You own a genius. You were born believing you could be anything, do anything, and have anything. In fact, every child is born with a genetically implanted believe they are a genius. However, we doubt our ingenuity because we feel we are not good at everything. A genius should know everything, isn't it? This way of reasoning is nothing short of naivety; same way as Bill Gates, who said "I was so naive about different skill sets. I thought if somebody had a high IQ, they could be good at everything". Intelligence takes many different forms. It is not unidimensional. Your ingenuity has a niche, discover it. Some people are communication guru, some display genius in auto repair, some people ingenuity are in writing, oration, comedy, football, arts & craft, etc. “You are or become those things which you repeatedly do" Einstein. Discover your genius.

Sometimes, life would dribble you anyhow. Make everything elusive, futile your efforts and crush your pursuit. To compound it, your travail moment will coincide with when your friends are making waves, leaving you with thoughts that you're useless. A scenario like when HIV suppresses one's immunity. Your hope will be dashed, it will sometimes go beyond dented. You will have free subscriptions to evil thoughts. And gradually, what you hitherto negate will arouse your appetite. Hoping for a solution, all that will materialize in your mind is to reach out to quick fixes. Quick fixes are answers. Quick fixes are instant solutions. Quick fixes are short term benefits or advantages but whatever resolves your situation but does not give character to your purpose or goal, has no virtue in it. Life is an album, you're only seeing a picture. There is no more to life than your present predicament. It is either you remain patient and allow other pages of the album to flip or wre...

It is not enough that someone is a doctor… We tell them to hustle. So they collaborate with merchants and sell your son’s kidney when he comes for a check-up. It is not enough that someone is a teacher… We shame them for earning a certain amount. So they intentionally deny your children a good education in the classroom, so that YOU can pay for private lessons and they (teachers) can make more money. It is not enough that he is your employee… You indirectly scoff at the idea of working-for-others, so these people steal from you… Because you are an asshole. It is not enough that you are a football coach… The culture of “hustle oo” in third-world countries will get to you and you ignore the ethics of your industry and ask for a bribe. It is not enough that you are a politician… Nigerians will mock you for driving a Peugeot, so you will do as others do: steal a billion naira and buy a yacht. It is not enough to be YOU in third-world societies… ...

"Entrepreneurship is the only way out of poverty" "You can't be rich and comfortable working for someone else" "Entrepreneurs rule the world" It is imperative for you to understand that as a Christian professional, you can't afford to be led by popular slogans, the wisdom or empty philosophies of men! Recently, I was taking a Bible study and a verse in Scripture struck me. "The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian" Gen.39:2 How do you attach "successful" as a term to someone who is not just in the employ of another man but a slave?! Isn't that divergent to the messages being touted by the 'apostles' of entrepreneurship? It is this entrepreneurship bug that has bitten professionals that would have had great, successful and impactful careers as employees of organizations but have resigned because they want to have founders, ...

Sometimes the people we need to succeed are within our immediate reach, but we can't just find them by an oversight. We often believe if we had known a politician, recruiter or CEO, we could've landed a job by now, but it's that connection to them we lack. The truth is we cannot all get the connection these people. Is like getting the richest 1% of all people connected to the rest 99%. You and I know that is mission impossible. Come to think of it, how about the people you're already connected to, mostly your friends who are already working. I've you ever told them to keep you abreast when there is a job opening where they work or refer you to someone who needs hires?. Oh! You probably didn't know, or it's because you were more brilliant than them in school, thus you think asking for their help is stooping low. That where you're wrong. Research has it that 38% of people get jobs through their friends and relatives, much more than the 26% of thos...

Don’t speak English like an Ibadan man.  Speak with the kind of phonetics that even your mother will wonder where you were born. There are an estimated 190 million Nigerians.  The overwhelming proportion of these will live and die unknown and unsung.  Airports will not be named after them.  Neither will universities be established in their honour.  A hundred years from now, people will not even remember they ever existed, except that they might have some children and grandchildren hanging around. Surely, you don’t want that to happen to you.  You want to be known.  You want to be rich.  You want to be a man or woman of timber and caliber.  There are peculiarly Nigerian ways to achieve this.  The formulas have been firmly established by our good-for-nothing politicians and businessmen.  But don’t worry; they don’t own the copyright to them, so you are free to follow their vainglorious footsteps. If you would like to be a...

"What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever; what makes it precious is that it ends, [and if I may add the last, what makes it priceless is that it is mortal]". This statement aptly underscores that you'll appreciate life if you understand it. Life is fashioned within time to journey towards an end, an end with a goal in perspective. Life is time-dependent, and time, as they say, is luck, hence, don't waste it living someone else's life. Life is a roller coaster, it dwells in the belly of time, swaying forth and back, and getting one in close proximity to one's destination. Life is too short, only to those who know the usefulness of time. It is relatively long to those who think they can waste time, not knowing they're the one been wasted away. Time is not enough to profligate; learn to judiciously use it. Manage your time to craft life, don't let life craft you. Despite the vicissitudes, life is worth living, even if it...

I have done a lot of wrongdoings to myself and I have been mad at myself for too long😫. I ridiculed myself by belittling my drive to succeed, I compared my dignity to lust, I looked down at my smartness because the world told me I don't deserve the best😭, I even slammed the door at my will for excellence, I condemned my beauty and neglected my will to standout, I gave up on myself at the slightest challenge I failed to defeat, I shut my heart to love because people neglected my pure feelings of love😩. I made choices that made me dwell in regrets😭. I have been ashamed of who I am and what I have become, I have lost my smile, where do I start from😭? How can I forgive myself🙈? When will I ever forgive myself?😢 The most important phase of self-growth is forgiveness. Forgiveness is the key to recognizing how precious you are. Forgiveness is love. Why are you still dwelling in the shade of past regrets? Why are you still bitter about the wrong choices you made? When ar...

Obstacles are put in our way to see if what we want is worth fighting for. Obstacles are the tests of your goal and focus. The obstacle doesn't build you, it reveals you and your interest. However, many people fail because they focus on their obstacles. We fail not because of loss of purpose but because of the loss value of our goal. We fail when our goal is not the primary focus of our devotion. In the word of Henry Ford, "Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal". When our focus is full of obstacles, our mouth is full of excuses. Excuses are disoriented confessions. The confession that doesn't align with the originality of goals. Spending your today complaining about yesterday won't make tomorrow better. Ever wondered why some people can spend 7-9 years pursuing admission after Medicine, it is because they don't see their growing age, classmates, repeating Jamb as an obstacle, what they see, rather, is the end in perspective. T...

There is an Alternative. Cynthia was heartbroken as she had been sure it was God that led Mike to her. He had proposed after she sought the Lord's face in fasting and prayer for a life partner. That was until a few months back when Mike called her and broke off their engagement! Have you ever lost something you were absolutely sure God wanted you to have? A job? A business deal? A ministry opportunity? Elijah was told by God to go and hide by Brook Cherith to escape the famine in the land. (Ref: 1Kg.17). "And it shall be that you shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there"vs4 It was God that led Elijah to the brook to escape the famine. You would have thought the brook would be there for as long as Elijah wanted or needed it. But the brook dried up(vs7)! Can God lead anyone into anything that works for a while and afterward refuses to? Absolutely! Why? He has provided an alternative! God will not have you stuck with 'the goo...