2018 IS NOT A NEW YEAR

1) Every arriving year for a long time is always welcomed as 'NEW', this paradigm has been set for a long time. That's why we greet ourselves 'HAPPY NEW YEAR',

2) This feeling of 'new ness' is 'pseudo' and it has impeded a lot of growth and development,

3) The preconceived 'NEW NESS' of each arriving year has permeated mediocrity in Nigeria and Africa.

4) That is why each successive government will have visions 2015, 2019, 2025 etc. and still welcome every arriving year as 'NEW' .

what an antithesis!
That is why we are not close to any of those visions.

5) Sometimes we are cowed to make salient choices in the now, that determines how coming years will be for us, yet we welcome every other arriving year as new.

What an irony!

6) This paradigm of the 'pseudo new ness' must be shifted consciously and deliberately by that generation that will cause a trans generational impact that will correctly position

MY DIARY EPISODE III (TYPES OF CAPITAL)

Over time, I have realized young folks with faulty thinking faculty are easily deceived and myopically convinced that 'MONEY' is the most critical CAPITAL they need for any venture they need to embark on.

However, as a well schooled scholar, I understand that there are two critical capitals that any right thinking individual should always take critical cognizance of.

They are: GOD'S word as a matter of supreme urgency and #INTEGRITY.

Integrity is very critical, without it you won't go far.

I would share a story on this soon. Watch this space.

Don't be a fool who likes to trade his/her integrity for a morsel of porridge.

NEMESIS IS AWESOME, IT WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU SOMEDAY YOU LEAST EXPECTED.

I am Agboola Biyi Micheal a BLESSING to my GENERATION, and an ASSET to NATIONS.

MY DIARY EPISODE II (IDEA BAG)

For some days now, I have been contemplating sharing this piece, but today is the day the Lord has made. While taking my bath this morning, I dug deep into my intellectual archives and stumbled on this experience I had sometimes ago. 

By the way, one of those critical moments of my life I don't joke with is when am

MY DIARY EPISODE 1 (JOB HUNT)

This week, I met a senior colleague of mine. We interacted about how life after school has been for him, since I am just a beginner in that field with 2nd level experiences.

He said and I quote 'I have submitted my CV in over 200 places and sincerely, I have attended interviews and I am tired of it' .

Whew!!!!!!!!

I was shocked, I said to him, this is amazing!

If you follow my posts, sometimes ago I wrote about my FIRST APPLICATION LETTER (you should read that post if you have never read it, you can read again here https://goo.gl/J9AEYm to synchronize the thought flow in this post).

My friend is obviously enterprising to have

RISKY

The day I was indoctrinated into the risky concept was the day my friend Opatola James Bolaji came visiting in Akure all the way from O.A.U .

I asked him what he will take for dinner and he demanded for RISKY, lol, most people like me then who sojourn in Akure have no idea what he meant. I asked him further questions and I got enlightened about how risky is a food and what type of food it was.
...

       RISKY=(BREAD + EGG - SAUCE) * PRESSING together in a hot frying pan.

O.A.U folks can relate. lol abi Olajumoke Hadassah!
Our life individually is a RISK. And that is why some people spend huge amount of money insuring theirs.

I have met a lot of people in life that are always willing to risk their risk for mine.

I have equally met people who will treat every investment I consciously make on my risk with disdain and sarcasms enveloped in rudeness. Which is a consequence of the myopic state of their mind they have left unchecked for a protracted period of time.
Most of us have these two set of people constantly in our life's.

Two things are also important in dealing with these two set of people.

1) People who are willing to risk all of theirs for you are rare, unique and a huge blessing. So never treat them as ordinary , constantly show them appreciation, pray for them always and don't cease to respect them.

2) While people who chose to treat your risk with disdain and sarcasms, make sure any time they attempt to compromise your time, ensure they merit the investment of your time which on less they repent, they will never. Refuse to be sorry about that! Don't mingle with them so they won't reduce your risk to nothingness.

