On Improving Yourself
One thing most people wish to do is to be able to improve every day. To improve sometimes is about asking the right question. If you are not improving, then it means there is something you are not doing. Then the next question is simply why you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing. Begin with that question and you would realize that sometimes not improving can be due to what you already know.

Once you discover what is blocking you, all you have to do is to remove those things. But well, this is the most difficult part of the whole story. If you could have stopped, probably you might not be reading this article, but then its tough to stop doing those things. So let’s start from here, make a plan of exactly what you have to do to improve, then start with the smallest consistent time possible. Do not try to leave your former habits all at once, sometimes they just suppress and come back more difficult.

So seek to get your former habits a time to execute. Probably as a means to appreciate yourself for abstaining. Remember to never leave the bad habit all at once. Get a schedule that incorporates your new lifestyle no matter how little. Then be consistent with it. Once you know what makes you improve and what does not, your mind begins to think more about that. So even when you do things that do not improve you, your mind kind of knows it and you know it too. So that makes you think and thinking is good.

So to improve is all about getting to know what makes you not improve and abstain from that. But you must start with what does not make you improve, that way it is easy to remove what does not make you improve. In the end, you would have to go through a tough time that only guarantees greatness in the end. But no one said it was going to be easy. No one.

So, on the path of improving yourself, expect pain of discipline because, in the end, you can choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours to make and the clock is ticking. Make the decision that makes you a better version of yourself. The choice that improves you so that in the end, you are immersed in actions that improve you and make you a better version of yourself.

Small things like incessant checking of the phone, surfing the internet aimlessly are some of the few places you can start from. Seek to only check your phone after some time and also surf the internet aimlessly as a way to reward yourself, but never make it part of your normal schedule. We can do it but we have to start now. The world needs us all at our best. So go out there and be your best.

Thanks and God Bless.

What Are Your Core Values?
A friend once said, we change gradually. Looking at the sentence makes no great meaning until you consider it properly. We might not look very different from the way we looked yesterday, but by the end of the week, we are a completely different person than the person we were on the first day of the week.

This same concept happens in other areas of our lives, including our core values. What our core values are can change over time and it is important to realize if it is changing for the good or the bad. Only when we are able to define what our core values are can we even begin to understand if they are changing or not. Start now and ask yourself what your values are because it seems we have stopped asking that question.

As such, a lot of things that are not normal seems to be normal to us now. How can you begin to imagine things that are considered barbaric in other countries still considered a norm in our country and our society. Consider the case of beating traffic, this is an act that has become so easy for everyone to break that you begin to look like the odd one out when you follow it. It has crept into our values that we can feel alright breaking laws that should never even be broken.

Someone might ask what the correlation between beating the traffic light and other values is, it is the same thing because once you feel comfortable breaking the law, it is only a matter of time before you are comfortable doing the same thing in other areas of life. This keeps going until you get to a point when you feel no remorse in doing anything bad. At that point, your values are completely gone. So there is a correlation between the small things you do everyday and to your life’s value. It is important that we seek to always consider what our values are.

It is said that we get leaders who are simply like us. And sometimes when you look closely at our dear country Nigeria, you begin to wonder how many more people would behave differently if made the leader. Very few people still remember what values even stand for and are only waiting for an opportunity to get what others have also been getting. So in the end, it is the same set of minds that are in control. Some minds simply have more opportunities but the end is still the same.

So my message to you today is to look inwards and ask what your values are. You keep hulling insults at the leaders but ask yourself how you would behave if you were in their shoes. Would you keep away from the small offenses that keep pushing you towards the greater evil. Every bad person was once a good person. They just changed gradually until it was no longer reversible.

So look into your life today and begin to realign your values. Ask questions on how you want to really live your life. It matters that we seek values that make us better so that when we have the same opportunities as our leaders, we would be different. So start today and ask yourself what your values are. Then align to them. Let not the actions of others make you into something you are not proud of.

If we do not change and become better, we would look back to these days one day in the future and see that we could have done something different. But we did not change our values and we would have to leave with that decision. In the end, you would have to either live with the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is ours and the clock is ticking.

We can live in a country that respects one another if we uphold our values and seek to only follow the right way. Seek to only employ people based on their capacities and not based on any other quota system. We can still make it work. It is a goal we can achieve. Thanks for reading and God Bless.

Are You Putting In The Very Best?
Many a time, we look back at some areas in our lives and wish things would have been better. We say to ourselves, if I had done this better, I would have excelled. But this usually is in retrospect when we cannot do anything about the situation other than to wish. This same cycle happens every day and might happen on the current task you are on now. So ask yourself the question, “Are You Putting In the Very Best?”.

We all have different answers to this question and that is fine, but one of the most important things to remember about life is that time flies and never comes back so you have to do all you have to do now or the time is gone. It would never ever come back again. That is in every aspect of our lives. So it is important that we dedicate the very best every day.

Putting in the best every day means that you know that you have done all that is humanly possible. I never said all that you can possibly do. Sometimes, setting our standard to the best we can do brings us so low. So low that we become much worse than we originally thought. So it is important today that you seek to become the very best version ever possible of you.

And when you realize you are not giving your best, ask yourself why. Is it something that you can do something about? Then go do something about it and stop being a victim. It matters that we acknowledge when we are not favored, but it is also important to learn to grow out of it, to always look at life with a positive outlook. Everything, in the end, would make sense.

So I tell you today to keep pushing. Keep moving forward and go to bed every night knowing that the best of human efforts have been expended in what you did. No excuse. Seek to rid yourself of excuses that seek to pull you into a low satisfying spectrum. Excuses should be out of the window. But even in pushing, learn to always have good rest.

Everyone needs to cool down. Even computers have cooling compartments and for humans, it is through relaxation. So keep pushing, keep moving forward and keep producing the best every day. It matters that you do. Thanks and God Bless.

How To Master Anything
Have you ever seen a baby learn to walk, speak, or crawl? Something is similar to all these activities. At first, the baby sucks at doing any of these things. While learning to walk, the baby falls, while learning to speak, says gibberish, and while learning to crawl simply takes forever to take the first step or move.

But this is similar to a lot of things that happens in our lives everyday. We want to get better at something, then at first, we suck. It seems as if people that can do it are born naturally. They do such activities without stress that you begin to wonder if you do not have any brain damages. But no, it is the same for everyone. Whenever the brain wants to learn something, it takes a while to get over the learning curve. Until you cross the learning curve, everything you do would be difficult, very difficult.

