LET YOUR KINDNESS BRING YOU BLESSING

Always do good cheerfully from your heart to be greatly blessed.

Many people have missed the reward of kind gestures and good works because it was done without their hearts in it.

To do good/well with ulterior motive is not well meaning and doesn't profit the doer.

If you should help someone, do it wholeheartedly without questionable intent, suggestive attitude and unnecessary expectations.

Acts of kindness and favour done with bad attitude is void of blessing.

Let your kindness bring you blessing. Show kindness acceptably to the right persons in the right place at the right time for the right reason(s) with the right heart and correct attitude.

Continually do good in a way that you would be blessed by it, through it, in it, after it and for it. For no reason should you rob yourself of the blessing of well doing.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best

LEGALITY AND ACCEPTABILITY

Whatever is truly good or bad is exactly what it is regardless of name or packaging or manipulation or legal backing.
People could name and rename or package and repackage things over and again but what it connote and stand for remain the same.
Even if the whole world call anus mouth and vice versa, that does not change the functions of each.
They have only succeeded at switching their names not their purposes and uses.

To call falsehood the truth doesn't change its original meaning.
There is no initiative that could alter divine order whether it is accepted or rejected through legislation or not.
What is right is very powerful, valid and binding than what is legal as anything could be made legal.
Because something (bad) is made legal doesn't make it right.
Law, environment, religion, science, needs, problems, work, civilisation, scheme, time and season cannot redefine mediocrity to mean excellence or change the meaning of lust to love or equate disorder to divine order.

To be guilty of any bad act/habit (and inability to overcome it) is not enough to justify it as a right thing worth doing.
Legalisation of any improper act and questionable lifestyle is abnormal and unprofitable.
Whoever is struggling with negative habits should seek rehabilitation not legalisation of negative practices.
We should strive to gain freedom over doing wrong not freedom to always do wrong.
To be bad and weird is nobody's right.
Human right is within the confines of only what is right.
There is no such right for human beings to do what ought not to be done considered unfitting and repulsive.
Rejection of the acceptable and acceptance of the unacceptable is killing humanity.

Abnormal and worthless acts, conducts, practices, habits and lifestyles remain unnecessary, unbeneficial, shameful, harmful, unworthy of emulation and practice regardless of its promotion via any means and platforms to make it look harmless, enviable, admirable, praiseworthy, profitable and necessary to be adopted as a normal lifestyle.

We profit nothing at confusing ourselves by scheming to turn upside down incontestable order and excellent way of life.
Nothing can be done to make evil divine or make shameful deeds honourable.
Everything is exactly what it is (whether it looked like it or not, believed or not, approved or disapproved). A dead lion is a dead lion not a sleeping lion.
Truth is truth and falsehood is falsehood.
What is wrong is not the same with what is right and should not be promoted anywhere.
Truth is not subject to your opinion or what majority/everybody do, culture and law.

Always maintain a good standing against plethora of confusing and misleading information, law, culture, schemes, practices and lifestyles.
Never be talked (or talk people) into unwholesome practices.
Uphold the right way of life to always do things as established by divine order.
Be a practitioner and advocate of what is acceptable.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best

PUT GOOD LABELS ON HUMANITY

Everybody says no person does/is good.
Everybody claims all the people are evil.
Everybody explains how everyone is like devil.

None is faithful.
None is reliable.
None is truthful.
All have embraced falsehood!
Goes the lamentation of entire manhood.
Like none is just in every neighbourhood.

As each laments people are mean, I wonders; what they mean.
May be they don't know they have given themselves bad label too.
Or are they not included in the generality of people?
If you say mankind is unkind remember, you are a part of (not apart from) mankind.

To believe every person is an evil doer reveals volume about who you are.
No individual is contrary to what he calls people.
You are exactly your label on humanity.

The reason some people wrong label everybody is not farfetched.
We usually see others through magnified lenses of who we are.
If you are not good, you easily conclude every other person is bad.

What you label people is most likely to be your experience with them afterwards.
You prophesy doom upon yourself by declaring every human being is evil.
Anything you tag generality of mankind comes back to you.
Infact, it is better and safer to generalise good instead of evil.
Likewise, it is best to see and treat each person as an entity (not all).

Truly, there are bad people everywhere but there are also good people everywhere.
This calls for better understanding and discernment.
"When you close your eyes that wicked people should pass by, good people will also pass by without knowing" according to a Yoruba adage.

Mind you, you attracts what/who you focus on.
When you focus only on the bad, everything is bad in your sight including what is good.
Should good people come your way, you are most likely to term their good works 'evil in disguise' if you don't believe there are still good people on earth.

Be careful what you say about all based on your experience with one/few.
It is totally unacceptable to conclude others are bad because one made you sad as if none makes you glad.

Irrespective of what you or another suffered in the hand of somebody or some people; is not a yardstick to conclude all human beings are harmful.

Generalisation of evil has no root.
To say everybody is cruel doesn't rule out that someone somewhere still mean/do well.

