own or do not own especially the mundane thing we so

much value in this generation.

A FREE MAN

A free man is a responsible man. Freedom means the ability to control our whims and desires and not doing whatever you like

whenever you like like slaves of our passions. It means being reponsible enough to evaluate choices and make the ones that are most beneficial to all concerned.

So, what ever card life has dealt you, cease to complain and make the most of it. Ask for guidance from God and be quiet enough to listen to His instructions.

Think of blind man with a trusted friend committed to leading him about.

QUOTE OF THE POST

" The Lord is my shepard, i shall not want" - King David in Psalms 23:1

When Things go Wrong

You have planned everything well. Deadlines have been set; contracts signed. All that's left is just to begin the execution when something suddenly goes wrong - terriby wrong. An event totally unforseen occurs leaving you spellbound and your jaws

drop for the wrong reason.

For what looks like a weird blend of the moment and eternity in , you seem not to know what to do.

The go-getter/the man-in-charge within seems to be confused.

You realize that maybe you not REALLY in charge afterall. You see how vulnerable you truly are.

"How could i not have even had an inkling of the possibility of this happening? Things don't just happen; You get some signal - a thought or feeling you can't explain, a sign - any sign - of some sort" you lament. Well, true but only if you are sensitive enough to pick up the signals.

Life has a way of letting us know we're not all in all.

WHAT TO DO

When you have done everything on yur part diligently and things still go way of out your control, don't give up. Be humble enough to accept what you cannot change and acknowledge that not everything is in your control. I know it's somewhat humiliating but ego has got to give way. When times when you are totally helpless occur, it's a period submit to the supreme being - GOD who reigns in the affairs of men. Nothing lies hidden before him.

Then, be quiet. Quietness is a form of worship - an acknowledgement of your vulnerability and a confident yearning for superior intelligence to manifest. It is most challenging to do but this is the way out.

If you can bring your disturbed soul into a place of stillness, you open up and create an opportunity for the supreme genius to

manifest through you.

Man's biggest mistake is the subtle or outright arrogant belief that he is in charge of his life. This is because he can choose

what he wants to be.

HOW THINGS ARE

None of us is fully in Charge. We are only partly are. In fact to a lesser extent than we can imagine. Our desires are dependent on a myriad of factors that are beyond the spheres of our control. A times, we just have to make the most of the cards we have been dealt. Besides, we make mistakes and others make decisions that affect us positvely and otherwise.

But aren't the natural gifts that we have been blessed with not the sole bases on which this choice is made?

We didn't choose those gifts they were given to us without our consent. So what makes us think we're in charge? Ours is to

develop/perfect them and use them diligently and in the process earn, live a good life and make the world a much better place for others too.

ABOUT LIFE

Life is about juggling all our experiences together and still coming out tops - much better, much wiser, much humbler.

Life is a school - a school of hard knocks. You are only in charge when you realize that you are not in charge. You become

a free person - not subject to any form bondage from anything you own or do not own especially the mundane thing we so

much value in this generation.

A FREE MAN

A free man is a responsible man. Freedom means the ability to control our whims and desires and not doing whatever you like

whenever you like like slaves of our passions. It means being reponsible enough to evaluate choices and make the ones that are most beneficial to all concerned.

So, what ever card life has dealt you, cease to complain and make the most of it. Ask for guidance from God and be quiet enough to listen to His instructions.

Think of blind man with a trusted friend committed to leading him about.

QUOTE OF THE POST

" The Lord is my shepard, i shall not want" - King David in Psalms 23:1

DIE EMPTY

GENIUS INSIDE

There is a measure of raw genius in everyone put

there by our Creator. This genius is unique to everyone

and might be similar in some people but never the

same.

LIKE GOLD

Think of gold refreshly mined - dirty, unrefined, of

no visible aesthetic beauty by valuable none the less.

Just like God created the elements from which he formed

the gold in the earth, so also he has created elements

from which our raw genius was formed.

And just as Gold and other treasures have always been

in the earth, Your genius has always been in you.

EUREKA

Your Genius is meant to be uncovered, developed and

manifested.

Discovering them takes nothing more than a commitment

to. Like miners decide to explore deep into the earth,

You must decide to find out what you suspect lies deep

within you.

Some discover theirs early; others do much later.

There have always been signs that they are there.

Now, is time to pay more attention to those these

and TAKE ACTION and unearth them.

It's not so much when you find out what yours is but

more of what you do once it has been discovered.

