Thursday, 1 September 2016
MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
TRUE SUCCESS
THE SECRET OF LIVING
I recently came across a post on a friend's Whatsapp group-chat page, the author of which is unknown even to my friend - & a whole lot of others - (my friend saw it on the fly and also shared it) ........but the beauty of the post is beyond words. Acknowledgement therefore goes to the "Unknown Author" of that section of this post, because it was through what he wrote i was able to develop the write-up you see now.
Below is the write-up copied off the Whatsapp page of Ayomideoluwa Odunaiya .......some texts have also been personally added to the copied piece.
""In 1892 at Stanford University, an 18-year-old student was struggling to pay his fees. He was an orphan, and not knowing where to turn for money, he came up with a bright idea. He and a friend decided to host a musical concert on campus to raise money for their education.
They reached out to the great pianist, Ignacy J. Paderewski. His manager demanded a guaranteed fee of $2000 for the piano recital. A deal was steno uck and the boys began to work to make the concert a success.
The big day arrived. But unfortunately, they had not managed to sell enough tickets. The total collection was only $1600. Disappointed, they went to Paderewski and explained their plight. They gave him the entire $1600, plus a cheque for the balance $400. They promised to honour the cheque as soon as possible.
“No,” said Paderewski. “This is not acceptable.” He tore up the cheque, returned the $1600 and told the two boys: “Here’s the $1600. Please deduct whatever expenses you have incurred. Keep the money you need for your fees. And just give me whatever is left”. The boys were surprised, and thanked him profusely.
It was a small act of kindness. But it clearly marked out Paderewski as a great human being.
Why should he help two people he did not even know? We all come across situations like these in our lives. And most of us only think “If I help them, what would happen to me?” The truly great people think, “If I don’t help them, what will happen to them?” They don’t do it expecting something in return. They do it because they feel it’s the right thing to do.
Paderewski later went on to become the Prime Minister of Poland. He was a great leader, but unfortunately when the World War began, Poland was ravaged. There were more than 1.5 million people starving in his country, and no money to feed them. Paderewski did not know where to turn for help. He reached out to the US Food and Relief Administration for help.
He heard there was a man called Herbert Hoover — the same man who later went on to become the US President. Hoover agreed to help and quickly shipped tons of food grains to feed the starving Polish people.
A calamity was averted. Paderewski was relieved.
He decided to go across to meet Hoover and personally thank him. When Paderewski began to thank Hoover for his noble gesture, Hoover quickly interjected and said, “You shouldn’t be thanking me Mr. Prime Minister. You may not remember this, but several years ago, you helped two young students go through college. I was one of them.”
The world is a wonderful place. What goes around comes around. Please help others to the best of your ability. In the long run you may be helping yourself. God never forgets anyone who sows a good seed in other people, never.
Nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don't drink their own water. Trees don't eat their own fruit. Sun doesn't give heat for itself. Flowers don't spread fragrance for themselves. Living for others is the rule of nature. And therein lies the Secret of Living.""
Many try to define success and greatness in terms of winning and lording over others. They see the world in the form of a pyramid with the ones on the bottom having no other purpose in life but to serve those at the top; such people therefore make getting to the top of the pyramid their life pursuit ....all because of the promise of greatness and lording authority they see there. To these people, winning over others is everything.
But this thinking is wrong. Winning ain't everything. Fulfilling one's true worth through generous deeds is the key .....and by achieving this, we become bigger than ourselves, and find true happiness and greater meaning in life. This, I'm quite sure, must be why Albert Einstein said "I believe in one thing - that only a life lived for others is a life worth living".
Even to Bruce Lee, "Real living is living for others". But we definitely need to understand that living for others is not (and never will be) the same as living your life based on the opinions of others. When you live your life based on the opinions of others, what happens is that your every decision making is based on pleasing others, or seeking approval, or on how well the steps you take compare to others (friends, family, public figures etc.), or on what people will think of you, or what they consider to be good and bad for your image. But when you live for others, you use something you already possess (be it knowledge, time, money, provision, skills/ideas, insights and/or concepts, compassion, kindness, selfless service, uncommon faith, truthfulness etc.) to get involved in people's lives and impact them positively, and to meet the needs of those that are less privileged than you are.
