DANA PLANE MISHAP : SOLACE AND CONDOLENCE FROM THE WEAVER

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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Taylor Benson

My heart goes out to all the families and friends of those who were involved in the sad event of the DANA airline plane crash which took place last week in Lagos,and nobody knows exactly how hurt you feel except the Lord,He's with us even in the storm...I have however attached below, verses of a poem from a faith-based magazine which I find comforting at a time like this:. The story is told of a preacher who would visit the homes of families who were going through tragedy or trial. He would show them a woven silk bookmark with tangled threads running in all directions. It had no discernible pattern, and the colors were all jumbled up. After a while, he would turn the bookmark over and show them that what they had been looking at was the back side; the front revealed a beautiful design with the words "GOD IS LOVE!"

THE WEAVER

My life is but a weaving

Between my Lord and me.

I cannot choose the colors,

He weaves so steadily.

Oft times He weaveth sorrow

And I in foolish pride,

Forget He sees the upper,

And I the underside.

Not till the loom is silent

And the shuttles cease to fly,

Will God roll back the canvas

And explain the reason why.

The dark threads are as needful

In the Weaver's skillful hand

As the threads of gold and silver

In the pattern He has planned.

--B.M. Franklin

May the good Lord grant you all the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss,may you find solace in the knowledge that they have departed to a better place than where we presently are. SHALOM..

Emmanuel Ayeni

BOOK REVIEW: HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE

A review by Emmanuel Ayeni

I am very pleased to provide you with a summary of the book How to Win Friends And Influence People, I read the book a couple of weeks ago and I found it so interesting and educative enough on the science and psychology of human behavior at any place or time.

Mr Carnegie sets out each point as simply as possible, providing illustrative real life examples of the applications of each rule. It is indeed a manual on human relations used and still use by super achievers I will also provide you with a download link for the book at the end of this summary. I hope you enjoy this as an overview on the whole book. Enjoy It!

Your billion dollar friend,

Emmanuel Ayeni!

How To Win Friends And Influence People By

Dale Carnegie

Contents:

Eight Things This Book Will Help You Achieve

Preface to Revised Edition

How This Book Was Written-And Why

Nine Suggestions on How to Get the Most Out of This Book

A Shortcut to Distinction

Part 1 - Fundamental Techniques in Handling People

• 1 - "If You Want to Gather Honey, Don't Kick Over the Beehive"

• 2 - The Big Secret of Dealing with People

• 3 - "He Who Can Do This Has the Whole World with Him. He Who

Cannot, Walks a Lonely Way"

• Eight Suggestions On How To Get The Most Out Of This Book

Part 2 - Six Ways To Make People Like You

• 1 - Do This and You'll Be Welcome Anywhere

• 2 - A Simple Way to Make a Good Impression

• 3 - If You Don't Do This, You Are Headed for Trouble

• 4 - An Easy Way to Become a Good Conversationalist

• 5 - How to Interest People

• 6 - How To Make People Like You Instantly

• In A Nutshell

Part 3 - Twelve Ways To Win People To Your Way Of Thinking

• 1 - You Can't Win an Argument

• 2 - A Sure Way of Making Enemies—and How to Avoid It

• 3 - If You're Wrong, Admit It

• 4 - The High Road to a Man's Reason

• 5 - The Secret of Socrates

• 6 - The Safety Valve in Handling Complaints

• 7 - How to Get Co-operation

• 8 - A Formula That Will Work Wonders for You

• 9 - What Everybody Wants

• 10 - An Appeal That Everybody Likes

• 11 - The Movies Do It. Radio Does It. Why Don't You Do It?

