Be Contented

Found some articles while scrolling through a site and I realised that many people are not content with what they have and it has become a serious disease in a lot of the people today and many people don't know it.

Ade met his friend Kola, 2 years after school and he was driving a sleek Mercedes Benz. He went home weeping and feeling awful for himself. Ade didn't know that Kola has never owned a car and got a job as a driver in a small company somewhere and on that faithful day, he was sent on an errand with the biggest car in the company when his friend Ade saw him.

Seyi nagged her husband always for not being romantic by not getting down to open the car door for her as Ngozi's husband did when he dropped her at work. Seyi didn't know that Ngozi's husband's car was faulty and the door could only be opened from outside.

Life does not have a universal measuring tool, so create yours and use it. Looking at people and comparing yourself with them will never make you happy, you'd continue to have pains of what's not even real and making you regret how you are living your life when you should try your possible best to be contented with what you have and not envy the things you see.

Be contented with what you have and in everything, give thanks!

- Story by Anonymous, supported by Rukky Ujara

500 Naira Note

Two important management lessons I learnt from a 500 Naira note.

1. It happened some time ago but . I was in an audience listening to a motivational speaker. The speaker got out his wallet & pulled out a 500 Naira note. Holding it up, he asked, "Who wants this 500 naira note?"

Lots of hands went up. Including mine. A slow chorus began to build as people began to shout "Me!" "Me!" I began to wonder who the lucky one would be who the speaker would choose. And I also secretly wondered (and I am sure others did too ) why he would simply give away 500 Naira. Even as the shouts of "I want it" grew louder, I noticed a young woman running down the aisle. She ran up onto the stage, went up to the speaker, and grabbed the five 500 naira note from his hand. "Well done, young lady," said the speaker into the microphone. The speaker simply say "Most of us just sit and wait for good things to happen. That's of no use. You've got to make things happen. Make a move" 'Simply thinking about doing something is of no use and not gud enough'. Our lives are like that. We all see opportunities around us. We all want the good things. But the problem is we don't take action. We all want the 500 naira notes on offer. But we don't make the move. We look at it longingly. Get up, and do something about it. Don't worry about what other people might think.

Take action.

2. later, the speaker got another 500 naira note and held it up for all to see, I thought I knew what's up. But he just asked a simple question. "How much is this worth?" "Five Hundred naira!" the crowd yelled in unison. "Right," said the speaker. He then took the note and crumpled it into a ball and asked "How much is it worth now?" "Five Hundred naira!" screamed the audience. He then threw the note on the ground, stamped all over it and picked up the note and asked one more time: "And how much is it worth now?" "Five Hundred naira!" was the response. "I want you to remember this," said the speaker. "Just because someone crumples it, or stamps on it, the value of the note does not diminish. We should all be like the 500 naira note. In our lives, there will be times when we feel crushed, stamped over, beaten. But never let your self-worth diminish. Just because someone chooses to crush you, that doesn't change your worth one bit!

Don't allow your self-worth to diminish because someone says something nasty or does something dirty to you."

Never let your self-worth diminish

-Anonymous

Fight for your belief

I realized that we most times don't fight for what we believe in and that's not the way it's supposed to be. I believe that if people fought for the right thing which is their right, like Martin Luther King Jr. did some years back, we would get what we are meant to. Fighting against this gay right is the right thing to do. This is because the Bible goes against any kind of relations that isn't between two certified people.

The Bible said, we shouldn't have sexual relations with animals, same sex but the world we live in today don't respect it. Everything they do is just all about what they feel is good and how everybody has a right to do what they want which is the thought of the wicked one and not the thought of Christ. When I say fight, I don't mean violent fight, I mean nonviolent fight.

I really believe that if every other person disagrees with this gay right then, we are surely going somewhere with this. I'm not happy that I don't feel safe whenever I'm in a room with certain females I don't know because I can't tell who is what. We need to find a way to stop all these. I speak with God in my heart and not from my head.

-Rukky Ujara