DARE FOR MORE.

Determination coupled with Active Research and daily Exercise on your plans equals the search FOR MORE improved ideas and ways to achieving your plans.

Simply put, your persistence and consistent hard work towards realizing your plans would definitely ignite the dare for more attitudes in you i.e. the attitude to research for more improved ideas.

So, endeavour to dare for more so as to boost your plans to success

SUNDAY FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

YOU CAN ONLY GET THE MANIFESTATION OF GOD'S UNENDING GUIDEANCE AND MERCIES IF ONLY YOU WOULD SUBMIT YOURSELF TOTALLY TO HIM.

THIS REALLY MATTERS IF YOU ARE GOING TO RULE YOUR WORLD.

ACT FAST!!!!

MOTIVATION, AN INSTRUMENT TO SUCCESS

Achieving success in life is determined by so many factors and as it is, motivation is one of the key factors to realizing a successful life.

Motivation is a driving force that makes you to do something positive disregarding physical factors that might want to deprive you from achieving a set goal. Even the oxford dictionary defines motivation as ‘making somebody wants to do something especially something that involves hard work and effort’.

The driving force attached to motivation could be gotten in so many different ways:

1. It could come through your submission to God’s authority i.e. trusting in Him and putting Him first in all your doings.

2. It could come through associating yourself with people of great values and substance who have achieved lots of great things in life and could be adopted by you as your role models or mentors.

3. It could also come through self confidence i.e. having the belief that you can do it, you can achieve it.

4. It could also come by reading books related to your life ambitions and also motivational writings from prolific writers that would lift your spirit to achieving excellence.

5. It could also come by getting close to texts from the Holy book. Reason being that the daily confession of these inspirational texts from either the Bible or Quran could help towards guiding you to fulfilling your heart desires.

The essence of motivation is that it gets you focused to accomplishing the set goals you have highlighted and to achieving things of utmost priority in life. It also assists to guide you along the road to achieving success in those set goals of yours and also shaping your life aspirations to its full realization.

The detriments of lack of motivation in a life could bring about mediocrity in that person’s dealings. For instance, a person who is good at writing fiction stories and lacks motivation in these aspects might produce not well enough result with his ability.

WAYS TO GET SOMEONE MOTIVATED.
1. Showing love and attention to the individual.
2. Using kind and encouraging words.
3. Close monitoring and supervision.

These could go a long way to getting an individual motivated because it makes the individual feel a sense of value and through this, hidden treasures, ideas, talents could begin to show up in the individual and your ability to back up the individual with these three (3) ways would not only save him, the nation but change the lives of the people around for the better.

Finally, MOTIVATION yields success. So your ability to get it through the Most High God, self, family, friends, or mentors who are positive minded is a clinical instrument to accomplishing great ideas, dreams and most importantly, living a successful life.

BECOMING A FINANCIALLY STABLE YOUTH.

As the only boy in a family of five, Oladapo enjoyed wholesome benefits of being the only son in the family. He had what he wanted at the snap of his fingers from his parents and even over joyous relatives far and near extended their kind hand of gestures by providing so many material things mostly money to him.

He enjoyed and had a nice time growing up even to his youthful age. Hardly did he ever think that the hands of time may change to the extent that the whole happy scene of his might be put to a halt someday. At his early 20’s, his parents began to experience hard times financially and even the relatives who exchange hands of kind gestures with him began to withdraw speedily. At a time, everything came to a standstill that he hardly was able to survive the hard times.

You see, I know you wouldn’t want to be in Oladapo’s shoes because the happy times all ended in a very ugly manner. Come to think of it, assuming Oladapo had established the art of saving, he wouldn’t have fallen into this kind of situation. You know, growing up as a child to the adolescent and up to the youthful age, you experience so many gestures ranging from material things such as money, gifts and so on. It is expected that parts and if not all of these should be saved well because you never can tell what kind of situation would warrant this act of yours.

