THE PERFECT MASTER

WISDOM: THE PERFECT MASTER

Make yourself a servant of WISDOM
He will delete you from the company of the fools
Be prepared to go anywhere He sends you
Through His instruction may sound foolish
It may even appear impossible or unpromising
Take pains to adhere to Him
Then your real you will emerge to your world.

Make yourself a servant of WISDOM
He will make you a partake of what He benefits
For no one covenanted with Him and reduced
No one vows to submit to Him and is not sought by men
His products are Honour, Lifting, Shinning and the like
Go by Him in all your dealings
You will eventually shoot up to His pedestal.

Make yourself a servant of WISDOM
He will soon upgrade you to His friend
For whosoever walks with Him the same He makes like Him
Though He may tarry, He will not delay
Though He may demand all you have
Surely He will soon visit to dwell with you
He will make an enviable man out of you.

Make yourself a servant of WISDOM
He will make for you multitude of servants
Accept always to be taught by Him
For He can never err
Let Him carry you upon His shoulder
And you are lifted far above principalities and powers
Allow Him to lead you and you already arrive
With all thy listening, listen to Him.

LINK BETWEEN PRESENT AND THE FUTURE

YOUTH: THE LINK BETWEEN THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE.

Our youths are an important link between the present and the future. A conscious effort to engage them will prepare them for a successful transition into adulthood. We should allow them a voice and space in the activities of the government.

We as a people in civil rights, civil society organizations and those in government must seek to create platforms where the government and citizens will focus on involving our youths in decision making processes. Where we can help them redirect their passion, energy and potential in the right direction.
There must be re engineering, refocusing and reconstruction of what used to the values in the past and what we embraced now.

It is important to create jobs for our youths because unemployment has become a big problem in Nigeria and it has become a recipe for breeding and cooking violence, crime, terrorism, corruption, arm robbery and what have you.

STOP COMPARING YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

People compare themselves to others who appear to be more confident and successful, then condemn themselves for not ever being able to emulate what they see. The truth of the matter is we really do not know how the other person is really feeling and living.

There are some people who get depressed because of difficulties in their careers or personal relationships. Many of us base our self-esteem on being successful at work, school and in our relationships with others.

While all these ideas have some degree of truth, certainly one’s mood is influenced by one’s body chemistry and by the good and bad things that happen to one. They all have one big disadvantage. They all have a tendency to make one a victim of circumstances beyond one’s control. This is because one cannot ordinarily change one’s body chemistry unless one takes a pill and one certainly cannot change the world or prevent bad things from happening to one from time to time.

There are very few of us, including famous and successful people, who can escape from tragedy and disappointment during our lives. A
Greek philosopher, Epictetus, said ‘Men are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.’

In other words, one’s thoughts and not actual events, create one’s mood. The bad things that happen to us do not really cause us to become upset, rather it is the way we think about these events. Change the negative and retrogressive thoughts that constantly bombard your mind, and appraise your subsequent outcomes of your life.
Only one person in this world can ever make one feel depressed, worried or angry and that person is oneself.
It is the same person who is in control of one’s happiness. This idea can change our lives forever. Change the picture of yourself from the current picture that is not desirable to you now and you will see how some of the events of your life will change.

Life is about perspective and perception. The way you see life that is how you will respond to it.

IT DOES MATTER

We must never say 'What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?' If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
The reason our nation and our world is dying, collapsing and going gradually into precipice is because majority of the people who should be concerned look away and never bother.

The world and our nation will never get better when we all neglect our little role we are assigned to play. Threat to anybody in any part of the world is the threat to all of us. Injustice to one of us, is injustice to all of us. Our lives, the lives of our loved ones, our business, family, career, communities and society begin to end, the day we feel unconcerned, not bother, silence, complacent about the things that matters to us, to our loved ones, family, communities, society and the world at large.

CLASS STRUGGLE, THE ROOT CAUSE OF INEQUALITY...... By Dotun George

The problem of class has been a long time problem that humanity has been battling with for ages. Inequality has robbed humanity the best we can do and achieve together. We have been told by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr that, injustice to any man in any part of the world is an injustice to all of us.

We need to redefine our humanity, our role, social interaction and the way we can take to save humanity from the verge of precipices. We need to revisit the real concept of community building, one for all and all for one. If that is taken care of, then this world will be a better place for all of us to live in.

It still beat my imagination that, one man will have so much and his immediate communities will not be able to feed. A man will live in a street or community and his building will look like heaven on earth without lending an helping hands to others within the community.

The world at different times have battle segregation, class struggles, apartheid and what have you, yet we are unable to salvage the world. Can we all sit down and rethink because it add no value to all of us when one of us suffers, when part of our community is ravage by poverty, sickness and diseases.
The root of evils and predicament the world is facing now is rooted in inequality. Most assassination, robbery, terrorism and insurgency has it's root in the inequality, class struggle and segregation the we have created in the world. Can we do something urgently to save the humanity from total calamity and further sliding into precipice.

