DO SOMETHING NEW

When I first heard Amanda Chisom speak over the video, I was surprised. I never knew she had gotten up to that level. I mean, she was sound. 

If you are in need of motivation. Look at Ezeguy. I once made a post about him on my wall not because I needed his money or anything but because I just felt the need to do so. 

I am not saying any of these things to shame anybody because I know that most of us are good at what we are known for. 

After all, we have the likes of Ike Marcel Okonkwo who said in The Oracle of Light that, "When in your perfect light and bliss, substance will come, and even more of it will come if your concern also is about others. " He went further to say that, " The divine magistracy and order is not against having wealth. It is against wealth that serves and benefits only you. So share and help others in expectation of nothing from them. " So, if you are here and you are training a girl child in school all in the hope that she would grow up and marry you someday, forget it. People do change.

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Life Journey: 8 Agreeable Tips To Aid You.

Most times we perceive life as a war front instead of the journey it is. Yes, a sojourner could face adversities along the journey but that doesn't make life a war front . Everything is passive, so are situations.

On Energy.

Have it. Energy is what rules over the world, without it we can do nothing. Imagine there is no energy in our world today; no progress of any kind would be made! We are humans on this journey of life; we require energy to work, concentrate and achieve success. Energy helps us to think appropriately, to eat, to breath and to stay alive. Have you ever wondered why a person who fell into coma doesn't have anything to do? It's because the persons energy level is joggling between 0% calories and 0.009%. So, it is good we channel our energy towards achieving positive things. Energy is the language for getting works done. Endeavour to engage yourself in thing that will give you more energy.

On life.

Finally, live the best life and don't let anyone make you feel like you deserve the less out of life. It's yours you can either make it better or ruin it depending on the ambition you have and your kind of attitude towards working to succeed.

On fear.

Contain it, one can have fears along the way, it is just human nature, but allowing the fear to overwhelm one is not the ideal thing, fear never solve a problem but increase it. It was Amelia Earhart who said and I quote,

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Fear is normal for human beings but too much of it is not favorable. Contain it to a certain level and know when to shelve it off. Any form of fear that stops you from achieving your good aims in life is not worth residing with. So, do away with unnecessary fear.

On finding the right purpose.

In life there are different processes that need to be harnessed but one has to choose according to one's personality and motives. If your motive is to become great in future, then you have to start now to practise great things, if there are no much things as to be considered 'great' around you, then practise the 'little' one a great deal. It is important you know who you are and what works out more for you. You may not work at the same pace with others but discovering your God given pace is better so long as it doesn't set you back.

On ambition.

Harbour the right ambition. Some of us are sometimes too ambitious that we longer have time for other things or get our minds and life crowded with so many things. Strain out your ambitions and know which one to follow with the maximum speed while others can safely wait. Do not let over ambitiousness maim your dreams. Have the right ambition that suits you and work towards it.

On attitude to work.

At times I think I would get my backbone broken having done too much work but whenever I take a break and get my strength back I feel like starting all over again, does this occur same to you? Well, it is better to put a good attitude to work so that you don't easily get fatigued. We talked about energy, so, it's good to talk about different attitude to work. Having energy is not the way forward until you have channeled it through work to perform a certain task that will lead to a more fulfilled life. One different and better than the one you had been leading before the impact of the work. So, work to make ends meet and make things come true. Work is a good channel for fulfilling dreams.

On happiness

Be happy always, it is something you can do for yourself. If happiness is meant to be bought in the market, I bet it would turn out to be the most rare commodity with people willing to pay huge sums of money to get it; but then, it's all here with you. You can make it happen. So, live a happy life and discover those things which keeps you smiling all time. Any day I get tired of smiling at my screen while interacting with you online, I will quit writing. But, I'm still happy doing so. A happy life begets more success and a longer life span than an unhappy one.

On sharing.

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Life Journey: How To See It Even As A Student.

