The Time Is Now
Every time an opportunity knocks on our door, it appears in a way that looks like it can never make sense to pursue. But some years down the line, we wish we took that opportunity. And every day, these types of opportunities knock on our door and we sometimes wish the situation was better, so we could have handled it. But sometimes, the situation does not get better and all we have to do is to seize the opportunity and make do with what we have.

We can never understand the power of what we can achieve if we do not try. And time keeps flying that what is gone some few minutes sometimes take a few years to get back. So never wait for an opportunity to be right, you can start with what you have and keep moving forward. Opportunities are not supposed to be well-formed, otherwise, everyone would have taken it.

Imagine if great people waited for the time to be right to start some of what they accomplished. Imagine if Microsoft, Google, and every other great company out there waited for the time to be right before they came to the market. We might still have been using classroom-sized computers till this moment. So it is important that we start with what we have and the time that we have because it matters that we get going and changing along the way.

Obviously, the waterfall model does not work in achieving our goals. W cannot wait for everything to be right, if we have to wait, then we can never proceed. So look around today for an opportunity that you can make better. Look at what you can do and become invested in that. It might take years before you receive the result for the opportunity. But know that you would never receive any result if you never started.

Start now, start today. When you start, then the condition becomes better. If you never start, everyday moves you farther away from the goal. The time is now, start now. Thanks and God Bless.

Be Your Own Competitor
When we look at the people around us, we realize that quite a lot of people are ahead of us in one aspect or another, but most importantly, that we are also ahead of some people in one aspect or the other. As such, sometimes we feel comfortable looking at the people behind us and we feel we can take a quick break or we look at the people ahead of us and we think we do not have the time to relax.

This is not really bad unless you want to keep competing with others. But the most important thing to realize is that we should compete with no one other than ourselves. The context of competing with ourselves is to be better than what we were an hour, a day, or a year ago. Nothing more than that. When we seek to compete only with ourselves, the best indeed does come out of us. But when we compete with others, it is very possible that we aim too little that we reach it.

And when we do, we feel like we have arrived. Instead, you are simply aiming too low. You have not yet realized what the best in you can be. But when you compete against your standard’s of yesterday, you become a better version of yourself. In competing with yourself, the only sure thing that happens is that it becomes a habit. And when it becomes a habit, you are able to sufficiently push yourself. The power and motivation to continue comes from within. It does not come from seeking to compete with others.

So it is important that we seek to become better versions of ourselves, but the standard should never be about how much we did compare to others, it should be about how well we did against what we are capable of doing. However, also be careful to not drag the bar too low when you compete with yourself. Understand what your vision is, and be the best possible of it. Then seek plans that make you that version of yourself.

So start today, look inwards, and seek to find that vision and goal you want to achieve. Then follow it and let that be your standard. Making people your standard depends on factors from outside and in becoming the best version of yourself, you would need to have a lot of energy coming from within. Only then can you begin to become that person you truly are supposed to become.

The time to start is NOW. Start today and be the best that you can ever be. Compete only with yourself. The world is your stage. GO.

Thanks and God Bless.

The Challenges Are The Opportunities
We complain and groan that things do not go our way. That some selected few have been earmarked for all the wonderful things on earth and that the remaining people would just have to live with what is available. But I say to you today that whatever your experience in life is, this statement is not correct. It is in the challenges of life that we find opportunities.

Yesterday, I was looking at a picture that said that one of the most searched sentences on Google from Nigeria was how to make Banga. Well, for a lot of people, it would seem like a challenge that with the power of what Google can provide, we as a country is still yet able to harness its power. But what if you looked at the positive side, at the demand for making Banga. What if anyone could start a blog or a website on how to make Banga and probably name the domain banga.ng?

Challenges are the pathways to opportunities and the more you are able to see challenges as opportunities, the more you would complain less and work harder. It does not seem to come easy. Every great thing seems to always come from a lot of hard work and in the end, we gain the reward. So seek for whatever challenges you face today and see how you can find the opportunities in them. If you find it challenging, then another person might also find it challenging. Then simply fix it. That is all you need to do.

By complaining and whining about challenges, we are doing one thing well. Complaining. But does that solve the problem? Obviously, it does not. So the most important thing you have to do is to realize that complaining would not make the challenge go away, as such, we have to be willing to look for the opportunity and keep looking until we find it. Life does not always give us a finished product, it gives us the raw material from which we are meant to find the solution.

Every time you face a challenge, assume you have been given a raw material. Then find time to extract the impurities out of the challenge. All you would be left with is simply the main product. And sometimes challenges does not mean the solution is out there, sometimes it simply means that we are the ones that are the raw materials and we would need to work on ourselves to have a finished product. A product everyone would like and appreciate.

Always find ways to refine and improve yourself every day. We are not perfect. So when you realize a challenge, look inwards first, then look outwards. Challenges are the pathways to opportunities.

Thanks and God Bless.

Fall, Get back up, Learn and Keep moving
It seems as if we can never achieve perfection no matter how much we try to achieve it. We seek out for a goal, we keep pushing, we fall, and then we get back up again and start from where we have fallen. There does not seem to be a way in which we can simply achieve all that we want without having to make a mistake or fail at some point.

Understanding that perfection might not really be what we need would really help us go far in life. Realize that what is most important is getting started, falling and getting back up. In the end, the falling and getting back up was never random. That is the most important thing you have to realize. Understand that whatever happens has a plan. So when things do not go your way, get yourself back up and keep going. Keep moving forward.

Life does not always have to go the way we planned it. Well, we are not fully in control so how do we hope to control it all. When things are happening that you could never anticipate, the most important thing is to look deep inside and see if the fault is not from you. Sometimes we look too far for a problem that is simply close by. When you have looked close enough and cannot find the problem, then you can look further.

Realize that not all mistakes are from an outside force. Some of them are due to our carelessness and lack of time management. Whatever reason we might have would not suffice. All you need to understand is that life is a learning center, the most important thing to do is to always learn from every situation that happens. You do not need to be perfect in your understanding, but to always look for the lesson in everything you learn.

