The Gift Called 'ASKing'

It's been around for a long, long time, this gift called asking. In fact, one of life's fundamental truth states, ask and you shall receive. Isn't that simple? Of course it is. And kids are the masters. Their formula is ususally to ask until they get what they want. As adults, we seem to lose our ability to ask. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of rejection. Kids haven't been programmed like that. They really believe they can have anything they ask for, whether it's a fifty-foot swimming pool or a chocolate ice cream cone.Here is what you need to understand: The world responds to those who ask. If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't asking.When you ask, you receive all sort of information, ideals, strategies, names of people with influence and, yes, even money.There are many good reasons to ask and the reward is substantial. So why do people stumble when they have an oppourtunity to ask?
Essentially there are three reasons.
1. They have a belief system that says it's not right to ask.
2. They lack confidence
3.They fear rejection.
They are also five ways on how to ask and recieve.
1. Ask clearly 2. Ask with confidence. 3. Ask consistently. 4. Ask creatively.5. Ask sincerely.
Don't forget the habit of asking has changed the world.
There are many examples of great leaders who knew how to ask well. And they did it with commitment and passion. Jesus asked his diciples to follow him.They did, and christainity was born. Martin Luther King Jr. had adream of equality for all the people. He asked , and changed the course of history. Mother Teresa asked for help to assist the poor and dying and the Missionaries of charity was created. During World War II, Winston asked the people of United Kingdom to never, never give up, and the Great Briton was saved from invasion. It's important to note that each of this leaders had a powerful vison and total commitment to accomplishing their goal. For them asking was the natural way to make continuous progress.

A Dream Come Through.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”The Reverend Martin Luther King,Jr., said these words in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1963. He was America’s most prominent civil rights leader. The civil rights movement was the struggle to get laws and attitudes changed so that black Americans could have rights equal to those of white Americans.
Today, That dream has become a reality as Barak Obama The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his historic triumph by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a string of wins in hard-fought battleground states — Ohio, Florida, Iowa and more. He captured Virginia and Indiana, too, the first candidate of his party in 44 years to win either. Obama's election capped a meteoric rise — from mere state senator to president-elect in four years. Do you have a dream?

Stock Market Wahala!

The Great Depression began after the stock market crashed in October 1929. During the 1920s, many Americans had bought stocks—shares of ownership in companies. They hoped to make big profits, and they borrowed money to buy stocks.

When the stock market crashed, stocks lost their value. Some stocks became worthless. People who had put their money in the stock market lost most of it. They still owed the money they had borrowed to buy stocks. In just a few weeks, stocks lost $30 billion in value.

Nigerian stock exchange, NSE, will also be going through what happened to America stock market in the year 1929, if nothing is being done to correct the irregular, nonstandard, uncharacteristic, atypical, anomalous, unusual, strange, odd, deviant, aberrant, malformed and messy state the market is presently going through.

I was not too surprised the last time I walked into my stock brokering firm and saw hundreds of Nigerian trying to sell their stocks because of the regular depreciation of share price.

Listed equities on the floor of NSE are now losing their true worth on daily basis, while some have become worthless due to what an English man will call policy alteration, adjustment, amendment or reformation, .

Most short / medium and even the long team investors who had invested their hard earn income in blue chips stocks in 2007/2008 hoping to reap munificent at the end of the year are now suffering from high blood pressure. And for those that borrowed funds from banks and other financial institutions are now running helter scatter looking for remedy.

The truth is: Investors have lost total confidence /interests in the stock market that started early this year with all kinds of perks. And for those who called themselves the market bettor, gamester, speculator and high roller have all gone into hidey-hole.

Recommending any company’s stock now may be perplexing.

Though, stock forecasters, analysts or specialists are saying this is the best time to buy, but the big question is: who is ready to gamble?

I still believe we have thousands of Stock bettors / genuine investors out there who still want to risk f their money for profit, but they are some fundamental questions they need an exigent answer for before losing their hard earn income. These are some of the questions.

When will all the abnormalities end on the floor of NSE? Is there any bailout plans for the market? What is SEC, CBN, The House of Representative / Senate and other regulatory bodies doing to help the situation? These are fundamental questions investors want an exigent answer for before entrusting their hard earns income into the hands of their brokers.

I will wan to end this piece by saying, license me to say this to whoever cares to listen; the market will crash anytime from now if all the so-called regulatory bodies keep doing nothing to stop all the abnormalities the market is currently going through. And this is to say, you can also burn your fingers or lose your esteemed equities if you invest your money in any stock without carrying out proper investigation.

Don’t forget equity investment or investment of any kind is a risk that is only meant for investors that has a rich mind.

Your Health!

Today, we all talk of our investment / business, our career/ future and relationships but less talk on our health. We work 16 hours everyday Coupled with the junk food we eat but failed to take a proper rest, excercise and good nutrition.When was the last time you visited a doctor for a medical check? When was was the last time you engaged urself in good excercise for fitness And when was the last time you took a short vacation from work and from all mental activities to relax? I think all we are waiting for is 'break down' before we startdoing the afore mentions. Being healthy make us relevant to our world, and doing the afore mention saves us a lot of stress and money.. Let pay good attention to our health if we really want to fulfill our dreams here on earth. Dont forget, proper nutrition, good excercise nd rest are the key to stay healthy.

