Good Morning class, for the past two days I have not being opportune to access the Internet due to some constraint but that is over for now. You may not really relied solely on technology because they do fail. Our study guide is still Ralph Waldo Emerson. The great grandmaster of American transcendent philosopher If you have not receive a free copy of his essay on pdf request for it free of charge at
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Have you ever imagined the work of a driver in a bus? Turning the steering
wheel, engaging the gears, ensuring smooth movement of the vehicle, the
task is essentially the same for a pilot and a sea captain. Smooth journey, sail
and air safety point to the same goal of efficient and effective movement
from place to place and safety of lives and properties. Can you now imagine
a fast speeding bus, train, ship or plane without a driver? What comes to
your mind? Accident, disaster, loss of lives and properties. The same is true
of a life that is not taken control of; such a life is heading to no where but
disaster.
We must learn to take control of our life, of our destiny. We must utilize
every resources of nature within us to realize our dreams, our goals and
aspirations. We must learn to do one thing and that is to take personal
responsibility for how our life turns out. Often times, we gave the control of
our live to external people, we surrender our lives to them and when we fail
to live up to the expectation of our dreams, we blame those we surrender our
lives to, for their failure to realize our dreams for us. Citizens blame their
government for bad roads, lack of electricity, poor standard of education and
so on. Husbands blame their wives for their failure and bad luck, wives,
blame their husbands for promises of heaven on the earth that refuses to
materialize. Workers blame their employers for low wages and unfavorable
working environment, organization blame their staff and management for
low productivity and returns to stakeholders. Friends, we must learn to take
personal responsibility for our lives whether good, bad or ugly. We must be
ready to bear all the praises and the blame for our life.
Most people we depend upon for help also have a litany of their own
headaches. They do not have enough room on their heads to bear other
people’s headaches. It is your personal efforts that really count. Man is
designed to stretch himself by all means.
We live very close to nature and we could see that the elements are dynamic
and in constant motion, working around the nucleus and vibrating eternally,
working in harmony with the law of nature. Man, being part of the nature is
supposed to join the dynamic motion of the elements. If he can not fly, he
should run, if he cannot run he should walk, if he cannot walk, he should
crawl and if not, he should roll on the ground. The rule of the jungle is to
wake up and start running less we are consumed.
The law of nature recognizes not the weak; the weak are destined to
extinction. Life is about the survival of the fittest mentally, spiritually,
physically, financially economically and so on. Man, due to freedom of
choice and freewill, often choose the least path of resistance, he wants peace
and ease. We choose to believe contrary to the universal law and act
contrary to the law of nature itself. We act by the law of belief and hope that
some how, someway, through some mysterious and miraculous our goals
will be realized, our needs will be met. We erroneously believe the word of
the master out of context, that the bird of the air neither sow nor reap yet
your heavenly father feeds them, forgetting that the bird must leave its nest
and fly in search of food, locate the best field and watch out for stones and
other predators, before they can partake of the food provided by the master.
We have also forgotten that the intelligence that created our world worked
six days and night before resting on the seventh day.
Most of us believe that we do not have the right tools or the necessary
capital input to create or take charge of our lives. But nobody has capital to
start with in the first place. The capital you need is your brain that has
billions of active cells, your two hands and two legs. What capital did the
infinite intelligence have in creating the heaven and the earth? What capital
did the pilgrims have in creating the United States of America? What capital
did Henry Ford have in creating Ford Motor Company? In fact he was
working double shift in the morning with Edison Electrical Company and in
the night in his garage. What capital did Bill Gates have to create Microsoft?
Friend, nobody starts with capital. The only capital is you. All you need is
refinement. Refine your speaking and writing ability, become more
persuasive so that you can impress people to buy into your idea. Refine your
language, refine your intelligence. What capital do you need to refine
yourself? All you need is time, discipline, books, cassettes, tapes, teachers,
mentor, Pastor, Imam, Priest, Internet and so on.
You are the epitome of the creation, the envy of the celestial being, the
crown of the creation with a divine mandate to dominate. When I consider
what man has done, what he is still doing and the possibility of future
accomplishments, I marvel at possibilities in man. In the last century, man
has been able to travel to the moon thousands of Kilometers away into the
space, he has succeeded in placing countless satellites into the orbit that
beam telecommunication waves to the earth and weather satellites which
now forecast rainfall, sunshine humidity with precision. Man has been able
to shrink time through the internet, email, text messages, GSM and so on.
Man can now travel at a speed faster than sound. You can eat breakfast in
Lagos, Nigeria, Lunch in Heathrow, London and dinner in Tokyo, Japan.
Man has been able to harness the power that is in the atom both for good and
for evil. No wonder David Jesse said we are fearfully and wonderfully made.
