Grow above your fears!

One thing I know for sure is that I can never run away from challenges. They must come and when they come, I embrace them and conquer them because they are only mean't to make me stronger. Challenges crush you when you do not recognize them as challenges.
NOTE: Life does not get easier rather, you grow stronger.
#growaboveyourfears.

There is no more perfect time than now!

I haven't said anything this year because of my tight schedule. I was just busy planning my 2017, what to execute and how to execute them. But I taught of people who delight in reading my posts and that's why I wrote this because I know there must be someone that needs it. Let me start by wishing you a happy New year! 

I titled this 'there is no more perfect time than now' because I know fully well that there are many people out there that are waiting for the perfect time to plan for the future, the perfect time to start saving for the future, the perfect time to invest for the future. Let me tell you the gospel truth, THERE IS NEVER A TIME MORE PERFECT THAN NOW! If you are still there waiting for a perfect time you'll have to wait till eternity in vain. There is nothing like PERFECT TIME in the real world, though it may exist in myths. The only perfect time is right now! Start investing for your future now. Whatever you do today affects you tomorrow. The sacrifices you make today is what is going to better your tomorrow. It's better to cry today and laugh tomorrow. It's drops of water that make a mighty ocean. Never neglect that petty business you are managing now but don't ever stop at that petty business, make it grow into an enterprise. I don't look at where you are now but where you will be tomorrow is my concern. You are here today doesn't mean you can't be there tomorrow except if you choose to remain here. Don't wait till you get a fund that can help you acquire a very big company, start as little as your capital can carry you. A man once said "If you can't be an ocean be a sea, if you can't be a sea be a river, if you can't be a river be a stream but be the best of whatever you are".
   
Consequently, I've come to understand that it's more risky not trying at all than trying. A farmer was once asked by
someone if he had planted wheat for the season. The farmer replied, "No. I was afraid it wouldn't rain." He was asked again, "Did you plant corn?" The farmer said "No. I was afraid that insects would eat the corn." Then the man asked, "What did you plant?" The farmer said, "Nothing. I played it safe." Now tell me, did the farmer really played it safe or was he foolish? Give the answer to yourself. Shiv Khera in his book 'You can win' said something and I want to conclude with it. He said "To laugh is to risk appearing the fool, to weep is to risk appearing sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, to expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self, to place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss, to love is to risk not being loved in return, to live is to risk dieing, to hope is to risk despair, to try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live. Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves, they have fortified their freedom. Only a person who risks is free."

Success tip.

There is something Shiv Khera said that I can never forget. He said "winners don't do different things. They do things differently". Many people have been doing things the same way for some time now and still expect a totally different result. Try the same thing another way and you will get a different result. 

The major difference between winners and losers is attitude. Your mindset determines wether you are gonna succeed or not. There is no way you can succeed if you don't position your mind towards success. How would you dream of winning when you don't even believe in yourself. Whatever you think about affects you. If you think of yourself a winner already, you'll see yourself winning, and if you think of yourself not able to make it, nothing can ever make you successful. Have you ever wondered why in a race you'll see someone who is not even good enough, winning the race? What causes that is ATTITUDE! 

Whatever you can imagine, you can achieve (through hard work and persistence). I don't believe there is anything like luck. If you don't work hard don't ever think of making it in life. If you don't do things in your own way, you can't succeed. Winners see opportunities even in the midst of impossibility. Winners are limitless because they know that the only thing that can limit them is themselves. If you can conquer yourself, then you are limitless. The only person
that can persuade you is yourself. The only person that can convince you so easily is yourself. Winners never allow their misfortune to weigh them down rather they turn them to inspiration to fuel their engine. Everything in life has two
sides, don't view from just one side and conclude. Don't just conclude from one side that what is written is 6 because
you'll be surprised to find out that its 9 from the other side. An impossibility you are looking at is a possibility when it's turned inside out. The real meaning of misfortune is MISSED FORTUNE, besides that there is nothing like misfortune. Visit the record of people that have succeeded in the past and you'll find out there is something common among them, likewise, if you visit the record of people that are regarded as failures, you'll also find out there is something common among them. Incompetent work man always blame his tools.
   
Each time you fail, don't blame anyone rather, take your time to have a review of the steps you took. Find out those places
you missed it, do some corrections and forge ahead, you'll soon be celebrated.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 40 soldiers at a military base in Yemen, according to government officials.

The deadly blast in Aden, which is under the control of the internationally recognised government in exile in Saudi Arabia, targeted troops waiting to collect their pay, it has been reported.
Islamic State militants have repeatedly claimed responsibility for carrying out attacks on military personnel in the southern port city.
The militants have taken advantage of Yemen's brutal civil war between the government and the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels.
Saudi Arabia intervened in the conflict in March, 2015, to battle the government's enemies.
However, it has failed to oust the rebels from the capital Sanaa despite thousands of airstrikes that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians as the population struggles with starvation and disease.
Britain has lent military assistance, helping the Saudis select targets, but the Ministry of Defence insists it is to ensure the country complies with the rules of war.
The UK is also a massive exporter of arms to the country.