The best gift anyone can give to God and to Humanity

is to make the most of themselves and then give back

the part of the proceeds accumulated in the process.

THE RICHEST PLACE ON EARTH

Sadly, there are others who never discover theirs in their

lifetimes. This are the ones that have contributed to

making the graveyard the richest place in the world.

The Good news is that we don't have to continue enriching

that "yard". Sometimes i wish we could somehow harness

the intangible resources buried with their owners there

- the books unwritten, the melodies never created, the

inventions uncreated - the list is endless.

STUDENTS OF WITHIN

"Mining" your genius is a process of listening to

your intuition. This is a guide God created within

you. Alot of us are too busy on the outside to sit

still and listen to our inner longings. There ia a need

for inner awareness in us humans as a race.

We need to listen more to our intuition and learrn to

trust and follow its leading. If you're not too sure,

you can test it to find out. A part of learning to trust

your intuition is to be willing to do some conscious

trial and error. Conscious in that when you get a

thought or suggestion you don't think is logical, be

sensitive and notice to how you feel at the time, give

it the benefit of the doubt and follow its leading and

see what happens. Usually, you find that the illogical

suggestion is usually some kind of lifesaver; preventing

some trouble, avoiding some danger, making a crucial

decicion you won't have made otherwise, the list goes

on.

THE WAY FORWARD

The way forward is ALWAYS FROM INSIDE OUT.

Activities, expectations and pressures from outside

should not be allowed to influence or deter us from

following the pointers to our destinys and making

decisions that are in line with their realization.

Once our intuition is allowed to be the core around

which all activities are carried out, all expectations

and pressures can now be used to fuel their

manifestation.

THE JOURNEY

Dying empty is a journey - a journey about the

process of discovering all your gifts and geniuses,

mining (developing/refining) them, thus making them

valuable to you and others, earning and accumulating

wealth in the process and then using the wealth to

replicate this process in others and exiting the stage.

QUOTE OF THE POST

"Fill up the world, Die Empty" - Olusegun Adedokun

Lesson from a Rags-to-Riches Billionaire

These are some lessons i learnt from America’s rags-to-riches billionaire Bill Bartmann in his "Steps to achieve any goal".

Bill went from staunch poverty to being a gangster to being paralysed to finding purpose,

marrying the girl of his dreams and becoming a billionaire on Forbes 1000 list.

I have been so inspired that i have listened to him over twenty times in 2 days.

POINT 1

Make sure your goal is YOUR GOAL - if what you are doing right now is not what you want to do, and then you will never succeed.

No matter how hard you try. What do you really want? Why are you after it? Why it is important to you and what do you really want to achieve?

Anything you do that is genuinely what you want to do is ABSOLUTELY backed up GOD - the DIVINE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS. This is because you were created in his image - after HIS Likeness

POINT 2

Don't try, strive, and attempt to achieve your goals. Most people don't achieve the goals they set. Replace Goals with the word Promise. This changes your mindset. It removes the block in your brain. The change in semantics also change the way you look at things, you want to keep your promise, you feel you can. It removes every thought of struggling to get things done.

POINT 3

Be clear about your promise. Clarity of your promise makes it easier to achieve. Ambiguity is in a way no focus

POINT 4

Identify your personal motivator. It can be negative or positive. When you have something that would keep you on fire and drive your passion, you will achieve any dream. We are either trying to move towards pleasure or away from pain. All things work together for your good

Identify the thing that will motivate you the most - for family, friends or the promise of a better life or even if is to show someone that doesn't believe you can. Use positive or negative motivation to get you to achieve your promise.

POINT 5

Create a promise plan - the equivalent of a business plan for your promise answering the questions:

• What?
• When?
• Who?
• Where?
• How?

POINT 6

Review plans regularly - 20 minutes a day making sure you sit down and review the 5 questions. See if anything new has surfaced or changed

Your brain begins to update and fine tune your promise. Find out new ways to remind yourself of the promise.

Carry a pocket promise - a summary of your promise

QUOTE OF THE POST

"The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain."

—COLIN WILSON, British author of The Outsider; New Existentialist

Information Paralysis

The Internet - the biggest leveller of the prosperity playing ground.

Never in the history of the world has there been so many millionaires as there are today and most have become rich by simply trading in information products.

If you can create a product or service there are unfathomable opportunites out there and the cost of owning an global business has been drastically cut down and automation of virtually every process eliminates the cost of labour.

