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02/09/2023

EDUCATING YOUR CHILDREN SHOULDN'T BE A CHOICE BUT A RESPONSIBILITY

In the many years I have served humanity as a teacher, I have found myself drawn in war of words with parents over how they prioritise their children's education.

At some point, I had decided I wasn't going to involve myself any longer when such situations show face.

Here is the gist. Smart parents place value on the education of their wards. Value does not mean you must send your child to the most costly school. Value means you are deciding to give your child the best education you can afford. And you are not sacrificing your children's education to pursue personal ambitions.

It's no privilege that your children should have education. It's their right. They are your most important asset and deserve the best investment of resources within your means.

Don't sacrifice your children's education for burials and other ceremonies, but you can sacrifice everything to help build their minds and brains.

At the end, the glory of parents isn’t the parents but their children. Blessed is he who has his quiver full with them, he shall stand up to his enemies at the gates.

31/07/2023

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Raising Smart, Healthy and Successful Children is a Trophy

18/11/2022

This information I received yesterday blew my mind.

I'm sure, it’s going to blow your mind too.

But before I give you the full gist,

Know that no situation in life is worth taking your life. No matter the part of the dark tunnel you are in, you will meet light only if you won't stop moving in the dark.

Now the real gist.

Difficult times isn't the reason you shouldn’t make progress. You can still make progress in your challenges. But light finally shines on you when you’ve proven you deserve it by your efforts to overcome your challenges in the dark.

Just encouraging you this morning. Don't give up!

17/11/2022

When a leader struggles with his subordinates, it is because of certain boundaries lines he had failed to draw in his relationship with them.

Leadership makes you a servant but not a slave.

14/11/2022

Until you take that next step, you may never know how much of you the world is yet to see.

Life has nothing to give you, if you have nothing to offer it. The more you bring to the table, the more you’ll take back home.

There is a piece of you life needs, if you are to make the most of life.

What you need do is pay the price of self discovery.

07/11/2022

In your journey through life, you will be meeting all kinds of persons.

Some persons will be physically present and useful, some will add value to you behind the scenes.

Some persons will add nothing while some others will always subtract benefits from you.

Truth is, they are all important.

You need all of them to give your life the quality it deserves.

03/11/2022

Don't expect everyone to love you!

You see this road Eke, I've been there before you. If they don't like your past, they won't love your future! Be careful!

These were some of my father's last words on earth to me.

I had cringed on hearing them.

But as I grew older, I realized he was right.

In this business we call living life, not everyone will love your growth, success, or potential.

When you are looking ahead, please look behind too!

Close the doors to attacks from behind while your fight the demons ahead of you.

Live smart, live wise.
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24/04/2022

Someone wants to blame me for how bad his child has turned!

I’m a teacher and it’s been my full time job in the last twelve years.
I’ve moved from school to school and from class to class trying to make the most impact.

I’ve engaged this profession with the diligence and zest it requires, standing all day, studying all evenings and praying all nights.
I’ve sacrificed personal ambitions and I'm very ambitious, just so that I can make people's children my goal.
I know what it means to regret that I got a child's training process wrong or that I could have helped direct a child's path but failed at it.

And then heading home hungry after a long day at work because my take home pay hardly takes me home.
But they’d still blame me for all the efforts I make.

Yes I regret most times, that I’ve failed to run the race against my peers. When I see how far my friends have gone, I wish I wasn’t a teacher.
I hate when parents blame me for what they should do. I’m not super man. I’m human. They are loose, uncultured, brattish and cant control their children, who make themselves a torn in my classes.

I shout every week day till I lose my voice. I use the rod when necessary but I dare not sometimes because parents will come fight me for helping them do what they should do.
And a child brings a bad attribute from home, parents claim it’s the school or the teacher.
Did I teach the child s*x? Do I have an account on tiktok? How many people even follow me on Facebook?

They’d say, “That's why I sent my child to school, to shape them well" but they forget that the first and best school is the home front.
Teachers only make better what was good and try to repair what was broken. We often try our best.

But sometimes as much as we try the repair process, that crack is still there for all to see, showing how parents have failed.
If your child turns out bad, don’t blame the teacher, we deh try.

Blame yourself, your blindness! Because you failed the teacher.
Apologize to him. Beg him to stay faithful to the repair process. Encourage him!
Teachers are Angel’s. Teachers are virtuous. They can only help you if you'd listen to thier counsel.

Don’t claim you know. I know you’ve been to Cambridge and Oxford and all I managed to attend was the strike ridden upgraded secondary school called Nigerian University.
But I'm graced, that’s why I’m a teacher.

I’m a messenger and a tool shaping destinies.
I’m bigger than your pastor! Just that my hands are stained in the mud because of your child.
Respect me!

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22/04/2022

I’m sorry that I see this differently from the way you do.

Those days, while growing up in the 90s, there was this general perception we had about ladies who made wearing maskara their business.

It was a general belief in my part of the world that such ladies were runs girls. That time, was the period of eye pencils and pancake.

