Merry Christmas to you. May your family and loved ones experience the peace, love and joy that comes with this season. I love you
Author: ablethoughts
I Feel Like Screaming
People think I am crazy but I am not
I have once screamed and someone heard seizure
I am no noise maker but I like to sound-
Just sometimes, I ran the decibels
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Once upon a time
A little boy of mine was born
Introduced to the most busiest of bus stations-
Oshodi, Lagos is the community
When It Comes To Sex, Everyone Is A Suspect
It was a foggy Sunday morning, and it is customary for the family to attend quarterly thanksgiving service at the city cathedral. It was going to be a communion service and catching up on familiar faces that were off due to the recent winter break. Elizabeth and Rick have been married for a decade and blessed with two beautiful daughters – Kate and Grace. Rick is an ordained minister in their local church. It is 7am in the morning, the alarm rung and it is time to take shower and have breakfast. Everyone getting prepared but Rick is nowhere to be found. Elizabeth suspects he must be out jogging in the early morning or busy on his laptop in the attic room. Service starts by 9am, the family is expected to leave home for church by 8:40am. It normally takes them between 15minutes to drive to church.
Where is Dad? Shouted Grace, the youngest of their children. In no time, in frenzy utterance, she called her dad out again. This is because she will be participating in a lip sync battle at the morning Sunday school. Mom, where is daddy? Is he not taking us to church this morning? I am having a lip sync battle in the junior church, I don’t want to be late. In a stern response “Hey sweetie, Dad is somewhere preparing as well, now finish eating your cereals so I can clean up’. Albeit, Elizabeth does not have an inkling of Rick’s whereabouts. She saw him last when he used the bathroom few minutes after the alarm buzzed. (more…)
What’s Your Selling Point?
Selling isn’t part of the game, selling is the game.
I remembered when I was first introduced to UPS- unique selling point or proposition. It sounded like another cliché or the courier company. I have come to understand that UPS which also will mean selling point is basically your coveted strengths and harnessed opportunities. Your selling point is what unique potential or talent you have that differentiates from the other 7 billion people on this planet. How is that even possible in this copycat culture? Yes, that is possible. (more…)
I Still Smile
There is a hole in my heart, every day is a blessing
I have got hard accent but none can silence my voice
I have health issues but my daily task is met
I lost my job but I must survive
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This morning was shitty but I made it to work
They are trying to pull me down but still floating
Hunger fought me for days, tap water to the rescue
I lost the fight, my back to training ground
My Super Smart Salad
Y’all check out my super smart salad! Smart? Like how? Yea! Like the Samsung smart TV. Do not test me, I’ve aced already. I can instruct this salad to talk. It has so many nutrients including vitamins, minerals, protein, cabs … I can dialogue with. In fact, if I want I can dial up protein, or ping cabs… yes! I can do all that. Right now, I just want to Tumblr on the fruit. This is a super smart salad, no kidding hey! It has the perfect blend of a balanced diet. Stay with me….
My super smart salad allows you to do all those ‘smart’ things you do with a smart TV Set. For instance, a smart TV comes with video conferencing, I can share my salad with friends and family real time without internet brouhaha. My dinning is my conference room. My social integration is so much on point! My eating spoon is the remote. I can decide to take a chunk of the pomegranate arils or squeeze out the blueberry juice for additional excitement. (more…)
The Culture of Haters
CULTURE OF HATERS
The power you give to an opinion can become a stumbling block or stepping stone for your progress. In this piece I want to consider when an opinion is aimed at bringing down rather than building up. No one has ever existed without the ‘haters club’ or escape the backlash of the disciples of conspiracy. In front of many; people like Pope, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi, even Jesus can do no good. Yet they went on to fulfill their assignment. Sometimes we give spine to the thoughts of those who don’t pay the bill.
Where are these haters? They are everywhere. Not just that random guy who messes up your tweets or that old friend who disses you on Instagram. They are everywhere. They are in workplace, community and even family members. To move ahead, you do not need not look for them but past them. (more…)
RIP To My Mentor: Dr Myles Munroe
Words can’t express how heartbroken am I when I heard the tragic news about one of my mentors. His books, tapes and teachings have inspired me. It was confirmed he died on a plane crash enroute global leadership forum, Bahamas. Among people in the plane was his wife, daughter and seven other passengers.
The Bahamas Tribune reports that;
The plane reportedly struck a crane at the Grand Bahama Ship Yard, exploding on impact and crashing into the ground near a junkyard area.
#The Department of Civil Aviation reported that the plane was a Lear 36 executive jet which departed the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) for the Grand Bahama International Airport.
#The plane left LPIA at 4.07pm with nine people on board and crashed while making an approach for landing at Grand Bahama International Airport at 5.10pm, the Department of Civil Aviation said.
Dr. Myles Munroe (20 April 1954 – 9 November 2014) was the president and founder of the Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI) and Myles Munroe International (MMI), a Christian growth and resource center that includes leadership training institutes, a missions agency, a publishing company, a television network, radio and Web communications, and a church community. He was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the International Third World Leaders Association and president of the International Leadership Training Institute. He was the author of 69 books and was a motivational speaker
Seven Ways To Dealing With Heartbreak
How do you recover from a broken heart? You gave your time, money, your patience, your body and your secrets out and it’s all thrown back at you like a piece of trash. Oh yes, most of us must have gone through familiar cycle of desertion in relationship or marriage. ‘How do I continue, even If I pretend? I cannot sleep in the night. The ache I feel in my soul cannot be assuaged by the most profound combinations of pills. Is this life? Get trodden or trolled? You’re a loser in both ways.’ Read Dianne full story below;
I got back from a really stressful day at work at the new site of my interior design project. I sipped some juice, clear out the garbage for the council and hurriedly navigate down the community soccer field in the suburbs. I promised my daughter I was going to attend the evening soccer game where she’s the goal. I’d expected Brad to meet me up at the venue.
I was fully immersed into the game now that it is a tie and both teams pressing hard into each other’s box 32 to edge a win. It is 7:30 in the evening, but Brad is yet to show up. Time clocks forward, game is over, it finished with a 2-2 tie, and time is quarter past 8, still no show or scintilla of Brad. This is unusual of my boyfriend of the last three and the half years. (more…)
The Beautiful Attraction and Distraction of the Feminine Gender
Have you ever considered the world made of only men? That would have been the most unimaginable boring world. In popular old culture, the masculine gender runs the show. They are everywhere, from the factory, office to the fore front of technological advancement. Could this be that the ‘man’ is the only entity that can keep the human race and animal world fueled.
When you look into history either through the lens of the evolution of man by Charles Darwin or creation as documented in the book of genesis. The man is a product of the woman, yet the woman is the by-product of the man, so the man is intertwined with the woman. ‘Wo-man’, not only is a man with womb but a man with much width- the curves and cleavages. Say no more, son! (more…)
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