BE CREATIVE

A case study of the creative beggar.

On one business morning right on the traffic jam approached a beggar asking for alms.
Among her professional colleagues (fellow beggars), she engaged a different approach.
She used warm and entertaining words as her begging strategy.
She kept hailing her clients as she begged for alms.
Everyone can't but listen to this unique approach. She won the attention of the public.
Tell me what this meant to her purse?
Yes, she utilized a different and creative approach to get more than her colleagues.
If you must outperform your competitors, you must dare to be creative.
Everyone has some level of creative ability. Until they are awakened, no difference can be made.

Dare to be creative.

Here are a few tips to activate this inbuilt ability:

* Look at things differently.
* Spend quality time meditating
* Permit all forms of suggestions, foolish ones inclusive.

THE POWER OF BOOKS

Here is my definition of a book.

I will like to define a book as a collection of thoughts, life experiences, meditations and spiritual impressions penned on papers.

Looking at books from this perspective connotes that they carry a lot of weight.

There is a popular saying and it goes thus;

"TO KEEP A THING FROM A BLACK MAN, WRITE IT IN A BOOK BECAUSE

HE WON'T READ IT".

To a large extent, this saying is true not only to a black man but the entire human race.
This is peculiar to the blacks any way.
It had not been the culture of an average black man to read books.
He fails to realise that the power and knowledge he requires to cause a great change resides in books.
The fact that there is great power resident in books can not be overemphasized.
Hear what Daniel in the Holy Book has to say. "And I Daniel understood by books".
For further reading check out Daniel chapter nine in the Holy Bible.
Permit me to go a little biblical here.
Daniel in the above scriptures got to know that the timing for the liberation of the Israelites from slavery had been fulfilled.

Until Daniel reached out for the book of records, he lacked an understanding of this significant timing.
Had it not been for Daniel who came to the knowledge of this via the book of records, the Israelites would have continued in their slavery.
At this juncture, I will like to say that anyone who doesn't imbibe reading culture is an enslaved personality.
It suffices me to say that books are not what many think they are, "mere writings on paper".
They are more than that, very powerful and influential.
Books change lives.
Show me a great man, and I will tell you the impact books have made in his life.
It is important to note that there are books and there are books. Living books and books of doom.
Books are change makers.
The kind of books you read matters and has vital roles to play in your personality.

So, cultivate the habit of reading life changing books.
READ NOW AND ALWAYS FOR THEREIN IS POWER FOR TURN AROUND.

Below is a short list of impact making books I haqve come across.

* Gifted Hands
* Think and Grow Rich
* The enemy called Average
* Making a difference
* The Richest man in Babylon
More to be added soon.....

YOU ARE UNIQUE

Check the palms of your hands.
Call some friends and family members. Take a close look at theirs.
Consider the stripes on your palm.
Now compare.
Is there any person who has the same stripes has yours? May be you should try other one hundred persons.
What is your observation?
Take some time off. Quit this article and carry out this very important task.

WELCOME BACK!

Did you succeed in getting any palm with same stripes as yours?

I perceive you said no. No! It interests me to hear you say no.
What does this tell you friend? What do you feel about your personality?
Do you think you have any duplicate somewhere? May be in America or Africa, Europe or the far East.
Friend, I am glad to announce to you that you have no duplicate.

CONGRATULATIONS!

You are unique and specially framed out. No one else carries the potentials you possess.
You are a unique embodiment. You carry a unique package the world is waiting to appreciate.
No one else can present it better than you can. It is registered and licensed in you.
It is you and you alone who can best show the world the details. The A to Z and add-ons this special package entails.
No! I say no one can unpack it except you.
Look deep down. Take a closer and more observative look and study.
You will discover it. No one else can but you. Look inward friend. It resides just in you and you alone.
If others will not discover their uniqueness it won’t be you. Circumstances not withstanding, you are whom you are.
Until you discover and unleash that package, the world won’t be peaceful.
It is just you who can unveil this secret hidden in you ages past.
So many have tried to uncover it but lack the knowledge of how to go about it. Good enough the knowledge resides just in you and your creator.
Search deep inside and uncover this package. More closer look and you will find it.
You have been dormant for too long friend. It is time to explode and affect the world around you.
Don’t be a waster like some comrades in the grave.
The world is incomplete without your package.
Awake from slumber now. Look indebt. Take a closer look. Dissect the inside and unveil the package.
You are born a celebrity. Unveil and cause universal celebration.
You are whom you are, unique and different!

THE PATH TO SUCCESS

There goes a biblical injunction:

"Narrow is the path that leads to eternal life".

The path to success is in many ways similar to the path to eternity.

It is so narrow and rough. So unkept and frustrating.

A glimpse at the path frustrates and discourages.

It is nothing to write home about. The path is never straight.

There abides alot of pot holes therein. The most rogue of cars can not thread through.

Lots of scorpions and adders abide there, sticking and transferring deadly venom to passers bye.

Only the strong and courageous can scale through this horrible path.

You must engage enough shock absorber to scale through it.

This path is so rough that if caution is not taken, the passer bye will change his or her mind at the peak of turn around.

Only the qualified can thread this path.

Here comes the question, "what are the qualities of those who can thread this path"?

Here are a few of the qualities;

* Unique Vision: Only those with unique vision can pass through this horrible path. It is the vision that keeps you going inspite of all odds. Only the glorious vision sets you on your heels and sees you through the path.

