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Hello Tunji,

People will hardly click on the link you attached to your post. People hardly comment on normal articles after reading them. Not even a word of appreciation comes from them when they read a good article, let alone asking them to comment on something that is not on nairaland. Well, maybe a few will, nut I really won't count on it. I for one did not even click on the link.

Just a word I felt you might consider.

Hello,

I will be giving out a free e-book to anyone who is interested titled The Wisdom of The Serpent. It's a collection of ten of my notes:

Digging Ditches
How Hard Can It Be? Just Try
Anybody Can Cook
Believe Me, We All Have Issues
The Law
From The Known to the Unknown
Becoming a Global Person
Living in Crazy-land
Life is like that!
The Wisdom of The Serpent

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Thanks,
Mute Efe.

Life, most times, is funny. It does not usually go the way you planned it. But you must make your decision and move on. The decisions in life are not always between good and bad, or black and white. Most times you have to make a decision between two things that you don’t like.

This note is about those times in life when you have to make a decision between two things that you don’t like. And believe me, those times will be many. There are only a few times when you have to choose between two good things or between a good and a bad thing. And you really don’t need any counsel to make a choice during those few times.

The reason many people are stuck in life is because most times we are confronted with the choice of choosing between two things that have flaws. What do you do then? It may sound cliché but the answer lies in that same old saying, “When confronted between two evils, choose the lesser evil.” Choose the lesser one and move on. Life is like that!

The choice of whom to marry is not a choice between a good and a bad person. It is a choice between two flawed people. The tall, dark, and handsome man could be a man who shouts at his wife. The rich guy could be a wife beater. The not too good looking guy could be the one who values spirituality and respects his wife.

I am not here to make the choice for you. I am telling you to access the three based on your values and pick the one that suits you most and move on with your life. Life is like that! There is no need putting your life on hold when you know the next thing on your list is marriage. Believe me, I have seen some strange things in this life. Some women enjoy being beaten by their husbands, believe it or not.

The choice between remaining as an employee and becoming a self employed person is a choice between two flawed careers. They both have their up and down sides. The employee is certain of his salary at the end of the month. The self employed may go for months without any income. The self employed person, however, may at a certain point in time have in one deal what the employed person may never see in his whole career. Make your choice and live with it. Life is like that!

In the scriptures is a counsel from Jesus which many of us never really take time to meditate upon. He said it is better to enter into heaven with one hand than to go to hell complete. This counsel has opened up to me in more ways than I can share in this very short note. It’s amazing how the word of God would open up if one spends time to meditate on it. I have discovered that the longer you meditate, the shorter the amount of time you spend praying on specific issues. Because each time you pray, you pray the mind of God. Of course there are times one will have an express instruction from God to pray on a particular issue for months, sometimes years.

Before I deviate completely, let me return to the issue at hand. We all know that there will be no handicaps in heaven. God has promised to wipe away every tears. The man who is crying because he lost an arm will have his arm replaced so his tears will be wiped away. But let’s imagine for a brief moment that there will be handicaps. So, while the saints are clapping and dancing the man with one arm will be hitting his chest as his own way of clapping. But do you think the man who is in hell with two hands is better off? Can the man in hell with two hands really clap?

This lesson is about the futility of perfection as we define it today. The woman who divorces her husband because he often beats her may have an arm but she is better off than the one who remains in such marriage because the society looks down on divorces. The man who has a low paying job but ekes out an honest living for himself and his family may have an arm but he is better off than the man who travels round the world with his family in first class by looting the nation.

When a part of your body has gangrene doctors are required to amputate that part. It is the amputated part that dies, not the body. Insisting that an infected part stays with you will lead to the death of the whole body. Evil communication corrupts good manner. I am yet to see a rotten apple placed in a basket of good apples that became a good apple. Instead, the good ones become rotten.

Life is like that! Cut off a part of you and preserve the remaining part or insist on keeping the whole and end up dying. Both decisions are hard decisions. But I’ll rather live with the consequences of the former than with the consequences of the latter. When you are confronted with the choice of choosing between two evils, choose the lesser evil and move on. Life is like that!

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Thanks Nj girl,

I really appreciate your counsel. The book will go online this month. It's just the ISBN number I am working on right now. However, my source of inspiration is unlimited. So things that bother the world does not really bother me. When your well is deep you are not worried when people come into your compound to fetch water.

Thanks once more. I really appreciate your counsel.

Let’s do a little exercise, and please, take this seriously. I need you to get a sheet of paper, probably an A4 sheet and draw a long vertical line on the left side of the sheet. Please do this, it is very important to what we are about to discuss.

I want to believe you have the paper and have drawn the vertical line. Now, strike two horizontal lines across the vertical line to split the line into three equal parts. On the lower section write “Under-challenged.” On the middle section write “Appropriately challenged.” And on the upper section write “Dangerously over-challenged.”

Each of these three sections represent where we are in life, whether as individuals or as a nation, whether as a family or in our careers. This concept applies to all areas of life. But for the purpose of focus I will zoom in to our official lives, our lives at the office.

Under-challenged.

If you are on the Under-challenged section it means you get to work in the morning not knowing what you are to do. You completed all your action plans for yesterday, yesterday, There is nothing left on your to-do list. In fact, cumulatively, you actually work less than 5hrs out of the 8hrs you are at the office. So, Facebook is always ON on your system. It is actually your home page now, it used to be Google, but you now think Facebook is better. You play Spider Solitaire when you have no message on Facebook, meaning all your friends are busy except you.

You call your husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend, with the office phone ten times per day before you leave the office. You only really work when you are not playing. You are the first at the canteen for lunch and the last to leave the canteen. If you belong to this class, your life is wasting away. In 5yrs time all your mates will be light years ahead of you.

Appropriately Challenged.

