Waje, Bankybrown and Toke Makinwa are grateful for 2014

It's testimony time, despite all the troubles around the world, God has kept us till today, it's more than enough to be thankful for.

"Good morning sweets. I’m grateful for so much. At the end of 2013 I was in a very dark place, toxic relationship, wanted to quit music and was worried about my weight, health issues and actually believed everyone around me was balling except me lol, but This year!!! I’ve grown a very thick skin, so things that will usually hurt are now refreshment when my friends and I are gisting lol (bad belle is allowed), my daughter graduated, moved into a bigger house with everything I want in it, I invested more in business and God gave me more, can afford to take care of my parents, I no longer give excuses for my failures, I just get up and ask the Holy Spirit to help, discernment is my best friend and even when it’s far from me I retrace my steps. I’m more mature, not quick to anger like I was in the past and my year is ending in the most beautiful way, My whole family is here with me. I ve you guys. There’s so much to be thankful for. 2015 will be a better year, I know this cos I know my father, he loves me enough to ensure that my testimonies never end. What’s your testimony? Let’s rejoice with u #merrychristmas#spreadlove #leavehate."

From her instagram post

Bankybrown's testimony followed

@ Bankybrown “2014 testimony in Retrospect, The year leading to dec 2013 was a depressing year, lost someone really dear to me, was with someone with the highest level of insecurity u can ever imagine, which depressed me even further, my grades were terribly marred! I was faced with challenges both left right and centre. This exact day dec 2013 I was in the highest point of depression, away from my family, trying to surmount a huge financial mountain! God showed up. That’s my testimony! What’s yours"

Tokemakinwa "Super thankful for how far I have come,God has shown me His goodness Ya'll....... 2014 was a good year indeed. Grateful for life, the good/bad/sad. Excited for 2015, Lord please make it even better #Greatness"

Grateful Lord.

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Wang Jianlin was born in 1954, so he should be 60 now, he was brought up by his father, an Army veteran in an industrial region of China’s western Sichuan Province, who fought under Mao Zedong’s Red Army during the Long March Campaign. Wang Jianlin is the eldest and he has 4 younger brothers and he is married to Lin Ning.

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My practical ways of dealing with confusion are as follows. 

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Today, we want to share the story of a particular woman.

Some things are ridiculous and strange, but they happen, in fact, may be this is even trivial compared to some other stories we have not heard.

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Her aunt got married to her heartthrob and everything was normal and going on very well, they were not very rich but they were very comfortable, they had a sweet home, neighbours envied their intimacy, they were a role model to a lot of young couples and aspiring couples.

Two years later after their wedding, they had a bouncing baby girl, Wow, God is good, the couple was very excited at the birth of their princess, the love that existed between these two naturally was extended to their lovely angel. The man was very fond of the daughter, always excited he is a father now, even his friends will tell him jokingly that he is behaving as if he is the first father in the whole world.

A year and a half later, the couple had another baby girl and two years following the 2^nd girl, another baby girl arrived, the family is growing, there is love, there is money, health and every good thing. The first daughter was 4 years and 6months old, the second was 3 years and the third was just a year old.

All of a sudden, the husband started behaving like he is frustrated,

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Self Evaluation

 I decided to stay alone in a very quiet place to be able to meditate and to evaluate my actual performance using my personal targets, as this year is comes to an end.

I took the small note pad I wrote my goals for the year on the 1^st of January, 2014, I started marking them one by one to know how well I have done, based on the targets I gave myself. Well, after marking, I got 60%, I gave myself this mark because some of the goals were met even beyond my expectation while some were not met at all (beyond human control), and some others can only be measured on a long term bases (to be realistic). That’s me grading myself, I may be wrong if you give me a grade.

In previous years, I usually don’t take the setting of targets and self evaluation serious, I just say my new year resolutions with my mouth and never write anything down, I didn’t follow the rule of “make the vision plain upon the table” so of course I couldn’t run with the vision. Back then, I can use my mouth to say a lot of things I want to achieve each year that passes by (most of them unrealistic), I will use my mouth to give the target, give the strategy but never follow through with actions.

I can remember specifically in 2012 and 2013, I felt very

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• Just as gold is not easy to come by, but it's value is worth the energy spent on the search for it, dig deeper and deeper for that precious dream of yours.
• Look behind the scenes of that beautiful movie that keeps you talking because of how well it entertained you, you will notice that it wasn't fun to make the movie the fun it is now.
• Don't concentrate on what you can grab for yourself only, think of what you can give out to help others.
• Don't say "they" will correct the wrong, be the "they" that will correct the wrong.
• Be grateful for who you are now even as you aspire for more, many are not even an inch near where you are now.
• Opportunities only favour those who are ready and recognize them, don't allow an opportunity stroll pass you casually.
• You can never reach a destination if you don't take the first step.

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The clamour for women empowerment and the fight for women rights have been a heated debate for a really long time. Some opine that a woman’s duty in life is just to tend to her husband and children and generally keep the home and that women ought not to have career goals but rather focus as just home makers.
Women who are ambitious about their life goals are not well respected as they tend to seem as bossy independent women who will never do well as home makers.

The heated debate seems to me as a long ending issue that will keep surfacing overtime. But then recently, in my quiet time with God, I came across a verse in the Book of Judges that gave me something really deep to think about.

In Judges 4:4- “And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time”.

I meditated deeply on this verse and The Holy Spirit gave me a new understanding. Deborah was not just a wife of Lapidoth but she was a prophetess and a judge over Israel. The main point here

Your inadequacy is not the issue | © Fola Daniel Adelesi

Often times we feel inadequate and we think we cannot achieve what is ahead of us because of how inadequate we think we are. When we are given some responsibilities we look more at what is lacking in us rather than what we can still do. We often talk about the things we cannot do instead of looking at the help we can get. So, unconsciously, we limit ourselves with the talk about our inadequacy when it actually cannot limit us.

