FLASH BACK TO ATTACKS ON GOODLUCK E. JONATHAN:

Jonathan is training snipers – OBASANJO.
I will make your Govt ungovernable – ATIKU.
Jonathan is the most corrupt president in the history of Nigeria – DINO MELAYE.
One million man match protest against insecurity – ADEBOYE.
Jonathan govt stole a lot of money – PASTOR SULEIMAN.
Jonathan is a bad luck -Rev. Fr. EJIKE MBAKA.
Monkey and baboon will soaked in blood if Jonathan continues in 2015 – BUHARI
We will form a parallel Government, if Jonathan won – Rotimi Amaechi.
Jonathan is the sponsor of Boko Haram – Northern Elders.
Jonathan is a kindergarten president – EL RUFAI.
PDP and Jonathan have failed Nigeria – SOWORE.
Jonathan, bring back our girls – OBY EZEKWESILI.
The Government that failed to restore power in six months is a failure -Babatunde FASHOLA.
Finally we used Almajiris to vote out Jonathan -KWANKWASO.

Today Jonathan is getting more encomiums, promotion and recognition from the West.
And:

1. Atiku has been rewarded
2. Kwankwaso has been rewarded
3. Dino Melaye has been rewarded
4. Mbaka can’t even talk again
5. Suleiman is quiet
6. Oby Ezekwesili has been shut up and banned.
7. Obasanjo has been shut down
8. El-Rufai has been sidelined
9. Northern Elders are crying
10. Adeboye can’t talk again..
11. Sowore is receiving his own punishment.
    LESSON:
    Mind what you say or do because of selfish interests, because it must surely haunt you back.

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5 Famous Celebrities With Insane Family Backgrounds

In the world of action movies, every character has some kind of crazy backstory, but there are only so many times a character can turn out to be the son of an infamous assassin or a child tragically orphaned by the mob and raised in an inner city dive bar before the movie officially becomes a comedy. Then you find out that those things happened to Woody Harrelson and Dylan McDermott in real life, and you realize actors’ lives are sometimes way crazier than any character they played in a movie …

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Woody Harrelson’s Dad Was a Contract Killer

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Woody Harrelson has enjoyed a long and fruitful career, with such memorable roles as Woody on Cheers and a recent turn as a detective on True Detective. He also frequently plays Jesse Eisenberg’s stepfather. Woody is such a likeable, laid-back guy that it’s hard to believe his father was a cold-blooded contract killer who murdered people at the behest of criminals.

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We had our money on long-haired Deadhead marijuana activist at 3-1 odds.

Charles Harrelson walked out on his wife and three sons in 1968, which was only the third worst thing he did that year. After being acquitted for a murder he probably committed thanks to a bush league prosecutor, Charles was hired to kill another person so the victim’s business partner could collect insurance money. Amazingly, he got off again, this time on a mistrial, because Texas’ judicial system in the ’60s was apparently the equivalent of a first-turn guess in a game of Clue. Let that sink in — Charles Harrelson killed two people in one year and got away with it both times.

The state got their shit together and tried Charles again five years later, sentencing him to 15 years in jail. Prison straightened Charles out, and he dedicated the rest of his life to his family. This is another way of saying that he got out of prison after serving only five years of his sentence and immediately murdered a judge. The parole board was batting a thousand that year.

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“But what about all the people we paroled who didn’t commit murder?”

The judge in question had a reputation for tough sentences, and Charles was hired to kill him by a drug dealer who was about to stand trial. Shockingly, their plan to avoid punishment for a major crime by committing a second major crime didn’t work out, and everyone involved went to prison. This story was actually referenced in No Country for Old Men, a film that featured Woody Harrelson getting murdered by a character who, according to the brother of one of Charles’ victims, is eerily similar to Charles himself. That’s like an Escher painting brought to horrible life.

 

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Although Chigurh’s hair is straight up Picasso.

Charles also claimed that he shot JFK during a six-hour standoff with the police while he was high on cocaine. The incident got Woody’s attention, and upon learning that his father was a multiple murderer, Woody promptly befriended him and sunk several million dollars into trying to get Charles a retrial. Before his death in 2007, Woody described Charles as “one of the most articulate, well-read, charming people I’ve ever known,” and also said, “I look at him as someone who could be a friend more than someone who was a father.” And now we’re scared of Woody Harrelson.

And while we’re on the subject of Cheers alums …

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Everyone Kelsey Grammer Has Ever Loved Has Died Tragically

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Kelsey Grammer’s neurotic radio therapist Frasier Crane (featured in both Cheers and the aptly titled Frasier) taught us that stuffy, rich intellectuals are hilarious. But it’s painfully ironic that Grammer found success in comedy, because his biography reads like the most excruciatingly tragic hero’s trial we’ve ever seen.

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“It’s depressing to read alone! Take this.”

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Kelsey’s father, Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., was shot to death on his front lawn by a deranged cab driver for absolutely no reason. The man had no connection to Frank whatsoever — he showed up at Frank’s house, lit the family car on fire to lure him outside, then shot him to death. Just for the hell of it. Then, when Kelsey was 20 and had just been expelled from Juilliard, his younger sister Karen was waiting for her boyfriend in a Red Lobster parking lot when a gang of thieves showed up to rob the place. When they spotted Karen, they decided they couldn’t leave a witness and brutally murdered her to cover their tracks.