* Perseverance: This is the ability to suffer long.It was this quality that enable Abraham Lincoln, after several failures to keep at it.

* Faith in yourself: It is only those who believe in themselves and in the vision they behold that can scale through this horrible path.

A successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates the favourable conditions.

ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE

Yes! All things are possible.

Take a close look at a paper and a tree.

Do they have anything in common?
No! Nothing in common.

But the tree gave birth to paper. Papers are made from trees.
At a point in time, no one will ever believe or imagine that paper could be made from trees.
To some, before the manufacture of papers, "it is impossible to produce papers out of trees".

Yes! No line of comparism.
No physical resemblance.
No trace of son to father relationship.

Yet, paper is the grandson of the tree.
There is no such word as impossiblity. It though exit in word but not in action.
Avoid that phrase "impossible" like a pleague in your daily endeavour. It is a thief. It hinders men from prominence. It blindfolds and prevent men from seeing beyond the turnel.
The bright brothers where once told " it is impossible" for a piece of metal to float in the air. They shun that phrase and proved to the world that there is no such word as impossiblity when action is in charge.

So, shun that phrase "impossible" and see your life float like a piece of metal in the air.
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Here goes the slogan of a telecommunication company.

"LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL"

Life is indeed beautiful. Very beautiful that no amount of words could define the meaning of life. So rich and full of pleasantries.
Life is wide. Only the visionary can have a glimpse of what life is all about. It is so lovely and wonderful.
So emcompassing and magnificient.
So charming and attractive. So glamous and beyond the sky we see.
Life is indeed beautiful. Bringing pleasant packages daily to those who dare to ask.
Pouring the most expensive of incents on those who have an understanding of what life has in stock.
Life is simple but only the gentle and visionary can understand it.
Life is peaceful but only the meek can feel the peace thereof.
Life is full of bed of roses, only the foresighted and persistent can see it.
Life is full and complete with all kinds of packages available.
The state of your mind determines the kind of package due to you.
Life presents blank cheques to those who dwell therein. Only the open hearted can notice this priviledges that life pose to those who dwell therein.

Go to the mountains and meditate about this wide life.
Go to the tree top and see the priviledges that this life has in stock.

Life has positioned herself to favour all asundry. The weak, the powerful, the small, the big, the foolish, the wise, the dull, the smart, the daring and the coward.

WHERE DO YOU BELONG?

Ask of life and you will get it.

LIFE IS INDEED BEAUTIFUL!

CHANGE THE NORM AND LIVE YOUR LIFE!

"No one has done it that way".
"This is the way it has always been done".
"It must be done this way to avoid failure".

These statements have been in use since the inseption of the human race.
The thought pattern has always been the same. Funny enough, people expect different results.

This is insanity of the highest order. Yes! It is insanity! Doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

It is high time we change our thought pattern if we expect positive and better results.
We must learn to think out of the box to be able to influence the dynamic world of today.

The world is not static, hence only dynamic men can influence this continual changing nature of the world.

"It took a man who thinks out of the box, to invent the mechanical hearing aid".
"It took two brothers who think out of the box, to cause apiece of metal to float in the air".

Only dynamites can influence the world of today.

So, decide to change the norm and live your life!

Power of Noble Intentions

The wake of this week found me reading a new book - The Google Story. It’s a book whose
summary I had read before, but just last weekend in Ife, a young man - Sola Adeyinka decided
to give me a gift of this book (arguably my best gift of that week). The first night I
openned the book to read, I was awake till 3am! It’s a book I recommend for anybody who is
contemplating going into business. Don’t practice everything you see there, but it sure
lifts the lid off conventional thinking.
The first fact I love about the google story was the fact that their drive was targeted
towards creating a solution, and not about the money they could make from it. They were
passionate about making information available to research students and people generally who
needed information at their finger tips. A drive to do this saw them developing the best
search engine in the world, with capability not only to search for the information you need,
but in the order of priority.
It looked like a mystery to me, but you won’t believe that 2yrs into the running of that
business they still had not been able to connect it with a way to make money. It’s so
interesting to note that 80% of the people reading this article cannot still fathom even
today, how google makes its money. All google had when the started was a noble intention and
the possibility that perhaps they could liscence the product to other companies who would
make use of the strength of the search engine for their own businesses.
Like fate always has it, in stories that get written The google guys (Brin and Page), 25yr
old, PHD drop outs at the start of the company were able to get a way around making money
with google. The company moved from its initial IPO in August 19, 2004 of shares at $85 per
share to selling at $300 in the same year. Google has grown to become a company worth over
$80Billion!
It sounds like a puzzle to me but can you imagine that google got it’s first investment of
$100,000 without having registered the company? They got venture capital investment worth
$25 million when the seasoned venture capitalists couldn’t fathom how they would make
profit? It beats me, but drives home one point. Noble intentions are powerful! The power of
noble intentions backed by passionate conviction by the founders of the company has driven a
small young company in silicon valley up and up when all else went down. Their corporate
mantra “Do no evil” cements their position.
Who sets your limits, who says your ideas cannot fly? Have it in mind to solve a real human
problem and you are well on your way to stardom! If you have what the world needs, go and
live in the wilderness, the world will build a path to your house! We’ll all be remembered
for two things, the problems we created, or the ones we solved.
Extracts from deoluakinyemi.com