Month: July 2022

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Infidelity of Fear: How to Mitigate the Demeaning Effect of Fear.

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Infidelity of fear is one major bane of success. Fear is the greatest enemy of success. The scourge of fear is in its torture. And fear has wreaked havoc and left unmitigated damages to the psyche of many individuals. Many dreams have been battered, many visions have been blighted and many destinies shattered, all because of the torture of fear. Fear has a subtle means of caging men in the dungeon of mediocrity by taming their potential. Its torture infringes on the freedom of people to express or unleash their potential. Hence we cannot succeed in the atmosphere of fear. This explicitly captures what I have termed the infidelity of fear.

Don’t let fear place a lid over the treasure box of your potential – Chidi O. Kalu

The infidelity of fear is a dangerous threat to success. By now, I know many of us are curious and eager to know what this infidelity of fear is all about, or what fear has to do with infidelity and vice versa. One danger of fear is that it turns men into infidels. Infidelity in this regard is not about unfaithfulness to one’s spouse or partner, rather infidelity in this context is about unfaithfulness to a moral obligation. Every one of us is under a moral obligation to succeed in life. Hence success is not the exclusive right of a certain class of people. It is open to all and sundry irrespective of their background provided they meet the requirements.

There is nothing we cannot achieve in life including fulfilling the moral obligation of success since we have the capacity to succeed. Not believing in your ability or in God the source of your ability will amount to the infidelity of fear. Fear strips us of all our abilities to succeed and confines us to the dungeon of mediocrity. Fear can turn you into an infidel, a situation where you begin to doubt your ability. It has a demeaning effect on the individual worldview. And looking through the prism of life tainted with fear all one could see is impossibilities, doubt, and unbelief.

Basically, you will not know what you are capable of until you give it a try. Infidelity of fear makes you ignorant of your self-worth. In other words, your capability defines your self-worth. However, when you are in doubt of your capabilities your self-worth will also be in doubt. Moreover, you cannot develop your potential without giving it a try. Fear makes you rusty. A life of fear is characterized by low self-esteem, self-pity, and self-defeat. Then a situation arises where you eventually lose faith in your abilities.

Let’s say your mind is a treasure box, and inside it is great potential, (treasures) that you must freely express or trade with for you to be successful in life. Now, what infidelity of fear does is that it closes this treasure box and buries these wonderful potentials, and makes sure you don’t express them. This is one major reason why many are unsuccessful today. Not that they don’t have what it takes but because of fear of expressing their talents.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the Excellency of power may be of God and not of us - 2 Corinthians 4: 7

Hence, to checkmate the incidence of the infidelity of fear, you must get rid of your fear. Don’t let your challenges intimidate you to the extent of throwing in the towel, rather do everything possible to overcome them. Remember your potentials are your asset in your quest to succeed. The ante dote to the poison of fear is your faith. Have faith in God and also believe in your abilities. You have all it takes to succeed.

Imagine, believe, and dare to succeed.

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Investment: A Viable Option to Security and Solid Future

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Investment is a great option for securing the future. Securing a solid future is possible. In fact, imbibing the habit of saving and investing is a sure means to succeed and find fulfillment in life. Investment in this regard means trading something in exchange for a life of security and stability in the future. The main aim of the investment is productivity and profitability. All investments whether in financial, academic, business, or investment in your health and, children have one major purpose – a satisfactory future. By investing you are bracing up for the demands, pressure, and uncertainties of the future. There are lots of resources to invest with. You can invest your talents, time, strength, intellect, and money, for a life of stability and fulfillment.

Investment and the Propensity to Save

Any life without investment is an unproductive and unfulfilled one; a hotbed of failure, stagnation, and insecurity. However, for you to invest you must save. There is a high propensity to invest when people save. There are some contributory schemes or bank savings products that are tailored to meet the need for funding your investments. Subscribe to any of these products. You can start today by contributing and saving some percentage of your monthly earnings; say at least ten percent of it.

Investment entails Sacrifice.

Time of investment is usually a time of serious business. It is not a time for pleasure, nor is it time for merry-making. It is often said that business comes before pleasure, investment time is a time to be in the field working and preparing for a better future full of happiness. Such a time is a time to sow expecting to reap fulfillment in the future. It is a better option for you to succeed and live a fulfilled life. 

A farmer through seed sowing is investing his seed (lings) for a bumper harvest in the nearest future. Such time is a time of sacrifice. Investment is all about sacrificing the pleasures of today for the gains of the future. It remains a more viable option for laying a formidable foundation for your future. The extent to which you are able to invest determines how productive and fulfilled your future will be. Indeed it empowers you to take charge of your future.

Discipline and Prudence

For you to be a successful investor you must be disciplined, and prudent with your spending. Some years ago I met a young man while I was merchandising and developing supply or distribution channels for one of the multinationals. This young man had a shop and one could easily count all the goods in his shop. But he was very determined and diligent; working hard to make sure this business grows. He chose a life of prudence and modesty rather than the psychedelic and flamboyant lifestyle of young men of his generation.