Do do something urgently to help someone live, survive and come to the level of the full potentiality today.

FRIENDSHIP

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thought nor measure words.

To gain friends, become interested in other people instead of trying to get them interested in you. Friendship is not only doing something for someone, it is caring for someone, which is what every person needs.

We all need someone we can be open with. They will know our secrets- our hiding places - our soft spots - our hopes and dreams. This is what real friendship is all about.

People who need people and find them in times of needs are the luckiest people in the world.

I went out to find a friend, but could not find one there. I went out to be a friend, and friends were everywhere.

ETIQUETTE INTELLIGENCE

Etiquette intelligence is the pillar of civilised culture, and respect for the other person is the foundation for the establishment of civil society. In today’s global society, it is appalling that people no longer respect the rules of civil society and the pre-requisite social interaction that made civil society possible.

You won’t need to look for long before you see an aggressive and discourteous vehicle driver, or a commercial motorcyclist trying to swerve and manipulate his way out of traffic gridlock, thereby creating problems for the pedestrians. Indeed, social grace has never been in short supply.

There may be many reasons why we are less civil, but the results are clearly affecting the quality of our daily lives in a subtle but disturbing way. Even if you don’t invade the privacy of others, there are some people that will want to put your etiquette quotient to a test. What we all need now is a little more charm and sophistication.

Etiquette is not just about having good manners, but it should be such that you are not found wanting in any situation. It involves going the extra mile to prepare yourself to face any social interaction. For instance, if you don’t know how the difference between a black tie and a white tie event, please learn.

Etiquette which literally is a little sign or ticket, is like a tool to help you get along. And just as with all tools, you need to learn how to use them. It takes practice, practice and practice. Many things will impact your attitude every day, the key is to become aware of these obstacles and know how you can start improving your attitude.

If you are not sure of how to behave in a particular situation, just remember the golden rule of etiquette, “DO UNTO OTHERS WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO UNTO YOU.”

Please remember that being polite and having good manners has never and will never hurt anyone. Together, we can bring social graces back into existence which will change the social dynamics of our country. Nigeria can truly become the model of civility and modesty.

NO IMPOSSIBILITY

I remember the story of Dr Robert Schuller, who many years ago, contracted an architect to build a glass cathedral for his church. The architect expressly told Dr Schuller that it was impossible to build a cathedral with glass. Dr Schuller replied that the word impossible did not exist.

The architect asked Dr Schuller for a dictionary so as to prove that the word impossible did exist. He searched for a while and on getting to the place where the word should have been, the architect exclaimed ‘‘someone cut out the word impossible from this dictionary’’. Dr Schuller then replied ‘‘yes the word impossible does not exist in my dictionary’’.

Guess what? Dr Schuller got his glass cathedral; it is located in America today.

Wow! That glass cathedral was Dr Schullers dream and it came to reality. There is no reason why you cannot achieve yours. I urge you today to go get your dream. If you only believe, all things are possible.

Sometimes most people could not get anything done simply by allowing the societal opinions, ways of doing things, their perceptions and perspectives to dictate their opinions and direction of things and actions.
The day you follow societal definition of life and how to go about life, you have sentenced yourself to a life time of average and impossibility because they will give you one thousand reasons why you can't achieve what you set out to do.

TERRORISM: CAN WE OVERCOME IT?

The skies have been darkened by the horrific at­tacks by the terrorist since Osama Bin Laden appeared on the scene September 11th 2001 and so many that took place in the past  and to the latest in Paris. The whole world condemned the September 11 attack and all the world super powers united to fight and reduced the influence of that terrorist group.

Today another monster that is prevalent is the ISIS (Islamic State of Iran and Syrian). UN nations had draft a new goal for all her members called Sustainable Goals. There can never be any sustainability with terrorism taken its hold on the entire globe. The World super powers must rise in unison and with all seriousness and bring terrorism to its kneels.

History have shown to us that at every dispensation, there are different challenges of security and when it was at the peak, hitting hard on humanity. Certain men and women rose to break the stronghold and set the world free, we saw it against Adolf Hitler, and other tyrant groups that unsettled the world. William Wilberforce use his faith and wisdom in God to bring slavery to its kneels. We are at a precarious time in history and nations of the earth must realize that, taken God out of our agenda, curriculum, strategy and plan will not avail us. It will only spell more doom for the entire universe.

The advancement of the world is also the decay of the world. We are looking too far to get solution to the myriad of problems facing the world.
God cannot be crowed out human history.
HE has not created a monster that He cannot deal with and tame but our approaches are always wrong. He is the only cure to the dying world. Nobody can handle a good more than the manufacturer, God created the world and he can fix it.

When the whole world united against terrorism with right and godly strategic move in place, definitely we shall all see the end.

