Yes, The Book Is Open!
Do you know you have at your disposal a "book" that gives insight into how to enjoy and live a better life? It is an open book, easily accessible to all, profers solution to whatever challenge or issue one might be facing, a reference - should you seek counsel concerning a life changing decision you are about to take.
This book is The Bible, authored by God the creator of the Universe -Heaven and Earth, who else but God is capable of writing such an insightful book. God is the author of our lives , he his our father and is able to guide us through life's journey. He knows all things, events of yesterday, today and tomorrow so let us connect with him, trust and rest in his ever-knowing ability. Trusting God means committing our lives, decision, successes, failures, fears and relationships to his ever-knowing ability. God cares about every detail of our lives, interested in all our affairs and wants to be invited into every decision we make. He his extending his hand of invitation, let us take it and commit all our cares, fears and even share our joys with him.
Please see excerpts from TWFT below, telling us more about casting all cares and worries to God, because it's his world and not ours, enjoy....!
We think everything rests on our shoulders, but it doesn't! It's God's world, not ours. At the beginning of each day God reminds us that He has His way, that He controls outcomes. The way we get up in the morning sets the tone for our entire day, so try this: first thing tomorrow, get alone with God for a few minutes. Don't try to make it last an hour, just start with five minutes. Go over your plans for the day. If you have a calendar, look over it with Jesus. As you're going through it you'll have some concerns. Just hand them over to Him. Maybe you'll notice a meeting or a particular problem you're worried about. Ask Him for wisdom. If He doesn't give you an immediate answer, realise that it's because He wants you to trust Him. He has something better in mind, something that you haven't thought of yet. So many of us start our day anxious, hurried, fearful, or rushed. But we don't have to. We're going to start our day anyway; why not start it with Jesus? Do we have any better offers? We're going to have a first thought anyhow, a first word, so why not let it belong to God, before Whom all our anxieties flee? We can do this. We really can. We can start our day with God and meditating on The Book!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Monday, December 29, 2008
MMIX...
Wow! 2008 has been a most eventful year. It has been fulfilling and soon coming to an end, unfolding the Promises and Blessings 2009 has in store...bless the lord, he has been good!
2009 is here and God has given us all the opprtunity to begin on a clean slate - Make new aspirations, Have bigger dreams, Expand goals to accommodate fresh insight and revelation, Appreciate our loved ones, Increase our giving, Create more time to connect with our Creator, Spend more time with our families and friends, be the preferred employee/partner/business/brand...the list goes on and on - Basically, we have the opportunity to be the best we can be.
Assuming, we all have rated our achievements viz-a-viz aspirations set at the beginning of the year(yes! we should be doing or should have concluded our evaluations...however, do not loose your trust in God if he promised you a house, car, a job. e.t.c as part of the package in 2008...it is not too late to intensify your fasting, waiting and prayers...lol!). On a scale of 1 to 10, How did i fare? How can i make an impact? How can i do things differently? How can i make my street, state, town, country... a beter place to be? What do i need to do to fit into the will and plan of my maker...? All these and more are questions we need to ask ourselves, answers to these can serve as a Compass to lead us on which direction to go in 2009, an Anemometer to gauge the speed at which our weekly, monthly and yearly targets were ticked 'done' and also, to give us that satisfactory feeling of a job well done or otherwise.
Essentially, we need to find out more efficient and effective means of superceding(...not reaching) our goals and targets for year 2009. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, offered these ten insights to anyone starting out. They are worth considering as we enter into the new year - full of promises and untapped blessings for us - irrespective of the global economic meltdown and crisis we can still supercede set goals/targets. Remember we have to make happen what we expect to happen, Dream Big, Be Positive, Have the Can Do mentality, Give until you have nothing left and Connect to the Supernatural.
