Wednesday, 6 April 2022

RESIST THE FOE

Empower nothing and nobody against you. Do not fight for what and who don't worth fighting for. Things and people that ought not to be in your life should not win your heart. 


Timely detect if a person is truly for you or not lest you commit your resources, time and life to wrong hands. Somebody can be with you and still be against you. Connect the dots by paying close attention to their attitudes and how they treat you. 


Anybody that terrorizes you, don't have your best interests at heart. Whatever and whoever works against you should be resisted to the hilt not assisted to hit their evil target in your life. 


Be mindful of what you do, how you do it and who you do it with, to and for. Who you build friendship, business, relationship and family with really matters. 


Never do the right thing with wrong people. Marriage in itself is right by all standards but having a wrong spouse puts you in harm's way. Likewise, having a wrong business partner is jeopardy.


No matter how good, (peaceful, patient, nice, kind, loving, caring, loyal, faithful, just, forgiving and tolerant) you are; there are people you cannot and should not yield yourself to to do life together. They will wear you out of your virtues and make you appears like the bad one. Some things and some folks should not be kept, endured and tolerated.


©06/04/2022.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh

Advance Everyday

...living life at best

Monday, 21 March 2022

YOU ARE NOT WRONG FOR DOING RIGHT

 

Doing the right thing in every situation is always the right thing whether it is requested, expected, accepted, appreciated, commended, publicized, celebrated and rewarded or not. 


Never allow possible rejection of right deeds hinder you from always doing what is right. Your commitment to doing right should exceed what you get in return.


Even when your well doings don't earn well deserved appreciation in return, don't be discouraged. The revenge for not being celebrated and rewarded for having done well is to do more. 


Negative responses/reactions of others to your right deeds do not make you wrong for doing what is right. Likewise, acceptance, celebration and rewarding of your wrong deeds don't make you right for doing wrong.


Do not be ashamed incase you are shamed for uprightness, trustworthiness, faithfulness, decency, modesty, diligence, excellence, nobility and patriotism. Such virtues are not shameful, it is the opposite that is shameful.


Take note of this truth: To return lost items (especially valuable ones) found by you to the rightful owner(s) or appropriate authorities is not foolishness (with or without reward) as some thought in some places. It is doing otherwise that is gross foolishness not smartness.


©14/03/2022.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh

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...living life at best

CONNECT AND STAY CONNECTED

The account of 38years old Joyce Vincent who died of an asthma attack or complication from peptic ulcer in her north London flat in December 2003 with her television left on and her bills getting auto deducted from her bank account for several months before her death was discovered in January 2006 is one disheartening story out of many similar cases of prolonged solitary lifestyles and total disconnection with the rest of humanity. 


For that duration of time, it is very obvious that nobody checked on her probably she completely shut herself out of the reach of everybody - relatives, friends, admirers, co-workers and neighbours. Though what actually caused her disconnection is still unknown but no matter what, it shouldn't be that bad to the extent that she died unnoticed to everyone (including her immediate neighbours) for more than 24months.


After reading her story for the first time on Facebook Wall of Susan Olofu, I proceeded to read more about her on Wikipedia and other sources on internet. In all, everything about her life and demise further established the fact that person-to-person contact and communication should not be downplayed (or ruled out).


Therefore, irrespective of your challenges or hurts from past relationships, bitter experiences and maltreatment from anyone; refrain from total isolation of yourself in a bid to be shielded from possible human cruelty. Because some people have proven unworthy to pitch your tent with is not enough to give up on all others. The misdeeds of only a person or some persons shouldn't make you disconnect with everyone else. 


Deliberately initiate, build and maintain healthy relationships with your relatives (both immediate and extended), neighbours, schoolmates, students/trainees, teachers/trainers, faith members, co-workers, superiors/colleagues/subordinates, clients, group/union/association members etc. Never lose touch with everybody. Everybody is not difficult, wicked, insensitive, unreasonable, unreachable and inaccessible. 


Be valuable, understandable and accessible for right people and maintain good contact with them in order to watch over one another. We are made to coexist not 'soloexist' for association not isolation. To rightly connect, communicate, cooperate, congregate, comfort, collaborate, compliment, cheer, celebrate and complete one another. 


At least, let there be someone checking on you that you always check on too. If you live without anyone knowing that you are living, you may be dieing without anyone knowing that you are dieing and you may die without anyone noticing that you are dead. Never leave this world without anyone knowing that you have left.


