The long journey ahead.

Never Give up
Until You die
Never relax
Until You have worked
Never say it is over
Until It is over
Never step out
Until You have planned
Never wake up
Until You have dreamed
Never say die
Until You try
Never You start a race
Until You are set
Never You rest
Until the work is done
Never You rejoice
Until the battle is won
Never Can You achieve
Until You go the extra miles
Never lose focus
Until You get the crown
Never You lead
Until You have Followers
Never You learn
Until You have an open mind
Never You move
Until You set a goal
Never You serve
Until You are humble
Never lose faith
Until You overcome
Never sit down
Until You have a good stand
Never relent
Until You achieve Your goal.
Never give up
Until You reach Your destination
Never look back
Until You cross the finish line
Never You quit
Until You become a winner.




The road to success is a long journey ahead that requires perseverance, resilience and positive mental attitude.



QUOTE OF THE DAY
           “Life is short. Focus from this day forward
         On making a difference”
                             

DOWN MEMORY LANE

You were born with a great gift
A unique and rare treasure
You were born with a lot of potentials
You were full of promise
Much expectations were on You
Many looked up to You
Many expected the emergence of a giant
The gift You were given
Was for the betterment of humanity
Was for changing lives
Was for solving problems
Was for impacting lives
Was for inspiring and motivating those around
Was to be used to serve others
Was to be used to inspire souls
The gift was to be used
In love
In harmony
In a kind and good heart
To help the poor and less privileged.
To inspire lives
To unleash other potentials like You
You started your journey quite well
You used your gift well initially
You helped the poor
You inspired souls
You unleashed many giants
You brought smile to many faces
Soon enough
You became well respected and loved
You were celebrated by many
Your gift indeed made You a Hero
You were looked up to as a mentor
Your life became a model for others
But soon enough things began to change
A new Enemy set in
This same Enemy has destroyed many great men
Before You
You welcomed this new enemy
You were ignorant of its destructive ability
Your attitude changed
You distant Yourselves from the Poor and Less privileged
You gained so much power and influence
The power corrupted You
You became a dictator
Rather than a servant
You deviated from serving
You became a commander
You were rarely seen
Many cried to You for help
But you turned deaf ears
That new enemy diminished your influence
People distant themselves from You
You oppressed the poor
People were dying but you cared no more
You set about selling your gift
To the rich and wealthy
You entertained the rich
While the poor suffered
Your focus shifted from man to money
Your influence diminished rapidly
He who gave you the gift
Was angry and disappointed
He regretted giving you the gift
The deed has been done
Sooner than expected
You were dying
But no one cared
Suddenly you lost the gift
Some one else replaced You
That enemy rejoiced
As it has finally destroyed a life
A potential
A giant who was brought down
The enemy was successful
It destroyed your life and destiny
It truncated your purpose
We should all avoid this enemy
Its name is PRIDE

SECRET HANDBOOK OF CHAMPIONS. DAY 2

EMBRACE FEAR AND TAKE RISKS
Another major prerequisite for emerging a champion is to embrace and face your fears. Look fear straight in the eyes and overcome it. We all have our fears which may be fear of failure, fear of taking risks and fear of never trying something new. Every Human Being is afraid of something, we all have our fears but it is only Champions that sum up the courage and face their fears.
Many people are afraid of trying something new, or charting a new course, we all love to stick to the status quo or remain in our comfort zone. Only Champions can sum up the courage to venture into the Unknown.
The fear of taking risk is another type of fear. People are scared of trying things in which success is not assured. Taking calculated Risk is better than taking unnecessary risk. Taking Calculative risk sets you on the path of becoming a champion. One thing with taking risk is that you never achieve a win/win situation, rather you achieve a win/loose situation and your chances of emerging victorious is 50/50.
Another type of fear is fear of rejection, nobody wants to be rejected and ridiculed by people or the public, everybody loves to be appreciated. But the truth is that it is impossible to please or to be accepted by everyone, not everybody are happy that You are champion, not everybody are happy that You are succeeding while they are failing, after all they never know what You have been through to become a champion. Shun those who reject You and work with those who accept and appreciate You. Never make rejection cause depression for You, after all that is the nature of Humans and the world we live in nobody can be fully accepted by Everyone no matter how good You are.
Fear of failure occurs when people fail to act based on their fear of failing. But failure is an inevitable and necessary part of success, not an opposite of success as it is popularly believed by many. Faith is the opposite of fear. He who has faith can always overcome fear. Many Great Men that ever lived were  great failures like Thomas Edison who was one of the greatest Inventors of all time described Himself as one of the greatest failures of all time, He said He failed 1000 times.
       “in becoming a Champion, failure is inevitable “
Fear has two meanings which are;
F-Face.                          
E-Everything
A-And
R-Run
And
F- Face
E-Everything
A-And
R- Rise
  “our greatest glory is not in never falling,
  But rising anytime we fall”- Confucious
According to Franklin Roosevelt, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
He who fears to fail is a failure already
If you do not do the things You fear, the fear controls your life.
Don’t allow fear to limit what You can achieve, there is a treasure at the other side of fear overcome fear and become a champion today.
 