• 12 - When Nothing Else Works, Try This

• In A Nutshell

Part 4 - Nine Ways To Change People Without Giving Offence Or Arousing Resentment

• 1 - If You Must Find Fault, This Is the Way to Begin

• 2 - How to Criticize—and Not Be Hated for It

• 3 - Talk About Your Own Mistakes First

• 4 - No One Likes to Take Orders

• 5 - Let the Other Man Save His Face

• 6 - How to Spur Men on to Success

• 7 - Give the Dog a Good Name

• 8 - Make the Fault Seem Easy to Correct

• 9 - Making People Glad to Do What You Want

• In A Nutshell

Part 5 - Letters That Produced Miraculous Results

Part 6 - Seven Rules For Making Your Home Life Happier

• 1 - How to Dig Your Marital Grave in the Quickest Possible Way

• 2 - Love and Let Live

• 3 - Do This and You'll Be Looking Up the Time-Tables to Reno

• 4 - A Quick Way to Make Everybody Happy

• 5 - They Mean So Much to a Woman

• 6 - If you Want to be Happy, Don't Neglect This One

• 7 - Don't Be a "Marriage Illiterate"

• In A Nutshell

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Eight Things This Book Will Help You Achieve

• 1. Get out of a mental rut, think new thoughts, acquire new visions, discover new ambitions.

• 2. Make friends quickly and easily.

• 3. Increase your popularity.

• 4. Win people to your way of thinking.

• 5. Increase your influence, your prestige, your ability to get things done.

• 6. Handle complaints, avoid arguments, and keep your human contacts smooth and pleasant.

• 7. Become a better speaker, a more entertaining conversationalist.

• 8. Arouse enthusiasm among your associates.

This book has done all these things for more than ten million readers in thirty-six languages.

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RISING BEYOND PERSONAL GREATNESS !

By Emmanuel Ayeni

"Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare

The subject of greatness is an age-long one, which has been of much interest across different circles. Princeton University Word Net describes greatness as the property possessed by someone of outstanding importance or eminence.

Greatness should be the quest of every progressive mind, as the world does not celebrate mediocrity rather, it celebrates and rewards excellence. Our generation will not remember how many times we failed but the exact time we succeed in stepping into the hall of greatness.

The National Youth Service Corps (N.Y.S.C) scheme is a great one which allows Youths from the nooks and crannies of the federation to be brought together, regardless of cultural and ethnic differences. They are imparted with core values like tolerance and adaptation, patriotism, endurance, team spirit and unity, all of which are very instrumental to achieving personal greatness and above all, national development.

Interestingly, it has been psychologically proved that it takes twenty –one days to break or form a new habit. The three week period of orientation of corps members could not have been an accidental occurrence but rather a proper means to an end. On achieving greatness, William Shakespeare opines that ‘some men are born great, some achieve greatness; and some have greatness thrust upon them” The intended three –week orientation period, in other words the five-hundred and four hours ,establishes the fact that with unity we can all achieve greatness irrespective of our various fields of discipline, ethnicity or religious affiliation.

Conclusively, personal greatness is desirable, but the truest form of greatness is that which permeates our entire being and beyond, affecting positively our generation, our great nation and the world at large.

Long Live National Youth Service Corps

Long Live Nigeria!

EMMANUEL O. AYENI

LA/11C/3986

(A 6, Platoon member)

This Piece was written and delivered by Emmanuel AYENI on 6th December, 2011, at the NYSC orientation camp Ise-Orun Emure LGA In Ekiti State, It was the last meditation for the camp and was received with great ovation. ©2011, Emmanuel Ayeni.

PS: The NYSC scheme is a mandatory one year scheme undertaken by all Nigerian Tertiary Institution Graduates more information at NYSC official site

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SILENT LESSONS OF LIFE

One day, an elderly man scolded his young son. He had mistakenly hit a young girl with his car while trying to scare her into crossing the road in a hurry. “I never knew it was going to turn out that way, I was only trying to make her run and the brake failed.” The distraught youth explained. His father replied, “You should have considered the consequences of your actions before carrying them out. Even if the brakes had not failed, what if she had fallen down while trying to cross the road? Is that not still an accident?”

Experience is the best teacher. In so many ways, life presents us with occasions for learning. These occasions, no matter how momentary, contain nuggets of wisdom which could only be unravelled by the discerning mind

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There is always something to learn from every experience whether you are sensitive to it or not. From the short illustration above we can infer that in life, your actions will be based on your decision, which is always the outcome of your sense of judgement and thought evaluation. It is obvious that one needs to think in multiple ways.

Tapping into the subtle lessons from our experiences calls for a high degree of sensitivity and observation, which can only be developed by cultivating the art of personal reflection. For every lesson you fail to imbibe, life has a way of making you pay for your ignorance.

