FORGIVENESS IS POWER

Hello friends, Happy holiday! It is such a long weekend and I am super happy that most people if not all, will have enough time to rest and have fun with family and friends. Last week, our topic was on loving ourselves and others inclusive. But this week, I would like to emphasize more on it through forgiveness.

FORGIVENESS: Is the act of pardon, a process of forgiving or being forgiven. It means to stop feeling angry at someone who has angered you.

Life Success and fulfillment is also a product of forgiveness. If you are not able to easily forgive, then you are not prepared for it. There is no way an unforgiving person can be truly happy and fulfilled even if they are successful.

 Not being able to forgive those who have wronged you will not allow you to free up your mental and emotional energy for positive vibes. Yes you have goals to achieve, but if you don't forgive easily, you might not be able to give your all to achieve them because it limits you in maximizing your potentials in full.

Your plans will be affected anytime you remember what they did to you. It discourages you and gives room for self-pity. It definitely slows you down from smashing necessary goals. But if you forgive, it gives you the strength to move on even when you remember what they did to you, it will in no way affect your plans.

 Forgiveness gives you a more clear positive thinking pattern. Naturally, as humans when we don't have issues with others, we tend to be more happy and friendly with absolutely positive attitudes. Therefore, when you forgive, you are not afraid of failing because you don't own it to anyone but yourself. It means you are not trying to impress anyone with your success or have a revenge with your success.

Unforgiving sabotages your health and also traps part of your life energy in anger and resentment towards the person you find it hard to forgive. It is solely about your growth and maturity, detoxification of your emotions and mental stability.

Therefore, I encourage you to forgive easily and in advance even if those who hurt you never ask for it because it will help you heal faster from pain, disappointments and even failure. Thank you for reading and have an amazing week.


Damilola Olamide Adebambi

BE SELFLESS ENOUGH TO LOVE OTHERS JUST AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF!

Hello friends, Happy new week! hope your weekend was as fantastic as mine? It is a good thing to be mindful of others just as you are mindful of yourself. As humans we are saddled with each other's responsibility. We are created to look out for each other, love one another,  grow together, support one another, correct in love and cheer one another.

 However it is so saddening that in today's world, we don't look out for each other any more. We just want to care for ourselves alone, not giving a hoot about how our friends and families fair. We want to be the only rich, famous and influential. We prefer that others should beg at our feet for whatever they want. We want to be the only one succeeding, traveling the world, the only one to be celebrated and all. We just want to show off to our friends and families that we alone know how to do it best and live the best of life. The moment we discover that others are also striving to be like us or more than us, we instantly feel threatened. We start hating them for wanting to grow.

Why is it that the best of friends suddenly become sworn enemies when one of them decides to aim higher. Why do we find it difficult to be simply happy for people who are aiming higher and probably than us? Why can't we support and wish them well? This is all because we love ourselves too much, we don't even want them to be as fulfilled as we are in life. But it is really not possible because everyone has the right to excel and be happy. That's the way God wants it.

SELFISHNESS: Simply means lack of consideration for other people, the act of concentrating on oneself regardless of others. It is synonymous to self love, self absorption, self obsession, self interest.

One of the greatest curse of humanity is selfishness. It is the culprit behind jealousy and betrayal. If you want to live a happy and fulfilled life, you must choose to be selfless. Because being fulfilled is not only about your happiness, it is also about the happiness of others. And if you can't love others, you can never really love yourself.

If you ask me, the sky is so wide and enough for every bird to fly. We really shouldn't be worried that others are growing. The more, the merrier. If everyone moves beyond where they are, the world would be a better place. We will have more solution providers, more people of great influence, a better government rule and of course a more developed country.

Therefore, if you are guilty of selfishness, start by wishing others what you wish for yourself. This means if you wish them well, you will also be well and if you wish that terrible things happen to them, then you will be a partaker of it. This way, you will be conscious and in control of your mind.

We get true happiness from how happy we make others through selflessness. Thanks for reading through, have a blessed week!


Damilola Olamide Adebambi

FAILURE IS NEVER AN EXCUSE!