But in the path to achieving mastery in any task, remember the 2Ps. That is Practice and Patience. You need to practice consistently and also be consistently patient. So in all, it matters that you are consistent. That is what you should seek first in trying to achieve anything. If you are not ready to put in the time to be consistent, no need to seek mastery. Know that the first and most important thing you must learn is to be consistent.

Because if it was easy from the beginning, everyone would have done it. Realize that great inventions were not achieved in a day. Realize that it took about 15 years before people began adopting Slice Bread. Imagine that. So even for your body, it takes a while to get used to some new process. You simply must first be willing to put in the time and energy to make it happen. No one else can make something a habit if you are not ready to put in the effort.

It matters that you realize sooner than later that the key to becoming better is to do something no matter how small consistently over time and that becomes a part of you. You do not need to make very great leaps to make progress all the time, sometimes, all you need is very little steps in the right direction. So I urge you to make a plan today that involves you taking as few steps as possible but consistently. Also, do not worry when you break along the way, the key is to get back up and keep moving. Consistency all the way.

That is the key to mastery. You must be willing to consistently practice and patiently wait. The brain takes a while to get used to a new concept, but once it does, it becomes much better. So imagine the time to learn as the effort to overcome how your brain is already wired.

No great task comes easy, no one promised you it would be easy anyway. So start today with a positive outlook on life, that you can be a better version of yourself and then put in all the time and effort you can to make that activity a success. If you do not, it would not magically happen. We need to learn and know that time passes whether we make use of them or not. So our best option is to make use of them.

Thanks and God Bless.

Who Are Your Friends?
A friend is someone who someone who seeks to always make you a better version of yourself. When you have people who continuously seek to make you a better person, never lose them. They are indeed your true friends. I have had the opportunity to have really great friends around and I want to use this opportunity to thank every one of them.

But before you begin to think of your friends as real friends, ask yourself the question if you are indeed a good friend. Never seek for what you are not. You can only have great friends when you are indeed great. Do you always seek to bring out the best in others, or simply always seek for what is comfortable for you?.

I made a great mistake these past few days and I never really took time out to consider it a big deal. But a friend took the courage to tell me what I have done. This made me realize how important our friends really are. You want to know what I did, I was driving without a license. I am not proud of at this moment and I apologize and promise to never do that again.

Looking back at this incident made me reflect on how many of our friends are currently seeing us doing something bad but they never tell us. Self-assessment is very difficult at times so it is very good when we have people that give us good feedback in time to adjust and be better. For me, I have learned from my mistakes and promise to be a better version of myself.

So before you ask “Who Are My Friends?”, answer the question “What Type Of A Friend Am I?”. Are you the type that never gets to do anything to improve others, just criticize the little others have done. Would you like that the tables are turned and you are on the other side of the friendship? You need to think deep and understand that to have good friends, you have to first be a good friend. It is important that we become better versions of ourselves before we can seek to make others better.

The world needs to become better every day and it needs all the good people it can get. So make up your mind today and go out there and be a better version of yourself. Reach out to that friend and be there for them, help them become stronger and better. In the end, we all benefit. The world needs it.

Thanks and God Bless.

[i]Failure Is An Event, Not A Person
[/i]Got this quote from Zig Ziglar and it got me really thinking about how we all see failure in life. That something did not work out does not mean you cannot get things to work out. Maybe it is a path to something greater that you cannot currently understand. Life is wonderful, sweet and sometimes, unbearable, but when things get bad, remember it could be worse.

When we face challenges, remember that you are currently facing some issues that would eventually come to pass. Remember some days when you were in secondary school and you thought the day would never end due to some punishments waiting from a teacher. But looking back now, the day ended and many more days have followed. You can also look at today like that day and know that it would end sooner or later.

We can never know the outcome of every situation and as such, we have to keep going, pushing forward and becoming the best version of what we can be. It matters that you keep pushing because in the end, results only happen when you keep pushing forward. Things might not look as hopeful as you want, but they would always get better if you never relent in your effort. Never let anyone event determine how your life would end, you can always do better and be better.

Learn to ask for help. It matters that you do. In times when you are down, you need all the help you can get in the world, and simply asking sometimes is the only way to get a response. Seek God in your affairs and He would never let you down. He keeps up with whatever request we have and would always answer when we pray. So seek God and always ask for help.

Beyond asking God for help, talk to people around you. You never know who might have the solution to your problem. Sometimes, the people we least expect are the ones that would do the greatest for us. So never forget to ask around when you are in a situation. Ask for help and never give up.

In the end, the most important thing you can have is hope. Hope that everything would pass. That it is a matter of time and you would eventually get it right. You would eventually be a winner no matter what the odds are like. No one can determine the future, but when you give in your best, your best finds a place for itself in the future. Not sure how, but it would. So keep moving and keep pushing forward.

You can never give up due to failure. Assess the situation and start again. The world needs more of us to be better every day. Thanks and God bless.

Just Get Back Up
Sometimes things we planned do not go our way and we feel like it is over. We feel disappointed at ourselves for not achieving what we planned. But these moments are sometimes what makes us who we really are, our response when we are down. When you feel great, you do great stuff. Well, everyone can do that, but the most difficult is doing something great even when you are feeling down.

So it matters that you see every situation in your life as an opportunity to be great whether it be a good or a bad situation. This is because come to think of it, it could actually be worse. Whatever situation you are in, it is not your worst case scenario. So look onto the positive side and approach life with a positive attitude. Your response to any event in your life matters a lot and you would need to be hopeful and carry on with a positive attitude.

Positivism has its way of rubbing on you and the people around you. It seeks to let you know that there is something good for every situation we find ourselves. Sometimes, the worse things have to happen to open us up, sometimes we are like food, we need to be cooked to bring out the best in us. So today when you feel like you are in a difficult situation, imagine you are food being processed for something great, your greatness only comes when you reach that very high temperature. So simply approach life with enthusiasm and get back up.

The way forward is different for every person and so I do not have the solution to whatever circumstance you are facing, but the simplest thing you can do is to begin moving. Start something, the earlier you start, the better. When you start, opportunities come up, but if you remain dormant, opportunities never show up.

