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Merry Christmas 🎄

On whether church instrumentalists should be paid or not, I have held my thoughts private until now.

It is a delicate matter as the parties involved can easily become emotional.

Holistically, a market pays for what it deems valuable.

Diamond is valued by a man who recognizes its worth. To the ignorant, it is not worth more than a doorstopper.

I believe the question is not about instrumentalists being paid or not. Finding a middle ground can become very hopeless.

More attention should go into how what you offer is perceived.

What and how much you are paid is tied to the value perception of the market (in this respect, church) about what you do.

I learned this at some point.

A woman barren woman prayed for a baby.

Shortly after she made supplication, her request was granted.

Happy?

No!

She complained to God about pregnancy.

I want a baby, not a heavy stomach.

Do not be like her.

The result you desire has a process that cannot be skipped.

You must give to people and society to get what you want. There is no bed of roses anywhere in the world.

When you give, you get.
Without giving, if you get anything, you are nothing but a thief.

I will say that again.

You are a thief if you seek to get without giving.

I abandoned a project since August.

Like, I completely forgot about it.

I bumped into it while going through my journals over the night and I felt bad.

Why?

I could have made thousands if I pulled through.

You know what, I will complete it before this week runs out.

Two lessons I learnt:

1) It is a good habit to write and keep journals

2) The money/result you did not get is a consequence of the action you did not take

In 2024, be action-oriented.

Well, why wait until January when you could start now?

You can be great.
You are not just ready.

You can make the headline.
You are not just ready.

You can make more money.
You are not just ready.

You can win in life.
You are not just ready.

Yo,
When will you be ready?

Are you broke?
No money to buy courses?
Want to make money in the internet space?

Start doing these things.
Just two.

1) Bump YouTube for available resources. If you do not have money, you have time.

2) Reflect upon your learning and connect dots.

I do not care who you are or what you do. If you start taking responsibility for your life, you will be successful and achieve your goals sooner than if you point fingers.

This is one of the principles of success not emphasized enough.

Mohammed Ali called himself “the greatest” before the world caught up with him.

He believed in his ability and what he could achieve before any other.

LESSON:

Throw yourself into action and make bold claims about yourself.

I saw a debate about which is more important, information and network.

As expected, there was a substantial number of people on either side of the divide.

HERE IS MY THOUGHT:

The information you need is in the network you are yet to access.

Network 🤝 Information

Desire or wish is the easiest step in getting anything done. This is why there are millions of people with desires.

They are very easy to know. Their vocabulary dominantly revolves around-

“I want to do this…I want to do that”

If wishes were horses, they say, lame men will ride horses.

Stop wishing and start doing.

Winners are action-takers.
No man who achieved anything worthwhile did so only by wishing.

They took action.

Each time you take a step outside what is comfortable, you give yourself the chance to know yourself a bit more.

You know,

Meeting new people, going to new places, exercising and reading some more, etc.,

It does not matter what it is, there is always a new revelation of you that is not previously known.

The strength you do not know you have, a level of kindness and goodness you are ignorant about, the anger and distaste you are not conscious of, and so on.

There is no way possible to fully know who you are.

The more you work on yourself, the more you know about yourself.

Every day is an opportunity to challenge your beliefs, ideologies, strengths and opinions.

Whatever is comfortable to you no longer have new information that can push you to experience newness.

Challenge it and grow!

Every time I get it wrong, I get it right.

Or rather,

I get it right each time I get it wrong.

This is why I am not scared of being wrong. If anything has to be done, I go into full action with everything at my disposal.

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It is a cold world out there.

99% of the people you will encounter are bored as f**k.

You should not be scared to engage them.

They will appreciate it.

Disclaimer: 99% is an exaggeration. It establishes the truth anyway.

One of life's miracles, a wonder to me, is that if I turn a thousand-page book over long enough, one page after each, I can consume the information contained in between the covers.

If you are a reader, why do read?

If you do not read, why?

We all have that place called “THE BEGINNING”. A necessary position for growth and development.

When you point to a man who he is, who he is will fight you for the unveiling him

If you consider carefully the unfolding of events in the world, you will see the past in the present.

That today will be evident in the making of tomorrow is not up for debate.

When someone has a notion of the damage you can cause if he steps on your toes, even when he does not agree with you, he respects your space.

There is no other way to get destroyed than to be a sheep in the company of wolves.

Be slow to pass judgment about things you have little experience with.

Judge nothing before its time.

The fear of what can be lost in the present should not blind you from what is possible. What can be.

The truth that will liberate you is not hidden. It stares at you day and night.

OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE!

The truth is not hard to see, nah you blind

Work hard or work smart debaters, I have a question for you

How can you work smart without working hard?

I find this challenging to understand.

Working smart is working hard except if your definition of working hard is limited to physical labour.

The conversation has moved from ‘Nigerians do not read books’ to ‘ Nigerians do not buy books’.

Does it matter if they buy books?
They do not read anyway.

This is no longer the case.

Now, they read. The challenge is that they do not want to buy.

They want it FREE!

We demand of people GOODNESS we would not show ourselves. We push men beyond their comfort to please us when we would not even raise a finger for our aid.