INSIGNIFICANT BUT VALUABLE

Hello, everybody i am so sorry i haven't been in touch and i am very sorry about it, but i want to promise you that i will not stay away this long ago. I am here today to talk about some extraordinary news i just received a while ago. I found out that a woman in lagos who had been selling akara (beans cake) for a living, has been able to use this means to feed her children, pay their school fees (in good private schools), build her house and take care of herself. I asked my self how could this be? For me this is one of the most fascinating story i have ever heard. The woman said that she makes between fifteen thousand Naira to forty thousand Naira a day. How is this possible? if she makes let's say fifteen thousand Naira a day in a month she earns four hundred and fifty thousand Naira, that's the salary for an average oil company staff, she earns even higher than a banker. If she makes twenty thousand Naira a day in a month she earns six hundred thousand Naira, if she makes forty thousand Naira a day in one month she earns 1,200,000naira. Unbelieveable. There are a lot of incredible things happening in this country. If she makes that amount does she need to work for anybody? if you ask me i will say a big NO. Nobody is going to pay her that amount.

After listening to this story i am here to talk about the opportunities in this country. In spite of the corruption, the poverty, the fraud success sprouts out from corners one never sees.

I take my leave now. I am going to think of my life and the things i can do to make money. The insignificant things that are being over looked but very useful. I urge you to go and search for what you can do. Everybody has something insignificant that the creator has given, look for it and you will find it.

Please note this: " women are the best people to invest in".

GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS...........

For the past one week I had been very excited because I was finally going home to my family....my itinerary was well mapped out and i was checking out from Charles De Gaulle airport on the 31st of january, which is today......Saturday night i took the night train from Perpignan as planned. I was one hour early even though the train station was just a stone throw from where i was staying.......... The train was a train with beds and cabins, i got to my cabin, quickly choose my bed, arranged my stuff, excited that i was going to see my "baby" after a long while.....ten minutes later my journey began and i was floating in cloud nine thinking of all the goodies waiting for me...... As we commenced our journey we stopped at different stations to pick passengers, some of them being my temporary roommate...... One of my temporary roommate was an interesting lady, a mother of two maybe in her early fifties.......Immedaiately he got into the cabin she started talking, she told me a little about her family and her career. We talked for a while till it was time to go to bed. By 6.30 a.m. i was awake, waiting earnestly for the announcement saying that we had gotten to Paris, when the train conductor suddenly announced that he was sorry but the train was delayed by 2 hours......... 2hours...that meant i had missed my flight......

Confused and upset i started crying..........i was asking God what i was going to do?.....i was nervous, frustrated and above all stranded in a strange land with no family............my friend in the train told me to calm down....how was i to calm down i just had money for a taxi to the airport and that was it. Missing my flight meant i was obligated to sleep in a hotel in Paris, change my booking which was extra money and to crown it all banks weren't open, so no body could pay money into my account..............

In the midst of my confusion God worked "this french lady who i had just meet, who didn't even believe in God, but in some chinese religion, who was just feeding from hand to month gave me 50 euros.....

Now you have to understand that for the average person here 50 euro is one week's salary......I told her that i would pay, she just told me to take it, add to what i have and sort myself out.......

Her gesture thought me this that God can use anybody be it a witch, a native doctor, a christian, a thief, whoever to achieve the purpose he Has for His children.........

He really works in mysterious ways trust me : " God will never forsake you, just always trust in Him and never let go"

Ca va tout le monde?

whats up Lilies? i guess we are all working towards achieving our goals this year. Like my good friend just said this month is fast ending, and that's how this year is going to be......its time to start making it, and working towards your achievements, no procrastination allowed.

Anyway, its so funny how much you learn when you travel and your in you find yourself with different people, different believes and faith. Yesterday i meet for the first time in my life a colombian, very funny little girl, just 18 and she has crossed the world to come and achieve her dreams...... i thought to myself: what was i thinking of when i was her age...... i never thought of traveling or living my "so called life of security"... i was still maybe sucking my mothers breast.....lol....... traveling wasn't in my agenda, i just wanted to go to university, get a degree and after that work, marry, have kids and retire when i am 60.........i had this mentality for a while and i felt it was the best... but i realized that God has made all of us in his own image, with dreams and talents imbedded in us. These dreams and talents are usually supressed maybe because of our religion, our native beliefs........