In school, we are told what we would learn before class starts, but in life, we understand what we are supposed to learn when the lesson is over. So understand that you need to look for the lesson in everything that happens. We are not perfect, but we can improve day by day, become better the more we learn and in the end become better versions of ourselves.

We might not achieve perfection in whatever we work on, but we should realize that we can be much better than we currently are. So fall, get back up, learn and keep moving. The whole world awaits your success. Thanks and God Bless.

Ask Yourself This Question
Let me ask you a question. If you had 10,000 dollars to invest in one of your friends or family such that you would not have to work any day in your life and 10% of that investment would be your monthly salary, who among your friends or family would you invest in? I came across this question yesterday while watching a Ted talk. I quickly began scanning through my list of friends, then later, something struck me.

Who among my friends who bet their 10,000 dollars on me? To be sincere, I could not really think of any. I began thinking deep and observed to myself which attributes in me would make any of my friends want to invest in me. I am still pondering over that but now, I am not in the same place as I was yesterday. Thoughts have began to change and I am better understanding what I can do to become a much better person.

Enough of asking myself that question. Do the same to yourself today and now. How many of your friends can invest their all into you? That is too far. Can you sincerely invest your all into yourself? Be sincere and true to yourself. If you cannot, what is stopping you? Start from there and begin to understand that you can always be better than wherever you currently are. That the conditions would be better, but first, we have to also become better versions of ourselves. We do not always have to think that things would just change, we sometimes have to be that change.

Think closely and begin to imagine what is stopping you. How much better do you want to become? What can you do today that a year from now, you would become a better version of yourself? Success is not one big action. Success is a number of small activities joined together. And what is a failure? It is not one single failed action. It is a string of failed actions for a long time.

So a little change today can make all the difference you could ever care about. Look at the simplest thing you could do today to make you become a better person. Then start from there, you might not see the cumulative success, but remember, it is the small actions that become the big action. Start now, start small, and keep moving. For me, the simplest thing I have decided to stop doing is watching movies at night, which makes me wake up late. Waking up late makes me not focused at work. Not focused at work makes me stressed at work. I come back and hope another movie would help relieve the stress while the major problem was always the movie.

The small things are always around so that we can see and make changes. Look around today and make the necessary changes. We can be much better than we are and can start now. Start today and be better.

Thanks and God Bless.

How Is Today Different From Yesterday?
If you do the same thing every day, you would get the same results. Would you not like that your today is better than your yesterday? Everyone would love that. But if you do not change the actions of today, you would get the same results as yesterday. When we do the same thing every day, it does not matter that we live to a 100 years old, life would simply seem like hours counting down.

But if we did something different today, then indeed our days on earth would have been different. So I ask you today, how is your today different from your yesterday? Are you still limited by the same thoughts, the same imaginations as yesterday, would you not like to excel better today than you did yesterday? Tasks like going beyond your limitations, you have to improve every day. You cannot keep doing the same thing.

You need to develop a routine for some actions in your life. But does actions should be actions that push you forward in your other areas of life. When those actions push you, you have to go further in other areas of your life. Do not do the same thing and expect a different result. It does not happen. Look around today at some of the limitations you have set for yourself and see what you can do to beat it. It is only a limitation because it limits you. When it does not limit you, it is no longer a limitation.

And sometimes we set limitations for ourselves that are not tested. I cannot do this, I cannot do that. You stop yourself from doing a whole lot of things simply because you think you cannot. Someone once said, whether you can or you cannot, you are right. So whatever decision you make today, you are right. You are right to follow it, right to accept whatever the condition is. But also, you are right to break out of what is limiting you right now and the lands of no limitations.

You and only you can make that decision today. Start now. Start today. Live a life that is different from yesterday. You would appreciate yourself in the end.

Thanks and God Bless.

Parents, Your Kids Are More Important
I hear people say that a poor person should not give birth if they do not have enough money to take care of their kids, and I must now say that rich parents should also not give birth if they do not have time for their kids. It is becoming clearer every day that for any society to grow, it must give attention to its upcoming leaders and the natural mentors for these future leaders are the parents, and when they do not give attention to their kids, how do we expect to grow as a society.

While growing up as kids, we had one of our parents at home always reminding us of why our fathers might not be around most of the time. They made us realize that the fathers were out there trying to make ends meet for the family and the mothers did well to give their time and attention to their kids to make them become better leaders in the future. As such, mothers held better roles than fathers since the fathers would only have to care for today, but mothers care and build for the future.

The society together with the parents was involved in grooming and developing a child. Now, mothers have handed over their roles to the school teachers, and fathers have handed over their roles to their wives. And fathers are simply the machine for making ends meet. I cannot begin to imagine how we got this far. Most of the time when you look into a society and see that it is improving, it has a lot to do with the families that make up the society, but now that even the family structure is off, how do we hope to build societies that would last in the future?

Parents now seek to have more time harnessing more wealth so that their kids can be comfortable in the future as if being comfortable is the key to a successful life. Sometimes your comfort zone is what would limit you. Do not get me wrong, I do not mean that you should allow your children to suffer, but thinking that leaving your kids with enough money would not make them suffer is simply an incorrect life assumption.

It is better to teach your kids manners so that no matter what the situation of the future is, they are able to stand morally, spiritually and educationally sound. Simply focusing on the educational part and being impressed that your child can speak good English or do some maths calculations very fast would not serve them in the future. That time you spend with them improving them, sharing life experiences, and understanding life from your children’s perspective is the most important thing you can give to your kids.

That kids that grew up from families that were not considered rich and were able to become one of the world’s richest people shows that money is not the most important factor in training and grooming a child. Your time to understand how your child thinks and reasons, what things should they focus more on are more important than simply focusing on feeding, clothing, and sending them to school.

Our forefathers understood that children are the most important investments and as such, did all they could to make time and even make sure their kids learn manners and more importantly understand that wealth is not the only thing a child needs to succeed in life. If a child on his/her own cannot create wealth, what would they leave behind for their own children, your own wealth? Well, you can be that rich, but how many parents would be that rich.

