10 EMOTIONS OF POWER (GOOD POWER TO LIVE)

While reading a book by Anthony Robbins titled “awaken the giant within”, I came across the ten emotions of power he listed and honestly I totally loved them all. These emotions are all very powerful and when used like they should be they always produce the desired results. The emotions are as follows;

LOVE

Love is so difficult to consistently define, probably because it is a mash up of so many different feelings, for example, ”I can say I love my dog” and also say “I love my parents”, now I love both, but which will you think I love more?, “if you were thinking my dog then you need some special intervention”.... There are different types of love according to the ancient Greek; eros, agape, philia....uuuhhh I don’t know if there is a fourth one, but anyways  I am not going to go into all of that. Instead I am going to just narrow my topic “love” to the term “interpersonal love”. Interpersonal love is love for fellow human beings. Therefore it could be love for fellow employees, acquaintances, friends and even family. You do not need to get to know people “one on one” before you have love for them. When you can freely do this you definitely have power. Interpersonal love makes you more caring, understanding, tolerant, and happy and it also makes you loved in return. When you have love, you have love for your country and everyone around. But let us not forget that to truly love others we must first love our selves. Now that does not mean being self centred and selfish, instead it means loving who you are, your personality and appreciating God for making you just right. Only then will you truly be able to love people. Let’s face reality for a moment though; many times they are always those people that no matter how much you try to love them, they always do something to spoil the mood, “trust me I know of those”. But do not be discouraged because it is mostly at times like that that you truly know if you posses power or not, based on your reactions.

APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE

We will never know how much our level of appreciation and gratitude makes an impression on people. If God himself relishes appreciation and gratitude, then it must be true that this emotion has great power. Appreciation and gratitude to me is simply identifying something and being thankful for it. I appreciate my friends, teachers, family, God and even if I had enemies which of course I do not, I would still appreciate them. Appreciation means you notice how special something is. Appreciation can be many things, but it basically has to do with noticing and thanking or reverencing. Have you ever done something for someone that made the person dance for joy and tell you just how much he appreciates you?, Can you describe the feeling you get watching the smile on that persons face?,... to me that feeling is out of this world, it’s beautiful, its mind blowing, and I always feel like doing more for the person because I want to keep feeling the way their joy makes me feel. Well that is the same way it is for someone else when you appreciate them, and it makes them want to do more. Apart from that appreciation and gratitude shows respect and humility. Now who does not want a respectful and humble fella?...

CURIOSITY (OR THE BIG QUESTION MARK....?)

Am sure we all know that “curiosity killed the cat?”, but do not be afraid, you are not the cat. Curiosity is basically a strong desire to know and learn something. Curiosity makes us more knowledgeable. Like a popular saying goes, “knowledge is Power”. It is true that knowledge is power but I d usually prefer to say that application of knowledge is power .But all in all, the first step to gaining this power is curiosity, because only till you ask questions and seek for answers will you find knowledge.

EXCITEMENT AND PASSION

Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Yeahhhhhh!!!!!! Woooooooooohoooooooo!!!!!1......I am so excited to write on this, wow! This topic is so awesome! You see all what I just deed is called excitement and many times excitement and passion go hand in hand. Excitement is to kindle passionate feelings, while passion is a strong compelling emotion, mostly of hate or love. Do you know that your excitement and passion convinces people whether to follow you listen to you and even believe you or not. Great leaders of today are mostly very passionate and exciting. And if it is not obvious already, they have some form of power. So what am I saying? , do what you do out of love and be excited about it. Scream, jump, laugh and even run when you have to, because that is what defines passion.

DETERMINATION

For me, determination goes hand in hand with having a purpose. And then being able to make decisions and stand by them. Looking out for them and making sure that they are met, no matter what it takes. So have a purpose, a goal and then strive to get it. Doing this shows power.

 FLEXIBILITY

Literally flexibility means being capable of being bent, twisted, and bowed and so much more, without yielding to pressure and breaking. Now let’s paint a picture out of it.” you are a mum, with a family of four you have to cook, love and care for, you own a company with hundred employees, who have to oversee, you fly to different countries from time to time for your business meetings. And yet somehow you have it all under control, now that is really being flexible. Another example is you were supposed to have a business meeting on a given  day but somehow the meeting got postponed, do you become suddenly disorganized because of this of do you just adjust your schedule and just go on enjoying life that is flexibility.

CONFIDENCE

Confidence is faith. This faith could either be in you, God, a Person or in anything else at all. Confidence makes you think “it is well”, “I know I can do it” or “I know he can or will do it”. Just like passion your confidence convinces people and in some cases even confuses people. Be confident in yourself and people will be confident in you. Be confident in people and they will still be confident in you. And above all be confident in God.