So all you have to do is to start back. Get back up. Begin again, never give up. It matters that you never relent, see challenges as what must happen for success to happen. Success without hard work is never really a success. Well, even with the hard work, success is never fully guaranteed. So seek God, be of your best behavior, have a positive attitude and go out there and make a difference.

Just get back up and keep moving. Thanks and God Bless.

Respect Everyone You Meet
How would you treat someone if you realized that the person was Barack Obama or any other great figure? You would do all the best that you can to show care and affection to that person with all the time that we have. But why then do we treat anyone with less respect than we should?

Have you ever respected some less and later realized that the person was an important figure in the society? Next time you see them, you respect them more now that you know that rank and status in the society. But do you have to do this for everyone you meet? Wait until you find out their real position, then respect them more? NO.

So respect everyone you meet without any thought as to whether they are important or not. How you treat others matter. Treat everyone with the love and respect that you would love to also get. Make sure to always respect everyone no matter how simple they look to you.

A Yoruba Proverb says Humans are like water, we do not know where we would meet.

Since you do not know the next time you would encounter another person, why not give them the best they can get from you right now. Respect them and show them the love and care that you can give anyone. It matters that we do. The world really needs more of us to learn to love and respect each other more. Many of us carry so much pain in our hearts and a show of respect from another person goes a long way to make us really happy.

And we all need to be happy. The world needs more of us happier than we currently are. No matter what situation you are in, ensure that you respect everyone that comes your way with the highest level of respect and care. Who knows where you might meet again? And since helping others means helping ourselves, respecting others definitely means respecting ourselves.

So go out there today and be of the best behavior you can be with. Care, love and respect everyone you meet. The world needs more of it. Thanks and God Bless.

Appreciate What You Have
Traveling back from Minna over the weekend was one of the scariest periods of my life. It was 7.30 PM and I was on the bus heading back to Abuja. All kinds of thoughts ran through my mind and in all those times, one of the things I prayed for was to be back home on my bed, enjoying the night. That made me realize how grateful one should be even for the smallest things. In my journal where I write what I am grateful for, I hardly ever consider having a bed to sleep at night a thing to appreciate.

But this journey really taught me to be grateful for the small things in life. To be grateful to the people that have taken out of their time to see us happy. It matters that we take a while to appreciate all that we have because looking back one day, we always wish we had appreciated it. Learn to appreciate God and everyone in your life. Be grateful that you have what you have as millions more are seeking what you have. In my journey, all I could wish for was to be back home safe and sound, but writing this now, I am home safe and sound, but would never really have known the value of a safe home if I was not on that journey.

It is important that what we have in life is meant to make us a better version of ourselves. Not anything to draw us back and make us sad. It matters that we continue to appreciate every single thing in our life because we never know when they would be snatched away from us. Remember today to call your family, appreciate that person, do that random act of kindness. Do all that you can do all the time that you have because, in the end, it matters that we do. No one really knows what tomorrow might bring and it might be too late to appreciate what you have when it is long gone.

Be grateful, but never give in. Seek to always become a better version of who you want to be. No matter what life throws at you, be grateful and appreciate it. Learn to seek the good part of life. Imagine some of the great men in life and what would have happened if the bad things in their lives did not happen. No matter your situation, appreciate what you have, keep going and never relent. It matters that you serve as a source of hope for the generation yet unborn.

Start today, appreciate what you have, never relent and keep going. The world needs more of you. Thanks and God Bless.

Never relent
Never relent in your efforts to becoming a better version of you. Every day seems to come with new challenges as if we did not overcome any challenge to get to where we are. Look back at your life and imagine some of the obstacles you felt like you would never surmount.

Look at you today. You have conquered the challenges of the past. But life does not become any easier because we overcame yesterday’s challenges. By overcoming these challenges, it seems as if we say we want more. And with more responsibilities come greater challenges. Remember when you were a kid and all you could worry about was what you were going to eat.

You overcame that and all you had to worry about was going to school and completing your education. You might have completed it now or also completed it, but the next task lies in finding a means of meeting your needs. That alone is a new challenge. If you have conquered yesterday, then you can again conquer today, because in the end, today itself becomes yesterday.

So when you feel like the challenges would not end, tell yourself you would not give up on becoming a better version of yourself. That version that does not relent in their efforts in attaining what they want to achieve in life. The most important thing first is to realize that with God, all things are possible. Then from there, you move on, never believing that things might not work out. Well, no one knows it would not work out until you try. Your case might proof everyone else wrong.

Begin today to see the challenges in your life as building blocks in making you a better person. In the end, we are more about the challenges we have conquered that who we are as a physical person. Never relent, no one told you the battleground would be an easy one. Keep going, keep pushing, never relent.

In the end, the path that works wonders was not the easy path. Looking back, you greatly appreciate the challenges as they have made you into a better version of yourself. So see challenges as necessities in the world of becoming better and continue to keep going. Keep going even if you have change directions sometimes. Life is like riding a bicycle. To be balanced, you have to keep pushing.

So start today by seeing challenges as a way to become better, not something that is out there to harm you. Imagine life is like a gym and the challenges are the exercises you have to participate in to strengthen your muscles.

Thanks and God Bless.

A New Day To Start Great
Sometimes, our day goes so well that we do not want it to end. Other times, it becomes so bad that we simply wish the day already ended. Whatever your day was like, today is another opportunity to make a great day.

John R. Wooden said “Make each day your masterpiece”
You only have today to make all the impact you want to make. Tomorrow is not guaranteed for anyone. A friend once asked me if I would be around in 2020. I said I do not know because I am not sure I would be around tomorrow. So make the best use of today and never wait until you do not have the chance to make today great.

To make your day great simply is by giving the best that you can ever be to every day of your life. Some days, we are tired, but even with the tiredness, ensure you have given the best that you can ever give in that situation.

So to start a day great, seek God, be optimistic and go for it. When some doors do not open, it is sometimes to test your strength to see how strong you can push or it is simply not the right door for you. So whatever result you get today, it is still in your favor. Because even when the door opens, it leads somewhere. So you should never let any bad event in your day take the best part of your life.

See the challenges of life as trying to test you to see if you are really interested in what you said you are. Sometimes, you just say you want it but cannot put in the work needed. When you are tested, that is when the true result comes out. So never relent in your effort to making today a great day.

So when someone says to you Good Morning, you say Oh No, it is a great morning. Use that spirit to move in and do great. Go on out and be great.

