You are at your Best Under Pressure!!

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure"
~ Peter Marshall

Diamond

Scientific literature according to Wikipedia describes Diamond as "a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. It has been established that under very high pressure and temperature, carbon-containing fluids dissolved minerals and replaced them with precious diamonds"

Have you looked at how carbon looks like? not so fancy in any way if you ask me. Especially how dirty it will make you when you touch or handle it. Wow! how strange life can be as the very dirty looking element is actually the lovely precious diamond when under Pressure. It's a jewel that can make anyone rich overnight when owned. How wonderfull the Almighty Creator is such that Precious things are most of the time invisible to the evil eye. 

Carbon

Now, look at your self and the circumstances that you may be going through. Your perception of yourself right now maybe that you think that you are not good enough or beautiful enough in this scheme of life for anyone to consider for anything. You don't even count yourself amongst the worthy ones. Today, GROW OUT OF THAT because you are precious beyond measure without any competitor. Someone may be going through really tough times and the pressure keeps rising like some evil one is pushing the pressure dial upwards without any regard. I encourage you to accept and thank God for the pressure because you are the highest grade of Diamond in the process of being unveiled to the world. Do not curse the troubles or blame anyone for the misfortunes you may be going through. Everyone playing the evil role in your life's movie is just porn in the Master's Chess game for your life and they don't even know it. Just persevere and soon it will be CHECKMATE. All things, according to the scriptures, work together for our good.

Some may want to leave you for others they think are better! Don't hold on to them as their role in your life's movie may just be over. What is yours will always come to you and what is not yours will always be in a hurry to leave. Therefore, don't stress over what or whoever decides to leave your life. You may think that you have invested so much in a relationship and believe that you can't live without the partner who is just about to give you the boot! I say to you, yes you can make it because you are a DIAMOND and your partner is too color blind to the extent that they can only see Carbon black. This is the reason why the wise speak in parables so that the wise can become wiser and the foolish can become more foolish. Life is a parable and the wise prosper from its mess

Jeremy Sisto's words come to mind:

"Diamonds are created through the pressures of earth and then have to go through a million dirty roads to get to the cutter who turns it into a beautiful massage. And that's like human beings. They go through a lot to be who they are in front of you"

You may be in business and you have achieved a certain level of success and believe that you can now retire peacefully! Hell No! no one retires from life. You need to go inside yourself again and experience the pressure of pondering on a new idea. Its time to experience how the new pressure will give birth to another Million Dollar Idea never seen before to move you higher above your peers,

Do not entertain fear because a wise man once said no one gets out of Life Alive. What a comfort to know ... Why waste time on fear which can't even save you from leaving life Alive.

Don't Stress over a Job the Almighty has already finished for you

Don't Kill the Rich! They are a Blessing..

You cannot make the Poor people rich by killing all the rich people around. You can bet on your life, you need the rich and famous around for a reference point. You can sympathize and empathize with the poor, but don't remain in their midst just to conform to the common narrative. You cannot help the poor by being and remaining one of them, but you need to get out like Jesus Christ put it in one of His parables, to get some new wine (knowledge and Wisdom) in a new wineskin (mindset) and grow. 

Its time to open your eyes and ears for some fresh understanding of what you are capable of achieving by God's default. Don't take the scripture that says 'blessed are the poor' out of context to justify your laziness and lack of resolve to pursue a better life. Still doubting? news flash ... whether you are male or female, you are carrying seeds to bring forth other human beings (children) and when you create the right environment, you bring them forth effortlessly regardless of your status; rich, poor, educated and uneducated. 

What an equalizer that human beings have been created with! The human body doesn't even need a power charger plugged into some energy socket in order to function. Humans are so self-contained with everything in one place such that evil just wonders how a so sophisticated creative being wallows in poverty and lack in the midst of so much abundance both visible and invisible.

Choose to build your life and then acquire the capacity to pull the poor out of their abodes with the precision of your growth experience. Remember, the presence of the Rich and famous is evidence enough that anything in life is possible for anyone who dares to challenge the status quo. Therefore, bless the rich because what you appreciate will also appreciate in your life. What you hate will always stay far away from your life. Its time to give some love to everything you want to eventually fill your life with. Don't Constrict the God essence in you with the mediocrity of people who relegate the pursuit of a good life as the works of evil. Don't ask people who have never tried anything for advice, you can be surprised how they can successfully point you to nowhere. 

