Book Review Continues

Hello everyone, a big shout out to our new members, happy to have you on board the secretlilies ship. I hope and pray that you will love it.....

Before I start the book review, you can never guess what happened to me. I woke up this morning, went straight to my blog and vamp, started writing, finished examined my work and loved it, clicked the publish post button and watched my post disappear due to network problem.... Well I am back again, nobody stopping me from blogging.....

For our new members the book I am reviewing : " THINK & GROW RICH by Napoleon Hill. For those of us in Lagos you can get it in Laterna ventures, Victoria Island for #1,200 and they even do home delivery, so you can call and order. Do check their website for more details. For those of us out of Nigeria we can get the book on Amazon or Barnes & Nobles.

"Last time if you recall I talked about The MIND. Today it will be about FAITH. Although FAITH & MIND have almost the same kind of qualities they are different in their own way, but intertwined.

"Faith is the head chemist of the mind. When faith is blended with thoughts, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to infinite intelligence, as in the case of prayer.

Faith is a state of mind which you may have to develop at will, after you have mastered the thirteen principles, because it is a state of mind which develops voluntarily, through application and use of these principles.... like....repetition..

Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith. A mind so dominated may, at will, give the subconscious mind instructions, which it will accept and act upon immediately. Even the bible says if you have faith as small as a mustard seed you can move mountains. Faith is a very powerful tool that a lot of us do not have. We have to cultivate it, if we want to be rich, famous, excel in whatever area we find ourselves.

How many of us as children did our parents have faith in our dreams even though they hadn't seen it? How many of us have faith in our selves, our loves ones, our partners, our friends? How many of us have faith in our country? Faith so small yet so powerful...

Have faith in yourself: faith is the infinite.

Faith is the eternal elixir which gives life, power and actions to the impulse of thought.

Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of riches.

Faith is the basis of all miracles and all mysteries which cannot be analyzed by the rules of science.

Faith is the only known antidote for failure.

Faith is the element, the chemical which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with infinite intelligence.

Faith is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thoughts, created by the finite mind of man, into spiritual equivalent.

Faith is the only agency through which the cosmic force of infinite intelligence can be harnessed and used by man.

Whoa FAITH is mind blowing.... It is time for us to develop our faith....

TO BE CONTINUED........

Stylish and VersatileBlogger Award

Hello everyone I have been patiently waiting for my friends to teach me how to link stuff but they still haven't gotten back to me. So I will just go ahead and do it the old fashioned way.

First of all I will like to say thank you to P.E.T. Projects, Prism of an immigrant, Yankeenaijababe for nominating me for the stylish and versatile blogger award. I am so honored and excited. I know I can remember thinking to myself when I saw the award that oh I wish I can get nominated and here I am a nominee....

Thank you people, I really appreciate.

Now 7 things about me

1. I am the first born out of 5 kids and I am the smallest in size, so a lot of people think I am the last.

2. Never liked french until I almost failed out in my 2nd year of uni, then I realized that hey girl your stuck with this and you have to make the best of out it...That's how I learnt how to speak, write and read french.

3. I know I am in love

4. I don't like to gain weight.

5. Strictly dreaming about my interview with Oprah and tyra Banks, I hope I get it.

6. Used to be bothered about my small boobs...

7. I love God...

I don't know if I know up to 15 blogs to recommend as a lot of them have already been given the award, but will mention the few I will like to nominate....

9jaspititout.blogspot.com

Diaryofadesperatenaijawoman.blogspot.com

Zouzousmuses.blogspot.com

learningtoheal-walk2write.blogspot.com

amadee-theladybird.blogspot.com

stylishedforever.blogspot.com

houseofnodza.blogspot.com

I think this all...thank you and will chat later.

Happy Birthday Dear Friend

Hello everyone, sorry I haven't written 7 things about myself and all the things attributed to the award.. The thing is that you will not believe it and please don't laugh at me...I don't know how to link anything or anyone to my blog. I have been cracking my brain since and everyone I have asked can't find the time to teach me. So I just have to wait. But will do that asap.

Being away from my blog doesn't go well with me...I think I am getting addicted to blogging...