Sincerely, the few ladies we knew back then who made use of those things looked weird and dark.
Fast forward to the 21st century, it’s now a major industry with every lady heading for a makeup artist the moment there is a little owambe to attend.

You'd hear friends tell a makeup laden woman “see how you are looking young"

Yes, you may look younger with that mask but it does not reduce your life expectancy.

Recently, a young man divorced his newly wedded wife because she was looking far older than the woman he had married the previous day.

I saw one advert where the lady showed her make up skills by turning a sixty something year old woman into a twenty something year old chick. See how people bin dey praise the woman.

Is it not common these days to find a twenty something year old man marrying a seventy something year old woman. You know the problem, na that maskara.

The men can't tell the difference anymore. Na juju be that. The older women are taking the young men while you are there praying for Mr right.

That maskara you are putting on is a slap on you. You are getting so addicted to it so that your confidence depends on it.

Who bin tell you say you no fine?
I know how you want to look good before everyone and especially that man.

But you see that man who will say I do, if he is the real deal he won't be looking at your maskara.
He knows you won’t sleep tonight looking the way he saw you in the afternoon at that party.
He is looking for the real you!

Wetin make you feel say because you dey attend marriage se you must wear make up? Na question I dey ask.

Make I stop here.

What do you think?

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18/04/2022

🤔WHO IS AFRAID OF HIV/AIDS THESE DAYS?

I sat a few meters away from two teenage boys, both of them chatting their time away on sundry issues, while I pondered on the many issues that also concerned me. I was close enough to have eavesdropped on their conversation.

John: These days no one is talking about HIV 😁
Peter: 🤔Ah! That's because HIV now has a cure.

I almost jumped at the young men to ask them where they got their information from. But I controlled myself while they continued.

John: Na true o
Peter: See you, nobody is afraid of HIV. Since they found the cure, people just dey flex.

I was amazed about this level of disinformation and I'm a proponent for s*xual purity. Yeah! God helped me those days before I said "I do".

But I've had family and friends die from HIV/AIDS and it just amazes my intellectual uncupunkus that these young men were thinking of leveraging on their s*xual or**es just because " HIV/AIDS now has a cure"

They aren't the only ones thinking this way. They encapsulate the generic thinking pattern of society towards HIV/AIDS, that a person should no longer be afraid of unprotected s*xual activity because there is now a fictitious cure for the dreaded monster. The last time I checked, there are worse s*xually transmittable diseases that have no cure.

My recent visit to the hospital showed HIV/AIDS is still as deadly. Don't be deceived, HIV has no cure. Let's talk about it. Millions still die from HIV every year.

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15/11/2021

THIS LESSON IS GERMAINE!

Things are not always the way they seem. This is one of the lessons I’ve learnt in the few years of my life. I’ve learnt to see things beyond the surface. I've seen opportunities arrive out of nothing and seen doors that have opened from almost impossible situations. As much as I expect the best, I accept the worse if that’s what life offers and I keep anticipating the best of life while refusing to allow how people act define my actions.

Opportunities lurk around everywhere, it just takes hardwork, innovation, positive attitude and patience to find them. People we meet everyday are our opportunities so its important to treat people well when they come around. As a business person, I try to create good relationships with customers no matter how little the business done because small business today is a door for big business tomorrow.

A man came into my office with three other men seeking for my service. By the time I was done, the man told me that a particular woman who sold three shops away had directed them to me. I was surprise because this particular woman hardly answered my greetings when I go to buy from her. I always greeted her even when she kept a stony face. At one time, I told my wife that I’d stop patronizing the woman because I felt the woman thought she was doing me a favour by selling to me. She had never patronized me but I’ve kept buying from her despite her unfriendly mane. When the man told me she directed them to me, I was surprise.

In 2013, I refused to join my colleagues in a company I had once worked to attack the CEO of the company for non payment of our salary. They claimed I was a weakling and was doing good boy but I knew better. Eight years down the line, I’ve left the company but my services are still been sought by the company from time to time.

What I’m trying to pass across by this post is “be you and be good, treat people well, they are your opportunities “.

Ekekere Samuel Ufot

Vision Driver, Soaring

07/11/2021

IN FIFTY YEARS TIME!

While I walked through the streets of a major market in my city recently, this thoughts ran through my mind. I stood for a while and imagined what the market would look like in the next fifty years.

I imagined the market women many of whom were already in their forties, they’d be no more. I took a look at the touts who were busy trying to ensure the market women paid their daily tax, many of whom were in their thirties; they too would be no more. I looked over to the laborers who were helping the market women with their loads, most of them were in their twenties; they too would be gone. And the teenagers who hawked on the streets? Many of them would be no more.

I took a look at the houses around the market and wondered how old the houses would become in fifty years with rusted roofs and paint washed walls. I imagined that the landlords would either have sold them to new owners who would renovate them or their children would inherit them and possibly fight over the properties. All those store owners would be gone and probably all the business names that choke the market will give way for new names and businesses. After I thought for a while, all I saw was vanity.