For God's sake change your friends and the social environment if you have to. some wise guy once said if you are moving around with 9 broke friends, you can be sure you are about to become the tenth broke dude. Don't aim so low in order to hit your target and start a life in the overcrowded zone, but aim for the top which is always vacant 

I know someone is asking the question, what about the poor we see all over places begging in the streets, who will help them? Good question! the fact that you are able to see and identify them, you are the chosen one to rescue them. However, if you are unable to help in a meaningful and transformative way, means you are also poor probably, like most of the people, living paycheck to paycheck. For as long as you, who is supposed to be the hero of the poor is still poor, the people you feel affectionate for will also remain in the same state. Feeling affection alone cannot put food on anyone's table. We need to go the extra mile. 

Coming to think of it in our society today, probably the churches or religious entities are supposed to be the sanctuaries for the poor. Well, just count how many so-called local and International religious entities have built Schools, orphanages, hospitals to allow the vulnerable groups to access services for free like Jesus Christ alluded to in Matt 25:40-45.  You will be surprised how many do actually care about the poor.

Food for thought,,,

Our Deepest Fear?

Quoting from a popular writer Marianne Williamson who wrote and I quote "Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate. Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do".


Come to think about it, Who Am I? and Who are you even as you read through this article now? We have read and learned from spiritual texts that we are created in the image and likeness of  God the creator and source of all things. We are everything God is without a doubt. Yet we have been told that we fall short in everything and are not worthy in any way to live a triumphant life. We go to spiritual and religious leaders to understand our purpose, they pretend to open the door yet keep the key and ensures that we believe that God cannot open the Windows of Blessing without the spiritual teacher or whatever title we have chosen to give them, just to keep you within their control. The first lie starts with believing that God is outside you. This seems to make religious sense so that you can go and look for God in the temple. Correct? Wrong! for as long as you keep looking for God outside you, you will always fall short. Why? Because God does not come with a feeling, bells! No! actually, He does not even dwell in temples built by human hands. If I go to church and I am told that it is the place where God dwells, I should be worried. If I am created in the likeness of God and God is actually dwelling in the church building, then who am I carrying as me? The devil? I wonder where the spiritual giants of our time are while Coronavirus is having such a good time devastating people's lives.

The average Christian is anxious about how to find that Kingdom of God! Why don't we as Jesus and hear what He said in Luke 17:21 Nor will people say, ‘Look, here it is,’ or ‘There it is.’ For you see, the kingdom of God is within you.” BINGO! Eureka!

Put simply you carry the Kingdom within you where ever you go. Its a matter of awareness and understanding it. Look, nothing happens without your permission. Every human being is a creative being and its a question of what you are creating, positive or negative, good or evil, the choice is yours. Anybody can tell you about your past, your failures, and successes. So what? like they say S**t happens in life.

This brings us to the question of the location of heaven. Where is Heaven? is it Up or down, East, West, or where? When I see most people in an attitude of prayer, I see them lifting their hands to the so-called Up direction. The question is, which way is Up? consider the guy at the North and South Poles of the globe, which direction is their true Up? I know, someone reading this right now is saying even the Bible says lift your hands to the Lord. Well, do we really know what that even means? Do we merely look up to the sky as the symbolism of where the Almighty God is supposedly seated on the throne of Glory as told to us by religious teachers without asking the deeper questions why!

It all comes down to the Fundamental truth that if one does not know the direction and location of their desired Treasure, it's worthless even to embark on the journey because they will never arrive and are literally lost in the maze of life. If one does not know where the Kingdom of God lies, they will never unleash the power of the Kingdom to change their lives. They will spend all their lives chasing after prophets and seers, going through deliverance from deliverance with no solution in sight. Consider this, right now the fact that you are able to read this article is proof that your computer is configured to access the Internet streams around in your area from within the computer. Therefore, without the Internet configuration, your computer will never receive any Internet data. You can pray, take the computer to the mountain, fast, pour anointed water on the computer, the computer will never have an Internet connection until the Internet configuration happens. Are you catching the drift here?

