I know what it means to gain someone's trust and to have it withdrawn from you. It can be a slow climb to reconciliation even after forgiveness. Trust is a precious 🎁. It's a super expensive currency above money. It generates profit for me even while I sleep. I have tasted what it means to be involved in work you enjoy, where time is eternal, and 8hrs seems like 1hr, where the weekend is a distraction, and the weekdays are action 🎬 packed! I know how it feels to be praised monumentally and to be bashed for one error, with all your good works in the past forgotten. The praise of men is like chewing gum, never to be swallowed. I am a long-term student of delayed gratification. I know how it feels to want to spend on yourself but have to arrest that desire so others can be helped. I am a decade long in that school. It's a school that seems to have no graduation date yet. I am aggressively looking forward to the days when I can have my desires fulfilled as well as that of o...

Routines help. There are days of strength and days of weakness. Days when you have fire in your bones, days when you feel deflated. Routines help with synchronization. There are days I wake up feeling as if my day was aimless. But when I remember my routine, I have something I can use to coordinate myself, otherwise I will feel I wasted my day. These routines are definitely defined and preplanned. You cannot be creating one on the day you need it. It just reminds you that there is work to be done, deliverables to be delivered. It keeps me in check. It takes 69 days to create a habit. Consistency is mighty. The results are beautiful if you do the discipline. I am always reminded by Robin Sharma in his book, the 5 am club, that "successful people (like me) have formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do. Top producers make it a habit to do the high-value activities that average ones don't feel like doing, even when they don't feel like doing them.”

My preparation out of season is more important to me than what I do in season. I have always understood that, for example, if you want to be nice to your customers at work, and you find that you are always livid or you have a short span of patience towards them, the total solution is not just a one-hour motivational talk or coaching during work. It's more about incorporating niceness into your lifestyle. You have to be intentional nice outside work, when you don't need it, when you are not being corporately assessed on niceness. If you can win that out of season or out of work discipline, it would spill over into work effortless because you have now built yourself that way, it's now your personality, rather than an occasional performance or a hat that you wear on and off. Any skill you want to have for work has to be diligently pursed when you don't need it. The goal is to routinize it so you can output it always. If I want to bring creative ideas to work daily, I must ...

It is more blessed to give than to receive. It's more productive to give than to receive. The reward for giving is the opportunity to give more. Your capacity can never be expanded or stretched staying only in the receiver mode. Receivers tend to be followers and docile, while givers are in the proactive zone. When I think of giving, my landscape is beyond money. I think of ideas, solving problems, sharing solutions. The world is pushed forward by givers who are the ones willing to give their lives to create solutions. It is a sin not to be innovative, not to be a contributor or a value distributor. When I meet a person of influence, my outlook is to seek to add value to that person, to give upwards, not to receive 1st. Influencers know pests and cannot be intimate with such. Why do we acquire more knowledge, why do we research, why do we meditate, why do we welcome interesting challenges? Because they are bread for us. It is a thing of Joy to be the solution or to be the differenc...

Talking about the "what I am passionate about" conversation. That is a question I have no consistent answer to you. Does it mean I halt my life till that question is answered? No. It's always in my consciousness to know what I was born to do. Every fibre of my being desires to latch on to what it is. It is the longing of my heart all day and night. I will find it . Between then and now, I will be faithful and diligent in what I find to do with my hands. I have learnt that the way to develop interest in what you have no interest or flair for is to learn more about it. This takes discipline. Distancing your thoughts and intelligence away from that chore that you abhor will institutionalize the apathy. This trouble with this distancing mindset is that it wastes precious time, and you have no story to tell also of how you got victory in this situation because one thing is for sure, many are in the same arrangement in life. What story can you give to inspire someone going thro...

  Who do people say you are? While we must not live our lives for people or wear whatever cloak men are actively attempting to put on us, what they say about us is also important. We will not always be able to speak for ourselves under all circumstances. People and influencers will not always have the opportunity to ask things of you first hand or hear your own side of the story. This is why one needs a conscious and consistent plan to project the type of image you want the world to have of you, whether you feel like it or not. We are all brands, and any brand with a conflicting message or purpose will generate staggering sales and curtailed lifespan. The plan should be that if 10 people are approached to give a comment about you, 8 out of 10 should say the same thing about you at least in one or two areas. So, think about the value you want your brand (which is YOU) to project and be intentional about showing up daily delivering that brand promise, otherwise society would label yo...

  What it means to be responsible. It's a narrow road. A life of no blames. I am learning the discipline of living a life of no blames. This is what it means to be responsible for me. No more saying "I am this way because that person did this, or the economy is the reason for why my life is going this way, or the company I work for is the reason my income hasn't gone up." The eyes of no one open up thinking this way. Nobody's inner infrastructure develops thinking this way. Leaders don't think this way. The late Dr. Myles Monroe once said that leaders have no problems, only opportunities. You cannot gripe and receive wisdom at the same time. This road is a narrow road as it forces the mind to stretch and expands your capacity. Even when the mistake comes from the followers or the members you lead, you must own it and declare that this would not have happened if you had mentored them well. This forces you to reappraise your approach and to seek ways to navigate...

  I must give honour and credit to the influencers of my decision to begin blogging. First, I decided to learn how to build a website with blogger and WordPress. After learning, the next question staring me in the face was, "What do I write about?" Then I heard Dr. Cindy Trimm say she writes 1000 words daily. I was like, okay. Seth Godin peppered the thought by saying he blogs daily. I heard these two thoughts within a week. My excuses were punctured. I had to get to work. The goal is to blog daily. Even if my writing is below par, I will fail my way to success. We have set our hands to the plough, no turning back.  Thank you, Dr. Trim, thank you, Seth!