2009 is here and God has given us all the opprtunity to begin on a clean slate - Make new aspirations, Have bigger dreams, Expand goals to accommodate fresh insight and revelation, Appreciate our loved ones, Increase our giving, Create more time to connect with our Creator, Spend more time with our families and friends, be the preferred employee/partner/business/brand...the list goes on and on - Basically, we have the opportunity to be the best we can be.
Assuming, we all have rated our achievements viz-a-viz aspirations set at the beginning of the year(yes! we should be doing or should have concluded our evaluations...however, do not loose your trust in God if he promised you a house, car, a job. e.t.c as part of the package in 2008...it is not too late to intensify your fasting, waiting and prayers...lol!). On a scale of 1 to 10, How did i fare? How can i make an impact? How can i do things differently? How can i make my street, state, town, country... a beter place to be? What do i need to do to fit into the will and plan of my maker...? All these and more are questions we need to ask ourselves, answers to these can serve as a Compass to lead us on which direction to go in 2009, an Anemometer to gauge the speed at which our weekly, monthly and yearly targets were ticked 'done' and also, to give us that satisfactory feeling of a job well done or otherwise.
Essentially, we need to find out more efficient and effective means of superceding(...not reaching) our goals and targets for year 2009. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, offered these ten insights to anyone starting out. They are worth considering as we enter into the new year - full of promises and untapped blessings for us - irrespective of the global economic meltdown and crisis we can still supercede set goals/targets. Remember we have to make happen what we expect to happen, Dream Big, Be Positive, Have the Can Do mentality, Give until you have nothing left and Connect to the Supernatural.
- Life isn't fair - get used to it;
- The world doesn't care about your self-esteem; It expects you to accomplish something before feeling good about yourself;
- You won't make $60K a year right out of school, or be a vice president with a cell phone. You have to earn it;
- Do you think your teacher is tough? Wait till you have a boss - he's not tenured;
- Flipping burgers isn't beneath you; your grandparents called it opportunity;
- Your parents weren't always boring; it came from feeding you, cleaning your clothes and paying your bills. So before you rush out to save the rain forest from the 'parasites' of your parents' generation, try delousing your own closet;
- Some schools may have abolished winners and losers, but life hasn't. They may have eradicated 'failing grades' and given you as long as you want to get the right answer. This bears no resemblance to reality;
- Life isn't divided into semesters. You don't get summers off. Employers aren't interested in helping you 'find yourself;' you do that on your own time;
- Unlike television, real people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to work;
- Be nice to nerds; chances are, you'll end up working for one someday!
Have a beautiful year ahead!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Making The Most Of Morning
Daily Habits - Spiritual/Physical to Inculcate:
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Work - Life Balance
Wondering if the title of this post relates to the story captioned in this post.
Anyways, i read a friend's post and it got me thinking about work - life balance, how imbalance can lead to stress and heart related diseases.
Haven't had time to do an original post for a month or more, still don't have enough time... It's the end of another month; Meanwhile, it seems like another week just ended...how amazing!
Here's a good piece, it's an illustration of what stress is, thought to share it with you; sure it would be beneficial as it was for me.
Read on...
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a
glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute,
that's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold
it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the
heavier it becomes."
He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we
carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes
increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. "
"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and
rest before h olding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on
with the burden."
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't
carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're
carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can."
So, my friend, why not take a while to just simply RELAX. Put down
anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again
until after you've rested a while.
Life is short. Enjoy it!
Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:-
* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat
them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the
middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their
maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be va gue.
* If you lend someone £20 and never see that person again, it was
probably worth it
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
warning to others.
* Never buy a car you can't push.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because ! then
you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the
world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot from crayons...
Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird
names, and all are different col ors, but they all have to live in the
same box.
*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Cheers!
Anyways, i read a friend's post and it got me thinking about work - life balance, how imbalance can lead to stress and heart related diseases.
Haven't had time to do an original post for a month or more, still don't have enough time... It's the end of another month; Meanwhile, it seems like another week just ended...how amazing!