We are more powerful than those inadequacies we are talking about. They are not strong enough to limit us from achieving the things that we desire to achieve. We have only been limited because we allowed those inadequacies to limit us.

The extent of power that anything has over us is determined by how much power we have released unto that thing. if you have not been able to do anything that you desire to do, it is certainly not because of the inadequacy you are looking at. I can tell it’s either you are not ready to do it or it is something you were not meant to do at all.

Whatever it is that you were designed or wired to do, there is no inadequacy that can stop you except you let it get in the way. I need you to understand that the power within you is far more than the things around you. with the power within you it is possible to break obvious limits.

You are to focus on what’s inside you and not what is outside you. if all you see is limitations and inadequacies then you will see more of that. When you choose to see possibilities then you will see more of those possibilities.

I dare say that most of the people who have achieved something meaningful in life have, at one time or the other

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A startup of two staff hires a wrong third person; the effect of the wrong hiring decision is one out of three, which is a 33% negative impact.
A large company of 99 staff hires a wrong 100^th person; the effect of the wrong hiring decision is one out of hundred, which is a 1% negative impact.

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The reasons given for the strike are, Nigeria government's inability to manage the refineries in the country properly, delay in reducing fuel pump prices to reflect the global crude oil slump in prices. They also want government to bring out new and effective strategies to combat pipe lines vandalism and other reasons.

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The first church world cup that took place in India ended yesterday  night and the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Nigeria, has emerged the winner of the world cup.

They defeated United Church of Colombia with 7-0 in the final game in Goa, India.

Adekunkunle Adegboyega is the top striker of the MFM FC, he started the goals, the other scorers are Midfielder, Sheriff Alashe, Nelson Kenedimi and Sikiru Olatunbosun. The whole team made the success realistic.

The teams that participated were from, Egypt, Colombia, Brazil, Ghana, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Nigeria and the host India.

 

The boys are meant to return to Nigeria on Tuesday and the General Overseer of MFM, Dr D.K Olukoya has announced a grand reception for them.

Congratulations to MFM FC and Nigeria.

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Written Goals by David Adeleke

People live up to what they have written down. According to the Harvard Business Review (HBR OnPoint 2001, PN* 7915), once someone puts something in writing, the odds that he or she will fulfill the commitment greatly increases. This principle of life is proven in several ways; for example, people who write down their goals are much more likely to follow, remember and fulfill these goals than people who do not write them down. Furthermore, once someone puts a commitment into writing, they feel they are obliged to fulfill it. This explains why successful organizations have the habit of putting up their mission statements, visions and core values all over the walls of their offices. This serves as a way of reminding their stakeholders about the direction in which they are heading.

Of course, this rule, as scientifically proven as it is, doesn’t work for everybody. There are those that, no matter how much writing they do, will never live by their commitments and achieve their goals. However, that shouldn’t be you. The understanding of this rule has helped improve my level of productivity. For example, before heading into the youth service year, I made a list of 12 goals I must achieve by July 2015. Two, out of those goals have been achieved, one of which is to become a feature writer on Bella Naija (oya, clap for me now!). Also, the fact that I wrote down my goals as afforded me the opportunity of revisiting and updating them almost weekly. In the last four months, I have updated the list more than twice. In the process, I took out the goals that no longer

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• Always stand up for what you believe, once you are sure it is the right course.
• Look at the mirror on a daily basis and remind yourself of that dream to be a great person.
• Learn things that will take you forward, not things that will drag you backward.
• Never allow your bad past affect your bright future, let go and move on.
• It is your action that produces results not your confessions. Act on your confessions.

Only leaders with a heart | © Fola Daniel Adelesi

Many leaders around the world talk about transformation and that is even the song on the lips on my own leaders at the moment. They think that they can just create some documents, have nice power points or some great TV commercials and the people will believe that they can truly transform the country or the jurisdiction they have to lead.

Transformation is not in what you say or even think that you will do. You can’t transform the people you are leading or the place you are leading just by doing very nice public relations. Take a look at all the leaders around the world who have truly done some transformation where they are. It is glaring that they did not do it with all the technological tools that we use to bamboozle the people we are trying to lead today.

If you are going to transform the people you lead or the place where you are leading you will need the real heart to transform. Transformation is not something that will just be on your lips and you think it can happen. You must have the people in your heart. It is important to have the goals, ambitions, welfare of those places and people first in your heart and truly love them before you can transform anything.

For example in Nigeria, the leaders that we had immediately after independence did so much for us yet the resources they had in those days was very limited. Through those leaders we got

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31 babies born during the RCCG Holy Ghost congress

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The General Overseer also said everyone should ensure they get their voters card, it's a condition to participate in the release of the new blessings upon you. Yes, it's that serious.

Congratulations to the families of the newborns.

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The party also believe that they can always count on all concerned for their immense support for the tasks ahead.

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Instagram hits over 300 million monthly users (Hard work and focus pays)

I read about the C.E.O and co-founder of Instagram (Kevin Systrom) on Business Insider. 

Kevin grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, northeastern United States.

He started practicing computer programming after his primary school and he studied Management Science and Engineering in the university but his passion for programming continued as he went along.

He interned at Odeo (a company founded in 2005 by Evan Williams) which later turned into Twitter while he was in the university. He worked in Google, Nextstop and kept going with his passion till he met some investors from Base line Ventures and Andresen Horowitz who invested in his passion. At this time he invited Mike Krieger (the co-founder and technical lead) to join him.

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