In order to help others, one needs to be in a solid position to give a helping hand. The only way to give a lot is to have plenty as well; but please note that this does not apply only to material things, but basically every quality and virtues in existence. So if your living for others is done through acts of compassion, then it should be carried out with the upmost care and best possible way.
Your motivation to give, serve, help, and love others must flow/come from your inmost being. You must give and serve for the sake of the other person, without seeking any benefit, or praise, or approval for yourself; and so doing, you live fulfilled.
Thank you.
Below is the write-up copied off the Whatsapp page of Ayomideoluwa Odunaiya .......some texts have also been personally added to the copied piece.
""In 1892 at Stanford University, an 18-year-old student was struggling to pay his fees. He was an orphan, and not knowing where to turn for money, he came up with a bright idea. He and a friend decided to host a musical concert on campus to raise money for their education.
They reached out to the great pianist, Ignacy J. Paderewski. His manager demanded a guaranteed fee of $2000 for the piano recital. A deal was steno uck and the boys began to work to make the concert a success.
The big day arrived. But unfortunately, they had not managed to sell enough tickets. The total collection was only $1600. Disappointed, they went to Paderewski and explained their plight. They gave him the entire $1600, plus a cheque for the balance $400. They promised to honour the cheque as soon as possible.
“No,” said Paderewski. “This is not acceptable.” He tore up the cheque, returned the $1600 and told the two boys: “Here’s the $1600. Please deduct whatever expenses you have incurred. Keep the money you need for your fees. And just give me whatever is left”. The boys were surprised, and thanked him profusely.
It was a small act of kindness. But it clearly marked out Paderewski as a great human being.
Why should he help two people he did not even know? We all come across situations like these in our lives. And most of us only think “If I help them, what would happen to me?” The truly great people think, “If I don’t help them, what will happen to them?” They don’t do it expecting something in return. They do it because they feel it’s the right thing to do.
Paderewski later went on to become the Prime Minister of Poland. He was a great leader, but unfortunately when the World War began, Poland was ravaged. There were more than 1.5 million people starving in his country, and no money to feed them. Paderewski did not know where to turn for help. He reached out to the US Food and Relief Administration for help.
He heard there was a man called Herbert Hoover — the same man who later went on to become the US President. Hoover agreed to help and quickly shipped tons of food grains to feed the starving Polish people.
A calamity was averted. Paderewski was relieved.
He decided to go across to meet Hoover and personally thank him. When Paderewski began to thank Hoover for his noble gesture, Hoover quickly interjected and said, “You shouldn’t be thanking me Mr. Prime Minister. You may not remember this, but several years ago, you helped two young students go through college. I was one of them.”
The world is a wonderful place. What goes around comes around. Please help others to the best of your ability. In the long run you may be helping yourself. God never forgets anyone who sows a good seed in other people, never.
Nothing in nature lives for itself. Rivers don't drink their own water. Trees don't eat their own fruit. Sun doesn't give heat for itself. Flowers don't spread fragrance for themselves. Living for others is the rule of nature. And therein lies the Secret of Living.""
Many try to define success and greatness in terms of winning and lording over others. They see the world in the form of a pyramid with the ones on the bottom having no other purpose in life but to serve those at the top; such people therefore make getting to the top of the pyramid their life pursuit ....all because of the promise of greatness and lording authority they see there. To these people, winning over others is everything.
But this thinking is wrong. Winning ain't everything. Fulfilling one's true worth through generous deeds is the key .....and by achieving this, we become bigger than ourselves, and find true happiness and greater meaning in life. This, I'm quite sure, must be why Albert Einstein said "I believe in one thing - that only a life lived for others is a life worth living".
Even to Bruce Lee, "Real living is living for others". But we definitely need to understand that living for others is not (and never will be) the same as living your life based on the opinions of others. When you live your life based on the opinions of others, what happens is that your every decision making is based on pleasing others, or seeking approval, or on how well the steps you take compare to others (friends, family, public figures etc.), or on what people will think of you, or what they consider to be good and bad for your image. But when you live for others, you use something you already possess (be it knowledge, time, money, provision, skills/ideas, insights and/or concepts, compassion, kindness, selfless service, uncommon faith, truthfulness etc.) to get involved in people's lives and impact them positively, and to meet the needs of those that are less privileged than you are.
In order to help others, one needs to be in a solid position to give a helping hand. The only way to give a lot is to have plenty as well; but please note that this does not apply only to material things, but basically every quality and virtues in existence. So if your living for others is done through acts of compassion, then it should be carried out with the upmost care and best possible way.
