REFLECTION

Science defines the word 'REFLECTION' as the action or process of sending back light, heat, sound etc from a surface. Now let's look at that surface as you. Everything that you are getting in your life right now is a reflection of you. Simply put, what you are 'inside' is what you receive outside. To change the result that you are currently getting in any area of your life, you have to change what you are giving out to the universe. What are you thinking? How are you perceiving people, events, things etc? Now, Lets us look at this story for more clarity.

How to Overcome Adversity

 
We all face adversity at one point or the other in our lives. You are not alone in this. Even people who seems to look like "they have it all working out for them" face adversity in one area of life or the other at some point in their lives. Nothing can motivate a person like adversity. It all depends on your perspective. See adversity as a motivator and you will come out of it stronger and better. See it as "it was meant to kill me" and you get frustrated and depressed.

Stop the Denial

1. Most often we deny the existence of facts in our lives because of fear. We are afraid to face facts squarely thinking that something even worse will happen when we stop denying and take action. For example; your business not making enough money to meet your needs and you are already borrowing to keep the business afloat. This has been going on for the past 6 months. It's time to stop the denial and accept the facts that there is a problem and urgent help is required.

Why Should I Laugh?

Why should I laugh when I am busy working? Why should I laugh when I can barely feed? Why should I laugh when my spouse is not making me happy? The list go on and on. I have found out that people take themselves too seriously. I have met people in every walk of life who have too much doom and gloom in their attitudes. You need to lighten up. No matter how serious your work is, that's no reason to always carry a gloomy face.

Pay the price for a Change

There is always a price to pay for anything that is beneficial to humanity. Change which is inevitable always cost you something, if not monetrily, then in energy, time and creativity. In fact if change doesn't cost you anything, then it isn't real change!

Leading From The Center Of an Organization

It is a fact that has been proving over and over again that 99 percent of all leadership occurs not from the top but from the middle of an organization because usually an organization has only one person who is the leader, the top dog. So what do you do if you are not that one person?

Not everyone understands what it means to influence others in every direction – those you work for, the people who are on same level with you and the people who work for you. Some people are good at leading the members of their own team, but they seem to alienate the leaders in other departments of the organization. Others individuals excel at building a relationship with their boss but they have no influence with anyone below them in the organization. A few can get along with just anybody but they never seem to get any work done. On the other hand, some people are productive, but can’t get along with anybody. Only 360 degrees leaders influence people at every level of the organization. By helping others, they help themselves.

Am i Productive

If you sincerely take a personal inventory of your life now i.e physically, financially, socially, relational, economically, spiritually etc. will you say you have been productive with all that the creator has made available to you? Do you realize that you are accountable to the creator? Do you know that everyone will give account of how he has maximized every gift and talent that he has been given unto him? If you don’t realize read about the parable of the talent in the book of St. Matthew 25.

Productivity has been defined as a measure of the efficiency of a person, machine, system etc. in converting inputs into useful outputs or the state of producing something. What are you producing?  What problems are you solving? Someone will even say; what have I been given? My father never left any inheritance for me, my father never sent me to high school, my parents never established any business for me etc; that might be true but at creation you were giving the ability and power to own all these things and more. Let say something here; our lives are not defined by what we own but by what we give.

Personal Leadership

A number of years ago a quick conversation with my father had one of the greatest impact on my life. It wasn’t a big deal to him, but it was a huge deal to me.

I had just finished my Master’s Degree project. As part of that process I had to present and defend the project which included taking questions from professors and fellow students. The entire thing was fairly stressful and videotaped. I was proud of what I had accomplished and shared the video with my father.

Making The Most Of Every Opportunity

Arich man has four sons. As he grows old, he decides to give his property to the son who would value the wealth he had earned. He calls his four sons and gives them each five grains of rice. He tells them that he shall ask for these grains at the end of 5 years & he would give his property to the son who would value these grains the most.

The first son throws away the grains. He decides to show his father some other grains when he would ask for them after 5 years, in anticipation that his father would not be able to see the difference between the two sets of grains.

CREATE YOUR LUCK

I have come to understand that there is nothing call LUCK.
What people call luck is simply when PREPARATION MEETS OPPORTUNITY.
In his book; The 15 Laws of Invaluable Growth, John Maxwell states that GROWTH does not just happen. You have to be intentional about your growth.
To increase your capacity in life, you must be intentional.
Nothing happens by accident.

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Today is what you have

So many times you worry about yesterday’s disappointments, Failures, etc or think about what will happen tomorrow; this is a waste of time because it will not benefit you in any way.

Your focus needs to remain in the one area where you have some control – which is TODAY. Ironically if you focus on today you get a better tomorrow.