Several encounters and dealings with all (which is impossible) is required to conclude all of us are the same bad people.

On this note; don't fall to temptation of generalising wrong things on everybody.
Never speak of humanity in a bad light.
Put good labels on people.
Say people are good instead of saying people are evil.
If anyone maintains that mankind is evil, ask the person: who are you? Then, answer the question by saying: you are whatever you say people are! Proceed to give him relevant enlightenment like the content of this piece.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best

REPENTANCE: KEY TO TRANSFORMATION AND A BETTER SOCIETY

Strictly for those who care to know the truth.

God will never show up to end corruption and gross wickedness in Nigeria or anywhere on earth unless everyone concerned act accordingly.

When we resolved to prayer in a bid to cause a change that we are unwilling to make happen, we make mockery of ourselves.

Prayer changes things that those offering the prayer are resolute and dared to change. Prayer cannot change you if you don't change yourself.

The other time Nigerians wanted to change those in government, they voted in their preferred candidates during 2015 general election. Though many Nigerians prayed to God but they made it happened by themselves. God didn't go to the poll - besides, He didn't have voters card.

Now that Nigerians want to change poor governance and wrong attitude of Nigerians towards national affairs; fasting and prayer are rendered impotent if Nigerians refused to do what is right.

Infact, the change needed in Nigeria answers to genuine repentance not prayer. It doesn't matter how much and how long we pray, we are only fooling ourselves without mind renewal.

If an average Nigerian effect repentance now, the long awaited transformation of Nigeria will be so swift. But if we think it is all up to God and we have no part to play, things get worse. Especially, when the unrepentant architects (and perpetrators) of corruption and backwardness are also calling for prayer for a better Nigeria. Meanwhile, grace and prayer cannot be substituted for lawlessness and malpractices.

Nigerians should not just pray to cause change, Nigerians should repent to cause change. Prayer cannot make Nigeria great if Nigerians don't make Nigeria great.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best


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PREVENT COLLECTIVE FAILURE

Any people with the attitude of "every man for himself", are collectively a bunch of failure irrespective of how much individual of them is able to achieve for himself.

If each of us is successful and all of us is unsuccessful; we have all failed.

Personal success is not complete without collective success.

Come to think of it, our collective ability and possibility to succeed together is more than individual's.

Since good things are possible for a person, better things are possible for an organisation and best things are possible for a nation while the very best is achievable for entire humanity.

However, it is only people with one mind that can achieve more together. Should one of them conquers a city, all of them will put nations to flight.

Anywhere individuals successfully build their personal career/business/firm from zero to the top, their nation is expected to do better.

Should what belongs to individuals flourishes while what belongs to all is run down; people's attitude towards public affairs is questionable.

Some people who refused to deliver in public service yet, own/run successful private enterprises are only destroying themselves. Refusal to do what is good/right for the benefit of all is self destructive.

If one of us can succeed as an individual, why should all of us fail as a society? Of a truth, there is no reason for any people to fail.

Collective success should not be handled with levity by anybody. Failure of all is more than failure of one but failure of one is failure of all.

Always do all you should to prevent collective failure. It is more profitable for you to combine together the pursuit of both personal and public success.

Above all, collective success comes first; it is the completion of your personal success.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best

SELF CONQUEST: KEY TO REAL INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

Congratulations Nigerians home and abroad on the remarkable event of our independence from colonial masters since 1st October, 1960.

Thanks be to God for His manifold blessings upon our nation and the rare privilege to still witness this year's celebration through all the thick and thin. Without doubt, there is hope for Nigeria and that hope will not be cut short if we don't give up on ourselves.

You would agree with me that no great nation is/was made in one day. As it takes time to build a successful enterprise so it is with nation building.

However, before any business, organisation and community will be great, everyone concerned must decide to make it great in the first place.

For the long walk to a prosperous Nigeria not to be longer or impossible, all of us should first decide and agree to birth a new Nigeria that is completely free from herself (where every Nigerian counts and no citizen suffers in the hand of the other).

Terrible things Nigeria and Nigerians suffer in the hand of Nigerians far exceeds the evils of our colonial masters against us. This calls for us to timely stop our excesses and embrace right attitude towards collective success. By so doing, our real independence (i.e. freedom from 'self colonising and slavery') is guaranteed.

A criminal found guilty may be freely pardoned in the court of law but if he continues in his wicked ways, he is still in bondage though he is not in chain or jail. Whoever refuses to conquer himself (by failing to stop doing wrong) is a self defeated joker.

It is the right changes we continually make on ourselves to improve our society that set us free. Until we are free from ourselves, by ourselves, for ourselves; we are yet to win the greatest form of independence and freedom as a nation. Freedom from anything/anyone profits little without freedom from oneself.

On this note, I encourage all of us to steadfastly walk and work in one accord to make it all come together for Nigeria by achieving 'national self conquest'. It is only Nigeria that can deliver Nigeria from herself. Self conquest is the key to unlock real independence and true freedom individually and collectively as a people.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best

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