Don't worry the book review still continues...for there are still more details to be told..

One of the things that made me blog today: "the birthday of my dear best friend".

If you recall a while ago I wrote a letter to a friend of mine that died. If she was still alive, today would have been her birthday and she would have been 27 years. I remember it and I feel so sad, with tears in my eyes I still remember her as though I chatted with her yesterday. Words can't describe how I feel but I just want to say

"Fubby my dear friend, you will never be forgotten, may your soul rest in perfect peace

Signed Ibifiri Mobolaji-Kamson

Book Review Begins

Hello everyone and whats up? for the next 1 week or 2 I will be taking extracts from the book "THINK & GROW RICH" by Napoleon Hill... I have never done a review before but I hope this will be of good benefit to you and it will prompt you to go get the book.......

"Whatever THE MIND OF MAN can CONCEIVE and BELIEVE it can ACHIEVE"......

This is a phrase I have heard for a long time, but I have discovered that it is so hard for people to really use this weapon (THE MIND) for their advantage..

The mind is only always used for disadvantage....almost 70% of the people I have meet along my journey through life, have the mentality that everything is impossible. For everything that is asked or every task given the first thing that comes out of their mouths: " its impossible"...

They said it was impossible to go to the moon, people do it now and regularly. They said it was impossible to fly, check the statistics at least I know that British Airways benefits a lot from Nigerians who fly in and out of Nigeria everyday. They told Henry Ford that it was impossible but he didn't believe it..He saw in his mind what he wanted to see "possibilities". Henry Ford was a success, because he understood and applied the principle of success, which is knowing what you want and seeing it in your mind....

When Edwin C. Barnes climbed down from the freight train all he had was nothing but the belief that he was going to become a business associate of the great inventor Edison.....

If we read through we will discover that through perseverance and patience, he became what he desired, when the opportunity arose... "The author calls him the man who thought his way into partnership with THOMAS A. EDISON

N/B: " One problem a lot of people face is that they don't know what they want in life. If you don't know what you want in life how can you succeed? How can you see yourself being the CEO of a company?

Nobody can see past what you let them see...So it's time my dears....change your thinking.....

Trust me you can be the best in everything and anything you set your heart to do...

Chapter 1: "Thoughts are Things"

TO BE CONTINUED........

Now What?

Not happy, but I am holding on...

Have you ever been in a position where you feel that it's not working?

I know I want to be a writer, I know I am a writer cos I love to write.

But it's so frustrating when it's so difficult to get someone professional to read your work. It's even more frustrating when after they have read it, they feel it wasn't that great.

Now what?

Do I just dump it and not continue again?

Is writing really my calling?

Maybe I should stick my head somewhere else, and just limit the writing to my diary and for my eyes only....

Hmm

I know we have to work at it, and they say practice makes perfect, but for how long will I have to write to be noticed in the publishing world?

How long do I have to endure the rejection before it finally comes out?

When they ask me what is my style sometimes I don't even know what to say... I go on a long explanation road of how my first book talked about kids on an adventure, my second book about a grandmother and her granddaughter, and blah blah blah...

Most of the time as I speak I watch the impatience in the listeners ears...they are like..." oh boy will she just hurry up and let us go....or why didn't she just tell us that she writes fictions, or she is an essay writer or creative writer or something..........

It's hard my dears I must say, but what in life isn't hard at first...

I guess after brooding for a while I will just have to stand up and continue...

For no one can determine the destiny of another man,

For no one knows tomorrow...

Food 4 Thought

Something inspirational again...

I guess the book review will have to wait another day, but don't worry will still do a bit of it, trust me...

Before I say anything, will like to say this: " I had a meeting today with a new friend of mine and it was awesome. I learnt a lot and I am sure she did to.. It seems that making friends, especially with people who think like I do, has become a new hobby for me..lol, but I think it's cool..

Thank you Bookie.

Someone sent this to me and I said who better to share this with, than all my followers who have become very dear to my heart....

"Dan Miller

"This concept comes from a book, read in a classic little book...

