Habits are powerful. Someone said we create habits, but they end up creating our whole lives for us. Habits are repeated actions. We decide, knowingly or unknowingly to take the actions we take. However, when the actions are repeated without being stopped, we become almost completely powerless to stop them. Good or bad, it has become a habit. Psychologists have studied habits for decades. They hav... »
Leadership is not about titles. Leadership is about three things: 1. Being a good example of what you believe. 2. Being a good communicator of what you believe. 3. Being a man/woman of prayer and faith (one who changes things through faith). Romans 14:22 KJV Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. The enemy of your de... »
A New Year is a whole new opportunity – an opportunity to change your life forever, positively, if you could just identify the right way to go now to get that permanent change. For most rich, great men, there is a particular year that made them become all they eventually became. 2015 can be that year for you. What effort could you put in this year that would make you shine out? What could yo... »
Make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who traded his birthright as the firstborn son for a single meal. You know that afterward, when he wanted his father’s blessing, he was rejected. It was too late for repentance, even though he begged with bitter tears.. Hebrews 12:16-17 The route to the type of repentance that produces true life change is not through emotions. It is through ta... »
When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours. Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. She had managed to finish that swim in a record time, 16 hours and 22 minutes on August 8, 1950. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina I... »
Folorunsho Alakija, the richest black woman in the world (no, it’s not Oprah) who covered the second edition (December 2013/January 2014) of Forbes Africa Woman has an amazing story. Before the magazine declared her the richest black woman in the world, many knew Mrs Folorunsho Alakija as a creative designer with the Supreme Stitches label, which she later named Rose of Sharon Creations. She’s al... »
Habits are very powerful things in our lives. Management expert Stephen Covey wrote a very popular book on the habits of successful people. In other words, he invariably made the case that success and failure are both simply a product of HABITS. What is a habit? A habit is an automatic pattern of behaviour in reaction to a specific situation, gotten through frequent repetition. In other words, whe... »
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States, once made a very profound statement. He said, “I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous (the meeting place) with excellence. Deep… Is there really a connection between excellence and a great future? What is excellence anyway? Excellence is defined as the condition of achieving result... »
Hebrews 12:1 ¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. There are many of us who would love to live our lives fully for God, but we have been held back by what the Bible calls ‘weights’. You see, when the devil se... »
Mar 9:23 Jesus replied, “Why do you say ‘if you can’? ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS FAITH!” ANYTHING is possible for someone who has faith… Wow. This means “impossibility” is a word that came as a result of man’s inability to have faith! The mountains you see stopping you are not real. They are just a sign of our inability to believe. The... »