In life we come upon pains and gains When one overwhelms the other, it seems the later wouldn't show up again.
This is a write up of a student on how he sees life and how he tends to want you see it too. Because there are different calibre of people in the world today, it wouldn't be an overstatement to say that people perceive life in their different ways. For a student, life is neither a tough zone nor a bed of roses. It is fertile soil waiting to be cultivated on.
Though there may be tonne and tonnes of thorns surround it, the liver wouldn't let it be choked to death. It is still a promising fertile ground to achieve success on irrespective of the myriad of bushes surrounding it. Life is a good starting point, everyone should capitalize on it.
There is no gain saying that anyone who lives to see the sun rise, lives to witness another influx of possibilities and hope. Everyone harbours the hope of achieving success in life, students inclusive. If I may ask, what is the main aim of being in school? It is simply to achieve the knowledge that would see one solving practical life issues with the knowledge obtained in school. I am inclined to believe that anyone who goes to school with this aim is either there as a 'resident student' hoping not to ever graduate. No matter what you do or think, nature requires that you graduate and practise what you learnt.
Having said so, one of the ways to be a good student is to know why you are a student, the better way is to live up to it. There are no magics for success any where apart from these. A student who goes to school knowing why he or she is there will most likely do better than one who is forced to be in school! So, find out why you are there. But always remember, unless you hope to retire to a lonely desert after graduation, you will always be faced with the opportunity to demonstrate what you have learnt in school. Looking at it this way, you have to actually learn something in order to have what to offer as service after graduation. So, learn more things practically and genuinely today.
Furthermore, like every other category of people, there are certain things that could militate against a student achieving success in academics, one of them is lack of motivation. This is a big issue to be resolved. Some misled students no longer believe that there is the need to read hard or burn the midnight candles as it is said, they are more occupied with the thoughts of the outside world where they are inclined to think that there are no jobs waiting for them to grab after graduation. It is a big mistake. Yes, a lot of people who must have graduated long ago may not have gotten a job and so forth, but how does that determine your fate? So, study hard first, get the right knowledge and grades nd be ready to carve out your way in life.
One other thing that militates against students' success in school is the presence of overwhelming distraction in the name of extracurricular activities. In case you do not know, these are activities that are not related to school and academics, they include incessant clubbing and pageantry competitions. These good, as having fun to curb boredom is necessary in life but, too much of everything does not just add up. Try to live a positively balanced life, a little fun a little reason why you are in school, don't concentrate all your energy in things not related to why you are school with time you will find out that it helps to do so.
To sum it up all, life, to a student is a fertile ground. It is a good soil that needs to be cultivated on. Though there may be challenges, opportunities are there to overcome them.Remember; life is a good starting point, so, capitalize on it.

Your turn.

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3 Times In A Lifetime When We Intentionally Or Unintentionally Cross The 'Rubicon.'

Good day ladies and gents, welcome to this wonderful and inspirational moment with the Imiano. Today, I will be talking about what it means to cross the rubicon and the three times (among others) we intentionally or unintentionally do so in a lifetime.

Coming to more simple literary terms, the statement crossing or to cross the rubicon simply means one thing, which is to go too hard on something or someone in such a way that it's too hard or rather impossible to go back or be reversed. Itis just like saying that you can't turn back the hands of the clock because it has be propelled to pass a given time or number. Crossing the rubicon is tantamount to one going too extreme on something that one can no longer go back to redo it (or even do it better). Literary, when one crosses the rubicon, as it's being said, the question of going back is out of the picture, but in real life, I don't think it's so. There is always a chance of going back if one can persevere. And remember, at times, one is being pushed to the wall for or by one reason or the other and when one reaches one's maximum limit, and when that happens, one is more likely to cross over it and in so doing, it's really hard or impossible to get to the other (or initial) side of the wall.

Ladies and gentlemen, viewers, guests and visitors alike, at times many of us are being pushed to the wall by some people, conditions, external pressures being mounted on us and difficult times alike and, most times when we cannot withstand the tension anymore we tend to cross over the wall, hence the issue of crossing the rubicon. For, like I said, going back to the once normal side of the wall is not easy and most at times, impossible.
Now, would it be a surprise to you if I say that most times, so many of us are the ones pushing ourselves to the wall? Of course, it wouldn't if I point out clearly the 3 times in a lifetime when we intentionally or unintentionally cross the rubicon. Read below for them.

