I grew up in the rural regions of south eastern Nigeria…a little village called Odumara.
That was a long time ago.

I remember one morning…I was just 5 years old then and I was going somewhere to get firewood or something and I saw this white man, or ‘onye ocha’ as we called them. He was, I think, one of the engineers constructing a major road that passed through the village. He was probably taking a sight seeing stroll through the village path. He called out to me, “Hey! Little boy!” When I reached him, he rubbed his hand on my head and started asking me lots of questions. I really couldn’t understand much of what he was saying then because, as I said, I was still a mere village boy then. One thing I remembered I understood and never forgot at that time was that that man was an engineer. At that point I wanted to just grow up instantly, enter the university and study to be an engineer! So somehow, engineering became the ultimate career, the ultimate course and, I grew up wanting to be an engineer.

Well, when the time came for me to get into the university, several forces came into play. My dad and my uncles insisted that I study to become a medical doctor. Actually when I bought the university entrance application form, my father filled it by himself just to ensure that I got into the medical faculty! One of my uncles promised to build a hospital for me when I graduated. They wanted me to be the first medical doctor in my clan. However, deep down within me, I didn’t want to be a medical doctor. I wanted to be an engineer. It was a childhood fantasy.

Career Confusion

At this time, I had gotten ‘born-again’ . I was very zealous for the gospel. So I was moving around the town preaching the gospel under the power of God. My pastor was thrilled with my results. He called me one day and said to me, “You need to go to a bible school and study to be a pastor.”

So I now had three career paths laid out before me: I wanted to study to be an engineer; my dad wanted me to study to be a medical doctor; and now my pastor wanted me to study to be a pastor!
Amidst it all, my father who had become aware of my dilemma decided that we go to another pastor for counsel. This other pastor was more educated than my pastor and we felt he would be able to offer us better advice. He listened to us carefully and at the end he said, “I think you should study Mass Communication.” Well, needless to say that I got out of that counseling session more confused!

My choice?

Anyway, my father’s wish finally prevailed at that time. I got admission into the University of Nigeria to study medicine. However, thanks to one of his friends, my dad got talked out of his insistence that I study medicine. He allowed me to pursue the career of ‘my choice’ – engineering. So I eventually entered the university a year later. I was excited. I had arrived. I was ready to roll.

Well, I never graduated.
I dropped out of that course in my third year to become an evangelist.
I eventually started a Church which I’m still pastoring.

During the week of my thirtieth birthday, I decided to take out time to reflect on my life, review my goals, my dreams, and my priorities. One question I asked myself during that week was, “What are your regrets so far?” I thought over that question for hours. I examined it from many dimensions because I wanted it to be as accurate as possible.
Well, I was shocked at what I discovered. My number one regret was that I should have followed the advice of the second pastor who advised me to study mass communication! That was because over the years that had passed, I had discovered myself and realized that neither medicine, nor engineering had anything to do with my divine design and divine assignment. I was grateful to God then that I had dropped out of school!

I’ve found my place in life

You know, if I had continued along any of the previous tracks, medicine or engineering, I would have lived a very frustrating life. Yes, I could have made a decent pay check, but then, life is not all about money. The magic ingredient of life and which I believe adds to longevity is adding value to other peoples lives by doing what you are passionate about.
I’m so glad today that I’ve found my place in life, that I’m at the core of my expertise, at the centre of my calling.
I’m now communicating God’s presence, wisdom, and favor to masses. I do that now through various means like this blog, my website, my radio broadcast, my weekly live audience talk shows, my books, magazines, audio teachings , and lots more. I’m so happy and excited about my work because I get to reach tens of thousands daily through these media.
Yet I still get scared when I think of what might have happened to me if I had let that childhood fantasy, or parental pressure force me into a path of vocation for which I lacked the passion and ability.

Introspection

What is your place in life?
Have you discovered your true vocation?
Could it be that right now some childhood fantasy is keeping you from functioning at the centre of your calling?
Is anything keeping you from your life’s true vocation?

I grew up in the rural regions of south eastern Nigeria…a little village called Odumara.
That was a long time ago.