This most improtant tool has its other pros and cons though as many innocent folks seeking to tap into this goldmine have been duped since there is no agency capable of monitoring products being offered by the thousands of websites springing up everyday.

This leaves the prospective buyer of information to be their own Sherlock Holmes. They have to investigate and do their research before the pump their hard earned money into any information product they intend to buy.

This can be a time consuming process and the fact that some product merchants pay webmaster to review their half-baked or outdated information product makes the search for quality products online even more challenging.

The sheer amount of quality information to filter is INTIMIDATING to say the least, not to talk of the fact that loads and loads of junk are also offered for sale on this global platform which some have rightfully called the information superhighway.

A WAY OUT

The first thing to do to get past this challenge is to be mentally prepared to find out.

Then you should take that step and google whatever it is you're looking for. The good thing about google is that you can get opinions from diverse sources.

I personally have researched products which i ended up deciding not to buy because a generally good product has more good than bad reviews. A balanced review might just mean it's an overhyped mediocre offering.

The genuine product or service has its army of satisfied clients who have no strings attached other than that they have had their epectations exceeded by the offering. So what you have to do is find them - not just on the seller's website but in forums where the seller's influence becomes diluted and candid opinions can be obtained.

There are also independent product review sites. You can read what the reviewer has to say and see if he has a bias for any product and why.

Also pace your cursor on links and see if there are affiliate links the show for particular products. If there are then he might have been more motivated by what he stands to gain than by genuine motives to analyse a product/service offering.

Check out the audacity with which the seller is guaranteeing his offering. I have seen a 30, 45, 60, 90, 180 and even 365 day no question asked money back guarantee. The higher the offer the more likely the product is atleast most most of what has been stated it would be.

Also find out what the seller has got to say about the percentage returned. nomatter how good a product is none is absolutely sold out. Someone somewhere must have asked for a refund or opted out along the line. If the seller denies that, then watch out.

Ususally when an offer is too good to be true, it usually is.

Conversely, when a product is too cheap, it might be an indication of mediocre product/service.

QUOTE OF THE POST

"Ask and you sjall receive, Seek and you shall find, Knock and it shall be opened unto you" - Jesus Christ

The Essential Lag

Yesterday i wrote about the process of creation

and how everything all starts in the mind.

There is one more thing though. You do not see

your thoughts manifest immdeiately which is a

good thing - imagine all chaos that would ensue

if everything we think just pop up.

Anyway, that said, the way it works is this. You are

inhabited by a thought - an effortless process - then

the thought begins to become more forceful as you

yield to it and gathers more energy.

All this while, you practically begin to live your

thoughts in your head. It's like having it within,

living it within and them just let it play out.

The catch is this, the faster you want your thought to

manifest, the more time you have to invest into thinking

about it.

In essence, you can reduce that lag to the barest minimum.

You are the creator of your own reality.

Finally note that, the bigger your dream, the longer the

process of investing time in it.

Remember thouhg that it takes 3 months for corn to

grow and an oak takes Decades.

What are you - The Corn or THE OAK TREE?

QUOTE OF THE POST

"Persistence is the proof of FAITH"

How to do whatever

I want to...blah! blah!! blah!!!

I'm going to...blah! blah!! blah!!!

I am...blahing! blahing!! blahing!!!

It all starts with a thought.

Thoughts are the higest form of energy and

they sort of move around in waveforms,

looking for hosts to inhabit.

Once a thought enters into your mind and becomes

dominant, it can be likened to those 500 million sperm

cells that rush to fertilize the egg in a woman's womb.

In the case of spermatozoa,it is the fastest one that gets the "gal". In the case of of thoughts, the most predominant that manifests in reality.

When a thought becomes predominant, it automatically

becomes your possessor.

Everything you do just begin to fall in line with the

intent of your thought. You subconsciously begin to work

out the thought.

At the end of the day, your thought becomes you reality - a

physical manifestation. something you can see, touch or feel.

Before this happens, your thoughts progress from passionately

living inside of you to coming out through your mouth in form of words.

These increase the energy you need to realize the thought.

As humans, we have a creative power lying within and for

most of us, comfromity does not allow us to create - to transform the dream/thought dominating us into reality.

We confrom to the order and status quo created by the people

we consider to be up there.

You should never look up to anyone, rather look into them and

you'd see that the same power lies deep within you and only

you can bring it out.

Once you realize your dream, you grow within - to be more confident and full of more life for life by design is made for increase.