Your motivation to give, serve, help, and love others must flow/come from your inmost being. You must give and serve for the sake of the other person, without seeking any benefit, or praise, or approval for yourself; and so doing, you live fulfilled.
Thank you.
GIVING WHILE LIVING
Would you give all your money away? If so, where? This is the extraordinary story of Chuck Feeney, who finally achieves his 34 year mission of going from $8 billion to broke this year.
2016 is the year his Foundation gives the last of his money away. In the process, he has become the hero of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who said “Chuck has set an example not only for people of my age but also younger generations. He will be an example 100 years from now or 200 years from now.”
“He is my hero. He is Bill Gates’ hero. He should be everybody’s hero.”
Here’s Chuck’s 3 steps to making, and giving away $8 billion.
START BY DECIDING TO GIVE IT AWAY BEFORE YOU MAKE IT
Chuck was born into a poor, Irish family during the Great Depression in 1931. He shovelled snow and sold Christmas cards door-to-door as a kid to make money to take home. While young and in poverty, he read Andrew Carnegie’s classic essay, “The Gospel of Wealth”.
Andrew Carnegie’s essay was a revolutionary call for those who create wealth to live modestly, and to give all their excess wealth to support others while still alive: “Giving while living.”
The words touched him so deeply, Chuck decided at that moment that he would dedicate his life to create wealth to give away, saying “I want the last cheque I write to bounce.”
THEN TRAVEL THE WORLD
As a teenager, Chuck joined the US airforce during the Korean War. He got to see first hand the difficulty servicemen had in getting the products they wanted from home. So he set up a business to import and sell them the goods they wanted. He found a way to sell them without duty, by setting up stores on the air-side of airports and his company, Duty Free Shoppers took off.
Ever bought anything from a DFS shop at an airport? That’s Chuck’s company.
But from the early days, Chuck had already set up his company so that all the proceeds went into his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, so the money the company made could be given away each year. The money has gone into causes around the world in health, education and human rights.
When Chuck sold DFS in 1996, his Foundation took all the money from the sale, and committed to spend everything within 20 years - by 2016. By the time it gives the last of his money away, it will have given away $8 billion.
AND CHUCK IT ALL THE WAY
What about Chuck? Surely he has kept enough aside to live in luxury? Today, at 85 years old, Chuck does not own a home or a car. He still famously wears a watch he bought for $15, and he carries his papers in a plastic bag.
Chuck says “I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a bike?’"
Instead of measuring his success by his level of money in the bank, he measures it by his level of happiness: “People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.”
2016 marks the end of Chuck’s giving, but just the beginning of his legacy. His story inspired Bill Gates to also give all his money away, and to launch the Giving Pledge, which now has 142 of the World’s Billionaires pledging to give the majority of their wealth away while alive - including Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Warren Buffett and many more.
Bill Gates credits Chuck for the new age of giving, saying “Chuck Feeney is a remarkable role model, and the ultimate example of giving while living.”
As you begin another week, how would things change if you were to know everything you make will be given away to a cause far bigger than yourself?
Where would you contribute the money you are yet to make?
How would it change your sense of purpose and determination?
Make that decision now so you can focus at money flowing through you, not to you.
“There’s a limit to what you can get. There’s no limit to what you can give.”
Click here to view the Original Writeup
2016 is the year his Foundation gives the last of his money away. In the process, he has become the hero of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, who said “Chuck has set an example not only for people of my age but also younger generations. He will be an example 100 years from now or 200 years from now.”
“He is my hero. He is Bill Gates’ hero. He should be everybody’s hero.”
Here’s Chuck’s 3 steps to making, and giving away $8 billion.
START BY DECIDING TO GIVE IT AWAY BEFORE YOU MAKE IT
Chuck was born into a poor, Irish family during the Great Depression in 1931. He shovelled snow and sold Christmas cards door-to-door as a kid to make money to take home. While young and in poverty, he read Andrew Carnegie’s classic essay, “The Gospel of Wealth”.
Andrew Carnegie’s essay was a revolutionary call for those who create wealth to live modestly, and to give all their excess wealth to support others while still alive: “Giving while living.”
The words touched him so deeply, Chuck decided at that moment that he would dedicate his life to create wealth to give away, saying “I want the last cheque I write to bounce.”