The world needs more greatness. You are great. Now go out and do the best that you can. Thanks and God Bless.

3 Ways To Become Better At A Skill
Do you have a skill you have been longing to grow or become proficient at? I believe a lot of us do, but with the busyness of life everyday, it becomes really difficult to follow up on our learning. Sometimes we think we need a lot of time to become better at something, but sometimes, all we need is a little chunk here and there.

The most important key to becoming proficient at any skill is consistency. You consistently develop yourself and become better everyday. But yes, you have heard this a million times. How exactly do you become consistent? Take these 3 steps and become consistent.

Realize What You Want To Achieve: Fail Fast

Sometimes, we do not really know what we want and at that point, all you have to do is to keep trying to discover what area you want to be good at. But this path sometimes is too long, so simply pick an area and start from there. If that is not what you want, the more you proceed, the more you realize what you do not want and then you can change to something else. A lot of the time, we tell ourselves we do not want something, but once we start, we realize it was what we wanted from the beginning.

So the first step is to start something. The earlier you start, the better it becomes for you since you would be able to eliminate as fast as you can between what you want and what you do not want. So fail fast when realizing what you want, and keep on going until you have found what you are interested in proceeding with.

Why you need to fail and fail fast is because it seems as if failure is common to a lot of successful people, so failing now does not in any mean you are a failure. It simply means you have realized one less path to worry about.

Set up a schedule to achieve it

When you have realized a skill you want to become good at, you do not necessarily need to go lock yourself up somewhere until you become better. Well, this is an option you can take but not available to a lot of us. So in the absence of that option, what you need to do is to find the smallest time possible in a day when you can be able to work on your skills. Ensure you get the smallest time possible in a day. It is important that it is daily. No matter how small the time is, get it. Remember, you need to get the time everyday.

As soon as you have gotten that time in a day, do all you can to ensure that that time is not in any way occupied with something else. For me, it is early in the morning, as such, I try as much as I can to sleep early so that I have the time for myself in the morning. Your schedule may be way tighter than mine, so try find a different time. Most important thing is to do it everyday and about the same time.

Keep Going

When you begin, you would have enough energy to last for a few days after which your body wants to go back to what it used to do before you started. For me, this is the most difficult period because this is when you would have to push yourself, no one would be there to push you. You would be the coach and the coached. So watch out for this period and ensure that you try to keep going. Well, this stage would not be easy, but then no one said it would be easy. You have to keep pushing.

Sometimes, you would fall off for a while. But be gentle with yourself. No one is perfect, but watch out and try get back in as soon as possible. Take necessary breaks if you have to, but never stop going.

We all have things we want to be better at. I hope these few steps would help you become better at something you have been wanting for a long time.

Stay blessed and thanks for Reading. Thank You.

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How To Have A Good Day
At the end of the day, we look back at our day and realize how it went. Sometimes, we are happy about how it ended and sometimes, we wish we could go back and make the day a little better. In the end, we realize the day is gone and all we have is to reminisce on what happened, never to be able to change that day.

But the next day comes and we have another opportunity to make another day happen for us. When such day comes, we rely on the experience we had yesterday to guide us through the day. We make sure to not make the same mistakes we made yesterday so that today does not become like yesterday.

For me, our experience is like a snapshot in the past with no use but to guide our present decisions. As such, one of the best ways to decide on having a good day is to avoid the experience in the past that made your day bad and do more of the activities that made your day awesome. That would depend to a great extent on what your goals in life are. To be able to take this path, you have to be truthful and clear with yourself.

Decide what a good day and a bad day means to you. When you have decided what a good or a bad day is, all you have to do is to avoid the bad things as much as you can and do more of the good things as much as you can. At the end of the day, you can look back and determine how much good you did.

To have a good day means to do good things, and to have a bad day means to do some pretty bad things. These are based on your goals. For me, working a movie on a night when I am supposed to be working is a bad thing, but working a movie after a long day of work is a good thing. So decide carefully and look at what makes a good day for you.

That is the path you have to seek to have a great day. So in the end, it does not have to be one good thing, it can be a string of tiny good things that culminate to give that wonderful feeling at the end of the day.

However we try to do the good things, sometimes, we cannot prevent the bad things from happening. When they do, remember that we are not perfect and sometimes, we cannot get it all perfect. So when you do not meet your goal, never relent. Remember that tomorrow would come, all you have to do is to learn from the experience of today. You can always be a better version of yourself.

So go out today and do the best that you can to ensure that all you do today are things that make your day a great one. Call that friend, send that appreciation email, check in on a friend. We all need to do good to make the world a better place.

It begins with me and you. Thanks and God Bless.

One love, Nigeria

Millions of Nigerians yesterday slept with happiness and love in their heart. A love that transcends ethnic group, religion, or political party. Happiness that indeed something you have given your all to is now yielding wonderful returns. The Eagles have finally taken flight.

For a lot of people, yesterday’s match was a re-ignition of the Super Eagles of the good old days. The Eagles who had nothing in mind rather than the love of its fatherland. That all it ever wants is for the motherland to one day be among the best Nations in the World.

For many families, yesterday was one of the best days of their lives. Everyone was indeed on good spirit on the outcome of the match. An outcome that means that for some families, the father would be back home early to celebrate with the family. Dependents would be able to seek and get some of what they have been asking from their sponsors. Husbands were able to make graceful requests from their wives and the wives were also able to make similar requests.

For some children, their stomach would have tasted something good, something not usually on the menu yesterday because the Eagles took off. For me, football for Nigeria is no longer a simple game, it is a game that has an effect on the Nation, an effect so similar to the general election.

The outcome of the match created an atmosphere within the country. We thank the Eagles that indeed, the atmosphere yesterday was a peaceful one. For me, Nigeria made me proud.

But the Eagles should not celebrate too early. Yes, we should be happy. We deserve it. In the end, it was a great victory. However, with more glory comes more responsibilities, the battle line has just been drawn and the Eagles would not settle until it delivers for Nigeria the crown.

Winning the World cup is our goal. For me, winning the world cup is not only about Football, it is about the effect it would have on the economy of Nigeria. Nigeria’s superstars would have been recognized by the world and as such, the world gathers around them and the best teams get them. This translates into one more family transitioning into a better life. Imagine then how many families would have a better life if the country wins the world cup.

