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The greatest discovery of all times is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Its kind of a human nature that we always like comfort zones. But the truth is, there is nothing good with comfort zones. To be better, we always have to leave our comfort zones and strive for greater success. There is nothing with an everlasting  benefit that comes easy in life. We have to stop excuses and struggle for results. You can have results or excuses , but not both. Its not enough that we do our best , sometimes we must do what is required. There is never a time when everything is okay. There will always be challenges and disappointments. We must get used to life's disappointments, and build greater resilience. I have come to discover  that when we change ourselves, everything changes. Its not the things which happen in our lives that matter, but the meaning we attach to whatever happen to us. What always matters is how we interpret and understand things. Truly...

One time  soldiers went for a war. They fell into an ambush and most of them were killed. Only two of them managed to escape the enemies . But unfortunately, they got lost in the desert. As they were walking , not realising that they were in a landmine field, one of them stepped on a landmine. Not knowing, he lifted his foot to continue walking. The landmine exploded , and destroyed him to ash! The friend, who was now the only one alive , watched him being destroyed to ashes by the landmine. He developed a very deep fear inside him, knowing he won't survive the landmines in the field. He carefully continued walking. Unfortunately, he heard his foot stepping on a hard object in the ground. Without any doubt, he knew it was a landmine too. The only thing he had to do was not to move his foot any more. He remained stationary, keeping his foot on the hard object. Without moving, he picked up his phone and called at the embassy for rescue but all in vain. The desert was too remote, the ...

  When one's mind is made up, fear diminishes. She was never prepared for a quarter of what she went through, but she got thorough it. After losing her husband, she wondered how she could survive with her pregnancy and cater for all their nine other children. After giving birth, her prayer was "God , since my husband is dead , I know this beautiful son of mine can't grow. Just kindly help me and he makes at least one year. Please don't take him now , I beg you. Save me and take him after one year at least, I pray." This lady is my mother. All that, she was praying for our last born. Today ,the person she begged God to take at least when he was a year old, is 19years old studying PEM/ICT in senior six.  Its hard to learn from others, but it's harder to be the example. In this world, we can get whatever we need if we struggle for them, but to get those which will give us happiness, we must put our lives in God's hands. Having a spiritual relationship with Go...

 What to do or not to do in life is not a question of morality or ethics, it is a question of consequences. We are human beings and this means we can never be perfect. We hurt and wrong each other no matter how hard we try not to. Sometimes one wrongs and hurts you deeply in a way that no matter how hard you try to forgive them, you find a missing part. Some one said "when trust is broken, sorry means nothing" ,its hard to forgive sometimes, but the more you keep grudge on a person no matter how guilt he is, the more you keep the pain. Forgive people, not because they deserve forgiveness but because you deserve inner peace. Oprah Winfrey says " Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been different. Stress comes from thinking that things should have been different. But they have worked out this way for a reason. All you can do is keep moving forward." The reason why it hurts us to forgive people, is because we concentrate our mind on the problem: ...

 For so many times I have tried, but failed to have the courage to put this directly. I called this " poor and broken" in one of the inspirational posts, but that was cake coating a very  sour drug! I admit that our lives are different and tougher. One of my friends lost all his clan mates in one of the wars that happened in Rwanda. His parents and siblings managed to escape the war and migrated to Uganda. After a couple of years , this friend of mine was about 8 years old when his father died. After one year , even the mother died. The next life was worse than what you can imagine. I am not going to describe it , but let's go to the point of focus. According to WHO , about 450 million people struggle with mental illness or psychological disorders. 1 million of these commit suicide every year. What do you do when you feel stressed but have no idea where the stress comes from? What do you do when your own body fails you? From no where you feel you can't breath or stand...

Its not what we go through that creates happiness. Its how we think and how we interprete what we go thruogh. When I was about six years old, I realised that we were not happy like other neighboring families. I asked my mother, "Mom why aren't we always happy? Why don't we go to the market and buy happiness? I know we don't have money but we can sell part of our land , and use the money to buy enough happiness that will take us for reasonable years until Dad comes back. Now our father had died four years ago but because I was too young by then to understand it, I  kept asking for him and because there was no way my mother could explain it to me, she told me he went to graze cattle. " My son, there is no where they sell happiness . We can create the happiness through our thoughts " She answered. "If that is so, then why don't we create it? Why are we always miserable? Does this also depend on the way we think? If so , why don't we think positively...

