1. Nobody has the right to define your value or qualifies in any way, shape, or form, to set your standards. That decision is yours to make; you make the rules not them!

2. Trust your intuition. Draw from your own inclinations. Follow your heart. You are an authority. You are all you need to be where you need to be.

3. Like I often enthuse, do not allow yourself to be pressured into accepting mediocrity when you’re designed for excellence.

4. It is all within us, what will become of us. It is our own very choice that will rule us.

1. Opportunities are there but only the prepared can grab it. You can begin today, this very first day of the month, to put all your ducks in a row, and seriously pursue every single goal that your heart so desires.

2. There is no such thing as being lucky. Luck is a myth. You can’t be or achieve what you have when you’ve not in some way prepared (or positioned) yourself for it.

1. Just because you weren’t there today doesn’t mean you will not get there tomorrow. Forbearance is the muscle of progress, as persistence is the spine of fulfillment. Don’t just exist, persist! Delay is not derailment.

2. That you fell in a couple of pits doesn’t mean you are bound by your pitfalls. Stand up, stand right! Adjust your vision, focus!!

3. Sometimes, if you’re not pushed to the wall, you will never find your bearing. You need to feel the walls with your hands – in other to gain balance, define your position, and orchestrate your next plan of action.

4. God does not promise that there will not be bumps, hurdles, and hardships on the way. But what He most assuredly guarantees us is that He will be with us through the waves and turbulence, to successfully ferry us to our promised seashore. Stay focused.

1. You don’t need a whole village to get to the top. You only need a few key people who will serve as strategic links to help you get there.

2. Shared or common interests among individuals, to a large extent, do not guarantee success in many kinds of relationships, especially intimate ones. But resemblance in emotional typology (temperament) and/or sociocultural experiences, tend to, more often than not, create room for a seemingly harmonious discourse on the table of divergent perspectives and opinions.

3. Pay close attention to folks whose ears get itchy to hear your failures but turn a deaf ear when you talk about your successes.

4. A woman’s best comeback is her total focus on self and a life cultivated in purpose and a deep sense of self-worth.

1. Hidden in the ‘blacks and whites’ of our lives are the seemingly incomprehensible and mind-boggling grey areas.

2. Life is like pieces of puzzle: you would hardly figure it out at your very first attempt. It takes a series of tiny efforts and steps toward the right direction to turn the old story into new glory.

3. If you’ve grasped what I call the ‘chameleonic mentality,’ you’ve reached mastery level in the subtle art of blending with your environment.

1. Worry less about how quickly you want to get there; rather, concentrate more on the impact you are making—and the priceless lessons and experiences you gain in every single step and phase.

2. The difference between a successful person and one who is not successful is simple: the former never ceases to try again and again after failing the first time, but the latter quits on every first trial.

3. A big picture thinker is a futuristic time traveler who never resides in the moment. He is an intellectual artist who curates the pixels of today’s moments to create the magnificent mosaic of a better tomorrow.

1. Education is the key to unlocking all the ‘hidden’ treasures you never thought were possible to discover. It broadens your vision, widens your horizons, and presents endless opportunities and space for exponential advancements and socioeconomic multiplicities.

2. Our knowledge bank is limited to only what we have encountered, either by association, observation, or study.

1. Until you UNLEARN the act of fiddling with feces, folks will continue to randomly and whimsically dump shit at your doorpost. Be wise.

2. When it comes to straightening one’s integrity and standing on the truth, halfwits would persist on philosophizing.

1. Your smile is your signature, your unique expression of grace and candor.

2. The same sets of individuals who, today, think you are different and operate with unconventional methods will, tomorrow, come running to you with open arms of awe-inspiring embrace—to reverence your uniqueness and sheer individuality.

3. Show me folks that are JUST ordinary, and I will show you folks that JUST dwell under the clouds of utter mediocrity. Dare to be different!

1. You may have begun this journey in sheer bitterness, be hopeful, take a deep breath, the end will be sweeter than wild honey.

2. Life’s experiences come in various numberless shades and colors. If you’ve got an interestingly diverse color wheel, you’re a top-tier maven and certainly playing your role as an accidental soldier in this drama called life.

1. If things do not seem to go ‘right,’ go left. In other words, if the first prospect failed, try the second, even the third and the fourth. Explore every route that can lead to your destination. Leave no stone unturned. Keep that goal and dream alive.

2. I’m not one to indulge in self-pity or wail over past ‘failures,’ there is too much to do and become in the future. Besides, failures are like bitter pills, no matter how nasty they taste, we all need our fair dose to get well.

1. “The inability to recognize value often results in opportunity loss.”