LIFE LESSONS WITH KAYCEE

  The ant-infested wood! Chapter 1 Caleb and Ngozi have been friends for a long time; everyone expects that their friendship will eventually turn to marriage, but their expectations were cut off when Ngozi announced that she was getting married and everyone saw it was another man and not Caleb. Caleb wanted to marry Ngozi, but Ngozi refused. "I can't marry someone who isn't tall because I am not tall myself," That was her reason and everything Caleb did to persuade her proved abortive. When she told Caleb she was getting married, he asked, "do you love him, or is it just because he is tall." "Love is not the only thing needed in a marriage. Love is just like the soil where you plant, if you do not water the plant and if other essential nutrients needed by the plant aren't available the plant withers." Caleb did not understand her reply, but he felt so hurt to continue the conversation. Ngozi married her perfect man and bore him a son in less th...

  Sweating the small stuff is synonymous to blowing things out of proportion and making mountains out of molehills. A lot of people have formed the habit of escalating things without knowing it has become a habit. They think and in turn act in a particular way repeatedly when faced with a situation. So any time a similar situation comes up, they do not have control over how they react because a pattern of thought and action has been registered in their subconscious mind which they must follow. Just like a computer doesn’t need prayers to function but operates based on the programs installed in it, humans operate based on the habits they have formed. The good news is that we have the power to form and break habits. The habit of sweating the small stuff is a habit we must break for the following reasons: 1. SO WE CAN RESPOND INSTEAD OF REACT: We were planning a program in church and a meeting was called to know how members are responding to payment of the ...

  THIS STORY WILL CAUSE A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR YOU: It is the story of how I lacked in the midst of plenty. Have you ever looked back at your life and realized you have lived little? This is my story. I was born in a middle-class family, we were never poor, but we always managed until it became our lifestyle. I remembered when I was in primary four and five before I moved to secondary school; I was always given ten naira so I could buy snacks for my siblings and I during the break period. I usually buy one small round bread that was sold for ten naira at that time and share it into three, for myself, my brother and my sister. At a point, other pupils started laughing at us for always buying bread. Now that I think of it, I see that my parents could afford to give us ten naira each and we can afford to buy other types of snacks, but I guess we were being raised to manage. When I was in JSS 2, the state government schools went on a strike that lasted more than s...

  Life is exciting when you do what you love. The moment you discover what you are born to do on earth, everything changes. Once you realize what you should do and start doing it, the zeal that will consume you will make you unstoppable.  The only problem is that a lot of people do not get to discover what they are passionate about and the majority of people who have discovered their passion let fear, shame and frivolities stop them. If you have not yet discovered what you are passionate about, you are missing the thrill and ecstasy that comes with it. If you want to enjoy life, you must find your bliss by discovering your passion, because the impact you will make with your life depends on it. The only reason you experience instability and the need to give up is because you have not found a zeal that consumes you. That is why you still have the need to distract yourself by sleeping excessively, binge watching movies, getting drunk and partying. FIND YO...

  You were born empty of knowledge, but your learned quickly; from how to eat to how to talk. Everything happened so fast that everyone actually forgot you weren’t born with these things. You became what you learned. You have learned to be kind, so now YOU ARE kind. You have learned to greet, so now YOU ARE respectful. You see the way things are done in your environment so you copy that. After a while, you became more mature and you started asking questions, you started examining and observing things, you also started imagining things. Then you started asking a lot of questions. This is the point where you need to be careful of suggestions. The mind has its own way of analyzing information; it accepts suggestions and then scrutinizes it based on the knowledge it has stored previously. When someone told me I would make a good teacher, I thought about it and I looked at the fact that my parents were actually good teachers; so I accepted the possibility that I woul...

      I am not a poet But I write poems There is a system The usual way of life It always looks like the easy way out But it is the easy way to limitation   I am not an activist But I fight for a cause There is a situation The usual state of the mind It determines what you believe But what you believe becomes a lifestyle   I am not an extremist But I extremely believe There is a purpose The reason why I haven't given up It is as great as I have imagined  But my imaginations are limited KAYCEE

  PEOPLE SKILLS  If you have the most wonderful ideas on earth but you don’t have anyone to sell it to, the ideas are of no use. People will always be part of your life; the ability to communicate and relate with people effectively is a skill you must have. Everyone you meet in life is a prospect and your job is to add to your list of prospects daily. The aim of prospecting is to create awareness and increase interest in your products or services. The more your prospects, the more your chances of having more paying customers, and the more your chances of succeeding in what you do. Having a profitable network will reduce fretting and enhance peace. Below is how you can add to your network:  Identify places, opportunities and situations where you can find potential customers and make it a point of duty to get one prospect every day. Before you start prospecting, you need to answer the following questions:  1. Who is your ideal customer?  2. Where can...

  I AM When Moses had an encounter with God, he inquired of his name in Exodus 3:14: God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I AM has sent me to you.’” When Jesus was on earth, he made a lot of affirmations that looked impossible but, look at Jesus in the world today; He is all that he claimed to be. We shouldn’t play with affirmations if we want to be as great as God has made us to be. Let us look at the affirmations that Jesus made and see what we can learn from it. A.   I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE; John 6:22-40 Repeat the following affirmations: ·         I am a source of joy to my world ·         I am the solution to a problem ·         I am reliable ·         I am highly sought after B.   I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD; John 8:1-12 Repeat the following affirmations: ·  ...