Category: Exhortation

  • The Foolishness of Idle Resources – Olufemi Olumide

    It was my first free Saturday in weeks, With over 70 webinar consulting sessions within the past 2 months as well as other outbound training sessions, I decided my Saturday would be for sleep, premiership catch up and laundry.

    While sorting some clothes I had not worn in a while, I had that incling to search the pockets.

    Interestingly, the first pocket I dipped my hand into had some cash probably left there for a few weeks. After counting, the total amount came to N10,300.

    Hmmmm I said to myself, “but I can’t remember when I left this money here. Interestingly, I can’t still remember. Right then it dawned on me that I had wasted an opportunity to invest loose resources. I asked myself how many people out there had a stash of cash doing nothing for them? .

    I soon realised that we could actually make better use of our resources. Some of us have items in our possession that needs to go on rental, cars in our yards that need to go on Uber or Bolt, land that can grow plantain while we save up for the development. .

    What resources do you have that has remained unused? We stay foolish when we remain like the guy who hid his investment in the parable of the talent.

    It’s another Monday morning…I challenge you to put that abandoned resource to use. Its another Monday morning..

  • Winning Word – Overcoming The Seed Destroyers

    Today we are going to be talking about overcoming seed destroyers.

    In 2 Chronicles 22:10, when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.

    The enemy target your seed to stop your potential harvest.

    When Athaliah saw that she has lose her seed she rose to destroy other people’s seed.

    Whoever that has lost his/her seed running after your seed will collapse and fall in the name of Jesus because this set of seed destroyers are the worst but they will fail and fail woefully over your seed. (Amen)

    Most times many don’t understand the power of their seed and the reason why the enemy is after their seed.

    What is a seed?

    Your potential is a seed. Your vision is a seed. Your children are seeds. Your money is a seed. The word of God is a seed. Your time is a seed. Your wife is a seed.

    Never allow seed destroyers to destroy your seed because they are always after it because they can’t produce their own seed and they can foresee the great harvest in the future.

    Satan from his day of fall has been stolen the seeds God deposited in people because he can’t produce his own seed.

    The secret to save your seed from the seed destroyers is to hide yourself in the Lord that’s why the only surviving seed during Athaliah’s reign was hid in the house of God for six years 2 Chronicles 22:12.

    Prayers Against Seed Destroyers

    1. Thanks you lord for the power of your word

    2. You seed destroyer, you are liar my seeds are covered by the blood of Jesus

    3. No weapon fashioned against my seed shall prosper in Jesus Name

    4. Lord give me the power to overcome every evil war waged against my seed because of its potential great harvest.

  • Seeds and Fruits – Start the Change You Seek with Yourself

    Seeds and Fruits – Start the Change You Seek with Yourself

    Someone sent me a message yesterday.

    “Any article for our great Nation Nigeria?”

    My answer?

    “I focus on the people.”

    You see, every nation is a reflection of her people. Good people, great nation. Bad people, oh well…

    Seeds and fruits.

    Seeds and Fruits by Tope Fabusola on Olawale Daniel blog
    Hear this: If fruits are meant to be the goals you pursue, seeds are going to be the actions needed to achieve those goals. Hence, seeds and fruits are intermoven. Your seed will always determine the fruits.

    If fruits are the goals, seeds are the actions needed to achieve those goals. The seed will always determine the fruits.

    If the goals of your nation is to be the cleanest in the world, what would you do as a citizen?

    You could cheer and clap. You could patiently wait for the environmental agencies to clean up your street.

    If they fail to come, you could send open letters, organize rallies, and throw a tantrum whenever your dirty neighbour farts.

    OR

    You could start with yourself. Practice personal hygiene. Brush your teeth regularly. Take your bath. Wear clean clothes and do your laundry.

    Then, move into the bedroom, and clean it up. Do the same for the living room and the kitchen. Take proper care of the toilet and the backyard.

    You could then move outside and clean your patio and mow the lawn. You would do it happily because you know that is the best thing for you.

    Maybe the neighbours will notice your clean clothes and green lawn. Maybe they will be inspired enough to do the same for themselves.

    Or be jealous. Jealous enough to try beating you in cleanliness. Maybe the whole neighbourhood would catch the fever and clean everything up.

    You know what I mean.

    Start with yourself. Before holding others to high standards, set high standards for yourself.

    You are the ruler of your personal world.

    Watch your habits. Lead your life. Work at your job. Be a good boss. Be good to your clients. Lead by example. Clean yourself first.

    If you do this, you would have planted a seed.

    It is one thing to complain about those in the spotlight while you do whatever you like in the dark corners of your room.

    We are all good lawyers of ourselves and great judges of others. Start with yourself and let’s see if we can create a ripple effect.

    Even if you think you can’t start a fire, you can ignite someone who can.

    #BurnUpOrBurnOut

    Tope Fabusola
    The Firebrand CEO

  • LET GO: The Art of Letting Go for God To Rule and Reign In Your Life

    In my early morning rising update today, I have something to quickly share with you. I was just browsing through my facebook wall, I stumbled upon something that caught my attention and I cannot just learn from it alone without sharing with the people I care most about.

