YOUR TIME IS YOURS! ...USE IT WISELY.

Dedicate more time in that which you aspire you to attain... Yes! you would need to do anything to make sure that things which are not impactful or important to you stay out of your way in the journey of life. For me, I would cut off from whatever it is, even if it would hurt my feelings. So long as cutting off from such thing is the single thing that I need to do in order to attain my goals, I would cut off from it!

You may ask, so why would I take any of these steps? ..You see, the simple answer to the question is because, when you prioritize your time into things that matters most in your life, you would find yourself subconsciously abstaining from those things that do not matter or contributes positively to your life, be it a friend, a job, a loved one who might have always been inconsistent with their actions or words, a boss who has no integrity or self-respect, or even a community at large that is not in-line with your goals and vision etc. You need to ask yourself whether you really need to goto that event, or be with that person at a stipulated time or even whether you should spend time on learning that skill, because so long as you stick to something that you do not need, you spend time wasting time. 

Do not feel bad that you are not an expert in the aspect of focus. Truth is, nobody is. But the easy way out is that, when you have dreams or a good idea, share it with someone you trust. Someone more knowledgeable than youself. Someone who delights in impacting others. Remember, as things unveil while you execute your plans, you would get more wiser, more ideas will spring up from withing you. 

But before you can get to that level, all you need to do for now is for you to start channeling your mind and thoughts towards your vision or dreams. It is as well inevitably vital that you understand progress in your quest for success. If you don’t understand progress, there is a greater chance that you might drift away, you need to understand that the key to achieving something great constitutes; patience, consistency, vast knowledge (which will be acquired with deliberate learning over time), wisdom, and the ability to reflect on your shortcomings and forthcomings and to ascertain what is working from what is not.

You time is yours! Make sure you are using it wisely.

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GADS Town Hall - 1 Day To Go - 28th August 2020

Hello there, if you made it to the next phase in GADS kindly read this as it reads 1Day To Go!

I received this email at about 10:37am today, and I decided to share with you all, so If you are taking the GADS program and have not been able to find this on your email quickly go through this content to stay up to date. This email should be the same email that is sent to all MWS Learners.

An event not to miss, this Friday  28th July, 2020 at 2pm GMT. I can not find better ways to say this - you must attend this.   🤩

You can join the live session here: https://bit.ly/GADSTownHall2 and post your questions here: https://app.sli.do/event/s66a7vnq

Take a minute or so to spread the word on social media. Include the hashtags #GADS2020 #GADSTownHall #100DAYSOFGADS2020. We will appreciate this

 

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Bethany Jepchumba

For The Google Africa Developer Scholarship Team

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HEART GUARDIAN

I was thinking - Why the human heart is protected by the “rib cage” and why it is called a "rib cage."

The human heart is confined within the rib cage, which functions as the protector of the lungs and heart. Is there a wisdom in this? Let’s see.

You may ask which heart should I guard and from what or who do I guard it from? Man is made up of the spirit, soul and body. The mind, the mental capacity of a man, his emotions, thinking faculty, character, behavior are all embedded in the soul and this makes it a gateway we ought to guard. Imagine the heart was a glass cup and you try to fix a big stone into it, what happens? The glass would break. That's how delicate our heart is and must be protected.

“Man is made by his own thoughts, and our thoughts are influenced either positively or negatively by many factors around us, that comes from what we see and hear.”

The world we are in today is a mixture of so many elements with toxic effects, so we must be guided, for whatever a man does is only a reflection of what his heart contains, the thoughts that occupies his mind. Those things we see and hear are food for our thoughts to strengthen. So what you feed your heart with determines what you will produce through your utterance, the way you act, and the character you possess.

"A good man out of the good treasures of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks".  Luke 6:45

This is absolutely true, the heart is a secret place where you can either find good treasures or bad treasures. What you permit into you is what you are becoming and what you are, will be known by your actions.

What should I guard my heart from?

The book of Proverbs says "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life". The things we see and hear, molds, motivates, modifies the person we become. Resolve in your heart not to feed your soul with impurities that pollutes the mind.

People can also be toxic to you, when you mingle with the wrong people, consciously or unconsciously, someday you will begin to act wrongly. As family, parents let your words to your children be gracious, whatever you say to them is a seed you are planting in the ground of their hearts. If you always insult your children making them look useless, that child will grow up with the consciousness of being stupid and not good at doing anything right. The child's mind will have to be transformed and reconfigured to accepting the words that will purify his mind from negative words.

Be your heart's cage, restrict bad influence from entering into your heart. Meditate of godly things, so that what comes out of your mouth will be medicine to heal broken hearts. Some people's words does more harm than good, it breaks the heart more and more.

Protect your heart, it is your treasure.