CHEERFULNESS

Cheerfulness is like an infectious disease, when you are cheerful, you will be surrounded by cheerful people. Nobody wants to hang around somebody that kills the plants and insects around him when he passes just with his gloom alone. So be happy always. It is normal for things in life to appear bad sometimes, but even when it does, to show that you really have power, you say “ I am going to be happy no matter what” and then you act happy instead.

VITALITY

According to the online dictionary, vitality is exuberant physical strength or mental vigour. How does a person get vitality? You ask. Well first of all, it’s all in the mind, so make up your mind to be happy, productive, at peace with yourself, healthy and free. A big part of vitality is health. Health is very important and the key to living healthy is simply eating right and exercising. So in the evenings, instead of sitting in front of the TV eating a truck of pop corn and drinking a barrel of soda, get up, play some music and shake your booty, take a walk in the park and clear your mind, do some push ups or skip rope. Take up a sport you love and have fun while doing it. Eat lots of greens and drink lots of water. Play like a child and be free. And you will see how powerful you will feel both physically and mentally.

CONTRIBUTION

Even though contribution is the last it is very important. In the real world, nobody really comes up to you and asks what your opinion is? Or what do you want to contribute? So to have absolute power, you have to make your voice heard. Say that thing you have inside you, do that thing you want to do. Don’t mind people. I think to myself many times that it would be a shame to look back at your life when you are 90 years old  and realize that you lived someone else’s  life or that you didn’t contribute something to the society you found yourself in at any given time. I believe that we all can always contribute something. We do not have to be leaders first before our opinions and contributions are heard. So start from where you are and contribute you way to the top.

My work here is done for now.” He that has eyes let him read and understand”. I wish you all the best in your strive for power and a full productive life.

Is it just me or does school not really matter?

Just a few days ago, I was out with a friend visiting another friend, and we got to talking about the business and life future plans, and of course school at the moment. When somehow we started talking about how dropping out of school has become the new trend that has helped people develop their full potential. Silly right? I know but honestly, is it not interesting to know that the likes of, Michael Dell, Bill gates and Mark Zukerberg who are world millionaires were all school drop outs? Now this makes me ask myself and you guys this question is school really important? A knowledgeable friend of mine once said that “schools do not train people to be their own bosses; instead it trains you to work for someone else”. I pondered on that for a while and came to a conclusion that his statement was indeed very true. Many people just spend all their time going to school and they never sit and just think about what it is they really want to do in their life and how they can really do it, and then when they are through with school they are frustrated as they go about looking for jobs. Now I am not saying that people shouldn’t work for other people, all I am saying is that people like you and I should bring out time to really think about our potential and what we really want to do even when we find ourselves schooling, don’t think because you are in school you have all the time in the world because honestly you don’t.

Finally to answer my own question “is it just me or does school not really matter”? , To me, school matters to a certain level probably high school, that is why anyone who schooled up to high school can make something great out of his or her life, wait what am I even saying, anyone who wants to make something great out of his life can do it whether with or without school at all. But schooling after that i will say is not really necessary. Please feel free to object. Many times I have come to realize that many of most these millionaires who dropped out of school already had a definite Idea, or plan, they already had something they knew they wanted and could do and they went out to get it, they took a risk. But most times we play it safe, this even includes me. But now seriously ask yourself this, Why am in school? Is this going to help me achieve my dream? What more should I do to get there? And in no time you will start getting your answers, and if there is something you are really sure of go out and get it. Even if you don’t leave school, still go out and get it. Let me also just state that you will be the smartest if you actually stay in school and still do what you want or love at the same time.

Some googled question’s and generated answers

1. how do I know he or she loves me?
 Seriously with the rate you are going he doesn’t, you would not be typing it first if he or she did. Besides how about leaving your notebook and actually asking the person in real life.

2. Why do I pee so much?
Seriously Dude I don’t know, how about you stop taking so many liquids.

3. Why do I have no friends?
 Maybe if you left Google and the internet for once you’d have friends loser!

4. I think I am Pregnant
 Yeah I’d go to the doctor if I were you but am not so holla!

5. Why do I have green poop?
Ewww!! That’s just gross. You are disgusting you know that?

6. Why do women lie?
Oh c’mon, like you don’t know the answer to that one, because they are women easy.

7. I would like to buy a hamburger
Now that’s interesting.... (5 minutes later)... ha ha you still waiting to buy

8. Sleep is for sissies
I hail thee oh masculine one and wisheth thee luck as you live a life without sleep, I am going to sleep now.

9. Why is everyone posting colors on face book
What does that even mean, am confused... wait you are confused, now go do something else with your time before I give your a computer virus.

10. How to make money
Here’s how, wake up in the morning, take a shower get dressed, get out of your house and look for a job that’s how.
 
 
Please note that all the answers are self generated and are just for fun not to cause controversy.
 
 
 

My Favorite Word is "Awesome", What's yours?