With the creativity of Nigerians, winning the world cup would also mean that nothing is indeed possible especially when a country comes together. This 90 minutes we get to watch the Eagles is one of the few moments every Nigerian seeks the other as one, all barriers cleared.

We need more of the 90 minutes to help bound together as a country. We really enjoyed what we got yesterday. With God, we would get more.

In the end, it matters that I say that I have never loved the Eagles more than I did yesterday and I hope my love for the Eagles continue to grow. We pray that this world cup remains memorable in our hearts as we remember the France 98 with more love.

We love the Super Eagles and we pray to God to grant you the wisdom and understanding to bring home the Trophy. In the end, it is not about the trophy, it is the impact it would have on the country as a whole. On its economy, on the mindset of its people and many more.

Super Eagles, We love You. Thanks And God Bless.

YouTube has blocked MIT's educational video clips for 4 days because of updated 'partner agreements' and it's left the university frustrated.

Late last week, videos from MIT OpenCourseWare posted to YouTube mysteriously became inaccessible on the Google-owned site.

OpenCourseWare is in charge of sharing teachings from MIT, one of the country's most respected research universities, with the rest of the world. The school's most popular videos on YouTube are typically recordings of lectures on computer science and mathematics. It's not the kind of thing that might be considered unsavory, controversial or a violation of YouTube's policies.

And yet, YouTube decided to block these educational videos from public view. The school wasn't informed of the reasons and hasn't a clue about how to get them back up. As of Tuesday afternoon, the videos were still inaccessible.

"We're quite frustrated by it," said Curt Newton, the MIT OpenCourseWare's director, in an interview Tuesday with Business Insider.

He said the program's YouTube videos generate millions of views from across the globe. Teachers use them in their classrooms. Students study them.

Also late last week, the same thing happened to clips from the Blender Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees the Blender open-source 3D content-creation program, according to a Blender blog post.

YouTube hasn't said much about why the videos were blocked to the site operators or journalists.

A lesson about our dependence on YouTube
"Videos on a limited number of sites have been blocked as we updated our partner agreements," the company told Business Insider in a statement. "We are working with MIT OpenCourseWare and Blender Foundation to get their videos back online."

The only problem with that is MIT and Blender say they're completely in the dark as to why their videos were blocked or when they might return.

The leading theory among tech-news sites is that the cause of the trouble must be a glitch with YouTube's content filtering system. The filter is supposed to scan videos and flag those that violate the site's policies. In practice, disturbing and graphic video clips sometimes get through the filter while benign videos that adhere to YouTube's rules are removed.

YouTube's statement that the problem lies with the company's partner agreements seems to indicate that the problem might simply be an administrative, paperwork issue.

Whatever the reason, the incident shows our dependence on YouTube as a fundamental part of a modern infrastructure, in which entities from news publishers to universities depend on it to distribute videos.

In the past few years YouTube has appeared to struggle to maintain control of a site that sees more than 400 hours of video posted to it every minute and 1.8 billion viewers every month. All that growth appears to have made YouTube enormously valuable.

But the flip side is that one of the nation's premiere universities had its videos removed, wasn't informed of the reasons and was prevented from resolving the issue after four days.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-blocked-mit-clips-and-program-director-is-quite-frustrated-2018-6?IR=T

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Be Your Own Worst Critic
Sometimes, what people say about us or what we do can affect our productivity. So it is important that we try as much as we can to reduce the effect of what people say on our productivity and one of the best ways I know of doing that is to become your own worst critic.

In trying to complete a task at hand, ensure that you have given it your best and also checked out for areas where there might be some challenges. Ensure that you handle the challenges as much as you can so that in the end, no matter what anyone says, you know that you gave it your best.

There is a certain feeling that follows when people make comments and you know that you gave it your best shot. It does not mean that the best shot would result in the best solution, it only means that you did the best that you could do with the current resources and situation.

So no matter what anyone says, start first by criticizing what you have done. Remember, it does not have to work out well, it just has to be the best decision you can make at the given time. When circumstances change, your best decisions could probably be your worst. So it is important that we critically analyze any situation before we execute it.

Also, remember that inaction and indecision is not a virtue. As much as you want to critically analyze your every move, it is important to also know that you have to make a decision and once the results of the actions fall in, it is all on you whether it works or not.

Start today by critically analyzing your actions and ensuring that they are in accordance with the best possible standard. In the end, it matters that you never relented and all that you did was trying to make the best decision possible.

Making the best decision does not mean things would work out as planned, sometimes, the best decisions can seem like the worst decision, but in the end, the best decision always wins. Never let go of the best decision for anything less.

The world needs more people who can personally criticize their own actions and know that in the end, humans are fallible, but that they made the best decision possible.

So go out today and decide on what you want to achieve. Then critically analyze it and remove every cover of doubt in your mind. Then go for it. Always remember to seek God first.

Thanks and God Bless.

As a non Muslim you may wonder what is Ramadan and why is it very important in the sight of many of your Muslim colleagues, friends and family. Follow me on this journey as we learn something new.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic Calendar. It is the month where all Muslims are obliged to fast from dawn to sundown, meaning we abstain from eating, drinking, sexual relations from dawn till sundown.

The month is full of immense blessings from the most High as the gates of Paradise are open and the gates of hell are closed. Each day is viewed precious to the heart of the Muslim because of the blessing abound in it.

We increase our acts of worship like being charitable, kind, praying during the day and night, reading of God's word (The Quran), etc by this time of the year. All the above is done seeking only the pleasure of Our Creator.

It is in this month we strive to get our sins forgiven by making repentance to God and remaining steadfast in obedience to Him everyday.

The main goal of this blessed month is summarized by God Almighty in the Quran

"O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous" Surah Al-Baqarah (The Cow) Verse 183

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Take The Lessons of Life As A Healing Process
I recently had a minor dislocation. I was on the staircase when I fell. I got up and simply went my way. Later, I felt a little pain in my leg and I felt when I sleep and wake up, it would be long gone.

I forgot that problems sometimes do not just go away. We have to work at it, trying the best that we can to make the problem go away. The next day, the pain did not go away and in fact, I still feel the pain until this very moment.

But that is not the main story. The part of the story that I would like to share is what happens when I get someone to help me massage that part of my leg. When anyone tries to massage it, I feel so much pain, but I must endure the pain because it is in the pain that the the leg heals.