THEN TRAVEL THE WORLD
As a teenager, Chuck joined the US airforce during the Korean War. He got to see first hand the difficulty servicemen had in getting the products they wanted from home. So he set up a business to import and sell them the goods they wanted. He found a way to sell them without duty, by setting up stores on the air-side of airports and his company, Duty Free Shoppers took off.
Ever bought anything from a DFS shop at an airport? That’s Chuck’s company.
But from the early days, Chuck had already set up his company so that all the proceeds went into his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, so the money the company made could be given away each year. The money has gone into causes around the world in health, education and human rights.
When Chuck sold DFS in 1996, his Foundation took all the money from the sale, and committed to spend everything within 20 years - by 2016. By the time it gives the last of his money away, it will have given away $8 billion.
AND CHUCK IT ALL THE WAY
What about Chuck? Surely he has kept enough aside to live in luxury? Today, at 85 years old, Chuck does not own a home or a car. He still famously wears a watch he bought for $15, and he carries his papers in a plastic bag.
Chuck says “I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a bike?’"
Instead of measuring his success by his level of money in the bank, he measures it by his level of happiness: “People used to ask me how I got my jollies, and I guess I'm happy when what I'm doing is helping people and unhappy when what I'm doing isn't helping people.”
2016 marks the end of Chuck’s giving, but just the beginning of his legacy. His story inspired Bill Gates to also give all his money away, and to launch the Giving Pledge, which now has 142 of the World’s Billionaires pledging to give the majority of their wealth away while alive - including Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Warren Buffett and many more.
Bill Gates credits Chuck for the new age of giving, saying “Chuck Feeney is a remarkable role model, and the ultimate example of giving while living.”
As you begin another week, how would things change if you were to know everything you make will be given away to a cause far bigger than yourself?
Where would you contribute the money you are yet to make?
How would it change your sense of purpose and determination?
Make that decision now so you can focus at money flowing through you, not to you.
“There’s a limit to what you can get. There’s no limit to what you can give.”
Click here to view the Original Writeup
Friday, 17 June 2016
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SCHOOL KILLS ENTREPRENEURS; YES OR NO?
It is not an easy task to spend almost 21 years of one’s life in school to obtain a first degree certificate.
There is no one that will tell you a palatable story about the road down it. Should one talk about the various kinds of unnecessary stress the lecturers in Universities subject one to, or shortage of finance one is bound to face, maybe the examinations anxiety, perhaps the sleepless nights one must necessarily have to satisfy the gods of education? And all other various form of hustling to ensure you come out with flying colors.
‘Thank God, finally, I am now a graduate!’
But to what end?
Are you sure you were well equipped with necessary tools to face the daunting challenges ahead of you in the labor market? Is it even worth it to spend 21 (or more) good years in school to learn how you can get employed instead of how you can be a boss on your own and employ people? Is that what is really required in the labor market? The reality is if all of us are in for seeking jobs as we are being taught who will create jobs? We are being thought in school not to embrace risk at all but to run away from it.
One is not surprised when one sees an engineer being a chief accountant. Why is that so? The answer is simply because he was not taught how he can be creative in his own field, and there is no job available for him as an engineer (because he was only taught how to dream to be employed as an engineer not the other way) and man must “sha” eat, so, he has to look elsewhere.
Over the last few years or so, the number of start-up companies has been on the increase significantly so as the number of wind-up companies. Day in day out, we are having more and more entrepreneurs simply because there is no job – even the so called governments are not up to the task.
Actually, it is a good thing for the economy to have entrepreneurs because this will surely enhance the quick development of such economy. But it is a ‘disma pisma’ that only 10% of these so called entrepreneurs have what it takes to take risk. Only few have the technical know-how of running a business successfully. Fund apart, most of our entrepreneurs are not creative to bring about a resounding and enticing business idea that can wow the public –the ones that have cannot execute them successfully.
But why is this?
I think you should know the answer by now –your forsaken educational system.
You still don’t believe me?
Then continue reading.
