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THE ENEMY CALLED SUCCESS

To succeed is a good thing. The feeling it brings is awesome; it leaves a sweet taste on your lips. Yes, it is a wonderful thing to succeed. Wonderful as it is to succeed, success almost always is the death of many, Some men who struggled to succeed are now no where to be found, they are now in the list of men who once succeeded. They are now history; men once celebrated now begging for survival. IS IT BAD TO SUCCEED? Anyone who kicks against success is to be abhorred, avoided and everything close to avoidance. Success is the best thing that can happen to anyone. Never be deceived success is not bad or wrong. It is the dream of anyone who seeks influence and a meaningful life to succeed. THE WEIGHT OF SUCCESS   Success is a heavy burden to bear and only a few know this fact. It is good to succeed but to remain successful, therein lies the work. Many are they who have met with success and met their end. To some, success is their graveyard, their abrupt end. Success is as  pow...

WHY DO WE ENCOUNTER DEFEAT AND HOW TO DEFEAT OUR DEFEAT

Defeat is an integral part of  the success journey.  He who has become successful today has had a romance with defeat yesterday.  No success story is complete without a touch of defeat. Defeat is an ingredient needed for the success story to be complete.  Defeat on a serious note is never sweet, it leaves a sour taste on your lips. Defeat never accompanies with it a good feeling. No one is happy when he faces defeat. It can be paralysing that if not faced with a strong resolve, has the potency of crippling your every dream and aspirations. WHY DEFEAT? Since it is an established fact that defeat has a crippling effect on my dreams why am I always faced with defeat? Defeat is an opportunity to learn, test your resolve and the solidity of your plans and dreams for life. Defeat, is like the rain that falls on a just completed building. Sweet thing about defeat is that it comes to everyone irrespective of your background. It is not selective.  Defeat is life's own w...

CLEARING YOUR MENTAL SPACE: Activities to get you in the right frame of mind for the new year

  Yes, the year is still a new one even when January is almost over. You have the opportunity to reset and align your mind in readiness for the beauty that 2024 holds. In the first installment of the clearing your mental space series, we looked at two powerful ways to clearing your mental space. Today, we want to get hands on and see activities that can help us in our task to get into the right frame of mind for a fruitful year. CLEAR EMOTIONAL BACKLOG Man is an emotional animal whose whole being is wired by the thread of emotion hence the longings to constantly express or  showcase emotion. Since there is the daily showcase of emotion, we are faced with different results that are positive and negative some are just there; neither good or bad and this has a way of taking a toll on your output rate.  No matter how we deny and claim to not feel emotion, I am a hundred percent sure that everyone is plagued with on emotional issue or the other spanning across  love,...

2 Most Powerful Ways to Clearing Your Mental Space

Getting yourself into gear for the new year is beyond writing out your new year resolutions and goals. You must clear your mind of the past years failures so you can be ready to take on new tasks and challenges. The mind, our mind is likened to a house, where activities go on every minute. If someone is not walking from room to room, another is listening to some loud sounds, another may be talking, some people may be reading, others sleeping, another sweeping or doing laundry. The mind is like this too. Minute by minute, thoughts come in seeking asylum, we remember things and take in new images for filing. To achieve maximum productivity this year, we must take time to clear our minds of its old memories. This is not to forget them but to remove the grip they might have on how we undertake new challenges and opportunities. Why clear your mind? We are in a new year, with new resolves, new goals, new plans. We all want to have a better year different from the previous one. As cobwebs and...