If you are in the Appropriately challenged section, your to-do list for today was prepared yesterday or first thing when you got to the office this morning. When you got to the office, you went through your mail to see what your actions your bosses want you to close out today. Once your to-do list is ready, you prioritize.

You want to do the more urgent things first. That is what prioritizing means to you. Then you set to work. You go for meetings between 10:00am and 12noon. You access Facebook mostly during break time. During working hours you only pop in once in a while and log out. Your focus is in closing out all your actions. And by close of business that day, you actually close-out all your actions. You are fulfilled. Then you go home. Tomorrow is another day. If you are in this class, you are just okay, but not at your best.

Dangerously Over-challenged

If you are in the Dangerously Over-challenged section, your to-do list never ends. Each time you see your to-do list your heart skips. From the moment you hit the desk till the moment you leave you are on over-drive. You hate meetings with a passion. To you it is just a waste of the time you don’t even have in the first place.

The only reason you go to the canteen for lunch is because you need food to stay alive. If your company would have let you have lunch at your desk, you would have preferred that. You quickly finish lunch and rush back to you desk to continue working. There is no need prioritizing, you just start at the top of the list and work downwards. It’s not like you’re going to finish the entire task anyway. You only visit Facebook once in a couple of days.

When you are at home, your mind is still at the office. You’ve not gone half-way in today’s tasks and more will be added tomorrow. Your heart is always beating at a fast pace. If you are in this section you are living in crazyland. Medically, you will soon die. You are over stretching your heart and your brain. And there is only so much that they can handle.

Now, the one million dollar question is, “In which of these areas should you be?” This is the answer. You see that line you drew to separate the Appropriately Challenged section from the Dangerously Over-challenged section? Change that line to a small rectangle with the upper half just encroaching a little bit into the Dangerously Over-challenged area and the lower half of the rectangle just encroaching into the Appropriately Challenged area. That is where you should be. That is where you are performing optimally.

If you gym, you will agree with me that to develop your muscles, you give it a task that is just a little above its capacity. Not too much, just a little. In other words, if you can conveniently lift a 10kg mass, to develop your muscles you go for a 12kg or 15kg mass. If you under challenge the muscles, they become flaccid. If you just give it a load that is equal to its capacity, you just maintain shape. But to develop it, you give it a little more load than its capacity. But you don’t over stretch it continuously, otherwise it will break.

Even doctors tell us that a little stress is okay for us. But if you live your whole life stressed then there is a problem. So, you don’t want to be in the Dangerously Over-challenged section all your life, just as you should not just be in the Appropriately Challenged and the Under Challenged section perpetually. But what if you are already there? What do you do? Well, something tells me you already know what to do.

Mute Efe,
+234-803-874-9796

Hello Gerald,

I feel your pain. Even in Nigeria, the truth is we are basking in our past glory. Everything you mentioned happens in Nigeria too. All our universities combined can only admit 120,000people as freshmen, but over 1,000,000 write the University Matriculation Examination every year. So figure out the rest.

However, this is my advice. Three words: Don't Give Up. It may seem like the fight is too tough, but what is the alternative? If you don't make an attempt, nothing will change. So please Don't Give Up.

Hello iice,

Sorry then. The school is run on the Facebook platform. By the way, personal leadership is much more wider than what you garnered.

Hello iice,

Clicking on the link below will take you to the calendar for the January session that begins on the 2nd of January.

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150419487859051 I assume you already have a facebook account.

Hey,

I am relatively new here. Is there something I am supposed to say or do before people post their response to the note? Is there like a passcode or something? A little help will go a long way.

Thanks.

Hey,

I am relatively new here. Is there something I am supposed to say or do before people post their response to the note? Is there like a passcode or something? A little help will go a long way.

Thanks.

Hey,

I am relatively new here. Is there something I am supposed to say or do before people post their response to the note. Is there like a passcode or something? A little help will go a long way.

Thanks.

Hey,

I am relatively new here. Is there something I am supposed to say or do before people post their response to the note. Is there like a passcode or something? A little help will go a long way.

Thanks.

Hey,

I am relatively new here. Is there something I am supposed to say or do before people post their response to the note. Is there like a passcode or something? A little help will go a long way.

Thanks.

Hey,

I am relatively new here. Is there something I am supposed to say or do before people post their response to the note. Is there like a passcode or something? A little help will go a long way.

Thanks.

Ajanlekoko,

Thanks.

Hello iice,

I agree completely with your statement. That is exactly what the note is addressing. So people should learn to discipline themselves and listen to the information instead of letting emotions rule. Maturity is in the ability to focus on the more important things. Those who rely completely on emotions are short-changing themselves because you can never control how people say what they say. But you have complete control over yourself and can decide to overlook how it is said and focus on what is being said.

Thanks once more.

iice:

Interesting.
However like you said humans are emotional. Despite the rational/logical/analytical part of us, we are often ruled than not by emotions. So the how you said it will always come into play.

Hello iice,
Am I saying how you say what you say is not important? No. What I am saying is that what is said is more important than how it is said. This is where wisdom steps in. If the information is coming from you be mindful of how you say it, because, indeed, how you say it can determine whether people will receive it or not. But if the information is being given to you, use a different rule, apply reason, not emotion. Listen to what is being said however it is being said, because that information can be your life saver.

Oluchi007:

Oh, so you're the one that wrote 'Sitting at the edge', cool.

Thank you for the tips. Hopefully with this I'll be able to improve on my titles.

You are welcome. Good to know you found the tips helpful.

Hello Oluchi007,

Indeed titles are very important. They are like the packaging of the product. We both know good products that don't sell much because of the packaging. So titles are a very important part of articles.

In choice of titles I'll recommend the following:
1. What is the theme of the article: The main message being communicated may not even be written in the article but it could still be the title.

2. Is there a catch phrase in the note or article that will be very appealing? That can also be the title. I once wrote an article in facebook titled Not On My Watch (https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150353019894051). That phrase was only used once in the note and at the very end.

