niyooo:

Hi All,

Sorry bout the tone of my last post. I was actually peeved with someone in my office and i think going through Kuwena's post kind of got me riled a bit. I'm sure i'll just have ignored it as i had ignored many earlier posts that were even worse. Let me add something before i check out of here. Kuwena, no one hates you, no one wishes you evil or wishes you to fail, no one at least on this thread knew you from Adam before LNG joined us together and you decided to write about what you had been through and all that. Peeps on the thread sympathized with you and life went on. We all have our various stories though some might not be as dramatic or traumatic as others. We are all at the stage that will determine what we'll end up being in our lives ( a so-called critical stage in our lives) everyone is planning and scheming on how to make the most of this stage so that we'll have a good life for ourselves, our families and our families yet to be. If anyone makes it big tomorrow we'll all remember the time we were all young with bright ideas and beautiful plans for the future and those that are friends will reminesce on those times. Kuwena please just concentrate on you and what you want, ignore completely your percieved notion of what anyone thinks or wishes for you 'because when it is all said and done we are ultimately responsible for what we make of ourselves.

I'll not like to join in the religious argument 'because it is only God and the individual involved who knows who is truly worshipping Him. Worshipping God is not all about the ceremonies and other activities that takes place in our places of worship but more of a mind thing. Kuwena, if you've decided to worship God "your own way" please go ahead and do so. You do not need anyone to convince/confuse you otherwise. You know the good thing about God is that He gave us all Free will. That is the power to decide what we want to do and so we'll also be resposible for such.

As a by-line before i go peeps if you have anything you are convinced about and want to do, please go ahead and do it, don't procrastinate about it, just go ahead and do it so you'll not rue the missed chance later in the future even if it leads to failure at least you'll have learned a lesson or two that will be beneficial in future. Just imagine if Bill Gates had decided to complete his education in the University or if he had asked for other people opinion? So Kuwena if you want to go to the US, go and we all pray you succeed because it's always better if someone you know succeeds than someone you don't even know from Adam for obvious reasons.

Peace out.

aniffy4eva:


Everyone has touched on it, one way or the other. I got to my current view, based on experience.

Way back, i thought it was about money, you know, " with money, you can change the world", etc, this was until i made some myself and was around people that had made much more. I heard them speak and watched them live. i then asked myself if i wanted to end up like them. My answer was a resounding "No". I don't want to make money at the expense of other individuals. i now looked at lives of people around me, and i thought about it. Why don't i affect lives positively? with what i have and where i am,

In my honest opinion, wealth is the abundance of life, first and foremost spiritually (putting a BIG smile of joy on God's face with my life), plus a family (loving wife and children), plus being financially independent alongside making other financially indepepndent.

Success, which, IMHO, is a little different from wealth, is more of focussing on the spiritual angle. I believe putting a BIG smile on God's face usually comes as a result of fulfilling your purpose, affecting your generation and the people around you. One misconception i notice is that, people believe we are all supposed to be known around the world, by everyone else, well i don't think so. Some will definitely be known around the world, no doubt, but for some, their purpose may just be to convert one soul, write one book, encourage one person etc. Once i focus on that angle of fulfilling God's purpose, all other things i need to do this will be added unto me. At the end of it all, what i want is after death (or rapture), when i get to heaven, i want Jesus to hug me and say " Welcome home folayemi, you did me proud", So i really don't care how people define success, or if people think i was successful or not, as long as the end result is what He says when i go home.

kenosky:

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[size=13pt]someone asked mi a question yesterday thatz got mi thinking. Whatz your take on it? 'HOW DO YOU CHANGE THE WORLD AROUND YOU?'[/size]

pgm, aniffy, thanx for posting again even if it took a reminder from mi 2 do that.

alfaprime, i say once again WORD! you're in aleague of your own- u many!

kuwena, true talk, where brotha wandel? Even while at ICB, den KPMG, u were posting, ki lo sele? sorry, wetin happen?


@all, i love y'all. Na now main work just begin, i go update una but i get some assignments to turn in tomorrow and i av an exam on thursday (yes o, EXAMZ) and e no easy. I go still yarn una how far. I owe peeps that much!

Goodnyt all

Quote from: aniffy4eva on Yesterday at 12:34:23 PM

Everyone has touched on it, one way or the other. I got to my current view, based on experience.

Way back, i thought it was about money, you know, " with money, you can change the world", etc, this was until i made some myself and was around people that had made much more. I heard them speak and watched them live. i then asked myself if i wanted to end up like them. My answer was a resounding "No". I don't want to make money at the expense of other individuals. i now looked at lives of people around me, and i thought about it. Why don't i affect lives positively? with what i have and where i am,

In my honest opinion, wealth is the abundance of life, first and foremost spiritually (putting a BIG smile of joy on God's face with my life), plus a family (loving wife and children), plus being financially independent alongside making other financially indepepndent.