Remembering this, I compared the massage situation with the way things happen in other areas of our lives. I could decide to not let anyone massage my leg for the fear of the pain, but that would only lead to more pain, but when I endure the temporary pain, the healing I would have in the end is more important and definitely most fulfilling.

So in life, we are sometimes wounded and the actions and events that happen every day are sometimes trying to develop us into something much better, A healed and better version of ourselves and that sometimes is painful and takes time. So for me, when I fall into any situation, whether good or bad, I hope to be able to look back at this scenario and remember that sometimes, pain is meant to make us stronger, not weaker.

That in the end, it matters that we patiently live through life, accepting the challenges that happen every day, but never giving up because of the temporary pleasure we might gain.

This also happens in the way we communicate with our friends and colleagues. We sometimes do not want them to feel pain and we try to hide or take them away from some of their problems, but in the end, it matters that they face the issues now so that they do not have to worry about it in the future. Parents would do really great if they sometimes allow their kids to face their challenges head on so that they can really grow and become better.

So to every one of us out there who is currently going through a situation, whether good or bad, the situation is not really the best, the test is how you are able to cope and react to the situation. Even something that seems good might be a test. Attending a party where too much food and other things one should not consume is also a test. Well, it is a test for how you react when you have an abundant supply of something.

So take every day as it comes, taking the lessons of life as a healing method and a pathway to becoming a better person every day.

Thanks and God Bless.

Keep Going
I wake up to a new day, hoping to become better at my writing skills and my skills as a developer. But some days, you just feel like things are not going as planned.

No idea comes to mind about what to write or how to solve a problem you have been thinking about for a few weeks. In the end, you feel like you need to switch careers and try something else.

But sometimes, the solution is to keep moving. When you feel no inspiration to write, put down something when you feel the code does not go as planned, look at it one more time.

Then break away from it, go do something else. Doing something else does not mean you have forgotten the task at hand, it means you want the process of thinking about the problem to run on the background, so you can come back later better at what you are doing.

Not every day would make sense. In those days when it does not make sense, give it a while and come back, the chaos would make sense in the end. It might not make sense now. All you need is to keep pushing forward.

Who knows, the day might finally end in your favor. So my message to you today is when everything does not seem to make sense, give it some time when you feel you cannot go on, give it time.

Everything in the end on this earth is ephemeral, it only lasts just for a while and in the end, something else takes over and that thing would in the end, also be ephemeral.

Take care and have a great day. God bless.

Consistency and Discipline
These two words hit me hard recently. As I look back at some of the plans I had when the year started and looking at where I am now, I knew I needed to do more. The year is about breaking into the first one third and some goals are yet to be achieved.

I wish I was consistent and disciplined with my goals from the beginning. The story would have been a different one by now. But no one succeeds my whining or complaining, you have to first agree that there is a problem and then move on to fix it. For me, there has been a problem, I have not been consistent and disciplined. The simple solution is to be consistent and disciplined.

To be consistent and disciplined, I asked myself the question “Consistent and disciplined in what?” Then I realized some of my goals have just been mere good intentions, Intentions that were never put into action. Put into action in the sense that there was no plan for its execution. When would that task be done daily and for how long? These are some questions I did not answer when I began thinking of achieving some goals.

So at this point, enough of the complains and the wishes. Plan and execute. The plan is to write down what I say I want to be consistent and disciplined at, set out the time to accomplish it every day and then measure from that. Measurement is the only way to determine if I am really achieving my goal. That is the only way I can be consistent and disciplined.

The plan might not go the way it was thought of, but then a lot of plans don’t. So that is not an excuse to not plan at all. So for me, this is the plan for now. Write it out, stick to the plan and see where that leads. This might not be the first time I am trying this, but I feel coming back to it means it might simply be the solution I have been trying to avoid all along.

For you reading this article, you also have goals, plans, and dreams that you want to accomplish. But thoughts without plans and execution is simply a good intention. Intentions don’t mold blocks.

You need to put in the work and effort to make sure something comes out of it. So get started, start now, start today. Create that plan and begin to execute it. This is the path to consistency and discipline.

Have a great day. Thanks and God Bless

Just Float
Yes, I swam yesterday for the first time in my life. Did not really swim per se since all the time, I was simply trying to just avoid sinking. It would do well to say I learnt how to not sink yesterday because let me say the truth, I did not really swim. Just going into and out of the water for lack of air.

While everyone around could quiet carry themselves and float on water, I simply looked with amazement at this water fond human beings who could swim. I wish I could swim like some of them, but then I just continued sinking and unsinking myself in the water.

I am not trying to explain my bad swimming experience but trying to relate it to a lot of the things that happen in our lives every day. Some of the things are simply easy for others, but for us, it takes a while. It takes a while for us to even understand what the basics are. But the only thing we should keep doing is to keep floating, one day you would swim.

I had to console myself that at least for the first time, I was able to take away all my fear and simply go for the pool, something I have never done. So this is progress, even if it is a tiny one. But then, success comes very late sometimes in the game, so you have to keep playing to be better and better.

So in whatever learning endeavour you currently are in now and it seems you are genetically modified to fail at it, give it time, you would float such as I want to badly float on water now. Your situation might be far greater than my swimming experience, but the concept is the same. Try, and try again, for even the greatest do face challenges.

And when you face challenges, you evaluate your striking method and see how you can make it better, learn from the mistakes of yesterday, enrich your knowledge base and give it another try today. It would definitely pay off one day.

Just as it takes a while for a bird to fully learn to fly, so does it take successful people time to fly or float. So give it time and just float. Just float on the surface, water would carry you. So said my mates at the swimming pool.

Until then, do not give up and have a great day. Thanks and God bless.

Treat the Problem, Not the Symptom
My brother recently told me to write a piece on one of the current issues happening in my dear country Nigeria and how a solution can be found to the issue on ground.

I am very careful to not mix the world issue with the world problem. This is because sometimes we mix up both and take them for the same thing. I recently understood a subtle difference between the two.

Take, for example, you visit the doctor and you complain of a headache, stomach ache, and some other issues. The doctor does not treat each of these as a problem. What the doctor does is to find out the root problem causing all the issues and simply treats the problem rather than treat the symptoms.

But this is what we try to do every day. We treat symptoms without fully understanding what the major problem is. Imagine the doctor gave you different solutions for each of your issues, you might feel that is the best decision, but definitely not, you need a solution that fixes the problem and in the end, you are definitely going to be better. And all the issues you have complained of would have all gone.