If you want to be a good football player, train your legs to kick and maneuver with a Ball. If you want to be a good singer, train your voice, it's that simple. It is not fair to tell someone that I see wealth coming your way without helping their minds, hands, and the required character and skills to handle, keep, and grow the wealth. In my opinion, Prayer helps to keep the connection to the Divine while Thinking helps you to develop Ideas even Million Dollar Ideas. It's dangerous to replace Thinking with Prayer. Set aside time for prayer and set aside time for thinking also. above all commit to learning new things to help you in your thinking.

You can be endowed with Wealth around, but you can also be the poorest amongst all at the same time. The continent of Africa has all the mineral and oil wealth, yet it is still struggling with high poverty levels. Like they say, dying of thirst whilst in a freshwater lake. Africa needs "outside and away from the BOX" Thinkers. How can you solve Africa's economic problems when you are actually schooled in the economics of scarcity with a Ph.D. qualification probably. All you see is scarcity and probably you always believe that a loan of some kind might do the trick to get an economy out of problems. Well, the story of debt is an open secret for all to see. Why not develop a new economic paradigm for Africa. Instead of looking at what Africa lacks or what is scarce, let's look at what Africa has in abundance that is being underutilized. We may just realize that whatever  Africa seems not to have, exists in another form that we may have not paid attention to. Sometimes the solution to a complex problem might just be as simple as a + b, who knows...

Just think about it. Whatever is happening in our lives is within our control and God is counting on us to awaken from the slumber and be the "more than conquerer that we are meant to be".

University of the People, “Tuition Free Higher Education at Last”

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” ~ Eric Hoffer

The University of the People is truly Turning the Clock of the Disadvantaged into the Advantaged

Before you start arguing with me, go find out for yourself at http://uopeople.edu/groups/tuition-free-online-degree

I know that this sounds too good to be true! A tuition-free University education in this day and age? Well in a world where the loan sharks are trying to squeeze the last buck out of every Ben and Betty. It is no further from the truth. Believe me, there are Millennial organizations that are giving the hopeless of the world a renewed hope to be counted amongst the greatest of this century. The University of the People (UoPeople) today stands up higher, as the star of hope in the sky of opportunities for someone who thought higher education was beyond reach in this world replete with the majority poor spanning across continents. The UoPeople virtual campus was founded by Shai Reshef in 2009 to help students from all over the world who have been disadvantaged by time and money with an opportunity of a lifetime to gain access to Higher Education. 

I came across the University of the People through a friend with whom I had shared my desire to earn a Degree in Computer Science in 2010. Upon completing my online registration through which I shared my passion for computer science to the university through a short write up that I was required to submit, the university offered me a full scholarship through which I have since earned two degrees, a Bachelor of Science degree and an Associate of Science degree all in Computer Science for which I am so very grateful to the University board and faculty. The university is a fully accredited online school for higher education by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), an authorized accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. 

My experience in the virtual campus of the University of the People has been breathtaking with access to a state of the art virtual computer lab where I had the honor to create computer models such as mobile devices, central processing units, graphical designs and artificial intelligence models from the comfort of my home. One of the drawbacks of modern education is the tendency to teach the student what to think instead of how to think. The UoPeople has implemented a unique learning experience with a methodology embedded with a major component that helps every student acquire skills on how to think and apply knowledge in practical life. Above all the virtual campus offered me the democratic right and flexibility of choosing the number of courses to take and the time to be in class, which helped me to balance my work, family and study time. One of the courses I loved most was Artificial Intelligence

The UoPeople education has inspired me to pursue my childhood passion in cartoon animation and graphics, an agenda that I intend to use to help vulnerable teens in my country to learn as a life skill in this technological world.

Who am I? My name is Bright a Computer Science graduating student of the University of the People; I come from a country in Southern Africa called Zambia with a name derived from the great Zambezi River, which flows through six countries. A country, which hosts one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Mighty Victoria Falls that spreads across the Zambezi River like a butterfly, it’s a breathtaking wonder to see. A Country that boasts of 17 waterfalls, 20 National Parks and 34 Game management areas replete with world life sightings like no other place that includes the Big Five Cats. It is a country with Great Investment opportunities. Your eyes will thank you for visiting Zambia the real Africa.   