Although, you were created and birthed alone but you are not supposed to do life all alone. It is a great deservice to shut yourself out of the reach of others and to shut others out of your own reach. Healthy relationships and good contacts with well-meaning people have a way of promoting happiness, shared opportunities, good health, peace, ease, sanity, resourcefulness, safety, security, prosperity and long life. Get in touch and stay in touch with the right people.


©20/03/2022.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh

Advance Everyday

...living life at best


Saturday, 23 October 2021

POVERTY OR PROSPERITY - THE CHOICE IS YOURS; SAY YOUR OWN

A pastor confidently declared without apology that he will soon become the richest man of God in the world and some people were demanding for his head. 


Why are those people in question like that?


In their own minds, being a pastor exempted those who are pastoring from desiring, saying, having and enjoying good things. As if they themselves would be cool to be poor if they are pastors. "Awon ki eni mani gbogbo". 


If a man is bold enough to declare what his destiny as a pastor would be which it should be, why can't they also declare theirs as lawyers or teachers or politicians or musicians or carpenters or traders etc that they will soon become the richest in their respective fields? Or better still, they should have declared that they will soon become the poorest among their contemporaries to register their anger against the man of God.

 

Somebody says his own life will be productive, beautiful, successful and enviable and you are displeased; are you okay? He has made a good choice and if you like, you can say your own life will become miserable and horrible.


It baffles me what some people criticize, who they criticize, how they criticize and why they criticize the things and people they criticize. A prosperity oriented person will never criticize anyone for deciding to be successful and declaring himself prosperous.


Prosperity is in everybody's DNA but it takes individual's comprehension of this truth to effect its activation and actualization. Nobody anywhere (male or female, young or old, artician or professional, cleric or politician etc) is exempted from living a prosperous life. 


All heights of success are attainable for whoever dares to pay the price and paying the price of prosperity begins with thinking, speaking and practicing prosperity. Success in itself is infinite or limitless (i.e. it has no end). So anybody can succeed to any level as far as his eyes can see, his mind can conceive, his mouth can declare, his practices/habits can produce, his contributions can earn,  his personality can attract and his capacity can contain.


Each of us is designed for growth and progress; if you believe otherwise, embrace your retrogression and abject poverty instead of revolting against people that understood they are meant to be prosperous and are living it for real. Incase you don't know, there is something called 'the right to succeed' which is also known as freedom to be prosperous being given to all human beings by God. That is; everyone has the freedom to desire, pursue, achieve and enjoy real success. 


If you are successful, you are simply exercising your God given human right because it is your right to succeed and live large irrespective of your location and profession or occupation. Let nobody and nothing take that away from you. Once you are against people who are making real progress, you are guilty of committing human right infringement.


Ti iwo o ba fe ni owo lopolopo jaburata, ma se da enikeni lekun lati ni anito ati aniseku (i.e. if you hates riches that's your own knockout, don't oppose those who love it and wanted it and and have it).


Life presents to you on daily basis both poverty and prosperity; I bessech you to always choose prosperity. 'E get why'. May your eyes of understanding be enlightened in Jesus name.

Selah!


©18/10/2021

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh

Advance Everyday

...living life at best

Thursday, 21 October 2021

MY MUSINGS ON THE WAY FORWARD FOR NIGERIA

 MY MUSINGS ON THE WAY FORWARD FOR NIGERIA 


As no one should give up on his/her life, we should be strong as a people not to give up on our society. 


The way each person's life is what he/she has made it, every society is exactly the way the citizens made it.


The wrong we do and their consequences won't stop until we stop wrong doings. Darkness prevails for as long we hold back from shining as lights.


We have put up long enough with mediocrity, sentiments, malpractices, nepotism, criminality, immorality, corruption, kidnapping, banditry, terrorism, bad leadership and all evil deeds common to us as Nigerians for us to know there is no gain in them.


We wouldn't wake up anyday to have a country that is in the league of global best if we refused to birth it now.


When all of us begin to go about our works, our lives and our dealings with others rightly within and outside the shores of Nigeria; our country will be better for it.


Simply because you are not affected by the challenges of Nigeria (insecurity, bad leadership, poverty etc), doesn't mean you should be unconcerned and/or in support of further deterioration of Nigeria. Love and care for self isn't complete without genuine love and care for your fellow country people.


The transformation of Nigeria is in the hands of every Nigerian everywhere. However, Nigerians that are hardest hit by the wrong system operating in Nigeria have much work to do to be victorious because the beneficiaries of the rottenness in Nigeria would never work for the progress of Nigeria.


When victims of poor handling of Nigeria take sides with those who are mishandling Nigeria; where will their deliverance come? He who has refused to be helped cannot be helped.


A free, fair and prosperous Nigeria where all Nigerians count is possible if every Nigerian is willing and committed to its realization.