UN ignores Buhari, seeks record $2.7 billion aid for 7 million Nigerians affected by Boko Haram, others

Poverty, conflict and climate change will leave 15 million people across Africa’s Sahel belt in need of life-saving aid next year, the UN said as it launched a record $2.7 billion humanitarian appeal for the region in 2017.
Around 40 per cent of the money (about $1 billion) will be used to help some seven million people in Nigeria affected by the jihadist group Boko Haram’s seven-year insurgency, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
The UN’s statement of about 7 million Nigerians needing help in the aftermath of the Boko Haram insurgency comes days after the Nigerian government accused the global body and other international organisations working in the north-east of exaggerating the crisis for financial reasons.
“We are concerned about the blatant attempts to whip up a non-existent fear of mass starvation by some aid agencies, a type of hype that does not provide a solution to the situation on the ground but more to do with calculations for operations financing locally and abroad,” Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement by his spokesperson.
The president highlighted what he said were contradictions in some of the claims made by different humanitarian groups about the crisis.
“In a recent instance, one arm of the United Nations screamed that 100,000 people will die due to starvation next year. A different group says a million will die,” he said.
Mr. Buhari was reacting to statements made by officials of international organisations including the UN highlighting the humanitarian crisis in north-east Nigeria.
The U.N. Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator, Peter Lundberg, had said in a statement last Friday that “A projected 5.1 million people will face serious food shortages as the (Boko Haram) conflict and risk of unexploded improvised devices prevented farmers planting for the third year in a row, causing a major food crisis.”

$1.6 billion oil scam: Former NNPC boss testifies against Jide Omokore

The trial of the embattled chairman of Atlantic Energy Brass Development Limited and Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept Limited, Jide Omokore, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, got underway Thursday.
The case, heard by Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, opened with the prosecutor presenting its first witness, Andrew Yakubu, a former General Managing Director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
Mr. Yakubu, formerly a co-defendant prior to the amended charge, shed light on the nature of his engagement with the NNPC, which involved the strategic direction of NNPC and all its subsidiaries, including the Port Harcourt refinery, Warri refinery, Kaduna refinery, Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Limited (PPMC), Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), Integrated Data Services Limited (IDSL) and National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS).
According to him, “in 2013 to 2014, the MD of NPDC, Mr. Victor Briggs (the fourth defendant) came to me and raised some concerns in relation to assets OML 60 series in relation to the strategic alliance agreement between Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited and NPDC, citing inability of Atlantic Drilling to meet payment obligations. He told me that he was already looking into the issue and will get back to me. I told him to stop further lifting until the issue is reconciled. I called the Group General Manager of Crude Oil Marketing Department (COMD) and told him to stop further lifting until the issue had been resolved”.
He added that, “the Minister of Petroleum Resources wrote a letter to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources and I, and set up a committee to investigate the issue. The fourth defendant (Briggs) was removed from NPDC and reassigned to IDSL. Mr. Membere, who was the Director-General, Exploration and Production; Tony Madichie, the Company Secretary in charge; Acting EG, Dr. Dawa and Company Secretary, Mr. Ike, were also part of the committee that compiled the report. Before they completed, however, I was also retired from service.”
Regarding the complicity of NAPIMS in meeting the funding requirements of the assets, Mr. Yakubu stated that, “We got to know later that NAPIMS made a cash call but I also issued instructions for them to stop. I also made sure that whatever fund that NAPIMS had paid was refunded to the federation account by the NNPC”.
At this point, the defense counsel, Rafiu Lawal-Rabana, applied for an adjournment for cross-examination and he was obliged.
The matter was consequently adjourned to January 20, 2017 and February 3, 2017 for continuation of trial.

MOURINHO THRILLED FOR MKHITARYAN

Jose Mourinho admits he is "very pleased" that Henrikh Mkhitaryan is off the mark for Manchester United after the Armenian scored his first goal for the club on his return to Ukraine.

The former Shakhtar Donetsk star dribbled through the Zorya Luhansk defence to open the scoring on an icy pitch in the second half in Odessa and Zlatan Ibrahimovic's late clincher set the seal on a victory that takes the Reds through to the knockout stages of the Europa League.

"It was a strong mentality," said the boss when asked about Mkhitaryan's attitude. "He was determined to fight against his difficult adaptation.

"He worked hard physically and tactically - the talent was there, we knew that when we bought him. Now he's playing good - in the Premier League, Europa League and EFL Cup, and now the goal means a little more happiness for him, so I'm very pleased."

United qualified in second spot behind Fenerbahce after the Turkish side won 1-0 at Feyenoord and approach the visit of Tottenham on Sunday in good heart.