There is a story about a Jewish couple in England sometime ago who set their heart on having a son. When a son was born to them, they insisted that he should be a genius. His records in school however, dismayed his parents who had to employ a number of tutors to help the boy scrape through his examinations from one class to the next. After completing school with the greatest of difficulty, the boy was sent to Oxford, where…
In my previous article on finding opportunity, I asked if we create opportunities or wait for opportunities. In this article we will take a look at the phrase ‘to create’ and the postulates we carry in our mind and how they affect our life. What does to create means? It means doing the activity of creating or being in creative activity. Do you know that we are constantly participating in the process of creating something? When you are working in…
What do you think of opportunity? I know it can mean different thing for different people, but what does it means personally to you? Do we create opportunity or do we wait for the opportunity to come to us? Some say we should create opportunities, while some others say we should wait. In the case of creating opportunity, we have to have the right resources or a least enough of it; if not how can we create the opportunity? Resources…
I have been trying so much to ensure that I post at least one article daily in this blog, but sometimes I do lack inspiration or creativity to write. Is this what they call writer’s block? Some writers consider it such. Perhaps it is just lack of ideas. As a blog writer we can write and post anything on our blog, especially if our blog is a personal blog but this is a niche blog. In this blog I focus…
You probably have heard so many writers or speakers mentioning about attracting abundance. I want you to know what attracting abundance really means. Abundance means having something in the amount more than what is required. Attracting abundance means, bringing into your life something more than what you really need. When a motivational speaker or writer speaks of attracting abundance it is often referred to creating wealth. For example, Bill Gates may be defined to be abundant in wealth. His sum…
If you want to achieve something in life like other successful people but facing a challenge that seems impossible to overcome, just remember this: you are a soul, a creative spark of God. As soul you have all the qualities of God. That means you can solve any problems. Remember that always. It will give you the self confidence needed to go through the challenges you are facing.
I love writing. I wouldn’t say I am very good in writing, I just love it. The way I write is simple and it’s a straight forward technique known as free writing which is good for short article writing. Wise Life Advice is actually an evolution of my attempt to expose my writings Online for others to read. Yet, I discovered that my real talent isn’t really in writing but in teaching
A giant ship engine failed. The ship’s owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately
It’s human nature to try and avoid making hard decisions, but I say the toughest ones are some of the best moments in life. Every time I’ve ever had to make a hard decision, I’ve always chosen the most difficult path. And these moments have become some of the most important and best turning points in my life. They made my life far richer than I could ever have dreamed, and were responsible for quantum jumps in my self confidence…
Maybe it was my upbringing, but I’ve always expected and planned for the worst. It has been a great motivation for trying to do exactly what I’ve really wanted to do with my life, and not necessarily sticking to the “safe bets” in life. In the early days of my business, I would sit in front of my telephone and try to get up the nerve to make calls and ask perfect strangers to toss some work my way. I…