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Kick Off the New Year! I love to step outside and watch the first rays of the sun early in the morning. There’s something about the newness of the day that gives me energy. Whether the smell of a new car or the ref’s whistle signaling the start of a game, I love beginnings. The new year is full of hope and opportunity.  Here are some quotes to inspire your new year. To your success! “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” –Abraham Lincoln “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” –Helen Keller “Success is something you attract by the person you become.” –Jim Rohn “The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” –G.K. Chesterton “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” –T.S. Eliot “All our dreams can com...

The most effective influencer humans has is the mind, but humans has the ability to decide if the influence will be positive or otherwise. The activities going on within your mind controls your thought which forms your words, and then your word which forms your actions,  and then your actions which forms your habit and on the long run your habits helps develop your character. Whom you are today as a person depends on how successful your mind had learned over the years and the influence of your environment. As the new year approaches, carve out time to nurture your inner self (mind), your relationship with God and man. Make out personal time to intentionally and consistently feed your mind. Personal feeding of the mind is a strong antidote of external wrong feeding (information). Understand that your success in life is tied down to how successfull your mind is. I am yet to see a man who rises in life beyond the level of his mind set, please if you have let me know via your c...

What will you really attempt to do? Think deeply and be honest with yourself. Would you be that "somebody" Instead of talking about other"some bodies"? Would you be living in that lovely house instead of grumbling in your hut? Would you be driving in that brand new car instead of honking in your old junk (banger)? Would you go on vacation around the world instead of been stuck in your room?. Would you be looked up to instead of constantly looking down on people who have tried and failed. Or would you dare to do what no man has ever done before?. What would you really do!

Make me an instrument of your peace Where there is hatred let me show love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. And where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life. (Jenifer Chalk)

TWO How could i be doing this with a total stranger, a guy. I’ve never had a close relationship with a guy before. My uncle never had a son and i was the only child of my parents at ten. Though my mum was pregnant during the accident.Who knows,it might have been a boy if not for fate.We finally sat down on the stools provided opposite each other in the cafeteria.A plump lady in charge gave us the menu.I decided to go for a snack and tamarind drink since it had the lowest price on the list.Jude glared at me and shook his head in disapproval when he saw what i ordered.He collected the menu from my hands and told the lady to bring what he ordered for two. Then he said to me”What you chose wasn’t my treat at all,how would you get that voluptuous body if you keep eating things like this and looking thin”.Thin?Was i so thin...and what did he mean by voluptuous body. I’m not about getting something like that. The lady brought the food and we started eating in silence.I prayed the silence ...

Sometimes I Wonder when things go so wrong has God forsaken and left me alone?Then I remebered through trials and distress He's always with me. I am most richly blessed. I asked God for strength , that I might achieve I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health, that I might do greater things I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy, I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men, I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life I got nothing that I asked for, but everything that I had hoped for, and almost despite myself. My unspoken prayers were answered He's always with me. I am most richly blessed.     ( Originally written by Jimmy Dean)

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out is to risk involvement. To express feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying To hope is to risk despair To try is to risk failure.

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? it never knocks. You can wait a whole life time, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knock. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. (Maxwell Maltz) ****************************************** Be ready when opportunity comes..... Luck is when preparation and opportunity meet. (ROY D. Chapin Jr·) ****************************************** One important key to success is self confidence. An important key to self confidence is preparation. (Arthur Ashe) ****************************************** Let us rise up and be thankful, for Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. (Cicero)

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The people who gets on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they make them. (George Bernard Shaw) ****************************************** Being defected is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. (Marilyn Vos Savan) ****************************************** There is one qualify which  one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. ( Napoleon Hill) ****************************************** Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility. ( Dr. Norman Vincent Peale)

ONE I want a ripe apple; I want a ripe apple dad.”I said as I ran towards my father who was watering the plants in his orchard just behind the main house.”You want a ripe apple?”my dad asked. I nodded in affirmation just to catch him glimpsing at me. He smiled, dropped the watering can on the floor and said “Now, show me how bad you want to get the ripe apple”. It was as though i was waiting to hear those words from him; I held his hands and ran with him towards the apple tree. I pointed at a ripe one and turned back to look at my dad. He smiled and said “c’mon, I’m waiting to see how you want to get it”. I began to jump up severally. I ran around the tree looking for where to place my little hands so i could start climbing. I started running but then my dad caught me and said” i see you really want a ripe apple, and for what you’ve done, you deserve a ripe apple....daddy’s going to get one for his little angel this time”. Mum came out to watch us when dad started climbing th...