Qualities For Success

Discipline and Diligence... Persistence and Perseverance... Faith and Focus... Things one must have to succeed. Everyone wants these qualities; indeed most claim to have them. The truth we know deep within but sometimes refuse to even accept is that these qualities are not things to be had, but cultivated. For them to be truly what they are, they have to stand the tests of time and adversity. The strength to cultivate them doesn't necessarily have to originate from one's self; one can tap into the strength of others by sharing one's vision and goals with them and telling them to make sure they hold one accountable for one's words. This way if one deviates unconsciously, there is always a kind voice around to put one back on the right path. So I say to you, whatever you want to be, start proclaiming it to yourself and others today. I go hammer! I go fine! I go know Maths! I go pass JAMB! I go get Job! Come on! Keep them coming...

Perspectives

Someone said:The only treasure they can't steal from me is the one stored in my head. With present-day and future technology, that may not be valid. Privacy no longer has a tangible definition; any one who has the urge and wherewithal can know what you do everywhere, even in your toilet. Our perception of things,which depends on the kind of information we have, determines how we shape the world around us. A knife in the hands of a lumberjack or woodcutter does not perform the same function as when it is in the hands of a sculptor. A woodcutter with a knife looks at a piece of wood and sees the next bit of fuel for his cooking hearth. A sculptor with a knife will look at a piece of wood and probably see Abraham Lincoln's head in it. If you will love to know more of what a knife can do, give one to an assassin and tell him to look at you. The bottom-line is, that you should feed your brain with the right information,such that you will suitably fortified to surmount any challenges that might bar your way to success. See beyond what is; perceive only that which may be and success will come chasing you pants-in-hand.

So You Don't Know Maths?

I wonder if there is truly anyone on earth who is not an expert mathematician. To start with,the human brain performs most of its functions after performing intense calculations e.g adjusting heart rate,concentration of body fluids,interpreting nerve signals etc. Okay,those examples may have been a bit confusing but this isn't: have you ever crossed a busy road? If yes, then your brain had to calculate that the time it would take the nearest oncoming car to reach you was greater than the time you needed to get across. If your brain has ever made a mistake in its calculations... well, you might not be reading this. The calculation mentioned above would take a scientist minutes to solve but your brain does it in split seconds,unconciously as you would know.The brain is like an extraordinary computer with infinite space and data storage capabilities. So next time you get low scores on a maths test,it means...I think you know.

Common Wonders!

Have you ever thought of these: "why rain falls in drops"; "air is gaseous,not liquid"; "iron rusts but gold doesn't"; "why you can't sneeze with your eyes open"; "why you seem to yawn when you others doing it(i said it,you are yawning now)". All of these are things that happen around us which we just ignore,we should learn to be more appreciative of mother nature. Take out time and appreciate the beauty of Mother Nature today.

Naija Enterprise

There is something I love about the country, Nigeria: the prevalence of the spirit of free enterprise. I'm not much of an economist but I can't think of any suitable term to describe the Nigerian economic system. It's not capitalist like the US, socialist like the Soviet nations, or even a mixed economic system as seen in certain developing economies. It changes depending on an innumerable number of factors: the political party in power, time of the year, state of financial morale of the populace etc. This dynamism often manifests itself subtly in various facets of Nigerian culture and induces peculiar reactions from the people which foreign nationals would find strange. It works both for good and bad as the average Nigerian would overlook some blatant acts of injustice, seeing them as a part of life's normal routine while the same person would flare up at the mention of a trivial matter especially if it has to do with religion or helpless kids. There is hardly a place where this peculiar nature is more manifest than the way we handle intellectual property rights. Simply put, such a concept doesn't exist in a Nigerian's lexicon. If you can produce something and my having it doesn't prevent you from using your copy, then I'm welcome to use it as I please, regardless of whatever pains and sacrifices you might have had to make to produce said thing. As Nigerians say: sharing is caring. In Nigeria, people hardly ever pay to listen to songs, watch movies or read books; everything has to be free. Anybody who wants to make money from intellectual products must resort to some very creative marketing approaches, approaches which are also likely to be pirated. For example, if a fictitious artiste called RhymzBoi releases an album today, he can rest assured that within a few hours his entire album will be available for FREE download on the net. Within a few days, derivative tracks and cover songs based on his album would have flooded the net, choking any immediate revenue he might have expected from the album. The fact is, Nigerians don't just want a product to be free, they also require the means of obtaining said product to be free, hence the proliferation of free browsing cheat codes. This is equivalent to a guy who orders a product by mail and expects the courier company to deliver his package for free and when they don't, he finds an alternative means of making them do it. In essence, Nigerians can not only pirate physical products but full-scale courier companies - DHL and UPS beware. As they say, again: we too much! Nigerians are intelligent, enterprising people who always find ingenious ways to extricate themselves from even the tightest of corners. We are a hardy breed; able to take knocks - both literal and figurative - from multiple directions without capitulating. Regardless of our ethnic, religious and political differences, we have managed to soldier on as one nation; united in our goal to achieve a prosperous and peaceful country. Even with the recent emergence of certain elements who would see the fragile cohesion of this country's people come to naught, we have still managed to stand strong. With this in mind, I want to wish all Nigerians the best as we celebrate 54 years of freedom from colonialism. May the years and anniversaries ahead be better than those yet seen. Note from RhymzBoi : If you are a musician, artist, movie producer, inventor or creator of any form of intellectual property, you can discover ways of protecting your work from pirates in my album to be released tomorrow. If you like, follow pirate that one, God dey heaven dey watch. The thunder wey go handle you still dey Shaolin Temple dey learn work.

Change

Change can come and the best part is it doesn't have to begin with you... just make darn sure it begins with the person next to you. Trust me, in typical human fashion, the person will reciprocate.

Funny Success

Success is one heck of a thing. It refuses to come to you when you stay and wait for it... It runs like the wind when you chase it... When you finally catch up to it, it calls its brethren to come and be with you... you just wonder they had been all the while And if you mistakenly allow it to leave, it takes its brethren along... and some more, too.