3. Choose a good title first. I also use this method where I choose the title before I begin writing. So I already have a good title from the start instead of writing then trying to choose a title for it. This is the method I use the most. If you go to https://www.facebook.com/mutehimself?sk=notes you will find most of my notes and see the titles for yourself. It is this method that has helped me the most.

Oluchi007:

Intriguing.

Intriguing but true. I hope you were able to understand the note Oluchi007?

terrifikjo:

nice one !!!

Thank you terrifikjo.

In the first part of this note I shared with you how procrastination steals dreams. I narrated the story of a friend who always has dreams for the future but has never taken a step towards actualizing any and how many of us fall into that category. I also proffered some ways of how you can start something of interest to you while retaining your regular job.

In this part we are going to go a little deeper on the steps to take in moving from here to there. “Here” being your current reality which may or may not be comfortable but at least you know what you are dealing with. And “There” being a place of uncertainty, only existing in the mind. So what do we need to do to get us up on our feet and start on the journey of moving from here to there?


Destroy where you are

As long as you see where you currently are as the best you can have, you will never find a reason to move from here to there. People who take the plunge to uncharted waters always found a reason why where they were was not good enough, no matter how rosy it looked.

You must also find reasons why where you currently are is not good enough. The reason could be that you want another car so your wife does not have to be going for her post natal checks by public transport, you want a higher position at work so you can buy that dream car, whatever; I’m not really interested in that. Bottom line is that you find a reason why you need not rest on your oars.

Apart from having reasons that are of the future, you could also find reasons from the present situation. The current level of injustice in the system could motivate you to go into politics so you can promote bills that will fight imbalances in the system. You could even find a reason from your past. Like an experience you had in your childhood and you don’t want to see other children go through such experience.

Destroying where you are can take from seconds to days to months to years. It differs from person to person and depends on the dream the person wants to achieve.

Pay the fee

Nothing is free in this world. If you are getting anything free it is because someone else has paid for it. In his book Something For Nothing, Brian Tracy quoted Thomas Jefferson who said, “The worst day of a man’s life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.”

In moving from here to there you must come to terms with what it is going to cost you. In this age only a very few people are willing to pay the price. I always say “if you pay the price you will earn the prize.” When things are offered for free, a lot of people gather around, but the moment a fee is attached, it becomes a different ball game.

I learnt this for myself when I decided to facilitate an online School for Personal Leadership. I had been having lots of appreciation as well as coaching request from people who read my notes. And a lot of people do read them. But it will be shocking to know that when I attached a fee to my school, less than thirty people enlisted for it.

It is easy to say you are going somewhere in life, but if you are not willing to pay the price, then you are really going nowhere. The costs of moving from here to there are personal leadership, self improvement, trainings, skills acquisition, participation in social groups, volunteerism, etc. And all of them cost time, effort, and money. So, if you think you are going somewhere and you are not willing to give up some of your time, effort, and money, think again.


Embrace change

There are different levels in life. The dynamics surrounding each level differs from one level to another. As you journey from here to there you will have to believe certain things you never believed before, accept certain things you rejected before, become friends to certain people you criticized before, and a whole lot of other changes. Sometimes these changes are difficult, but then how badly do you want to get there? Even some of your values may have to change.

Until you climb the platform your scope of vision is limited. Have you ever wondered why it is that when a junior staff becomes a management staff everything about him changes? His language, his opinions, his behaviors, even the colleagues he used to hang out with, changes. You cannot be in the conference room with the mindset of the production floor. I have been in both worlds, so believe me when I tell you, you must make that transition.

So, if you really want to move from here to there, know that you must shed away certain things that you loved before. And this includes people. When seasons are changing, trees shed their leaves. You may no longer be able to buy mama put anymore no matter how much you love it. Now, that was just a joke. But on a more serious note, be willing to embrace change as you move from here to there.


Repeat the process

The beauty of life is in the journey, not the destination. Every “There” is a goal you aim to achieve. And every “Here” was once a goal. So, what is “There” today will become a “Here” tomorrow. When you arrive at “There,” it becomes a “Here” for you. So you have to create another “There” for yourself and repeat the process all over again.

It is this continuously moving from “Here” to “There” that makes you enjoy the journey of life. This is when you can say you are really living. There is more to life than bathing in a swimming pool. It’s good. I love swimming, but there’s much more to be done.

Now, it takes personal leadership to be able to go through these steps successfully because while they may just look like mere steps to be applied, the process itself is not funny. That is why I encourage people to get involved in Personal Leadership. I run an online Personal Leadership School and in the present session that is currently on, people from four different countries in two continents are participating. The lectures are explosive and right from the first week testimonials were already coming in.

School for Personal Leadership is not free but the value far outweighs the fee paid. Two days after my first lecture in the present session one of the participants credited my account with NGN20,000. Mind you, registration for the current session was NGN5,000. That alone is proof that what I write has power backing them. Other participants were sending me testimonials of how the lectures changed their outlook on life within days of being in class. So I encourage you to participate in the next session. The procedure will be in the footnote of this note.

Let me end with a quote by Abraham Lincoln “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”

If you loved this note why not drop a word or two, send me an sms, or give me a call. I’d love to get your feedback. But above all, share this note with a friend. Knowledge increases when it is shared. Thank you.


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I’ve got this friend that has great dreams. We were classmates back in school but actually became pals after I moved to Lagos two years ago. In the last two years that we’ve been close I can list 5 very good ideas he has come up with of things he plans on doing. But that’s where there is a problem. He always has things he plans on doing, he never does any. You see, he works in a very good company, earning a very good pay. And it’s not easy to just walk away from the kind of money he earns, especially when you are married, to go and start something you are not even sure will see the light of day.