Wow! Isn’t the word awesome just beautiful ...I really can’t explain why I love the word so much but I’ll try. I became so into the word awesome after i watched the TV comedy drama "How i met your mother" Where Barney could not stop going on about his awesomeness, by the way I love how I met your mother.You see awesome is a word derived from the adjective “Awe”. And awe has a lot of meaning attached to it. Of course awe would have been my favourite word if you could use it as an exclamation after a totally Aweseous (mash up of awesome and righteous by the way) statement like “Hey Brad, here are the keys to my Ferrari, you can take it for a spin”, now Brad can’t saw “awe!” that would be totally awkward, instead he’d say “Awesome!!!!”.....cool right?

Am not going to take much of your time so let’s just dive into the meaning of the word AWESOME. Awesome simply means expressing awe, inspiring; it also can mean remarkable, outstanding, amazing, just name it, anything great. Many times when I say the word Awesome, I feel energized, confident, cool and many other great things. Many people around me would have noticed my liking to this word because I say it like always for instance if someone says’s “Hey Rita How’s it going?” I‘ll be like “Awesome”. Now am beginning to wonder if people feel so passionate about certain words or is it just me.

So back to the main topic “Awesome”. The synonyms of awesome I like the most are mind-blowing, breathe-taking, striking, astonishing, impressive, magnificent, beautiful, intimidating, fearful, stupefying, grand, dreadful, shocking. Now notice how just one word can be represented by so many words that contrast and agree at some point. Isn’t that just beautiful. The word awesome is very deep and it isn’t so easy to fathom. No wonder God is many times referred to as awesome. Oh! my this Word Awesome is so awesome even for itself.

So what’s that word you are most passionate about? Share it, am sure it will be interesting to find out.

Finding yourself

So am sitting on my bed, with my laptop in my lap, browsing through Google and guess what am searching for? "How do you know what you are supposed to do in life?".......Seriously that was the question I typed.

This question has been bugging me ever since I discovered that Justin Beiber (17 years old), who is well quite younger than I am, please note that I said quite, because am most definitely young too at least I think that don’t judge me ok! But any way Justin was worth $53million as of may 2011, and I was like “oh my, what am I waiting for, anyone can become truly successful just doing what they love”.

But truth be told, I already knew that even before I found out about Justin he only just reminded me of that truth.

So I asked myself what does being truly successful mean to me. And I answered of course true success to me is having real happiness and peace, it is being able to inspire impact and influence people rightly. It’s living your own life the way you want it to the fullest, living by your own principles and standards, not by what people think, tell you or do. To me success is so so much but I will just stop here for now.

Am sure you will be asking already “what is it you are you trying to say?” well here is what I am saying.

If you are someone like me who finds himself in a position asking this same question "how do you know what you are supposed to do in life?", first of all will tell you that you have no need to worry.

President Obama once said “Life’s an endless journey, and you never really start living till you start loving whatever you do”......nahhh!! Am just messing with you, I said that. My point is ask yourself what is that one or two things or whatever I love doing?, what is that thing I do with total ease?, what is that thing people can always say “Hey! you know what. I think he can do it”, or “she can do it”. Please don’t get me wrong here, because I know someone is already thinking “hey I can eat 20 hotdogs in one sitting or Am so awesome in sleeping”, I know we can all do that.

Seriously though ask yourself and when you eventually find that thing build on it, For example I like writing and I do it with ease so am building on it by blogging.

Secondly let people know what you can do, If Steve Jobs the former C.E.O of apple (God bless his soul), created his gadget and then used it only in his room and told nobody about it he wouldn’t have been the world Icon he was today. So let people in, tell them am so good at this or that and don’t hold back. Before I forget let me also mention that the people you hang around really matter, your friends really do matter, if you want to be something great hang with great and alike minds. Ever noticed that the many prominent people now were friends back in the days before they became successful? Well if you haven’t I have.

 Finally I will leave you with this, so think on it. Most successful people who have truly found themselves have done so mainly because they were dedicated to serving people and to meeting the needs of others, I said most not all. Many business tycoons became who they are because they saw a need and then went ahead to meet the need, It is the easiest way to find yourself and to truly know who you are. So look out for that one need everywhere you go and surely you will find it.

Whooa!! Am hungry now, off to find something to eat, Peace....

Losing Weight

Losing weight is a pretty difficult thing to do I say this because I've tried it, therefore I am not going start giving all the normal weight loss tips you see on other websites but am just going to advice you guys  to take it slow and easy.Eat what you like but do not over eat, do not eat late at night let's say after 9pm.You should also know that you do not need to have a gym membership to lose weight you can just Increase your level of activeness during the day maybe by dancing when you feel like or walking to school or work, skipping rope....well that's just to mention a few.Whenever you find your self tempted to over eat or eat so much crappy foods just stop for a second and ask your self if you would be happier if you ate that food or if you lost more weight.Finally and most Importantly drink lots of water!!!...it will help you stay full and therefore less hungry.

Whatever size you are just know that you are beautiful and love yourself no matter what.