Dearpreye and bare1 good morning. Hope you guys had a fitful nite rest? Its a new week starting with a new Sunday, can you bless this thread with a nice quote most especially a religious one from the book you've read so far. Thanks. Happy Sunday to all nairalanders following this thread.

ogaofficer:
Dearpreye and bare1 good morning. Hope you guys had a fitful nite rest? Its a new week starting with a new Sunday, can you bless this thread with a nice quote most especially a religious one from the book you've read so far. Thanks. Happy Sunday to all nairalanders following this thread.

Good morning brother. I had a great night, trust you did the same. Thank you for the privilege. I am most obliged to drop my favourite from the Holy Bible because it speaks of the essence of this thread.

Romans 12:2 -
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Psalms 118:24 -
This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.


Happy Sunday to you all!!!

1 corin 10:23-------All things are legitimate [permissible—and we are free to do anything we please], but not all things are helpful (expedient, profitable, and wholesome). All things are legitimate, but not all things are constructive [to character] and edifying [to spiritual life]. AMPC version

Never before has Mankind ever witnessed an article like this on network marketing lets be frank with ourselves with this fact, please if you dont think any of this 2points are right, you can ignore dis article and stop reading it.
1. For every person who joins a network marketing company and doesnt earn the for told incentives and commissions during the seminar or business presentation the individual would become a Negative to the industry(note:not the company).

2. If you join a company, you brought in a few persons to your team(e.g. 20pple). If anything goes wrong with the company in the future and you moved to another company to start up again, you cannot go back to those 20pple and they would all listen to you and join you. WHY? Because they have lost trust in you.

Anyone coming to see your presentation or seminar is basically because you have built trust between each other.
With this two points cleared out you would agree with me that the network marketing company you join can either make you or break you. This inspired me to embark on this article because i found out that when you attend Organo gold's business presentation for instance, then go and attend that of Helping hands they would tell you that "organo golds member are all here now in helping hand", if you move on to Vemma you would hear "Helping hands memebers are now here in vemma". Same thing if you get to Foreva living, Trevo, Oriflame, Edmark etc... This means that Nigerians do not know the indepth part of each companies compensation plan before joining. All they know is bring this and this and they push you up and Gbam!!! You are made for life.
I tell people that greatness doesnt just come, its little right things worked on over time.

In this article you would see what you where not told in the seminar presentation of that company. In another article i would talk about the product of each of this network marketing companies.....

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Shattering The Grand Illusion: The Power Of Human Thought
by Teresa L. DeCicco, PhD.


Have you ever noticed the voice in your head that doesn’t stop talking? It’s busy judging people and things, forming opinions, and commenting on everything that happens. It keeps nattering about things that happened in the past or might happen in the future. In fact, we all have this inner voice in our heads, whether we are conscious of it or not.

When life is lived with little or no awareness of the “voice in the head” it becomes completely driven by this voice. Eventually you can believe that the voice in the head is who you are. You may believe you’re the one who’s talking and having a say about everything, but perhaps this is not so. What if the voice in your head is not actually generating your own thoughts?

The mind produces an entire life of its own by keeping stories alive over and over again. It plays out scenarios and keeps them thriving by adding emotion. In turn, what keeps the mind going is the concept of “I,” and this “I” has things to do. In fact, every event in the physical world is neutral until the mind attaches its own meaning to it. A man loses his job and this is either the most devastating thing that happens to him or the most fortunate, because it becomes his ticket to a new life. A relationship ends and it is considered crippling or it is understood as empowering. The voice in the head will concoct numerous stories about events, and usually they’re rooted in stories heard in childhood, from the media, or other sources. My mother and her mother and her mother before her believed something so now I believe it too. The news perpetuates something so it must be true. On and on the mind goes spinning its web.

We Believe The Voice In Our Head Is Us

Eventually, the voice in the head becomes so powerful we believe it’s who we are. We believe it’s OUR voice speaking to us. From here, the next step in the cycle is perpetuated when we become invested in this sense of self, which we define as “I.” This “I” wants to survive at all costs. It wants to win, to be better than, to be recognized and to be acknowledged. So herein lies the crux of the grand illusion. This “I” is an egoic identity concerned with matters of the world and believes them all to be real when in fact, it’s making it all up.

When you identify with your thoughts you make them real and this triggers impulses and desires which makes them real too. If you think of a lemon you will quickly find your mouth watering at the very thought. It’s exactly the same with everyday matters; as the mind focuses on thoughts, they feel real, and identity or “I” becomes enmeshed with them. The mind believes everything it thinks with the voice in the head.