Citizens of well to do countries that many Nigerians will do anything to visit, work, live and/or invest didn't have better heads than us. The difference is their excellent mentality and right attitude towards their national affairs. 


Let's take a cue from nations that have gone ahead of us to develop right attitude towards our collective affairs instead of merely going there to look and enjoy the good in there. The proof of exposure to excellence is established by delivering excellence. What is the essence of seeing it all and enjoying it all elsewhere without doing it at all in your own country?


To be sweating profusely where there is chilling cold air conditioning system shows that something is wrong with you not the environment. It is unexpected and unacceptable to have everything and lack everything! That we are blessed so much (with favourable weather conditions, natural resources and human resources) yet, suffer so much is our own making. 


We may be sick and tired of Nigeria and being a Nigerian, if we are not sick and tired of our wrong deeds that rendered Nigeria impossible; we aren't done with being sick and tired of having an under performing country. 


For as long there is a country called Nigeria as ours, let's keep hope of a better Nigeria alive and actively work for it. We cannot continue to be suffering in the midst of plenty. None of us should continue to be a threat to the safety, security, ease, peace and prosperity of any (or some or all) of us. Nigeria can be great if all Nigerians do their bit.


©20/10/2021.

_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh

Advance Everyday

...living life at best

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

PRIORITIZE LOVELINESS ABOVE SEXINESS


Some female folks think what make them a real woman is being sexy (and that's all). So, they prioritize being sexually appealing/attractive to guys/men above all other things.
Some took it to extreme by reducing themselves to mere sex object having nothing of real value to offer men except sexual pleasures. They project themselves in such a way that the only thing that comes to mind at sighting them is sex, sex and sex as shown by their usual provocative/seductive dressing, appearance, carriage and conduct in public.
Since constructive thinking and corresponding actions is not part of them; advancement of thier communities/nation and humanity is not their concern. What am I saying 'sefu'? How possible is it for someone that takes pleasures in self devaluation to always add value to others?
All their investments is on cosmetics, wardrobes, nudity and unnecessary body reconstruction to make them more sexy in their own eyes as a packaged sex object.
Anybody may argue it to any lenght by calling it civilization and freedom of dressing but of what benefit is nudity in the real sense? What message is whoever lavishly exposes parts of her body (that should be modestly covered in public) passing across to others?
Public nudity cannot be separated from immorality, frivolity, promiscuity and prostitution. If you say there are women who dresses seductively but are still very decent, you need to check out the meaning of decency.
Modest dressing don't outrightly connote modest living (but modest living includes/covers modest dressing). There are people that are modestly dressed whose mouth, conducts and lifestyles are immodest but for whoever has modest mouth, conducts and lifestyles; it will also reflect in his/her dressing.
If you don't engage in immoral practices and you always advertise to opposite sex to lust after you following your suggestive appearances in public; what is that? By paying keen attention to your heart, you will realise that you are already projecting yourself wayward.
However, there is another set of women whose price is more than rubies. They are the wise women, the precious jewels and highly distinguished among women who placed premium on virtuous living and nothing else. For this honorable women; their own investment is on capacity building to be solution providers thereby, enhancing their womanhood with unwavering commitment to becoming more and more lovely not merely sexy.
What makes a woman a super woman is not her height or the size of her breast or the size of her buttocks or her hips or her frame/structure/stature/shape or the colour of her skin or the contents of her wardrobes or her jewelries or her cosmetics or the numbers of parties she had attended or her age or her nudity in public or her virginity or the number of men she had mated with or the number of abortion she had committed or the number of her children or her marital status or when she got married or her background or her race/tribe/ethnicity/nationality or her past.
The worth of a real woman is in her values and virtues as she is devoted to all that is right, true, pure, good, noble, lovely, admirable, beneficial, praiseworthy and excellent.
Nudity is not nobility.
Jewels are not made by jewelry. As a heart of gold is not birthed by wearing gold.
Loveliness is profitable than sexiness. Thus, lovely women are highly preferred and revered than sexy women.
Real celebrity (whose conducts and lifestyles are worthy of emulation) are not made by frivolity, nudity and promiscuity.
If sex is the only thing a man/woman is good at, he/she needs to go back to the drawing board and build relevant capacity to make him/her a super man/woman.
Super women are intelligent, independent, industrious, productive, prudent, peaceful, patriotic, just and decent/modest. They don't get things done (or succeed or become influential and prosperous) through ''bottom power''. They are not 'adara masuwon tabi awelewa masefe' (referring to beautiful women with pissful conducts).
Anyone with physical beauty without inner beauty is a beautifully packaged calamity thus, whoever embraces him/her has embraced life wire. To be outwardly beautiful and inwardly ugly is a mess. It takes inner beauty to enhance, amplify, maintain, sustain and nourish outer beauty. "When a girl has beauty without Brains, the Private parts suffer the most." (I got this quote attributed to Pete Edochie on internet)
No one else best described a super woman like the Biblical Poet and Royal Majesty - The wisest, richest and most successful King in his time; King Solomon as he wrote in Proverbs 31:10-31(amp)
"10A capable, intelligent, and [b]virtuous woman--who is he who can find her? She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.(D)
11The heart of her husband trusts in her confidently and relies on and believes in her securely, so that he has no lack of [honest] gain or need of [dishonest] spoil.
12She comforts, encourages, and does him only good as long as there is life within her.
13She seeks out wool and flax and works with willing hands [to develop it].
14She is like the merchant ships loaded with foodstuffs; she brings her household's food from a far [country].
15She rises while it is yet night and gets [spiritual] food for her household and assigns her maids their tasks.(E)
16She considers a [new] field before she buys or accepts it [expanding prudently and not courting neglect of her present duties by assuming other duties]; with her savings [of time and strength] she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard. [S. of Sol. 8:12.]
17She girds herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] and makes her arms strong and firm.
18She tastes and sees that her gain from work [with and for God] is good; her lamp goes not out, but it burns on continually through the night [of trouble, privation, or sorrow, warning away fear, doubt, and distrust].
19She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20She opens her hand to the poor, yes, she reaches out her filled hands to the needy [whether in body, mind, or spirit].
21She fears not the snow for her family, for all her household are doubly clothed in scarlet.(F)
22She makes for herself coverlets, cushions, and rugs of tapestry. Her clothing is of linen, pure and fine, and of purple [such as that of which the clothing of the priests and the hallowed cloths of the temple were made].(G)
23Her husband is known in the [city's] gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.(H)
24She makes fine linen garments and leads others to buy them; she delivers to the merchants girdles [or sashes that free one up for service].
25Strength and dignity are her clothing and her position is strong and secure; she rejoices over the future [the latter day or time to come, knowing that she and her family are in readiness for it]!
26She opens her mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness [giving counsel and instruction].
27She looks well to how things go in her household, and the bread of idleness (gossip, discontent, and self-pity) she will not eat.(I)
28Her children rise up and call her blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied); and her husband boasts of and praises her, [saying],
29[c]Many daughters have done virtuously, nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], but you excel them all.
30Charm and grace are deceptive, and beauty is vain [because it is not lasting], but a woman who reverently and worshipfully fears the Lord, she shall be praised!
31Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates [of the city]!(J)"
_Stephen Olamilekan Jimoh
Advance Everyday
...living life at best

