Personal Branding Podcast

Dreaming doesn't cost a thing; everyone is free to dream, to stretch one’s imagination. So dream, make your dreams strong enough to be able to pull you towards its achievement. Most dreamers stop at the dreaming stage, but now is the time to move unto the doing stage. Know your reason why you want those dreams badly and don’t stop, move to the doing stage, planning and working to fulfill those desires. You need ask yourself ‘is what I’m doing daily leading me to the realization of my dreams?’. It’s your dream make it happen. EnjoyLife

Let me share this story with you as it also reminds me of the movie "Good Deeds". There is only one thing that has no substitute; that is gratitude and it is the greatest of all attitudes. It is a good seed; start sowing it now and reap a harvest of amazing returns. "...they that sow in tears shall reap in joy.." The Evil you do... A woman baked bread for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra Bread on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the Bread. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: " The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the bread and uttered the words: "The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" The woman felt irritated. "Not a word of gratitude," she said to herself... "Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?" One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. "I shall get rid of this hunchback," she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the bread she prepared for him! As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. "What is this I am doing?" she said. Immediately, she threw the Bread into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the Bread and muttered the words: " The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the Bread on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return. That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, "Mom, it's a miracle I'm here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me whole Bread. As he gave it to me, he said, "This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!" As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned bread that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life! It was then that she realized the significance of the words: "The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!" Moral for the story: Do good and Don't ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time. "...Don't be weary in doing good for in due season you shall reap if you faint not..."

Opinions! Opinions they say are like onions…. My opinion… Don't rush to voice your 0.99 cent opinion/advice on everything; be known to add a million dollar advice on things you do and say, then you will be highly sort after. The fact that you've been asked to give your opinion doesn't mean you should say something or just anything. Silence could be golden if used properly. Remember quality counts. Sometimes less is more. ~ Enjoy life! “You can think all you can but don't publicize all your thoughts" ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Love is where you find it, and how you find it is yours to decide. S/he said… ‘I know we just fit and you can’t deny that, you are my perfect partner… searching for love. It happens almost all the time. Have you found yourself in that state?... Learn to love yourself first. Tom Robbins stated… “When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter”. So start out to love yourself and enjoy Life!

“Don't grow old to give up and don't give up growing up”. Sometimes our dreams and goals takes time for its completion, it could even take years, and the tendency to give up along the way is very tempting as the years slide, growing old. For we will all grow old but growing up is optional, it’s a personal decision one has to take and stick with it even in the changing times — to learn from life lessons and mature. Many just add years to their ages without real prove of what they have learnt over the years. Let’s not just add numbers, let’s add value to our lives and hence better the lives of others with our wisdom. Don’t give up now, keep growing.

Be devoted to the success of your dreams; be keen to take that audacious giant step to hire yourself, to employ all necessary tools and resources to make your dream possible. Remember the words of Tony Gaskins he said “If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs” Yes, and the truth is people are hiring daily. Why not hire yourself to do? You’ve got what it takes. Live your dreams and EnjoyLife! Get EnjoyLife Book

Happiness is the only true measure of personal success. Making other people happy is the highest expression of success, but it's almost impossible to make others happy if you are not happy yourself. Start each day with expectation: If there's any big truth about life, it's that it usually lives up to (or down to) your expectations. Therefore, when you rise from bed, make your first thought: "something wonderful is going to happen today." Guess what? You're probably right. By: Ebo Nyamekye Allen-Koufie

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going” – Helen Keller. Are there any secrets to success? My question for you today is this…where and what is your source of motivation? Everyone has a source of motivation from within and also from external sources. Today, look around and identify those things that inspire you, the things that you do that energizes you. And do more of that. Stay motivated. I once heard a statement like this “The secrets of success are right in your room. Hear them speak; The Fan says - Be Cool. The Roof says - Aim High. The Window says - See the world. The Clock says - Every Minute is precious. The Mirror says - Reflect before you act. The Calendar says - Be up to date. The Door says - Push hard for your goals. The Carpet says - KNEEL down and PRAY” Step out and make today memorable. EnjoyLife!