The young man sacrificed a lot on the altar of investment just to secure his future. Obviously, he was at the building level, throwing back all his earnings and profits just to make sure his business stands. When I saw what he was doing I encouraged him to keep it up, assuring him that he will not regret his actions.

Howbeit, I visited him just six months after our encounter, and behold there was an amazing transformation in his business. His shop was filled with goods, even the extension outside was filled up. Now that this young man is established and his business enjoying a certain level of stability he can enjoy all the good things of life he denied himself without stressing his business. Understand this, If you cannot deny yourself of some certain good things in life then you cannot make a good investor; neither can you find fulfillment.

Investment is not without Risks

We should understand that investment is not without risks. There are risks associated with an investment that one must look out for when investing to have a fulfilled life. Be careful as many have lost their livelihood all because of one bad investment. Consequently, the knowledge of risk control management is very crucial as this mitigates the loss of investment. Always have a blueprint of every investment plan you want to make, this will afford you the opportunity to know the risks involved. Acquaint yourself with risk control measures in order to protect your investments. Always have a look before you leap, as most investment opportunities are not what they seem on the surface. Please don’t assume anything when it comes to investment. An assumption is a dangerous option, and it is inimical to your success.

Imagine, believe, dare to succeed

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Indomitable Courage: How to be Resilient in the Face Challenges.

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Indomitable Courage is one that cannot be intimidated by challenges in the quest for success. It has never and will never be defeated by adversity. One important attribute of indomitable courage is that it will always breakthrough no matter the stern opposition.

It was Walt Disney, who said that,

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

This assertion confirms the audacity of the indomitable courage. For your own consumption courage in the quest for conquest is not intimidated by challenges. It is unbeaten, unbroken, and undaunted in the face of challenges of adversity. There is no power whatsoever that can crush the indomitable courage. It is the ticket you need to explore the world of success. Hence, courage becomes a leverage to greatness. Courage gives your pursuit in life that unique touch of greatness. It is the gateway to conquest and any man that is bereft of courage cannot access the realm of greatness.

One virtue that is common among great people is the indomitable courage and for you to get on the train of greatness you must possess this virtue. There is a measure of greatness in everyone. A seed of greatness is in you, it is also in me. Just like the proverbial mustard seed, it takes indomitable courage to cultivate, nurture, and grow this seed to a giant-sized tree of greatness

Nelson Mandela once said,

I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid but he who conquers that fear.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear – Mark Twain.

Courage is knowing what not to fear – Plato

From the foregoing courage is not necessarily the absence of fear, but when an individual resolves to move forward even in the face of fear. It is the ability to rise above your fears when occasion demands. Definitely fear will come but your ability to confront and overcome that fear and get result is courage. The indomitable courage fears no fear.

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Courage is taming your fears.

In my own words courage is taming your own fears. It is a veritable leadership skill that enables men to lead in various capacities. In fact, it takes courage to lead and to command a strong and loyal follower-ship. It is only the courageous that can fulfill this mandate of leadership. Every one of us has the capacity to overcome challenges but it takes courage to harness this capacity. Hence, courage encourages capacity building for conquest over challenges of life and at the same time deal with our fears. Courage is a veritable leadership skill that enables men to lead in various capacities.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life – Mohammed Ali.

Indomitable courage, with regards to greatness, is the ability to take positive risks. Furthermore, taking positive risks means confronting your fears headlong in order to enhance your life and impact your generation. Even when it seems you are compassed with great fears you must take the bull by the horns and confront them for therein lays your greatness. I was always afraid of addressing the crowd. Then some years back an opportunity came in my undergraduate years in the university when I confronted my fears and gave a speech to hundreds of high school students during an education enlightenment campaign. A few years later I had an opportunity to moderate a youth club again; this time around I rose above my fears. Now, looking back I can say that taking that positive risk I took then has enhanced my life somehow and impacted positively on people around me.

Life is full of risks, both positive and negative risks. Positive risks are those risks that when taken will add value to your life. They are value-added risks – V.A.R. They are risks worth taking. Negative risks are risks that will destroy you. Positive risk when taken affords you an opportunity to join great men at the top. So banish your fear now, take the giant stride; that quantum leap that will launch you to the top. Taking positive risks without fear is what separates great men from mediocre, and men at the top from men at the bottom. However, intercourse of indomitable courage and inspiration launches you to greatness. With this kind of inspiration, sacrificing fear on the altar of courage will land you on cloud nine of greatness.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go – T. S. Elliot.

So your indomitable courage as it is determines how far you will go in your pursuit in life. In the words of martin Luther King Jr,

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Therefore if you want to overcome your challenges and earn a space for yourself in the realm of success, then you must learn to tame your fears and pursue your dreams vigorously with an indomitable courage.

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