Sometimes it’s better to keep your mouth shut and your ears wide open

"There are three Choices in Life: GIVE UP, GIVE IN or GIVE IT YOUR ALL"

Life has taught all of us that even before we were let loose into life to make our own individual decisions, our parents first allowed us to learn the rules of engagement in this game of life either through formal education or traditional value systems. If you asked any great and wise man or woman, they will certainly tell of how they first learned to listen before they became who they are. The beauty about this God-given life is that every human being is a divine creation machine such that when programmed with a life-changing and altering program, it never fails to produce life-changing results. I am sure that everyone who is reading this right now knows that a computer program is simply a set of instructions that tells the computer and all its devices what to do. Moreover, as the science goes, the computer produces information from processing the input data. Therefore, garbage in, garbage out. With that said, check out the output in your life. If you don’t like what you are seeing, don’t try to change the result but endeavor to change the input data in your life. Remember that nobody vomits a pig that they have not eaten. If you are vomiting pig meat, then you ate pig meat it’s that simple

Living a fruitful life is living it with meaning. However, finding that meaning is a lifelong journey and along the way, you will need words of wisdom as input into your divine program that will guide you and your body devices through the right path and actions. Your divine program is hungry for keywords that will fire you up to overcome the struggles that come along with what life has to offer you.  When you look around, you may see life as being unfair because some people become rich while others seek desperate means just to scrape through the day. What’s the difference? It’s simply what they are taking in and doing every day in their lives. Well, If you are blessed enough to be given the gift of a wonderful life, be thankful for it. If in any case fate has dealt you with a cruel hand, do not falter. Life is a mixed bag. One that is filled with many surprises.  

Today may be rough but tomorrow remains a mystery until you do something today to change what lies ahead. Therefore, make each day worth living for the next by making the best use of what you already have, which is yourself. Every day, say something to yourself that inspires you to take positive action without fear of what you need to have in life. Do not use lack of money as the excuse for your inaction, money follows a purpose. What you need as capital is you and all your faculties (thinking etc.). Do not replace thinking with prayer. These are two different things. Ideas only come to those who spend time in thinking

This is the reason God does not produce chairs because He has already given us the ‘TREES’. It’s up to how far your thinking and imagination can take you. What you see is what get. What you worry about will eventually get to you like rich "JOB" of the Christian Bible is reported to have lamented in  Job 3: 25. Therefore, flush out fear and all its accessories from your life's program before they became a reality you live to dread. In its place, fill your imagination with a beautiful full of life's desired goodies. Save money for investments and not just as a precautionary measure in case of sickness or funeral because what you plan for, you will attract into your life. Plan for great and beautiful things and let them fill your life

Choose to acquire wisdom Today

Morning is Wiser than the Evening

"This is Russian proverb speaks deep truths"

Holding on to ones' sacred truths may not be a bad idea at all. But! and I repeat But! truth can be relative to the time, season and place maybe even prevailing consciousness. At one time in the history of technology, we all believed photographic pictures both monochrome and full color needed a darkroom to develop otherwise the negative wouldn't produce the clear picture. Several religious principles were even paralleled to the "dark room" idea to demonstrate how every negative event of one's life can only be developed into a beautiful outcome through the darkroom of life's struggles just like the photo development darkroom of 'Polaroid' era. The digital era pushed the idea of the darkroom out of reality or textbooks and no darkroom is today required to produce a digital picture and all you need is a digital printer. 

Was the darkroom principle of yesterday wrong?  No! it was true and wise at the time but the digital principle of the following morning has become even wiser. Look at today, every simple cell phone is a digital machine that anyone can use do anything cheaply and quickly relating to pictures. In my African culture, stories are told of how designated messengers were sent to broadcast important information by word of mouth from village to village shouting their lungs out to pass the message across while today, WhatsApp can do that even better, wider and faster than fast at a click of a button. 

What is the point? The reason why most people cannot move forward is that they are still stuck to the lie of yesterday when they were told they can't achieve anything in life or that they are not good enough, pretty enough or intelligent enough. Was that information correct? probably Yes, Why? because physically there was no evidence at the time that could prove otherwise. But today is another day where you can make a different choice and make the impossible possible, where you can let your digital version bring anything into existence with least effort if only you can believe that nothing is impossible for you based on the divine design of you being created in the image and likeness of God. Your imagination is your digital platform capable of creating anything which when you believe it and own it in your heart, it becomes yours by divine law. Just how the grass does not struggle to grow..

