"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are". Talmud
We see with our limited world perspective. We believe in poverty and lack because we see it around us. But indeed there is no lack in God infinite universe. We must learn to see the beautiful statue in a block of marble. To see a bicycle in a scrap of mental.
To see differently we must develop our mind through study, reading, meditation and interaction with other great mind.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Today's Quote
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be a coward in the battle of life. No body is born with courage nor with cowardice. The ability to face our fear all the time is courage. Face your fear.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
What I learnt From the World Cup
Football is in the air, the whole world is in South Africa with their team, coaches and fans, I also missed the world cup by chance. With various matches features. As a teacher I look for wisdom and opportunities in all event, when I watch the German machine crushing Australia team four zero, it really amazed me. Within ninety minutes given equal opportunities, eleven men each on a side of a dividing line. While will one side thrash the other so mercilessly. That got me thinking and I came up with five reasons why it is so.
1.
Ski Skill
2. Training
3. Coach
4. Opportunity
5. Time
This scenario daily playing out in our life and countries of the world, Why will two people living within the same economy, having the same education one is down, broke and totally grounded. While the other fellow is blossoming, having more than enough for himself and for the people around him.
A country with a population of more than one hundred and fifty million with abundance of natural resources could not afford to feed her population. Though with millions of arable land depend on another country without land and fewer people. It still boils down to the same thing:
SKILL
It is the ability to do thing well, it is gained through training which comes through repetition which is the mother of skill, it come in various form, technical, communication, people, leadership. It is required in all human endeavors. It is indispensable even in the most menial of all human work. It is skill that differentiates between the professional and artisan. It places a premium of our earning capabilities. A skilled cleaner is different from a raw cleaner.
We must strive to acquire the required skill of our craft and thereafter hone the skill daily until we become a master and grandmaster of what we do, be it football, be it teaching like I am doing here. Skills do not fall on people like the anointing neither are we born with skill. It is acquired through a long period of persistence training like all the countries train persistently for the world cup. Some have to relocate to some other nation that has the same weather condition like South Africa. They also get engaged in so many friendly matches to test their skill before the actual match. We must do everything humanly possible to get better on anything we do.
TRANING
When you listen to Bob Marley signing is classical song One love for two minutes fifty seconds you feel exhilarated behind those small minutes are many hours of training, in the night, morning and afternoon. Talent they say is not enough, it is training that turn skills into treasure. It is goals scored during training that get scored in life matches, it is the corner kick, practiced in training that gets converted during matched.
In all of us are bone and muscle, but some of us cannot play any football not because we are incapable but our bodies has not being subjected to enough training that can sustain us as a football star. In all we do, we must make room for training and it must be daily, lest we allow what we have acquired slip out of our hand.
Training brings out the best in people, often time when we confront a challenge and fail, it is not that the opponent is too tough but our training is not enough to match the dexterity of the opponent. We must drill ourselves until we become the best at whatever we do, we must come on top and become the grandmaster and guru of our vocation be it career or business. We must seek daily improvement and light on our job.
COACH
No team can excel without a coach, a coach is somebody who has seen it all, an ex international who know the in and out of the business, be it sport, business, teaching, cleaning, success, prosperity or anything we are driving at. A good coach has seen it all. And he can instruct about the pit fall, what to do what not to do, tactic, ability to read the market and the matches ability to determine the slightest movement of the market, he must be dynamic. A coach must be at the top of his profession. We often erroneously believe that it is only sport that need coaches to come out at best, friend we have leaved in that error for long.
To do well in any field of endeavor require the service of a good coach. We all need mentor or else we will continue to grope in darkness. A coach will cut our learning curve by fifty percent; a coach will save you time and money. He will tell you what work instead of trials and error. You need a good coach to make it in life. If you cannot afford one, select one and buy into their instruction inform of books, tapes and consult them in your mind through questioning. Ask yourself what will my coach will say on this? listen to your mind you will get an answer.
OPPORTUNITY
Opportunity are period when preparation meet with chance, we cried often he wasted the chance that is opportunity and so many of them are wasted because there are no adequate preparation. We imagine if it is Rolnado that got that chance he will score the goal. Why do we think like that, what is the difference between him and our player, it is not farfetched it is what we have being discussing it is skill, it is training, it is the coach. We must be prepared like the Scouting motto for our opportunity, we must utilize our opportunity when they come or else we miss them forever. If we do not see opportunity on our way we can create it as one adage says We will either find way or create one.
TIME
Remember it is just ninety minute with a little extra time any goal that is not scored within that period is gone forever you cannot go back again and scored after the final blow of the whistle. After the cotton of the day is drawn you cannot go back to yesterday and scored the goal again. Friends Nigerian cannot go back to meet Greece again, In this world Cup tournament. Once the month is gone you cannot go back to January to work. What we have is the NOW. We must strive to make now the better. We must put all we are into our day. We must invest every second of our life so that we would not rise up with gray hair regretting our life. Remember the nursery rhyme that end with “what you have to do, do quick”. Let us also mind the details doing the little thing right all the time will also help our esteem don’t dream of conquering the world in a day, have a long time plan and work your plan consistently. Five year plan, ten year plan will go a long way to help you realize much more.