If as a parent, you cannot guarantee to spend an hour a day with your kid discussing on very important issues, then I believe you need to work on that. Your excuses that you do not have time would not cut it in the future when your kids are out of control and are causing havoc in the society. Regretting that you did not spend enough time with your kids in the future would not be enough to make your children become better. The time you have is now.

Parents, kids are growing way faster than we can ever imagine. Have a discussion with a kid today and he/she knows what you knew when you were in your 20s. A kid of about 8 or 9 already knows that. The time is NOW. The time to make sure we focus more on our kids is NOW. Tomorrow might be too late. Make it happen. Help your children grow and make them become the best that they can become. Thanks and God Bless.

About Making An Impact
We think about making an impact as making a striking change in the world such that on hearing our name, everyone rises and respects us. But sometimes, we might not get the opportunity to do something so big that the whole world would have to hear about it. That is okay because even when we do not have the opportunity to do something big, we always have an opportunity to do something so small.

For me, my greatest fear is to be in a community and never making an impact. It is about not making an impact in work, school, and other endeavors of life. But I have come to realize that sometimes, all we need to do is to pick a very small area and start from there. We might not be able to change the world at large, but we can considerably change one or two person's life and that would make all the difference in the world for them.

Yes, we want to make a lot of impacts, but for me, I have realized that it is better to focus on one or two areas very close to us and make an impact than to seek for a very big cause we might not be able to change. It is important to look closely at your environment and realize the people that need our help the most and see how we can impact their lives. It is important that we see the world more than just a place to make money and leave, but a place where we have the opportunity to make another person’s life a wonderful one.

For me, that is the definition of impact. Helping another person make possible what they never felt could be possible. That could mean a lot to a lot of people. And when you give out, it comes back to you in a million fold. When you help others grow, you also grow and become a better version of yourself every day. So it does not matter if you are not able to change the world, what matters is that you have helped at least one person move their state of mind and improved them to become better versions of themselves.

It is important that we help others grow so that in the end, we grow together and become a much better force than if we were simply on our own. Unity always wins.

Thanks and God Bless.

Kindness Pays, Be Kind
With what is happening in the world these days, it sometimes seems very difficult to be a kind person. People say all sort of things like bad things happens to good people or that people change because other people influenced them. But the more I see life, the more I realize that the only way we can achieve life to its fullest is to be kind. People sometimes do not want to be vulnerable, so they hold their cards close to them, and sometimes being nice does not seem to pay off in the end.

For me, kindness is not that immediate goal you receive because you were nice a minute ago. Kindness is that thing that pays off years after you have forgotten that you ever did it. It is those moments when you seem to have the upper hand at winning the situation, but you look into the future and simply be nice and kind to the person next to you. Being nice does not always seem to have a clear way to pay back, but when you trust and believe that being vulnerable does not mean that you are weak, sometimes, only in our vulnerability can we enjoy life to its fullest.

Some people seek to not want to fall in love again because they were vulnerable once and see what it cost them. They had their hearts broken. So they promise themselves that they would never give away their hearts and live life distrusting everyone that comes their way. Yes, that makes you secured. But for how long? How long do you want to continue living half of life? When would you give in your all and be the best that you can be?

Kindness might not seem like the best thing to do, but I assure you that you would in the end never regret being nice and kind to people. You might not see the exact outcome of what you are doing, but when you think about it, you would realize that it is important that we be nice and kind. And when we talk about being nice and kind, people think of other people. Sometimes, being nice is about being nice and kind to yourself first. It means watching how you spend your time, how much exercise you have and what type of food goes into your system.

All those are the simple parts that makeup kindness. And to other people, it starts with the little things we consider minor. Like greeting that person next to you on your way to work, smiling at that person who you walk by every day, taking time to speak to family and friends. These are the basics of kindness. Kindness does not have to be a grand gesture like donating all your wealth to the world. That is certainly kindness, but you can start with the very small things. In the end, it was not about how much wealth we had, it is always about how many lives we are able to affect positively.

Being kind affects us and not only the people we are nice to. It makes us happier. Being happier makes us more productive. Being more productive makes our job better and the world generally a better place. And once you have tasted the joy in being kind, there is no going back. There is nothing that would ever make you any less kind than you are.

So it matters that we spread joy and kindness to the world, we give it without expecting anything in return. Only that for God to help you in all your affairs. It matters that we all realize that the world is not but a number of days and one of the best ways to enjoy the world is to be kind and nice to others. We do not know how we might meet another day. The world needs more kindness. Please let us be kind to one another and love one another. It would make the world a better place. Thanks and God Bless.

Be Extraordinary
We tell ourselves every day that we want to be the best at what we do, yet we live life ordinarily. How do we expect to have an extraordinary life if we live life ordinarily? I asked myself this question today and I realized that to become extraordinary, you have to do what you do every day more than the ordinary way it is done. If you want an extraordinary life, you have to be willing to put in the extra to every ordinary task that you do.

If you want to excel at what you do, you need to be willing at every moment of every day to be willing to go just a little further than everyone else would. If you want to be better as a person, you have to begin to do a little more than what everyone does. In your job, in your life, in everything that we do, we need to begin to put in the extra effort. To become better at that task, you need to be willing to put in the extra hours needed. The ordinary hours would not be enough to get you that extraordinary performance that you seek.

When you seek to become extraordinary, you do not need to do a grand task to make you different, all you have to do is a little extra to the ordinary things. Keep pilling up the extra things you do until one day you realize that you are no longer doing what everyone is doing. To be different from everyone, you have to be willing to what no one else is willing to do. You have to be willing to give up just a little more of your comfort, a little more of your time to that task, a little more time to your family and spouse. Just a little more is all that you need to make the difference.

The little you would need would depend on the career or life path you are on. For a runner, it might just be as little as completing that race a second earlier, for a student, it might just be reading just a little longer than you used to, and for everyone, it just means doing a little more than you do every day. I realize that leaders can lead simply because they are able to make others do just that little more than is needed every day.