Violent Extremism is becoming a major cause of concern in the world today especially in Africa. These so called Extremists have claimed many lives, they kill innocent citizens all because they want to exert their religious rights to the detriment of others.
Over the last two months in Nigeria, Muslim Extremists have killed many Christians all because they are fighting for their religion, first it was in Kano where an innocent Trader told some muslim men to stop praying in front of her shop which she paid for and this angered the muslims in that market who attacked, killed and slaughtered her neck like a goat. This is the highest order of barbarism and savagery. She has right as the owner of her shop to chase out any unwanted visitor but this is was not okay with the Extremists who felt that they have right to pray and perform their religious rites anywhere. That is so absurd.
The Kano incident was still all over the news when we heard of the murder of yet another Christian woman who was preaching and doing her early morning evangelism somewhere in Abuja and yet these Extremists were not comfortable with this and it warranted for her murder. She was brutally butchered like a stock fish and these people have no remorse. After all, she has her freedom of speech and expression. If she was disturbing them, they should have reported her to the relevant Authorities and not by taking laws into their hands. This is so disheartening.
Another report also summoned of some muslim youths numbering about 200 who attacked, scattered and destroyed a Catholic church because it held  service on friday which was an official praying day for muslims. This made these Extremists to scatter and destroy a church. Because friday is your prayer day does not stop others from practising their religion on that day.
That is not all, one can even recall the various sharia riots that took place in kaduna in 2001, 2002 where many Christians lost their lives, even in Jos the same trend is happening.
These violent Extremism is also a Global phenomenon as the activities of various terrorist Groups like ISIS, Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Boko Haram attest to this. One can trace the foundation of all these madness to the 1804 so called Sokoto Jihad in which Othman Danfodio championed.
With all these facts on ground, Nobody can convince that islam is not a radical religion, we have heard continuous talks from muslim clerics who claim that islam is a peaceful religion but yet people are killed daily in the name of Allah, churches are destroyed, christians are killed daily, even in the World at large, Christian Nations are attacked daily, check out the latest Terrorist attack in Nice France which led to the loss of 84 lives.
The most intriguing fact to note is that upon all these attacks, christians hardly retaliate, they continually fall victims of Extremist attack. Can we  just imagine how the world will become if christians decide to retaliate, if they decide to form Christian terrorist Organization, the world will simply become a theatre of war where there will be no victor or vanquish.
I strongly appeal to all muslim Clerics and faithfuls Worldwide, that if you wnaat to really convinve me tha Islam is a peaceful religion, then look for a way to stop all these acts of Extremism, preach to all ypur fellow muslim brothers and sisters to stop fighting fof Allah and that if Allah is trupy a god, He shoupd fight for himslef and not act cowardly.

SECRET HANDBOOK OF CHAMPIONS. Day 1

Chapter one: SET IMPOSSIBLE GOALS AND STRIVE TO ACHIEVE THEM. 
Dream Big!!!!!  In whatever you do in life, never stop dreaming. 
Set goals that might look impossible to achieve at the present dispensation and strive to achieve. 
Work towards achieving your dreams, let your mind set be on that dream. 
       “Every dream you achieve today qualifies You for 
       a yet bigger dream”- David Adejumo
Set short term, medium term and long term goals and dream towards achieving them because every dream works with timing. We all know Leicester City a recently promoted team to the top flight of the English Premiere League, they had an initial goal of sealing their place in the top flight, and when that was achieved, they now set a more bigger goal of finishing in the top 4 and when top 4 was sure for them, they now set their eyes on the trophy and they worked towards it. In all this, they had an initial dream of winning the league and they achieved it. Their victory and success was like a fairy tale to the whole world. 
If you achieve a dream, whether long term or short term, set another goal and move on, strive to achieve it. 
     “The achievement of one goal should be the starting 
      Point of another” – Alexander Graham Bell
Dr Martin Luther King's famous “I have a dream” speech was a dream He had for the future, a passion he carried in him and today that dream is a reality. 
    A Nigerian proverb says:
“Thoughts and dreams are the foundation of 
Our Being”
A man without a dream or goal is like a dead man. If your purpose of waking up or living Life is not yet known, then go back to sleep. A man without a dream or goal is not better off than a dead person, A walking dead, a confused Being with no sense of reality. 
D. Elder says;
“Dreamers look into the future and see promise. 
Those who do not dream only see the future”
Dream Big!!!!!  Let your dream look bigger than who you are presently or what you are capable of achieving. 
Let your dreams and goals look impossible so that you will do the impossible to achieve them. 
“Never underestimate your dreams, instead overestimate them because every dream is a prediction into the future for all those 
Who care to believe and work towards them”- David Adejumo
Be a champion and dream big, never stop dreaming because it is  a top secret of champions. 
Dreaming is the process of creating a positive mental picture of how the future will be. Create a positive mental picture today, dream big and be a champion.  