I remember one morning…I was just 5 years old then and I was going somewhere to get firewood or something and I saw this white man, or ‘onye ocha’ as we called them. He was, I think, one of the engineers constructing a major road that passed through the village. He was probably taking a sight seeing stroll through the village path. He called out to me, “Hey! Little boy!” When I reached him, he rubbed his hand on my head and started asking me lots of questions. I really couldn’t understand much of what he was saying then because, as I said, I was still a mere village boy then. One thing I remembered I understood and never forgot at that time was that that man was an engineer. At that point I wanted to just grow up instantly, enter the university and study to be an engineer! So somehow, engineering became the ultimate career, the ultimate course and, I grew up wanting to be an engineer.

Well, when the time came for me to get into the university, several forces came into play. My dad and my uncles insisted that I study to become a medical doctor. Actually when I bought the university entrance application form, my father filled it by himself just to ensure that I got into the medical faculty! One of my uncles promised to build a hospital for me when I graduated. They wanted me to be the first medical doctor in my clan. However, deep down within me, I didn’t want to be a medical doctor. I wanted to be an engineer. It was a childhood fantasy.

Career Confusion

At this time, I had gotten ‘born-again’ . I was very zealous for the gospel. So I was moving around the town preaching the gospel under the power of God. My pastor was thrilled with my results. He called me one day and said to me, “You need to go to a bible school and study to be a pastor.”

So I now had three career paths laid out before me: I wanted to study to be an engineer; my dad wanted me to study to be a medical doctor; and now my pastor wanted me to study to be a pastor!
Amidst it all, my father who had become aware of my dilemma decided that we go to another pastor for counsel. This other pastor was more educated than my pastor and we felt he would be able to offer us better advice. He listened to us carefully and at the end he said, “I think you should study Mass Communication.” Well, needless to say that I got out of that counseling session more confused!

My choice?

Anyway, my father’s wish finally prevailed at that time. I got admission into the University of Nigeria to study medicine. However, thanks to one of his friends, my dad got talked out of his insistence that I study medicine. He allowed me to pursue the career of ‘my choice’ – engineering. So I eventually entered the university a year later. I was excited. I had arrived. I was ready to roll.

Well, I never graduated.
I dropped out of that course in my third year to become an evangelist.
I eventually started a Church which I’m still pastoring.

During the week of my thirtieth birthday, I decided to take out time to reflect on my life, review my goals, my dreams, and my priorities. One question I asked myself during that week was, “What are your regrets so far?” I thought over that question for hours. I examined it from many dimensions because I wanted it to be as accurate as possible.
Well, I was shocked at what I discovered. My number one regret was that I should have followed the advice of the second pastor who advised me to study mass communication! That was because over the years that had passed, I had discovered myself and realized that neither medicine, nor engineering had anything to do with my divine design and divine assignment. I was grateful to God then that I had dropped out of school!

I’ve found my place in life

You know, if I had continued along any of the previous tracks, medicine or engineering, I would have lived a very frustrating life. Yes, I could have made a decent pay check, but then, life is not all about money. The magic ingredient of life and which I believe adds to longevity is adding value to other peoples lives by doing what you are passionate about.
I’m so glad today that I’ve found my place in life, that I’m at the core of my expertise, at the centre of my calling.
I’m now communicating God’s presence, wisdom, and favor to masses. I do that now through various means like this blog, my website, my radio broadcast, my weekly live audience talk shows, my books, magazines, audio teachings , and lots more. I’m so happy and excited about my work because I get to reach tens of thousands daily through these media.
Yet I still get scared when I think of what might have happened to me if I had let that childhood fantasy, or parental pressure force me into a path of vocation for which I lacked the passion and ability.

Introspection

What is your place in life?
Have you discovered your true vocation?
Could it be that right now some childhood fantasy is keeping you from functioning at the centre of your calling?
Is anything keeping you from your life’s true vocation?

I grew up in the rural regions of south eastern Nigeria…a little village called Odumara.
That was a long time ago.