Happy Independence?

Just two years from today Nigeria will be 50 year old. Yes! 50 years, i can hear some people yelling so quick? 1960 seems like yesternight in the eyes of so many Nigerians who are agog to see a true independent nation.

Wait a minute, can you please take a snap shot of 48year old man whom God blessed with every good gift yet, his family lives in
hopelessness, miserable, wretched, dismal, horrible, gloomy and utter
proverty of pennilessness, destitution, indigence neediness and impecuniousness instead of extravagance, indulgence, bonus, amenity, frill nd superfluity . And what you will get from the snap is the 48year old Nigeria.
48 years ago, some nationalist agitated for the freedom of today Nigeria. Today, millions of Nigerians are still agitating for the same independece Nigeria gained 48years ago, this is because the present Nigeria do not look like an independent nation where rule of law and order prevails.

The question is: How many Nigerians can proudly say 'i'm proud to be a Nigeria?' How many? We now hide our identity because of shame, because we have not done well as a nation, nd as an individual. Today, i choose not to write much about somany Nigerians who hate the green white green flag with passion. Or what do you expect from an oil rich nation whose people still lives like destitude. Maybe you dont understand what am talking about, i will suggest you take a two minute drive to any traffic jam nd see for yourself how somany Nigerians try to survive by go slow race known as survival of the fittess. Chasing bus drivers just because they want to sell a sachet of water to earn a living. And if you re fortunate to leave your house when the traffic is less, please check out for yourself the environment, it's a message on it own.

I see nothing wrong with the name Nigeria, but permit me to say something is wrong with the people of Nigeria and especially the so called leaders who
maskmask, costume, camouflage, masquerade, cover, cloak, front, veneer and conceal
themselves in a patrotic uniforms and keep displaying disloyalty to the electorate who wasted their precious time exercising their political franchise.

Our leaders ve changed, they are no longer responsible to take responsibility. Some of them now prefer to drink crude oil instead of water. They prefer to do their own personal business at the expense of the business of governance.

Since their children dont study here in Nigeria, what do u expect from our educational sector.

And since they can also afford to travel by air, there is no reasons for us to have a good road. Is there any need to improve the health system when they can jet out anytime for medical check.

Today 1st of october, calls for a serious somber, solemn, thoughtful, calm, grave, unexcited, unruffled, subdued, restrained, severe, sedate and a staid time,
nd not for any sensible Nigerian to socialize, do get-together, do festivity, revelry, merrymaking, bash, celebration or blast
Let's assess, appraise, gauge, estimate, calculate, weigh, value, price, weigh up today for a better tomorrow.

Let us not also forget that nations dont make people but people makes nation. To build a better Nigeria it's not the business of our leaders alone, we all have a strong role to play if we want a better nigeria.

Let support our good leaders and expose the bad ones among them. Pray for them nd dont be pestimistic about the future of this country.

Best Way To Be Finacially Successful.

Do you know one of the best way to become financially successful is by solving the problem of humanity?
Many people today run away from their responsibilities. If you refuse to accept your responsibilities it will eventually becomes your liability and to the people around you.
Most people today are looking for means of making money, but they forget that one of the best ways of making money is by accepting to solve problems of humanity or taking it as a responsibility to provide the basic needs of people. Look at the needs of people on a daily basic, and in the process of providing the solutions to their needs you will fine out by the time you are solving these problems you are also solving your own financial needs. To becomes a successful entrepreneur, you must start by looking out for the needs in your community, and providing a long lasting solutions . Now, look at where you are, what are the needs of the people in your environment, in the state and in the country where you are now. They are thousands of needs waiting for your own solutions, if you can’t discover the needs of the people in your community, then you are far back becoming the millionaire of your generation. Try and do something today with what you have.

consistency

When you consistently make better choice you create better habits. These habits produce better character.When you have better character, you add more value to the world. When you become more valuable, you attract bigger and better opportunities. This allows you to make more of contribution in life.