So when we recognize the voice and begin stopping it, a new reality emerges. By catching the voice before it runs rampant with thoughts or meditating to settle it down, we wake up to a new life. The great reality is that life is a force in and of itself and this force is in everything; material things are not what they seem. They only have meaning and importance when granted these attributes by the voice in the head. Life is simply experiencing itself through our eyes and hands. The mind is part of something much larger than what the “I” likes to think it is. So the separate, limited you is a dream. It’s being created by a part of the mind that wants to have a say. The “I” or egoic identity can be disregarded at any moment if the thinker decides to discard it.

Take Back Your Power

When you decide to stop the little voice from speaking, you realize that you are pure life force. You become aware that there is thought and aware that you have emotions. You also become aware of your body but that the body is not you. You are aware that there is a sense perception within you and aware of any egoic behaviour and attachments within yourself. At this moment, you have shattered the grand illusion that so many humans live by. There is a world within the world – one world is that of pure perception and the other is created by attaching thoughts to things by the voice in the head.

Once the voice is recognized for what it is, you come to know that you are spacial awareness within which it all happens. You are actually not a “person” at all, but a field of pure awareness, pure consciousness. It’s this that is experiencing life through you. It’s this that is life and will never die because the world is simply a manifestation of the life force happening through you.

So the grand illusion that death is real is also shattered when we wake from the dream. The truth is unveiled as the life force running through all things comes to know itself for the first time. Everything created by egoic mind, whether it be war, death, illness, corruption, or wealth are all manifestations of a mind cut off from its true nature. Masses of minds can join together and create larger illusions based on groupthink. Alternatively, we can all wake up and realize what we are creating and instead make something new, or at the very least, not participate in what is being created. When the world and its illusions are simply being observed and the egoic mind slowly dwindles away, the reality of life comes to be known – a reality that is more powerful and infinite than any little voice in the head could possibly create.

"When I was a teenager, I went on a missions trip to England and stayed in a “host home” with a lovely British couple. I’ll never forget a poster they had hanging on their wall that reported the results of a survey given to ten groups of people. There was a group of ten-year-olds, twenty-year-olds, thirty-year-olds, all the way up to hundred-year-olds, and each was asked the same question: “What is your number one regret at this point in your life?” All the answers were interesting, some were funny, but the only answer I remember was from those who were a hundred years old. For some reason it is burned into my memory, and I can never forget it. After living a long life, they said their number one regret was that they “should have taken more risks.” I determined then, as a very young man, that when I come to the end of my life I don’t want to look back and realize that I never really lived at all because I was too afraid."—Evang Daniel Kolenda

Anytime we think the problem is 'out there' that thought is the problem.
We empower whats out there to control us. We are not our feelings, we are not our moods and we are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about our thought and how it process separates us from from the animal world. This ability to think is called self awareness. Self awareness enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we 'see'. It affects not only our attitudes and behaviours, but also how wee see other people.
Until we take how we see ourselves and how we see others into account, we will be able to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behaviour and call ourselves objectives.
This significantly limits our personal potential and our ability to relate to others as well. But because of the unique human capacity of self Awareness, we can examine our"paradigm" whether they are reality or principle based or if they are a function of conditioning or conditons....... Culled from Seven habits of highly effective people my best book so far.

ogaofficer:
Anytime we think the problem is 'out there' that thought is the problem.
We empower whats out there to control us. We are not our feelings, we are not our moods and we are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about our thought and how it process separates us from from the animal world. This ability to think is called self awareness. Self awareness enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we 'see'. It affects not only our attitudes and behaviours, but also how wee see other people.
Until we take how we see ourselves and how we see others into account, we will be able to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behaviour and call ourselves objectives.
This significantly limits our personal potential and our ability to relate to others as well. But because of the unique human capacity of self Awareness, we can examine our"paradigm" whether they are reality or principle based or if they are a function of conditioning or conditons....... Culled from Seven habits of highly effective people my best book so far.

Stephen Covey's book is a leadership classic; a personal development gem and a motivational classic. I first read academically many years ago, sometime around 2008. When I last read it last year within the context of personal development, I shuddered.

And this evening I read a little bit on emotional intelligence and the subtopic of self awareness came up. Till we are able to understand how we feel and why we behave the way we do, we cannot effectively manage ourselves and others; we simply can't be good leaders.