I remember one morning…I was just 5 years old then and I was going somewhere to get firewood or something and I saw this white man, or ‘onye ocha’ as we called them. He was, I think, one of the engineers constructing a major road that passed through the village. He was probably taking a sight seeing stroll through the village path. He called out to me, “Hey! Little boy!” When I reached him, he rubbed his hand on my head and started asking me lots of questions. I really couldn’t understand much of what he was saying then because, as I said, I was still a mere village boy then. One thing I remembered I understood and never forgot at that time was that that man was an engineer. At that point I wanted to just grow up instantly, enter the university and study to be an engineer! So somehow, engineering became the ultimate career, the ultimate course and, I grew up wanting to be an engineer.

Well, when the time came for me to get into the university, several forces came into play. My dad and my uncles insisted that I study to become a medical doctor. Actually when I bought the university entrance application form, my father filled it by himself just to ensure that I got into the medical faculty! One of my uncles promised to build a hospital for me when I graduated. They wanted me to be the first medical doctor in my clan. However, deep down within me, I didn’t want to be a medical doctor. I wanted to be an engineer. It was a childhood fantasy.

Career Confusion

At this time, I had gotten ‘born-again’ . I was very zealous for the gospel. So I was moving around the town preaching the gospel under the power of God. My pastor was thrilled with my results. He called me one day and said to me, “You need to go to a bible school and study to be a pastor.”

So I now had three career paths laid out before me: I wanted to study to be an engineer; my dad wanted me to study to be a medical doctor; and now my pastor wanted me to study to be a pastor!
Amidst it all, my father who had become aware of my dilemma decided that we go to another pastor for counsel. This other pastor was more educated than my pastor and we felt he would be able to offer us better advice. He listened to us carefully and at the end he said, “I think you should study Mass Communication.” Well, needless to say that I got out of that counseling session more confused!

My choice?

Anyway, my father’s wish finally prevailed at that time. I got admission into the University of Nigeria to study medicine. However, thanks to one of his friends, my dad got talked out of his insistence that I study medicine. He allowed me to pursue the career of ‘my choice’ – engineering. So I eventually entered the university a year later. I was excited. I had arrived. I was ready to roll.

Well, I never graduated.
I dropped out of that course in my third year to become an evangelist.
I eventually started a Church which I’m still pastoring.

During the week of my thirtieth birthday, I decided to take out time to reflect on my life, review my goals, my dreams, and my priorities. One question I asked myself during that week was, “What are your regrets so far?” I thought over that question for hours. I examined it from many dimensions because I wanted it to be as accurate as possible.
Well, I was shocked at what I discovered. My number one regret was that I should have followed the advice of the second pastor who advised me to study mass communication! That was because over the years that had passed, I had discovered myself and realized that neither medicine, nor engineering had anything to do with my divine design and divine assignment. I was grateful to God then that I had dropped out of school!

I’ve found my place in life

You know, if I had continued along any of the previous tracks, medicine or engineering, I would have lived a very frustrating life. Yes, I could have made a decent pay check, but then, life is not all about money. The magic ingredient of life and which I believe adds to longevity is adding value to other peoples lives by doing what you are passionate about.
I’m so glad today that I’ve found my place in life, that I’m at the core of my expertise, at the centre of my calling.
I’m now communicating God’s presence, wisdom, and favor to masses. I do that now through various means like this blog, my website, my radio broadcast, my weekly live audience talk shows, my books, magazines, audio teachings , and lots more. I’m so happy and excited about my work because I get to reach tens of thousands daily through these media.
Yet I still get scared when I think of what might have happened to me if I had let that childhood fantasy, or parental pressure force me into a path of vocation for which I lacked the passion and ability.

Introspection

What is your place in life?
Have you discovered your true vocation?
Could it be that right now some childhood fantasy is keeping you from functioning at the centre of your calling?
Is anything keeping you from your life’s true vocation?

My personal opinion about success is that only two persons can ascertain whether or not you are successful. Those two are:

• Your own personal God, &
• You.

