Trust the Process!

Don’t allow fear to control your choices.

Every day we make thousands of major and minor choices that affect our future. The choices we make have tremendous power to influence our mental, spiritual, emotional and physical health.

More often than we care to admit, we make poor choices out of fear and we allow fear to stop us from speaking up, making a change or following our dreams. Fear keeps us from enjoying and participating fully in life.

It is important to always remember that no matter how many poor choices you have made in the past, you always have the freedom and opportunity to choose again. It is also important to remember that life is a process and you can choose to trust it.

#trusttheprocess
#IamYABA

 

The One Thing Successful People Don’t Make… Excuses

Successful people don’t make excuses, they know that to become successful they must do what needs to be done, whether they feel like it or not. Excuses are a lazy man’s best friend, you need to develop a hatred for excuses and being lazy, you will never become successful if you make excuses, no one cares about your excuses, the only thing that matters is results. Either you’re making progress or you’re making excuses.

There are those who say it’s hard, yes it is hard, if it was easy every loser would be successful, success is reserved for those who persevere no matter what obstacles come their way, they wake up with determination to create a better life for themselves.

Excuses are used as a justification to defend your inaction, break this habit and take daily consistent action. Excuses are a direct result of taking a lack of responsibility for your life, people like to just take it easy doing nothing all day long, they act like they made it to the top already when you realize that you are the one responsible for your life then you will stop trying to blame others. People have time to sit around watching TV all day long, but they don’t make time for success.

Successful people take action, they don’t sit around complaining and making excuses, they have the courage to achieve all that they want, don’t sit around saying you can’t do something, we all have the power within us to become successful.

 

An Interview with Joseph Emmanuel Yaba on Youth Sustainable Development in Africa

via An Interview with Joseph Emmanuel Yaba on Youth Sustainable Development in Africa

It’s No Big Deal…Move On!

It’s No Big Deal… Move On!

In life, there are some things that have happened to us, there are mistakes we have made and there are some experiences that we have passed through that we consider to be big deals but God may not be looking at those big deals because He already has bigger plans and purposes for our life. Unfortunately, many of us already crucify ourselves between regret for the past and fear of the future.

Many of us cry over spilled milk, many of us cry over past mistakes and we cry and worry over what people said about us or act towards us. But, it is our responsibility not to consider them as big deals because there is a comforting hand on our back that is saying, it is no big deal, don’t worry everything is going to be alright. Let’s continue to move on. Our best days are just ahead of us.

#IamYABA

 

13 Important Things You Should Invest Your Time In During Your 30s

Time flies and our 30s fly before we know it. The age is the most important age that everyone should worry about by putting the right things in place and laying a good foundation. Here is a look at some of the important things to invest your time in your 30s.

1. Network.

Networks are very powerful. They are very important platforms to build your personal life, career and be exposed to lots of opportunities. As a matter of fact, the world is growing into powerful networks of incredible individuals in various fields. Being part of a network is all about making good use of your 30s and shaping your future.

2. Read A Lot
Readers are Leaders. There is nothing more productive than taking the time to read. Read whatever you can get your hands on — current news, non-fiction, fiction, career advice, self-help books. The more you know and understand about people around you, yourself and the world, the more easily and successfully you can navigate those very things.

3. Take Care of Your Body

Well, no matter what you do or what you become, you cannot replace your body or get a new one. And whatever you do, will always be with your body. Be sure to take very good care of your body. General health care is something that later in life you will be glad you considered in your 30s

4. Use Your Time And Money on Education

The world we live in changes every day – evolving with new learning methods and know-how. You may be left out if you don’t have the right knowledge and skills. Education is an invaluable resource that you are unlikely to ever regret having. Use your 30s to broaden your knowledge, and honing skills to be applied to your career path.

5. Pay Attention to your Mental Health and Well-Being

Just as it is very important to take care of your physical body, you should also not neglect your mental health and well-being. Your mental abilities should be stimulated and challenged on a daily basis.

6. Learn New Things And Master Them

While the advice to “follow your passion” can be good in the general sense but it important that master and control a set of skills that can be used to benefit you within the field you are passionate about.

7. Create and maintain good habits.

The hardest part of creating good habits is getting started, but once you are able to master them, they will have an undeniably positive impact on your day-to-day as well as your future.

8. Build Meaningful Relationships

At this age, you should do away with people that won’t add value to your life. No, it is the time to stick around people with positive influence and will help in the pursuit of your future goals.

9. Eat Well

The last thing you’d want to experience at this age is to be held down with illness. Eating well is the way to stay healthy. Do away with junks. Spend time planning meals, learning healthy recipes, and overall taking what you’re eating into consideration regularly.