Understand today that the extraordinary life you seek would not come to you if you continue to spend your time ordinarily. You have to be willing and ready to push just a little more. A little more is all you need to make the difference. In the end, we get the life that we lived. You want an ordinary life, live ordinarily. For an extraordinary life, live extraordinarily. The world awaits your greatness. Thanks and God Bless.

Inaction Is The Enemy
That we might not know the outcome is not the worst thing to happen to any of us, not doing anything about it is the worst possible thing that could ever happen. So many things happen every day and people say to you, be realistic, it can never happen. You look as it passes you by and you believe what everyone has said, it cannot be done. You give up and you do not do anything about it.

One thing is for certain. It can never happen if you do not do anything about it. When you do something about it, the chances that it would happen increases even if it is by a margin of 1%. So to everything you ever told yourself, it cannot be done, put in a little effort. Probably your chances of making it happen might increase. The most important thing that you have to realize is that no one knows what the outcome would be. You, me or anybody.

People that say they know simply want to project the past into the future. If it happened like this yesterday, it might well happen again today. But forget that, put in the best that you can, one day you would look back and that effort you put would have led you somewhere. It might not lead you to what you were looking for, it might have led you to something even greater. Greater than you ever imagined. So what is stopping you? If you let anyone stop you, then you and only you are to blame in the end when everything happens. Most time people regret what they did not do rather than what they did.

People regret not having spent more time with their loved ones, not having to put in more effort and a whole lot more. Yes, people also regret the things that they did, but you need to know that it would be smaller than what they wish they did. Time is of essence and time waits for no one. Remember that. Tell yourself you want something and go for it. You do not need anyone to tell you what you cannot do. We can be with God what we want to be and no man can ever stop what God has in plan for us.

God is real. God is with us if we never lose faith and hope. People might laugh when you say that but realize that the goal is the future. Not now. Let every one be and do what they want to do to you. In the end, it matters that you take even a small step towards making your goal a reality. A small step today is what you need to get started. In the end, it would matter that you took even the smallest step. Things might not look right now, in the future, it would. The dots would connect and you would only wish you started earlier than you did.

Start something today and never let inaction ever stop you. The world is your playing field and God is with us all the way. Keep going. Thanks and God Bless.

Help As Much As You Can
I remember as a kid the families we always looked up to. Those families that usually had the latest television set and the latest movies every day. Those families whose light never go out even when the general electricity goes away. Some of those families are still doing fine but a lot more have moved lower in the ladder and this got me thinking about my present life.

How many of us live as if we are going to continue to have what we have today? There is no guarantee that what you have today would be there tomorrow. If there is no guarantee, the best thing you can do then is to help as many people as you can with what you have because, in the end, it might just go away as fast as it came. It is important to realize that life sometimes is beyond our computation and analysis and when we think or feel that we are in control, things happen and everything falls apart.

So since we are not in total control of how life goes, the best we can do is to control what we have today. We can control how we relate to and work with other people. We can learn to do more and be of more help to other people around us. It is important to know that what goes around comes around. If you help people, in the end, help would come back to you. It matters that we ponder over these words, what goes around comes around. We might not accept that now, but look at the lives of people around us and realize that the good never in the end suffer, it might take a while, but in the end, good always pays. And for those we did bad, we all would one day see the outcome.

So to everyone out there who is in a position to help another person, do the best that you can to help make another person’s life wonderful. In the end, we do not know how it would all end, but the most important thing is what you put forth is what you would see in the future. So it is important that we learn to help as many people as we can with all that we have. In the end, it matters. Sometimes, it is not about helping everyone, it is about helping that one person to make sure they get what they are supposed to get. Helping even a single person is equal to helping humanity because in the end, you do not know how much impact what you did would have.

So please go out today with a mindset to help. It does not have to be a grand gesture, it might just be as simple as smiling at that person who no one seems to notice. It is about sharing a word or two with close friends and relatives. It could be anything that would sincerely make another person’s life better than you met them. In the end, our goal in life is to make an impact, that is it. So please help today.

We need everyone to be helpful to one another as we cannot say for sure how everything, in the end, would turn out. Thanks and God Bless

Just A Little More Everyday
To become better at anything, you need to keep doing it over a period of time until you can do it without as much as thinking about it. It becomes very difficult to keep up with a new habit every day and we feel that we are not quite destined to play that role. But before you give up, realize the tasks that you are now very good at and how it all started.

Remember the first day you tried to walk, crawl, or even talk. It seemed as if you did not even understand a bit of any of those things. But now, some of these activities you do without even thinking about it. Those tasks are the same as the new tasks you are trying to learn now. They are difficult at first, but the more you put in just a little more every day, you realize that one day, you are not as bad as you thought you were.

All that matters is that you consistently put in the effort towards doing something you want to become better at. That is the way to achieve a goal ahead of you. Some days you would default, but remember that it is not the failure that defines us, it is how the response to the failure that makes all the difference. The difference between winning and failing is sometimes simply getting back up and doing just a little more.

But sometimes, the effort is not what even matters. Sometimes the most important thing you need in everything you are trying to do is to pray. Pray about it and seek God in whatever it is you are trying to achieve and be better at. We sometimes seek effort only but God is more important. So today, realize that you need to put in work every day to achieve whatever it is you want. Merely wishing would not make it happen. You need to put in the work.

But when you put in the work, all that is left is to pray about it. You have tried and all that is left is for God to control the situation. Many people call it luck but I call it God. The one who makes everything happen even when it seems impossible. So today, keep pushing on that goal a little at a time, never relent and always seek God in all your affairs.

Thanks and God Bless.

Do Something
Every day, my bed seems to speak to me to sleep on it just a little longer. And when you realize it, you have slept for close to an hour. When it is time to go for the morning exercise, your body seems to tell you that you are already healthy and might not have any need to exercise. Many more people are on their beds, sleeping, your body would say. Why won’t you also join? To write an article, the hands say just skip for today, you would have something to write tomorrow.

