Don't get tired!

Hi there,

The feeling of tiredness often times sets in when we have reached the point of exhaustion. When we are burn out and drained of energy and drive to continue. At this point of exhaustion, quitting becomes quite easy because at this point all we desire is to become free from everything and crawl back into our comfort zone. My charge for us this morning is to exhort us to keep on keeping on and don't quit yet.

I know it can be hard most times , when we seem to be putting effort into something and we are not getting a commensurate result. It's easy for us to just walk away, but if we do walk away at that point, then we lose the rewards of the efforts that we have sowed in the past. One of the exciting things in life is that "life is governed by principles" and such principles acts as our guide posts, which helps us to know and understand our paths in life. One of such wonderful principles is called the law of sowing and reaping and it states that "we would always reap what we have sown".

Now this is interesting because it comforts us that we would definitely reap the results of what we have sown. So if at this point in time in your life, you have been sowing into personal development, you have been sowing into your business and the returns you are getting right now appears to be less of your efforts, or nothing at all. Don't worry, it would definitely show up. Laws are always fulfilled, they are absolutes, just keep on doing the right things that you are doing and don't get tired and don't quit.

A farmer is not afraid or tired to plant the seed and do the work necessary to provide a conducive environment for the seed to germinate. He does it gladly and hopefully. This is because he knows that harvest time is coming and when it comes, he would reap in greater measure the seeds he has sown.

And you will too, if you don't get tired or weary. Smile and get excited because your harvest time is soon coming.

Let me leave you with this quote from scripture

"And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart."

Have an exciting weekend

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher

Despise not the days of little beginnings..

Hi there,

The secret of every great man's success story lies in the days of his little beginnings. Just as a tree's strength and productivity level is not found in its fruits but rather in its roots, likewise a man's achievement is in the decisions that he made at the beginning and has continued to abide by it ever since. As Jim rohn stated  "success is a few simple discipline practiced everyday."

The successes of those great men and women that we are celebrating today are only compound effect of what they did and has continued to do, when everything didn't look like it was going to work out. A truly successful person can always reproduce again and again what he has accomplished, no matter where he founds himself even when he has lost all his material accomplishments. As the Holy Scriptures says,  "a man's life does not consist of the abundance of what he possesses". What really makes the true man is who he is on the inside.

A tree even when under harsh circumstances and all its fruits has been plucked, still has the capacity to produce more fruits. Why? because the fruits are inside the tree. To become truly successful, it begins from the inside out and not from the outside in. You have to develop the mindset of an achiever to really become an achiever. And the way to go about this is to diligently and consistently inculcate few simple disciplines of enlightening your self daily by reading great books along the areas of your interest as pertaining to your present needs and ensuring you practice those principles you glean from such great books.

As you consistently do so, you are building on the inside of you, the mind of an achiever and this begins to affect the way you see the world around you and of course the way you think and act.  Success is not what you pursue, it is what you attract by the person you become.

So keep at it, keep growing, keep developing yourself, keep doing all the seemingly little things that will help you become better daily, don't despise these little beginnings because they will form the very foundation of the successes tomorrow.

No tree ever started as just a tree, but rather a seed. So also, though all we might be seeing now maybe the seed form, but if you don't quit and you don't relent in continual nurturing and cultivation, we will one day eventually see the real greatness buried inside you all this while.

On a final note, I therefore admonish you not to envy a successful man's material possessions but rather learn from his story, his story is his secret.

Am sure you are having a productive weekend.

Anthony Desalu,

Your Friend and Well Wisher.

You Are Special

Hi there, 

You are special, so so special. Yes you are. I am absolutely, certainly and honestly convinced beyond any reasonable doubt, that you are special. You are the best, you are a number 1. No one can and will ever be able to compete with you. You are powerful beyond what you can ever imagine. You are a masterpiece, a unique breed. You are a born leader, a born success, a born winner and not a loser. You are not a mistake nor an accident, you have a role here on earth, your space is reserved because no one can fit into it perfectly more than you.