HOW THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IS KILLING OUR GENIUSES
It is when I grew up, or perhaps, when I finished university that I knew that the education ought to be abhorred. You are asking, WHY?It's simply because it is not what I was taught in school that I am facing right now –two different things:
- I was not taught that there is no job –the only thing I was being told was to graduate with flying colors then jobs will be looking for me. When I got outside now, reverse is the case. I noticed that most people that we see as successful outside are not even in pursuit of what they were taught in school, but rather, what they themselves learnt in the hard way. I have an uncle who has graduated, for more than 5 years, with a first class certificate, but still no job. It is then that I realized that the best entrepreneurs we have in the world are not made in school. Do you agree with me? The likes of Dangote, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg etc. learn entrepreneurship the hard way, outside the four walls of the school. Bill Gates can proudly say, “I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.”
2. The education system doesn’t teach you creativity, it does not bring out the creativity in you, and it does not teach you how to take risk –was not taught in school that risk is part of life!
Since we were kids, we were sent to prison (I mean school) without the understanding that we need to make some sacrifices in terms of risks in order to get rewards. We were not learning that failure is a part of life but instead we were taught to be afraid of mistakes and the consequences they could bring.
The few creative thinking students among us were less motivated which resulted in them being less talkative, less humorous, and less expressive than they used to be. We were not taught to think outside the box anymore, but were taught that failure was wrong.
On the other side of the coin, failure is something that we should be prepared for and not afraid of. We should be taught that mistakes are just opportunities to learn new ways of doing things so it will be right the next time. We will never think of taking new chances because they have made us see mistake as crime.
HOW SCHOOL GENERATES UNEMPLOYMENT
School, as it ought to be, should solve the problem of unemployment. But it is saddening that school that we rely on is even the basis of unemployment.Are you asking me how?
Okay then, let us take Africa as a case study.
Two years after every African child is born (about 20 million each, year in year out), they will be enrolled to prison (that is what a friend of mine called school). After some years of learning, these children will be able to read and write correctly, which is good.
Some few years after this stage, they will start to brainwash them little by little.
Which kind of brainwash?
They always and only tell them that they should do well in their academic activities in order for them to secure good job in the future. Since then, the children will be dreaming of working in banks, working in technology companies, being lawyers, being employed in big hospitals, working in oil companies etc. Their thinking will only be in one direction – they never think on how they can make the economy better by building their own companies, by owning refineries, building their own banks, hospitals, by having a gigantic telecommunication company, no they never did simply because they were not taught that way.
In a country like Nigeria, over 200,000 graduates are being produced yearly. And I am certain, virtually all of them have been taught how to be a job seeker, not how to create jobs (me inclusive). Now tell, who will employ all these people?
Did I hear someone say GOVERNMENT?
Or are you saying it is high time they employed themselves?
You mean being self- employed?
Don’t be a joker, someone that has been taught in only one way, i.e. to seek for job, you are now telling him or her to be self-employed, you must be wicked.
Let us take a look at these scenarios.
When a bird gives birth, it teaches its little baby how to fly by putting it on its back till it learns it well. Our home fowl on the other hand, teaches its little chick how to walk around and eat only. These two are the same in every sense (at least both have feathers) just that one can fly but the other can’t, why? This is because it was not taught how to.
Therefore, a chick that is not taught how to fly while it was small is now expected to fly when it is grown up. That is ‘super impossible’
That is how hard it is for our graduates to start running their own businesses, set of people that have been taught how to run away from risk you are now telling them now to embrace it –what an irony!
Graduates were not taught how to think and create values, market them and turn these values into money. They have been trained all their whole lives to think and work in a ready-made business system. Becoming self-employed requires a lot of creativity. You must be able to think, create and sell. Unfortunately, these so called graduates have spent over 21 years in prison (sorry, school) where creativity was never paid attention to.
What about entrepreneurship programs in school? Don’t even think that can save our graduates from this mess, they can bear me witness. School entrepreneurial program is an utter sham. Ask me why?
Listen, I will tell you. Most of your lecturers that are teaching you entrepreneurship are just like you –they were not taught how to fly and they want to fly. So mostly what they teach is full of theories that they have never put to test themselves. These lectures were written by people who do not know anything about business and being taught by same set of people.
Besides, teaching you entrepreneurship in school is just to fulfill all righteousness of the syllabus; their end game is not to make you entrepreneurs.
On the part of the government providing jobs for job seekers, it will be a dumb notion for you to still be looking forward to that.
You ask me why again?
I will always entertain your questions.
Before governments can employ you, they will have to create up-and-running-profitable businesses. These will enable them to employ hundreds of thousands of job seekers out there. Do they now have any?
The answer is NO.