This is the same way to handle our issues. Make sure you understand whether the solution you are trying to profer solves a problem or simply solves a symptom. We spend too much energy on solving symptoms and keep complaining why the problem never goes away.

It is like the case of lawlessness. Lawlessness cannot simply be handled by deploying policemen on the street. It requires understanding why people are lawless in the first place and that might provide a better clue as to how to solve the problem rather than just treating this as a problem.

It is important to treat the exact problem itself so that the problem is solved once and for all giving time to deal with more important issues than just symptoms. Know that a problem would always have a lot of symptoms and might even continue to develop more symptoms if we do not find the main cause and eradicate it.

To be able to discover the main problem means to be able to see further than the symptom, to be able to dig and continue digging until a pattern presents itself. At that point, you are likely to find a solution that solves all symptoms of that problem rather than to keep fighting each symptom as they appear.

Even in our own personal lives, our habits are the major problems in some aspects of our lives and their manifestations show in a lot of places. Kids from bad homes create too many issues than can be remedied and the best solution would simply to handle this from home rather than waiting for such issues to manifest in the society before taking actions.

It is important that we look closely today and understand whether the solution we are trying to provide is only a solution for a symptom and not the problem itself. Because if you are solving a symptom, then more would still come in the end.

Take your time today and understand which one of the paths you are following. Solving a major problem or simply solving a symptom.

Thanks and God Bless.

What Is This World Becoming?
In terms of technological advancement, the world is getting better. What was thought of as an impossible action 5 or 10 years ago now look seamless. Communicating with everyone from all over the world now seems like a no-brainer.

You can chat, see, and communicate with anyone and do so many more. Yeah, this is in the area of technological advancement. But in other areas, the world is really getting messed up. Messed up in a lot of ways but I want to focus on just one area.

It is in the area of getting married. Yes, getting married. I really want to ask this question as to what the world has made marriage become. The unnecessary traditions that have been imported into this glorious occasion.

Marriages now must start with prewedding pictures and these pictures must flood social media. This was supposed to be something like an option but with the number of people participating these days, it seems more like something we must all do before getting married.

As if that was not enough, marriages have now been converted to festivals. Yes, festivals. People spend days just to tell the world that two people are now legally allowed to spend the rest of their lives together. Wow, what an irony. People now make marriages a matter of competition.

How many people would be at my wedding than the last wedding? That is what people now contend for. The idea that marriage is supposed to be holy and an action that must be praised for the main reason has now been made to become something like a herculean task.

The world has made actions not speakable much easier than marriage. People can simply get sex where they want for a lesser price than getting married. Well then, what option do we leave for the world to choose? The easier option of course. People now no longer see value in marriage. They say, well, it is just to procreate, why then must I marry when I can procreate without having to go through all the hassle?

However, this is the fault of you and I. Yes, the fault of all of us that makes marriage more competitive. Mr A did this in this marriage, are you not going to do the same? We share prewedding pictures all around as if they were officially married. Wow, what a world we now live.

Immoral activities are now considered not too bad. Well, others also do it. Yes, but not so shamelessly publicly. You can be bad, but at least have the decency to be private about it and do not give others a reason to do what you did.

The world can be better and the world would be better, but we need to understand that morality must take its place in the world and what is bad should be seen for what it is, not because everyone now does it.

Marriages are now made much difficult for people who are willing and ready all in the name of the unnecessary traditions that have been added. Traditions that in no way add to the values of marriages. We must take action now and learn to know what is right from what is wrong.

Marriages should not be glorified as a one-day event, a lot more lies ahead. People now even take loans to feed people, people who really do not care about the marriage. Well, just a few might. And you can organize a simple event for those few.

The world is watching us and what we do would always serve in our favour or against us one day. Be careful.

Thanks and God Bless.

Focus on the Strengths
Many a time, we give feedback to people. Our colleagues, family, and friends. This feedback is not always the best words simply because all feedback cannot be sweet and flattering words. So sometimes, we need to say the bare truth.

However, in trying to state the bare truth, we should learn to focus on the strengths and hardly focus on the weaknesses. Weaknesses are in us to teach us that we are not perfect. That we can make mistakes. But once we have realized that, we should focus on what can make us great and better.

That is our strength. Strength is what compliments our weaknesses. So if there is something that compliments our weakness, then we should focus on that. Focusing on our strengths makes our weakness go away. Not go away forever, but at least go away for the time being.

Our strength is what is important in every task that we embark on. It is important to focus on the areas where we are good at and focus on how we can harness our strengths to achieve great success.

Imagine the great men who have lived. Do you think they were perfect men? Obviously NO. They had their weaknesses. But the world did not bother questioning them on their weakness, it focused on their strengths and was able to create the best version of themselves there could ever be.

When you learn about some of the great men and some of their weaknesses, sometimes you wonder how they were able to conquer the world and do so much. But well, they did. They focused less on what they could not do and focused more on what they could do. What they cannot do would be someone else’s strength, find that person and give him that task to handle.

If we would focus on the weakness of a fish as not being able to fly or focus on the strengths of a bird as not able to swim, then we would make very bad impressions of the weakness and greatness of these animals. Well, same is applicable to humans, focus on the strengths, do away with the weakness and continue on that path.

I used to follow the principle to find the right people for a job and it would go well. But then, I reconsidered and I thought, focus on the strengths of people and people would no longer see their tasks like work, they simply see it as something they simply just do and also enjoy doing. It is the job of everyone to focus majorly on what their strength is.

This does not mean to downtone your weakness. It means to be able at every point to understand what your strength can help achieve rather than what you weakness cannot achieve.

Take a moment today and begin to understand how you can better improve not only yourself but the world at large by focusing on what you can do and not only on what you cannot do. The whole world needs your strengths. Your weakness would only make us all weaker.

Start today and focus more on your strengths. The world needs it. Thanks and God bless.

How To Get More Done Effectively
A lot of humans feel happy when under the busy umbrella, “You have a minute”, and the answer is NO, I am very busy. Well, it is important to be busy, but learn to be busy with the right thing.

Busy doing five things while doing each suboptimally is less effective than been busy on just one thing and doing it very well. I am very guilty of this, but I feel it is time we all looked into doing few things effectively than doing a lot of things sub-optimally.