10. Establish a System of Handling Finances

If nothing else matters to you, this is the age you should be very much concerned about you finances and be prudent with it. Sit down and figure out how you are spending money, what you are spending it on, and what your ongoing expenses are. Save wisely. Invest with wisdom. If you fail in this area at this age, it may take a while before you bounce back.

11. Travel
30s is the age of enthusiasm and lots of energy. It is the age to live, laugh, love, travel, and explore the nooks and crannies of the world. Don’t be left out. Travel wide. Explore new lands. Experience new traditions. Mingle with people. Explore opportunities in new countries. You will learn things that you can take with you and apply to your life back at home.

12. Communicate with loved ones.
This is pretty important. Don’t neglect your loved ones. They are the ones that will always remain with you. They act as your support system when needed. Communicate with them. Remember their birthdays. Take them out on holidays, and important events and spend quality time with them.

Small gestures that show you are thinking about the people who love you go a long way, so take the extra five minutes to write a nice card and stick it in the mail, or schedule that quick Skype call — you won’t regret it.

13. Examine What You Really Want in Life:
Purpose. Know what exactly you want in life. Know where you are going. Map out a plan and have a clear direction of where you are going and how to get there. It’s easy to get caught up in the everything going on throughout your 30s, and people often forget to actually sit down and contemplate what it is they really want. This is the age to do this. Get to it now.

Interesting Facts About People Born in August and Famous People in August

Straight forward from inside, gorgeous from outside, yes- People born in August are stunning, intellectual, magnetic, and attract others with their enthusiastic will power. But wait, there is so much more, you will get overwhelmed reading about their truth, which most people fail to understand. I myself, being an August born, am going to reveal the unsaid, non-manipulated and unbiased truths that people should know to be in good relations with you.

Here are 10 interesting facts about people born in August.

Prefer Extreme Privacy: They don’t want to be with so many people that they don’t know. They want to have extreme privacy at all times. People who are born in August may talk to every person they deal with, but giving trust to anyone easily is not their cup of tea. They only trust few people. So don’t get mad if we don’t trust you…lol.

We Always Thinks We are Right: Having an argument to with us isn’t a good idea. It’s because we have this belief that we are always right. The truth is, we are 90% correct most of the time, and you have to accept it even though it may hurt your ego. This is a fact.

Extremely Moody: Our mood swings are absolutely insane compared to some other people. You may even get intensely irritated all because of this. Our face is the main mirror of what we feel inside. Hence, it’s best to examine our face first before talking to us.

We Love Writing: We are not into verbal. Meaning to say, it’s not normal to hear us complaining for something or voicing out what we feel inside. We love writing and this is where we express our thoughts and feelings.

Choosy:  We always choose people who will become our friends. Collecting many friends is not what we usually do. We only select those people whom we think are worthy of  our time and attention. However, if we consider you as a good friend, we always mean it.

We Never Waste Money: We earn our own money out from our hard work. This is the main reason why we never waste money. We know how hard it is to earn money, so we always give value to our money.

We are Perfectionist: We want everything to be organized. We want a perfect way of living, even the small details should be perfect. If we find things that are being scattered everywhere, then expect that our mood will become bad. Hence, be organized if you want to deal with us.

We Can Easily Forget Things: Most of the time, things that we find uninteresting may be forgotten by us in just a short period of time. If you want to be with us or become our friends, be sure to have something that we can find interesting.

It’s Hard for us to Express the Pain we Feel: You may find us too complicated to understand. It’s because we normally complain when we feel tolerable pain. The problem is, we may not say a word if the pain we felt is already serious.

Short-Tempered: For sure, you won’t like us when we are mad. This goes to show that you have to take note that we are short-tempered. Hence, don’t dare try do some stupid things that we might find nonsense. Be sure not to get messed with us.

Ten (10) Famous People Born in August

Barack Obama

Bill Clinton

Jay-Jay Okocha

Michael Jackson

Prince Daniel Aboki Wazobia

Chief MKO Abiola

Mother Teresa

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (former king of Saudi Arabia)

Joseph Emmanuel Yaba

Nwankwo Kanu

 

Now you believe great people are born in August.

