Living a Life of Value

You will live Life effectively with themes that you start and end your day with. When you run into the temptation to complain about circumstances, Here are 27 Powerful quotes for you to help you re-focus your attention on what matters the most in your life. These quotes will help reprogram your mindset for success rather than failure in your magnificent New Year:

1.    "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." -Stephen Covey

2.    They tried to burry us, they did not know we were seeds. ~ Mexican proverb

3.    Be yourself, Everyone else is taken ~ Oscar Wilde

4.    Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. ~Leon J. Sue

5.    "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." ~Jimmy Dean

6.    Sweat more in training and bleed less in war ~ Spartan warrior  

7.    It's not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you're not. ~ Dennis Waitley

8.    Either you run the day or the day runs you. ~Jim Rohn

9.    Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

10.           ~Jim Rohn

11.           Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~Thomas Edison 

12.           "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." -Henry Ford

13.           "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." -Alice Walker

14.           “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” ~ Denis Waitley

15.           "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Aristotle Onassis

16.           "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

17.           "When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." -John Lennon

18.           "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.           "Control your own destiny or someone else will." - Jack Welch

20.           Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm. ~ Sir Winston Churchill 

21.           Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. ~Marcus Aurelius

22.           What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. ~J. Sidlow Baxter

23.           If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. ~Norman Vincent Peale

24.           Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcom Forbes

25.           I am bigger than my problems. ~ T Harv Eker

26.           The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you. ~Will Rogers

27. Don't Start something you know you wont finish. ~ Adapted from James Hadley Chase novels 

Make the year 2018 Extraordinary by the extraordinary decisions you make for your life

Cheers to your success!

What I take into the New Year

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." -Jimmy Dean

I do realize that everyone tries to blow the trumpet when a new year is about to show up with the out of date song which take the form of a resolution “It will be my best year to achieve my dreams”. However, I have more often than not seen how the majority still remain the old selves without any trace of change as the New Year progresses and ends. What is the problem? Is it the problem of the New Year or is it the person in the New Year? Whatever the answer may be for you, one thing I do know is that we get out of life who we are. Success grows only to the extent to which anyone grows to. As for me the following is what I commit to do in the New Year:

• The life around me is a reflection of the life inside me: Therefore, if I want to change the life around me, I should start with changing my beliefs and mind-set. I should control what goes into my mind and watch every thought going on in my mind. I am the one who possess my mind and therefore, I am not my mind just like I am not my leg even though I possess the leg. My mind feeds on my past and always controls my actions based on my past experiences. Therefore, 2018 I commit to be in control of my life as it is today. I will install thoughts and beliefs that support my happiness and success.
• Gratitude is the best prayer of all times. What you are grateful for will fill up your life. In 2018, I commit to start my day with a gratitude list of the things God has blessed me with. I will be grateful for everything little of significant. I will continue to do that until my life is filled with gratitude language only
• A man’s gift will bring him or her before great men and women. In 2018, I commit to build my natural gifts for others to enjoy great value from it.
• No one becomes a master of everything; I realize that one cannot undertake to travel a thousand routes at the same time and hope to get to where one is going. A thousand routes will get you to a thousand destinations. Therefore, in the year 2018, I commit to act, do, concentrate and achieve three important goals for my professional and business life. I will build habits and rituals to ensure I produce master pieces that will add value to others and earn income while doing it

• No idea will work until I work it: Therefore, I commit to do and actualize the goals I have committed to. Having an idea without working it out is being delusional.  I will invest my mind-set, heart-set and emotional capital into planning and monitoring my progress towards achieving my goals
• Everything in life takes the meaning which I give it. Fear is just a belief. Therefore, in 2018 I commit to give everything in my life the meaning that supports my happiness and success. I commit to remove words that do not empower my life.
• Toxic people or complainants will infect anyone in their environment with negative energy. Therefore, in the New Year. I commit to delete toxic relationships or people from my life. One cannot fly as an Eagle while trying to swim with ducks.
• "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -Maya Angelou: in 2018 I commit to leave people I interact with better than I found them.
• I have learnt in life that Rich people are bigger than their problems while Poor people believe they are smaller than their problems. In 2018, I commit to be bigger than any problem and will face problems that come my way with the mind-set that I am well able to deal with them. The Bible actually declares that greater is he that is inside you than the one outside. Anything coming my way knows that I am wired with the solution already

As the year comes into effect, don't just make decisions because many are still making decisions which they have been making for the last decade and never acted on anyone of them. Commit to act by putting down your goal on paper and act on it. I believe its the cheapest way to success

I wish you all who have taken time to read my articles. I say thank you very much may the Good Lord grant you peace and prosperity in the new year

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See Next Year

"Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" a T. Harv Eker Book

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.' - T. Harv Eker

The Fundamental Game Changer lesson for my life in 2017 has been the realization that if you want to have the results that Billionaires or Really Really wealthy people have, You must play the games they play, be in the rooms they are found and above all think like them. Some millionaires have been kind enough to put together their secrets in books like the "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" a T. Harv Eker Book. You don't need to go through what they went through or make the mistakes they made before they had a break through. You can read their story and compress your learning time with less pain.