Two aspects of success

Unfortunately for those who would want to propose otherwise, there’s no universally standardized yardstick for measuring success. Success is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. It’s a highly relative concept and absolutely subjective.
However, there are features of success that are universal and there are those that vary as infinitely as there are distinct personalities. It’s just as we see in the human body; though no two people have the same genetic design as shown by the science of genetics, yet every properly developed human body shares certain common features like a head, a nose, heart, and so on. In the same way, some aspects of the concept of success are constant to all perspectives and experiences, whereas others are variables.
It is always important to distinguish between these two aspects of success.

Personal perspectives and experiences of success

Each individual has a personal perspective and experience of success.
For the single girl at 35, success might mean getting married to her dream man.
For the student battling with his degree exams, it might mean academic distinction.
The African woman who’s been married for 12 years without any child might define success in terms of carrying her own child in her arms.
The person diagnosed of AIDS, or terminal cancer would most likely perceive success as health and freedom from pain.
For some, it might mean a certain level of income, whereas for others it may be having a multi-billion dollar global business empire.

Obviously, it’s very difficult to peg success down to any particular definition.

Universal experiences of success

Success is an internal experience. So regardless of your own personal perspective of it, it will always manifest the following personal experiences:

• inner joy, peace, and tranquility
• a sense of relevance
• a deep and enduring feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment.

But it is also an objective experience with external ramifications. So again, regardless of your own personal perspective of it, it will always create the following effects:

• harmony with the guiding principles and laws of the universe
• elevation of the quality of life of other people
• elevation of the quality of your own life.

Find and pursue your own success

Yes, provided it does not violate the guiding principles and laws of life, as long as it does not hurt your fellow human beings, and as long as it does not hurt you, pursue that which fills you with happiness and fulfillment and which adds the greatest value to your life and that of others! That is your own success.

So what is it that releases joy in your heart?

• Is it being part of another person’s success story?
• Is it helping others experience justice?
• Is it seeing the world around you neater and better organized?
• Is it meeting the needs of others?
• Is it seeing that those are suffering experience relief and comfort?
• Is it bringing more melody and sweetness into the world through lovely songs and sounds?

Go for it!

What is it that floods you with a sense of relevance?

• Is it communicating helping information to others?
• Is it seeing people converted from bad into good behavior?
• Is it seeing the productivity of other people enhanced and accelerated?

Go for it!

What creates that deep and enduring reality of satisfaction and fulfillment within you?

• Is it seeing smiles on other people’s faces as a result of your efforts?
• Is it seeing more money accumulated and made available for the needs of the less privileged?
• Is it helping others find direction and meaning in their lives?

Go for it!

What adds the greatest value to the lives of other people?
What elevates the quality of your own life?
Go for it!

A word of caution

Be careful, though, not to let the attitude of others bother you if what satisfies and fulfills you does not meet their particular definition of success.
Discover yourself.
Find and pursue your own success.

Now tell us, what is your own success?

Tags: success, discover-yourself

I live in Africa where I come face to face on a daily basis with the tragic reality of unnecessary and avoidable poverty and suffering.

From my own personal experience of poverty, and my near minute by minute encounters with it in my immediate and extended environments, I can assure you that poverty is evil.

Poverty is evil

I have watched in utter horror as poverty stripped people of their dignity, self-esteem, and confidence. I have seen it wear down multitudes of men and women with with worries and anxieties. The negative pressure of poverty has pushed young girls into prostitution, young men into armed and unarmed robbery, and degraded previously responsible people into liars and cheaters. The statistics of millions of children dying from hunger and preventable diseases as a direct consequence of poverty is heart breaking. I observe daily how poverty makes people aggressive, desperate, narrow minded, bitter, cynical, resentful, and negative.
And probably, none of the afore mentioned ills is more unfortunate than the fact that poverty restricts people’s options and choices in life thereby making them victims and slaves to external forces and circumstances.

Poverty is a universal human phenomenon, but it’s effects seem more pronounced in certain societies than in others. A day in this country, a day on this continent is enough to convince you that poverty is an evil that must be eradicated from this planet!