Do we really see things the way they are or we simply see them depending on how other people see them? Do we know that we really do shape our lives through our thoughts? So many times we disconnect from ourselves and as such life drives us instead of us driving it. We often complain about many things in life but we do nothing about them. Yes, we don't have the power to change anything in the world. But we have the power to change ourselves and that changes everything in the world. The reason why problems persist is because instead of fixing the problems, we fix blames. We are fond of blaming other people for complicating our lives. No body is responsible for your life and if anything is to move forward in your life, it's you to make it happen. You have to strongly believe in yourself and that will increase what is possible for your life. The reason why you give up is because you see failure as a bad thing. But the road that leads to success is Failure. Failure is not the outcom...

Nothing is either good or bad in our lives , its the thinking that makes it so. It seems to be a wrong path simply because you are not managing it rightly. For esitance, if a person disapproves your idea, it doesn't mean the idea is wrong. The idea is right but you haven't figured out yet why its right. Keep the dream alive. Think about it everyday until you find satisfactory reasons as to why you must to do it. It doesn't matter whether other people believe it or criticize it. Aristotle said " There is only one way to avoid criticism:  do nothing , say nothing , and be nothing." The importance of climbing at the top of a mountain is for you to see the world not the world to see you. Its not about people believing you , its about you believing in yourself. We all go through things that aren't fair: diseases attack us, people disappoint us, friends betray us .  However, the disappointment, the loss , and the betrayals are simply a season . Its not the rest of o...

Why do you think so many children fail in school? Why are so many people drunk all the time? Imagine a life that a person who has lost all his relatives in an accident or war go through! What do you think a bride who has lost her groom just a month after getting married experiences. Some people think poverty is the worst in life. Others think losing a relative or loved one is the worst. Well, experiencing both is the worst. Just imagine a person who is "poor and broken inside"; he lost his relatives and also struggles financially. Over one billion children in the world lost their parents. Research shows that 28% of all children in the world live without their fathers, of which 24.7 million of these live in America. Many people who are 'poor and broken inside' commit suicide, others lose hope completely , children develop mental illnesses , majority go insane ,and others run mad. Because of the many limitations in their lives, everything seems impossible. They lose the...

I was born in 1998 and I lost my father in 2000. I have seven biological brothers and two biological sisters, and am the second last born in the family. By the time my father died, the first born son was studying mechanical engineering and the second eldest brother was in senior six, and that was their end. Everything turned upside down. The next chapter of life was characterized by poverty, tears, grief, sorrow, and misery. One of my brothers attempted to make a suicide; He hang himself on a tree but unfortunately my mother saw him and made a very loud cry to him, in panic the rope slipped from the tree and he felt down, making the suicide unsuccessful. The first born ran mad. I remember him trying to eat a dog alive!  In that tearful moments, there are two prayers ( we are Catholics) that created a rock foundation on which the family is built on up to today. One was prayed by my mother and the second one prayed by my second eldest brother. My mother's prayer " Dear Mother Ma...

"You might have sufficient reasons to hate anyone, but please don't ".  Nelson Mandela and comrades were imprisoned for life due to use of unlawful methods while fighting against Whites oppression. While in prison , Mandela lost his first born son and mother and was denied access to burry them! After 27years in prison , Whites requested to hold a discussion with Mandela out of the prison due to the persistent demonstration and strikes by Africans claiming for the release of their savior. Mandela realised that Whites by then were weakened but were afraid of the revenge Africans would make if they acquired power. In the discussion, Mandela told the whites " we are not like you, we are not fighting to mistreat you but for equality ."  After Mandela becoming the president, blacks started killing whites and pressurized him to chase whites away from South Africa as a revenge! Mandela refused and instead fought against black domination against Whites! "Mandela f...