YOU: YOUR HAPPINESS

YOU: YOUR HAPPINESS

A saying reads " All they wanna see is the YOU inside of you, don't fake it"! The greatest wickedness you can do to yourself is to sell your happiness to men and get back hatred in exchange. Everyone has his/her uniqueness, try not forcing yourself into being someone else other than YOU. Your happiness should be your priority after your Maker (God) 

There is no joy than the joy of being yourself for it's 100% okay to buy you happiness. Your character is whom you are, is either it affect posterity positively or it do negatively. It gives clear definition of YOU, photocopy in character is a great disease, therefore flee such for there is nothing more great than being your very self, I mean the original YOU. Your generations is tired of FAKE !!!

You gat to be your real you !

No time to box you bad character, get them off...

FAMILY – THE DESIGN OF GOD

“Family is God’s design, accept them and see how it comes to fulfilment."

I have never seen or heard of anyone who chose for himself or herself the family he or she was born into – Never! I didn’t chose my family, likewise you. God who knows all things has by Himself chosen for us in accordance to His purpose for us. Friends, there wasn’t an iota of mistake in your making. The process may truly not be licit, but fact(s) can’t be rebut that there were millions of sperm cells that were released for only one to fertilize an egg. This was a contest among the sperm cells from your father, because proximity was important in the race, so there can be the development of you, the cells all struggled so they can reach and penetrate an egg. Through it all, you won the race – Imagine that all the cells were wearing a jersey and they were all numbered, it could have been cell number 1, 2, 10, 40, or even number 1 million, but just maybe you were number 20 million and you won the race of proximity, then you must be a special one.
The process may be illicit and would have been another person’s right to win the race, but you won the race, so congratulations. You must learn to see family as a gift from God; learn to receive and love them with the whole of your heart, despite the failures in the past; you must learn to see gracefully and believe that something good can come to light from your family.

Stop complaining and comparing yourself or family with others, it won’t unscramble or solve the problem. We didn’t have an idea of the family we were born into today, some persons have always been defended while others have learnt to fight all through their lives; some have never missed a meal, while others struggle to have just a meal; some are rich, others are poor.

Whatever it may be, or wherever you find yourself, know that you didn’t choose your family, so what you must decide to do, is to see how you can add value to them. Become the agent of change to them, fight for them, ensure that they are happy, encourage each other, make it work if it’s tearing apart. Don’t create space for the enemy to make your family a camping ground.

Few years ago, my siblings and I didn’t relate as family should, hardly would I bring down myself to play with them. I came to realize that something was wrong – this is not how to live. I deliberately called for a meeting and distributed papers to them so they could write what they dislike about me. After going through all they wrote, I apologized and set off taking responsibility to see that everyone is at peace and the atmosphere sublime in love. I kept looking for a need I could meet, and on a fateful day, I had to call my younger brother to sit, for me to wash his feet. That was usual, I didn’t choose any of my siblings, so I must love them the way they are.

I always will emphasize seeing the difference in people to be the first step in living peacefully.

As husbands – love your wives.

As wives – love your husbands.

As children – love and accept your parents.

As parent – love your children.

Do you have a vision for your present family?

Ask yourself – What can you do differently? For you didn’t choose your family.

The Smart Money Woman by Arese Ugwu (Book Review)

The Smart Money Woman is a fantastic book that teaches those that care about the steps they can take to change their financial lives. Published by Arese Ugwu in 2016 she explains the concepts borrowing, investing, saving, spending, earning, budgeting by telling a fictional story of a young Nigerian woman, Zuri.

Zuri worked as a senior manager at a real estate firm in Lagos and earned six hundred thousand a month after taxes. She lived in a two-bedroom serviced apartment in an up market part of Lagos in Lekki Phase I. She could take one or two trips abroad to places like Dubai, London or New York and she drove a second-hand Mercedes ML 500. The irony here was that before the end of the month she found herself broke and unfortunately, she had no land, no stock portfolio, or any assets she could sell to bring herself out of this dilemma.

In Sub-Sahara African countries, many people are not born into a wealthy family. As a result, they lack personal finance skills which turn out to be challenging to learn when they become adults. So even when people start earning more from a new job, they end up living from paycheque to paycheque because they think mainly on what to spend on and pay less attention to saving or obtaining an asset. Like Zuri in The Smart Money Woman, many people start living precious lives they can’t sustain. As a result, they end up becoming broke before the end of the month.

Arese Ugwu has done an excellent job in teaching personal finance and letting her readers know what to do to obtain financial freedom/independence.

The Smart Money Woman is for every woman; married, single, divorced, widowed; and every man with women in their lives. Click on this link to download The Smart Money Woman by Arese Ugwu.

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Book Review)

 One of the most influential bestsellers of all time is the book Think and Grow Rich Published by Napoleon Hill in 1937, which sold about 100 million copies as of 2015.