Poverty is an artificial phenomenon

The most shocking aspect of poverty for me, is the realization that poverty is an alien phenomenon. It’s not natural. It’s artificial. Take one reflective look at the planet and you easily come to terms with the extravagant abundance of creation. From the abundance of sunlight to that of mineral resources in the earth, you realize that whereas people might be poor, the planet is not poor! The universe is in fact teeming and saturated with abundance of resources and provisions. This goes to show that the Creator never meant for man to be poor.

For this reason, I’m of the firm conviction that poverty is an unnatural and alien phenomenon. It is strange to the Creator’s design.

Poverty is the compound effect of man’s accumulated mistakes, errors of thought and judgment, speech and deeds, passed down from generation to generation.
It is not something to be ashamed of if you found yourself in it due to circumstances which predated you or which are beyond your control. But it is an evil that you must strive to eradicate from your life and posterity.
I do not know that we’ll be able to eliminate poverty entirely from the human race. But I do know that you can eradicate it from your personal life, and that you should strive to do so.

Poverty is spiritual

My vocation as a Christian Pastor confers on me the sacred duty of extracting essential life principles from the Holy Scriptures and then communicating them to my flock with the aim of inspiring them into positive metamorphic experiences.
The more I search the Scriptures for clues and keys to transform people from poverty the more convinced I am that:

• Poverty is more of a spiritual condition, than an economic one.
• The solution for poverty is much deeper than mere financial aid. It’s beyond cash.

I believe that governments and corporate institutions have critical roles to play towards the eradication of poverty. I do not, however, address myself to them. I deliberately address myself rather to the individual sufferer because I’m a firm believer in the concept of personal responsibility.

The cure for poverty is not money!

Poverty is much deeper than the absence of cash. As a matter of fact, the chronic lack of money is just one of the various manifestations of poverty. Poverty is essentially the inability to realize the fullness of one’s potentials in time and space. Poverty is a spiritual phenomenon that operates primarily through the mind in the form of a poverty mentality. Here it regulates thoughts, ideas, and decisions. Finally it manifests as poverty enhancing and entrenching actions and habits, thereby creating the tragic results we see around the world today.

For obvious reasons, the African experience of poverty is my primary frame of reference. People here have become conditioned to believe that the cure for poverty is cash, and I can imagine that this is also true of other societies.
This mindset is flawed.
The cure for poverty is not money!

The cure for poverty lies in the liberalizing of the soul through life-transforming and energizing spiritual enlightenment. I have always challenged and continue to challenge my fellow Africans, and people of all societies plagued by poverty, to go beyond cash in their search for lasting solutions to poverty. What we need in Africa and the rest of the world where people are suffering, is not more financial aid from rich donor countries, but rather a greater capacity for self-determination; a greater level of personal responsibility.

This greater capacity can only happen as each individual is inspired to expand their personal spiritual and mental awareness of their full rights and privileges as off springs of divinity.
This understanding is an underlying force behind the establishment of the Success Academy Nigeria where young African students are challenged to develop a crystal clear awareness of the broadest range of life’s choices and options.

What do you think?

Are you touched by the plight of the world’s poor?
Do you believe that poverty can be eradicated from the world?
What do you think the individual and families caught in this vicious net can do to change their conditions?
Please share your thoughts.
Thank you.

Tags: poverty, abundance

Let region A envelope those things for which you have the ability to do, but lack the interest and passion for.
Let region I envelope those things for which you have the interest and passion for, but lack the requisite ability to perform.
Finally, let region AI represent the area of intersection - that is, those things for which you have both the ability and interest for.

You will not have much fulfillment and satisfactory success if you spend your time and efforts in the regions A or I. What you experience in those areas are struggling, frustration, and unsatisfactory success.

Your most satisfactory success and fulfillment will lie in that area of intersection - AI. That is the place I love to refer to as the Core of Your Expertise.
Discover this core and spend the rest of your life navigating towards it’s epicenter.

In your own life, could you list activities that fall in each region?
Are you functioning at the core of your expertise?
What do you have to say?

Tags: core-of-your-expertise, abilities, ability, interests, success, passion, discover-yourself

“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
-Jesus Christ [Acts of the Apostles 20:35]

Giving is clearly more powerful than receiving.
Impact and influence come from giving, not owning.