1.

When You Find It Impossible To Smile.

Bad conditions! I reiterate, Bad conditions! Have make the natural act of letting out a smile extremely difficult for some people. Take for instance, students find it hard to let out a smile in the lecture hall when a lecturer tries to tell a joke while keeping up with his or her lectures. The argument is not that they do not understand what the jokes are all about but the dozens of disturbing thoughts they immerse themselves in even while lecturers are going on do not give room for them to be able to crack the jokes! Think about it, most lecturers when they are lecturing tend to tell few jokes amidst lectures just to get the full attention of the students and then be able to carry them along ( it is a common practise among the ones who care about the welfare of their students though), the trick is that if they are able to get the students respond to their talks or jokes then they would know where the students are or are not lagging behind and be able to carry them along. For if you know how quickly a person responds to your conversation by his or her change of facial look, then you would be able to know how far the words have been able to penetrate through to their minds but guess what?
Nowadays most Nigerian students are occupied by the thoughts of how to scale through, pay hostel accommodation dues, course dues, feeding, transportation and clothing bills that they are too busy to hear or even be able to crack some of the jokes that come their way from the lecturer. So, if you are not responding, how can one know that communication has taken place since there has to be a way of giving feedback ( either by change of facial look or by verbal means, which is less likely in most cases) for one to say that communication has effectively taken place?

Please, when next you have the opportunity, always smile, none of these worries would give you joy over time. Thinking about them always (ie without ceasing) never helps either but finding a way to solve them. So, don't be absent minded again, smile at every little opportunity you have for the opportunity doesn't come often.


2.

When Nothing Matters To You Anymore.

You have probably had such feelings time without numbers; nothing matters anymore.
Sudden things (say accidents) happen close to you, you are not even aware, if you eventually take note of it, it doesn't seem to matter to you anymore, the best you could even after you notice is not even to blink an eye but to pick up your phone and take selfie close to it hoping to upload it to Facebook, Twitter and other networking sites someday with the caption, "accident selfie." If you find out you are like this, brother, sister, it won't be an overstatement to say that you have crossed the rubicon. Think about it, in life there are things that need to matter to you involuntarily. When you cross the rubicon, your involuntary reflex system may not even work well on you again, hence nothing seems to matter to you. When you notice that you are failing in some aspects, your instincts should naturally tend to help you find a balance by motivating you in things that you would profit from. Do note that I am implying that you should worry yourself so much, but allow little things to matter to you again.

3.

When You Just Feel Like Living Just Because Others Are Alive.

Probably, you are tired of living. You just live to fulfill all righteousness so you borrow other people's lifestyle to continue on the but personally, you have given up. Maybe you have heard it all. This country is not working out anymore. Employment is non existing. People can't just make it anymore or maybe you are tired of staying in your home country (just as I am), so you feel nothing could ever work again. There is no more zeal to waken up to your studies after all, those who graduated with excellent grades have not yet been employed, there is no job at all (just as we're told everyday) so there is no need to put in more effort. It does no longer matter if you graduate with First Class honours in your studies again because the economy is dying, so we are told and there are no more jobs at all. Lagging behind becomes the order of the day, those who were once brilliant start giving up on the course and the graduates keep frustrating the undergraduates with the no-jobs-out-there saga. So, in clear terms, studying hard to make it in academics is no longer worth the burning of midnight candles. Oh! You finally resign to the belief; nothing is working out in this country again, nothing will ever work out, there are no needs for trying hard to invest again, so let's just live as we are living; just for the purpose of living, nothing more, nothing less. You have crossed the rubicon at this stage. Find a purpose to live. Forget what they are saying, you have to prepared first before you can tap into opportunities when they surface to you. Persevere to make the distinctions first then think of what to become of it. I have a lot to say but I have to pause here. You can visit us always for more.