I created my own definition of the word “effective”, which means to create an effect. How many things around you are you creating an effect on? Or are you just focused on the tasks to be completed and that is all. You need to also understand what your contributions are.

To fully understand your contributions, you would need to be fully focused on what you are doing. Well, a lot of us can do more tasks at a time than others, but it always pays off to take the time to completely exhaust one task and take it to a logical conclusion before moving onto the next task.

Understand that it matters that we work effectively. We are not simply some task crushers who focus more on completing tasks than what contributions we are making with each task completed.

To get more done, you would need to focus, focus on what is at hand. Complete it with all the skills and talents that you can, then move onto something else. Sometimes, we might need to do more than one task so that we have something to move to when bored with the first task, but we should remember to always focus on the contribution we are making, and not only on completing a task.

Task completion makes us feel cool. We feel all tired at the end and we feel the whole world needs to see how hardworking we are, but in this world and age, it is not about how much work you do, it is also about how you do it.

Take the better path and complete the task with energy to go for more rather than simply feel happy by exhausting all our energy. There are a lot more things we can do with our life and time and also make a greater contribution, rather than simply exhausting it while trying to do too many tasks at once.

The simple way to get there is by saying NO to a whole lot of other things. To a lot of other things, you might not be effective at, which would also then lead to reduced effectiveness of the things you can do well.

You can become better and do more effectively, you just need to understand that motion does not always mean progress. Do not confuse the two. Do have a great day and God Bless.

Know Thy Time
In life, the only thing we cannot get more of is time. Once gone, it cannot be recovered. It slowly passes by every moment. It is the only currency that makes life worth living because once exhausted, we cannot have it back.

However, some of us live every day as if we have all the time in the world. We do things with no single regard for time. We spend time as if it was something we could get back. Time passes by and we feel comfortable with that. No record of what the time was spent on.

Learn that life is short. But well, it might be longer depending on how you spend it. Let me ask you a simple question, can you tell me how you spent the last 24 hours? In details, please. Well, that would be difficult for a lot of us, but you can give me meticulous details of how you spent the last cash you had on you.

Imagine that. We pay more attention to what we can have more of and pay only a little attention to what we have only a limited supply of. How ironic. Life passes by every time. To make it count, you have to make every moment of your life count. Well, it is not like to have to go around with a stopwatch checking out every second you spend, but it is important that you are able to be able to track every single second you spend.

Well, in the beginning, you can go around with a stopwatch if you wish. But until you know exactly how you spend your time, you might not be able to know how to plan your life. You think you are doing something, but when you watch your time, you realize that you have been doing something completely different.

What you become is an impact of what you spend your time on. You spend your time consciously on what makes you grow, you grow, otherwise, you think you are growing but no, you are simply moving. Moving nowhere in particular. Life is as you spend your time, you spend it wisely, you enjoy it, you blow it away, life looks short and horrible.

The option is all yours. Think carefully what you spend your time on today and make a great note of how your time is spent. When you know how you spend your time, you can begin to cut out what does not matter, and with that, you can focus on what matters.

It is never too late to start. Take a few moments today and understand how you are spending your time. Then you can begin to understand whether you have been spending your time wisely or not.

Time waits for no one, but you can better manage your time by knowing how you spend it. Start now, start today. Time never waits.

God bless and have a great day.

Say That You Love Me
As kids, we learn naturally that our parents love us from the care and protection they provide for us. They help us with food, clothing, and shelter and as such, we learn by default, that they love us. But hardly do parents or children say to one another that they love them.

We believe that the other person should be able to see and understand what the other person is doing and they should be grateful. In this case, we say actions speak louder than words. But I beg to disagree in this area, for love, words are louder than the actions.

The actions can be interpreted to mean different things, but when you say it, it reduces the room for ambiguity and both parties fully understand what the other person is saying. Well, it does not mean that everytime someone says that they love us, we simply accept.

No, what I mean is that even we show in actions that we love someone, it also makes sense to follow it up with words. These kind words are like adhesives that keep relationships longer.

It might sound simple to us and we expect the other person to simply understand especially when we do so much for the other person. But we need to take some time to really let it out. Say it to that one person, let them feel loved and appreciated.

Between a child and the parents, it goes both ways. When was the last time one of you said it that you love the other person? Between a wife and her husband, how many times do we get to say it? It matters that we do because the heart can easily fall off but a way to sustain it is to continuously appreciate what you have and saying it.

It matters that we continue to promote words of love and respect between one another. Between an employer and the employee, always seek to find time to appreciate one another, to really seek to find a way to verbally appreciate all that the other person has done and keeps doing for you.

It is a small but powerful step because in our words lie a great weapon that goes a long way to better help develop our relationships.

Thanks and God bless.

What Was It All For?
Barely slept for 2 hours, the cycle of a new day began for me today. I had to get up early to make sure our clients and customers get the service they wanted.

But now the day is over and I take a few moments to think about the whole day and my life generally if all my actions were really for a great cause. I ask myself what is it all for? So now I have tried my best in satisfying my clients, but is that all?

This thought did not stop only at my task for today. It made me take a long walk down the path I have come and to ask myself the question, what is it all for? Is it just for the passion, the financial benefits, satisfying clients? I really wish there is more. I wish there is more to everything I do every day. A greater cause.

Your condition might not be same as mine but I want you to take a few moments to ask yourself the same question, what is it all for? All our days on earth, our daily tasks, and actions, what are they all for? We need to begin to ask ourselves this question because, in the end, it is not about the activities, it is about their impact.

Do not confuse motion with progress, a line I picked up from a movie. We sometimes move so fast that we feel that we are achieving something great, but when we look back and analyze the situation gracefully, we realize our actions might not have been for the best cause.

So it matters that we everyday look back and reflect what our output to the world is. What effect do our actions have and how does it contribute positively to the development of ourselves and the people around us.

That is where meaningful growth and progress begins. Begin with the question and it would all make more sense in the end. Do not only focus on the task at hand but consider the impact of your actions.

Because in the end, the most important question to ask is what was it all for? That would make the ground for whether we would live with regret or live with happiness for the rest of our lives.

This question is normally asked at the end of life, but it would make more sense if you ask the question now. So start now and continue on that path. Keep asking yourself the question, what was it all for?

When you have a good answer, you can proceed. Thanks and God Bless.