The sad thing is that the debilitating mental poverty or impoverishment affects not only Leadership in Government and Unions. I recall now a Yoruba worship song that captures beautifully the essence of our discourse. It says in English “THERE IS THE LORD AS IN THE PAST. WE ARE THE ONES NOT WORSHIPPING GOD AS IN…
When she was younger, she had extreme social anxiety and was super self-conscious. She wanted to be someone other than herself. She didn’t like the way she looked, she cared what other people thought of her, and felt like she couldn’t be herself with anyone except her family. It took a long time to feel…
Mental poverty has become a problem in Nigeria and indeed in the whole world. Just as mental impoverishment has become a serious national and global problem. Mental poverty or impoverishment is not something related to mental health. To me mental poverty is a refusal to change and trying better ways of thinking, do a task…
Why many haven’t rise beyond their present level is their inability to face their fear. People are under the siege of fear; fear of failure, fear of disappointment, fear of lack and others. But until you face it, you can’t win it. The first thing that faced me while I was growing was fear. I…
She was in her penultimate year when she received the most devastating news of her life – her parents were involved in a car accident and they both lost their lives on the spot. Everything went blank as she could not figure out what to make of her life. Why both parents the same day?…
A common saying is that no one plans to fail. No political, business or corporate leader plans to fail. They all hope to excel. They all hope to leave excellent legacies behind as monuments of history. But the truth is that many of them fail to plan and they ended up in calamitous failures. The…
At my early age, my English teacher said to me and my colleagues: “If you fail to prepare, you’re preparing to fail”. Another person said to me: “Opportunity comes but once”. It took me a lot of time to understand what those people were saying. However, I made those words to stay in my brain….
She asked, “If celebrities are doing it, then how is it wrong?” Why is what’s wrong was the answer she got as opposed to what she was expecting? I was calm enough to allow her fully express herself in other to have a clear understanding of what was running through her mind. Okay, she goes,…
Most Nigerians want to rise. They want to break the ceilings that appear to frustrate them. Being typical Nigerians, they have prayed and prayed. They have fasted over and over. They have forgotten the lessons that Biblical Nehemiah teaches. Never fast without acting. Never act without fasting. They keep on fasting, including white fasting for…
Men without walls are men without guard; they are vulnerable to attack from the enemy and can easily be overcome. God creates man with free will, this makes man a man. Man therefore has the ability to choose what he wants and what he doesn’t want. To avoid what he doesn’t want, man naturally develops…