Step up the game I just want to congratulate Mitt Romney for stepping out to fight, to contest... though he didn't make it, it was worth fighting for, fighting for his dream - 'The American Dream'. Many are sitting on the fence of their dreams, who will never step out to fight for what they really want, they are the best critics of those who dare fight and fail. Such people will never taste the glory of victory nor the lessons from their fight. It's always better to lose some of the battles fighting for your dreams than just cheering with the crowds, not challenging yourself. Today I urge you to step out and find-out for yourself. Give your dreams a good chase

She said “my life is like an open book, everyone knows everything about me”… well your life may be an open book but that doesn't mean people are reading you. They may have not even noticed you. The other point is, if your life is seen as an open book – what chapters and pages of your life are you revealing – is it the real you? Or hiding behind some mask? Come to think of it again, if all the life you've lived till now was a story(your own storybook) what category will it fall in; comedy, drama, fiction, adventure, romance, inspirational, or perhaps a blend? So either an open book life or closed book, the question is: are you living your true life? If you are not enjoying your life story and not charting it the way you want it, decide today to change it. Because, you are the scriptwriter of your life’s story and the director of your own movie; make it a hit or a miss. Enjoy life.

Five, ten or twenty years from now it won’t really matter what school you attended, whether it was FREE or paid. What will matter most is what you learned and how you leveraged it. Be a lifelong learner. Invest in yourself. The key question is what you are doing with what you've learned till now? Learn to make a positive difference in life. You have what it takes, so make it happen!

Personal Education One vital key to success in life is continuous personal education. The need to invest in one’s self for the wellbeing of others in the society. The question is… how has your education aided people in your community? Charles Sam stated: "Education consists not only in the sum of what a man or woman knows or the skill with which he or she can put this to his or her own advantage. A man or woman’s education must also be measured in terms of the soundness of his or her judgment of people and things, and in his or her power to understand and appreciate the needs of his or her fellow men and women, and be of service to them. The educated man or woman should be so sensitive to the conditions around him or her that he or she makes it his or her prime objective to improve those conditions for the good of all. “ Keep learning, unlearning and relearning.

What do you want? Whatever you focus on, you give it energy, strength, and you attract it directly or indirectly. Anything you ignore you kill it, you take the life out of it. The problem is that most people keep talking and thinking about all that they don’t want and things that bothers them. So they tend to attract more of such into their lives. Ask yourself, what are your current dominant thoughts about? Is it lack or abundance? Now shift the focus unto that which you genuinely desire. Dream again.

It’s broken but fits well There comes a time where the broken fits perfectly into your planned life. That’s where the real meaning of your life and its purpose dawns on you. A season where a broken relationship, lost job, disappointment, delays and disgrace turn to fit someway somehow into your life beautifully, like a missing piece of puzzle. You begin to make sense from the nonsense, from the tears and fears come hope and joy; a sudden zest for that newness of life. The aha! Moment. That is life. God is working it out for your good behind the scenes. EnjoyLife!

It’s in you The movie ‘Lion King’ reminds us of that inspiring track ‘He lives in you’. Yes there is greatness in you and you know it. You are the only person who recognizes what your true dreams are, what God has deposited in you. People will not really understand you; because they don’t have it hard-wired in them you have it. Let this sink in, this phrase by Joel osteen“...Oftentimes, people who aren’t fulfilling their destiny will try to discourage you from fulfilling yours. They may not do it intentionally, but they’ll tell you what you can’t do and how things won’t work out. They’re quick to remind you of all your impossibilities. Your relatives, co-workers and friends may try to talk you out of your dream, but that’s because God didn’t put that promise in them; He put it in you. You have to remember that other people don’t determine your destiny; God does. He holds your destiny in the palm of His hand. If you will believe, God will not only bring it to pass, but He will do more than you can ask or think.” Focus on your dreams; believe in yourself and the God in you. Your dreams will surely not die!