    My writeup is focused on teaching you how to let go of situations and circumstances that could consume you. Study and learn from the picture I posted below. Read to know why you should identify “when to LEG GO and when to HOLD ON.”

    How To Let Go of What Could Consume You In Life

    LET GO: Learn to know when to LET-GO of situations and circumstances that could consume you.
    LETTING GO: In life you need the gift to discern when to take action and when not to. Learn to know when to LET-GO of situations and circumstances that could consume you.

    Lessons from this picture:

    1. Know When To Act or Stay Still: Not all opportunities are to be taken. Why? Some are traps, or could lead you into one.

    2. Reverse-Hurt Could Lead To Self-Destruction: A person can become so determined to destroy another person that they become blind and end up destroying themselves. You can decide to let go and forgive than to embark on a journey of no return in order to end a subject’s domination. You have not much to gain aftermath, and you could as well met your own death along the way. Let go and let God rule.

    3. Understand Your Environment: You fight best in your natural element and environment. Here the bird has advantage in his natural element. The predator failed to realise this little fact until the last minute that things have gone overboard.

    4. Know your limits, we all have them: It is good to have a stiff-necked attitudes towards achieving success or fulfilling your life dreams, but you should be careful when you are not so sure of the purpose of your actions. Like the predator in this image, the animal has forgotten the fact that the ability to fly was possessed only by the prey. It wasn’t given to all, hence, the need for it to stay back and let go.

    5. Sometimes the best response to provocation is not to fight: Not all situations are meant to be reacted to. The bird was playing around unguided and free – the predator saw that and thought, it could take advantage of the situation.

    But based on what we are all seeing right now between the prey and the predator, who’s winning?

    6. Sometimes to accomplish something you need team work, you will not always win alone: There’s nothing bad in obeying the law of loneliness, but when it comes to achieving success, you can’t just do it all alone. If you don’t understand what I mean, ask Lionel Messi of  FC Barcelona, or Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid, or Eden Hazard of Chelsea if they could all be where they are today without their respective team players watching their backs. No matter how skillful you could ever have become in life’s field of play, if you don’t have team work in action, you’re loosing it already.

    “Team work is the perfect work.”

    7. Stick to what you do best and don’t pursue what will kill you: After you’ve discovered that recipe that makes you the best in your field. You need to stay glued to that. People are looking to give offer great opportunity to people that has that attributes you don’t value yet. Why looking elsewhere for those things you do not posses that has tendency of destroying who you’d become?

    “It is better to be a king in the jungle and be celebrated than to be an unknown champion where you’d not be afforded the kind of respect you deserve.”

    Be the best in your craft and let the world celebrate you, if you are known for running fast in the jungle, never try to fool yourself by trying to fly higher like an eagle in the sky. It is good to aspire to be the best in your field of study or your calling, but putting common sense in motion in your life is the best medicine to achieving greatness in life; family, ministry, career etc.

    Conclusion

    If you don’t know when to take action, you may end up coming in late. Likewise, you also need to know when to let go of situations to let peace reign in your life. If you’re gonna play the game of life right, you’ve got to know when to roll the dice. And according to Kenny Rogers in his well-popularized and most successful song titled, The Gambler song, you gotta learn to play it right;

    You have got to know when to hold the cards to yourself. Know when to fold the card to avoid other’s studying your moves. Know when to walk away from taking another shots. Know when to run without looking back. You never count your money when you’re sitting at the table.

    Why? It is because there all be time enough for counting your gains when the dealing is done.

  • I’m Grateful & My Gratitude Reports for 2014!

    I’m Grateful & My Gratitude Reports for 2014!

    Gratitude ought to be an everyday attitude of the living.

    There’s no other time to be thankful and grateful for the gift of life and grace to still be on this great planet earth!

    I’m overjoyed when I recount some of the great and amazing achievements God has sent my way over the cause of my short stay on this beautiful planet. I have so much to rejoice about for what God has done for me, it is because ”I am alive’ that you are reading this piece from me.

    Where there’s life, there’s hope, there’s still more reasons to make things happen – those who are dead cannot make any more impact on the universe, it is the living who can change the propeller of life from been drowned off due to life challenges.

    Like I said earlier, I have a whole lot to be thankful for. Here are some of major achievements of my life this year and reason to be grateful. I hope to achieve more by the time I clocked 30!

    Gratitude for ‘living beyond limitations’

    Ever since I’ve come across this powerful and inspiring motivational quote by Marianne Williamson, an extract from her short book, “Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of ‘A Course in Miracles‘,” my self-confidence level had tremendously increased, and I’m a step further excited about life. I think it worth sharing with you guys.

    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

    We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.

    Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

    We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

    If you can read this quote from beginning to the end, you’ll agree with me that there’s nothing in this world that could stop you from achieving greatness except you!

    If yes, then why enslaving yourself?

    Bail yourself out today and enjoy the freedom that God has granted you – be the best God has made you to be. Don’t fear anyone, but God.