"Dare you"

A professor once hit upon a great discovery while buttoning up his vest. Or rather, he hit upon the discovery because his vest wouldn't button up. His little daughter had sewn up some of the buttonholes by mistake. His fingers were going along as usual in their most intricate operations of buttoning a button, when something happened. A button wouldn't button.

His fingers fumbled helplessly for a moment, then sent out a call for help. His mind woke up. The eyes looked down.....A new idea was born, or rather a new understanding of an old idea. What the professor had discovered is that fingers can remember. You know how automatic things can become, riding a bicycle, using a keyboard, or even driving home from the office.

Then the professor began playing pranks on his classes, and he found the answer was always the same. As long as they can keep on doing the things they had always done, their minds wouldn't work. It was only when he figuratively sewed up their button holes, stole their notebooks, locked the doors, upset their routine, that any thinking was done.

So he came to the great, and now generally accepted, conclusion that the mind of a man is "an emergency organ". That it relegates everything possible to automatic functions as long as it is able, and that it is only when the old order of things won't work any longer that it gets on the job and starts working. Keeping things the same may be keeping you stupid.

Maybe that job loss is an opportunity for your brain to wake up and discover meaningful work rather than just a pay cheque. Maybe having the bank refuse your loan application will prompt your brain to come up with a better solution. Maybe that flat tire will trigger a great invention that will make you a millionaire. Maybe the warning about high blood pressure will wake you up to better health and richer relationships....

Hmm this really is some food for thought... I have always known that necessity is the mother of invention...

Quick question:

Have you asked yourself why America and Europe are developed? (Now apart from the slave trade and all).?...

For me I will say that it has to do with what they don't have...

In Africa, we have everything at our disposal, good weather, abundance of natural resources and limited natural disasters etc, maybe that is why we still think the same way..

"Notez Bien: even after all this in my mind I know that there is hope for Africa, and the day will come when it will no longer be associated with hunger, poverty, corruption etc, but with wealth, natural resources, development and the good things life has to offer....

This is my opinion I will like to hear us....

Ciao

Inspirational.....

Hello everyone and how are you? I have had some new followers and I want to say thank you so much... I love reading your comments, they are so overwhelming...

Thank you. You guys are the best...

Today's recipe was sent to my blackberry a while ago and I think it will be so meaningful in our lives... I am not sure if it is true...but I still learnt a lot.....

I have to say that cos I don't want one of the big companies to come and sue little me..lol..

"The difference between MTN & Etisalat is called season.

MTN came to Nigeria at a time when nobody wanted to invest in Nigeria, at a time when Nigerians did not have phones. Even Zenith bank refused to loan MTN cash to operate, UBA rejected MTN's offer but today they see the difference.

At least we all know the story of the only civilian unelected president in Nigeria-Goodluck Jonathan. We know how the people said he was not going to be president, they even made him acting-president. Today the rest is history.

What about Cowbell?

When they came to Nigeria, they made milk in a sachet, Peak was laughing at them-they said Cowbell was milk for the poor-but they were right. 3million poor people could afford #10 (just a few cents) a day for a sachet of milk. Do the math 3million people buying milk at #10= #30million every single day. (i.e. about $193,600 every day). In a month they grossed #900-million (almost #1billion). (i.e. about $5.9million a month). Even Peak had to make sachet milk in order to survive in the market.

So what have people told you? What have they said you cannot do, you do not qualify for, you do not have experience for?

They told Cowbell, they told Goodluck, they told MTN but the story has changed. I get the feeling that something is changing in you! Don't listen to what people are saying or what life is showing you. Keep trusting God and confessing what you want to see.....

For me I am of the school of thought that any body can learn anything, anybody can achieve anything, so long as they believe it.

Notez bien : For my none naija readers...MTN is the first telecommunications company to come into Nigeria a few years back..

Cowbell is a milk company and also Peak.

What are your dreams? Passion? Those things you have long pushed under the bed? You can share...You can decide not to....But know one thing you can do it....

P.S. just listening to a young man sing and his voice is so nice..Lovely, that kind of voice, once heard can't be forgotten..... And to believe that 2 years ago he couldn't sing...He auditioned for the church choir and failed woefully....