Friends, why are you crying, why are you fearful, if mere mortal men have
stepped on the surface of the moon, designed supersonic jet, conducted brain
surgery, then you are powerful beyond comprehension.
Having realized the stuff you are made of, it is high time we stand up and
take charge and take control of our lives, by taking personal responsibility
for our success and failure. We must know that things don’t just happen.
Remember Sir Isaac Newton’s Law of motion “Every object continues in a
state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line”. Are you static in one
place? Move to action; take a personal responsibility for your life thereby
starting a uniform motion in an up line direction. Not doing something
everyday means that you are in a state of rest. Let this message serve a law
of momentum to you, an external force acting on a stationary object, forcing
it into motion.
This can be simply done by having a purpose like Henry Ford whose
purpose is to make cars for the people from best possible materials at a
reasonable price which is affordable to all men, earning average wages. Like
Andrew Carnegie, the organizer of United Steel, whose major purpose is to
make money for the first part of his life and invest it in people for the second
part of his life, which he did. What is your own purpose, your dream, your
aspiration? Make a goal out of it, break down the goal to weekly, monthly
realizable goals and start working round the clock to achieve your goal.
Never wait or complain for lack of tools, for better tools will come your way
when you effectively and efficiently use the tools that you have at hand.
Remember that many people are in your shoes, who do not have the
opportunity that you have but with the little opportunity they had they are
self reliant today. For you to be able to read this write up means that you are
literate to a level. Some can neither read nor write but they have millions of
money at their disposal. With your own more than twenty years plus of
education you are still a weakling, needing help from your parents who have
fend for you for so long. It is time to severe that tie and launch into the
world by taking personal control and charge of your life.
See you in the next class, don't forget to invite your friend to join us in this class. You are also free to refute, agree and disagree, advise or write for this class. Remember to bring in your friend to the class. Thank you so much
Friday, May 28, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Book Recommendation By Dare KingWax
Hi, it's dare again! I call myself the great KINGwax. Just 3months ago
i discovered that it pays well to steal a book from a vault than gold.
And that formidable act, just did in february. It's not that i
actually stole the book as written, but i took it at first, without my
bosses permission. And when after finishing reading it, i told him i
took a book from his car and I'll like to have it returned. To my
surprise, he only replied, "what book? How does it look like?". I
described the book and told him the author but the response was still
negative, so i kept it!( i know it's bad but...)
The author is Myles Monroe. He's a founder and Pastor of bahamas faith
ministries international. The title is " releasing your potentials ".
As much as the book emphasized on self reliance with the claim that
God has given everyone a kind of gift that will ensure the survival
against poverty and slavery, it also made us understand that we must
connect our self onto God, our only source. Pray to Him for guidance
and He'll ensure our success. And most importantly, it refutes the
act of going to the devil or doing the dishonest in order to make it.
That was why i loved a quote from that book; 'you can't expect God to
fix you if you are going to satan for repair'.
There are lots to learn. I think I'll need to steal one!
Oops! Don't! Cos if you steal, you are definitely against God. It's
cheap. I found out it's just #600. Stay blessed and thanks.
Ben Abbey is a Self Development Expert, a reputable Coach and an Instructor about Life and utmost living. He can be reached at benabbey2010@gmail.com or call 08121158104
i discovered that it pays well to steal a book from a vault than gold.
And that formidable act, just did in february. It's not that i
actually stole the book as written, but i took it at first, without my
bosses permission. And when after finishing reading it, i told him i
took a book from his car and I'll like to have it returned. To my
surprise, he only replied, "what book? How does it look like?". I
described the book and told him the author but the response was still
negative, so i kept it!( i know it's bad but...)
The author is Myles Monroe. He's a founder and Pastor of bahamas faith
ministries international. The title is " releasing your potentials ".
As much as the book emphasized on self reliance with the claim that
God has given everyone a kind of gift that will ensure the survival
against poverty and slavery, it also made us understand that we must
connect our self onto God, our only source. Pray to Him for guidance
and He'll ensure our success. And most importantly, it refutes the
act of going to the devil or doing the dishonest in order to make it.
That was why i loved a quote from that book; 'you can't expect God to
fix you if you are going to satan for repair'.
There are lots to learn. I think I'll need to steal one!
Oops! Don't! Cos if you steal, you are definitely against God. It's
cheap. I found out it's just #600. Stay blessed and thanks.
Ben Abbey is a Self Development Expert, a reputable Coach and an Instructor about Life and utmost living. He can be reached at benabbey2010@gmail.com or call 08121158104
The Purpose of Our Lifes
What a great weekend we had. have you bother to ask yourself why are you here on this planet Earth?. What is the purpose of your existence. is it to marry, have children raise them and die. Is it to wake up in the morning rush out to the office come back late in the night day in day out, week in week out, month in month out, year in year out.