Here's a good piece, it's an illustration of what stress is, thought to share it with you; sure it would be beneficial as it was for me.
Read on...
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a
glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?"
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute,
that's not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold
it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.
In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the
heavier it becomes."
He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we
carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes
increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. "
"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and
rest before h olding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on
with the burden."
"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't
carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're
carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can."
So, my friend, why not take a while to just simply RELAX. Put down
anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again
until after you've rested a while.
Life is short. Enjoy it!
Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:-
* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the
statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat
them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the
middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their
maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be va gue.
* If you lend someone £20 and never see that person again, it was
probably worth it
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a
warning to others.
* Never buy a car you can't push.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because ! then
you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the
world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot from crayons...
Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird
names, and all are different col ors, but they all have to live in the
same box.
*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Cheers!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
THE TOUR
The Tour, that's my little secret, which is manifesting August, for more details about keying into the process of getting what you want in 6 months, check out http://deoluakinyemi.com/2008/06/02/success-experiment-40-days/ and you will understand. I am so excited...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
FOCUS
Focus, according to the wordweb is defined as " the concentration of attention or energy on something"; in addition, i would say focus is putting energy, resources, will, thoughts, attention towards a clearly defined goal/objective or desire.
When you were younger did you ever sit with a magnifying glass trying to focus a beam of sunlight to try to set fire to some paper, or polythene bag?! if not try it... more like, look through the rearview mirror or side mirror of a car when an oncoming vehicle's head lamp is flashing, what's the effect of the reflection on the mirror onto the eyes?...that's the power of focus.
Its amazing what focused light can do. In fact, when light is focused as a laser beam, it can cut through steel. In the same way, nothing is as potent as a focused life. The men and women who make the greatest difference in life are often the most focused. Paul's obsession was to make Christ known. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Be willing to turn away from good activity to do only that which matters most. Doing lots of stuff doesn't mean you're doing the right stuff.
Poet William Matthews wrote, 'One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth a hundred shallow faculties [abilities]'. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamouring for attention, is concentration, putting all you have got into a clearly defined plan/goal.
In other words , figure out what God wants from us and focus. Does focus come easily or naturally? No, it's a discipline that must be practiced every day.
Practice FOCUS, yes! practice FOCUS...as the old saying goes "Jack of all trades, maser of none".
When you were younger did you ever sit with a magnifying glass trying to focus a beam of sunlight to try to set fire to some paper, or polythene bag?! if not try it... more like, look through the rearview mirror or side mirror of a car when an oncoming vehicle's head lamp is flashing, what's the effect of the reflection on the mirror onto the eyes?...that's the power of focus.
Its amazing what focused light can do. In fact, when light is focused as a laser beam, it can cut through steel. In the same way, nothing is as potent as a focused life. The men and women who make the greatest difference in life are often the most focused. Paul's obsession was to make Christ known. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Be willing to turn away from good activity to do only that which matters most. Doing lots of stuff doesn't mean you're doing the right stuff.
Poet William Matthews wrote, 'One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth a hundred shallow faculties [abilities]'. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamouring for attention, is concentration, putting all you have got into a clearly defined plan/goal.
In other words , figure out what God wants from us and focus. Does focus come easily or naturally? No, it's a discipline that must be practiced every day.
Practice FOCUS, yes! practice FOCUS...as the old saying goes "Jack of all trades, maser of none".
Friday, May 30, 2008
Enjoy Life!
ANONYMOUS' 21 RULES TO ENJOY LIFE
ONE . Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want
FOUR. When you say, "I love you," mean it.
FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.
SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN . In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN. Say "God bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson .
SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY- ONE .. Spend some time alone.
Cheers!
ONE . Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want
FOUR. When you say, "I love you," mean it.
FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry," look the person in the eye.
SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN . In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"
FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN. Say "God bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson .
SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY- ONE .. Spend some time alone.
Cheers!
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