Birthday Post: 10 Lessons Life has taught me │ Muyiwa Olasehinde

1. Age is just a number.

Nobody should be limited because they are young. You are not too young to begin. You are not too old to embark on your achievements. Brace the odds and set on the path to success.

2. The best life centre is God

There will be a lot of factors appealing to you - money, fame, possessions, friends family...But trust me, if your life is centred on God, the storm will only blow, you will have peace.

3. How you react to life and 'lifers' is entirely under your control.

No one will tread on you without your consent.

4. Take the relationships (people) in your life seriously.

HEARD OF DYNAMITE?│Banji Odurombi

When my good friend asked me to write on his blog, I never did consider it a difficult task but what was more difficult for me was what was going to be my first. People usually talk of their first ‘date’, ‘kiss’, ‘car’, ‘phone’,… I leave you to supply the other firsts. Of all that struggled for relevance, I finally arrived that this should be my first.
A story was once told of a man who had planned to go on vacation with his wife but unfortunately the wife couldn’t make the trip probably because she had to urgently attend to some other things, leaving the man to go on the vacation alone. In the euphoria of the vacation, the man decided to send a telegram to his wife. He approached the telegrapher at the reception and dictated the following words to the telegrapher: "Having a nice time wish you were here". But the telegrapher typed and sent: "Having a nice time wish you were her", omitting the last letter in the sentence ‘e’ and by implication giving the sentence another meaning entirely. Can you imagine the havoc this could wreak on their marriage?

Little wonder the preacher ‘preached’ “Take up the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vine: for our vines have tender grapes”

12 Personal Lessons from Stephen Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"

1.  No shortcuts. The law of sowing and reaping is non-negotiable.
2. What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
3. The way we see a problem is the problem.
4. It is not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurt us. We are free to choose our response in any situation, but in doing so, we choose the attendant consequences.
5. Effectiveness does not depend solely on how much effort we expend , but on whether or not the effort is in the right jungle.
6. We accomplish all that we do through delegation. If we delegate to time, we think efficiency. If we delegate to other people, we think effectiveness. Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high-leverage activities.
7. The more genuine your character,