My life is a risk, I value the beings that place a premium on my risk. And I deliberately avoid those who choose to treat my risk with disdain and these I am not sorry about.
That's being excellence conscious. We should all be awake to this consciousness and it has to be done deliberately.
I am bent on making a difference.
#MAD
I am Agboola Biyi Micheal a BLESSING to my GENERATION, and an ASSET to NATIONS.

BEFORE YOU EXPIRE

As a Microbiologist, there is a part of the discipline that specializes on the Quality of products and consumables.

"Quality control and Quality assurance".

Every product is expected under standard conditions to have a manufacturing date and an expiry date.

As a Personal Development consultant, I have realized that as humans, we also have an Expiry date, that day we will cease to find expression on this side of eternity.

One day, you and I will expire, the intriguing part of our kind of expiring date is that nobody knows when!

As a result of this, some of us consciously and deliberately seek to give maximum expression to the quality of life that we live in preparation for this unknown day that all humanity irrespective of age, class or social status will answer to.

The questions therefore are;
  Of what relevance will your product(the quality of your life) be to humanity?

How are you preparing for your expiry date?

I will expire, and you will expire, but I have chosen to make my product (LIFE) to deliver an excellent value to humanity before my expiration date, and with the help of my Lord Jesus Christ enjoy the mansions and crowns on the other side of this life.

what is your decision with your expiring date in view???

I am Agboola Biyi Micheal a BLESSING to my GENERATION, and an ASSET to NATIONS.

WHO ARE YOU?

In Africa and specifically Nigeria where I was born, people are given the names they bear based on some factors. My name is Olabiyi for instance, which translates to "Wealth gave birth to this/brought this" in english.

The situations/ circumstances that surrounds the birth of a child usually to a large

SACRIFICE

 

We live in a generation that is hinged on two pillars. And most times we are left hanging on which one to stand on.

Let’s take this story-line for instance.

Tomi and Bimpe are very good friends. They met in their first year on campus. Since then, their friendship has grown and now they are like sisters who once shared the same womb for nine months. Although, they periodically have heated argument, now a norm between them on some seemingly petty issues as Bimpe likes to address them when she is asked by her friends. 

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Tomi is a slim lady and about 5ft tall. She is a little bit fair and very beautiful too.

I almost wept

My friend Beejay called me up one Saturday afternoon. It's been a long time we had been in touch. We used to be seat mates way back in our secondary school days. Beejay is a young man whose passion for advancement is

BETWEEN PRAISE AND CRITIQUE

On a hot Thursday afternoon, I bumped into my boss, who coincidentally was trying to drive home a point. He used a story to pass across the message. I leaned against the wall close to the door in the chilled office, while I listened carefully to learn from the bombshell that was about to be dropped.

I therefore choose to share that same story in this blog post, I am confident it will bless you.

There was a young man in the village who is humble and loyal to the king. An act that earned him a name as “THE KINGS’ LOYAL MAN”. 

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On a fateful day, the king called this young man to send him on a particular errand, one that looked like it was going to be easy, but on his arrival, he found out that the king had prepared a ‘seemly ridiculous’ yet

THE CHAINED ELEPHANT AND YOU!

I once sat at the feet of an elder, a sage and great orator to drink from his well of wisdom. I drank and drank till I was full to the brim.

 Oh! How I love dinning with the sage. From his lips are not cunning devised fables, but instructions of wisdom that will command excellence and honor when heeded to.

Of the many stories the sage shared with me, let me share one with you today.

In a village called Lalupon in the ancient city of Ibadan, there was a hunter who specializes in killing elephant. One day, he caught three calves (young elephants) and he took them home. The hunter attached a shackle on one of the legs of the calves to restrain them. 

These calves weigh between three to four hundred pounds at best. They tirelessly tried a great deal to get away from the chain, but

Voice of a poet from the elbow Nation

You can be well loved
But not well understood
But through powerful voices
Africa will forever be appreciated more.

                       i
Quench not the fire

Oh! how I fear God

(...of the awe i have for God by gazing at nature)

O how i fear God
when I watch the moon
rise out of nowhere at eventide

WHY ASK WHY?