Class, if you have not ponder this question in your heart, it is high time you sit down. Think very well and come up with a reasonable answer on why you are here. That should be the basis of our education in the first instance and parent have a long way to go in identifying their children gifting and help mold them in the direction of their gifting so that they can flow and bless their generation with their gift.
Emerson will still guide us today and what does he have to say about our purpose:
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, to be compassionate,
to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well… To know that even one
life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can find your purpose by being useful in some way or the other to the society where you live, to the people in your surrounding,to your nation by becoming valuable to the world with the gifting that you possess. Look deep into your being and come out with a gift, can you teach as I am doing please do it, Can you compose a song, or write a hymn, please go a head do so. Can you mix flower differently and come up with a great recipe please go a head, can you go to the nearest hospital and touch the sick with compassion please go head.
You don't need capital for all these all you need is passion to leave our world better than the way you find it. leave our world better than we find it. Do you know the following people leave the world better than they find it:
Mother Theresa She does not have any money, she does not have any power she just love street people of India. She left Scotland and spend the rest of her life in India. She lived, dined, with the poor of India.
Martin Luther King Jr The guy is just an ordinary Pastor of a local Baptist Church, but discovering that he is has the gift of speech he used it to liberate whole oppressed black American from the shackle of segregation. The guy has a dream that one day on the red clay of Georgia the children of the black and white will play together Today we have a BLACK man in a WHITE house.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo this man had a gift of leadership and today the Western part of Nigeria will alway relish is legacies in The First Indigenous university in Nigeria, the first TV station inn Africa, The first twenty five stories building in Nigeria and so many first.
Friends what are you going to give to our world. We are waiting for your gift. Because you live some other people must better for it. We are still reading Emerson Book, Self Reliance and it is available free of charge from:
benabbey2010@gmail.com
I will be glad to receive your friends here also. See you guys in the next class
Class, if you have not ponder this question in your heart, it is high time you sit down. Think very well and come up with a reasonable answer on why you are here. That should be the basis of our education in the first instance and parent have a long way to go in identifying their children gifting and help mold them in the direction of their gifting so that they can flow and bless their generation with their gift.
Emerson will still guide us today and what does he have to say about our purpose:
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can find your purpose by being useful in some way or the other to the society where you live, to the people in your surrounding,to your nation by becoming valuable to the world with the gifting that you possess. Look deep into your being and come out with a gift, can you teach as I am doing please do it, Can you compose a song, or write a hymn, please go a head do so. Can you mix flower differently and come up with a great recipe please go a head, can you go to the nearest hospital and touch the sick with compassion please go head.
You don't need capital for all these all you need is passion to leave our world better than the way you find it. leave our world better than we find it. Do you know the following people leave the world better than they find it:
Mother Theresa She does not have any money, she does not have any power she just love street people of India. She left Scotland and spend the rest of her life in India. She lived, dined, with the poor of India.
Martin Luther King Jr The guy is just an ordinary Pastor of a local Baptist Church, but discovering that he is has the gift of speech he used it to liberate whole oppressed black American from the shackle of segregation. The guy has a dream that one day on the red clay of Georgia the children of the black and white will play together Today we have a BLACK man in a WHITE house.
Chief Obafemi Awolowo this man had a gift of leadership and today the Western part of Nigeria will alway relish is legacies in The First Indigenous university in Nigeria, the first TV station inn Africa, The first twenty five stories building in Nigeria and so many first.
Friends what are you going to give to our world. We are waiting for your gift. Because you live some other people must better for it. We are still reading Emerson Book, Self Reliance and it is available free of charge from:
benabbey2010@gmail.com
I will be glad to receive your friends here also. See you guys in the next class
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Re capping for the Week
Dear all, while I will not like to disturb your weekend with my talk. I just feel we should re cap what we have learn so far.
The Academy was launched this week both at:
http:benabbey-successacademy-blogspot.com
also we also have a sister group on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=1228478810707648&v=wall
We started our study with Self Reliance a book by Ralph Waldo Emerson and so far we have treated topics such as:
1. Stand up to your Challenge
2. God will not have HIS work made. manifest by a coward
3. At the Core of Freedom is Self Reliance
We also shared Dare experience at trusting people. Friends my advise is that you take time to go through the writing again and see any area that affect you or where you are letting down work on it and straighten yourself out. It take conscious effort to rise.
Remember failure is very easy just do nothing and you fail. But to succeed it take active effort it take sweat, it take blood. So take time to give it what it take and you will go ahead to shine.
Do not forget to request for Easy of Ralph Waldo Emerson it is free from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Also if you like this academy why not invite your friends to join us. Both at the blogger.com and facebook the url address is in the first paragraph.