Shift from the paradigm that reckons divine blessings solely in terms of what you receive, to one that sees them in terms of what you give.

In these times of tough economic challenges, it is tempting and convenient to shift into a self-preservatory mode. But, is that really a safe strategy? Remember that the best defense is normally a good offense. In other words, rather than shrinking into a shell of selfishness and fear, stick out your neck and, as I pointed out in a previous article, look for ways to help those less fortunate than yourself.

The size of your life is actually determined by the size of your gifts to your follow men. The moment you stop adding value to the lives of others, you are actually committing some form of self destruction. Selfishness is destructive.

Become more excited at giving, than at receiving.
Move to the point where you derive pleasure from helping others.
God’s plan for you is to be blessing, not a beggar.

It does not matter how much or how little you have, attitude is what counts.
Enjoy giving!

You do not need to go far to find opportunities for helping others. Such opportunities abound all around you.

• In your own house family
• In your neighborhood
• In your place of work
• In your school
• In the bus or train station
• Inside the airplane
• In the church
• In your club, recreation centre, or park
• In the supermarket, or shopping mall.

Keep looking for even the smallest opportunity to help others. Even a mere smile could go a long way in helping someone get through another day!

God has blessed you.
Now go ahead and be a blessing.
Enjoy giving!

At the individual level, however, a more significant question is “Are you prepared for a global economic recession?”
Your personal answer to that question is what counts at this time.

So, what are you doing to insulate yourself, and your family against a possible global economic recession?

“A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.”
-Proverbs 22:3

While it is okay to hold the governments of the nations accountable for their stewardship of this world’s resources, we must take responsibility over our own personal decisions with regards to the economic challenges of our times. How are you going to respond? In spite of what happens in the global economy, what will be your own personal experience and that of those who are directly dependent on you?

I’m aware that whether or not we are already in a recession is still open to argument; for some personal reasons, I think we’ve not yet hit the nerve centre of the recession. But I can assure you that there’s a bleak future for the global economy and a lot of suffering still lies ahead.
Are you able to see the danger ahead?
Are you going to pro-act or would you wait till the storm descends before you begin to react?

This is not the time to ‘wish’ that things would just change and that the ominous cloud of global economic recession will just go away.
This is not the time to whine and complain and point accusing fingers on the governments of your nation - blaming this person and that person for the economic woes that are now threatening to drown millions, and possibly billions of people.
This is not the time for panic either.
I believe that this is time for a decisive action at the individual level.

If you are a father, or single mother, or in whatever position of responsibility, you owe it to those that are dependent on you to make the right decisions; make decisions that are firmly rooted in accurate and prudent judgment of the future.
Suffering is ahead. But it is avoidable. It is better and even cheaper to prevent suffering, than to cure it.
So, regardless of whether or not you’ve already started to feel the pangs of an economic drought in your own sphere, you must still take firm steps to turn the tide in your favor and insulate yourself and your loved ones.

What can you do?

You can protect yourself from any economic calamity that could befall mankind at anytime from now.
You must begin right away to take insulatory measures to protect yourself from a possible rapid downward spiral of the global economy.

Don’t let anyone fool you, it’s not certain that government policies will turn the tide, because these are at the very root of the problem. The policies of global economies are predicated on greed and selfishness and so may not be able withstand the onslaught of the consequences of our arrogance and abuse.

The way out lies with you!
At the core of the prescription for escape is your personal decision to pull back from all excessive materialism.
You must arrest the waywardness of your affections and desires.

Then see how you can apply the following recommendations in your own personal life.

1. Simplify your life.
2. Develop your power to create wealth - that is, become more entrepreneuring.
   Tap into the power and potentials of an indispensable technical skill within you.
   Cultivate solid financial skills.
   Develop good and qualitative relational skills.
3. Lay up for yourself treasures in heavenly places.
   The true measure of your wealth is not how much you have, but how much you freely give away.
   The only way to protect the little that you have is by sharing it.
   Regardless of your socio-economic status, there are those that are less fortunate than you. Join projects that are aimed at alleviating their suffering. Whatever you give comes back to you in multiplied measures.