I have learnt that God is not like that, God wants us as women to have dreams and achieve them...... i was asked this question how can a woman have a career and a family at the same time? honestly its almost impossible, but i have realized that being created in God's imagine, makes us superwomen..... and women everywhere have the ability to be multitasking.........think about it....... you can do all things........

notez bien: " marriage is not the end of your dream, instead its the beginning".....

take care of yourself and we will chat later........

p.s..... have a fantastic weekend and please try something extraordinary this weekend.......

Ca va?/How are you?

Hello Secret lilies how are you? Its been a while. I missed you all. How was your weekend, i hope exciting cos mine was fantastic although very cold. Anyway it was okay and i thank God for everything...........In my one week of being in france, going to class and meeting new people from different parts of the world with different ideologies and believes, i have come to observe that a lot of our youths no longer know God. In fact they have been so indoctrinated that it's had to find a believing youth now a days. Even in Nigeria, every sunday we go to church, we go for weekly activites, some of us are even workers but a lot of us don't know God. We don't have a personal relationship with Him. We accuse the Europeans, the Americans the Asians that they don't know God but we forget that we have a lot of religious people in our midst. They say " that nigerians are the most religious people on earth". One cannot be a christian without having a relationship with God....an intimate one.... every morning i try my best to talk to God and i try to listen..... when i listen and am still and not distracted i hear him. My question is how can one feel that one it doing the right thing? The way the world is now it's like being a confessing Christ is a werid thing. I ask my self how is it possible to bring up your child in an environment that doesn't regard God?....How will the child be able to defend his/her believe in Jesus Christ? In my search and question i realize that God is everywhere if you just look for Him. He is always there to help you, when life seems though or in spite of persecution.........Even though i may look stupid in class for being a christian or a child of God, i know that no matter what i must stand for the truth and nothing else. I must represent Christ everywhere i go and nothing else. Its not easy but with God all things are possible........

All the things happening in the world shows that devil is fighting seriously the righteous......but as is my motto ......with God all things are possible.......and i can make it in this world through Christ that strengthens me...

Dedication: " to all who feel discouraged at times,or life is difficult as a christian, don't worry most at times in His silence He answers and God will never leave you stranded He is always there..........

Take care and confess Christ to someone this week........

Happy New Year/ Bonne Annee

Hello lilies its been a while, oh don't fault me... been so busy during the festive period. My house was so full. Everybody came to my house for the holidays, from my little cousins to my brother to my aunty to my brother in law....the list goes on and on....but despite the crowd I enjoyed the company.........After all the dinning and partying January 1, 2010 has finally come. Its a year of new beginning, new dreams, goals........... this year much as we write down our goals we should make sure we accomplish every one of them...........now let me gist you a little about whats happening to me......

After all the hassle and bustle of the christmas break, I decided to take a break, so i went to France. 1. to practice the french language 2. to have a feel of the french culture. 3. to rest.

Yesterday 3/1/2010, at 5.30am i arrived Charles de Gaulle airport,Paris. i was a little nervous about the immigrations because of what that Nigerian almost did.......i am sure everybody knows what am talking about...........First of all we weren't given any landing cards......secondly when i got to the immigrations.....the guy just asked me this: vous allez ou? (where are you going) i told him, he just stamped my passport and told me to go.........you can imagine my joy.......

What struck me as soon as i got into Paris was the cold...... trust me its so cold out here which got me thinking : Nigeria is very blest. Our weather alone is the best thing God gave us......i now understand why they drink a lot of tea or coffee in films, its because of the weather. I have been here for just a day and i cannot count how many times i have taken either tea or coffee.

I asked myself why can't nigeria be like the developed countries? We have everything....if you ask me winter is a curse.... but the whites have turned this curse into a blessing while we turned our blessing into a curse.........in Nigeria we have everything, but yet we are one of the poorest nations in the world.......God please help Nigeria...............

For Nigeria to change we each have to change. if you want something changed you have to change yourself....start by obeying the law, obey the traffic lights, do not litter, don't use the phone while driving, use your set belts.......

Notez Bien: little things are the things that make the change in a relationship, family, society and country................... start now change yourself......Start now to pray for Nigeria.....i am positive that we will change for the better one day..... above all I can't wait to come home.

Take care of yourself and hopefully we will talk later......

the ability to be multitasking

hello lilies, its been a while. Oh am so sorry........... you know whenever its festive season, things just automatically slow down. You can imagine that today feels like saturday to me....lol...... Anyways am here to share a little message and its about women and the ability to be multitasking.