You can't have a big dream yet you have a small mind. You can't have Millionaire dreams yet you walk with broke and busted friends. You can't talk big amongst mediocre friends. You can never be an Eagle walking amongst the Chicken. T Herv Eker is among the multi millionaires of the modern times and has spent his life trying to help others achieve the amazing results of abundance like he has through coaching in personal development and business principles. He is one of the believers that anybody can be Spiritual and be really wealthy at the same time. He has written a New York Times & Wall-street best seller book entitled "Secrets of the Millionaire Mind".

I was sent the link to T Herv Eker pdf version of the book to share with friends. Please click the link below and grab a copy. Read and empower your self and be the Eagle ou were meant to be.

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With Lots of Love in this festive season

Bright

Getting Lost in Someone else's Success is Your Greatest Disaster

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.


~Leon J. Sue

One great lesson I have learnt in the year 2018 is to choose to work on my goals in my free time away from my regular job. When I thought I did not have enough time to do the things I love to do, I realize that I actually do have the time. The biggest distraction for every one I know is social media and television. I realize that, the people we watch on television, have chosen to work on their dreams, perfected their acts and are having fun while making money doing what they love to do. To make yourself to feel better, you call them celebrities.

Do you remember your childhood dream? from which you have been distracted being busy with your current job? (the one you chose for convenience and you may not even like or love) the one you do because you need to pay bills and take care of your family. You and I still have the chance to go back to do our childhood passions. You don't even have to quit your job to achieve it. We waste a lot of time trying to watch the bad news by the media, the kind the media thinks we need! What if you chose to stop watching the bad news that you have no control over and started using your free time thinking about your dream and working on a plan of action. Remember, everything you need to achieve your dream is already wired in your DNA and ready to manifest if only you let it.  

One thing I have learnt is that watching a lot of television and movies if you like or resorting to social media fantasies is a sudo way of trying to escape from the tragedies of the goals one never made or worked on and have chosen television or social media as a relief drug to escape the pain of failure to follow one's dreams. The relief is temporary, hence, the need to watch television over and over or be on social media addiction. Think about it, How much have you earned watching television or being on social media. Of course there are also ways you can make money using social media such as selling new and second items. How much have you earned forwarding jokes on WhatsApp or Facebook. I am guessing you are now counting the cost of Internet bundles 

When you think you are enjoying a movie, comedy or talk show, remember that you are just lost in some one else's success and yours is getting delayed. Be wise, your Free time is your prime time and begin using it for your success

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Turn the Horrible 3 C’s into the Amazing 3 A’s

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. 

~Johannes A. Gaertner

Is it not incredible how some people wake up every morning and they easily find something to complain about? It could be a spouse, a friend, children, their house and even about themselves. Somebody joked that such kinds of people will even complain in heaven about having nothing to complain about. Some are even complaining about the year 2018 even found faults in it before it finally arrives.

Every day is a gift to everyone, the sun shines without discrimination and the wind blows in its majesty at everyone’s door without asking for our names, color or gender. We all have the liberty to choose what we want to see in the new day. What anyone chooses to see is what they get. The day is full of everything and it provides everything in abundance whatever you need based on your belief. Those who choose to see scarcity, they get it in abundance and those who choose to see the beauty in it will get exactly that.

Choose to be the leader of your day and not the victim of it. Victims have a tendency to complain, criticize and condemn anything before even evaluating the scenario. This is because victims bring their past failures, hurts and disappointments into their present and hence, loose the opportunity to see the spotless future available before them. Victims are suspicious of everyone and don’t even trust their own shadow. Victims believe everyone in their immediate surroundings is up to no good. On the flip side of things, I would encourage someone to be a leader who has the ability to see abundance in the midst of scarcity, strength in weakness and opportunities hidden in failure. A leader builds other leaders through influencing by good examples, inspiration through their passion to perform and impact through their positive results.

If you work or manage others, and sometimes feel the need to use one of the 3 C’s – complaining, condemning, and criticizing – replace them with the 3 A’s of Accepting, Acknowledging, and Appreciating. See what the 3 A’s will do to the people around you. The smiles you put on their faces will be priceless

Accept people for who they are; acknowledge them for what they do; and appreciate them for just being around. Remember that when you appreciate others, your reputation and respect appreciates too. Whatever you appreciates will also appreciates in value in your life. Always give gratitude for what is before you because, whatever you are grateful for, will fill up your life. Do you have need to fill up your life with love, show some love to others this festive season and life will reciprocate hundredfold for you. In everything you encounter, whether its people, focus on seeing the good and beauty. Don’t take wonderful things for granted until you lose them. You will never appreciate the beauty in a spouse until they are gone.

Show gratitude this season of giving. It’s the cheapest yet precious gift you can give that help you reap a harvest from heaven. Gratitude helps reprogram your brains negative bias to a positive bias. Every morning write down a list of ten things that you are grateful for. Do this every day and see how you begin to turn your life into an eternal experience of joyful events. That’s the power of GRATITUDE

What If the coming Year 2018 was a Beautiful lady of your dreams or Gorgeous Guy any woman wouldn't Ignore?

What would you Say to the beautiful woman or gorgeous guy before you to welcome them in your house or life?