I was born in a Christian home and as a result, I had a Christian background. We don't joke with church attendance. Mum and Dad will instruct us to go dress up when it’s some thirty minutes to service time.

We must go to church with our Bible, a jotter and a pen.

That was to enable us take notes during the church meeting. It was always as though our lives primarily depends on the notes we took in church. As at then having a jotter to pen down notes in church was an emblem of being a good, supposed God fearing Christian. We would look down on people

PEARL OF THE SAHEL

Bless you, Mariam Mimi
Pride of the North Eastern Nigeria
The solace to the soul of many
In the anguish hotness of the
dry plane of the Sahel Savanna.
When I saw her upon a nearer view,
My heart quiver in amazement of such
An exquisite soul, beauty in glasses
An angelic spirit, yet a woman too.
She dazzles like the morning stars,
And steps of virgin liberty.





She is a phantom of delight
To see her is a picture,
To hear her is a tune.
Her beauty is like that of a fairy tale,
Beauty beyond stretches of
imaginations.
An heavenly beauty in

BEFORE YOU GIVE UP

“Have a champion’s mindset. Put everything you have into it; any less and you will fail. Bounce back from knocks”.

Travis Kalanick (Founder Uber)

I love traveling, in fact I think it’s high time I added traveling to my long list of hobbies. My love for visiting new places, meeting new people, experiencing new ways of life in other people’s culture is unprecedented.

Just as I was reminiscing over one of my trips to the south east of Nigeria, I tried to link some of the experiences on the roads together to come up with something I believe we can all learn from as it relates to life challenges. 

While traveling from one place to another, we often need to buy stuffs on the road e.g. Bread, Bottle water, soft drinks amongst other things. Those guys selling those things honestly seriously inspires me. 

Now let’s take a life scenario for instance.

SHE HAD IT ALL

I had always wanted her, she is adorable, gorgeous and her simplicity is mind blowing. 

 

The first time I set my eye on Asake, Emotions ran through my veins, nerves and neurons uncontrollably.

My hormones began popping extraordinarily.

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This is not usual I thought. Asake would come early for church meetings, well dressed in her neatly ironed clothes with her camisole around her neck. It was as though she was an angel

I AM INDISPENSABLE

I have been in love, but this was strange! Absolutely strange!

My heart skips at the mention of her name. When my phone rings, and I gazed at the screen and she is the one calling,

my heart limps for joy. Occasionally it’s like we have been together since the beginning. She understands me excellently and so do I.

I remembered the first day I set my eyes on her, it was like heaven spoke into my ears that she is the anointed one. Her beauty swayed me off

ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA (II)

On Sunday after church, I came back late, and was obviously very hungry cum tired. 

I saw my neighbor frying plantain and I begged to partake of the fried something (lols) to be supported with a bowl of garri.

While making out with this, a friend walked in and jokingly said;

"Bro Biyi, she e ma mu garri ni, eyin ti mo mo Lori Facebook yato si eyin ti mo hun ri o" 

#meaning

THE KEY TO RELEVANCE

Whenever we are to visit our grandparents in our home town, there is always a need to deliberately get the car in good shape to avoid it breaking down in the midst of nowhere.

We often enjoy our visitation to the village because it’s the closest experience we would ever have of the beauty and serenity of nature.

Grandma would take us to the farmland where we would get to harvest some fresh vegetable leaves with which special delicacy of Efo riro

MY FIRST APPLICATION LETTER

The first application I wrote seeking for a job was turned down rudely by the Proprietor of one private Primary school in my area.

Immediately I was through with my senior school certificate examinations in 2009, I felt a good way to keep myself busy and also make money while waiting for admission into an higher institution of learning was being a teacher.

I excitedly wrote

DREAMS DON'T DIE

While I was a very young boy, One day our class teacher came into the class room, he asked us all to stand up, we thought we had committed another punishable offense that can warrant a serious beating for us all. Our class teacher then asked us all a question that he ordered us to answer one after the other that day.

The question was quite simple and it goes thus; 'WHAT IS YOUR DREAM?' 

Well, he took time to explain the kind of Dream he meant and we all got it. I was sitting somewhere around the