Even Religion has twisted the truth to keep you in 'Analog mode' to make you believe it takes a lifetime to get results of a better life and that you need a DAC or 'Analog-to-digital converter device' an intermediary in your life in order to get things happening. And just guess who you need to pay for blessings to begin to flow! Well! I leave that to your wild imagination to get the answer. The fact is that Even the great Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ is reported to have said to those seeking healing that according to thy faith so be it. What can I say to make you believe that you are the great-one that today has been waiting for? Just think about it, whether you are male or female and you want children. Where do they come from? do you buy them from a supermarket? No! Just refer to your magnificent biology and say WOW!

You are the great creator containing your ideal world (Your Eden) that you were sent to create on this wonderful earth. You are amazing, who is wonderfully and beautifully made for success by default in this life. Everything you need is inside you and nowhere else. Don't let anyone change this divine default setting. Believe me, it works to trust the divine law not man's law

Bye

Let Go, To GROW

"Don't be Upset When People Reject You. Nice Things are Rejected all the Time by People Who can't AFFORD THEM"

The past years and yesterdays have gone with all the pains, joys, love, hate, triumphs, failures and above all with all the opportunities that should have been. Don't cry and don't be excited about it. Yesterday is gone and Today is here for you. You can't change the past but you can surely change the future

Don't worry about the people who did not like you last year because put simply, they just don't have good taste because you are priceless. As you proceed in this new year, remember that you don't necessarily have to think about what should happen in a month or what should happen in a year but your strategy should be to focus on the 24 hrs in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be every minute that passes. 

The road ahead of you may not look easy, the tasks may look insurmountable but just know that easy roads may not lead anywhere and seemingly difficult roads can lead you to your treasure. People will hurt you so bad that you want to kill yourself. Dark clouds may seem to find pleasure in every corner of your view, but one thing is clear your light is hidden in the darkness, go get it. Your goal is not to be better than anyone else but to be better than you were yesterday. Therefore, you have no competitor. Don't waste time on the "I WISH" talk but jump on the "I WILL" talk because everyone else is wishing for something beautiful sadly while on a rocking chair. Do not focus on trying to change people because some people don't change by default. Therefore, focus your energy on changing yourself in readiness for the next best version of you. remember that formal education may help you make a living but personal education can make you a 'life'. If you are in formal employment make use of the time away from work as your prime time for building your dream life. Just know that you can be retired from formal employment but you will never retire from life.

The fact that you are here today means the divine providence still has some goodies for you to get and be confident that God is on your side. Don't be available for everyone but let them miss you because sometimes when you are always available, people will take your presence for granted thinking you will always stick around. But you are on a mission to greatness and it is urgent for your posterity, therefore, don't allow anyone to delay or eat up your time. YOUR TIME IS YOUR LIFE  

Born to be different

"I Breath in My Courage and Exhale my Fear"

I have learned in life that it is okay to be scared because when one is scared it means that you are about to do something really brave. Life looks like a layer of thick soil above you that cannot be penetrated and it feels impossible to break through. But think of yourself like you are a seed of maize buried in the fertile soil. The maize seed does not waste time to worry about the soil above it because it is aware that the creator engineered within the seed a divine program of breaking through with the least resistance. The seed will germinate and break through the ground out effortlessly. The ground gives way to the germinating maize with pleasure while nourishing the seed with all that is needed to get the job done.

Face the new year with this perspective, this new year is just a thick layer replete with all your blessings, opportunities and everything God designed for you to be the best version of yourself. The version that blesses everything you touch into Gold. Therefore, this year you have come to get everything they said you couldn't have.  No matter the situation, you should never let your emotions overpower your intelligence. This year, just follow your heart and invest in your purpose for living because you should know that people with a purpose, goals, and visions have no time for drama, they invest their energies in creativity and focus on living a positive life. Your failures of yesterday were designed as part of your winning strategy and the lessons learned were your fuel for success. 

In this new year, remember who you are, the child of the King of Kings. You will hear a lot of noises along the way but remember that a Lion does not turn when a dog barks. Do not let the world change your name to VICTIM. You are God's best-kept secret and you are AMAZINGLY different. Do not try to imitate anybody else or you end up a photocopy which has no value. You Are the Original

Be joyful and keep moving forward and give to the new year your best shot. Above all keep learning and never give in to age.

To your Success this Easter!