Napoleon Hill interviewed more than 500 of the richest men and women of the early 19th century, most of whom grew up lacking wealth. It took about 20 years to compile the principles of wealth he got from these people into a book that contains 13 main principles anyone can change his or her way of thinking to become wealthy.

Napoleon Hill emphasizes how what we think about plays a significant role in determining what eventually becomes our reality. He tells about how people were compelled to think of poverty following the Wall Street crash of 1929. Their thought crystallized to become its physical equivalent, which was known as a 'Depression'.

Think and Grow Rich contains Sixteen Chapters, of which Thirteen explains the principles on how anyone can changing his/her thinking and become rich. The 13 Principles are outlined below:

1. Desire: The Starting Point of all Achievement
2. Faith: Visualizing and Believing in the Attainment of Desire
3. Autosuggestion: The Medium for Influencing The Subconscious Mind
4. Specialized knowledge: Personal Experiences
5. Imagination: The Workshop of The Mind
6. Organized Planning: The Crystallisation of Desire into Action
7. Decision: The Mastery of Procrastination
8. Persistence: The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith
9. Power of the Master Mind: The Driving Force
10. The Mystery of Sex Transmutation
11. The Subconscious Mind: The Connecting Link
12. The Brain: A Broadcasting and Receiving Station For Thought
13. The Sixth Sense: The Door to The Temple of wisdom.

Another exciting thing about Think and Grow Rich is that Hill used real-life stories with great lessons. After weeks of labour, the story is told about a man who discovered a shining ore in the ground. He needed machinery to bring the ore to the earth's surface, so he got some money from some of his relatives, purchased the needed machinery, and got back to work. He and his nephew drilled and hauled gold from the ground to the earth's surface until they eventually found no gold. They kept drilling for an extended period and found nothing in the ground. 

Finally, they decided to quit; they sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars. 

Some 'junk' men are dumb but not this one. He called in an Engineer who examined the place and advised that the project had failed because the owners were not familiar with 'fault lines.' His calculations showed that the veins would be found just three feet from where they had stopped drilling! Eventually, that was where the gold ore was found.

More than 500 of the most successful people America has ever known told the author that they succeeded just one step beyond the point defeat or failure had overtaken them.

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Antonza Calvin Karim

 

LOVE PILLS, BITTER PILLS

“Nothing bitter is sweet, and nothing sweet is bitter.”

Some people have swallowed a good number of bitter pills in search of a relief from the happenings around their lives, they become their own doctors and physicians, prescribing what they think is the best pill for their illness.

People have gone through the heat of life – disappointments, betrayals, pain, confusion, losing their loved ones, heartbreaks, accusations and all manner of things, that they have ingested pills of hatred, bitterness, un-forgiveness, and unhappiness, to be the best treat to their problems. 

The truth is, all these things will always happen, because they are the seeds the world plants, but the ability to handle such situations, determines how strong you are. People will hate you, but the best thing to do is not to hate back; you will be betrayed – you don't have to pay back; you will be disappointed – you shouldn't keep malice; some will cheat you, others may break your heart, however and whatever it is, never pay evil with evil but with good. 

“Don't make anybody turn off the light in your heart into a compendium of darkness.”

I once saw a quote that says:

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

I find this really interesting - It takes grace to truly forgive. For someone to hurt you really bad and you, sustaining the courage to look at that person and forgive him or her; I call you “strong.” 

Swallowing the pills of un-forgiveness does more harm to you than good, it takes away your peace, keeps you embittered, and someday you may want to just pay back with an evil act and after which, you begin to feel guilty and harbour regrets. 

When wronged or hurt by someone, the devil's strategy, is to make you feel there is freedom or peace of mind in pay back for the wrong done unto you, and when you submit to this crafty scheme of the devil to pay back for the wrong done to you, then the devil comes and make sure you are filled with so much guilt and regret, that makes your life despondent.

Let me share with you an experience I had. One day, I was arranging the house and I had to lay the bed, after which, two of my younger siblings scattered the bed, of which I didn't utter a word to them as I relayed their action. Again they scattered it, so I had to warn them and this happened again for the third time, so I couldn't tolerate it again and I had to run after them, though been entreated by my brother, I wasn’t inclined to listen to him, so I was left to do my wish, which was to spank them both, after which I was vibrating.

I asked myself – do I have to go through all of that by retaliating in the manner I did? 

I had swallowed an anger pill, and I regretted it just after I did what was in my mind. I would have probably thought they were children and it’s within their nature to be playful. So truly, people will hurt us, decide to take in a love pill instead, it heals the wound faster. When you understand that people are different and you're able to recognize that difference in people, your response to people will change for good. 

“Love pills heals faster.”