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What Have You Done? by damianchiemezie(m): 2:27pm On Nov 20, 2019
Let’s begin with you. You have been complaining about the hardship in the country, right? What have you done?
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I don't know what to do.
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You know. Yes, you do. Or let me help you.
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Here is it. You have to be a good learner. Learn...put yourself through some great books/ Seminars/Lectures. Quest for mentors for guidance. There is no better way.
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Listen, let me tell you. Great people do not sit down and complain about their hardship. They either embrace it or do something about it. Come on! Complaining will never solve problems. That is why if you truly want to change the situation, you must shift your thoughts. ---from complaining to questing for solutions. How do you get some of these solutions? Books. A book can alter your life. 5 minutes of reading can make you a millionaire. Conversation with someone who reads can prevent a huge problem.
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When you begin to read, the way you think will begin to have a better shape. The way a great reader sees things is very different from the way a non-reader sees things. While the latter continually complain of difficulties, the former seeks opportunities in the difficulties? Surprised? It is very simple...books are magical. Good books train your mind to see the good in everything.
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Have you ever asked yourself while some of these great entrepreneurs never cease to read or learn: Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mike Cuban, Oprah Wilfrey, Strive Masiyiwa, Philip Emengwalu, count them. It is because once you stop reading, you start dying. Henry Ford said: “Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing is to keep your mind young.” Did you get that? Once you stop learning, you are bound to dwindle, and soon you will be out of business and gradually out of life.
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So you want to stop complaining? It is that simple. Try being a reader. Note--- not a reader who reads just to impress people with the knowledge he acquires. Or the one who beats his chest and count the number of books he has read as an achievement. No! If your aim of reading is any of those things, you are a lousy reader. You should read to learn.
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Look at what reading does for YOU. It awakens a frozen gift inside you; it rebukes the devil that inhabits you---which is complaining; it sharpens your mind to become a thinker; it keeps you strong in adversity. (Education is a refuge in adversity—Aristotle). Reading does a million things in your life. And that is why you must read to liberate your mind. Read, read, read...you can't go anywhere without educating your mind.
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Until you begin to taste the honeycomb of knowledge, your life shall be somewhat crooked. Except you have a helper who dishes out freely his/her knowledge for you. But the important is: Be a lifetime learner. No one can do it better for you. You can’t dispute this. You must train your mind. You must put a lot of positive stuff in that mind to experience an ideal life. Did you know that the state of the man is the state of his mind? If you are poor, it comes from the mind, if you are wealthy, it also comes from the mind. Which do you want? Your mind answers the question. (Both poverty and richness are the offspring of the mind ~ Napoleon Hill {Think and Grow Rich}
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If you complain a lot instead of doing something about it, it shows that your mind is fed with negative stuff. Wake up!
What have you done?
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Re: What Have You Done? by purples25(f): 2:33pm On Nov 21, 2019
This is great. Thanks.

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Re: What Have You Done? by damianchiemezie(m): 9:24am On Jan 11, 2020
Thank you

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