But when you do not listen to the bed, you get up and get the day started. In the end, you realize it was better to have done something rather than simply remaining on the bed even when your alarm has gone off. At the end of the exercise which your body wanted you to not go for, you feel much better, both in your body and in your spirit. You wonder how you would have felt if you did not go for the exercise. For the article, you push and start writing something and in the end, you have an article that is capable of changing a person’s life.

So many of us have a lot of things that our minds crave instead of doing what we know deep down is the best for us. We know it is the best, but we sometimes prefer instant gratification. But if you delay the instant gratification just a little longer and do something simple that takes you closer to your goal, you realize that you are changing little by little. It matters that we do something no matter how little every day even when we feel like not doing it. If you feel like not waking up from the bed, simply open your eyes, that would at least set your body to realize that you are awake. Anything that makes you realize that you are not asleep can push you from being asleep to being awake. And you keep going, one task at a time.

Doing something is important because everybody at rest seeks to want to remain at rest and a body in motion seeks to always want to remain in motion. So if you do not start, you might remain seated, but if you give it just a little trial, you see you push yourself from where you are and closer to where you want to be. No matter what you are going through today, look for something simple and push on that. It does not have to be a grand task. A simple step at a time is all that you need.

Take a simple step today and keep going. Simple baby steps every day. Thanks and God Bless.

Imagine The Future
Sometimes, thinking of our daily tasks and challenges can make us not see the future goal or plan. When we are too busy with everyday tasks, we sometimes do not have time to look up and see what is ahead. The everyday tasks are enormous, but sometimes, the only thing we can do is to take some minutes off and imagine the future. Think and realize what you can do that would make the future a little bit better than it currently is.

It does not always have to be something about work. It could be about your behavior. Could you imagine the future and think of one of your habits that you need to improve and work on. So on whatever you are doing today, take a few minutes off and realize how much the future can be if you just improved just a little bit today. Take a few minutes to imagine the future and see the endless possibilities that could happen.

All that matters is that we get better every day, and sometimes when we look into the future, we are able to see what area of our lives need improvement so that we can work on that. Comparing our present and our imagined future can sometimes fill in the blanks for us on the most important ways we can improve every day. You might want to perform a task now but when you imagine its effect in the future, you might either desist from doing it or put in more effort to get more results.

Thinking and imagining the future is a good way to improve and become better at what we do. And sometimes thinking about the future involves projecting into the future where we might not be part of the equation and that is truly scary, but should also motivate us to do more with the time that we have now. It matters that we imagine the future and improve on it every day. Thanks and God Bless

Be Happy
Watching a video about Oprah this morning made me realize that tough times does not mean that we are being punished. It simply means that we are being prepared for the great tasks ahead and that when things are tough, the most important thing we can do for ourselves is to keep pushing forward. As such, when you face challenges, be happy, at least they show that you are on a path to something great and wonderful.

Challenges bring out the best in us. Everyday. So when you face a challenge, be happy. Well, that is one of the most difficult things to do since we as humans, we always want conditions that are comfortable and favorable and we would not like anything to spoil our mood. However, sometimes what takes us out of our comfort zone is building us for something bigger than our comfort zone. It does not matter how we see the situation, the most important thing is how we react to it.

React with happiness. Push forward with happiness. Keep going with happiness. It could have been worse. You tell yourself that. And while it is not worse than it currently is, all you need and have to do is to keep going. Forward. Now more than ever. Realize that the goal is right ahead and the challenges are the confirmations that you are on the way. If everything was easy, everyone would get it. So while we keep striving, we remain happy and grateful.

Grateful to God that we are indeed alive and have the opportunity to overcome our challenges. No challenge is ever too big to defeat. You first have to believe that you can do it and then go do it. Keep going. Keep pushing. That is all that you need. And while pushing, you need to have your mood straight. Be happy and seek God. In the end, it would all make sense and the dots would eventually connect. The challenges would connect to the success and you would realize that the success would never have been possible without the failure.

Thanks and God Bless.

Be The 1%
Sometimes, we find it very difficult to make some decisions. For me, I am learning a new way to figure that out. I call it the 1% rule. To make a decision, simply ask yourself if everyone would do it. If everyone would probably do it, then it might not be the best use of your decision.

Why have I come to this conclusion? For me, I realize that the people we consider successful are people that do what others would not do.

Would everyone consider spending the night reading about something or spend the night watching a movie? The answer is clear. Would most people prefer to gain monetary benefits from everything that comes their way or would they prefer to help another in such a situation? The answer is also clear. Look closely at some of the things most people would naturally do and try to create a better path for yourself.

It is important that we understand that simply because everyone does it does not make it right and also carefully understand that simply because you can do it does not also make it right. So think carefully about what you want to spend your 1% on. Make it something that would make you a better version of yourself. Ask constantly if what you are doing would make you someone your future self would be proud of. Then go for it.

Do not let the circumstances around you determine what the end would be for you. You have to be willing to go above your situation at every point. Reach out to people, seek help, and keep pushing. Keep going and be the 1%. Your future self would be proud of you. Thanks and God Bless.

Setbacks should not set you back
I wonder how the world would be if we never had to struggle for anything that we wanted. For anything that we want, all we have to do is to wish for it. I realize that the world would not be as much fun as it is. Everyone would be the world richest, no one would have to work for another person, and many more. So in essence, setbacks are needed in life so that we can appreciate what we have.

It is important to always know that setbacks would come one way or the other in everything that we do every day. It is our core job and responsibility to not let the setback define our future. We would not let setbacks stop us from achieving what we set out to achieve. Realize that on your path to becoming that very successful person, your situation might not be right for the goal ahead and the setbacks are there to mold and shape you into what you need to be to achieve those goals in the future.

So whenever you face a challenge, realize that it is building something in you and what you need is to patiently follow through. Successful people only realize the path they are on after they have patiently followed through. No one really knows the outcome, all you have to do is to enjoy the path and learn as much as you can. Setbacks and challenges are to realign us to our core goals and the earlier we see them that way, the better for us.