A few weeks ago I had determined to share here one habit from the boom daily but for reasons best unknown to me I perished the thought, and boom! you're here with the same book. That's how nature works.

ogaofficer:
Anytime we think the problem is 'out there' that thought is the problem.
We empower whats out there to control us. We are not our feelings, we are not our moods and we are not even our thoughts. The very fact that we can think about our thought and how it process separates us from from the animal world. This ability to think is called self awareness. Self awareness enables us to stand apart and examine even the way we 'see'. It affects not only our attitudes and behaviours, but also how wee see other people.
Until we take how we see ourselves and how we see others into account, we will be able to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behaviour and call ourselves objectives.
This significantly limits our personal potential and our ability to relate to others as well. But because of the unique human capacity of self Awareness, we can examine our"paradigm" whether they are reality or principle based or if they are a function of conditioning or conditons....... Culled from Seven habits of highly effective people my best book so far.

Most things we see in the society are only illusions. The things that matter goes on within. Nothing ever is as it seems to be until it is labeled in our minds and fed to the voice within. The idea is to control this through self-awareness and conscious thinking.

dearpreye:


Stephen Covey's book is a leadership classic; a personal development gem and a motivational classic. I first read academically many years ago, sometime around 2008. When I last read it last year within the context of personal development, I shuddered.

And this evening I read a little bit on emotional intelligence and the subtopic of self awareness came up. Till we are able to understand how we feel and why we behave the way we do, we cannot effectively manage ourselves and others; we simply can't be good leaders.

A few weeks ago I had determined to share here one habit from the boom daily but for reasons best unknown to me I perished the thought, and boom! you're here with the same book. That's how nature works.

Have you noticed how often you think about doing something and then end up not doing it? Don't you think there's a problem with that which needs addressing. I've observed it a couple of times now and had to point it out to you.

bare1:


Have you noticed how often you think about doing something and then end up not doing it? Don't you think there's a problem with that which needs addressing. I've observed it a couple of times now and had to point it out to you.

Seriously, it needs addressing. Any suggestions?

dearpreye:


Seriously, it needs addressing. Any suggestions?

Well usually procrastination emerges mostly from a fear of criticism. Somewhere in the depths of your mind you might wonder at what people would think or how they might accept if they would what you offer them. Other fears might have an effect on your indecision not to do the things you want but to become an adept decision maker, you have to see failure as a sharpener for your pencil. What could possibly go wrong if you go ahead despite your fear? Nothing but I'll tell you what could go right, lots of people would benefit from that piece of information whether it's good or bad. It's their duty to analyse it first.

Money is the icing, not the cake
'Inspirational messages to refresh the spirit and boost the emotional bank account'

Money is the icing, not the cake
Despite the advice of preachers and philosophers warning us of the shortcomings of money, it's hard to argue with Gertrude Stein's observation - I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.'
Although money is better at reducing suffering caused by poverty and relieving anxiety caused by debt than it is at making us happy, it can buy lots of things that make us feel good and important.
But wealth is not a certain road to happiness. A poor person with good relationships is much more likely to be happy than a rich person with lousy ones. And people who earn moderate wages, but love their work, are much more likely to be happy than those who earn a lot but hate what they do.
It's easy to expect too much from money. Rich people have different problems than the non-rich, but they do have problems. Many are related to wealth, including shallow relationships, spoiled children and continuous pressure from relatives and friends who expect a handout. Rich people, as a whole, are not more content or emotionally satisfied than others, and neither are their kids.
The problem is that people preoccupied with money are never satisfied. Often, their desires and debts grow faster than their means. The more they have, the more they think they need.
There's nothing inherently wrong with material wealth or its pursuit, but there is a danger of paying too much to get it. As Rousseau said, 'The money you have gives you freedom, but the money you pursue enslaves you.'
We shouldn't disdain money, but we should put its value in perspective.
The moral - Focus first on forming deep and enduring relationships and finding work that makes you fulfilled. At best, money is the icing, not the cake.
Written by Michael Josephson

ahmanim:
Money is the icing, not the cake
'Inspirational messages to refresh the spirit and boost the emotional bank account'