This week is indeed a great one! why? because the topic for the week is the realest of all. It sounds scary and gives many people the chills. But i am happy to tell you that it is absolutely nothing to worry yourself about.

FAILURE  means the inability to achieve success after trying out an act. It also means non-fulfillment and an unexpected result.

The fact that you failed does not mean you should stop trying. Failure is a huge part of success and i can assure you that everyone you hear of today who has made it has had their own share of it. Below are few examples of people who were just like you years back and made it through persistence and failure to give up today

Oprah Winfrey : She is famous, known to be one of the richest and most successful women in the world. But she also faced a hard road to get to that position. She endured a rough and abusive childhood, numerous career setbacks. she was fired from her job as a television reporter because according to her bosses she was unfit for T.V. But today she is one of the most iconic faces on the T.V..

Soichiro Honda:  The billion-dollar business also began with series of failures. He didn't become successful overnight. Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation for a job after interviewing for a job as an engineer, leaving him jobless for quite some time. He started making scooters of his own at home. Today he is a force to reckon with. 

Walt Disney:  Also had his own rough start when he began. He was fired by a newspaper editor because he lacked imagination and had no good ideas. After that, Disney started a number of businesses that didn't last too long and ended with bankruptcy but he kept trying and eventually found a recipe for success that worked.

Albert Einstein: He didn't speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven. His teachers and parents thought he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. He was expelled from school and was refused admission into Zurich Polytechnic School.Even though it took him forever, he caught on well in the end and won Nobel Prize. Not only that, he changed the face of modern Physics. 

Winston Churchill: He is today known as a Nobel Prize winner, twice-elected Prime Minister of United Kingdom, wasn't as regarded in the past. He struggled in school and failed the sixth grade. After school, he faced many years of political failures. He was defeated in every election for public office until he finally became the Prime Minister at age 62.

Bill Gates: His story is a popular one, he dropped out of Harvard and started a business with Microsoft co-founder Traf-O-Data but they failed. They tried another idea, well today the rest is history. 

Michael Jordan: He was cut from his high school basketball team. He didn't let that stop him to stop playing basketball. He failed over and over again but he succeeded in being the best basketball player of all time. In his words, ''I have failed over and over and that's why i succeed''.

What exactly is your failure story? one thing that I found similar in the stories above was that none of them allowed their failures to define them and in the end they over came. Now they wouldn't be known today if they gave up, would they? 

I implore you not to allow your failures to define who you will be in years to come.

Thank you for being inspired, God bless you.

Damilola Olamide Adebambi

NEVER STOP HOPING!

Hello great people! how was your weekend? It's a new week and as usual, I am so grateful for another opportunity to reach out to you. This week is definitely going to be great for everyone.

With every new day, we hope and yearn for that period or hour of our big breaks. But no one actually knows when it will happen. That is the reason why you can't sit back and expect things to happen. You have to keep working and hoping that one day, your time will come.

This brings me to the topic of the week, HOPE: It is the belief or expectation that something you wish for can or will happen. 

Hope is the light that shines so bright at the end of the tunnel that motivates you to go get it. It is what keeps you focused. makes you push harder, gives you ideas, gives you strength to move on, motivates and encourages you to reach your goals.

The moment you stop hoping, your life automatically becomes stagnant. Hope is very important in every human life. Do not stop hoping that your situation will change for the best. This is why.... being hopeful gives you life. A hopeful man is a happy man. He is rest assured that even though he is penniless today, he would be rich tomorrow. That's hope. A person who is at the brink of death, if he is told that there is a cure for his ailment, would instantly be full of life again even before taking the cure.

 Hope is a beautiful virtue. It brings joy, laughter, confidence, progress and transformation to your life. It makes your plan work out.  Hope is actually what makes you a goal getter  because you know there is surely a price at the end of it all. I encourage you to stay hopeful no matter what today might seem because a man without hope is a failure already. Those who have made it wouldn't have gotten there if they had no hope for surely it connected them to their big break.

Therefore this week, be full of hope. If you have already given up, please pick up from where you stopped.  And don't ever be discouraged again.


Damilola Olamide Adebambi