Law Of Intentionality

The Law of "Intentionality" states that 'Growth doesn't just happen' for you to grow up there must be a "Cause and effect"
Most times parents are guilty of demanding from their kids what they have not taught them. When this kids fail to meet their expectation they begin to blame the kid instead of owning up that they have failed in their responsibility.
Today I intentionally taught my Son, Testimony his first Leadership skill. For clarity, my son is a 3 year old boy.

story on Problem solving

Sridhar Krishnan shares a wonderful story about problem solving. Enjoy!

Many years ago in a small Zezuru village, a farmer had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to a village moneylender.  The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the farmer’s  young beautiful daughter. So the moneylender proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the farmer’s debt if he could marry his daughter.  Both the farmer and his daughter were horrified by the proposal.

So the cunning money-lender suggested that they let providence decide the matter. He told them that he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into An empty money bag. Then the girl would have to pick one pebble from the bag. 1. If she picked the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father’s debt would be forgiven. 2. If she picked the white pebble she need not marry him and her father’s debt would still be forgiven. 3. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail. They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the farmer’s field.

As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles.  As he picked them up, the sharp-eyed  damsel/girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag.  He then asked the girl to pick a pebble from the bag. Now, imagine that you were standing in the field.  What would you have done if you were the girl?  If you had to advise her, what would you have told her?  Careful analysis would produce three possibilities: 1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble. 2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat. 3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment. Take a moment to ponder over the story.  

The above story is used with the hope that it will make us appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking.  The girl’s dilemma cannot be solved with traditional logical thinking.

Think of the consequences if she chooses the above logical answers. What would you recommend to the girl  do?

Please see the solution after you come up with your own solution

Why not do it now?

In life, at one time or another, you feel like you have something special within you. Something creative that belongs to you.

The creativity may be in the form of writing, singing, playing or any other activity. You believe you can do it better than others. You are certain that you can advance your career by running your own business rather than holding down a regular daily job. This would be your dream achievement and you take the decision to make a go of it.

As time passes you become stuck and entangled in life's day to day happenings. You don't progress as you should have and your subconscious mind makes excuses which works against your creativity. Self doubt creeps in and you begin to believe that maybe you are not up to it. You slowly give up on your dream and defeat seems inevitable. The more you don't achieve, the more self doubt rears its ugly head and the less you do to achieve your dreams.

Why is it that procrastination wins over creativity? The answer, firstly, is that fire needs oxygen to keep burning. In this instance the initial motivation is the oxygen. Secondly, you need action to keep the the fire or motivation burning. Now between the these two lies procrastination.

CHARACTER

In the course of last week, I went to the gas station to buy gas (Petrol) with a gallon.

I was not driving. I went there on a motor cycle. As soon as we got there, we were headed for a particular pump where one young man (A pump attendant) was just seated and chatting away, not attending to any other person. As we got closer to him, he directed us to another pump that is at the other extreme. We obeyed and headed to the other pump as if he was doing us a favor. May be he was actually doing us a favor, forgetting that on that same street; there are three other gas stations.

We headed for the pump at the other extreme as instructed. As soon as we got close to the pump, the attendant (Another young man) who has just finished selling to a motor-cycle

Make Others Feel Good

In the course of the week, I celebrated my birthday and a lot of people sent me birthday wishes on social media which made me happy that people can spare time from their busy schedule to celebrate me. One of the messages made me feel more special, proud and fulfilled; Not because it was longer than what the others have sent or more flowery but because it complimented me for one good thing I had done to her which was special to her life. Someone will say what I am driving at?

Power of Responsibility

Still on the matter of  taking personal responsibility for our lives.

It's been said that the line between childhood and adulthood is crossed when we move from saying 'It got lost' to 'I lost it.'

Indeed, being accountable - and understanding and accepting the role our choices play in the things that happen - are crucial signs of emotional and moral maturity. That's why responsibility is one of the main pillars of good character.

Many people have been seduced by the Peter Pan philosophy of refusing to grow up and avoiding the burdens implied in being accountable. Yes, responsibility sometimes requires us to do things that are unpleasant

BE A CHANGE AGENT

There is a saying that “there are 3 kinds of people on earth; those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who do not know what is happening.”

What category do you belong to?

Have you spoken to yourself today?

Its the beginning of another week. i Hope you are enthusiastic about your goals for the week.

A lot of times we want to talk to other people about themselves but not about us.
Have you taken time to speak to yourself today?

I have come to realize that people tend to magnify the challenges of other people and pay less attention to their own challenges.
A wise man once said that there are two people that can talk to you; other people can talk to you and you can talk to yourself. A lot of time we only listen to others but not ourselves.