In final, crossing the rubicon as the term implies literary, means going over an extreme point that you cannot go back again but as I have noted earlier, in real life, these can be changed or reversed. We are not wooden objects but humans. Try to make things work again. Drive towards reactivating your goals and strive to achieve them.

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Echoes Of Success; A Motivational Gem For You.

●Have you been inspired
today? read this.


source: Google

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It pricked my heart really
as I walked through the
Nnamdi Azikiwe University,
NAU, Awka today as I beheld
in huge numbers the candidates
for the Joint Preliminary Examinations
Board, JUPEB, attached to the university
troop out in huge numbers from the digital
library in the school as they had just commenced
their second mock examination in preparation for the
main one coming up sometime in June 2017.
From what I observed and am made to know (from
some close allies), the joint preliminary Examinations Board
programme prepares and qualifies students to be eligible to gain
admission into the university and into their various academic fields of
choice usually called the departments or disciplines of study in the universities.

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The JUPEB program is mainly for the Nigerian students and it runs over a period
of one year (i.e. one academic session) divided into semesters which are the first
and second semesters. I also noticed that the students who are candidates of this
program are not just merely secondary school leavers! These are students who had
appealed to ( You can term it 'applied to' I don't care) the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, through the UTME on several occasions but were not favoured enough to be granted admission into the universities by the board, among them also are those who have partaken in the Interim Joint Matriculation Board's program, IJMB, but were still not favoured
enough to be granted admission into the universities, among them also are those who have partaken in the various university preliminary programs such as Diploma courses, prescience et al and also, among are students from
the various higher institutions of learning
across the country who are either not satisfied
in the cage their grades have restricted them to
or better still those who believe they can do better
and are specially made for another field of study other than
the one they are now and, finally, among them are also fresh
secondary school leavers who believe they have what it takes
to skip one year in the university. These students are hopeful that
if they pass, after a successful completion of the programme to would
gain direct admissions into the second level of education in the undergraduate
scheme of the university thereby being able to skip level 100.
On my own accord, irrespective to how they may have been classified, based either
on their various walks of live or programmes they have undertaken previously, I classify
them under one basic statement, which is, "Those who are ready to make it!"
These kinds of students are not ready to give up at any cost nor say it is impossible
to get to their target destination or fulfill their mission. Such students are rare! Such students never say, "I quit" such students keep the hope of getting to their envisioned destination at the
end. They are the obstacle breakers and are not fans of impossibilities! And, I dare to ask you;
are you one of them, in the school of life? Do you believe that there are still other ways that can still open the doors of opportunities to you even when the renown ones seem to be shut before you? It is quite good to note or presume that not all these students trooping out of the library would make it into their desired fields of studies but they are still very hopeful!
Ladies and gentlemen, in this school of life we go through all year round, I am telling you these things; do the right thing and never give up. It is easy to see impossibilities before us but it is easier to ignore them! Never sit and wait for all the opportunities in the world to come knocking on your door, at times you have to go in look out for them. A dream that is what making a vision is what using efforts for it's achievement.
Never give up; hum it like a song always and
it shall manifest.

Finally, remember it was George Bernad Shaw who said and I quote, “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’
But I dream things that never were;
and I say, ‘Why not?’”
So, learn to let go of unfavourable memories that
tramples your sight from seeing other positive
opportunities meant for you; dream big. Always remember that giving up is a big
work that requires energy in itself, use the energy
to keep standing. In so doing, the echoes of success
that are heard in some other places as the JAMB, Diploma,
JUPEB and prescience will be heard around you! not just the
echoes but the action too.

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DON'T GIVE UP NOW!

At times, we find ourselves in
some situations we cannot explain.
Some other times we find ourselves
in situations we cannot explain what the outcome will be.
In whichever way, it is good to note that if the procedures
we are taking are good, the products would
not be far from what is expected.
In my exploits, I once read a story concerning
three friends, Gabriel, Abel and Ibrian who lost their
way in a little isolated island with thick forest in its heart.
As they wandered through the thick forests, they further lost their way!
Lost in the heart of the forest, they were like an army of abandoned soldiers waiting for orders to arrive which came! They hovered around the thick forest.