It’s natural that we Speak in WORDS, Yet we think in PICTURES. I bet you would describe them by the flare of their garments, texture of their skin, the beauty of their smile, the Excellency of their mannerism and probably the kindness of their hearts even though you may not be sure about that. You would shower them with value descriptions that would make them feel like they are floating in the heavens and for a moment it would be like you were cut from the same cloth and the relationship was a match made in heaven with precision. Anytime you honor people with kind words, they try to fit your description of them with the right actions and courtesy towards you even it is for a moment just to ensure you get your praise worth. Whatever, you do in such scenarios is setting the goals of the relationship. It’s like  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe a German writer and statesman put it "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being

I submit to you today that as you look forward to the year 2018, think of the year like the man or the woman of year dreams. Describe the beauty you hope to see and experience. Put detail and color to what you hope to achieve, the people you wish to meet and connect, the new skills you want to explore. Explore your deep Imaginations of the things you have never done but you hope the beauty called 2018 would help you explore. Describe what you hope to do every day, week and months because it’s only what is planned that usually get done. Don't let your imagination down because it is the place where you can fashion your destiny or you can forge the weapons to destroy your own life.

If you want the year 2018 to be your best year, color the year with your best idea and be determined to execute it no matter how crazy the idea sounds. Remember, if nobody is laughing at your dream it’s possible that you are not dreaming big enough. Just talking about an idea does not make the idea work. Have and document an idea that you are willing to die for in 2018.

Pro 23:7 of the Christian Bible say "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he": Conceive in your heart your life in 2018 and Begin to describe the color of your year 2018 today and not when the year has already come for it's only a fool that begins to train when the game has lready started. Anticipate opportunities in 2018 and prepare for  them because, like one wise man once said its better to prepare for an anticipated opportunity and get ready for it than getting an opportunity that you are not ready for. Help the year 2018 to be what it ought to be for you and only you. 

Above all, have Faith that what you conceive in your heart, you will experience

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

~Brian Tracy

I am Out Bright

Be Yourself, BECAUSE Everyone ELSE IS TAKEN ~ Oscar Wilde

We have no choice of what colour we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is the choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

~Mildred Taylor 

We live in a time where there is a higher temptation to live like everybody else. The temptation to conform and not to confront. The temptation of being in a gang for identity. A time where we are losing the essence of originality. The danger is that our environment will determine our destiny. If you are hanging around with nine (9) broke folks, then you are about to be the tenth. If you have toxic friends, the chances are that you are already toxic or on the way there. If you are in a circle of WhatsApp addicts who spend time laughing about what’s trending, the chances are that you are wasting just as much time as they are. Wake Up! You may be living a con life and it’s not yours!

Success is not about chasing what society has described to be the true color of success. It’s not about the car that you drive nor the Job that you have. Success does not abound in the things you own for they are just vanity. Society has kept everyone busy trying to chase what cannot be found and that is true success. Everyone is busy being busy trying to climb mountains that lead to nowhere in the hope they will get to the top and only discovering that it was the wrong mountain. Think about it! You may have been living other people’s agenda except yours. You have been living to meet other people’s expectations for the love off having cheerleaders. Your friends have prescribed your boundaries and you have been happily abiding by them for acceptance. Society has hypnotized you to assume a false identity. You have lost your power and given it to the so-called celebrities thinking they are cut from a different rare cloth.

It’s time to start living life on your own terms because that is what true success is all about. Living a life of freedom to express your God-given talents and gifts to impact other lives in a positive way. Living a life that everyone celebrates because you showed up on this earth. Living a life of self-acceptance and love, where you don’t need anybody’s approval to love yourself, your structure, your facial look, your skin color and above all where you came from. It does not matter where one starts their life, they can be born in a manger as long as they don’t come out of it as a ‘Cow’ but because they were born there, and everyone can celebrate the Manger as the symbol of 'Christmas'. It matters how one ends there life. Don’t laugh too early at anybody because you don’t know how their life story will end. Being a nobody today does not mean you cannot be the billionaire of tomorrow. Forgive those who despise you today because they can’t see the end of your story. I may not know you personally, but there is one thing I am certain about your life and that is you have greatness hidden in you and it’s just a matter of time before you explode for all to see. 

My encouragement to you today is that It’s time to start walking your walk and reflecting on your dreams.  Adopt your own language of destiny and start the journey. All you need is to make the decision for your life. It’s time to celebrate yourself.

They Tried to Bury us, But they did not know that we were Seeds ~ Mexican Proverb

Many times life will send a multitude of horrors that will knock you down. Storms that wash everything dear to you away from your reach. Unimaginable fires that literally burns every stroke of opportunity from your grips. In this ending year, people may have tried to bury you under titles you could not even comprehend. When the ones you called friends betrayed your trust. But thank God they did not know that you are a seed that can grow from under the garbage. The storms could have blown everything you held dear to you away but there was one thing the storms could not blow away and that is the presence and love of God in your life. Can I get an Amen

I can assure you that life could have thrown you on the garbage dumps and smeared you with shit but this is what I know, God has bestowed upon you with the ability and capacity to turn your pain into power and the shit of life into fertilizer for your growth and profit. When you look back into the passing year, just give thanks for everything you went through because when a seed germinates its never in this same form it was buried with. I encourage you to use the failures of yesterday as the base lessons for your exponential growth in the coming year. Its time to realize that life should follow you and you should never allow life just to happen by default. You are the creator of your garden of Eden and the entire unformed infrastructure of your Eden is waiting to form into what you will declare. The door way to your destiny does not swing outwards but inwards because everything you need, you were born with and life is waiting on you to make a difference.  

