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SUCCESS IS ACCOMPANIED BY CLARITY  Happy new month cheers to making it to the 8th month of the year. I know it wasn't easy but we are glad you made it and we made it too. May the blessings of God abide with us for the rest of the year and his protection remain. We go this month in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. "Clarity precedes success ” ~ Robin Sharma Imagine entering a pitch-black space that you are unfamiliar with without any lighting. Have you yet to imagine it? How did you see it? I'll hazard a guess and say that you ran into several objects. Even your feet were just stabbed by a sharp object. So, that's how you approach a goal without clarity, I suppose.  What is clarity? The definition of clarity is the quality of being clear. A situation in which you are clear-headed, unaffected by the views of others or the barriers that stand in your way. People frequently advise you to be tenacious, courageous, persistent and focused becau...

Photo credit: Studio Dekorasyon NATURE AND YOUR HEALTH   Our very being, essence ,health and happiness depends on mother earth. — David Suzuki      Photo credit: Johann Siemens    Exploration and lifestyle changes have diminished possibilities for human contact with nature in many societies.  Over time, people want to:: • Stream events on their TV or phone from their homes •Take the bus even if they're heading to a very close location with respect to their present location. •Get a quick fix to their physical and mental illnesses.   All these will prevent humans from connecting with the natural elements of nature: trees,soil,animals,air, flowers,rocks,streams and oceans. Here are the ways you can get connected to nature::       •Ditch virtual, love physical:: when you're always leaving the comfort of your home to attend seminars,see live events, programs, It gives you the opportunity ...

PUT YOUR WORDS INTO ACTION It is easier said than done. Look at you: loaded with a lot of promises to yourself. You had goals at the beginning of the month. You swore your commitment to certain growth measures. You pledged your dedication to read books this month. Those courses were outlined for you to feast on them. You boasted against those addictions. cc. procrastination. laziness. oversleeping. phone & social media addictions. prayerlessness. The opportunity showed up. The alarm rang. You downloaded books. Did you even read a sentence? It's almost the end of the month, and you're still there. --- If this is you, it won't be a long story if you admit you've been unproductive. It's just a few days to do something worthwhile for your life and destiny. Else you'll join the bandwagon of the 'how I wish' gang. Pick up a valuable book and read. Minimize your time off social media. Run some drills. Stretch. Be the transformation your society ...

HOW YOUR ENVIRONMENT CAN SHAPE YOUR MINDSET While we have established that your environment is a critical factor in shaping your mindset and by extension, determining the course of your life, it is important to continue by exposing you to the things that make you stand out from your environment. Frankly speaking, your society is riddled with lust and craving for many things - Money and Fame predominantly. And these things take a huge toll on the average youth. Consequently, a large number of youths love and seek them either legitimately or illegitimately, diligently or not. While these things are not bad, they are too loud enough to prevent you from examining WHAT MATTERS to your life and your destiny. Not just that, you lose the ability to see the things that produce wealth and prosperity and multiply them abundantly. It also gets your mind fixated on material and natural things, and distracts you from seeing to the prosperity of your soul! Now, there is a life principle t...

Happy new month. Enjoy the bliss of July. We love you all and here is another vitamin for the week....... It takes a lot of hard work to attain that highest high called success. Sometimes you're going to get frustrated, sometimes you're going to be depressed, at some points even you'd think you're already making a head way only to find out that you're yet to get to your final destination and the light you've seen is just a firefly and not the end of the tunnel. But, recall that 'when the going gets tough, only the tough can get going' . Be tough enough to stand up and shake the dust from your bottom. According to the words of Calvin Coolidge, " Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence..... The slogan 'Press on' has  solved and always will solve the problems of the human race" . You just continue to be good and kind to fellow travelers you meet on the way. I know it's tough to do. You have a lot on your plat...

A MAN-MONSTER          I left church around 3am after vigil on that Friday. Though, I would be going for a screening by 7:30am in the morning, that was not the reason for leaving at that time.  I left because it was my style.      Before and after then, our pastor had always implored us not to leave the church immediately after the vigil. It was as though my ears were deaf to his appeals. Of course, that was not the first time I would be leaving the church around 3am. My first experience proffered me huge confidence that kept me entangled to the style. I walked in the pace of a running athlete that day but was not even challenged by anyone.      So, on that Friday too, I bounced out of the church like a maggot sprawling out of an overripe Agbalumo . I took my usual route; a street named after one rich Alhaji . The man had gifted the street sufficient streetlights earlier that year, so everywhere ...

*Unveil 21.* ✨ Leadership: Consider it this weekend. As a young person, prioritize *Self-Commitment*. ✨ What do you say about Leadership? It is work. It is for the bold. It is for the strong. It is for only the first-borns in the family. It is for the well-dressed. The liberal. The tall ones. The frowny-faced ones. The hefty ones. The thick-voiced ones. The ones with a suitcase of academic certificates. Then there's you: none of the above. some of the above. all of the above. but you still are not a leader. Why? Fear. Ignorance. Lack of self-belief. Irresponsibility, probably. Look, while leadership by merit may be involved, the first port of leadership is to battle those above-mentioned four. Fear is only for the faint-hearted. The righteous are as bold and audacious as a lion. Fear of responsibility & accountability and the burdens of leadership is the most limiting experience a man can ever give himself. Yes. Give himself. Now, the best way to be responsible is t...