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"The best way to predict the future is to create it" - Peter Drucker
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“Don’t just let your business, or your job, make something for you; let it make something of you.” – Jim Rohn
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EUGENE NWOSU
“Be in this moment. There has always only been NOW” – Wayne Dyer
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“It’s impossible to undertake any retrospective of events in Nigeria without coming to the conclusion that too many Nigerians act as fertilizers for the malaise that plagues and wrecks their lives.” – Prof. Okey Ndibe
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“It’s impossible to undertake any retrospective of events in Nigeria without coming to the conclusion that too many Nigerians act as fertilizers for the malaise that plagues and wrecks their lives.” – Prof. Okey Ndibe
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EUGENE NWOSU
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
-- Andrew Carnegie
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"Those who seek power for personal ends eventually run afoul of popular opinion" - Chinese Proverb
“Deal honestly and objectively with ‘yourself’; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of greater character.” – Brian Tracy
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"Coming together
is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is
success."
Remember: 'When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out
the best in ourselves.' - William Arthur Ward
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EUGENE NWOSU
“Anything that immobilises you, or gets in your way, or keeps you from your goals is all yours. You can throw it away anytime you choose.”
– Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
EUGENE NWOSU
“Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments.” – Jim Rohn
EUGENE NWOSU
"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently
that which should not be done at all"
- Peter Drucker
EUGENE NWOSU
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just
choose sides. It must bring sides together."
- Jesse Jackson
EUGENE NWOSU
"Strength does not come from winning. Your
struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not
to surrender, that is strength"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
EUGENE NWOSU
"Let us be about setting high standards for life,
love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we
are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards make every day
and every decade worth looking forward to."
- Greg Anderson
EUGENE NWOSU
“You can’t always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.”
– Wayne W. Dyer
EUGENE NWOSU
“Lives of great ‘men/women’ all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us Footprints in the sands of time.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)
EUGENE NWOSU
AT 49, FAYEMI IS A MARVEL – By Segun Dipe
“Despite the onerous difficulties involved in my epic struggle for justice, I am resolute in my conviction that Nigeria belongs to those who are prepared to stand up, stand firm and take control of their destinies. Our young democracy can only be enhanced by testing our institutions to their limits. In my case, my successful recourse to the judiciary, protracted though it was, suggested that there are embers of hope for our democracy that have to be stoked by the discipline of committed and focused engagement.” -Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, Executive Governor of Ekiti State.
We all know the story very well. He was prevailed upon to serve his people, he aspired to the governorship seat of Ekiti State, he threw himself into the ring and ran against the tide, he won the election against the federal might, he was denied victory, he refused to let go his hard-earned victory, he fought the legal battle for three harrowing years, he eventually recovered his stolen mandate and has since been serving his people as the most committed governor ever in the history of the state.
Yet we cannot overstate the obvious fact Dr. John Kayode Fayemi’s huge investment in the development of Ekiti State is unmatched. The successful implementation of his 8-Point Agenda is legendary. Not only did they touch on lives, they also conform with the United Nation’s eight characteristics of good governance, namely: consensus oriented, participatory, following the rule of law, effective and efficient, accountable, transparent, responsive and equitable and inclusive.
Fayemi’s composure also conformed with the required qualities of a leading light even though it belies his activist orientation. As an ordinary person, he loves to keep his cool, and therein lays his strength. Keeping one’s cool, no doubt, creates luck because others will respect and gravitate towards you. Meaning you are less likely to have enemies.
A peep through the February 9 Birthday Horoscope revealed some interesting things about the making of John Kayode Fayemi. People born on such a natal day are independent and generous individuals with their unique and at times non-conformist perspective on life. They are shrewd observers of human nature and capable of enormous understanding of others’ problems. Above all, though they are fighters, life may have given them a few knocks, but they have managed to bounce back with resilience, and this winning attitude can lead them to great achievements.
The remarkable ability of people born on February 9 to understand people and situations, even those they have not met themselves, makes them sought after for advice and support. They make great teachers and leaders, and they influence and inspire not so much by technique but by example, showing others through their own actions how to rise above challenges with a winning attitude.