When I write stuff like this I wish I was making them up, that they were just stories. If you take a critical look at my notes you will notice that most of them are very depressing. They don’t make you jump from your chair and shout ‘Yes!’ like you do when great motivational speakers like Fela Durotoye are speaking. My write-ups make people sink into their chairs. My notes are depressing. But like I said in one of my previous notes, there are a few of us who are sitting at the edge. We don’t get to choose our paths, our paths choose us.

Contrary to what most motivational speakers say, you don’t have to be self employed or be an entrepreneur for you to become rich or have a sense of fulfillment. Everyone cannot be an entrepreneur. The number two man in Microsoft is himself a billionaire but he is employed. Some of us, if not most, will never see that amount of money. However, if you know that deep in you is the spirit of an entrepreneur, you have a yearning to start something of your own. If you decide to remain in paid employment because of the fear of the unknown then you will never be fulfilled also. The longer you remain in paid employment the more frustrated you become.

This brings me back to the story of my friend, who I am beginning to consider giving some space because one of the factors to consider in predicting your future is to look at the people you associate with most frequently. If the people you associate with always are not fired up, you will soon lose your fire. And since all his dreams are of the future I really don’t think we can continue to hang out together. We are already beginning to speak different languages which mean there can’t be smooth understanding between us.

Okay, enough of my friend. I just used him as my introduction because many of you are just like him. Listen to the way you’ve been talking the past few years, ‘I will,’ ‘I will,’ ‘I will.’ When will you start saying ‘I am,’ ‘I am,’ ‘I am,’? When are you going to give birth to those dreams? Even if it is just starting that recharge card business, or starting a hair salon, or maybe you want to start an orphanage. And permit me to just say at this juncture that there is nothing like ‘Orphanage home.’ An orphanage is already a home. Okay, that’s been cleared, but you really need to consider giving birth to your dreams.

Please, please, please, don’t misunderstand me. I am not suggesting you type a resignation letter immediately. Sometimes you really love your job but you also have that dream in you to do something. You don’t have to quit your job immediately to pursue your dreams. You can actually find a way to start it while you are still working.

I am not just talking about business. Maybe you have a passion for orphans, have you considered volunteering your Saturdays and maybe half of your Sundays to just be in an orphanage and spend time with the kids? That way you can start learning how the systems work and you will also have a sense of fulfillment. And believe me, because you are doing something you’ve been yearning to do, you will find yourself becoming more productive in your place of work. And you will not be able to place your finger on how it happened. Life is spiritual.

Maybe your passion is business, profit making business. Have you considered running it on weekends first? The first thing you need to start a business is not a nice office with an air condition unit. The first thing you need is a customer. Why not start running the business on weekends from home? I really don’t know how you will do it, but get it done. It is better to try and fail than to be wishing you tried it.

Some of you may actually need to throw in the towel at the office so you can pursue your dreams like I did and am still doing. The kind of dreams I have cannot be accomplished while working in paid employment so I had to make a choice. I still have the copy of the mail I sent to HR. I stated it that I had come to a point where the company’s objective was conflicting with my personal objective and since I have to make a choice I choose to pursue my dreams. I left the company after four years and seven months of working for them without a single benefit. Not a dime. Company policy stated minimum of five years before you can be entitled to any benefit. I gave it up because I had come to know that the longer you hold off on your dreams the harder it becomes to start.

Like I said, it’s not all dreams that you have to resign to pursue. There are a whole lot of things you can do while you are still working. Bottom line is not to let the vision die in you. I am still very, very, far from where I am going but not as far as I was two years ago. And if an angel were to appear to me this moment and tell me I only have 24hrs to live, the only regret I will have is that I did not get to build my parents a house. It’s something I really want to do and I will if the Lord tarries. Besides that, everything I had set out to do I have done. Was I successful? Well, it depends on your definition of success. But I will die without a single regret.

I have read the profiles of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, the Bill Gates, Late Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Late Ray Kroc, etc. There is really nothing fantastic about them. Every quality they have, you also have. There is absolutely nothing special about them. The only difference was their willingness to start something. None of them ever thought what they were starting was going to be as big as they became. They just started something they had as a dream within them.

You may never become a Bill Gates but one thing I know you can do is that you, also, can start. And there’s no telling where you will be tomorrow. Remember you don’t have to be great to start, you have to start to become great.

In the next part we will look at the steps to take in moving from here to there.


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Good day moderators, panel of impartial judges, accurate time-keeper, co-debaters, and of course, readers online. I am here to support the motion which says that “What Is Said Is More Important Than How It Is Said.”

We live in an age where emotion seems to rule over our everyday life. Every day we hear statements like:

You are right but the way you said it…
He was correct but he did not say it the right way…
She was saying the truth, but she shouldn’t have said it like that…

We are so concerned about how things are said that we seem to have placed it at a much higher value than what is being said. It is true that how things are said is important, but what is being said is more important. My reasons are as follows:

Every one of us was raised in a different environment. Some were raised in palaces, others in patched houses; some were raised in the cities, others in the country. And the environment in which one is raised is a key determinant of how they face life’s issues. So when the man from the palace meets the man from the patched house some form of conflict ensues. The only thin line that runs through all is action. What we do.

I have always been amazed at how cases are handled in court. How some seemingly unimportant issues becomes of great importance in the courtroom. I’m sure you will agree with me if you watch any of those law series.

Defence Counsel:        Did my client say…?
Plaintiff:                         Actually, when he was saying it, he …
Defence Counsel:        (Cutting in) Mr. James, I need a Yes or No answer. Did my client warn you of an impending danger or not?
Plaintiff:                        Yes he did.
Defence Counsel:        (Facing members of the jury) I’m sure it has been established beyond reasonable doubt that my client did indeed warn Mr. James of an impending danger which he disregarded because he was blinded by his emotions.

Whenever I watched such movies I used to be very angry because when the event actually happened it looked different from what the court established, but now I know better.