Dare to Try

Once upon a time, all the mouse met together in council to discuss the best means of securing themselves against the attacks of the cat. After several suggestion had been debated, a mouse got up and said, “I think I have hit upon a plan which will ensure our safety in the future, provided you approve and carry it out. Lets tie a bell around the neck of our enemy the cat which will b
y tinkling will warn us of its approach.” This proposal was warmly applauded an
d it had nearly been adopted when an old mouse got upon its feet and said, “I agree with you all that the plan before us is an admirable one, but may i ask WHO IS GOING TO BELL THE CAT??”. And suddenly, there was pin drop silence as fear ran across the spine of every mouse present in the meeting. No rat was willing to take the risk!. Sadly, that is the life of most of us today.

If you must succeed, dare to try. Do something! Dare to take a risk! Dare to make a commitment because risk takers are the high fliers of their generation! To fail to risk is to risk failing. The people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing and are nothing.

Conquer fear and Take that step TODAY.

Can you bell a lion or a cat?? Go ahead!

 

Young People Must Be at Centre of Sustainable Development Agenda

History was again repeated on September 25th 2015 when world leaders geared at the United Nation Headquarters in New York to adopt the new set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all and as part of the new sustainable development agenda, each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years.

For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and everyone in general. Now the big question is are young people fully ready to be at the centre of sustainable development agenda?

Youths can play a critical role in driving the required change if giving the opportunity to do so. Youths can be in the forefront for every major revolution, advocacy campaign and movement for social change and yet they are rarely incorporated in the development of new policies.

Young people can be the driving force for action in education and learning if their views and voices are included and respected in major global issues that affect them. For us to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, young people should be involved as active agents in the development agenda because young people will inherit the future. Young people have a lot to offer to sustainable development and should participate in planning the future.

My personal commitment to Sustainable Development Goals is to commit more of my time and resource to advocate for policies and programs that have the potential to impact positively the lives of young people especially in the areas of Health, Education, Environment and Business Development.

Whats your commitment to SDGs??

 

Building and Creating a Better Future

Being a Remark at the Vision 20:2020 Event

Protocols!

Permit me to ask you this question; you are to answer YES or NO. Youths of Today: Has our future finally come?

The Youths of today”, has it is often said are leaders of tomorrow. This is to point out the role young people are called to play in their various communities tomorrow. But, when is tomorrow actually? One may be tempted to ask. This question is very legitimate, given the frustrations and disappointments so many generations have experienced trying to know when their tomorrow will actually come -if it will even come.

Tomorrow as defined by the Oxford Advanced Learners dictionary is ‘the day after today. Tomorrow is more generally used to talk about the future
. Given that the future is a time yet to come; it is evident that the next minute or even second could be the tomorrow of the youths of our time. Ignorance of this fact and the misconception about the future being especially in terms of weeks, months, and generally years has caused untold sufferings and frustrations to most young people.

The future of every youth of this generation is in fact, today and not tomorrow. For, we are in a generation where, we only seek to know what the country has done for us without seeking to do something for the country-which is stupid. Therefore, we must start by making a difference today; wherever we find ourselves, whatever fined ourselves doing, and however we are doing it. One thing remains; we must create a Better Nigeria.

But the question is, should we just sit, watch things go wrong, and complain? The world has never changed on its own, neither has it ever been changed by people who complain. It takes revolutions to get solutions, and the most important revolution is that which consists of reforming and transforming our mind set. The greatest change we should seek in our society should therefore begin from within every individual sited here this morning. “It is individual destinies that make collective destinies”.

GANDHI said and I quote “Be the change that you want to see in the world” and I put it to you this way; “Be the change that you want to see in Nigeria”

And now as I take my leave, I want you to Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Thank you and God bless.

30 IDPs Graduate in Skills Acquisition in Abuja

Thirty (30) Internally Displaced Persons, (IDPs), camped at Area 1 of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT), graduated from a skills acquisition pro­gramme as part of the Beyond Access Project at the FCT City Library and National Library, Abuja . The Program was organized by Youth Initiative for Sustainable Human Development in Africa (YiSHDA) and with support from the International Research Exchange Board (IREX). Participants were trained in ICT and Business Development.

The President/CEO of YiSHDA, Mr Joseph Emmanuel Yaba commended the trainees for the successful training and urged them to be good ambassadors and to make judicious use of the skills they have acquired to train others as well. Joseph said in partnership with IREX, YiSHDA is happy to contribute its quota in this direction through skills acquisition training for displaced persons.

In her words the Head, FCT City Library, Abuja Hajiya Neemat Abdulrahim ‘’the displaced persons came into the Library depressed, but today they have acquired skills that will make them self-reliant’’.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire people to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving their quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Beyond Access is an initiative of IREX, EIFL, IFLA, Makaia, Facilitating Change, Development Gateway, The Asia Foundation, READ Global, and with support from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Highlights of the event include presentation of certificate to all participants.