Finally if you have any group meetings, conference, convention, men or women fellowship, NASFAT, we will be glad to share the occasion with you. Teaching the little Wisdom we have glean from books and men that have gone before us . You can reach us at
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Do have a nice weekend. See you next week
Ben Abbey is a Self Development Expert, a reputable Coach and an Instructor about Life and utmost living. He can be reached at benabbey2010@gmail.com or call 08121158104
The Academy was launched this week both at:
http:benabbey-successacademy-blogspot.com
also we also have a sister group on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=1228478810707648&v=wall
We started our study with Self Reliance a book by Ralph Waldo Emerson and so far we have treated topics such as:
1. Stand up to your Challenge
2. God will not have HIS work made. manifest by a coward
3. At the Core of Freedom is Self Reliance
We also shared Dare experience at trusting people. Friends my advise is that you take time to go through the writing again and see any area that affect you or where you are letting down work on it and straighten yourself out. It take conscious effort to rise.
Remember failure is very easy just do nothing and you fail. But to succeed it take active effort it take sweat, it take blood. So take time to give it what it take and you will go ahead to shine.
Do not forget to request for Easy of Ralph Waldo Emerson it is free from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Also if you like this academy why not invite your friends to join us. Both at the blogger.com and facebook the url address is in the first paragraph.
Finally if you have any group meetings, conference, convention, men or women fellowship, NASFAT, we will be glad to share the occasion with you. Teaching the little Wisdom we have glean from books and men that have gone before us . You can reach us at
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Do have a nice weekend. See you next week
Ben Abbey is a Self Development Expert, a reputable Coach and an Instructor about Life and utmost living. He can be reached at benabbey2010@gmail.com or call 08121158104
Friday, May 21, 2010
Stand up to your Challenge
I am happy to be here today. I am the most happiest person, whenever I stand up to teach. Hope you are following this class and you are gaining one thing or the other from this class. Your comment, criticism, praise, blame are welcome. I also accept all blame for any error you can spot.
We are still on Self Reliance an Essay by American foremost philosophers and an easiest Ralph Waldo Emerson. Many people will prefer American Visa to wisdom that built America. Some will prefer the Gold and Silver than the wonderful lamp that is producing it, because it is old and dirty. Friend Wisdom is the principal thing in all your getting get understanding. We must learn to seek light in all dark areas of our life.
Emerson is still our guide in our journey to Self Reliance let us here what he has to tell us today:
"And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; andnot minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution,and advancing on Chaos and the Dark".
We must stand up as men, to face all challenges that will come our ways. Perish the thought that you will not go through hardship, temptations, trials, lack of one thing or the other loss of job, love ones and what have you, even the rich also cries, In fact the world we live in now is getting more tougher by the day. Man is born into trouble says the old poet and Emmanuel the prince says, in the world you will face tribulation and trials.
Friends what are you suppose to do when you face a difficult situation, cry, raise your hand up in surrender, fret, run away or what? Emerson will also guide us here you must face the situation, you must stand your ground, you must fight with everything that is within you. You must turn things around for the better. There is a great power within you like Emerson told us yesterday:
"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
There is a great power within you, call the power out in all your challenges, remember that apart from the muscular power that is visible. you still have spiritual power that you can call upon in the time of trouble, you also possess the power of the soul that you can muster to fight your way through to victory. You are not to run in the day of battle you must fight. You must fight for your economic survival, don't wait for life to happen to you don't wait for your government, do not depend on nobody. think of what you can do for yourself and your nation.
I will not like to take too much of your time. I leave you to meditate on my little talk.I will like to conclude with the word of Obama in his inaugural address:
"America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations".
Remember this is a class your experience, your contribution, your criticism will go along way to shape the class for the good of all. If you have not received your own copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson Book we are reading write to
benabbey2010@gmail.com
It will be delivered promptly, also we will appreciate it, if you can invite your friend here let them subscribe with their mail. Join us on face book at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122847881070764&ref=mf
Love you and see you tomorrow
We are still on Self Reliance an Essay by American foremost philosophers and an easiest Ralph Waldo Emerson. Many people will prefer American Visa to wisdom that built America. Some will prefer the Gold and Silver than the wonderful lamp that is producing it, because it is old and dirty. Friend Wisdom is the principal thing in all your getting get understanding. We must learn to seek light in all dark areas of our life.
Emerson is still our guide in our journey to Self Reliance let us here what he has to tell us today:
"And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and
We must stand up as men, to face all challenges that will come our ways. Perish the thought that you will not go through hardship, temptations, trials, lack of one thing or the other loss of job, love ones and what have you, even the rich also cries, In fact the world we live in now is getting more tougher by the day. Man is born into trouble says the old poet and Emmanuel the prince says, in the world you will face tribulation and trials.
