SO YOU THINK YOU ARE NOT CORRUPT?

Consider your ways before you curse whoever is guilty of gross indiscipline, corruption and other criminal offences to be sure you are not exactly like them in the making.

If you habitually employ malpractices (no matter how little) to get things done and make gain as a follower, you won't do otherwise eventually you rise to position of leadership. Ultra corrupt leaders started their corrupt practices way back before they become leaders.

Unlawful acts often perpetrated by people is/are directly proportional to the level of their placement per time. Having formed the habit of extorting motorists and other road users as a security officer, you will embezzle staggering sum of money if you later on head your organisation or any other government institution/parastata.

The magnitude of crime committed by anyone is within the confine of his/her area of influence. Whoever steals $1,000 from $10,000 monthly allocation for specified purposes directly in his charge at work without being caught, will upgrade to stealing $100,000 when the allocation is increased to $1,000,000.

Perhaps at your level now, you indulge in: exam malpractices, bribery, ghost worker scheme, forgery, production/sales of substandard or expired products, poor service delivery, injustice, theft, internet fraud (yahoo yahoo), land grabbing, ritual murder, 'do as I say' charm, kidnapping, reckless driving, littering of public places, discrimination or abuse of due process and any other evil deed; you are in no better way different to your bad leaders and every corrupt person at the top. Without making right changes now that you are at the grass root, you will do worse to get to the top and surely, you will do the worst to remain at the top.

I am very sure by now, you would have known plainly your status having read through this piece if you had erroneously thought you are not guilty of indiscipline and corrupt practices. What is next is to make required adjustment wherever you are found wanting. It is impossible to effect correction without knowing or admitting the wrong you do. The process of transformation is activated when a people become remorsefully aware of their gross malpractices, admit they are wrong and bid for a change.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best
http://stephenoj.blogspot.com.ng/

YOUR COUNTRY IS PARADISE

Everybody wants to live in a well developed, peaceful, secured and empowering society but very few always do the needful to turn their immediate communities to paradise where unlimited prosperity is expressly achievable.

If you want to live in a place that is full of pleasant opportunities and possibilities, earnestly strive to make where you hailed from (and/or where you are) a land flowing with milk and honey.

When 'the grasses of your country are made greener', you and your fellow citizens would not have to be looking for greener pastures elsewhere. Thereby, you will not be subjected to possible  maltreatment in a foreign land incase citizens of your host nation turn against immigrants.

Many people endangered themselves (and others) by taking unnecessary risk in search of 'already-made-society' for them to live and be established as an alternative to their own place of origin. Some of them didn't live to share the hard lessons therein. Little do they know that their own nation is potentially a great nation that is yet to attain excellence because they and the rest citizens are yet to make it happen.

I beseech you to empower your nation to become the best it should be. Don't merely hope that your nation will be great someday, make her great on daily basis. Your nation too could be turned to an 'already-made-society' if you play your own part without compromise. Always be to your nation the very best you want your nation to be to you. Potentially, your nation is a paradise; don't make her a hell.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best
http://stephenoj.blogspot.com.ng/

SHARE GOOD REPORTS

On daily basis, a lot of pleasant things happen and innumerable people do glorious things all around the world. However, such good news rarely win wider and greater coverage and broadcast like negative occurrences.

Always feel free to share with the rest of the world what is good about your hood, good works and excellent exploits of any person/people anywhere and, glorious things happening across the world.

I guess you are already excited to share that good report with the rest of the world on this platform; what are you still waiting for? Let us know about it.

But while you are warming up, I am glad to let you know that Nigeria is now an automobile manufacturer. For more information, visit http://innosonmotors.com/ - Africa's 1st indigenous car manufacturer. I am excited about such a good development in my country.

'O ya now', let those good reports keep coming in.

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

WHO IS FOOLING WHO?

Some people don't just know what they are up to and 'what is up to them'. They created the problems, they promised the solutions yet, they don't cease to compound those problems.

'Now that it has dropped from their hands' and they could no longer contain the consequences of their own evil practices (nigbati o si ti bo lowo won ti agbara won o si ka ise ibi won mo), they should be remorseful and take responsibility for their evils and correct their wicked ways.

Fear of uncertainty and insecurity had robbed many people of their humanity.
That is why 'those who need not to steal at all' so to say, are engrossed in the habit of stealing what they already have in excess.
That is why those who are given power to protect others turnaround to use the power to victimize people they were raised and empowered to lift up in some places.

When the people that smuggled the king's golden crown in the palace at midnight also came at daylight assuring the king saying they will help him find out the thieves to recover the stolen crown; who is fooling who?

How insensitive and foolish could a people be? If it is obvious that the people you are following don't mean well for you, must you keep following them? At least, you can choose not to be deceived no matter the strategies of the known deceivers.

Never again must you fall into the hands of those that play on your mind to defraud and oppress you. Do not be insensitive to the strategies of people that see you as their 'mumu', 'mugun' and 'maga'. Steven Biko hinted: "The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." They offer unsuspecting people a thousand dollar to rob them of a billion dollar. They usually try to make their victims see them as good people to keep them in perpetual slavery.

'Eni ti e ti mo wipe ole ni ti e tun fi se akapo owo, ti o ba kowo yin je ko jebi yin rara o'; (i.e. Someone you already know is a thief that you put in charge of the treasury has been given licence to loot the treasury and you have no case against him). Once you know how a people are, there is no point committing unto them what is beyond their capacity to handle. Some folks don't just have what it takes to deliver honesty, truthfulness, fairness, accountability, justice, peace, security and collective advancement.