So look today with a positive mindset at the challenges you are facing and believe that it is preparing you for something way greater. And with patience and perseverance, you can win. A positive mindset goes a long way to reassure you that everything, in the end, would be alright. So look at things positively, seek God and keep pushing. In the end, it would make sense.

Thanks and God Bless.

To Focus More, You Need To Focus On Less
Every time I search the internet, there is always one new course that might interest me and would be a good idea to join. Remember, I already enrolled in some other courses. Sometimes these courses are so interesting we drop the previous courses. And this same cycle continues and continues every day. We do not finish the previous courses, we pick new ones and the same fate happens to the new courses.

Looking back now, I realize that the world is indeed full of noise and one of the best ways to handle the noise is to pick something, complete it, then move onto something else. One of the most important things we all seem to easily lose these days is our focus. So many distractions and we are easily moved onto the next one. Keep your phone away for a day and realize how much time you spend on your phone.

Every single minute you are less busy, you get onto the internet. And that one minute becomes 5, and 5 becomes 10. And we do this quite enough that they begin to form a part of our habit. And the most annoying part of this is that we do not realize it. We ask ourselves and the answer is we cannot live without our phones. I have a question for you, Can your phone live without you? If the relationship is not both ways, then it seems to be what I learned in school called parasitism. If one gains from the other, but the other loses, then that is parasitism.

So consider yourself lucky to be in a generation where things are much easier than they used to be, but this has also brought some other issues that we need to be very aware of. We need to realize and understand that our focus is one of the most important things we need to keep and try as much as we can to maximize it. To maximize it, you need to put in the necessary effort and decisions to make that happen.

Keep your phone away when at work, and when you have a few minutes. Relax without taking your phone out. Do something different. What would you do to relax for a minute if you never had a phone? Begin to realize and search for those things, it pays. The more we focus, the more we can get things done in this world where there are distractions everywhere.

So think carefully today about some ways you can gain your focus back and imagine how much more you can do if you indeed focus. For those who have to work with their phones, it is a different situation, for others, we need to find ways to focus and reduce the distractions in the environment as much as we can. The focus is key, we need to guide and protect it. So today, focus on something and ensure that you maximize your time on it, reducing distractions as much as you can. Your future self would be proud of that.

Simply do less with more time. It would pay off more. You are more present in what you are doing, you give in your best, and once you are done, you move onto the next task knowing that the previous task was well executed.

Thanks and God Bless.

Start Living Today On Purpose
If the purpose of everything you do today centers around food, clothing, and shelter, then you have to start living because life is much more than that. For a lot of us reading this, we immediately tell ourselves that we are living not only for food, clothing, and shelter. But think carefully, what exactly are you living for? If you live for nothing, you die for nothing. It is important to take that discussion up with yourself and fully understand the reason why you do what you do.

Imagine carefully what happens today if you are not around. Perhaps, you are sick or something, how many things or people would be affected because you are not around? I mean how many people would feel the positive vibe and energy you give if you are not around? That is a very profound question I want you to take your time and think about. We exist every day, but do we truly live on purpose? Do we simply live to make ends meet, or simply to enjoy life as it comes?

Until your life seeks a higher purpose and a higher meaning, your life would have no impact even on yourself. You would simply be like a cog in a machine, that can simply be replaced when it is damaged, no impact whatsoever beyond just being that part of the machine. You need to begin to look at life not just as a day to make more money because in the end, with all the money, you would leave the money and depart. But what legacy or motivation would you leave for the world? We do not need to think too far into the future, seek to live life every day with purpose, a purpose way greater than simply food, clothing, shelter, and more money.

Whatever is at the center of your life is what your life would revolve around. You put a purposeful living at the center of your life and things would really be magical, and if any other items are the center of your life, things would fall along that way. I sometimes wonder how the animal in the forest is different from a human. The animal seeks food, sex, and shelter and some humans simply live the same way. How else can we have any impact if we continue this way? Many might ask if it is important to have an impact. I say to you the most important essence of us all is to have an impact. Not only on others but on ourselves, and until we are doing that, we are truly never living.

We are just existing. Time waits for no one and as such, we need to start now. Never do something simply because that is what others are doing. To be different simply means doing what others are not doing, especially the great things others are not doing. So it starts with me and you. Today.

Thanks and God Bless.

It Is A New Day
Today is another opportunity to right the wrongs of yesterday. Whatever wrong decisions you feel you might have made in the past, today is a new day to get started and fix that. You do not need to make all the perfect decisions, but one thing you can do is to learn from yesterday’s mistakes and be better for it today. Let not your yesterday wear away your today. Today is an entirely new gift and you can make great things with it.

We start a new day sometimes thinking of how badly we did yesterday and sometimes that keeps us in the state of yesterday not realizing that a new gift has been given to us. A gift to make today great, greater than yesterday. The most important thing you need to realize is that you can make an entirely new thing today that your yesterday was not able to create and make happen. Believe that and go make today much better than your yesterday.

I realize that no matter how we try, some days do not just go our way. It ends and we wish we did not make some of the decisions we made. But sometimes, we cannot do without making these mistakes. But mistakes should not limit us, it is okay for mistakes to define our yesterday, but never should mistakes take hold of your future. You have a new opportunity today to make things happen. How many more do not have the opportunity you have today to make happen what you want?

So never despair, accept yesterday and today is all that you have. Push forward, keep going, enjoy life and seek for the best as much as you can. The world needs it and together we can make it happen. Remember, your yesterday does not define you. It is how you handle today that most matters. Thanks and God Bless.

Have Faith And Keep Going
The path to the end does not sometimes seem clear from the beginning. Well, if it was clear from the beginning, everyone would not have to work a day in their lives. So it is important to realize that on the path to achieving greatness in life, the path does not have to seem clear, all we need is to have the faith and hope that everything, in the end, would connect, and we just have to keep going.