Monday, 26 June 2017

THE ENGINE ON YOUR INSIDE













(Image Credit: Unknown)

It's not now
to stoop so low.
Don't wake up tomorrow;
weak, broke and shallow.
No time is proper
to relinguish your power.
It's always too late
to indulge in foul play.

Having done well for so long,
don't cease to be strong.
Go on without doing wrong
to always sing new songs.
From you people draw inspiration
to live above their limitations.

You have come this far
to soar higher and higher
Never to be conquered
by things you have conquered.
Though the storm rages stronger,
it's not an excuse to go haywire.

No trial should take away your victory.
Always unlock your productivity.
Yours can be the best success story
in the history of entire humanity.
I give to you the words of PB;
"the engine on your inside is of a heavy duty capacity".

(Image Credit: Extramadness.com)


Take away insights:

Every hardship, every trouble, every lack and maltreatment shouldn't get your life shattered.

Make all the wrong/evil you have done/suffered and those you didn't do/suffer in the past to be 'crossed over' not 'carry over' - (never again to do/suffer them).

Every time is inappropriate for you to compromise your good standing for any reason.

Always resist the pressure to embrace misleading thought patterns and negative counsels lest you take wrong steps.

In a bid to solve/prevent problems, do not create/cause more problems or compound already existing problems.

Your pride, your honour, your prestige, your integrity, your good name and your glory should not be lost in any move to meet a need.

There are different ways of getting things done but always employ the very right way to make good things happen and get going from glory to glory.

Never forget that; "the engine on your inside is of a heavy duty capacity" as declared by Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo.
You are above and beyond every adversary. You are well able to do valiantly in every way.
Regardless of how bad it is, you can always do well and be exceedingly great without messing up your dignity even in politics (as impossible it may seem), private practice, civil service, unlikely places and in 'toughest times'.

Selah!

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