Nobody have the power to rule over you, abuse your human right, defraud your commonwealth and destroy the future of your society than the people you give the power to do so. If any people under unfair and unjust people say enough is enough right now, so it is. "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." _Martin Luther King.
Selah!

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

ALL OF US VERSUS EACH OF US

What belongs to all of us should be highly valued, cherished, maximized and jealously guarded by all of us for all of us.

Our collective heritage, blessings and everything that enhances peaceful and prosperous coexistence should be faithfully embraced, explored, practiced and promoted by every person.

Advancement of each of us should be the interest of all of us and advancement of all of us should be the interest of each of us.

None of us should (attempt to) make gain at the expense of all of us (or any of us). An attempt by one/some of us to have dominion and control over the rest of us profits none of us.

It could and should be a-win-win-experience for people everywhere.

We can all grow, flourish and prosper together in our respective communities if we are willing. The job is made easy if our minds are together with the mentality that we are of the same bloodline and brotherhood whether or not we are related and regardless of our differences. A people living together whose minds are apart, are incapacitated to always bless one another thereby, cannot prosper together.

If citizens of all nations operate with the understanding that their commonwealth and collective prosperity is of paramount importance above each person's interest and everything else, they will turn their respective nations to paradise.

Since human beings are made and ordained to live together as families in different communities and nations, every person have moral obligation to ensure advancement of the community and nation he/she belongs to.

All is more than one or some. One person or some people should not dare (or be given a chance) to take the rest to ransom. Problems abound wherever an individual or a group handles collective issues with levity or advances to take over what belongs to all for their own personal benefits as against collective benefits.

Do not get to a level that you will be indifferent or work against the prosperity of one or some or the totality of your fellow citizens and the rest of humanity. You don't win by making gains at the expense of anyone or your organisation or your society and the global family.

I leave you to always bear in mind this philosophy of mine I always tell myself to ensure I don't lose it as given in capital letters below. I LOSE NO MATTER WHAT I MAKE FOR MYSELF AT THE EXPENSE OF ANYBODY AND COLLECTIVE SUCCESS.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best
http://stephenoj.blogspot.com.ng/

INTENTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

If any people truly want to live in a well organized, developed, secured and prosperous society; they must be collectively deliberate/intentional and committed to make it their reality.
Those who are indifferent or totally against the vision to achieve a common goal with others for the good of all in their society, slow down its possibility.

Nothing can hinder a people that are intentionally walking and working together with one mind, one purpose and one interest to ensure collective advancement.

Until every person of every nation (especially third world countries) across the world get their minds renewed with an understanding that they have to be intentional about collective progress, they cannot fast track the possibility of the much needed positive shift in their public affairs to effect sustainable growth.

People's reasoning, expectations, actions, habits and lifestyles must align with their desire to have successful communities of their own for it to materialise.

You cannot wake up the next day a changed person if you only wish to change but refused to embrace the process of change. Mere wishful desire of prosperity without deliberate initiatives in the right direction is too weak to birth the expected. Unexpected poor result is the outcome without deliberate efforts to birth an expected good result.

Always be deliberate at advancing your life, your society and entire humanity. Personal and community success is made easy if everyone is intentional.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best
http://stephenoj.blogspot.com.ng/

IF I WON'T IMPROVE...

When I reach out
to walk with you
When I reach out
to be your friend
When I reach out
to be your lover
If I don't meet up
with your standard
If I don't represent
the best you deserve
Please, never hold my hand.

May be,
I would wake up
to brace up
and build up
to be someone
nobody can do without.

Perhaps I refused to work on my mind
to be a better person,
May be I failed to upgrade on every side
to be desirable,
Or it is certain I won't change for good
to always do what is right very right.
If I won't improve on myself
to be the very best I should be;
you are free and permitted
to walk away without looking back.

However, on the other hand
Before you close your heart
Or hastily take your leave
Ensure your inference is correct
not to make a wrong decision.

If I am judiciously striving
to be my very best
If I am always improving
to empower the rest
If I am fervently working
to attain perfection
Surely, there is hope for me
to be a sought after everywhere.
So, don't write me off yet;
I am still a work in progress.

Come tomorrow,
your soul won't depart from you
at a glimpse of my advancement
should our path meet again
or you read my exploits on the headlines
or hear of my excellence from a far country.

Nevertheless,
if the direction of my life
don't lead to (or won't get you to)
your own desired destination;
suffer not yourself to bounce with me
until I make a timely and necessary switch.


Food for Thought:

Never give up on whoever is yet to thrive but is earnestly striving to get there. Whoever refused to give up on himself/herself cannot be underestimated.

It is only someone who chose to remain the same on a spot and unwilling to improve on himself until death that lack glorious future.

No matter how much people love you and willing to be there for you, you render them incapacitated if you have chosen to be the same forever. You become pissful for as long you decide to remain a failure.

Be careful of those you let into your life. Whoever will consequently draw you back from making tremendous progress is not worthy to be in your life. It is very dangerous to take on someone who is not committed to leading a meaningful life. People that mess up their own lives rarely do contrarily to another person's life.

Whoever does not change his/her mind in good time cannot change his/her bad habit(s). It doesn't take eternity to correct oneself. You cannot afford to suspend your own life unnecessarily waiting for people to improve on themselves. Move on with your life if those in question have unbreakable resistance to positive changes. Only people that are committed to timely improvement are worth dealing with.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best
http://stephenoj.blogspot.com.ng/