Be a Genius

To create something that is unique and full of value. That's being a genius.

Talent wins you a competition; genius has no competition. And everyone can be a genius. Forget about what your school reports said about you. Forget about what your teachers said about you. Forget about what your colleagues say about you. Get out of the competition mentality. What you are destined/designed to do is beyond what currently exists and what any other person can conceive. You are different for a purpose. Don't let anyone compare you to someone else. Don't let anyone cage your potential. Don't let anyone tell you how far you can go. Don't let anyone dim your light.

The Number One Cause of Frustration: Expectations

When is he going to propose?
When will the results of the job interview be out? or have some people been contacted?
What does she think about me?
When is he going to pay back the money he borrowed from me?
Why is Junior not as smart as my neighbour's children?
When is he going to ask me out or at least open up about his feelings, rather than telling friends?

Let us sing a new song

Let us sing a new song, a new song of hope, of revival, of new ethical and moral values embedded in respect for the rule of law and innovative economic policies that respond to the experiences and realities of the Nigerian people. The other day, five Peoples Democratic Party governors defected to the All Progressives Congress. The media reported it as an earth-shaking event and many commentaries fed on it. But in this defection, what is new and how will this change the poor living conditions of the people? Nigerians are still waiting for the APC to tell us what change it hopes to bring to the country if it is given access to presidential power.

2013: Year of more low points than high points

Nigerians ushered in 2013 with a lot of hopes and expectations that were born out of the letdown of the past year. A review of the year, which ends in three days, reveals troubling developments, drama, political intrigues and tragedies that made the year one that had more low points than high points.

Escaping the State of Waking Dreams By Robert Ringer

Reality is an issue that people tend to get very emotional about. The problem is that reality is nothing more than truth, and as Baltasar Gracian, the insightful and pragmatic 17th century Jesuit priest, cautioned, “Truth is abhorred by the masses.” Instead, they try to make true that which they love — a self-delusive practice that virtually guarantees frustration and failure.

Unfortunately, most people live in an unreal world; i.e., they create a world in their own minds based on the way they would like it to be rather than the way it actually is. They seem to have adopted the philosophy of Ashleigh Brilliant, who once remarked, “I have abandoned the search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.”

It is absolutely essential that a person intellectually and emotionally understands that reality isn’t the way he wishes things to be or the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. The person who is not able to make this distinction finds it virtually impossible to make decisions that lead to positive results.

Which brings me to principles. A principle is synonymous with a law of nature, as opposed to a law of man. Most manmade laws are nothing more than legalized aggression against the sovereignty of peaceful individuals, and rarely bear any relationship to Natural Law, reality, or morality.

A true principle of nature cannot be created or changed in any way. Take the principle of gravity, for example. Isaac Newton did not wake up one morning and decide to create a principle whereby if he dropped an apple from a tree twenty times, it would fall to the ground nineteen times and rise upward the twentieth time.

Finding Your Purpose

FINDING YOUR PURPOSE

Do you know what is driving you? Why are you working so hard and doing so much to get what you want? Do you know your purpose for being here?

Whatever your dreams may be and whatever you want to achieve, it is important to analyse the reasons for those things. The reasons for what you want to have and to achieve are your “why.” Your why is intimately tied to your purpose in life.

Finding your purpose – the reasons for achievement

It seems strange that most of the time we wonder through life without any real purpose of our own. At times we do achieve great things and have the appearance of having a wonderful life. We may even have every material thing we could ever want and be successful at our careers, businesses and every thing else. But, as many who have achieved success will tell you, you can still feel empty inside and your life can still lack real meaning.