GOING FORWARD

Grecian Sage Socrates once said " The surest way to get mount Olympus is to make sure that every step you take is in the direction of the mountain".

An Orientalist postulates that "A wise man can fall seven times but will always get up, while the foolish man falls only once and relaxes in the dust".

"What make a man great is not the height he has attained but the obstacles overcame in attaining the height".

The three statements illustrate graphically the fact that nothing in this life always goes smoothly the way you want it especially good things but that with sustained efforts you can still achieve results.

It is not falling that matters but getting up from the falling, it is not having obstacle that matters but overcoming the obstacles. It is equally not having lofty dreams about getting to Mount Olympus and Kilimanjaro that matters but reaching the top by threading the path towards it.

THE EMPIRE OF THE FUTURE

The empire of the future is the empire of the mind. The future belongs to those who can use their mind productively, constructively and actively.
Dynamics of education is that, it is not limited to classroom alone. The best education are acquire not in the classroom but in the circumstances of life.
 
Life itself teaches than any teacher. The major shift in every nation are driven by discovery of how things should work.

Science is the discovery of what was always was, building a society around science, technology, mathematics and then research, is the way to build to last.

Nations that invest more on research do better, formulate viable policy that will drive the progress and advancement of the society.

Literacy rate in this clime is still very low. Over 62million Nigerians cannot read and write. If we don't increase the capacity of  Nigerians, we can't drive the economy and advance the course of this country.

To have a viable, economically advanced country and technological progressive country, you need educated citizens to drive it. I am not talking about the kind unproductive education they offer us in schools today in Nigeria, that only make us to go to school, cram theory and definition, and pour it out during examination.

If you are running away from from the truth, you will still keep repeating the errors of the past.

RE-ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP

Leaders have purpose for their actions and what they influence. Leaders seek what is best for the group, community or the society they are called to lead and not what is best for them as an individual. Unfortunately, in our clime and jurisdictions, people manage to find themselves in leadership by chance or by fraud, seek what is best for them and the leave the entire society to hopelessly and helplessly to survive by chance. 

We must redefine and reengineer the concept and the practicality of leadership in our continent, especially Nigeria state that suffer strokes, insanity and retrogressive diseases and ailment because of terrible leadership.

Leaders are inherently selfless and hardworking. They are driven by their conviction and purpose and resonates the passion in their vision statements.

LOOKING TOO FAR TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

LOOKING TOO FAR TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM... By Dotun George

At every challenging situation and circumstances of life, usually and most time we look for solutions in a wrong way or place and sometimes our diagnosis is usually wrong and when diagnosis is wrong, certainly the prescription will be wrong. And I have no doubt that is the situation of Nigeria over the years.

If there is any news that fascinated me and gladdens my heart, It is the story of innovation, creativity and developmental milestones record by some of our young, enterprising and liberated minds in some of our tertiary institutions that have become moribund and lost its glamour over the years.

Follow this show caption I got from Sun Newspapers put together by a journalist called Franklin......
The Mechanical Engineering Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, (Unizik) Awka, recorded another milestone when seven graduating students from the department constructed a “made-in-Nigeria” mini bus. Similar feat was recorded last year when a group of five students from the same department produced a formula one car under the code name – AutoZIK.

The seven students include: Ezeigwe Chitoo Callistus, Obinani Victor Chimdike, Ezeanolue Ifeanyi Emmanuel, Okoro Chinaza, Ominigbo Fidelis Igho, Nwobodo Nnamdi Miracle and Ogbu Thaddeus Ikenna. The Head of the Department, Dr. C.H Achebe, supervised the project.
The group, which bears the name “AUTOZIK II,” spent over five months in constructing the mini-bus, referred to as “shuttle” within and around the university with locally sourced materials.

Is the story not captivating and scintillating? Yes it is.
If there is any achievement to be celebrated in our country, this should be one of them and not all these celebrities shows and beauty award ceremonies that have permeated our national life.

I have said it in the past and putting it forward again, we are not cursed, poor, backwards and underdeveloped, all these only exist in the imagination of the despondent individuals who believe so and spread the news.
This country is only seen as a cursed nation, poor, backward and underdeveloped because we refused to look inward to salvage and to turn the situation around. We should not look too far our salvation, development and progress lies within.

It is higher time we as a nation work on how to restore the glory of this once upon a time giant of Africa, its time to revamp and revitalize our institutions, re engineer and re construct our academic curriculum to meet and able to compet with the demand and challenge of the 21st century.

There is no impossibility anywhere except the one people constructed in their minds. For every problems bedeviled this country there are corresponding solutions to then and the potential to do that lies in Nigerians especially the young once. The leadership of our country must learn how to redirect the interest, passion, energy and agitation of Nigerian youths towards a purposeful life and adventure. And except we do that very fast, we might remain in this inglorious circle for years to come and lost the next generation.

It is time to look inward.