Martin Luther King.Jr,

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!”
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., said these words in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., in 1963. He was America’s most prominent civil rights leader. The civil rights movement was the struggle to get laws and attitudes changed so that black Americans could have rights equal to those of white Americans.
A PREACHER’S SON
King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in January 1929. His father and grandfather were preachers at the large all-black Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King himself became a preacher at age 18.
While attending graduate school in Boston, he met Coretta Scott. The couple married in 1953. The following year King’s first job as a minister took him to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
CIVIL RIGHTS
In the 1950s, black people were not treated very well in the United States. Public places, including schools and restrooms, were segregated in many Southern states. That means that there were separate buildings or areas for black people and for white people. Even in Northern states, black people often weren’t allowed to live in nicer neighborhoods. They were rarely hired for good jobs. Their children could not go to good schools. In some places they even had to give up their seats on buses if a white person wanted to sit down.
In 1955, police in Montgomery arrested a black woman named Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Black people in the city started a boycott of the bus system. They refused to use it as long as it did not treat them equally. The boycott’s leaders chose King as their spokesman.
For nearly a year Montgomery’s black residents refused to ride the city’s buses. They walked and rode in car pools. They took their case to court.
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the protestors. The nation’s highest court said segregation on public buses was illegal not only in Montgomery, but everywhere in the nation. That ruling was a great victory for civil rights.
A NATIONAL LEADER
King was an excellent speaker. “We have gained a new sense of dignity and destiny,” he said after the Montgomery victory. “We have discovered a new and powerful weapon—nonviolent resistance.” King’s speeches appealed to both Christian principles and American ideals. Time magazine and other magazines and newspapers featured the handsome young preacher on their covers.
King was one of the leaders of a protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted worldwide attention. Policemen attacked peaceful marchers, including schoolchildren carrying small American flags.
The Birmingham police arrested King. In jail he wrote a letter to local ministers who had criticized him for disrupting the city. King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” expressed his belief that individuals had the moral right and responsibility to disobey unjust laws. The letter enhanced King’s reputation as a moral leader.
KING’S MOST FAMOUS SPEECH
On August 28, 1963, the March on Washington took place. More than 200,000 people gathered to hear King give his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The protests in Birmingham and in Washington helped convince the U.S. Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This act made it illegal in America to treat blacks or other ethnic groups unfairly.
That same year King’s peaceful efforts to win civil rights earned him the Nobel Peace Prize.
ASSASSINATION
King’s opinions and success in winning civil rights angered many people. In the spring of 1968, he traveled to Memphis, Tennessee, to support the city’s black garbage workers. The workers refused to collect the garbage until the city gave them better working conditions. While there, King was shot and killed by James Earl Ray, a white man who had escaped from jail.
King is remembered for the great changes he made to American society and for the peaceful means that he used to make them. The third Monday of every January is a national holiday that honors King’s birthday.

Keep Fit By Excercising

People exercise to keep healthy. They exercise to lose weight or to stay fit. They exercise to make their muscles bigger and stronger. Maybe you play soccer or some other sport for exercise. Getting exercise can be fun and can make you feel good.
Exercise is a big part of staying physically fit. People who are physically fit are alert and full of energy. Exercise can also help people handle stress. Exercise is especially good for children, teens, and older persons.

NOT ALL EXERCISE IS THE SAME
There are two main types of exercise: aerobic and anaerobic. Aerobic exercise works big muscles in your arms and legs. Aerobic exercise makes your muscles use oxygen faster than usual. It makes your heart and lungs work harder to supply your muscles with oxygen. Running, walking, jogging, and swimming are kinds of aerobic exercise.
Anaerobic exercise works just a few muscles at a time. Weightlifting is a kind of anaerobic exercise. Weightlifting and other kinds of anaerobic exercise make your muscles bigger and stronger. Anaerobic exercise does not require a lot of oxygen. It does not work your heart or lungs. You can only do anaerobic exercise for short periods of time because the muscles you’re using quickly get tired.

EXERCISE THAT HELPS THE HEART
Doctors say that regular aerobic exercise leads to a healthier heart. Jogging, walking, riding a bicycle, and other aerobic exercises lower the risk of heart disease. In one kind of heart disease, fatty stuff called plaque builds up in blood vessels going to the heart. Aerobic exercise helps prevent this buildup. Aerobic exercise also makes the heart and lungs stronger.
Doctors say you should do 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic exercise at least three times a week. You need to exercise hard enough to get your heart beating faster than normal. You can feel your heart beating. Use two fingers to feel a beat, or pulse, in your wrist or neck.

EXERCISE THAT INCREASES STRENGTH
Some kinds of exercise are better at increasing strength than others. Usually people work out with weights if they want to improve their muscle strength. They use free weights, weights that are not attached to anything, such as barbells. Or they use strength-training machines. Strength training can also make bones stronger.
It is a good idea to have a trainer or physical education teacher show you how to lift weights properly. It is important not to injure yourself when lifting weights. Start out with small weights. Try lifting heavier and heavier weights as your muscles get stronger.

EXERCISE THAT HELPS CONTROL WEIGHT
Aerobic exercise can help you lose weight. It can help you stay at a healthy weight. Aerobic exercise burns calories.
A calorie is a unit of measurement. It measures the amount of energy in foods. It measures the amount of energy your body uses.
When you take in the same number of calories that you burn every day, your weight stays the same. If you take in more calories than you burn, you gain weight. If you take in fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight. Regular exercise helps you burn calories.
Strength training may also help with weight control. Lifting weights burns calories. Lifting weights also makes more muscle in your body. Muscles burn more calories than fat.

EXERCISE THAT MAKES YOU FLEXIBLE
Stretching exercises can make your body more flexible. There are stretches for your arms, legs, neck, and trunk. Many people do slow exercises and stretches called yoga to make their bodies more flexible. A physical education teacher can show you how to do stretches.
You should do warm-up stretches before you do aerobic or anaerobic exercises. You should do cool-down stretches when you are finished exercising. Warm-up and cool-down stretches can help prevent muscle injuries.