Friends what are you suppose to do when you face a difficult situation, cry, raise your hand up in surrender, fret, run away or what? Emerson will also guide us here you must face the situation, you must stand your ground, you must fight with everything that is within you. You must turn things around for the better. There is a great power within you like Emerson told us yesterday:
"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
There is a great power within you, call the power out in all your challenges, remember that apart from the muscular power that is visible. you still have spiritual power that you can call upon in the time of trouble, you also possess the power of the soul that you can muster to fight your way through to victory. You are not to run in the day of battle you must fight. You must fight for your economic survival, don't wait for life to happen to you don't wait for your government, do not depend on nobody. think of what you can do for yourself and your nation.
I will not like to take too much of your time. I leave you to meditate on my little talk.I will like to conclude with the word of Obama in his inaugural address:
"America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations".
Remember this is a class your experience, your contribution, your criticism will go along way to shape the class for the good of all. If you have not received your own copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson Book we are reading write to
benabbey2010@gmail.com
It will be delivered promptly, also we will appreciate it, if you can invite your friend here let them subscribe with their mail. Join us on face book at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=122847881070764&ref=mf
Love you and see you tomorrow
Thursday, May 20, 2010
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
It is a new day and you are welcome to another opportunity, a new and fresh capital of Twenty four hours has just being handed over to your hand. Looking from my Window I can see so many activities going on. While some are busy talking and arguing over the Newspapers vendor enjoying their own fare share of the day. Some are busy with transport Business calling passenger to come in to various destination such as Yaba, Oshodi, Ikeja, Iyana Ipaja, Obalande CMS etc. So many people are flocking out to go to their place of work. In all you do make sure you are not wasting your time. Make sure you are enjoying your self. Remember you can not bring yesterday back, it is filed away.
I will like to welcome our newest student to the class in person of Felix, by now he should have received two e books complete work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a summary of the book by my dear friend Brian Johnson of the www.philosophersnotes.com. As I said in the mail sent to him, Self Reliance essay we are studying is on page 52 of the book. The essay is a must read for all. There is hardly any American author that will not quote Emerson.
Back to the business of the day Emerson is still guiding us on our journey of Self Reliance:
"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards".
Cowards!!! are you one? In all of us is this monster pulling us back from trying great thing, from living our dream. It is this monster that keep us perpetually on a job though killing us, but we fear if our dream does not work. Who will foot the bills. We have forgotten that the present job we are dying to hold unto was a dream of somebody who dare to bring their dream to reality. So many dream are dead and buried because of this monster. I will advise you never let your dream die, bring it out. Even if it does not work there is no crime. You will be pardon for a failure, but you will be disciplined for non trying at all, remember the parable of the talent in the scripture.
God cannot stand a coward. When commissioning Joshua the only instruction giving to him is to be strong and courageous. The instruction was repeated severally. Nobody is born with courage neither were your born with cowardice. But over time due to influence here and there, training majorly done by fear we have being molded by society to fear their fear to respect their taboo.
Friends be bold enough to leave without fear of future. Bring out your brain child your idea, cloth your thought with flesh. Don't let your idea die with you let them see the light of the day.
It has being your teacher Ben. Remember we are reading Emerson Essay Self Reliance the whole ebook is available free of charge at;
benabbey2010@gmail.com
If you are on facebook you can join us at http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=122847881070764 If you like these lecture on Self Reliance may be your friends may also like it why not refer them here. Do not forget that you can also teach us something and remember it is a school you are free to disagree with Emerson or myself with strong reason that make it more lively. See you in the next class Please don't waste your time
I will like to welcome our newest student to the class in person of Felix, by now he should have received two e books complete work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a summary of the book by my dear friend Brian Johnson of the www.philosophersnotes.com. As I said in the mail sent to him, Self Reliance essay we are studying is on page 52 of the book. The essay is a must read for all. There is hardly any American author that will not quote Emerson.
Back to the business of the day Emerson is still guiding us on our journey of Self Reliance:
"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards".
Cowards!!! are you one? In all of us is this monster pulling us back from trying great thing, from living our dream. It is this monster that keep us perpetually on a job though killing us, but we fear if our dream does not work. Who will foot the bills. We have forgotten that the present job we are dying to hold unto was a dream of somebody who dare to bring their dream to reality. So many dream are dead and buried because of this monster. I will advise you never let your dream die, bring it out. Even if it does not work there is no crime. You will be pardon for a failure, but you will be disciplined for non trying at all, remember the parable of the talent in the scripture.
God cannot stand a coward. When commissioning Joshua the only instruction giving to him is to be strong and courageous. The instruction was repeated severally. Nobody is born with courage neither were your born with cowardice. But over time due to influence here and there, training majorly done by fear we have being molded by society to fear their fear to respect their taboo.