Before i got married i went to as many marriage seminars i could attend, i read almost all the books on marriage, recommended and others.........Then after i got married my seminars changed to "how to keep the romance flowing when the honeymoon is over, how to keep the house, take care of the kids and still have time for the husband. Oh it felt very easy until i had a little taste of what some women go through. I love a full house, so when, my little cousins, my younger brother and my brother in law said they were coming to stay in my house for the christmas holidays i didn't object. I thought to my self oh thats very cool. When they came, i realized that it wasn't as easy as i thought it will be. I was in the kitchen all day. No matter how i tried to make the food: breakfast, lunch and dinner as simple as can be, i always ended up staying in the kitchen for almost the whole day. Although everybody tried their best in helping around, it still wasn't easy.

Oh and before i forget, i still had a husband to take care of......( abi you know that men are like babies... they are our number one babies oh..).........

At this point i realized what a lot of women go through and i can tell you its not easy. Imagine if i had to go to work, probably come back late in the night, i will still have to take care of my guests, even if its for a little while. I concluded that life as a lady wasn't that easy at all, especial that of an african woman........

But then i remembered proverbs 31 and i realized that God has made us, women to be multitasking. e has given us the ability to multitask, that is what a man can never do. Most men can't do two things at the same time and concentrate..... but you find that a woman, can clean, cook, take care of the kids, go to work and still make sure she is there for her husband all in one day sometimes......

Today i says well done to all the women in the past, in the future, to our mothers, grandmothers, great grand mothers etc who showed us the meaning of "multitasking".

Never be discouraged as a woman, if sometimes you feel that you don't have a life, just remember this God has given you the most unique gift in the world..."the ability to multitask"

P.s: Read and meditate on Proverbs 31'.

Experience during the Experience

Hello lilies! Its been a while. Am so sorry we couldn't talk I have been so busy and guess what? I broke down from stress. Doctor's advice just rest and stay off the computer.... so I had no choice but to shut down for a while. Anyways I hope your glad that am back.... today I will like to talk about my experience during the experience. Everybody in Nigeria, saw at one time the advert of the experience...... my friend came into town and we both decided to go for the experience. All our efforts to get the VIP tickets....didn't work...although we started very late to lobby( pls dont mind us ohhhhh). Anyways we left the house at about 12.30 for a program that was to start by 7.pm. I thought we were very early, only to get there and find out that some people came there as early as 7 a.m. to get a space. From about 1p.m till 6p.m when the sun came down we were under the hott sun, and you no that for the past few days Lagos has been unusally hot, I guess its because of the so called global climate change. From 6p.m it was very difficult to get into TBS. but I found out that all those that had the VIP tags just showed their tags and they were allowed to go to their section. They already had seats assigned to them, so they did not have to come very early to keep a seat or something. In their section it was so easy to see the stage, the musicians and I learnt that sometimes you got the opportunity of speaking to the muiscians. OHH imagine me talking to Donnie.......lol.......They had a separate toilet which was clean and fantastique....it was actually very great and well organised for them... pease don't get me wrong for the general public they tried their best. .....
Now as for me, cos of the crowd trying to get in and the security fighting them off, it was impossible to get to the toilet or go get something to drink if one was thirsty. As at 4p.m i had the urge to ease my self but i couldn't move an inch, my dears I didnt ease my self till 8a.m. the following morning when I got home. But after all my experience the program was a hit...TBS was full to the brim and they had an over flow. I was so surprised. It struck me then, that when one honestly hears from God, and does what God says he should do, he/she will succeed.
For me I decided there and then that in life I was going to do VIP all the way. I love the VIP treatment, and that's what I want. God told Abraham that he will give him alll the good things of life and so will He do for me. I know that one of the ways to get VIP treatment is when you have money....i dont mean stolen money, i mean money you have worked hard for and its working harder for you...... this is one of my strong reason for wanting to be finacially independent.
In the book 'Rich WOman' ' by kim kiyosaki she said you can only achieve financial freedom, when you have a strong desire why you want to be Financially free....... for me I have a lot but one of my strong desire why I want to be fiancially free is be treated like a queen were ever i go to on the face of this earth..... what about you?
I have purposely left a lot of my strong reason, to give you an opportunity to tell me your reason for wanting financial freedom........
At this point i will say goodbye and i love you all, later lilies.
Notez bien: we will talk about financial freedom next time we meet.