Inspiration For Peak Performance

I am convinced that this is a season of progress because the best way to predict the future is to have the power to shape it. History is on our side and it’s another opportunity to seize the moment as we change our attitude towards the past since it is obvious we cannot change it. Why must we wait for every four years only to concentrate on quarrels about who becomes our president at elections rather than agree on where we should be headed? I have followed a lot of discussions in the social media space about who becomes Nigeria’s President in February 2015. Expectedly, these conversations have often led to fights, quarrels and war of words. So many campaigns on the pages of newspapers are merely attempts to attack the personalities of political actors who are seeking the driver’s seat at the next elections in the hope that this tactics will dissuade the unsuspecting public from voting for such individuals. There has been a general famine of clear messages about their pla...

We all have moments when we feel better than our best, and we say "I feel fit for anything; if only i could be like this always!" We are not meant to be. Those moments are moments of insight which we have to live up to when we do not feel like it. Many of us are no good for this workaday world when there is no high hour. We must bring our commonplace life up to the standard revealed in the high hour. Never allow a feeling which was stirred in you in the high hour to evaporate.  Don't put your mental feet on the mantelpiece and say - "What a marvelous state of mind to be in!" Act immediately, do something, if only because you would rather not do it. If in a prayer meeting God has shown you something to do, don't say - "I'll do it"; do it! Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness. Laziness is always seen in cravings for the high hour; we talk about working up to a time on the mount. We have to learn t...

Nowadays, so many people complain about the stress and troubles they go through at work, even after struggling so hard to get the Job. Work spares us from so many evils which boredom, vice and need are part of them. Be thankful for the troubles of your job, for they provide you with about half if not all of your income. If it were not for the things that go wrong, the difficult people you have to deal with, the problems and unpleasantness of your working day, someone else could be found to handle your job for about half of what you are being paid. It takes intelligence, resourcefulness, patience, tact, and courage to meet the troubles of any job. That is why you hold your present job. And it may be the reason why you aren't holding down an even bigger one. If all of us would start to look for more challenges at work and learn to handle them cheerfully, with good judgement, as opportunities rather than irritations, we would find ourselves getting ahead at a surprising rate. For...