Friends be bold enough to leave without fear of future. Bring out your brain child your idea, cloth your thought with flesh. Don't let your idea die with you let them see the light of the day.
It has being your teacher Ben. Remember we are reading Emerson Essay Self Reliance the whole ebook is available free of charge at;
benabbey2010@gmail.com
If you are on facebook you can join us at http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=122847881070764 If you like these lecture on Self Reliance may be your friends may also like it why not refer them here. Do not forget that you can also teach us something and remember it is a school you are free to disagree with Emerson or myself with strong reason that make it more lively. See you in the next class Please don't waste your time
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
At the Core of Freedom is Self Reliance
Good morning friends, how was your night, hope you had a nice one like I did. If you have not requested for your Essay of Ralph Waldo Emerson our main text on Self Reliance please do so.
It is available free of charge at benabbey2010@gmail.com
To understand why you need to rely on yourself and not on your Uncle, Brother, Sister, Government, Church, Mosque you need to read the essays of Emerson.
In a conventional school you normally start with definition, what is? Advantage and all sort but here it will not be so. Normally there is no school that teaches you to rely on yourself for your survival.
The core of the curriculum of the conventional school only teaches you to rely on corporation, to rely on government and individuals. Here it will not be so, because if there is a failure of the entity you relied on automatically you are a failure. If Government fails like Greece government is failing all the citizen that relied on their government fails. If corporation fails as they often do, due to mismanagement all the staff also fails and don't forget that management failure is noticeable with the sack of the junior staffs.
When Oceanic Bank, Intercontinental Bank failed the staff got the axe. Friends you cannot afford to leave your life management at the disposal of external forces. You must be responsible for your life.
The core of true freedom is Self Reliant. Let us go to Emerson to guide us
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried".
You must learn to rely solely on yourself, on your ability, on your ingenuity. You must learn to tap into yourself the power within you is new in nature and it is only you that can bring it out. Friends you are fearfully and wonderfully made. you are a poet, an author, a musician, a footballer, a Doctor, a Philosopher a teacher like me I can see Handel in you, I can see Michael Angelo in you, I can see Chief Obafemi Awolowo in you. I can see Steve Job in you, I can see Michael Jordan In you, I can see Chief M K O Abiola in you, I can see greatness in you, it is in you bring it out. Don't die in Portiphars house you belong to the palace. Stop imitating your friends who go to school, graduate serve Nigeria and look for job like everybody does. Stop it, you are different. Create a job, employ yourself employ others. Turn things around. You can allow greatness to die withing you or you can bring it out for the world to see.
'No kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till'
Though, you are loaded with good and greatness you must learn to TOIL, work hard on yourself at refining the the talent embedded within you. Greatness doesn't fall on people you have to work hard to bring it to pass and you have a choice to make it or to mar it. Look at athlete and footballers they train for hours upon hours preparing for 2minute hundred meters race or ninety minute football session.
Imagine the number of hour invested in training by all the team preparing for the World Cup, they are still training all of them have a training camp. Friend Hope you have pick one thing or the other in this morning class see you in the next class.
Before I leave you don't forget to share your story with us, so we can learn to rely on ourselves and no other person, not even a wife on her husband, children on their parent everybody here has a cross to carry. So carry your own I will carry my own. The book that is guiding us is still Self Reliant by Ralph Waldo Emerson and it is available free of charge from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Also you can share your story and if these appeal to you don't forget to get your friend to subscribe. see you latter
It is available free of charge at benabbey2010@gmail.com
To understand why you need to rely on yourself and not on your Uncle, Brother, Sister, Government, Church, Mosque you need to read the essays of Emerson.
In a conventional school you normally start with definition, what is? Advantage and all sort but here it will not be so. Normally there is no school that teaches you to rely on yourself for your survival.
The core of the curriculum of the conventional school only teaches you to rely on corporation, to rely on government and individuals. Here it will not be so, because if there is a failure of the entity you relied on automatically you are a failure. If Government fails like Greece government is failing all the citizen that relied on their government fails. If corporation fails as they often do, due to mismanagement all the staff also fails and don't forget that management failure is noticeable with the sack of the junior staffs.
When Oceanic Bank, Intercontinental Bank failed the staff got the axe. Friends you cannot afford to leave your life management at the disposal of external forces. You must be responsible for your life.
The core of true freedom is Self Reliant. Let us go to Emerson to guide us
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried".