Yet, when it comes to applying the same penetrating insights to their own lives and relationships, they tend to be overly critical, measuring themselves by an impossible higher ideal. It is important for them to learn to be tolerant and supportive of themselves as they are of others. The strong presence of those born on this day can sometimes make people think of them as aggressive, but behind this, they possess soft side that takes rejection and criticism to heart. They also have a tendency to act rashly; they need to remain calm under pressure and not allow their good will to be exploited. Once they are able to regard themselves more positively, and to be less harsh in their self-criticism, they will be able to achieve the high goals they set themselves, in the process becoming an inspirational model to everyone lucky enough to wander cross their path.
People born on February 9 have the charisma to attract people from all walks of life, but they feel happiest with someone whose intelligent matches their own. In a relationship, they are loyal and passionate partners with a clear idea of where the relationship should be heading. They don’t give up easily on a relationship if it starts to flounder, because they believe that with the right attitude, almost any kind of problem can be ironed out.
Fayemi shares such natal day and values with the likes of Max Manus (Man of War), the Norwegian resistance fighter during the World War II, George Hamilton, the 1st Earl of Orkney, who became the first British Field Marshal in history, Alice Walker, the Georgian-born social worker, teacher and lecturer, who took part in the 1960s civil right movement in Mississipi and later won the Pulitzer Prize for her 1982 novel, The Colour Purple, William Henry Harrison, the 9th American President, Mia Farrow, American actress and fashion model who later became UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and Humanitarian Activist working prominently in Darfur, Chad, Central American Republic and Luther Martin, American renowned politician.
In the words of Luther Martin, the American political legend and Fayemi’s birthday mate: “When the tempest rages, when the thunders roar, and the lightening blaze around us, it is then that the truly brave man stands firm at his post.” This is where Fayemi takes his stand. Interestingly, both he and Luther Martin embrace the same political ideology. Both share the same trajectory of beginning humbly and soaring to the pinnacle. Martin championed the cause of small states and opposed extensive federal powers. He was a supporter of judicial review; he proposed what became supremacy clause of the American Constitution, without intending it to be an instrument of national supremacy. Unhappy with the result of the convention, Martin became outspoken opponent of the constitution during the ratification contest.
Fayemi’s personal odyssey led him from the place of activism to the place of public service and this informs his sense of democracy as a journey and a struggle. H returned from exile in 1999 with a new understanding that a new place of activism required a more direct engagement at home with the new dispensation. His work focused on building bridges between the government and civil society that would enable the national leadership benefit from the talents and ideas of citizens within and outside the country.
In his conviction that efforts required to reform the system were not necessarily the same as the efforts necessary to transform it, he faced two choices: He could remain on the side-lines with his engagement restricted to a theoretical and low-risk involvement in the unfolding dynamics of power and politics in Nigeria, or become an actor in the political system, attaining a more political understanding of what it takes to effect transformation, and thereby function as an agent of change from within. Like Martin, Fayemi chose the path of service.
Recalling how the seed of aspiring to the exalted position of Ekiti State Governor first dropped in Fayemi’s heart, his amiable wife of equal odyssey, the First Lady of Ekiti State, Erely Bisi Fayemi hinted in her book: Speaking Above A Whisper, of how her husband had during his 40th Birthday celebration said to her: “People might start thinking that I have political ambition.” And she had answered: “Why not?”
Yes, why not? Today, exactly 9 years after the prophetic question has been answered, people are asking Governor Fayemi to once again take a shot at a second term and his jewel of inestimable value is asking the same rhetoric question: “Why not?”
Happy Birthday, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, Executive Governor of my darling state, Ekiti. May your good work continue.
Written By Segun Dipe
EUGENE NWOSU
“Be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.”
– Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931)
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“There is not enough darkness in the world to extinguish the light of one small candle.”
– Spanish Proverb
EUGENE NWOSU
“Resolve to be thyself; and know that he ‘Who’ finds himself, loses his misery.”
– Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888)
EUGENE NWOSU
Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast
and nobler origin than
physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a
man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of
reproach, opposition, or contempt.
-- Samuel Goodrich
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EUGENE NWOSU
“One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of
possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -
making the most of one's best.”
– Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969)
EUGENE NWOSU
“Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.”
– Jim Rohn
EUGENE NWOSU
“You should know now that a man/woman of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor b y thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man/woman of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States
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“Being honest may not get you many friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”
– John Lennon
EUGENE NWOSU
"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."
- General Omar Bradley
EUGENE NWOSU
"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else
has seen, but thinking what no one else has"
- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
EUGENE NWOSU
"It is only with the heart that one can see
rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye"
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
EUGENE NWOSU
“There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
- James Truslow Adams
EUGENE NWOSU
"Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine and eminently unsatisfying."
- J. Paul Getty, industrialist
EUGENE NWOSU
"The highest form of success... comes... to the person who does not shrink from danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph."
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president
EUGENE NWOSU
“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man/woman hardly knows whether he/she is honest or not.”
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
EUGENE NWOSU
“Have the courage to express yourself, and to allow your vulnerabilities to show — you are not meant to be perfect, you’re meant to be whole.”
- Eugene Nwosu
EUGENE NWOSU
“If you treat people with dignity, respect, and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends and the enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.”
- Ted Turner
EUGENE NWOSU
“Knowing who you are, that’s the foundation of everything great.”
- Jay Z
EUGENE NWOSU
"The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?"
― Henry
David Thoreau
EUGENE NWOSU
"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."
- Lee Iacocca
Femi Segun
EUGENE NWOSU
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence."
- Richard DeVos
EUGENE NWOSU
"I realized all the pain and suffering I went through all my life became worthwhile when I used it to help someone else."
– Desmond Meade
EUGENE NWOSU
"Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do, is fix yourself. And that's a lot; because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect."
- Rob Reiner
EUGENE NWOSU
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
- Nicholas Murray Butler
EUGENE NWOSU
“Principle - particularly moral principle - can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that way with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.”
- Edward R. Lyman
EUGENE NWOSU
“Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.”
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696
EUGENE NWOSU
“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”
- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
EUGENE NWOSU
“A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!”
- Thomas a Kempis`
EUGENE NWOSU
“The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.”
- George Macdonald (1824-1905) Scottish Novelist and Clergyman
EUGENE NWOSU
"When you're curious, you find lots of
interesting things to do. And one thing it takes to accomplish something is
courage."
- Walt Disney
EUGENE NWOSU
"If you consider what are called the virtues in
mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and
cultivation"
- Xenophon
EUGENE NWOSU
“What we imagine and believe we become.”
– Optimal Edge
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"As you simplify your life, the laws of the
universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be
poverty, nor weakness, weakness."
― Henry David Thoreau
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“Those who achieve great things encounter challenges, obstacles, and problems, just as everyone else does. Achievers simply chose to work their way through the difficult challenges, rather than be stopped by them.”
– Optimal Edge
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"Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within."
- Thomas Paine
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"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
- Henry Ford, Industrialist
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“Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.”
- Stanley Baldwin
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"Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences."
- Jawaharlal Nehru
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"Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible
for organizations to work."
- Warren Bennis
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“Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
- William James (1842-1910)
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"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all Mankind."
- Emily P. Bissell
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"Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you."
- Amelia Earhart
EUGENE NWOSU
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching."
- Mark Twain
EUGENE NWOSU
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Success is a combination of preparation, hard work, learning from failure, and persistence.”
– Eugene Nwosu
EUGENE NWOSU
"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill
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EUGENE NWOSU
“We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it.”
- Mary Blake
EUGENE NWOSU
“Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.”
- Robert F. Hawes
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"Success is never ending, failure is never final."
- Dr. Robert Schuller
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“The most that we can do is to hope for the
best till we know the
worst. Of course, we shall make the best of the worst when it comes.”
- William Dean Howells, "The Rise of Silas Lapham"
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
- Warren Buffett
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"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, and a vision."
- Muhammad Ali
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