Disappointments would happen, but it is important to realize that to fully achieve what we want, we have to be ready to face and wrestle challenges so that in the end, we can indeed be worthy of the success. Failure is the battle you have to fight to be worthy of success. Remember that. So for any issues or challenges you are currently facing, assume you are in a match, and the end would only be when you win or when you give up. And we are not going to give up.

Changing from one thing to another while still focusing on the goal is not a bad idea. The most important thing is to have a common goal and need to move from one thing to another while still hoping to achieve your goal. So keep moving and pushing today, in the end, it would all make sense, but for now, you have to believe and keep going.

Why Leadership Matters A Lot More
Many people believe that leadership is about leading people, however, I have realized that leadership is first about leading oneself rather than leading people and only when you can successfully lead yourself can you be able to lead others. The stories of great men come to mind and it would not have been possible for them to achieve great leadership if they were not first willing to lead themselves.

Take Mahatma Gandhi. He was willing and ready to lead himself in the path of denying himself food until what he wanted was realized. Think about that for a minute. While he was doing that, I strongly believe he was not considering that a way to lead people, but because he was able to lead and control himself well, others followed in his path. Leadership is more about people believing and following in your path rather than simply going the way you direct them to.

Beyond the story of Gandhi, the history of Mandela comes to mind. A man that was willing to sacrifice the prime years of his life is a man anyone would be willing to follow. As such, leadership is more about how you are leading yourself and your life rather than how you are leading other people. Until you are able to lead yourself from where you are to where you want to be, only then can people truly follow you and then you become a leader. It is important to realize that being the first does not necessarily make you a leader, what makes you more of a leader is the willingness to pursue something that not every individual can pursue.

Only when you are able to create a distinction between who you are and who you want to become then people would follow. I believe people look every day for guidance and people are searching for people who have gone out of their ways to make something important for themselves. And only those people are people willing to follow. Leadership is about people giving control to you not only because you command it, but because they realize that they can also become as important and as useful as you have become.

Anyone can give a command and people would obey, but only a few more can indeed deserve the command and people would follow without even giving the command. But it is important to realize that simply because we can lead ourselves, others would simply follow. No, it would take a while to happen. Sometimes, good things do not come early. Mandela did not realize it until after 27 years and Gandhi did not achieve it in a day.

The success, in the end, would be worthwhile all the pain I promise you, but you must realize that being a leader is more about believing without necessarily seeing it. So to everyone out there, before you seek for a leader, ensure that you are yourself leading yourself in the right path and the right way. Lead yourself right, seek good virtues, and be of importance to people. In the end, the lives we have touched are the most important impact we can ever make. So take your time today and lead well. Remember leadership begins with leading yourself right. Thanks and God Bless.

Reflecting On The Lessons Of Eid El Adha
For a lot of people, the day of Eid serves as a day to celebrate, felicitate with family and friends, and enjoy the break from our everyday activities. However, when we reflect back on the essence of Eid, it indeed serves as a great lesson for us all beyond simply having to slaughter an animal or simply to wear new clothes.

The story of Eid started when Allah spoke to His prophet to slaughter his son. How many of us today can indeed be that submissive when the idea of slaughtering one’s own simply goes beyond every logic we have ever believed in? It simply makes no sense. But reflecting on the situation now, some of the things in our lives sometimes defy logic and in the end, we wonder how it could have been possible. To Allah, the slaughtering was not what He needs, God wants us to realize by our own selves how far we believe in Him.

And this same test comes to us every day that things we might not understand would happen, but the most important thing we can do is to have faith. Faith that something is happening that we might not understand but we believe that Allah is in control. For me, I realize that faith is a lot more about believing in God without having all the details. If a human tells you he can help you, you want to understand the details, but when Allah wants to help you, you do not need the details. All you need is to believe that Allah is superior to whatever notion we might give Him. He far supersedes our imagination and observation and as such, all we can do is to believe.

And when the Prophet of Allah believed, things he never expected happened. In his mind, he was going to slaughter his son and that was it. For Allah, it was way greater. It was a path for the Prophet of Allah to earn reward and leave a legacy that every believing human would follow until the day of judgment. How powerful. Allah is indeed the All-Wise.

So I speak to you today to believe that whatever might be looking bad in your life today might not be as bad as you think. Allah might be preparing a path for you. A path you might not yet understand and all you can do to enjoy the ride is to give in your best and keep believing that something, in the end, would click, and the path would become way clearer. Clearer than it ever was. So while on the path, never give in, never give up faith. Keep believing and know that what was meant for you would never pass you, and what is for you would reach you wherever you are.

I leave you with the Sallah message that you might not understand how things might turn out, but what you can do is to know that the controller of our affairs would never let you down. The path might look as if you are going down, but surely with time, it would lead you to a greater path. A path you never expected. And until then, keep your faith high, higher than your challenges and your situation. And believe that Allah would help you no matter how the situation looks. Stay with faith and stay Blessed. Thanks

Follow Excellence
Follow Excellence and success would follow you pants down. These words I heard from the movie 3 Idiots but it did not make any sense to me then. I watched it while as an Undergraduate, but watching the movie again now made me realize some of the things I never did realize earlier. That it is easy to follow in everyone’s footsteps but very difficult to find a path for ourselves which is the most important thing we should be doing.

You see, being familiar and doing things that are familiar are always the easier things to do every day. Remember the last time you did something that took you out of your comfort zone, something that pushed you so much you became better in your life. Well, a lot of us cannot remember. We seek to have the normal and familiar life. The life of everyone. Have a stable job, get a stable income. Do not get me wrong, these are not bad goals. But how many people changed the world doing that?

You can have a day job, but never let your goal and accomplishments in life become conforming to others. When you do, you depart the world just being like every other person. No significant impact and no way for people to remember you. You were too much like others. So I tell you today it is never too late to become what you want to be. Seek the path of what you want to become. Put in all that you can, seek to be excellent at it and in the end, it would pay off.

Distractions abound. Distractions that make us do what others are doing. Until you are able to form a path for yourself, you would not be able to create that focus that defines who you are. Can you remember how many more people made an impact simply living through their day jobs only to survive? Remember, you can have a job but have a much greater dream. Not only to serve but to serve humanity with all that you have.