You must learn to rely solely on yourself, on your ability, on your ingenuity. You must learn to tap into yourself the power within you is new in nature and it is only you that can bring it out. Friends you are fearfully and wonderfully made. you are a poet, an author, a musician, a footballer, a Doctor, a Philosopher a teacher like me I can see Handel in you, I can see Michael Angelo in you, I can see Chief Obafemi Awolowo in you. I can see Steve Job in you, I can see Michael Jordan In you, I can see Chief M K O Abiola in you, I can see greatness in you, it is in you bring it out. Don't die in Portiphars house you belong to the palace. Stop imitating your friends who go to school, graduate serve Nigeria and look for job like everybody does. Stop it, you are different. Create a job, employ yourself employ others. Turn things around. You can allow greatness to die withing you or you can bring it out for the world to see.
'No kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till'
Though, you are loaded with good and greatness you must learn to TOIL, work hard on yourself at refining the the talent embedded within you. Greatness doesn't fall on people you have to work hard to bring it to pass and you have a choice to make it or to mar it. Look at athlete and footballers they train for hours upon hours preparing for 2minute hundred meters race or ninety minute football session.
Imagine the number of hour invested in training by all the team preparing for the World Cup, they are still training all of them have a training camp. Friend Hope you have pick one thing or the other in this morning class see you in the next class.
Before I leave you don't forget to share your story with us, so we can learn to rely on ourselves and no other person, not even a wife on her husband, children on their parent everybody here has a cross to carry. So carry your own I will carry my own. The book that is guiding us is still Self Reliant by Ralph Waldo Emerson and it is available free of charge from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Also you can share your story and if these appeal to you don't forget to get your friend to subscribe. see you latter
Dare Experience at Trusting People
Everybody has one challenge one is facing or the other. You cannot trust too much to people even your parent or your close friend let us here from Dare himself
By a name i'm Oludare, and by a nickname i'm the great KINGwax. I use
to see the name 'KINGwax' as a great writer and philosopher, and so i
am.
Right from my secondary school I've been a parasite! Always sucking on
the sap from my parent's tree instead of falling off to be a tree of
my own. What i have forgotten was the fact that when my parents time
is come, so will be mine. It was quite efficacious for me to do while
in the secondary level, since much is not expected to be done. But
when i finished my first diploma(national diploma), i started riding
on the consequences.
My industrial training(I.T) was expected to start immediately after
the last papers of my first diploma. And so with joy, i gave my I.T
letter to my parents with the usual tone,"kindly find me a suitable
place to do my I.T", since i know my dad to be of some meaningful
influence. And so at home i sat, waiting for the letter to yield a
report. Every night when my dad is back from work, i always request a
form of progress report in this manner, "so, how is it?"
"how is what?" he had once replied. "the I.T letter i gave to you! Has
there been any progress in any way?" most times he had forgotten, and
while he hasn't, he is always telling me to be patient that it will
work out". At this stage, it is imperative for me to let you understand
that my dad has the propensity of quickly helping the strangers, but
of his own, he always believed there's no problem. And truly there
ain't, but until it appears like an embarrassment, he'll never run.
It became dawn on me after being sated with siestas and food, and
after my eyes became sore from watching movies, that no help will come
on time. My sister waited on him for 3good years before she busted
outside and secured herself a job. And so, after being stupid for
6months, i secured a teaching job instead of a construction job. The
next year was to be my year of admittance into the Higher national
diploma program. And so i asked my dad to see if one of his friends
could be of a help in making sure my admission will be smooth. He did,
and the fellow asked me to obtain the form. Without hesitation, i did.
I sent my scratch card to a family friend at the cyber cafe to fill the
from for me and send me the printed one i'm supposed to keep. He did
as instructed and was later not admitted, bc os the course in which i
asked him to fill could not be done with the previous knowledge i had
with my national diploma.
I obtained another form with the help of a friend the following year
without a visit to the school. On the submission of the application
form(which is by hand), i found out that i could have applied there if
i had taken my time to obtain the from myself. This left me wasting
3good years. And i learn t my lesson. The following year, i went into
the school in which I've now graduated from as a building technology
student to obtain the form by myself. And even while in school, i
faced so many challenges. The major of which is the issue of I.T that
i had failed to do. All lecturers assumed that we all had our at least
six months industrial training experience, and so all assumed to had
been learned was never relayed or taught over. I had to run and
struggled to keep up with pace by asking lots of questions from
experienced friends. I always feel lost. And at the end, God helped me
emerged as the best student in building technology department, ibadan
polytechnic chapter, 2008/2009 graduants.
But the past still hunts. Many employers has asked for some experience
before accepting to pay your expected salary, or to say no bluntly!