Success, which, IMHO, is a little different from wealth, is more of focussing on the spiritual angle. I believe putting a BIG smile on God's face usually comes as a result of fulfilling your purpose, affecting your generation and the people around you. One misconception i notice is that, people believe we are all supposed to be known around the world, by everyone else, well i don't think so. Some will definitely be known around the world, no doubt, but for some, their purpose may just be to convert one soul, write one book, encourage one person etc. Once i focus on that angle of fulfilling God's purpose, all other things i need to do this will be added unto me. At the end of it all, what i want is after death (or rapture), when i get to heaven, i want Jesus to hug me and say " Welcome home folayemi, you did me proud", So i really don't care how people define success, or if people think i was successful or not, as long as the end result is what He says when i go home.


Touche! Annify, I think You just got it right on the spot. Wealth defined as abundance of life. Hm. Remember You also asked about how much wealth would one consider to be enough? How does that match up with this definition, could you say? In other words, how could one ever get (and know that one has got) abundance of life? A matter that should gainfully occupy our waking thoughts.

It's good you discovered by experience that having lots of money in itself is not fulfilling. I have also "interacted with" some millioniares myself, and bottom line is, minus God, they're not much different from the rest of the Nigerian "masses". The same selfish, greedy tendencies are there, the same reluctance to part with money except when it boosts the ego, etc. However, I wouldn't want to ever discourage anyone from aspiring to make as much money as possible, because you may never realise the emptiness of purposeless wealth until you get there and find yourself wondering, "what next?"

It's good to have some of the conveniences and good things of life, certainly; but please, let's bear in mind that these things easily get a tough grip on an unguarded heart and affections, and before you know it, you're in a mad race for more and more while appreciating God less and less for other gracious, priceless blessings of His upon your life. Could we do well to ponder on these matters?


Quote from: kenosky on Yesterday at 07:43:48 AM


[size=13pt]someone asked mi a question yesterday thatz got mi thinking. Whatz your take on it? 'HOW DO YOU CHANGE THE WORLD AROUND YOU?'


@Kenosky
That's really a thought-provoking question, but also one that is a "doing" question, if you get what I mean. It could be very tempting to philosophise about changing the world around me without ever getting to do so. The answer would vary from person to person, because we're in various parts and areas of the same world that we're all trying to change (change positively, of course!) You can change the world around you most effectively by influencing those around you, which brings us to the follow-up question: How then do I influence the people around me? Simply by starting with myself. The easiest person you could change in the whole wide world is yourself, and you'd sooner realise that changing/improving on (some aspects of) yourself may well be the key to changing whoever or whatever else you strongly desire to change around you.
Strong, world-wide visions always start with the inwards effect, for
a man cannot creditably and credibly present to the world,
Any idea that he has not first tried on himself with convincing success.
Cheers,

kenosky:

[size=13pt]pgm, aniffy, thanx for posting again even if it took a reminder from mi 2 do that.

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kenosky:

[size=13pt]pgm, aniffy, thanx for posting again even if it took a reminder from mi 2 do that.

tommyex:

PGM
u don come with your kolomental again oo,wetin u mean by that last sentence??
How u doing bro?How is work?_{i dnt even know so much about you}

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pak:



Wonders shall never end !!!

I thought 'Come and see. . . American wonder' ended in the '80s

AlfaPrime:


Thought I once asked for suggestions on the best (most effective, that is) ways of spending those 2 days of the week that you could call "your own"?

skeelo:

[size=18pt]THE RULES FOR BEING HUMAN[/size]
[size=14pt]You will receive a body.
You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around.
You will learn lessons.
,
You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
Your answers lie inside you.
The answers to Life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.
You will forget all this[/size]

aniffy4eva:

Are those 2 days really "your own"? Well, if you are married, they are most likely not. Even if you are single sef, you are probably investing it , somewhere, OR nurturing an existing commitment.

Anyways, i spend mine doing some things i love, e.g. blogging, reading, relaxing, meditation, I guess it prepares me for the following week ahead. i also have spurts of spontaneity sometimes , so i get caught up in one humdrum cycle.

There's a world out there that I want to see
There's a man that I'm destined to be
I won't be stopped by the ghetto streets
I believe inside that I can't be beat.[/quote]

cf Kuwena (2008)


             

We may not be accountable for our circumstances,
                But we certainly are accountable for our response to our circumstances.
                Again, we have a choice of actions in life, but alas! We have no power to choose
                The consequences of our actions.
                If we did, the prisons would be empty, Cos people would commit and transgress
                But choose not to face the music!

[b]cf Alfaprime (2008)

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WORD! I av nothing further to add- u guys are stupendous! You blow my mind! and on that note i say goodnyte abi na good morning, have a pleasant Sunday[/size]

AlfaPrime:

              We may not be accountable for our circumstances,
               But we certainly are accountable for our response to our circumstances.
               Again, we have a choice of actions in life, but alas! We have no power to choose
               The consequences of our actions.
               If we did, the prisons would be empty, Cos people would commit and transgress
But choose not to face the music!


Pause and ponder.