My opponents who are opposing the motion say that we are all emotional beings therefore we must be careful of how we say what we say so it can be accepted right. I say yes we are emotional beings but that is just one part of us. We are also rational, logical, psychological, mental, and above all, spiritual beings. Wisdom is in knowing which of these parts should be in play at any point in time.

If I have a life and death information to offer you but offer it in a manner that is offensive to you and because how I said it was offensive to you, you disregard the information, what happens? You end up dead. Because you placed more importance on how I said it instead of what I said.

In Scattered Thoughts, Thought 2, I wrote, “If you are a very, very, proud person who goes about letting the world know how proud you are but you have the answer to a question that has been eating me on the inside. Wisdom has taught me to overlook your pride and still humble myself before you so you can help me with the answer I need. Refusing to come to you because I feel you are too proud does not solve my problem either.” This is placing reason above emotions.

Let me give an illustration. If I was driving down highway 32 but somehow I had the wrong map, not knowing that there was a natural disaster some months back that cut highway 32 in halves creating a cliff at the end of the portion I was driving on. And the signpost to warn uninformed drivers was also broken, so, somehow the universe was working against me. Because, one, I had the wrong map, and, two, the signpost was broken. But somehow you just happened to be on highway 32 for whatever reason.

As you saw me coming on a very high speed, you flagged me down. Being a very nice person I took you for a hitch-hiker and stopped to help. Then you walked up to my door, opened the door, gave me a dirty slap and asked me if I was crazy. What on earth was I doing on that road when there is a cliff at the end of the road? And to drive that life saving advice home you gave me another dirty slap. But you were quite huge and I really did not stand any chance in a fight so I maintained my poise as you walked away.

Now my moment of decision comes. Should I proceed on this journey ignoring what that mad man just said or should I turn around? But since, like my opponents claim, I am more interested in how you say what you say more than what you actually say, I decided to ignore the mad man’s advice and proceed at that high speed I was driving before I was interrupted.

What happens next? I fall off the cliff. But by a stroke of luck I survived the crash. And being a very knowledgeable guy who knows his rights, I file charges against you. In the court of law, counsel to the accused is going to ask me one question and one question alone. Was I warned? The answer is Yes, I was warned. Whether a slap came before or after the warning does not count. I was warned and I disregarded the warning. I disregarded it because I placed more importance on how it was said rather than what was said.

Am I saying how you say what you say is not important? No. What I am saying is that what is said is more important than how it is said. This is where wisdom steps in. If the information is coming from you be mindful of how you say it, because, indeed, how you say it can determine whether people will receive it or not. But if the information is being given to you, use a different rule, apply reason, not emotion. Listen to what is being said however it is being said, because that information can be your life saver. If you disregard it because how it was said was rash, brash, or harsh, chances are you may not read my next note because only those who are still alive when I publish it will be able to read it.

Finally, it takes personal leadership to be able to gain this level of mastery over yourself. And personal leadership is a skill which can be learned. If you are interested in how you can better lead yourself and would want to be a part of my personal leadership class, a one month online class that holds completely on facebook, you can enroll by following the information at the footnote. In this school there are no exams and no certificate because in Personal Leadership, life sets the exams while changes in your life is the certificate.

I hope that with these few points of mine I have been able to convince you and not further confuse you that what is said is more important than how it is said?

If you loved this note why not drop a word or two, send me an sms, or give me a call. I’d love to get your feedback. But above all, share this note with someone. Knowledge increases when it is shared. Thank you.

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I’ve been staring at my writing pad for over five minutes just wondering where to start from. One of the keys to success is Exposure. When you are exposed you begin to realize that you are not alone in what you are going through. In his book, The Road Less Traveled, the author begins with three words, ‘Life is hard.’ Though I believe the contrary I identify with what the writer was trying to pass across. Life is about issues. Either you are in one, just coming out of one, or about to go into one.

If you are not exposed you tend to think you are alone. That you are the only one going through whatever it is that you are going through right now. But, my brother, my sister, believe me, we all have issues. From Barrack Obama, to Pope Benedict, to Dalai Lama, to Bill Gates, to Jonathan Goodluck, to Aliko Dangote, to myself, the writer, and you the reader. We all have issues, believe me.

A couple of days ago a friend, Ben Ose, placed a post on his wall that he was going through the worst moment of his life and there was no one in sight. Now, don’t get this mixed up. I did not decide to write this note because of him even though it will encourage him. This title has been on my list for days. In fact, it was No. 21 out of 26 other titles I am yet to write about. However, when I saw the post on his wall I wished I had published this note already.

There are two things we never get used to in this life; death and problems. It does not matter how many people you’ve seen die before, when someone really close to you dies, believe me, it hurts. I remember the year 2003, my final year in school, during the first semester exams a friend and course mate of mine, Ewere, had told me that he was aiming for a 4point G.P.A that semester, the maximum achievable. That meant he was going to have A’s in all the courses.

The exams kicked off and I still remember like it was yesterday, when we had only two papers left to write, we had come back from the exams hall that evening and I followed him to the hostel where he resides, I was living off campus. We had a chat, visited some other friends in the hostel together, do what boys do, and went to check on a babe he was having his eyes on. She was not in her room so we had to go back to his room and a few of minutes later I left and went off campus to where I reside.

7:30am the following morning, another course mate of ours, Ebony, who resides in the hostel too, came to my place, and I still remember the exact words he said to me that morning,

‘Mute, good morning, please you need to come to the hostel, we just lost Ewere.’

Ewere slept and never woke up. I had seen people die before. I had even told myself that no death could make me cry again, and I did not cry, not then. But when a couple of days later we handed over Ewere’s body to mother earth in a cemetery in Benin, I wept. I wept like a child weeps. Nobody can say he is used to death. When the results came out, Ewere had A’s in all the courses he wrote before his death. He was a 4pointer.

