Eze Anthony Oluchukwu

17/09/2025

Whenever someone has a strong opinion about someone else or something, it mostly says more about them than whatever the subject matter may be.

This also applies especially to hatred, resentment or prejudice as regards other people. But the sad irony often comes to the fact that prejudice is, in major cases, a harbor of secret attraction towards those in the limelight of the publicly expressed hatred.

MARCUS AURELIUS wisely observed,
“What if someone despises me? Let them see to it. But I will see to it that I won’t be found doing or saying anything contemptible. What if someone hates me? Let them see to that. But I will see to it that I’m kind and good-natured to all, and prepared to show even the hater where they went wrong. Not in a critical way, or to show off my patience, but genuinely and usefully.”

For this reason, we need to do two things when facing hatred or ill opinions from others.

First, we need to ask: Is this opinion within my control?
If there is a chance for influence or change, then take it.

Second, if there isn’t a room for change or influence, accept such person as they are, and never hate a hater less you become like him.


The Bottom Line:
In dealing with haters, we need to realize that our job is already tough enough. We don’t really need time to think or worry about what other people are thinking whether positive or negative, even if they are about us.

16/09/2025

It is amazing how we all want the easy life or so we think. But come to think of it, is the easy life really that admirable?


Despite never having plans, making reckless decisions, or being jack of all trade and master of none, there are people who have somehow survived the hurdles of life without a scratch. And so goes the saying: “God favors fools.”


Anyone can get lucky but surprisingly, no one considers that as greatness.


SENECA wisely observed,
“Success comes to the lowly and to the poorly talented, but the special characteristic of a great person is to triumph over the disasters and panics of human life.”


Consider these instances:

• The person who persists through difficulties, keeps going when others quit, and makes it to their destination through hard and smart work with honesty is mostly admirable, because their survival was the result of fortitude and resilience, not birthright or special entitlement.

• A person who overcame not just the physical obstacles to success but mastered themselves and their emotions along the journey, is much more impressive.

• The person who has been dealt a harder hand, understood it, but still triumphed, is accorded greatness.


The Bottom Line:
Anyone can get lucky, but not everyone can persevere. Going up and growing up are two different things. When one is lifted up but he fails to grow up to match that position, a great fall is inevitable. Growth is a process and an ally to greatness.

15/09/2025

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15/09/2025

What a surprise! We are intelligent but this is where we mostly get it wrong.



Just because we agree with a philosophy, a principle or a strategy doesn’t mean the roots have taken full hold in our mind to stand strong.


On this, EPICTETUS wisely advised,
“First practice not letting people know who you are—keep your philosophy to yourself for a bit. In just the manner that fruit is produced—the seed buried for a season, hidden, growing gradually so it may come to full maturity. But if the grain sprouts before the stalk is fully developed, it will never ripen... That is the kind of plant you are, displaying fruit too soon, and the winter will kill you.”


Fooling around with books so we can sound smart or have an impressive library is like growing a garden just to impress our neighbors.


Growing one to feed our family or the people? That’s a real and valuable use of time.


Therefore, the seeds of greatness are long underground inside of us. Do the works required to nurture and tend to them. So that when we are prepared and sturdy, the hard winters of life will not wipe us out.


The Bottom Line:
We need to realize that a garden is never for show. When the roots of our knowledge and skills are deep, we will have enough tools to withstand any conditions of life. When the roots are shallow, every wind is a threat.

15/09/2025

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15/09/2025

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14/09/2025

Prayer is often given a religious context but at one time or another, we find ourselves hoping and asking for things from the abstract.


Even though it may be directed to no one in particular, we are still praying. But it’s so revealing and surprising in moments like this, when we are privately or powerfully praying for something, just how openly selfish and vain our requests can be.


We often seek divine intervention to make our lives magically or miraculously easier but we leave a lot of questions unanswered.


What about asking for strength and courage so we can do what we need to do?

What about seeking for clarity on what we can control, that which is already within our power?


In considering the answers to these questions, we might realize that our prayers have already been answered.


MARCUS AURELIUS wisely advised,
“Try praying differently, and see what happens: Instead of asking for ‘a way to sleep with her,’ try asking for ‘a way to stop desiring to sleep with her.’ Instead of ‘a way to get rid of him,’ try asking for ‘a way to not crave his demise.’ Instead of ‘a way to not lose my child,’ try asking for ‘a way to lose my fear of it.’”


The Bottom Line:
We need to device a different method of prayer. Instead of praying for a problem to be miraculously taken away, let's learn to pray for ideas and clarity on what to do to solve the problem. In adversity lies the opportunity to grow stronger, better and higher. How valuable and solutions oriented are the contents of your prayers?

12/09/2025

Isocrates wisely advised:
“Be affable in your relations with those who approach you, and never haughty; for the pride of the arrogant even slaves can hardly endure.”


Most people tend to get ahead of themselves with the thought that they have got it all figured out and are much better than those who don’t have it figured out yet.


This usually creates unpleasant moments that make it hard to put up with people like that.


This is an entirely avoidable confrontation.


If the bubble is never inflated, there will be nothing to be popped. Overconfidence is a great weakness and a liability, but if we are already humble, no one will need to humble us, and the world will much less likely have nasty surprises in store for us.


The Bottom Line:
We need to be down to earth, or be brought down. If we stay down to earth, no one will need to bring us, as the case maybe, a crushing back down. The humble is flexible and the world has nothing in him to break.

11/09/2025

This is becoming the order of the day...


Uncountable numbers of hardworking and prosperous people have had their money swindled by financial crooks who assume they are smarter. Someone is accused of a crime but never vindicated until years later.


At any moment, there in the possibility of being toppled from our prominent position and made to live with less: less money, less recognition, less access, less resources, etc.


As life has it, there are different forms of 'less' that come with age: less mobility, less energy, less freedom, etc.


In all these, we can prepare ourselves, in some ways, by acquainting ourselves with what they might feel like.


One way to protect ourselves from the swings of fate, and the emotional imbalance that can result from them, is by living within our means now.


SENECA wisely advised,
“Let us get used to dining out without the crowds, to being a slave to fewer slaves, to getting clothes only for their real purpose, and to living in more modest quarters.”


The Bottom Line:
What would 'less' look like? We always hear that less is more but in most cases, we fail to understand. Today, we have to try to get used to having and surviving on less so that if we are ever forced to have less, it wouldn't be so bad or not endurable.

10/09/2025

This is the Law of Cause and Effect: If we do what people did in exactly the same way and under the same circumstances, we will get exactly what they got.

10/09/2025

If we desire a certain result in life, we have to find people who already have it. Study them, copy what works, apply it in our own life and keep modifying it for growth.