In conclusion let us continue to watch the world cup matches and continue to learn new things daily from the opportunities the world cup offers. Remember the next one will be in the next four year why not have a goal of attending the next one. It is possible
Monday, June 7, 2010
Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
We have moved from Self Reliance Essay of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The essay is with a lot of insight try and read all the lecture on the essay and try and do better read the whole essay. We will still come back to Emerson Compensation after this.
This week we are going to Elbert Hubbard small letter Message to Gracia. Elbert Hubbard is a powerful self development proponent. He is the founder of Roy Croft based on the philosophy of Self Reliance and quality. His letter message to Gracia can be read within few minutes but it is filled up with eternal wisdom for the soul.
What is Initiative? I’ll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.
Do you wait to be instructed before you act, if yes then you are passive and inactive and such state of live is destiny for doom. In your work, life, relationship you must be proactive anticipating various move of the market or situation and circumstances and act before you are acted upon.
In an organisation if you are the one that is up and doing, you know the in out of the company. You know how it operate, the company will find it difficult to lay you off and if they do because there is no fairness in our world. Since you have acquired the requisite skill you can start the same business. But the lazy dare not.
You must rediscover your self and develop yourself to the point of leadership. if you are giving an assignment you must be able to handle it, without bothering him that gave you the assignment. Without asking foolish and repeated question about the assignment. But you must do the assignment and double the expectation that is when you can be given higher position in life.
Message to Gracia is available free of charge from :
benabbey2010@gmail.com
You can also google it by yourself.
This week we are going to Elbert Hubbard small letter Message to Gracia. Elbert Hubbard is a powerful self development proponent. He is the founder of Roy Croft based on the philosophy of Self Reliance and quality. His letter message to Gracia can be read within few minutes but it is filled up with eternal wisdom for the soul.
What is Initiative? I’ll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.
Do you wait to be instructed before you act, if yes then you are passive and inactive and such state of live is destiny for doom. In your work, life, relationship you must be proactive anticipating various move of the market or situation and circumstances and act before you are acted upon.
In an organisation if you are the one that is up and doing, you know the in out of the company. You know how it operate, the company will find it difficult to lay you off and if they do because there is no fairness in our world. Since you have acquired the requisite skill you can start the same business. But the lazy dare not.
You must rediscover your self and develop yourself to the point of leadership. if you are giving an assignment you must be able to handle it, without bothering him that gave you the assignment. Without asking foolish and repeated question about the assignment. But you must do the assignment and double the expectation that is when you can be given higher position in life.
Message to Gracia is available free of charge from :
benabbey2010@gmail.com
You can also google it by yourself.
Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
We have moved from Self Reliance Essay of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The essay is with a lot of insight try and read all the lecture on the essay and try and do better read the whole essay. We will still come back to Emerson Compensation after this.
This week we are going to Elbert Hubbard small letter Message to Gracia. Elbert Hubbard is a powerful self development proponent. He is the founder of Roy Croft based on the philosophy of Self Reliance and quality. His letter message to Gracia can be read within few minutes but it is filled up with eternal wisdom for the soul.
What is Initiative? I’ll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.
Do you wait to be instructed before you act, if yes then you are passive and inactive and such state of live is destiny for doom. In your work, life, relationship you must be proactive anticipating various move of the market or situation and circumstances and act before you are acted upon.
In an organisation if you are the one that is up and doing, you know the in out of the company. You know how it operate, the company will find it difficult to lay you off and if they do because there is no fairness in our world. Since you have acquired the requisite skill you can start the same business. But the lazy dare not.
You must rediscover your self and develop yourself to the point of leadership. if you are giving an assignment you must be able to handle it, without bothering him that gave you the assignment. Without asking foolish and repeated question about the assignment. But you must do the assignment and double the expectation that is when you can be given higher position in life.
Message to Gracia is available free of charge from :
benabbey2010@gmail.com
You can also google it by yourself.
This week we are going to Elbert Hubbard small letter Message to Gracia. Elbert Hubbard is a powerful self development proponent. He is the founder of Roy Croft based on the philosophy of Self Reliance and quality. His letter message to Gracia can be read within few minutes but it is filled up with eternal wisdom for the soul.
What is Initiative? I’ll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told.
Do you wait to be instructed before you act, if yes then you are passive and inactive and such state of live is destiny for doom. In your work, life, relationship you must be proactive anticipating various move of the market or situation and circumstances and act before you are acted upon.
In an organisation if you are the one that is up and doing, you know the in out of the company. You know how it operate, the company will find it difficult to lay you off and if they do because there is no fairness in our world. Since you have acquired the requisite skill you can start the same business. But the lazy dare not.