Money is the icing, not the cake
Despite the advice of preachers and philosophers warning us of the shortcomings of money, it's hard to argue with Gertrude Stein's observation - I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.'
Although money is better at reducing suffering caused by poverty and relieving anxiety caused by debt than it is at making us happy, it can buy lots of things that make us feel good and important.
But wealth is not a certain road to happiness. A poor person with good relationships is much more likely to be happy than a rich person with lousy ones. And people who earn moderate wages, but love their work, are much more likely to be happy than those who earn a lot but hate what they do.
It's easy to expect too much from money. Rich people have different problems than the non-rich, but they do have problems. Many are related to wealth, including shallow relationships, spoiled children and continuous pressure from relatives and friends who expect a handout. Rich people, as a whole, are not more content or emotionally satisfied than others, and neither are their kids.
The problem is that people preoccupied with money are never satisfied. Often, their desires and debts grow faster than their means. The more they have, the more they think they need.
There's nothing inherently wrong with material wealth or its pursuit, but there is a danger of paying too much to get it. As Rousseau said, 'The money you have gives you freedom, but the money you pursue enslaves you.'
We shouldn't disdain money, but we should put its value in perspective.
The moral - Focus first on forming deep and enduring relationships and finding work that makes you fulfilled. At best, money is the icing, not the cake.
Written by Michael Josephson

Thanks for the comment. The argument is two fold.

I'm also of the opinion that money is only a man's to an end, not an end in itself. And those who are truly wealthy didn't single out the pursuit of money from the outset; they were pursuing a dream much more bigger and grander than money, though the money naturally flowed it during the cause of their noble pursuit.

Money is very good but without character money only makes us richer than better or more noble. In the end we must seek a balance between seeking money and seeking out our purpose for life.

But the importance of money can never be overemphasised.

Take charge of your happiness. To behave otherwise is to court inevitable troubles and disappointment.

We live in a world we can't fully envelope ourselves from the attitudes of others towards us, but we have the inalienable ability to decide how we want to respond or react to their attitudes. You can prevent a bird from flying over your head but you can prevent it from building a nest over your head.

You're in charge of your happiness.

ahmanim:
Money is the icing, not the cake
'Inspirational messages to refresh the spirit and boost the emotional bank account'

Money is the icing, not the cake
Despite the advice of preachers and philosophers warning us of the shortcomings of money, it's hard to argue with Gertrude Stein's observation - I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.'
Although money is better at reducing suffering caused by poverty and relieving anxiety caused by debt than it is at making us happy, it can buy lots of things that make us feel good and important.
But wealth is not a certain road to happiness. A poor person with good relationships is much more likely to be happy than a rich person with lousy ones. And people who earn moderate wages, but love their work, are much more likely to be happy than those who earn a lot but hate what they do.
It's easy to expect too much from money. Rich people have different problems than the non-rich, but they do have problems. Many are related to wealth, including shallow relationships, spoiled children and continuous pressure from relatives and friends who expect a handout. Rich people, as a whole, are not more content or emotionally satisfied than others, and neither are their kids.
The problem is that people preoccupied with money are never satisfied. Often, their desires and debts grow faster than their means. The more they have, the more they think they need.
There's nothing inherently wrong with material wealth or its pursuit, but there is a danger of paying too much to get it. As Rousseau said, 'The money you have gives you freedom, but the money you pursue enslaves you.'
We shouldn't disdain money, but we should put its value in perspective.
The moral - Focus first on forming deep and enduring relationships and finding work that makes you fulfilled. At best, money is the icing, not the cake.
Written by Michael Josephson

Money is matter, a neutral one that's either good or bad according to the one that possesses it. To be happy, attach your life to goals and not things. As you accomplish more and more goals, your reward money will flow to you. You can either have lots of money to buy the things you like and help people too or you can have it and lavish it on luxuries.

Gratitude is a very important virtue of life. The more you are grateful, the more you receive that which you are grateful for. I'm grateful for my sister who just gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. I'm grateful for accomplished goals and more goal setting. I'm grateful for going a step further with my career. What are you grateful for?

bare1:
Gratitude is a very important virtue of life. The more you are grateful, the more you receive that which you are grateful for. I'm grateful for my sister who just gave birth to a bouncing baby boy. I'm grateful for accomplished goals and more goal setting. I'm grateful for going a step further with my career. What are you grateful for?

Good morning sir. Thanks for this timely message. Oftentimes we're too burdened by what we desire to achieve and accomplish that we lose sight of the ones we already have and become very ungrateful.

It's now our gratitude that determines our attitude. Today, I'm grateful for my ife and health. I'm grateful to my workplace and career, and I'm grateful to God for directing my paths toward personal development and growth.

I'm grateful for everything.

dearpreye:


Good morning sir. Thanks for this timely message. Oftentimes we're too burdened by what we desire to achieve and accomplish that we lose sight of the ones we already have and become very ungrateful.