Ciao

Hott Info

Hey everyone, saying welcome to our new members: thank you so much for supporting this blog and I wish you a happy new year.

Now back to the gist of the day...

I heard this hot gist yesterday and I couldn't sleep... Tyra Banks interviewed a lady who started a blog and in 3 weeks she had like 100,000 hits...OMG.... How come?

I have been a blogger since November 2009 and I don't have that many followers, what am I saying: I don't even have up to a quarter of what she has....

How did she do it?

What sort of magic did she work?

Been cracking my brain, and then it hit me... The name of her blog....

Do you really want to know what the name of her blog is ? Well here it is..... " http://myhusbandisannoying.com...

Quickly I checked it out and you will not believe it, she just writes daily things that her husband does, which anyone married understands...Stuffs like leaving his dirty socks on the couch.....HMMMM

That is just it and she has become popular, she gets like 318 responses or comments for a post...Whaooooo!!!!! Please help me before I faint.......lol

Hmm!!!!! me I have told my hubby that I will soon change my blog, rename it don't you think, to maybe.... myhusbandisannoying/african woman......lol...

Who knows I may surpass her hits like 1,000,000 in a month or something crazy......

The bottom line is that she has challenged me as a blogger...

Every blogger or aspiring blogger should, before commencing your journey as a blogger, should think of what they want to blog about, your target audience, and methods by which you can be famous.....

I am serious working on IT and I will get back to you shortly....

P.S: don't think I have forgotten about our book review ...." Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill...just giving us time to get the book and read it....

Please if you have some tips as to how to grow one's blog subscription, followers, fame etc feel free to share, cos I am really in need of some...

Ciao.

A Letter To God & His response

Dear God,

Where are you? How can You watch and not help me? I hurt so bad, and You don't even care. If you cared You'd make it stop or let me die. I love You but you seem so far away. I can't hear You or feel You or see You, but i'm supposed to believe that You are here. Lord, I feel them and hear them. They are here. I know You are real, God, but they are more real to me right now. Please make someone believe me, Lord. Why won't You make it stop? Please, Lord, please! If You love me You'll let me die.

-A Lost Sheep

My Dear Lost Sheep

You ask me where I am. My child, I am with you and I always will be. You are weak, but in Me you are strong. I love you so much that I can't let you die. I am so close that feel everything you feel.

I know what you are going through, for I am going through it with you. But I have set you free you must stand firm. You do not need to die physically for my enemies to be gone, but be crucified with Me and I will live in you, and you shall live with Me. I will direct you in paths of righteousness. My child, I love you and I will never forsake you, for you are truly mine.

-Love, God.

This is a letter I stumbled upon as I read " The Bondage Breaker" by Neil Anderson. It touched me so much and I felt I should share it with my readers. For I know that once in a while we all feel this way, as though God is not there with us, as though He doesn't feel our pain at all. I hope this letter touches you as it did for me...

Ciao

Happy New Year/ Bonne Année

Happy new year all...

I hope we are ready for this year? Hop on the ride and let your driver moi take you to your destination...

For me I am so happy that this year has finally started, for I know that this year will be a year of serious blessings for me and eery body that read this post.

There are a lot of things I will be talking about this year and I hope that they will all make positive impacts in your lives...

One of the things I will be doing is reviewing a lot of interesting books...that means a lot of work for me cos I have to read at all times...sighs..But hey it is good for.

I heard that ZIG ZIGLAR reads a least a book in a week, that is so tough to do, but hey I can do it...

This year I will finish all that I will start...

Before I say ciao I know a lot of us made a lot of new year's resolution.. I hope we are working towards accomplishing them...

My new year's resolution for this year is that I wake up everyday at 7am even on weekends but I didn't wake up today by 7am today, in fact when the alarm rang, I woke up switched it off and went back to bed...not good...I will try my best to wake up by 7am tomorrow...This is my solemn vow.

So seat back and enjoy the ride for it will be a very rewarding one.. Thank you and have a nice day.

Bonne Année

Ciao.