Choose your friends wisely;

Choosing friends wisely is a vital key to become the person you aim to be. This is because your life reflects the sum total of the people you associate with and the relationships you nurture. A popular proverb states;

‘Show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are’

The friends you spend time with will reflect who you are and the future you are creating.

How to choose your friends wisely;

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How to live a long & productive life;

Whatever your disposition or challenges you have experienced, you can make a decision to take back control of your life and live a longer and more productive life.

2 major ways to achieve this include;

  • Natural: Adjusting your habits to support a healthy and positive lifestyle physically and mentally.
  • Spiritual:– Building up your spirituality in order to overcome negative habits and patterns that tend to stop you from taking back control of your life and achieving more positive life outcomes.

We will discuss these 2 major ways in details next;

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Fear vs Faith;

 Imagine FEAR as a ‘strong man’ whose aim is to stop you from moving forward, or achieving your goals. Whereas FAITH does exactly the opposite; You need faith (or courage) to overcome your fears and achieve success in your endeavours.

“The best things in life are always on the other side of your fear” Steve Harvey.

Fear is a negative emotion or thought which has the ability to paralyse you completely from taking action forward – It is usually based on an emotional  perception that something may go wrong. Hence the acronym for fear defined as; F – false, E – Evidence, A – Appearing, R – Real. A good example is the sort of fear you feel when you want to do something outside your comfort zone, such as public speaking.

Fear paralyses:(

Fear is conceived in your mind based on your perceived inabilities. This perception automatically triggers off the emotions of fear which could paralyse you from fulfilling your goal. Fear is the umbilical cord that connects its victim with negative emotions (i.e worry, anxiety or panic), this is the conduit that births the situation you have so fearfully perceived.

Faith, on the other hand, is a phenomenal concept. It is the opposite of fear, the only effective antidote to fear, and its the umbilical cord (or conduit) that connects you to hope, courage and victory. Fear and faith cannot dwell together as one will always give way to the other. However, the great news is that you have the ability within you to resist your fears and choose faith. FEAR connects you to a death cycle while FAITH connects you to hope and life which brings health, sound mind and ultimately success. Which will you rather choose? The scripture admonishes;

 ‘I set before you life and death… Therefore choose life’ Deuteronomy 30:19

Faith – A helping hand of hope:)

How to choose Faith over Fear; Continue reading Fear vs Faith;

As a man thinks, so he becomes;

Your thoughts (Positive or negative) will create your personality and who you become;

Your thoughts are not invisible things as we generally believe, rather your thoughts produce real energy and create pictures or images in your mind (subconscious), just as the words you speak, your thoughts will eventually reproduce into the physical what your mind has been creating (or thinking). As the wise King Solomon states;

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he – Proverbs 27:3

The truth is we are life co – creators based on our thoughts, words and the corresponding actions we take. For instance, if you start a new role in an organisation and then begin to think that the role is too good for you and it may not be long before you lose the job. The first chance the organisation gets to downsize or remove someone, guess what, you will make that list. You have not prophesied or predicted the future, but the negative thoughts you planted as a seed and nurtured in your mind just bore equivalent fruits.

Offence comes as a seed and your heart will grow whatever you plant in it – B.Winston

In the same vain, when you plant positive thoughts you will bear more desirable and positive fruits always. Therefore, you must learn to guard and guide your thoughts to work for you.

3 tips on how to guard and control your thoughts; Continue reading As a man thinks, so he becomes;