I’ve decided not to take life too seriously because at most, we are only air passing by, blowing away. Not too long away, it will seem like we never existed. My candid advice, live your best life, influence people as much as you can, live for life and for God. Have a picture of eternity, there is actually where we will live agelessly.

Ekekere Samuel

Vision driver, Soaring Life Ministries.

31/10/2021

THE DAY I HIT MY SPOUSE

Marriage ehn, no be small thing. If you aren’t the one creating the drama, you can expect your spouse to create some. I’ve always heard men say “I'd never hurt my wife”. I had vowed to queue in that line. I grew up in an abusive environment where it was common to see couples fight, and in many cases the fights turned bloody. Those experiences painted for me the kind of marriage I didn’t want to have.

But what happened that I hit my spouse?

There is a wild part of everyone no matter how loving and gentle they are that is called to action the moment they or someone they love feel threatened. There is something about coming to the defense of those you love and you genuinely feel you should play that role, or rising to defend yourself because you feel the other party thinks you can do nothing in the face of been hurt.

Good relationships can be good for as long as they can be when both partners in the relationship are working hard to project the good sides of themselves. The truth is, we are all working hard to project a fine face, just like those women you see at the parties and those guys on social media.

Know when you are going too far. Relationships don’t break suddenly. It happens over time when people in the relationship make it a habit to trigger the bad sides of their partners. Certainly, there will always be those times when you get it wrong with your partner, but this should make you learn to know how far you shouldn’t go if you are to keep the relationship going.

The Ekekeres

Vision driver, Soaring Life Ministries

19/08/2021

YOU NEED PEOPLE, BUT NOT EVERYBODY...

To be visionary isn't just about you, It's about people. It's about creating a picture that others will find fulfilment in. When you are visionary, you are bound to connect with people who will come along, play a part and acquire some level of fulfilment.

Its great when you get all the support you can get from all the people around you. You may feel tempted to think that everyone who is offering you some help in the direction of your vision presently is meant to go the length with you. But no! Some persons aren't on your team even though you are presently tagged to them.

It's not that they are bad people or they have any ulterior motives. Its just that they dont have the connecting mechanism to go the distance with your picture. Don't feel bad that they have to go. They'd not be fufiing their purpose hanging with you however beautiful your plans are for them. Some of them may even have bigger visions.

Don't force anyone to stay who wants to leave and don't force anyone to leave who wants to stay. Not everyone currently on your team will be in the picture a few months or years from now. However, try as much as you can to influence the lives of every person that will hang around you. You will always be in the picture when they can remember that your impact left a footprint for their lives.

Know this and have peace!

Ekekere Samuel
Vision Driver, Soaring Life Ministries
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11/08/2021

WHAT ARE YOU MANAGING?

Life is about the choices we made, we are making and that we will make. How we are turning out is a result of all the choice decisions we have taken prior to now.

One decision I see people make is that of "managing". What I mean by managing in this context is accepting less than you would naturally feel content about.

You'd hear a man say " I just dey manage the babe". Or a woman can say "I just dey manage the guy". A boss at work can say, " I'm just managing that staff" and an employee may say "I'm just managing the job". Managing seems to be a common parlance.

But why do you choose to manage what's less when you can get the real deal? If you think you are managing a person, a relationship, a thing or an opportunity, it means you are getting less than what you anticipated. You can't enjoy life that way!

Life is meant to be lived to the fullest. You only have one chance through life, thus you've got to drop anything, person or goals that do not guarantee you the fullest of life. Don't continue to manage when you can get more and better.

Anything you manage can damage you!

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21/07/2021

MADE MEN WERE ONCE MAD MEN!

I'm still understudying the greatest men living and dead. One common decimal I've noticed amongst them is that they started out with people thinking they were mad.

How could Bill Gates have thought of an operating system for digital computers when all the world knew about was analog systems? How could Columbus have decide to go West in search of Gold and India when the known world knew that India and Gold were in the East. How could Steve Jobs have designed and created a buttonless phone when the world was still coming to terms with using phones that had bottons? And the Wright Brothers, what made them think iron metals could float on air, when the world was only getting to know about hot balloons. They had to be mad.

They believed they had something to be mad about and dared to be misunderstood. The world is what it is today because of all the mad men who sacrificed their sanity and people's perception of them for the betterment of life.

Indeed, you can't want to achieve anything, if you don't want to be considered mad. Galileo was very mad, Newton was mad, Pluto was mad, Aristotle was mad, Mohammed Ghandi was mad, Nelson Mandela was mad, T.B Joshua was mad, W F Kumuyi was mad, E A Adeboye was mad, you can mention names. People didn't see them in normal light. They were mocked, laughed at, spited, but their dreams prevailed.

Whatever you are doing, and people think you are insane to have tried it that way, I just want to assure you, you are on track. I am actually mad, that's why I am writing to you a mad reader.

In truth, every made man was once mad. They just added "e" signifying excel to their madness. You become a made man when you excel at been mad.

Ekekere Samuel
Vision Driver, Soaring Life Ministries,
CEO, Soar Hub
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