Help others

Do you have other suggestions as to how the average person can cope with these trying times?
We need all the help that we can get. So share your thoughts below…and may God bless you.

Selfless sharing is the not so easy way to abundance and wealth…lol.

The person operating at a lower consciousness of being thinks that selfless sharing is a weakness, yet it is the highest expression of love; and love is the greatest of all forces operating in the universe. The more empowered you become in your innermost being, the more selfless you get. Then you begin to touch others and then you begin to bring healing both to individuals and to the human family. It is this positive impact of selfless sharing on others that attracts abundance and wealth to you.
Whatever you make happen for others, you attract to yourself.

Whereas it’s only natural to be selfish, selfless sharing is challenging, but empowering.
Selfless sharing connects you to the ultimate force in the universe - that force is love.

Selfishness is a sign of infanthood - immaturity.
It is a mask for low self esteem, fear, and insecurity.
It is a form of primitivity.
The selfish man is afraid of losing the little or much that he has, and this is exactly why what he has diminishes in value.

“The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.”
-Proverbs 11:25

This is simply another way to say that selfless sharing is the way to abundance and wealth.
Selfless sharing makes the earth a pleasant paradise.

Think about blog traffic building, for instance; how do you increase traffic to your blog? Is it by spamming every other site, blog, and social media with your URL and links? Of course not. Anyone with a significant traffic to their blog would easily agree that massive traffic is a mere result of selfless sharing.
When you are willing to part with what you have with the sole intention of adding positive value to the life of others, you are rewarded with more abundance and more wealth than you can handle.

My experience as a blogger is that I really don’t have to bother much about traffic. I enjoy the various social media and forums I’m active on. For instance, I enjoy the community over there at StumbleUpon. Yes, I do get hundreds of visitors from there daily, but that’s not my primary motivation for participating in that community. I just love to share my favorite discoveries and sites with others! In fact, most of the times that I’m browsing and doing online research, I’m thinking, “I need to share this…I need to share that..with my friends over at StumbleUpon.” I want to create the highest quality of value that I can for those that stumble upon my blog and those that subscribe to it.
Result? Hundreds of visits from those who are empowered by my collections.
What if all I cared about was for reciprocate stumbling? Then I’ll simply be diminishing my capacity to positively impact others. I’d be petty and selfish and ultimately shrink the sphere of my influence, thereby repelling, rather than attracting abundance and wealth.
Similarly, my aim at twitter is to transmit positive, inspiring, and life changing thoughts. I also want to stimulate life empowering discussions there. This is why I get a lot of testimonies, replies, and direct messages telling me the impact my tweets are having on twitters.
Result? Hundreds of page views and ad clicks from twitters.

The most important aspect of abundance and wealth is not what you have, it is what you selflessly share.
Everything you have is meant to be shared selflessly in one form or the other.
Regardless of what you think of your socio-economic status, you have a lot to share.
You can share your good thoughts.
You can share your life transforming and empowering experiences.
You can share your pains and your joys.
You can share your time and energy.
You can share your knowledge, skills, and abilities.
You can share your material resources.

The essence of relationships is selfless sharing.
When your connecting with others is strictly motivated by selfless sharing, you’ve attained the peak of freedom and wealth.

I’ve discovered that the more I make the tough decision to think solely in terms of selfless sharing, the more inner joy and sense of fulfillment I get. It’s not about the absolutely inevitable consequence of abundance and wealth; it’s about the thrill and sense of empowerment that I feel deep inside me.

Have you ever experienced the feeling of empowerment as a direct result of selfless sharing? Please selflessly share it with us in the comment section.

Should I swallow any junk from any person all in the name of of unconditional love? Isn’t it a form of weakness?
What do you think?

Isn’t it a form of subtle manipulation to expect me to show unconditional love to a cheating wife…an abusive husband…an unruly child…an inconsiderate boss…an irritating colleague…a class bully…an uncaring and selfish spouse?

What happens to my right to happiness if I must show unconditional love to others in spite of how they treat me?

I think that a whole lot of rubbish and abuses are condoned in human interactions all in the name of unconditional love.
What do you think?