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Food for Living: Ideas Rule the World
By Henry Ukazu
Dear Destiny Friends,
“What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived“ – Irving Kristol
It is an indisputable fact that in sane climes, ideas rule, and people with ingenious mindset are greatly respected. In politics, people are respected if they have money or ideas. But if they are revered if they have both. The importance of ideas can never be underscored. This is because ideas make the world go round.
In our contemporary society, there are great innovations by entrepreneurial minds, who have been able to think out of the box, and created products that have made the world a better place. For instance, Henry Ford invented Ford Motors, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, Bill Gates invented Microsoft, Thomas Edison is credited with thousands of inventions, including the phonograph, the electric light bulb, and the telephone and Henry Ukazu wrote a trailblazer, Design Your Destiny- Actualizing Your Birthright to Success. What is unique about these ingenious minds is that they developed great ideas which they have used to solve numerous problems for humanity.
Ideas normally begin with thoughts. According to Lao Tzu, “watch your thoughts, they become your words, watch your words, they become your actions, watch your actions, they become your habit, and watch your habits, they become your destiny. The moral of this quote is that ideas begin with a single thought which if properly managed, can lead to big projects.
The beauty of ideas is that it creates opportunities for creative minds. Creative minds are people who think out of the box. They have a growth mindset as opposed to indolent people with fixed mindset. People with a creative mindset are always curious. They are always eager to ask questions, they can be regarded as problem solvers because of the value they bring to any environment.
It is generally stated that if you want more, you have to work harder and smarter by going the extra mile. Even at workplaces, if you need promotion, you must prove to your boss that you are doing more than the required work assigned to you. To do this, you must bring initiatives that are beneficial to your organization/industry.
This principle is generally applicable globally where value is appreciated. Even at workplaces, the skill of creativity is really appreciated. Employers are always eager to hire individuals with creativity skills. In schools, professors love students who put in extra work in their research assignment, coaches love athletes who spend extra hours training. If you add these up, you’ll discover that it is the small extra work that you do that makes the big difference.
I liken ideas to seeds of greatness. When you have a vision statement, your mission statement will serve as a vehicle to actualizing your dreams.
Ideas come to us in different shapes and forms. An idea can come via meditating, interacting with people, dreams, a problem you’ll love to solve or a change you’ll love to see in the world. Basically, ideas are manifestations of our inner passions and reflections. That is why it is imperative you write down your ideas when you have any.
This is how ideas work; we might be in the same classroom, but we don’t assimilate or understand the same thing, we might be looking, but we don’t seem to see the same thing. We might even be considering the same project, but don’t have the same vision
It is widely stated that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a step in the right direction. You’ll also agree with me that a wildfire starts with a light stick before exploding. In the same nein, great things happen with an idea. According to Jose Ortega, Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas. “ However, it should be noted that while all thinking may be reasoning, all reasoning is not thinking. What makes all reasoning thinking is ideas. Ideas indeed, are the fruits of our thinking.
One of the best things that can happen to anyone is to have people with great ideas, vision, ingenious mindsets, visionaries and scintillating intellectual abilities around him.
In conclusion, I would love to ask a question; when you have ideas, how do you handle them? Do you write them down, share with a friend, resource minds or do you just dismiss them? Whatever is your position, just know that ideas come to us when we have developed the capacity to receive them. According to Abhusek kumar Sadhu If you have an idea, treat it like a newborn baby by treating them tenderly or else they can get killed pretty quickly. Also, treat them gently because they can be bruised in infancy; treat them respectfully, because they could be the most valuable things that ever came into your life; treat them protectively by not letting them get away; Treat them nutritionally by feeding them very well. In addition, treat them antiseptically, by not letting them get infected with the germs of negative thought. And finally, treat them responsively by responding, acting, and doing something with them.
Henry Ukazu writes from New York. He’s a Human Capacity & mindset coach. He’s also a public speaker, youth advocate and creative writer. He works with the New York City Department of Correction as the Legal Coordinator. He’s the author of the acclaimed book Design Your Destiny – Actualizing Your Birthright To Success and President of gloemi.com. He can be reached via info@gloemi.com
By Henry Ukazu
Dear Destiny Friends,
The importance of timing cannot be overemphasized. Timing is everything in life. It is critical to one’s success. You can lose your money and get it back in many folds. You can even lose your health and get it back all things being equal, but when you lose time, you can hardly get it back again.
The importance of timing can be seen in crops. Every crop has a season, a good farmer won’t plant maize when it’s time for oranges, nor will he plant pears when it’s the season for mangoes.
Time is very instrumental to the success and failure of anyone. Imagine having a meeting or interview at 9:00am and you arrive at 10:10am, it will take the grace of God to be interviewed. As an employee, apart from one not being able to diligently do his job, one of the fastest ways for an employee to lose his job is by being late to work.
When I was in New York Law School studying Taxation law, I did a course titled, the Problem of Timing. During the semester, I learnt about cash and accrued income. Let me do some academic exercise here. In cash income, just like the name entails, one is paid in cash as soon as the work is completed. It’s just like going to the market to make a purchase. One can either pay directly with cash or with debit or credit card. But Accrued income refers to revenue a company has earned by providing goods or services, but for which payment has not yet been received, one will have to do the work first before getting paid. This is applicable when one works in either a public or private organization where one is paid either weekly, bi-weekly or at the end of the month depending on the stipulated mode of payment.