QUOTE OF THE POST

"Create" - Segedoo

What you need to be a success

• Intuition
• Great communicaton skills
• Discipline
• Passion for Dream Achievement
• Ability to Convert Dream to Workable plan
• Going in the opposite direction to what everyone is doing
• Relationship building skills
• 3-4 hours of study everyday for a sharp brain
• Usage ALL your diverese skills and seemingly unfitting gifts to achieve your dreams
• A reconnection to your childhood life
• Survivability in any condition
• Thoughts outside the box
• Apprenticeships
• Eagerness to learn all about whatever you're doing per time
• Consciousness
• Positive Affirmation of internal dreams
• Emotional Connection to your niche
• Prospects' contacts
• Intelligent Conversation
• Political structures
• Effective Marketing
• Market Identification
• Market Segementation
• Sacrifice
• Research
• Preparation
• Analysis
• A Plan
• Reason
• Good temperament

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Royalty means having the final say in the affairs of my domain" - Bill Winston

What makes a successful person?

• Is it their education?
• Is it their intelligence?
• Is it their integrity?
• Is it because they are lucky?
• Is it because they are well connected to the right people?

Not all successful entrepreneurs have a great education,

take Henry Ford for example; the founder of Ford Motor

Company. Mr. Ford dropped out of school at the age of

seventeen.

I am sure all of successful people are Intelligent. But I would

boldly guess that very few of them are geniuses.

Thomas Edison the inventor of the light bulb. He tried over

two thousand times before he finally got a working light bulb.

So, it wasn’t luck for him.The Payoff is in the Doing.

What about if you were born into slavery like Madam Walker;

the first self made female millionaire in America. She got her

start by selling her own hair product door to door back in 1900’s.

I would say most likely Walker wasn’t well connected to start with.

So what is it? What is the key to their success? The answer may be

simpler than you think.

Although some successful people might have the education, is a

genius, came from wealthy home, have the best luck or well

connected with the right people. In reality most successful people

got their success without all of the above.

The real key to it all is that they take action! They are the doer!

The Money is in the Doing! The Success is in the Doing… Despite

popular beliefs; knowledge is essential but action is the key.

So whatever your heart desires, don’t sit on the side line. You have

got to put Action into it. You have got to do it. The Money, the

payout…is all in the doing!

QUOTE OF THE POST

"Success is a choice" - Segedoo

Some 2008 Thoughts

Partially in Charge

You have NO control over certain things that happen or unexpected occurrences that manifest in your life. But you can take CHARGE of them before they do and lead those to you suit what you have been divinely wired to do. We have ALL the power of determine how we react to things that present themselves in our lives - which is good but LEADING THE SITUATION means being proactive to situations that occur in our lives. This means thinking ahead, visualizing the possible scenarios and taking advantage of them in the wisest and most productive way possible even before they occur.

No one deserves to lead another until he is a master of his self. Self mastery is a lost trait in this age. Charisma seems to the in thing. It is now all about the outward – the without but all through the ages the most powerful leaders were not those that held military powers or initially held offices but those who first of all mastered themselves –Jesus Christ, Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela. This single act led to a demand for them to take public offices.

OUR UNIVERSE

God is the maker of all things – seen and unseen. In him all things exists. Without him was not anything made that was made. We live in a universe that is all encompassing. It is made of energy. It keeps expanding every second. In the universes are billions of galaxies; in the galaxies are billions of solar systems; each solar system has its own planets, meteors and moons; within each planet are the physically visible but not necessarily physical beings like us and at the microscopic levels are the atoms and electrons and in the nano realm is nothing but energy vibrating.

ORDER

We live in a planet that is based on order. Even at a microscopic level, things that we consider random are highly orderly activities. At the subatomic level, order exists there also. The order here is even similar to the arrangement of our solar system. The planets are so orderly in their movements that scientists have calculated the equations that accurately describe their movement in orbit.

If we live in such an orderly season universe, it is safe to conclude that if we are out of alignment with order I n our lives, we cannot live fully productive lives.

Order is different from routine. Your routine is your habit – the things you do regularly. Order depicts a higher ideal. It is related to a hierarchy. It is encompassing. Everything in the universe is in order and to be out of sync is to be breaking ranks.

DISCPLINE

Military might is based on order and the discipline to carry them out or follow them. Anything outside is treachery.

Leading any situation is based on the discipline of self. You have to be able train yourself in the art of stillness.

QUOTE OF THE POST

"The wise will increase in learning" - Proverbs