Today take a good look at what is happening around you and if you don't like what you see, just know that it is a reflection of what is going on in the inner part of you. When you change your inner empire by coloring it with the beauty of what you desire, your outer empire will begin to conform to your inner empire.

Your life in the coming year is in your hand  

Disruptive Thinking: I believe we are "Trapped in Content"

"You shall know them by their fruits and not the fruits they talk about" 

When people fail in life in whatever they are doing, one sign is clear, they talk too much. They talk the twists and turns of what has happened and what should have or what would have been. They just never sit to reflect on the lessons learned and move forward. Discussing the problem in all its corners but too afraid to discuss the solution. This reminds me of the poor believers seated in church pews faithfully listening to a new message of supposed hope, year in year out, one day looking forward to something magical happening in their lives for the best. The magic never happens but the content of hope continues every Sunday in different versions.

In my society people are experts in discussing problems in graphical details. We are so skewed to telling bad news to others in digital format if you like. People ensure that as they relay the bad news, they should see its impact on you the listener. Lucky for me I hate bad news and every time somebody begins to narrate some bad news, I have trained my ears to switch off. I also do not see the necessity of someone preaching to me the death of Jesus in graphical details because I do not see how that helps me. As far as I know, Jesus was resurrected and that's what's important to me, not the bad news of the passion of Christ scenario. Christians have been digging for solutions from the Bible for thousands of years between Genesis and Revelation. It seems the solution has been elusive within the Biblical content. Yet one of the most significant solutions most often heard is that you must believe in God, Receive Jesus as your personal savior, pray every day, read the Bible and Heaven shall open for you every blessing you want. While this may be true, it is not even a tenth of the truth that I believe Jesus Christ was talking about. Jesus, in one of his teachings to his disciples, said and I quote "greater things than these you shall do" (John 14:12).

I most often than not ask the question where today's technological innovations are hidden in the Bible. I think the problem is not where all these things are hidden but how we have interpreted the content that is supposed to show us the way to the treasure. I believe that you can be aware of the existence of a treasure but if you are using a wrong map, you will never get to it. Jesus refers to greater things to be done by those who believe in Him John 14:12. Where were these greater works hidden? In the Bible? I do not think so because the bible is just content of wisdom and cannot create anything on its own. Greater works or creations must lie with the creator in charge. In fact, Jesus in his speech refers to the noun 'YOU' meaning in you and I who live today, greater things and works are hidden inside each one of us to bless this world with. Great innovations have been done by people from different religious beliefs, therefore, greater works have nothing to do with religion or one's way of worship. Otherwise, if that were true great innovators and rich individuals would all come from one religion. I believe Greater works have been crying out inside each one of us except they manifest as problems because, if you think about it, there is no solution if there is no problem. You find a solution to society's problem, you have just found yourself a cash cow. But what do we do in times of problems? We cry and we faithfully go to whatever book to find a solution and unfortunately, some solutions can't be found in books because they are hidden in the creator in you.

Spiritual books are important but we have ended up trapped in the content and never use the occasion to reflect on ourselves and awaken the greater in us to do exploits. We are the only creature that has the potential to rethink, reprogram, and do greater things at every level of life. If technology fails to remain at the same level why should we as superhumans remain stagnant. The next-generation robotics which is based on neural networks are now able to reprogram their actions when faced with a new scenario even without the aid of human programmers. Technology is changing so fast that soon we will have robots walking around as women competing as prostitutes or wives.

We have read our Holy books such as the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and we all know that God loves us and that fact is not debatable no matter how much we ponder on it. We can cry, laugh or worship, it does not change who God is. The only let down is the human being (in whom God has manifested) walking around like a headless chicken afraid to take risks and not realizing the amount of power we possess because of the material we are made off. (God Material)

We have been  'TRAPPED IN CONTENT' for far too long. Think about this, you can talk about a product like a power generator and its potential in detail, but if you do not switch it on, you will never experience the electricity the generator can generate. Stop being a content freak and let's get on to some action.

Disrupting My Childhood Thinking: God in the Image of Man?

Your PURPOSE explains what you are doing with your life. Your VISION explains how you are living your purpose.  Your GOALS enables you to realize your vision. 
~Bob Proctor

Orlando A. Battista a writer once said: "an error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it". It was during my early years in life that I learned something through my so-called Christian upbringing when my grandmother used to tell me stories (from the scripture from her perspective) on how God will come finally to destroy this wonderful world deemed wicked with Fire. The idea of a blazing fire running unimpeded scorching every creature in its path really horrified me.  I found myself in the middle of a perceived war of two forces. In my thinking, there was on one side a God probably sitting in a server room monitoring every wrong move and ready to met out punishment and ensuring I was on the right spiritual track and on the other hand a devil with horns who was ready to take me with him to hell. Nowhere to run!