Hope you learn one thing or the other here help your self, don't wait to be helped see you latter in the class. I have being sending Self Reliant out by Ralph Waldo Emerson request for yours it is free from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Poland War Treaty with United Kingdom
During the second world war Poland had a military pact with Great Britain that any country that attacked her will instantly become British enemy. Banking on these pact Poland refused to Armed herself banking on military pact with Great Britain
Unfortunately Poland was attacked by Germany that has built a strong armament of War over the years. Polish Army was over ran within minutes. It took more than five years before any help can come from Great Britain.So many properties and life were destroyed
We are still discussing self reliance and Ralph Waldo Emerson is our guide. Request for your free copy at
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Don't forget to share your story see you at Success Academy
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Unfortunately Poland was attacked by Germany that has built a strong armament of War over the years. Polish Army was over ran within minutes. It took more than five years before any help can come from Great Britain.So many properties and life were destroyed
We are still discussing self reliance and Ralph Waldo Emerson is our guide. Request for your free copy at
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Don't forget to share your story see you at Success Academy
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Essay of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The book we are studying is Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson it is a part of compendium of Essay by the same Author it is available free of charge at
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Please don't forget to send across, your experience in trusting fellow human being and being let down. See you in the next class.
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benabbey2010@gmail.com
Please don't forget to send across, your experience in trusting fellow human being and being let down. See you in the next class.
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You Are Welcome To Success Academy
Since we are not a conventional school you can opt in or out at anytime. But the only requirement you need is that you be ready to read anytime you are with us. We will give out books in PDF format for you to read and little assignment will be given to be submitted.
For the benefit of all I am Ben I will be anchoring this class, do encourage your friend to join us at success academy. so that we can all learn together. Today I am giving out an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled Self Reliant and other Essay in the volume. Our own concern is Self Reliant there other essay like compensation, American Scholar address, Prudent in the long essay it will be pleasurable reading for you.
Trusting others may come with a price, disappointed, delay, there was a story of a farmer who want to bring in his harvest from the field. In his field there live a sparrow with little birds in the next. While walking around his farm the farmer told the Son he will call in his friend and neighbor to come and help with is harvesting in the hearing of the little bird in the nest, when the mother bird came in the little bird inform their mom, we got to move the farmer is about harvesting we over heard him telling his son that he and neighbor will come harvesting.
The mother bird with experience told the little bird not to worry that as long as he relied on the neighbor he will do nothing true to her word the neighbor were too busy to help the farmer. Two week after the farmers said he will call in his friends alone to come and help since they are his friends they must be ready to help.
When the mother bird came the little birds relay the same message also to her but with experience she told them not to worry. true to her word the farmers friend were too busy with their trade to help.
After three weeks the farmer told the son that tomorrow, since help is not coming from both neighbors and friend he must be ready to work, for the harvesting. When the baby bird relay the message, the mother bird moved away that same day. Knowing fully well that when a man come to himself and ready to help himself nothing can stop that resolution.
The farmer came in the second day to start the harvesting but unfortunately there was a heavy rain that washed away the harvest. We must learn to rely on ourselves not on our job, on friend on neighbor or relatives. Rely on nobody but yourselves. That is the crust of the message of Self Reliant by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Please request for Self Reliant and other essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Read it before the next class so that we can share experience together.You can also mail your experience so that I can post it for all to share on relying on other see you in the next class
For the benefit of all I am Ben I will be anchoring this class, do encourage your friend to join us at success academy. so that we can all learn together. Today I am giving out an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson titled Self Reliant and other Essay in the volume. Our own concern is Self Reliant there other essay like compensation, American Scholar address, Prudent in the long essay it will be pleasurable reading for you.
Trusting others may come with a price, disappointed, delay, there was a story of a farmer who want to bring in his harvest from the field. In his field there live a sparrow with little birds in the next. While walking around his farm the farmer told the Son he will call in his friend and neighbor to come and help with is harvesting in the hearing of the little bird in the nest, when the mother bird came in the little bird inform their mom, we got to move the farmer is about harvesting we over heard him telling his son that he and neighbor will come harvesting.
The mother bird with experience told the little bird not to worry that as long as he relied on the neighbor he will do nothing true to her word the neighbor were too busy to help the farmer. Two week after the farmers said he will call in his friends alone to come and help since they are his friends they must be ready to help.
When the mother bird came the little birds relay the same message also to her but with experience she told them not to worry. true to her word the farmers friend were too busy with their trade to help.
After three weeks the farmer told the son that tomorrow, since help is not coming from both neighbors and friend he must be ready to work, for the harvesting. When the baby bird relay the message, the mother bird moved away that same day. Knowing fully well that when a man come to himself and ready to help himself nothing can stop that resolution.
The farmer came in the second day to start the harvesting but unfortunately there was a heavy rain that washed away the harvest. We must learn to rely on ourselves not on our job, on friend on neighbor or relatives. Rely on nobody but yourselves. That is the crust of the message of Self Reliant by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Please request for Self Reliant and other essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Read it before the next class so that we can share experience together.You can also mail your experience so that I can post it for all to share on relying on other see you in the next class
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