In the same way, irrespective of how many issues you’ve had in your life before, when another issue comes up it is new. You can never say you are already used to problems. The worst part is that when you are in one it blindfolds you to think you are the only one with that kind of problem. But I am here to tell you that you are not alone. There are countless million others going through that same problem. But unlike death, problems can be solved.

This is the good part. Problems can be solved. It’s not an end, it’s just a bend. So cheer up, tell yourself ‘this problem can be solved and I will solve it.’ And even if you can’t solve it yourself, you can get help. Dr. Henry Cloud said ‘Where your maturity is not strong enough to do something add external structure.’ And Edison said ‘The pressing problems we have today cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them in the first place.’ So for personal problems you usually need external help, you need an external structure, using the words of Henry Cloud. So don’t be afraid or ashamed to ask for help.

We live in a world governed by laws and principles. If you understand the laws and apply the principles, life becomes easy because you know what to do at each step. Knowing what to do is the key. You can’t go through life without issues. I don’t even pray for that kind of life where everything just goes smoothly from start to end. You have no story to tell. A life without issues cannot be painted. It will be a one color art piece. And nobody will buy that kind of painting. Issues make life beautiful. And one of the promises of Jesus is trouble. Can you beat that? Jesus promised us troubles.

So, in rounding up, if you don’t remember anything you’ve read so far let me recap in bullet points:

• We all have issues, every one of us.
• There are millions of others with that same issue that you have.
• When your maturity is not strong enough, add external structure. Get help.
• Problems make life beautiful. A life without problems cannot be painted.
• Others came out of it. You will come out of it too.

‘I have told you these things that you might have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.’ -John 16:33 (NIV)


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One of the chapters in my soon coming book "Sitting At The Edge." Originally published on Facebook. Enjoy!

Anybody Can Cook.

There is a theory known as The Conspiracy Theory. The claim of this theory is that there is a select few individuals who decides the direction of the world. Or put in another way, a set of very few and rich individuals that rules over the majority that are poor. The theory further claims that these few individuals even goes further to ensure that the wealth remains in the hands of these few people so that they can continue to rule over the mass majority that are poor. So, we say here in Nigeria that there are a few individuals who just keep rotating power and wealth amongst themselves so the ordinary man on the street remains impoverished.

Now, the truth is, this theory is true, but only to a certain extent. More than 90% of the wealth of this world is controlled by less than 4% of the world’s population. The few elite will definitely rule over the mass majority. The rich have always, are, and will always rule over the poor. And the poor we will always have with us. The Law makes sure of that. If you are of the same temperament as I am then you feel hurt when you see certain images on the TV screen. In truth, I weep. I weep when I see stuff citizens go through every day. A case in mind right now was the day, a couple of weeks ago, when a pensioner was on a TV programme and he was calling on the government to pay his pension so he can afford two meals a day. I wept. It really hurts when you come to terms with the level of material poverty in the land. The truth, however, is that ‘the poor you will have with you always.’ Jesus said that, not me.

Back to The Conspiracy Theory. The elite few determines the direction, the mass majority follows. But that is where The Conspiracy Theory ends. The first question I want to pose to you today is ‘who or what determines who becomes a member of this elite group?’ The answer is no one and nothing. Nobody is standing anywhere and saying ‘Tunde, because your name is Tunde you cannot be a member of the elite.’ Nobody has been given that responsibility. In truth, nobody will saddle herself with that task.

What does it mean to be the elite? Ralph Segun Dada (RSD) says ‘Where there is a lack of accurate definition of terms, there will be deviations from expectation.’ So let’s go back to the dictionary and find out for ourselves the definition of the word Elite. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 7th Edition, defines Elite as ‘a group of people in a society, etc. who are powerful and have a lot of influence because they are rich, intelligent, etc.’ I say the etc. is ‘hard work.’ And hard work stands for educated, disciplined, responsible, studious, goal-oriented, people focused, etc. The sum total of all of these is hard work. So, for the sake of this write-up we will define elite as ‘a group of people in a society, etc. who are powerful and have a lot of influence because they are rich, intelligent, and hardworking.’ My second question is ‘what effort are you engaging in consistently and continuously to have these three qualities in you?’

• Are you making any effort to be financially independent?
• Are you making any effort to be intelligent?
• Are you hard-working?

See, when you have these three qualities, the so-called elite group have no choice but to let you in because you have become an elite yourself. Many of us just fizzle through life and end up complaining about life when what we should actually be doing is working on ourselves to becoming a better people. We are cursing the wind when we should be adjusting our sails. Mediocrity is common. I believe that after sex, mediocrity should be the next cheapest commodity on the face of the earth right now. All you have to do to be a mediocre is nothing. And mediocre complain.

These three qualities of wealth, intelligence, and hard-work are not developed in the classroom. There is no educational system in the world that is equipped to equip you with these qualities. Doctorates could not decipher my note Sitting At The Edge so don’t think that by intelligence we are referring to classroom intelligence. We are talking about intelligence in the playing field, street sense.

I am already at the fifth page of my writing pad and I am still at the surface of this subject matter, so please permit me to skip the qualities of wealth and intelligence and go straight to hard-work. That is my focus area.

Anybody can rise to the top of her field of interest if they are willing to pay the price. If you will pay the price you will earn the prize. If you don’t dare the impossible you will never experience the invisible (the unseen). And those who dare the impossible becomes invincible (strong and tough).

Marshawn Evans, author of Skirts In The Boardroom says 'it’s not what you do some of the time that matters, it’s what you do all of the time that counts.' Hard-work is hard work. Nobody strolls to the top. You must engage in consistent and continuous effort to get you to where you are going to. Like I earlier said, hard-work is every other quality besides wealth and intelligence. Personal development, Leadership, Leadership development, Branding, Success Habits, Vision, Project Management, Entrepreneurial Mindset, Thinking Big, etc. All of these and more is hard work. So believe me when I say no one strolls to the top of her field of interest.