Are you saying they should build up companies then?
I know your answer will be YES but I am telling you pointblank, they cannot.
Let me say it again, government cannot run profitable businesses to employ you.
Having capital to finance business does not automatically translate to being able to run it successfully, they are two different things.
Government has resources like finance to run business, yes agreed, but that is all they have. Governments are being run by politicians who don’t know anything about business. Most of them are lawyers, engineers, soldier even doctors.
Government cannot create businesses and effectively run and manage them. The few government companies that we have are only surviving because they monopolize their markets.
Dangote as an entity, if you put him up with the government that both of them should establish same kind businesses, you give Dangote $30,000 then government $100,000. Believe me, Dangote will achieve, with his $30,000, double of what government will achieve with $100,000.
Are you following me?
If yes, now,
WHAT IS THE WAY FORWARD?
In this long essay, I have been able to pin-point the reason why there is massive unemployment all around, which the youths that we hope will save us have not been taught the right way to do –the school system has not been building them to face the challenges ahead but rather telling them to dodge them. Also, our almighty governments that we rely upon cannot even save us –they fail to build successful businesses that will create jobs, and are also teaching us entrepreneurship in ways they don’t know (all because the people that are running it don’t know/have what it takes to be entrepreneurial).What is now the way forward, as asked ealier?
Wherever you spot problem, you will also find solution lying there. Since we identified that the basis of our problem is school then we kill school, I mean this present one, without hesitation.
After this is done, we will now opt for a new-dawn educational system –the educational system that will build students for tomorrow; teach and train them not to be a job seeker but rather a job creator, sparkle creativity in every individual in schools, teach them to be self-dependent and not government-dependent, encourage them to always read great business books and think creatively
If this idea is embraced wholeheartedly and implemented, we will have real creative thinkers in the labor market, we will have great innovators and business managers and lastly, unemployment will be a thing of the past.
Regards to: QUADRI A. ADEWUYI, for NB.I. ACADEMY; for the above insight.👆
So, one will ask, what is the true way forward and what do you (I) propose?
I’ll tell you this; you need to become a true Entrepreneur.
Someone will say:
- Being an entrepreneur is hard!
- I have a big dream which comes with a big budget, how do I raise CAPITAL
That is the question I’ve been waiting for; you see there’s no scarcity of money, only scarcity of ideas
Well, i'll tell you what my mentor (Mr. David Temitayo Olowe) once told me.
He said, “the money you need to SUCCEED is not in your bank balance, salary or that cash gift you get, the money you need to be successfully WEALTHY is in the pockets of people, you just need to find a way to get it out of their pockets LEGITIMATELY”.
For you to be able to do this correctly, you need to grow in your thoughts and be able to create meaningful content. If you don’t have content, seek out what is lacking in your immediate environment and proffer meaningful solution to it.
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Saturday, 11 June 2016
HUSBAND SCARCITY
This may not be the best time for me to write on this because of misinterpretations, but I can no longer resist the push. "Husband Scarcity" has become one of the challenges faced by many young girls today. If you go to prayer houses, majority of the intentions are prayer for a life partner. And this calls for concern. Casting our minds back to the time of our mothers and grandmothers, was there really much of a "Husband Scarcity" problem? Or, maybe there were more men than women then, or there was an adequate corresponding numbers of both genders. I don't think so. Maybe then, the women had values and were prepared to build a home and not park into a built home. Then, once a young man comes of age and can at least feed himself and his wife, he goes out in search of a wife and the woman really appreciates him and helps him to build a future. What am I really trying to say? We created what we now see as "Husband Scarcity" for ourselves. Today, the reverse is the case. Ask an average girl to define her dream husband; you get things like "he has to be tall, handsome, fair, and rich, own a house at least, and be presentable" and then she adds "God fearing" in order not to sound so worldly. Then, check the number of girls around you and the number of men that meet that standard, and you will see the problem. You hear girls say, "I cannot suffer in my father's house and then go and start suffering with a man." What a wonderful dream! What if from the beginning, you have everything you want and there is no suffering, and later in the marriage, the table turns around, then comes suffering? Will you run away? No one prays for suffering, but it is good to start small and end big, than