Beaten by hunger and the adverse weather condition of they forest, they were helplessly worn out, day in day out, they sought for something to eat or drink but they found none. The forest appeared to be barren. So, the three friends wandered in a single direction with the search for food and water to drink now added to their burden.
"Look!," "There is a mango tree up there!" Ibrian who sighted a mango tree up the hills rejoiced and screamed out to his colleagues.
"Let us go and pluck its fruits" they all agreed as the ran off towards the direction of the tree.
"Oh poor tree" Ibrian sighed as he noticed that the tree had no fruits on it.
"Let us go" Abel suggested as there were nothing to feed on from the tree. Yes, they all agreed to leave the tree but something unbelievable happened. Gabriel the youngest of them who later arrived at the spot refused to leave with them insisting that he had seen a ripe fruit on the tree!
"Go ahead and pluck it" his colleagues teased as they left him on the spot and, to his fate.
As he looked at his friends walk away slowly, Gabriel was quite disappointed and at the same time confused that his friends could not see the bunch of ripe fruits covered by thick dried mango leaves at the heart of the tree as convinced as he is that he had seen it.
Just after they had abandoned him, Gabriel climbed slowly and carefully to the heart of the tree after he tried in vain to pluck the fruits by throwing stones and sticks, he took healthy bites from the fruit as he made his first catch on a very ripe one. Gently, he replenished his worn out self with the juices of the fruits, filled his backpack with some and climbed down from the tree. Then, he headed towards the road hus friends had taken.
I want to ask you this; are you just like Gabriel? Is there a little hidden gift you have your friends are finding difficult to believe? Are some of your friends mocking or teasing you out of a dream you cherish? Don't worry a lot. So long as what you are doing is good, the outcome will not be far from the same. Just keep your dream, endeavours and hopes alive and don't give up easily.
Remember this, the little Gabriel on this story had the sight to behold what his friends could not see; so, he never gave up.


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I am saying to you today, as you read through this article, don't give up now. There could be a bunch of juicy fruits waiting for you at the end of the tunnel!
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Is This A Scholarship Scheme Or A Business?

Hi ladies and gentlemen, I came across this so-called scholarship scheme on campus so I decided to share with you. The scholarship is open to Nigerian students in all of the higher institutions of learning in Nigeria. It is provided annually by the Infinite Success Research and Solution Limited.
Below are the full information you need about this scholarship.
Provider: Infinite Success Research Solution Limited.
Title: 2017 Infinite Success Scholarship For Nigerian Undergraduates

Further information:

The 2017 Infinite Success Research Solution LTD's sholarship is offered annually to a number of students in the tertiary institutions of learning in the country. It is offered to successful candidates who passed the provider's aptitude test prior to the award date. A sum of N2,100.00 is required from each participants to complete the application process.

Eligibility:

The scholarship is open to all the Nigerian undergraduates and, at all levels or years in the universities, polytechnics and colleges of education except those in their final year! OND2 students are not regarded final year students.

Application Method:

Follow the steps below to apply for the scholarship.

1. Go to Infinite Success Group website
2. Click on "2017 Undergraduate Scholarship".
3. Generate an application invoice with a remita retrieval reference known as RRR.
4. Proceed to any of the banks around you and pay the sum of Two Thousand One Hundred Naira (ie. N2,100. 00) using the invoice you generated. Also, obtain a payment voucher bearing your RRR.
5. Finally, proceed to the application portal [given] above. Enter the RRR to fill the application form and print your acknowledgement slip.

That is all...

Closing Date:

The application closes on 31st May, 2017.

Note

The aptitude test that would qualify candidates for the scholarship grant will come up on the 17th of June, 2017 while the list of successful candidates will be published on the providers' portal on the 25th of July, 2017

Candidates will be texted their examination venues and time prior to the examination date.

For More Information

Visit the portal,
Text 08143687173 or
email Scholarship@infinitesuccess.com.ng.

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