It’s important to note that before the money is paid either in cash or accrued, one would have earned it. It’s just like one learning g before earning, and one will have to update to upgrade. These are just the practical principles that will work with life.
In the same way, in life there’s a seed time and harvest time. It’s a universal principle of life. Whether as a parent, entrepreneur, student or employee. As a parent, if you don’t train your kids very well, they will grow up to reflect the opposite of what you desire. As an entrepreneur when you invest in your business, you will get the reward in due time. As a student, if you take your studies seriously, your grades will improve, and as an employee, you stand to get promotions and opportunities when you add value to your work. In summary, one will have to put in the work before recognition comes on.
To understand how seedtime and harvest work, imagine where parents tend to like one child more than others just because they see potential in him, or he’s smart, hardworking or even creative. They fail to understand that every child is different and as such their timing can be different. Some kinds take time to develop.
I personally believe there’s something so unique about each individual which God has deposited in everyone of us. It’s just a matter of time for it to manifest. Your timing of manifestation is different from your siblings and colleagues.
Personally, I didn’t mature fast with my contemporaries. Overtime, I have seen much improvement in my personal and professional life. Maybe because I have added value to my work with the assistance of mentors and good friends, or God had to humble my colleagues and mentors . Why do I say this? During my formative years, I had little or nothing to show for it. I was looking at my contemporaries as mentor and seeing my mentors as small gods whose feat is unattainable, but now, the reverse seems to be case as I have developed capacity some of my colleagues are yet to attain, while I have even surpassed the achievement of my some of my mentors in some quarters.
In all these, they are all surprised how it happened. Some are yet to comprehend or articulate the feat. It’s just like watching a film where everyone slept and woke up to see the game and tides have changed. The secret behind it is the seed time and harvest time. I was probably learning the trade while in the wilderness, and when the training season matured and ripe enough to be harvested, I became attractive to almost everyone who loved the seed I was producing.
There are litany of examples of people, who have been in the wilderness during the seed planting season. Let’s take a case study of Joseph in the Bible, his journey to stardom took a little twist. Despite the travails he experienced in the hands of his siblings who sold him, his experience while in the jail, and with Portiphar’s wife, who tried to seduce him; they were all set ups for success. The moral here is Joseph seed time and harvest time was quite different, it wasn’t a smooth journey. Ordinarily, one would have cursed his siblings or his friends who were with him in prison and forgot him after they were released. But at the end of time, everything worked out for his favor. Joseph’s seed days were his dark days while in the wilderness.
Another inspiring story of note was that of Pastor Ibukun Awosika, the former board Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria. She once shared a pathetic story during her formative years of being in business. According to her, she sojourned for about 15 years. She cried because lines were not adding up for her and she wouldn’t do what her contemporaries were doing to get opportunities. At a point in her business, it appeared like she was in a race of own life because everything seemed to be against her, but at the appropriate time, lines began to fall in place for her. Appointments, business opportunities, favours and goodwill began to fall in place for her. Again, she had a fair share of seed time.
An interesting question I would like to ask you is, what’s your seed time? Have you ever been in the wilderness when you appeared to be fixed? It’s unfortunate many people are not willing to pass through the storms or experience seeds and harvest time. Amidst all these, one must do some work before they get opportunities. However, before such opportunities will come up, one will have to plant the seed.
In conclusion, seed time and harvest time is critical in the journey of life. Take a seat and determine what seed you would like to sow and what you’ll like to harvest.
Henry Ukazu writes from New York. He works with the New York City Department of Correction as the Legal Coordinator. He’s the founder of Gloemi. He’s a Transformative Human Capacity and Mindset coach. He is also a public speaker, youth advocate, creative writer and author of Design Your Destiny Design Your and Unleash Your Destiny . He can be reached via info@gloemi.com
By Eric Elezuo
The Senate has suspended Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghen for six months over her sexual harassment accusation and other disputes against the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
The Senate also withdrew her salaries for the period of the suspension, as well as her security details.
The chamber however, soft-pedaled on the salaries and allowances of her aides, who it was argued would not have any source of livelihood within the period.
Globacom is welcoming new customers on its network with the introduction of the e-SIM. The e-SIM activated in any Gloworld shop or Dealer outlet comes with an introductory free 5GB data when the customer buys a data plan of N1,500 or more.
Customers already on other networks can now join the Glo network with e-SIM as an additional SIM. Existing Glo customers can also enjoy this “SIM-less” freedom.
With the e-SIM, customers no longer have to worry about space for a physical SIM on their phones. The e-SIM is a software-based digital chip built directly into smartphones or wearable devices, thus eliminating the need for a physical SIM card for customers.
The use of e-SIM enables customers to have seamless switching between phone numbers without a physical SIM. It is ideal for upwardly mobile people who travel frequently. The e-SIM also guarantees security, as unlike physical SIM, it is harder to remove from devices. It is also eco-friendly and reduces plastic waste.
Globacom’s launch of the e-SIM enables enables it to cater to high-net-worth individuals and enterprise customers, and it also reinforces the company’s commitment to providing seamless and future-ready services to its customers.
A customer seeking to activate the Glo e-SIM needs to check the compatibility of the mobile handset by dialling *#06# on his or her phone. If an EID number reflects on the mobile screen, the device is e-SIM compatible.
“The customer can then proceed to the nearest Gloworld shop or Glo Dealer outlet to migrate to e-SIM. The process takes only a few minutes and the customer can thereafter begin to enjoy the use of an e-SIM”, the Marketing Department disclosed.