One mindset that I have discovered that militates against our attaining and achieving our dreams is the ‘Not enough’ mindset. We keep waiting till we have enough before we start. Economics says expenses will always rise to equate income. Some even manage to spend more than they earn. Believe me, what you have is enough. In truth, it is more than enough because all you need to start is you. I know what it is like to suffer lack. I know what it means to wake up in the middle of the night and cry just because this is not the life I set out to accomplish. Do you know what it feels like when you are 31years old and all you have in the bank is $10:50c and there is no hope of money coming from anywhere? I have been there. But when you know where you are going to, you draw strength from there. The bible says of Jesus, ‘… who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross.’ If you don’t have a destination you will dissipate energy. You tap energy from where you are going to not from where you are. My third and final question is ‘where are you going to?’

Talent is overrated. Many times we see people who do well in their field and we attribute it to talent or gift rather than skill. Leaders are not born. I don’t care what books you’ve read, leaders are made. And you make yourself what you want to become. Yes, we are all born with certain inclinations. I may be musically inclined while you are science inclined but we can both become leaders in our fields. But if we don’t work at it, it will die with us. Michael Jackson did not rise to the height he attained because he was gifted; rather it was because while his mates were riding choppers he was in the studio singing. If you will pay the price you will earn the prize. You can achieve whatever you want to achieve. Just have a destination, chart a course, and find the right people to guide you on your journey.

In conclusion, conspiracy theory or no conspiracy theory, the African proverb still holds true: when a child washes his hands clean enough he will eat with the elders. The next time someone tells you that you cannot make it in life, tell that person that Mute Efe says Anybody Can Cook.

Mute Efe,
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One of the chapters in my soon coming book. Originally published on Facebook. Enjoy!

SITTING AT THE EDGE - Those The Earth Does Not Favor

I initially intended to write a full note on this topic but I later realized that I cannot write a full note on it because it would be too long. So I decided to make bullet points to drive the same message and I hope the minds of those who read this will be able to comprehend it. If you notice that you suddenly begin to fight the words you are reading, don’t worry, it will open up in its own time. You cannot force it. Not everyone will understand it.

• If every time someone makes a statement you quickly look for a scenario where that statement does not fit, trying to exempt yourself from the general class, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you believe everybody in your life is of one particular trait, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you paint the world based on an experience you had in the past, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you see all men or all women as the same, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you belong to a class where only a very few percentage of the earth, your nation, or your organization belongs to, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you are living one or more generations ahead of your generation, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you are living one or more generations behind your generation, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you practice monopoly, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you strongly believe you were born for just one thing and one thing alone, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you think there is something only you can do and nobody else in this life can do it, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you are a very great visionary, or inventor, your mind works ten times faster than that of the general populace, you are sitting at the edge, the earth does not favor your kind.

• If you are constantly coming up with original ideas, you are so loaded that from dusk to dusk great ideas keep coming to you, you are sitting at the edge, lthe earth does not favor your kind.

We are all victims of the above in one area or another. That is normal. But if you continuously try to place yourself in all of the areas listed above and even more then you are on a head-on collision course with the earth . There is a long list of names I'd have placed here to prove my point but there is no need. If you will be still with yourself you will find it is 100% true. So, instead of a long list of names I am going to give the one name that was 100% a victim of this law. His name is Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus Christ was a victim of this law. Even if the Jews had refused to kill Jesus, earth itself would have revolted. He sat at the edge all his life in all areas.

Like I said at the beginning, a thorough expose of this law is too long. But if you can be at peace with yourself and just observe life you will see a lot of people dead and alive today, that are victims of this law. I have to stop right here.

May God help those who understand this law called The Law.

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I wish I knew five years ago what I’ve come to know today. I’ve wasted a lot of years in plain stupidity. Meditating has opened my eyes to a lot of things. How come I never saw them before?

I was just thinking and it dawned on me that the basic ingredient we need to lead successful lives was taught us while we were still in the primary schools or basic schools as they call it today.

You will recall that we were told back then that the only universal language is mathematics. It just dawned on me that it is true. Do you remember those equations you will be asked to solve and the teacher will tell the class that to solve them you have to start from the known to the unknown? That is exactly the formula to leading a successful life. Start from the known to the unknown.

What amazed me even more was the realization that we practice this principle everyday in our little ways but most of us fail to apply it on the most important issues of life.

Let me give an illustration. Let’s say you are home at night enjoying that soap opera or watching football, whatever your predilection. Suddenly, the power company cuts off power supply. Everything is pitch dark. You can’t even see your hands if you placed them right before your face. What do you do?

Certainly, you are not going to start jumping around, will you? Even though this is your apartment, the moment your lost power, hence losing sight, disorientation sets in. So you remain where you are and think. The first question you ask yourself is “Where is my phone?” Then you remember you placed it some inches away from where you are seated at the sofa. The next thing is that you start to feel the sofa with your hands until your hands touch the phone.

Once you’ve found the phone, you press any of the keys on the phone and it lights up. There is no torch on the phone so you make do with the light from the screen which will go off in 5secs, but that is not a problem. All you have to do is to press any key again and it lights up. Only this time you’ve stood up from the chair and heading towards the candle stand or towards the gen house to switch on the gen. The rest becomes history.

What you just did was to start from the known, the phone, to the unknown, the candle stand, or the gen. It turns out that is exactly the same approach we are supposed to take as we go through life. Begin with the known and the unknown will open up to you.

Many of us want to see the whole journey before we even start. It does not work that way. Start with the known, trusting that as you go along, what you don’t know will open up. I remember an illustration used in The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. If you are driving at night your headlamps can only brighten up the next, say 150m. But you still get into your car and drive off because you are sure that as long as you can always see the next 150m ahead of you, you will make it to your destination. Can you imagine just refusing to get into the car because you cannot see the whole length of the journey from the beginning? That would be absurd, wouldn’t it?