Looking around me today, I see a lot of people who go to church just to escape hell and hope probably to qualify to go to heaven a land of milk and honey but with one catch, you have to die first to get there. However, to pass the exam to enter Heaven seems so far fetched as a man seems to have the default settings to break God's righteous commands every six seconds. They lie for the so-called right reasons (so-called white lie) and they claim forgiveness thereafter as Jesus is believed to have taken away the sin of man.  In my curiosity, I have often wondered why a God who is so obsessed with perfection would put the extreme ability in man to break the same law they are supposed to keep knowing full well they won't keep it! As though God's commands are not enough, religious denominations have come up with further rules or we can kindly call them terms of reference for every believer to follow failure to which they attract punishment in the name of God. These sub laws also differ from one denomination to another such as don't wear this fashion or that etc (kind of spiritual fashion police for lack of a better word). Take a look at this YouTube documentary on the tribes of the Amazon who do not wear clothes (The Tribes of the Amazon forest) Even when these tribes are given clothing, they wear them inside their huts but walk naked outside the huts. Does the lifestyle of the tribes of the Amazon forest challenge our definition of decency or the question of right or wrong to be relative? Forgive me if I have missed something about religious affairs. The New Testament records a story of a lady who was caught in the very act of sexual immorality (probably considered level one sins or spiritual felony) and she was brought to Jesus so that he can pronounce the ultimate judgment according to the written law for this serious spiritual sin. Well to cut that story short, Jesus neither condemned nor judged the woman but encouraged her to make the right choices and do good (paraphrased) John 8:3-9. 

Fast forward to today, if that lady caught in adultery was in today's church, the supreme religious law would be meted to the letter and she would be used as an example, in the worst-case scenario be excommunicated from the church, Meaning she is too unholy to keep around the clean ones. It seems in today's religious perspective if you are not caught in the act, you are not guilty of any spiritual crimes. I am sure our minds are our best judges of what we do when no one is looking and we are all alone. I see female preachers in the western world preaching wearing pair of trousers with no objection but it seems to be a spiritual crime in some parts of Africa for a female preacher to be clad in trousers ministering the gospel. I don't know the devil they see in the trousers. Does this mean the spirit in the west accepts women in trousers and the spirit in Africa takes exception to women in trousers on the pulpit? What is right and wrong seems to be relative to where one is, it seems. How can the Biblical truth be relative? But all this is done in the name of God (subjugating the female class in the name of God!). While Christians describe God as love, they still add conditions to that Godly love. It's Like they are saying well! God loves you but! One thing I do know is that the only ones who still put conditions to their love are human beings and not God. We have been trying to define God in our human image. We add this earthly father figure to the image of God ready to correct a child without sparing the rod. We all know that in life anything you do has consequences. You want love, give love, you want money, give money. Whatever you are missing in life is what you are not giving away simple. Like the Bible says you reap what you sow. You don't even need the devil to help you with that. In today's theology, Not even the grace of God is free, they always find something somewhere to add to ensure it convinces someone the grace is not totally free. Why? I think its a quest to make sure the gospel fits our traditions so that it is acceptable. Politically correct if you like!

What happened to the "blessed are the fearless, for they shall know God". We are so obsessed with spreading a fear-based gospel that we even re-enact the Old Testament rituals to make the fear appear so real to all followers so as to keep them in check. Its as though God ceases to be God until people worship Him. The Christian Bible describes God as Love. But What is Love? Because fear has been so magnified in the teaching of the gospel disguised as attaining righteousness, most believers spend most of their lives trying to perfect their act to meet the perceived God standard in their lives and in the process forgetting that they have a life on earth to live for which the same God wants them to discover themselves, show forth His glory and account for their talents and potential.  

Genesis 1: 26 records and I quote "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

Gen 1:27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

Therefore, why are we trying to define God in our own image? And not letting God be God. We are putting God in a box defined by our own tradition. Where is the God we are looking for? in outer space or up where? You and are I are divinity in disguise, we hold the form in which life is striving to fashion itself. When the seed of God was planted in man, it was ready to germinate and take its form effortlessly. Yet we have come to believe the seed of God is not yet in us and hence, we spend the rest of our lives looking for God and His miracles. We look everywhere for God except inside ourselves because it does not fit our religious construct. We walk as victims of circumstance waiting for a miracle to happen which doesn't happen. Whilst we have been waiting for God, God has also been waiting for us since we are the ones with the mandate to operate in the physical realm. Don't waste your energy trying to judge others by their color, race, tribe, language or by what they wear or look like, nothing you can conceive in your mind is the correct version of the presence of God. God will work in His own ways. In order to fill in the gap, we have resorted to our own Egos for identity which requires a title and manipulation of others in order to sustain control over others. We mistakenly call our ego as the true presence of God's power when it is our own deficiency we are trying to hide. The true power lies in our authentic self inside each one of us and it does not need the mind to comprehend or make sense of it.