You are so important and you have loaded inside you something the world needs. There can be no one like you, you have a special assignment to deliver to this generation, and if you don't deliver it, no one else can. Your design is perfect for your assignment, you are so valuable. The day you were designed, your manufacturer was excited at his design that he exclaimed in excitement, this is good stuff.

Believe this, because it is the truth about who you are.

To all our ever resilient, passionate and inspiring teachers, I say Happy Teachers day to you all. Your role is important for this generation.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

In Love With Me

Hi there,

Oh Yes, I am in love with me, isn't that exciting. I tell you it is. Why? because, being in love with oneself is the key to unlimited happiness. Many people wait on people to love and cherish them before they can become happy in their lives. They leave off control of their lives to circumstances which often than not are not within their reach. They are only happy when circumstances are good and sad when things around them don't look fine. That's a kinda miserable way to live. Don't do that to yourself.

As a renowned author said "life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it". So why postpone your happiness till something big breaks through for you in the future. Choose to be happy now and the best way to do that is to become crazily in love with you. Many folks don't enjoy their own company, they need to be around folks who they expect should love and respect their person, before they can feel loved. That's isn't so good.

Know this today, you can't express love adequately to another person, if you haven't first loved you, why? because it's impossible to give what you don't have. And neither should you demand love and care from someone else when you don't first love and care for you first. It would only make you a needy and dependent person, which most times turns people off.

A person who is in love with himself/herself is not hard to recognize, he/she speaks with so much confidence and has a healthy self esteem. No matter, what people do to him or say, he is unperturbed. He exudes a tremendous amount of confidence such that, people become naturally attracted to his person and are willing to listen when he talks.  Why because, a person who loves himself can communicate love in his speech and actions. It is from the outflow of love inside him that he relates with another person.

Let me leave with a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
"Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one can not be friends with anyone else in the world."

Sure you are having a wonderful day so far.

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Be Your Own Number One Fan

Hi there,

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

In life what you accept or permit, is what ends up becoming your own reality. You are the major determinant of whatever happens in your life. This is because what you accept is what you attract. This then means that, you are in charge of the happenings in your own personal life. But waiting on  people's approval of you is transferring that right of control to another person. And that makes you become so miserable, especially if people rate you so low in  their own estimation or evaluation of you.

That doesn't have to happen to you. You need to understand that people's approval of you counts for nothing, if you don't first approve you. You have to become your own number one fan, your own cheerleader first, before you can experience the outworkings of the greatness buried inside you.  You have got to believe in you even when it looks like all isn't working out right, cheer your self up, be self motivated. Look at yourself in the mirror and tell yourself that you are the best, that you have greatness in you. Tell yourself that you have something the whole world needs. Believe in you, believe in your abilities, don't quit on you. Approve yourself as a person of excellence.

You don't need certificates or degrees to do that for you. As Mark Twain said, comfort comes from you first approving of you. As you do so, you feel a great outburst of confidence surging from within you  and at that moment, impossibility becomes nothing to you.

As for me, I am my own number one fan, the question is are you also?

Sure your day has been productive all the way

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.

Do Something that Makes You Proud of Yourself!

Hi there,

Self Confidence is a key factor to success. Without it you will never be able to accomplish anything worthwhile in your life. When your self confidence diminishes, then your accomplishments in life also diminishes in return. And the higher your self confidence is, the greater your accomplishments.
Therefore your concern everyday is working towards keeping your self confidence on the increase.

How do you make this happen?

Jim Rohn says "the greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do". Here is another way to say it, when you do something that makes you proud of yourself, your self esteem soars, and whatever makes your self esteem soar affects your self confidence simultaneously.

So how do you get started in this journey?

Make a list of atleast 6 things you need to do each  day and work towards making them happen. Do this and see  your self confidence soar.

Welcome to a new month, a new you

Anthony Desalu
Your Friend and Well Wisher.