It's now our gratitude that determines our attitude. Today, I'm grateful for my ife and health. I'm grateful to my workplace and career, and I'm grateful to God for directing my paths toward personal development and growth.

I'm grateful for everything.

Good morning bro. Gratitude helps us appreciate ourselves more and appreciate the grace of God. With an attitude of gratitude, you're in a good place to work on goals with the right frame of mind thereby attracting more to you.

I hope all others on this thread are progressing with their development. Personal development is not only about motivational quotes and articles, it's mainly about doing and becoming. The words are only reinforcements.

Maybe my perception of personal development is deep but if you look at the rut in the society and the strength of its influence on the mind, then you know your development has to be deep. A thing or person can only do either of 2 things to you, make you better or leave you worse off. So be aware that it you're not growing, you're diminishing.

Many people we come across these days find themselves not living the life they desire, some acknowledge this while others are not quite conscious enough to regard this. The reason for this feeling is not far-fetched. In life just like in any journey, you cannot get to your destination if you don't know where it is. You can only live the life you desire when you know what it is you want and then seek for how to get it. You need to have a destination in mind and plan before making a trip.

In regards to that I've set up a program to help people discover their definite major purpose and how they can achieve it through goal setting and reaching. I believe a couple of people here have had a little insight into this but there is more on that front. For those that seek to really achieve their personal development and receive all the rewards of it, you can benefit from this program. Just send me a text and we take it from there.

Cheers!

I am gr8ful for the gift of life; my love n my children

ahmanim:
I am gr8ful for the gift of life; my love n my children

You're most certainly a blessed and favoured man.

It's hard to show someone how to make more money than you.

tforever:
It's hard to show someone how to make more money than you.

Whats your point exactly?

Gratitude, looking at the past i discover that i have been ungrateful to God and my parents. All i do is to ask for more and complain. In conclusion i will say am grateful to God, my parents, my teachers, mentors , brothers and sisters who have helped me in one way or the other to become who i am today and the founder of this thread and followers i say am Na Gode, thank you, ese. Expecting more from you all.

Can someone tell me the difference between appreciation and gratitude? They sound synonymous to me.

Perseverance is not an issue of talent. It is not an issue of time, its all about finishing. Talent provide hope for accomplishment, but perseverance guarantees it. Playwright Novel Coward commented "Thousand of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that count is: Do you have the staying power?"- C Maxwell talent is never enough.

ogaofficer:
Can someone tell me the difference between appreciation and gratitude? They sound synonymous to me.

Well they do seem synonymous but to me gratitude is more intense. Appreciation can be a simple feeling of admiration that naturally occurs when before something good like a favour or something you like. However gratitude is a deeper feeling of appreciation, and attitude that has to be consciously put up to attract more. It's a vibration that attracts more of the good things you're grateful for.

When I tell some people my desire is to change the world, they wonder how I could do so. Tell me though, is it not more difficult to change who I am?
Yes it definitely is, for when you are able to change who you are to who you are meant to be, it's easier to see the need to change the world as well as become capable of doing so.
#lets #change #the #world
#it #starts #with #you

Hopeless situations do not exist. But what do exist are certain people who have grown hopeless about their situations.

Nick Vujicic, Joni Eareckson Tada, Fanny Crosby, Helen Keller, Elizabeth Blackwell, Benjamin Solomon Carson, Alfredo Quinones Hinojosa, etc.....
These names are real and had every reason not to be world-renowned today. But they understood that situations are what they make it to be.

Your situation responds to you based on the name or names you give it.

Happy Sunday Y'all.

Stay Inspired and God bless.

TheSuperNerd:
Hopeless situations do not exist. But what do exist are certain people who have grown hopeless about their situations.

Nick Vujicic, Joni Eareckson Tada, Fanny Crosby, Helen Keller, Elizabeth Blackwell, Benjamin Solomon Carson, Alfredo Quinones Hinojosa, etc.....
These names are real and had every reason not to be world-renowned today. But they understood that situations are what they make it to be.

Your situation responds to you based on the name or names you give it.

Happy Sunday Y'all.

Stay Inspired and God bless.

Yes. There are no hopeless situations; only EXCUSES.

I saw Nick's new born baby on his FB wall a few days ago, and it further dawned on me there are no tenable excuses for failure or frustrations.

Our disability can only become our hindrances if we allow them. We have all it takes to succeed.

Helen Keller....Hmmmm!

Happy Sunday.