In the end, it matters that we follow excellence in all that we do and in the things that we do, we do things that show the true depth of who we really are. Do not try to be like someone else, everyone is already taken. So find yourself and be yourself, no matter how long it would take. The world awaits your greatness. Go out there and be great.

My dearest love and respect goes out to my friend who lost his mum today. May God forgive her and bless her with the highest level in the heavens. Thanks and God Bless.

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Follow Excellence
Follow Excellence and success would follow you pants down. These words I heard from the movie 3 Idiots but it did not make any sense to me then. I watched it while as an Undergraduate, but watching the movie again now made me realize some of the things I never did realize earlier. That it is easy to follow in everyone’s footsteps but very difficult to find a path for ourselves which is the most important thing we should be doing.

You see, being familiar and doing things that are familiar are always the easier things to do every day. Remember the last time you did something that took you out of your comfort zone, something that pushed you so much you became better in your life. Well, a lot of us cannot remember. We seek to have the normal and familiar life. The life of everyone. Have a stable job, get a stable income. Do not get me wrong, these are not bad goals. But how many people changed the world doing that?

You can have a day job, but never let your goal and accomplishments in life become conforming to others. When you do, you depart the world just being like every other person. No significant impact and no way for people to remember you. You were too much like others. So I tell you today it is never too late to become what you want to be. Seek the path of what you want to become. Put in all that you can, seek to be excellent at it and in the end, it would pay off.

Distractions abound. Distractions that make us do what others are doing. Until you are able to form a path for yourself, you would not be able to create that focus that defines who you are. Can you remember how many more people made an impact simply living through their day jobs only to survive? Remember, you can have a job but have a much greater dream. Not only to serve but to serve humanity with all that you have.

In the end, it matters that we follow excellence in all that we do and in the things that we do, we do things that show the true depth of who we really are. Do not try to be like someone else, everyone is already taken. So find yourself and be yourself, no matter how long it would take. The world awaits your greatness. Go out there and be great.

My dearest love and respect goes out to my friend who lost his mum today. May God forgive her and bless her with the highest level in the heavens. Thanks and God Bless.

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It Is In The Little Things
A little every day is what makes a habit. But sometimes we do not consider the little things and as such, we do not realize when they become a part of us. Take a few minutes today and imagine some of the big things that you have been looking forward to. Some of those things look big because we have not taken the time to realize what little things make up that thing. And until we do that, we might not be able to achieve that big thing.

So, in essence, it is important to not only aim for those big moments to do very wonderful things. Any small thing you do can form a part of the big thing, so do the small things well too. To achieve excellence, all you need is to excel in even the smallest things and those are what sums up to form the big things. Also, to become a bad person, you start with very small habits that over time form into the very big things.

So in determining who you want to be in life, you need to know how you spend your time on the little things. The little things also matter. No matter how small, put in the best that you can so that in the end, all you have done is a couple of your best actions here and there and that is what makes the difference. Remember today that the difference is in the little things and make sure to do the little things well. Our success lies in there. Thanks and God Bless.

Let's Face Reality
People say the word impossible does not exist in their dictionary, but for me, I believe even the sentence ‘Let’s face reality’ does not exist in my vocabulary. It is not anything about the grammatical structure of the sentence but mostly about the context in which people always use it. People seem to want to use it to imply that things can just be the way they look and nothing more. But for me, the more I live every day, I realize that things can really change beyond the way they look.

So for me, the idea of saying let’s face reality as a way to tell a person to never dream of bigger things beyond their current circumstances is not acceptable. That things are the way they are does not mean that they cannot become better. For anything that we believe cannot be done, it simply means that we have reached the limit of our thoughts and our imagination and simply because we have reached the limit of our imaginations does not mean that something cannot be better. We simply cannot yet see it.

So for you out there trying to see something way bigger than the way your current situation is, think and imagine big things because, in the end, our reality is subjective and do not let another subject impose its way of things on you. Because it did not work for the other person does not mean it would not work for you. People are different and as such, people can be way greater than the way you can ever assume or make them be.

So it is important to be practical which is to me trying things out without ever simply just hoping and imagining them. So it is important that in dreaming big that you go beyond the lines of imagining and making things happen. But never simply stay within your thoughts that things cannot go beyond our reality. When you interact with a person who lived about 100 years ago, the current life we are living would be nothing short of heaven to them and it was something that someone could never imagine a 100 years ago. So seek to imagine and do things. Do small things and in the end, it becomes the very great things. Do not look for one big moment, the small moments would help make your dream a reality.

So I say to you today to take small steps at being practical, and never give in. Your current situation should never define you. Reality is subjective so create that wonderful life for yourself with God by your side. Take care and God Bless.

Check Up On Your Friends And Family
It is important to realize that humans are busier than ever these days with the number of notifications and messages we have to respond and attend to every day and as such, it becomes very difficult on some very small but very important issues of life like checking up on our family and friends.

To a very great extent, your family and friends would either make you or break you and as such, it is important to keep good ties with our friends and family so that we might be able to get one or two wonderful things out of the relationship. And sometimes, it is important to realize that by checking up on our friends, we are going a long way to ensuring that someone out there feels loved and cared for. Take your time to call and check up on your family and friends. It is important we do that because sometimes we do not have all the time in the world and when we believe we have time, the other person might not be there anymore.

So we all realize how busy we can all be, but we should learn to take some time out to talk to our family and friends. We all need it. Humans are social and therefore the need to interact with others is always a need and a necessity. To feel our time with wonderful relationships means that we make our time more valuable and memorable. So take some time out today to remember your family and friends and check up on them. It might be difficult to be consistent with it, but we need to try and make sure that we have done the best that we can do to make our relationships stronger and better.

In the end, it is our family and friends that are our most important resource. Anything can leave us but good friends and families never ever leave us. So never leave your family and friends. Take a few minutes now to check up on them. You never know how much it would mean to the other person. Take care and God Bless.