    Gratitude for amazing feats achieved in the past months:

    Joined Alliance In Motion Global distribution network

    As you guys already knew, I was officially with Forever Living Products until late last year that I added yet a powerful internationally-recognized network marketing brand to my Portfolio. The new MLM company is called Alliance In Motion Global; AIMGlobal in short form. More of that soon as we continue.

    Business thriving: Going places, Conquering the world

    Last year has been an amazing one for me, it is my best till date business-wisely. My technology startup, TechAtLast, got quite some unbelievable nominations for awards we didn’t expect coming. It is a sign that we’re doing something worthy of appreciation. Secondly, we’ve reached an agreement to be the official Africa media partner of a major UK based company in their bid to enter the fast rising African technology market.

    Touching more lives through charity

    Last year marked the beginning of my support and ambassadorial attachment with Jesus Homes for the Disabled Kids, Monatan and host of other NGO organizations. You can check the charity page for links to donate to some of these powerful Non-for-profits to give hope and reasons for living to less-privileged people.

    Marital stability

    Surprised?

    I’m not married yet for those of you already thinking that I am. Funny enough, I’m 100% single but engaged 😉

    To who? You will know soon. Case closed!

    New tour achievement unlocked

    Setting a target of touring five states of the nation and achieving it may not mean a thing to someone who travels a lot, but to me, it does. In fact, it is a dream come through.

    Aside making money, one thing I’d loved to keep doing again and again is traveling! Its been my childhood hobby and I set myself on a target to tour five (5) different states of the nation in 2014 – and before you know it – I have gone past 6 states before the Q3 of the year!

    In 2015, I have a bigger and better target, and as I’m punching my keypad, I’ve achieved 20% of this year traveling goal.

    So, why AIMGLOBAL?

    The whole world is my target – I’m not interested in being a local champion (there are more benefits in form of recognition, achievement and fulfillment when someone achieve global feat). As a partner and business associate of Alliance In Motion Inc./Nature’s Way, I can evenhandedly sponsor, and do business with any serious and success-minded business person all across the globe without hindrance.

    Why? It is because of the tremendous support system in place coupled with AIMGLOBAL Global Expansion vision.

    The whole world is your target market when you're with AIMGLOBAL

    The whole world is your target market especially when you are with AIMGLOBAL! You have no boundary limitation, because you can earn residual income from all across the globe – simply by expanding branch of your business to every corners of the world with WWW serving as your aide.

    You get to lay your hand on a proven system that will help exit the rat race for maximum enjoyment of the world’s most amazing opportunities proffered to you by Nature’s Way and Alliance In Motion. If you want to learn more about AIMGLOBAL and how you could take advantage of this BIG business opportunity in your area, then click here.

    I wrote an introductory line of text about network marketing industry as a viable industry where everyone need to be part of, in this article, I lead people into the brief history of network marketing and why people  that does not want to be associated with the industry are shortchanging themselves. Go here to read it.

    Setting the sail

    What the rest of 2015 has in store to me, that I can’t say for now, but I’m certain that “his thoughts for me is thought of peace, success, breakthrough and to give me an expected ends of greatness,” and I pray this shall be your own portion this rest of the year.

    Thank you for your birthday wishes on my day - Olawale Daniel

    On birthday wishes and greetings via social networks, email, text and calls.

    I’m grateful to you, my friends and loved ones, for all your kind gestures and support over the years, and above all for the Birthday greetings and wishes – I cannot do anything without you guys! I say, dalu to my Igbo guys, na gode to my Hausa friends, e seun to my Yoruba brothers, merci to my French speaking friends, gracias to my Spanish peeps, and dhan yavada to all my Bhais in India!

    I love you all.

    Conclusion

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  • Halcyon days – would you have any?

    This post is straightly focused on my topic Halcyon days! Please don’t expect much ramblings, but straight-forward and touching message which would later launch you into your prosperity and posterity, all at the same time, if you could just take note of wordings used in this message.

    What can others say about you in 5, 10, 15 or more years after today?

    Would people easily remember and reference your halcyon days, the time when you were prospering in your field all because you’ve mastered it well? What would they say about you then?

    What does halcyon mean?

    The word halcyon was derived from a bird of classical legend, which was identified with the kingfisher, that was said to uncanny or mystically calm the waves whenever it nested on the surface of the sea. Halcyon denotes peace, gentleness, happiness, calmness, carefree, and joy etc.

    The focal point of this write up about Halcyon days is for you to make your environment a great dwelling.

    Create an environment that will motivate, encourage and empower people around you to do greater stuffs worth noting…

    Strive to better your best and be the leader, teacher, father, mother, uncle and business associate people would always want to do something with, at all the time, even after life.

    You can do it! Start creating your halcyon days right from now on, and leave no stone untouched. Study hard, learn new things everyday to be above the average in your field, do something helpful to others, sacrifice for others to live a better life, encourage someone to try the next level for greatness, support a great course, and sooner than later when you’re tired, people will began referencing your halcyon days as a doer.

    Greatness is in people, not in places. You have it in YOU!

    So, go do it today!