start big and end small. The problem is that the description majority of girls give of their ideal man is virtually the same. When 50 girls want the same kind of man and the man that fits what they want is just 1 man, and the man can only pick one. Then, what becomes of 49 others? They simply start lamenting of "Husband Scarcity". Another irony of our time is that it is hard, due to the face of our economy to find a man who is of marriage age who possesses all those things these ladies want, legally (except those involved in Internet fraud); even the number of those in Internet fraud is not enough to match all those searching for already made husbands. If you look around, majority of the ladies of substance, of good value and virtue, who are ready to build a home with a man who has prospects, are married and not complaining of husband scarcity. The easiest way to find a husband now, is to change your view of who a husband is. A husband is that man God made and then saw that it may be hard for him to really actualize his purpose for making him, without a help mate and then made the woman and gave to him, and he felt complete and fulfilled MARRIAGE IS NOT A POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAM. It is a mission of building the family of God here on earth. For those who see marriage as a way out of poverty, it is a way into bondage. Women are HOME BUILDERS, not HOME WARMERS... DON'T CONFUSE A MAN'S PATH WITH HIS DESTINY. Where he is today, may only be a route to where God has destined him to be tomorrow. Another truth is that YOU MAY BE THE ONLY FAST MEANS TO THAT HIS DESTINATION. Join in alleviating "husband scarcity". PICK UP THE RIGHT VALUES. I am not saying that you should pick anyone that comes your way and talks of marriage, not all men are husband materials. What I am saying is that you should stop setting your standard on material acquisitions or physical appearances. Look beyond the physical. WHAT MAKES A MAN WHO HE IS, IS NOT WHAT HE OWNS OR HOW HE LOOKS, IT IS WHAT HE IS MADE UP OF. And that which he is made of is, most times, not seen with the physical eyes, only its effects can be seen. Marriage is a permanent thing. Whatever is seen is temporal and that which is not seen is permanent.
The above writeup (HUSBAND SCARCITY), in its entirety, is credited to Maryam Habu Shinga.
The above writeup (HUSBAND SCARCITY), in its entirety, is credited to Maryam Habu Shinga.
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Monday, 23 May 2016
PLAY TIME
THREE LITTLE BOYS were concerned because they couldn't get anyone to play with them
They decided it was because they had not been baptized and didn't go to Sunday school
So they went to the nearest church. But, only the janitor was there.
One little boy said, "We need to be baptized because no one will come out and play with us.
Will you baptize us?"
Sure," said the janitor.
He took them into the bathroom and dunked their little heads in the toilet bowl, one at a time.
Then he said, "You are now baptized!"
When they got outside, one of them asked, "'What religion do you think we are?"
The oldest one said, "We're not KATHLICK, because they pour the water on you."
"We're not BABTIS, because they dunk all of you in the water."
"We're not METHDISS, because they just sprinkle water on you."
The littlest one said, "Didn't you smell that water?"
They all joined in asking, 'Yeah! What do you think that means?'
"I think it means we're PISSKOPAILIANS!"
They decided it was because they had not been baptized and didn't go to Sunday school
So they went to the nearest church. But, only the janitor was there.
One little boy said, "We need to be baptized because no one will come out and play with us.
Will you baptize us?"
Sure," said the janitor.
He took them into the bathroom and dunked their little heads in the toilet bowl, one at a time.
Then he said, "You are now baptized!"
When they got outside, one of them asked, "'What religion do you think we are?"
The oldest one said, "We're not KATHLICK, because they pour the water on you."
"We're not BABTIS, because they dunk all of you in the water."
"We're not METHDISS, because they just sprinkle water on you."
The littlest one said, "Didn't you smell that water?"
They all joined in asking, 'Yeah! What do you think that means?'
"I think it means we're PISSKOPAILIANS!"
Thursday, 19 May 2016
CREDIBILITY FOR THIS 21st CENTURY BUSINESS MODEL
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If you ask most people, what they’ll like in their ideal Job, Career or Business, the following highlight will be constituted in their list:
People usually start naming things they don’t want:
- No boss
- No commute
- No alarm clock
- No employees
- No politics
- No compromises
- No discrimination
- No educational requirement
And then, as people start to use their imaginations in a more positive way, they start to visualize some positive attributes:
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- Great product or service
- Unlimited income
- Residual income
- Enjoy the people you work with
- Time freedom
- Something meaningful
- Personal growth
- Lots of perks
- International connection & travels
- Contribution to worthy causes
- Low risk
- Low start-up costs
- Economy-proof
- Tax benefits
- Fun!
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