BIG FOR SOMETHING

To be big is to be big for something. It is disgraceful to be big for nothing.

What is big head without brain?

What is beauty without relevant life skills?

What is education without elevation?

What is activity without productivity?

Acceptance and patronage of a well packaged container with bad content don't last. Even the producers or sellers won't use it. 

When you buy a bad product for the first time, it is a mistake but buying the same again is a proof of your foolishness.

Why will you be given so much yet, have nothing to show for it?

Anybody or any people blessed with everything needed for prosperity is not expected to languish in lack and scarcity of resources.

Huge population without relevant institutions amount to chaos and commotion.

Vast land mass and numerous natural resources without proper management equals to nothing.

Disoriented and disorganized people cannot birth/build a well organized society.

Country whose key handlers and stakeholders are not loyal to her is bound to suffer.

Victims of bad leadership who are only good at perpetrating jungle justice to deal with any of them guilty of petty practices (like stealing a module of grains or pos service overcharge) but heartily cheer on perpetrators of bad leadership, prolong their misery.

Failed leaders are proven enemies of the people and aren't supposed to be in power regimes after regimes. 

Wherever clueless and reckless leaders always go scot-free, vast majority of the citizens are likewise clueless and reckless.

Identity and realities of people are defined and determined by their orientations, mentalities, thinking patterns, attitudes, practices and lifestyles.  

Irrespective of your nation's population, location, composition, formation, association/affiliation and conditions; due process, diligence, faithfulness, fairness, justice, equity, unity, accountability, creativity and good governance are non-negotiable for her to have stability, security, productivity, peace and prosperity.

Greatness is beyond material possessions, wealth, power, position, fame and education. It doesn't matter who you are, where you are from, what you do, what you have, where you live, your religion, your political views and the heights you have attained; if you lack value for human lives or all you have achieved are ill-gotten, you are big for nothing. 

To be big for something is to be big in well doings regardless of your level per time. You cannot live above your potentials but don't live all your life below your potentials.

©️19022023

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh

Advance Everyday

...living life at best

TIME AND YOU

Time really matters. Matters of time are matters of lives.

Sound understanding and proper alignment is highly required to make the most of time.

Every time has its meaning and purpose.

You cannot do just anything at anytime.

Specific things are meant for specific moments.

What is not done in its time could become impossible thereafter.

Among other factors, when we meet people determines what we can do and achieve together.

Time comprises of the past, present and future.

The past is gone forever and should not be allowed to negate the best of the moment. All you needed to do is to learn from it to always do better and be better.

The present is the most powerful tool needed to shape the future.

The future should be expected, prayed about, prepared for, thankful for, rightly planned, joyfully received and well lived.

Time should be invested and not wasted because it can be lost. Once time is lost, it can never be retrieved. Loss of time is loss of life. Your time is your life.

Time is beyond every creation. It preceded and will exceed existence of all created things and beings. No man/woman created time and no man/woman can control time. The best every man/woman can do is to manage time.

Effective time management is a life skill everyone must cultivate to achieve a life well lived. There is  no great achiever with unquestionable traceable track record that is not an astute time manager. Poorly managed time is poorly managed life.

Whatever you continually give yourself to becomes evident at the long run. Every stage of our lives is very important but our prime is in a class of its own which we should pay keen attention to. How we handle our prime dictates what becomes of our old age. If you want (your life) to count, make your time (and your prime) count. Remember, 'your time is you'.

©️ 03/02/2023
Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best

ARISE AND SHINE FOR YOUR NATION TO RISE AND SHINE

Many citizens of backward ridden nations around the world keep looking for well organized and developed countries to migrate/relocate to without understanding that no country has ever advanced beyond contributions of her citizens. 

All the countries that caught your fancy and eagerness to go for vacation or medical tourism or greener pastures or security are made prosperous, peaceful, pleasant, protected and praiseworthy by their patriotic populace. Take a cue from that and give yourself fully to the advancement of your country which begins with having a renewed mind and attitudinal change towards national affairs.

In nation building, mental/attitudinal transformation is very vital because it determines the kind of citizen/leader you becomes and those you allowed to become leaders. The people you supported, nominated, sponsored, campaigned for, voted for and enthroned as leaders is a revelation of the kind of person you are and an exposition of your level of patriotism. Mind you, corrupt, biased, clueless and incompetent citizens ensure their fellow corrupt, biased, clueless and incompetent citizens become their leaders.

Whenever your nation is preparing for the next election, ask yourself the following questions and be sincere to yourself.

1. Who are your preferred candidates at all levels?

2. What do you know about each of them?

3. Why will you vote for them? Are you voting for them because of your love for your country or merely for the love of your candidates (or their political parties, religions, regions, statuses) or because you don't want to waste your vote?

While I leave you to search your heart on those questions, I leave you with this simple but loaded admonishion.

Place your love for your country above your love for your preferred candidates and/or the connection/relationship you shared together. If the only or major reason you are voting for any contestant is just because you love him/her or his/her politcal party or religion or race/tribe/ethnicity or gender or status; you are a major enemy of your fatherland. 

Likewise, do not be caught up in the web of voting for anyone in order not to waste your vote. Virtues like capacity, capability, creativity, commitment, competence and correctness are different from connections, popularity and general acceptance. 

Leadership requires only capable hands. Refusal to vote for a capable and right candidate because he/she is likely to lose (due to the fact that majority of the citizens won't vote for the right candidate) and decision to vote for a wrong candidate because of his/her likelihood to win considering his/her large followers/lovers is the greatest wickedness against any nation by every citizen in question. Why will you have, see and know the very right person for the job yet, opt for the wrong person to get the job? You cannot handover your country to wrong people and expect everything to be alright. Think deeply about it.

For the sake of our children and their children's children till the earth is no more, let us always vote rightly.

©️01/02/2023

Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh

Advance Everyday

...living life at best