Success Drive

 Contending For Your Joy I started the day with great vibe and utmost motivation to achieve every of my goals by God's grace. However, it was not long after our family devotion that I discovered that something else wanted to hinder me from fulfilling God's plan for me. It was anger and resentment that almost shear me of my grace. But, thanks to God for giving me understanding and grace. It was when we were preparing breakfast. I had a pending conversation with someone and also wanted to send some documents to Papa on WhatsApp, so I dialed *131# and proceeded to activate a small MTN social bundle for WhatsApp only since that's just what I needed that time. Sadly, the activation was not successful but, I was changed by MTN, so I became very uncomfortable. Anxiety, grief, frustration and anger were already coming my way. I was beginning to imagine how I will call and blast the customer care agents.  Many thoughts were already running through my mine. But, then I remember how m

THE BENEFITS OF EMPATHY   Today I read some powerful stories and quotes about true friendship from the book, "The 10 Laws of Leadership" by Bill Newman. In the seventh chapter, the Australian writer and motivational speaker shared some great stories about friendship. One of them is about one great Indian preacher, Sundar Sigh, who helped a dying friend during their journey into the Tibet.  However, there is one story that really caught my attention. It was the story of how the famous Australian Athlete, John Landy, helped a junior athlete, Ron Clarke when he fell during a race. The athletes were actually in a race to break the then world record of running a mile within four minutes. When Ron Clarke fell over, Landy had all the chance to break the record and become the then world champion and record holder but he gave away this beautiful chance in order to pick up another athlete. This is not just humility, but it also show his humanity, empathy and concern for others.  Many o