You must rediscover your self and develop yourself to the point of leadership. if you are giving an assignment you must be able to handle it, without bothering him that gave you the assignment. Without asking foolish and repeated question about the assignment. But you must do the assignment and double the expectation that is when you can be given higher position in life.
Message to Gracia is available free of charge from :
benabbey2010@gmail.com
You can also google it by yourself.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Concluding Our Class on Self Reliance
Friends it has not being very easy for me to combine so many teaching responsibilities with this class. So many opportunities to shine my little light to the darkness of the ignorance of our world. But I cannot afford to leave my virtual class alone also. Kindly bear with me if my consistence has being sagging.
It is a new month and I will love to welcome you to the month of June How time flies, we Just shouted happy new year five months ago and before you know the hand of the clock has ticked millions of seconds within a very short time. We are going to conclude Emerson Essay today and we shall move to another interesting great teacher who I will introduce in the next class.
The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.
Many of us believed that there are no opportunities were the nature has created us. Many of us in the third world believed that our salvation is in the United State of America, United Kingdom, France, Canada, South Africa and so many other countries with hard currency better than our own countries. That is why the embassies of these countries are like Mecca and Medina daily. I heard sometimes ago that people get to embassies at ungodly hour to make sure they get in in time to the embassies for Visas. Some of these great souls are even maltreated called names by embassies staffs, so many people have their paper dump on them why because they want to travel out of where nature in her wisdom has planted them. I even learnt that some embassies are declaring profit at the end of a financial year.
But Emerson has a contrary opinion Wise men stays at home. They stay at home and turn their environment around to what suit them, they turned thorn and thistle to beauty, they wrestle their landscape away from nature and turn it to a beautiful garden. They turn darkness and ignorance to light and make it more beautiful to behold.
We are created here and not there. Nature is not at fault for rooting us here. It is here we are going to prosper and blossom. It is here we are going to shine our light, We may have cause to go their to learn and impart our knowledge if so desire but here is home and here we are going to make it. It made me remember one other philosopher Elbert Hubbard whom I have mush respect for he said and quote
"If you stay at home and do your work well enough, the world will come to you" and the world is coming to some of us even to steal the best brain away from us knowingly and subtly. In the name of diversity Visa Lottery. Elbert said further "that a man is a fool to chase a woman, because if he doesn't the women will chase after him" The time you use in chasing women about if utilized very well will turn you into a celebrity. name a man that is a celebrity and is not being flocked by women.
Class I am appealing to you to read Emerson very well and imbibe his philosophy they will greatly help you in your journey through life. I will conclude with Emerson quote
" Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door"
If you are so good at what you do men will pay you to do it. Love you all see you in the next class.
Emerson Essay are still available free of charge from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Dont forget to invite somebody let us shine the light to our friends
It is a new month and I will love to welcome you to the month of June How time flies, we Just shouted happy new year five months ago and before you know the hand of the clock has ticked millions of seconds within a very short time. We are going to conclude Emerson Essay today and we shall move to another interesting great teacher who I will introduce in the next class.
The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.
Many of us believed that there are no opportunities were the nature has created us. Many of us in the third world believed that our salvation is in the United State of America, United Kingdom, France, Canada, South Africa and so many other countries with hard currency better than our own countries. That is why the embassies of these countries are like Mecca and Medina daily. I heard sometimes ago that people get to embassies at ungodly hour to make sure they get in in time to the embassies for Visas. Some of these great souls are even maltreated called names by embassies staffs, so many people have their paper dump on them why because they want to travel out of where nature in her wisdom has planted them. I even learnt that some embassies are declaring profit at the end of a financial year.
But Emerson has a contrary opinion Wise men stays at home. They stay at home and turn their environment around to what suit them, they turned thorn and thistle to beauty, they wrestle their landscape away from nature and turn it to a beautiful garden. They turn darkness and ignorance to light and make it more beautiful to behold.
We are created here and not there. Nature is not at fault for rooting us here. It is here we are going to prosper and blossom. It is here we are going to shine our light, We may have cause to go their to learn and impart our knowledge if so desire but here is home and here we are going to make it. It made me remember one other philosopher Elbert Hubbard whom I have mush respect for he said and quote
"If you stay at home and do your work well enough, the world will come to you" and the world is coming to some of us even to steal the best brain away from us knowingly and subtly. In the name of diversity Visa Lottery. Elbert said further "that a man is a fool to chase a woman, because if he doesn't the women will chase after him" The time you use in chasing women about if utilized very well will turn you into a celebrity. name a man that is a celebrity and is not being flocked by women.
Class I am appealing to you to read Emerson very well and imbibe his philosophy they will greatly help you in your journey through life. I will conclude with Emerson quote
" Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door"
If you are so good at what you do men will pay you to do it. Love you all see you in the next class.
Emerson Essay are still available free of charge from
benabbey2010@gmail.com
Dont forget to invite somebody let us shine the light to our friends
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