For once try to go within, in meditation to find what you have been looking for from without. Some wisdom I have learned in life is that Two Things Define You: 1- Your Patience when you have nothing and 2 - Your attitude when you have everything. When you find what you are looking for, keep this in mind lest what is supposed to be your salvation ends up destroying you

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Disruptive Gospel: Confidence

Inaction breeds doubt and fear.  Action breeds confidence and courage.  If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~Dale Carnegie

Life has been designed to happen for us and not to us. Life effortless shows up for each one of us not to torment us but as a gift. Everything that has been created under the heavens happens effortlessly. The Rose flower blossoms effortlessly, the birds fly with the least efforts and the grass needs no one’s permission to shoot from the ground effortlessly. Humans grow older every day effortlessly. Therefore, the man was created to grow into wealth and abundance effortlessly by the same divine law. The examples are all over for everyone to see. The poor are working 10 times harder just to scrape a little to merely survive while the rich are effortlessly amassing more wealth. Why not then re-look at how others are achieving things effortlessly. We owe it to ourselves and the generations coming after us

Life does not just happen, but it happens justly for all those who understand the natural laws that govern the universe. If you jump off from a tall building, you will be subject to the law of gravity and if you haven’t taken any precaution you will jump straight to your death in the worst-case scenario for free. If you jump into a body of water like a river or the sea and you do not understand the principle of buoyance you will definitely drown while otherwise learn to cooperate with the water body, float, and swim. Therefore, the fact that life happens for us all, only those who understand the principles of experiencing wealth and prosperity enjoy the abundance that life is loaded with.

Many have grown up with the mindset that there is not enough of everything to go round in life, therefore, they set out to work as hard as they can and compete to get what they can. If all you want is to compete against others, you have a very poor mindset. This, I believe is as the old adage goes ‘No pain, no gain’ right? Wrong! Just Begin to cultivate the idea that everything I need is already here for me to experience with the least effort. You are the supercomputer that God has placed on earth to do exploits effortlessly. You are built with the right firmware to process instructions, divine software to provide the wealth program, and the hardware to act and bring forth the desired output of your life. Of course producing children has been the least effortless action people seem to know even without any kind of tuition. Guess who seems to have more children between the rich and poor? your guess is as good as mine.

The Judaic Bible actually says in Hosea 4: 6 that ‘My people die because of lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children’. I have learned in life that every computer works with information and instructions to carry out a task. No information is also information because the output is nothing. You need to begin to gain information every day for that supercomputer called YOU to begin to produce something in your life. For example, begin by saying to yourself ‘I am living a wealthy and abundant life’. I know that your current mindset based on your current status will try to cry out ‘the hell you do’. But remember you are only declaring the final desired destiny and God will take care of how that is achieved but you must start the journey. This must give you the confidence to act because you don’t even know how you have managed to grow old to where you are right now; the how is God’s business.

When you continuously affirm to yourself wealth and abundance every day, you will begin the process of changing your life’s root programming (in your subconscious) and you will likely start acting in accordance with your affirmation. During this time pay attention to every idea or thought that comes into your mind because God needs your cooperation to achieve your goal. It could be an idea as simple as starting a small business or beginning to write stories or starting a website to promote small businesses the list is endless. Whatever you begin to imagine as you affirm wealth and abundance, begin to add drama to it such as the kind of lifestyle, homes, cars, travel, positive effects on others, charity, etc. create a High Definition (HD) movie of the life you desire where you are the main star in it. Don’t start worrying about whether it's achievable or not, just believe and act in your own small way and know that the great mastermind who specializes in ‘THE HOW’ will eventually make it happen if you do not faint. In all this drama, you are responsible to play your part and provide the action. Don't expect God who created the mountains to come and climb them for you!

  

Disruptive Gospel part 5: Be Bold and Don’t Calculate a Doomsday Scenario in Advance

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.

~Richard Branson 

The philosopher Peter F. Drucker says this about building a leader and I quote “Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations”

Every man and woman was born a leader of their own destiny because everything we see and experience all fall within our different realms of perceptions and focus. No two people will ever go through the same experience in the exact same manner. Therefore, what each one experiences is a setup from God, knowing beforehand that God has already invested sufficient resources in the person to overcome whatever, challenges lay ahead. This is the confidence that we all should have that any battle I can face, I already have enough armour resident in me to win.

Nature has shown us this phenomenon which can be referred to as the principle of least resistance. When one plants seeds of maize in the ground, we do not doubt that the soil in which the seed is planted will give way to the growing plant with least resistance. When a woman conceives she will not do anything to make the baby grow with human aspects and parts because everything has already been programmed in the seed to be achieved. Humans play no part in ensuring that a baby in the womb has the head, hands legs etc. because all these parts are already designed to form effortlessly in accordance with the divine law.

Learning from the foregoing, the ability for the success you require to achieve is already invested in you, way before you were born. The only reason everything seem not to be working is that you are trying to figure out how to do it. People have told you that you can’t and you have believed them or there are no mentors around you who also don’t know that they don’t know that they need to succeed beyond the norm of the society you live in. Sometimes you want to be sure it can be done. Martin Luther King Jr. puts it perfectly that you don’t have to see the entire stairway to get started. The only thing a child who is trying to learn to walk needs is simply to see others walking and the child will not be afraid to get started without following any specific rules. No matter how many times the child falls and cries they never stop trying until they begin to walk and run. You are no different. If you are able to read this, then I know that you will keep on trying and failure is not final for you.

The only thing you need to know whether you are in Africa, America, Asia or Europe is just to see the evidence that others have been successful and started their own business. It does not matter how hard people may say it is to do it, just be bold. It is true that you will fall along the way but no matter how many times you fall, rise up and keep trying until you win. What’s the worst thing that can happen when you stick out your neck? Someone says no or the situation doesn’t work out as planned. The best thing that could happen, however, is that you become wildly successful. So why not give yourself an opportunity to win? Take more chances. But don’t calculate a doomsday scenario in advance. The odds are in your favour. Remember: When you play it overly safe, you miss incredible opportunities that were ripe for the picking. Open your eyes to the universe of all possibilities.