The silent lessons in life need not come from your own experiences alone, but they are rife in all the daily occurrences around us. All we need would be a bit of sensitivity to the situation around us.

Go and achieve greatness!

Emmanuel Ayeni

Article first published in Saturday Punch September11, 2010.

THE KING IS RISEN!

They beat Him with many stripes. Preferring a robber to the Prince of Peace, they condemned Him to death… and just when they thought it was over.. They had sealed his tomb; it was heavily guarded by the best security agency the government could afford. Alas! ‘Maktub!’ -It is written, and so it came to pass, they came to look for ‘the Living among the dead’ but just as he had said, on the third day, the Son of man rose again. He conquered sin and death and He is alive forevermore! Easter is here, the joyful season when all Christians around the world celebrate the crucifixion, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. Easter is different from all other festivities in all uniqueness. Apart from the fact that it comes once in a year, it’s not the celebration of the birth of the greatest legend of greatness alone, much more than that, it celebrates the sacred phenomenon of resurrection on which the Christian faith is based. It is the resurrection of The King! The central theme of Easter borders on the Person of Jesus Christ, as He is the Reason for the Season. So amidst the felicitations of this season, it is of paramount importance that His nature of selfless love and great sacrifice for the redemption of mankind get our main focus. This should form the core of our interpersonal relationships and lives from now. As we merry and rejoice together, I wish you all a Happy and Joyful Easter celebration .May the love of Jesus grow and wax stronger in us. Let glasses clink!

JESUS IS LORD..Cheers!

Emmanuel Ayeni

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It has actually been quite a while since you have been able to read more inspirational stuffs from here.Indeed a lot has happened since then and they all have impacted us positively one way or the other. Do watch out for more amazing articles towards Inspiring you to Greatness on our favourite blog. However,I am leaving every reader with a screen shot on how to send sms from your gmail account to any mobile phone.

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Till we meet again,

Keep achieving Greatness!

Emmanuel Ayeni

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ORGANIZE YOUR LIFE!

The world is a big place,every time and every day we always have a whole lot of things to do within a specified time ,many people fall into the pressure of leaving things jumbled up and unattended to .Most times we wish we could plan things better than we have always done. This can affect many areas of our lives right from our desktops, common room, to finances, business or career. So how can we get things more organized right from the common room to the workplace? A very vital thing you will learn to do is to start organizing your life every day. Since the subject of discussion may span through different issues, a good way to start is to recognize the exact area of your life you need to address, this may be from arranging the details of your daily or weekly schedule to arranging books, objects and other items in your surroundings, you will need to prioritize and arrange tasks in order of importance. Many people fail to reach their set goals due to poor organizational skills, when you have any area of your life in disarray it saps you of productive time and energy, it makes you lose focus and eventually reduces your productivity by a very long margin. These tips will help you organize things better: 1.Determine and Desire to be organized: If you have discovered that being organized is very instrumental to achieving your goals, then you must desire to do what it takes to get at it. This desire must be backed up by dogged determination and prompt action. 2.Maintain Order: The age-long cliché that “Order is heaven’s first law” is an eternal truth, learn to arrange things into an orderly pattern, the best way to maintain an organized life is to constantly review your surroundings and environment, paying attention to the order of things from time to time .For instance, putting things where they really belong ,after use is a very good practice. 3. Organize your mind: A powerful way to organize your life is to organize your mind. Your mind is the seat of consciousness and the centre of all learning and as such needs to be guarded and filled with things that are positive and right. You do this through the books you read and the kinds of people you interact with. 4. Organize your Finance: You need to arrange all aspects of your finances, you must plan on what you have, how to get your debts paid if you have any, how to control your spending and how you intend to explore the savings and investment opportunities around you. 5.Organize your schedule :Your life is accounted for in how you spend your hours,days,weeks ,months and years .So set out to organize your life by planning every part of your time ,planning for work and leisure and miscellaneous can help you have a more balance schedule Organizing your life boosts your productivity, it increases your efficiency and optimizes the use of your scarce resources. Doing your best in planning activities in your best possible way, will bring you more sense of fulfillment and take you closer to your goals. Ayeni Emmanuel Oluwadunsin

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