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; and not 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".


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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 


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Also you can share your story and if these appeal to you don't forget to get your friend to subscribe. see you latter

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

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Don't forget to share your story see you at Success Academy


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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

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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