 See you part 6

Disruptive Gospel Part 4: Rise Above the Fear of Failure

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure

~Colin Powel

Michael Jordan, the celebrated American NBA star once said "I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed". Thomas Edison the inventor also said Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Every successful man or woman you see in life has a life story that is mixed with failure along the way. Overcoming life's toughest test is what produces great testimonies. Its your failures that will make your life story the greatest story because it is not how high a man has risen that makes them great but how deep the hole they managed to rise from. Its the foundation and not the height that hold the Sky scraper building 

Failure is important in one's life because it is what provides opportunities for growth. The toughest and roughest circumstances we face in life are important. Life can throw you in the darkest places. People can throw all sorts of dirt at you. But remember every crop needs manure to bloom into the life giving products we enjoy and it does not even smell of the manure from which it was planted to grow. The pain you experience in life may be unbearable, but when in pain stop and listen to what the pain is saying to you. It is in times of pain when the greatest and innovative part of you is born. Learn what the pain is trying to teach you. You have attributes and talents that you may not even be aware you posses that can come out and propel you to your destiny in the times of pain. Therefore, don't curse the pain of life but thank God for it and welcome it as it is manure for the new you who is about to emerge out of the pain. Don't see the shit and complain but instead turn it into fertilizer

Whatever you do in life don't be afraid to start something. When you set yourself to start anything, don't ask the question what if it fails; this is the wrong question. If anything What if you succeed, wouldn't that count for something! The best way to get started is to ask the question, What is the best that could happen when I try this? it could be starting a new business or writing a book. Whatever the best you see that can come out of it, that is what you should concentrate on and keep your focus on. Don't waste your energy thinking about the worst that could happen because success is not the absence of failure. 

To quote Donald Trump, I would say "Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don’t just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won’t happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you’ll love it up here. 

To sum it all according to Martin Luther King Jr, If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

See you Part 5   

Disruptive Gospel Part 3: Forget what other people think

You control your future, your destiny.  What you think about comes about.  By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be.  Put your future in good hands - your own.

~ Mark Victor Hansen

When we are born in this life, we show up as fine human beings from the Lord's production lines loaded with all possibilities and unlimited potential until the societies we find ourselves in begins to define us into its paradigm of belief systems. This is the point at which we become our tribes, clans, groups etc. If one is born in what is called a collectivist society where the group thinking is the norm and individual dreams are considered secondary, so we become. On the other hand if we find ourselves growing up in an individualistic society where individual goal achieving is the primary norm, so we grow up to become. Its not my place to judge which society is good or bad. The important thing I know is that the Lord allowed each one of the earth's inhabitants to show up with a specific purpose to show forth God's glory. We are born with different talents and attributes not as a source of competitiveness but to complement each other.

There is only one of you on this earth and anyone else trying to be you is an impostor. You are unique and there is none like you. You are the same today, yesterday and forever. Therefore, no one will ever do what you can do and add to this life. If you don't offload what you came with into this life, you will go with it to the grave and will always be a life un-lived and the greatest story untold. There are no limitations in life unless the ones we set for ourselves. People have called you names such as you are not good enough, you are ugly and you will never amount to anything in this life. You have ended up believing this crap, pondered on it, cried your eyes out for free over something that is never truth until you make it come true on your life yourself because you are own prophet. What you believe about your life is what will become. . 

Striving to secure praise and avoid blame is a recipe for disaster. Forget about it! You are your own best barometer. What matters most is what you think. So practice self-reliance; it’s critical. Doubt is simply a distraction. Don’t allow it to permeate your thoughts or influence your judgment. Muzzle the mental noise by leveraging positive thoughts and experiences from your arsenal. Use your mind to your advantage because the confusion prevailing in your mind that weakens your thoughts is the false belief that there is a power or powers outside you greater than the power within you. Everything you want is out there waiting for you to get. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. Don't ask anybody on what you can or cannot do because they cannot know as they have never been you. Begin to dream bigger than big and make that picture plain and clear. Your dream will be an inspiring picture of the future that will energize your mind, will, and emotions, empowering you to do everything you can to achieve it. A genuine dream is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential waiting to happen.

Stop and listen to the inner guidance. Let everyone else be a liar. You have tried to live by other people's standards such that you have even tried to live by what the education system has defined you to be. Pause and open your eyes and see the opportunities that life has for you. Get out of the routine thought system for it has behaved as a filter to your vision not allowing you to see clearly who you really are supposed to be.