Becoming a financially stable youth starts from the very tender age and the only key to realizing this is inculcating and establishing the art of saving in yourself. It doesn’t matter if you had age long shied from the art of saving. You could start now.

There are so many benefits attached to this act which ranges from;

Ø Living a financially stable life after a degree at the university during the period when you are in the search for a job.

Ø Living a well planned and successful future when the whole lot after years of saving is being invested in the purchase of shares and securities which could serve as a means of quarterly or yearly income for you.

Ø Earning a living by establishing a business of your own where the whole lot being saved could be added to support the capital you want to use to start.

Ø Serving as an added supplement to your financial upkeep in school in case your parent’s financial status turns poor.

Ø Making you reduce your spending habits by adopting the scale of preference approach.

Ø Helping you develop managerial skill as this would later in future contribute immensely to your financial life.

These and many more benefits can be derived only if you embrace the art of saving because those who have lived or are living a financially stable life as youths made sacrifices and the art of saving is one.

REVIVING THE SPIRIT OF HONESTY.

In the past, dissemination of information and fact finding was a great challenge for most people especially the youths who needed to make different researches on various topics pertaining to their course of study, people’s way of life, and sometimes the ecosystem i.e. the environment we all live in.

Little did we know that all these problems we faced in our quest to getting solutions to most of these researches is going to be a thing of the past until the advent of the internet.

So many of us are now exposed to the various uses of the World Wide Web as it now solves many of the problems we encounter when making researches. We all give kudos to the originator of the internet till date. But because of the vast use of this powerful machine of our time which has made almost all things pertaining to information easily assessable, some youths have devised various fraudulent ways of its use ranging from cybercrimes such as illegal hacking of accounts, duping of valuables such as money from various individuals, faking of identity online, scamming and many other cyber related offences.

Many cyber café operators have been closed down because of police harassment or have adopted strict conditions on its services to the public just because of the devastating use of the internet mostly by some of us. Recently, five undergraduates were arrested by the police for various cybercrimes.

We need to look deep down inside of ourselves and have a great re-think as the future leaders of tomorrow. This unholy verge on acquiring fast wealth won’t lead us anywhere. It would only tarnish our reputation slowly and destroy that honest spirit in us. Have you ever had a deep thought on the phrase “what ever you work for lasts for long”? If you have, you would at least agree with me that patience pays.

Let us all embrace the genuine benefits that the internet has got in stock for us as there are more legal ways of making a living online rather than using various dishonest means to get wealthy.

Shun any act of dishonesty in you as being honest has a greater role to play in protecting your identity.

LEARN FROM OTHERS MISTAKES.

The Longman dictionary of contemporary English describes a mistake as something unwise or stupid that someone does and later regrets doing afterwards. It is bound to be made by anybody at any point in time and it is usually followed by a correction. A saying that ‘you learn from your own mistakes’ so that another of that kind would not be made next time is a rampant thought by many people.

But have you ever observed the dangers attributed to this? I mean have you ever witnessed or felt the inconveniences encountered in the quest to learning from your own mistakes?

A 1001 mistakes are made by individuals on hourly, daily or weekly basis and many if not all of these mistakes are being communicated through so many means so as to be aware of them, ways to avoiding or averting such occurrences and the various avenues to making corrections to those mistakes. For instance, many youths are being faced by this ugly situation of learning from their mistakes and to making amendments to this, they sometimes have to go through hardship to correcting themselves and even suffer the detriments or the havoc being caused by their mistakes which might have been the act of taking wrong decisions.

To recover from this old saying which has eaten deep into many minds, we have to reawaken our intelligence quotient as youths by taking a step forward to making positive use of the pieces of information we get about others mistakes.

This would not only improve our sense of responsibility, save us from unnecessary stress in correcting what might have been avoided but prepare us adequately for the challenges we would face in our respective fields and eventually building a greater tomorrow for us all.