Yet, that is the reason why many of us are afraid to take the necessary step we need to take. We want to be very sure we will make it to the very end. Sweetheart, it isn’t going to happen. Things unfold as you journey along.

As I write this note there is a group of people somewhere in cyberspace currently participating in my School for Personal Leadership.

A resident doctor in Abia.
A lawyer and writer in Edo.
A manager in an IT consulting firm in Lagos.
A software developer in Ghana.
An Admin/HR manager of a law firm in Abuja.
A Unit Head of Marketing in a microfinance bank in Lagos.
A project assistant in Port-Harcourt.
A geologist/student in Germany.

And several other professionals, all of whom, but three, I have never met before in my life. All of these professionals, without having seen me, or knowing where I live, or what I do, trusted me enough to pay a considerable sum of money to participate in my School for Personal Leadership.

Now, rewind, two years ago. Nothing in my wildest imagination told me I’d be doing this. All I knew back then was that I had a final destination, where I wanted to be at, and I would have to resign from my job back then to start the journey. The only skill I had then was designing of bookshelves. Nevertheless, I took the risk, resigned and started designing bookshelves on my laptop, take the designs to carpenters, sit with them in the workshop while they build the bookshelf, then deliver to my customer. Was it easy? Believe me, it was hard, but it was worth it.

Then, little by little, one step at a time, things began to unfold. Today, I still design bookshelves, but I also develop websites, write, and I am currently facilitating in the School for Personal Leadership. What if out of the fear of the unknown I decided not to start?

I am not asking you to resign your job. What I am saying is that for every challenge you face, start from the known part of the equation. The same way you did it back then in your primary school. And gradually, the unknown part will become known.

I hope this note is encouraging to you? Please if it is, why not let me know by dropping a word or two? Thanks.

Mute Efe,
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During the 2nd World War, Doctors had to come up with a formula or what we might call a system of knowing which of the injured soldiers should be saved and which to let die. And what sort of care should be given to them.

Life is in phases, and there is a time for everything. Some of us don’t know that everything means EVERYTHING. The rules of the game changes based on the phase you are in. Understanding the times and seasons is critical in the journey of life. If I was writing for my students in the School for Personal Leadership, I’d have said understanding the times and seasons is critical in the journey to significance. The preacher says “There is a time for everything.”

My heart is heavy, very heavy. Sometimes I wish the burden in my heart can be transferred to someone else so I can live the kind of life most people are living. Where you just have the same set of friends for decades, or maybe just add a few. Where everything just seem to be okay. There is hardly any fight. And even if there are it’s about what color of shoes to put on or what shirt should go with what pants, etc. How I enjoy such fights.

The Law says, “Nothing rocks forever.” The Law says, “For everything there is a time and a purpose.” The Law says, “There is no straight line.” The Law says, “It cannot remain like this indefinitely.” The Law says, “There must be an exception.” The Law says, “No single rule can apply to everybody.” The Laws says, “Some people will be above the law.”

In the last few days, I have removed two very beautiful people from my friends list on facebook. I felt very sad about it because both of them are purposeful. They are actually going somewhere to happen. And if they continue in their paths they will get there. Nothing will stop them. But we just could not get along because, according to them, I have an attitude problem. Sorry, I have a very, very, very, big attitude problem. I am full of myself, I write like a god, I don’t care how people feel, and I think my opinions on issues must be final.

If three close friends leave the same place at the same time. All headed for the market place. For most part of the trip they will be together. But at a certain point they have to separate because the three of them are in the market to buy different things. If they insist on remaining together because attitude is everything or old friends are best friends, then only one might end up purchasing the wares he came to purchase. Now, it is possible that three of them might still be able to get what they came for, but they would spend three times the needed time and the chance buying what they came to buy would have dropped to thirty percent. God help them if the seller tells them someone else just bought the last item because they came late.

During the 2nd World War, Doctors had to come up with a formula or what we might call a system of knowing which of the injured soldiers should be saved and which to let die. And what sort of care should be given to them. They did this because they needed to maximize resources. This was what they did.

• If the wounded soldier was going to die no matter the treatment they administered, they let him die. He was going to die anyway.
• If the wounded soldier was in deep pain, but was going to live even if they did not administer treatment, they administered no treatment. He was going to live anyway.
• If the wounded soldier cannot go back to the frontline even if they gave him the best treatment they could, they just stabilized him. He was not going to be useful in the war anymore anyway.
• If the wounded soldier’s life was dependent on the treatment and will still be useful in the war, they treated him.

Now, do you think the Doctors and Nurses were happy with the system? Do you think they felt good applying the system? A soldier is just brought back to the medizone, two of his legs have been blasted off by a grenade, his intestines are outside of his stomach, held in the hands of another soldier supporting him as he is rushed to the medizone. The intestines are already infected by that act. The wounded soldier is crying, “Help me, don’t let me die, I have a wife and kid back home, please don’t let me die.” How do you think the doctors felt when they saw these sights day after day?

In this life you are not called to carry everybody along. You cannot carry everybody along. God has not given any one man that mandate. When you read those books where they say “Attitude Is Everything,” “Friendships Are Forever,” etc. They are talking to the people at the center. If you really want to attain significance, if you must operate at your maximum potential, you must go to the edge. At the edge, the first thing you learn is how to manage your emotions. Believe me, you don’t have the resources to cater for everybody.

You cannot know everybody, like everybody, please everybody. And you will never be loved by everybody. The Law makes sure of that. It does not make the others bad people. It just means you are going to the market to buy different things. The surest way to fail is to try and please everybody. Less than ten percent of the people who read this note will agree with me. But do you think I care? Do you honestly believe that I care? The few that God has predestined before the foundation of the world to go this journey with me will come along. The others belong to someone else.


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