See you in part 4

Disruptive Gospel Part 2: Get Uncomfortable of being Comfortable

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere

While it has felt so good to be found in the churches worshiping the almighty God, praising, thanking and asking for His grace, it is strange that the people who have been asking seem not to have been receiving. I believe that the act of receiving must be understood in its context. Three phases are clear in the process of creation namely conception or word (idea), speaking the word and action. When one phase is missing creation is never present. You can conceive an idea but without action it will remain a pipe dream. When you also act without a defined goal, you are simply shooting in the dark that produces nothing. Anyone can flap their hands in water and can swim but only those who have prepared for a swimming contest mentally and physically win swimming contests. Don't sing your problems but sing yourself into destiny with appropriate action. Whatever you don't want in your life, don't talk about it. Talk about the good things in your life  

The problem with the believer who is supposedly the inheritor of God's blessing, is that they pray, praise and worship but they never act towards their destiny. And because the expected blessings take too long to show up in their lives, the believer's songs become full of worry, fear and complaints. Alas! believers have suffered the full consequences of the fears and complaints in the songs they sing so passionately. This is because whatever one pays attention to expands in one's life because of the life's energy we invest in it. It is time to challenge the status quo that has not produced tangible results so far and disrupt it with a new mindset. People have resigned themselves to being comfortable with the status quo. Believers associate wealth to evil and forget that its God who is the owner of all wealth. Therefore, whatever they don't understand they paint it black.

Disruptive gospel requires that you get uncomfortable with the way things are in your life. Why should you accept to be average when you can be extra-ordinary. You are your only real competition, so choose to step outside of your comfort zone and conquer any weaknesses. Get into the habit of raising your standards and expectations by challenging yourself to do more and better. There is no School where students never graduate into some higher level of some sort. such a school is a danger to society. Even a Christian needs to graduate into the end game of the message and that is to prosper above all things.

Get yourself out of the clouds and put your fit firmly on the ground and change the world around you as it has been waiting for your to fashion itself in the form you give it 

See you in part 3   

Disruptive Gospel: Part 1

"Working Hard on your Job makes you a Living but Working hard on yourself makes you a life" Jim Rhon

The term Disruptive Gospel has been coined from what is being called Disruptive Thinking” which is being described as getting “out-of-the-box”, breaking routine thinking.  It’s about gaining new, fresh perspective and seeing things from another angle or in another light.  In business it’s moving from simply working “in” your business to working “on your business.”

Its about looking at the Bible with fresh kingdom lenses and determine how the 2000+ year old spiritual text can be used to solve today's life's dynamics. One of my famous disruptive thinkers was Jesus Christ whose message was at variance with Judaic form of spirituality. While the Jewish leaders expected God to be sitting in the Holy of Hollies behind the curtain in the temple, a young Jewish Teacher (Rabbi) was proclaiming God to be everywhere and worse inside each one of the people. The message was so disruptive that Spiritual leaders of the time had their brains running in exception and crushing such that the only thing they could think off was to kill the messenger and stop the message. That is what I believe religion is doing to most of us today.

Printed house in China and ready for
Occupation

The Jewish spiritual leaders preached a fear based religion while Jesus preached a message of freedom and exploits. Today, religion still infects followers with fear such that their ability to be innovative is constricted and only able to find solace in the coming Heaven. I submit to you today that the majority have not been thinking because they don't even know that they are not thinking. As a matter of fact Jesus said 'Greater things than these you shall you do'. Life is changing exponentially such that even the super computers in our brains has lagged behind. The believer who is supposedly talking to the Holy Ghost is equally being taken by surprise by technology. I wonder what we are discussing with the Holy Ghost that is if we are really talking to the One? We are at the tail end of receiving the effects of disruptive innovations which are changing the way we live and how we judge right or wrong. Innovation has changed to a level where countries have even began to print houses in a 24 hour time frame instead of relying on brick and mortar houses building procedures that take ages to build and complete a house (This uses a gigantic 3D Printer to do the Job on the physical ground). Its no longer OK to spend your life working without building your own business empire, to remain as tail end vendors that gather coins. Religion has done more harm to our mindset and personal worth such that we think being holy and good people is the best you can be. But being holy and broke is the worst evil you can ever be because you can never impact others positively and above all you can never be the light to others because there is definitely no light in your life for others to see and learn how they can rise from the yoke of poverty   

If you want to overcome barriers to reaching your goals in life, you better saddle up and learn to use the power of disruptive thinking. Don't use your yesterday's story how the ancestors lived to change your future. How do you move?

1. Challenge the Status Quo

So far you have played the game of the crowd and you have only managed to get to where everyone is. But simply going along to get along is an ineffective strategy that often compromises values and relationships. Don’t be afraid to question institutional memory, so-called best practices or decisions that appear problematic. You have prayed, fasted and given financial seed to spiritual leaders and you have been waiting for that illusive break though that never crosses your path. You have enjoyed the bible story and have been too afraid to find out the truth hidden behind the story. You keep lying to yourself by believing that the hidden should remain with God and the known for you. You are afraid to be called an outside if you question the status quo that never produces any fruit. You believe you are a believer with fruits that have so far been invisible.Surely there is something you are missing. When you brag about success you give examples of Steve Jobs the Apple creator, Bill Gates etc. yet you never ask the questions regarding the story behind the glory of these men and women. You want to change circumstances without changing the cause of it. You believe you can harvest Oranges from a Guava tree. Ask yourself the question, where does God reside? Because where ever you have been looking for Him, He will never be found because according to Jesus, He lives inside you. Think and Stop doing the same thing over and over hoping to get a different result. Somebody called that madness. Whatever, you have been waiting for is already inside you and you have been waiting with it.

Begin to aim for the Top which is forever vacant but the bottom is ever over-crowded

Catch you Part 2