THE UNCELEBRATED HEROES

A Hero is someone who has achieved a great feat, who is celebrated and appreciated for His/ Her effort in doing something good in the society, someone who has done something that is worth remembering. Heroes are seen as important people who many look up to and are inspired by the great feat they have or had achieved.
We all consider different category of people as our heroes, many consider Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Architects, Politicians, Activists, Soldiers, Accountants, Sport Personalities and even musician as Heroes.
  We see these people as our heroes who did little or nothing to make us who we are or who we will become, they only make efforts for their own personal and economic gains and for their own development and yet we still look up to them as heroes. But there are some exceptions, men like Martin Luther, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi of India, the heroes of Nigeria’s nationality were heroes indeed and even some Doctors, Engineers, Lawyers, Scientists, e.t. c were also heroes who did something for the good of mankind.
We often despise who the real heroes are: those who have been a part of our lives for about 20 or more years teaching, nurturing and impacting knowledge in Us, they have gone beyond all doubts and planted good seeds in us . Just like the old Guinea proverb which says: “knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it. Cannot be harvested “
These uncelebrated heroes have been forgotten and despised by who they have developed and nurtured, they are not considered as anything. Many of us easily forget our roots and we forget that our teachers are part of the root in our lives, when we were dull, they encouraged and taught us, they stood for hours daily teaching, influencing and ensuring a bright future for us and yet we count them us nothing. Knowledge is power indeed because he who has knowledge is a valuable asset that cannot be easily disposed. I even love this great African Proverb which says;
           “True teaching is not accumulation of knowledge; it is an awakening of      consciousness”
Many of our Teachers have reawaken our minds and reminded us of who we truly are, they have unleashed the potentials in us, of course knowledge is better than riches, he who has knowledge, has authority.
How successful you are in life depends on the foundation laid for you by your teacher, good teachers are hard to come by, so appreciate your teachers for where you are today and the knowledge they imparted in you.
Having a future ambition of becoming a teacher nowadays is seen as a waste of money and time, many perceive teachers to be third class or average citizens but they might not be wealthy physical but they have the greatest asset that most of us don’t have, which is knowledge even our holy book commanded us that knowledge is the principal thing, therefore in all our gettings, get knowledge. This is why they have the most  priceless and most valuable asset on Earth.
I strongly believe that Teachers are the real heroes, because a hero is someone who helps others to rise, who sacrifices for others, who influences and inspires, who helps to win and who help others rise to greatness, Teachers are the True uncelebrated heroes indeed, they are a gift to humanity.

THE PAINS OF LEADERSHIP

• Leadership is not an easy task, many people perceive leaders to be those who are privilege and above others. But that is just a myopic view of leadership. Leaders go through rigorous pains, sacrifices, discipline and hardwork just to please those they serve. But yet they are not appreciated we quickly find faults in their slightest mistakes to criticise and insult them. Someone once said that "leadership is hardwork". A lazy person can never be a leader. Leaders experience pains and sacrifice alot. 
• Leaders are lonely people
• Many decisions are left to them when it comes to certain things and situations
• Leaders have no one to help them when they encounter difficult situations, but they are obliged to help their followers when they need help
• They have no one to share their problems with. Sharing their problems makes people perceive them as weak. 
• Leaders cannot voice out their fears openly. After all, a Leader is meant to allay the fears of His followers and not to express His own fears. Many followers think that their leaders are fearless, but any honest leader will tell you about real things that ravage his mind on a daily basis. 
• A Leader barely has time to rest. 
• A leader is rarely seen or heard because he is always in search of solutions and new ideas
• A leader often bears the responsibilities for any defeat, failure, delay and setbacks. But when there is victory everybody is credited. 
• When people sleep for 8 hours, a leader rarely has a good night sleep. Because it is in the night that every successful battle is fought and won. 
• A leader rarely has time for his personal affairs as he is more concerned about dispensing his official duty. 
• A Leader always puts in the extra effort, he has to be one step ahead. 
• Leaders are very often prone to stress related illness
• Leaders are most of the time set apart from the crowd, when the crowd is going right, a leader is compelled to go left. A leader rarely has time to hang out or socialize
• A leader carries his cross alone and pay for the sins and mistakes of his follower. 
• Leader goes through the burden of self discipline, it takes discipline to sleep very late and wake up very early. 
• Leaders are easy target for the enemies. They are easily exposed to danger. 

Leaders are sometimes forced to take some hard, difficult but necessary decisions which hurts many people. 
The next time You see a Leader, appreciate him/her and support them any way possible, pray for them. Because it is not easy been a leader. Put Yourself in the shoes ofaleader and You will forever appreciate their effort.