You might think this would be the point where we say, “But luckily things began looking up for Kelsey,” but you would be wrong. Dead wrong. Just five years later, Grammer’s two half-brothers, Stephen and Billy, were killed in a bizarre scuba diving accident wherein one of them was probably eaten by sharks. That’s not a glib joke at the expense of Kelsey Grammer’s family — one of his two half-brothers was almost certainly killed by a fucking shark.

Because the universe just couldn’t stop shitting on Kelsey Grammer, his good friend and longtime producer David Angell was killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11. And Ben Novack, one of Kelsey’s best friends for over 40 years, was murdered by his own wife in a double-homicide inheritance scheme. We kind of want to track Grammer down and give him a great big bear hug.

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Or at least give him the “It’s not your fault” speech.

Two of his wives were physically abusive and emotionally unstable (nothing against Kelsey, but that’s kind of what happens when you marry a stripper immediately after meeting her). When he tried to leave his former exotic dancer wife, she locked herself in a hotel room and attempted suicide. She survived, but the couple’s unborn child did not. Kelsey Grammer’s life has essentially been one extended Greek tragedy.

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“Cruel fate — I’m listening.”

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Dylan McDermott Lived a Scorsese Film

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Dylan McDermott is famous for playing a sexy lawyer on The Practice and a string of roles as sexy villains in American Horror Story, Hostages, and Olympus Has Fallen.

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And for his starring role in Goddamnit, for the Last Time, I’m Not Dermot Mulroney.

As it turns out, there’s a reason he frequently gets cast as Handsome Bad Guy — Dylan was born Mark Anthony McDermott to the teenage girlfriend of a gangster named John Sponza (although Sponza was not his biological father). Unfortunately, Sponza wasn’t a singing and dancing gangster like in West Side Story or Guys and Dolls so much as a heroin addict racketeer like in Donnie Brascoand Goodfellas. In 1962, when Dylan was 5, Sponza further challenged his reputation by murdering Dylan’s mother, a crime he wasn’t convicted of until 50 years later in 2012 (Sponza himself was found shot dead in the trunk of a car in 1972, so the conviction was largely symbolic).

Dylan went to live with his grandmother for a while in a neighborhood that was so bad that a burglar once stole the underwear out of his dresser. Deciding that he didn’t want to spend the rest of his adolescence padlocking his underwear drawer, he tracked down his bartending father in New York City. Dylan helped his dad out, and by “helped” we mean he broke up fights, cleaned up pools of vomit, and served 8 a.m. beers to men who would make Nick Nolte look like a solid job interview candidate. Working in a sketchy bar with your estranged dad after your mother gets murdered by a career gangster sounds like the plot of the darkest sitcom in television history.

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“– find out who’s really calling the Shots! Fridays on NBC!”

Dylan could have easily grown up shaking down deadbeats and powdering people’s kneecaps with a baseball bat if it wasn’t for his stepmother, Eve Ensler (whom you may recognize as the author of The Vagina Monologues). She knew that handsome people can get paid way more pretending to be villainous thugs, so she encouraged Dylan to get into acting, and despite being only a few years older than Dylan, she even legally adopted him years after she divorced his father, which is only the tiniest bit creepy.

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Olivia Newton-John’s Parents Were Nazi-Fighting War Refugees

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You probably know Olivia Newton-John from her leading role in the film Xanadu, although it’s possible that you also saw her in Grease. Additionally, she’s responsible for the song “Physical,” which everyone born in 1981 was conceived to.

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Craft services on the shoot was just bananas and melons.

But it’s Olivia’s parents who are the real story, because the lives of Irene Born and Brinley Newton-John read like a subplot from Inglourious Basterds. Irene was the daughter of Max Born, a Nobel Prize-winning atomic physicist and one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. Her family was forced to flee Germany after the Nazis took over, and it was in England where Irene met Brinley.

Brinley was born in Wales, but despite that disadvantage, he grew up to be a brilliant linguist who earned a double major from Cambridge, which is a school for people who think Harvard is adorable. During World War II, Brinley’s fluency in German led him to a job interrogating captured Nazi pilots. Forgoing the standard torture and intimidation, Brinley would take the pilots out for dinner and drinks. He figured that people are generally more willing to give you information if you’re being friendly, rather than if you’re smashing them in the crotch with a fuel canister. His technique worked so well that it was adopted by Ian Fleming, which makes us wonder if there’s a rough draft of a Bond novel wherein 007 and Goldfinger just get drunk and hug things out.

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“Yeah, he was totally cool after I got him laid. We turned the giant laser into a vaporizer.”

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One of his interrogations led to the capture of Rudolf “I’m Crazy Even by Nazi Standards” Hess, the Deputy Fuhrer who launched an unauthorized one-man mission to negotiate a treaty between Britain and Germany that (spoilers!) didn’t quite pan out.

Later in the war, Brinley joined Bletchley Park, MI5’s code-breaking headquarters. Brinley was part of a team that had to quickly and accurately translate decoded German messages into the Queen’s English. Brinley himself translated the secret German battle plans for El Alamein, which you may recognize as a level in Call of Duty 2 (and, to a lesser degree, as an important turning point in World War II). So, to sum up, Olivia Newton-John’s father helped win a major battle and capture one of the highest-ranking Nazis (and was also a kickass opera singer), and her mother was the war refugee daughter of one of the greatest minds in atomic science. Olivia, meanwhile, grew up to make Christmas albums with John Travolta.

So, in a way, this is just another atrocity the Nazis are responsible for.

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Jackie Chan’s Mother Was a Drug Baron Who Married the Cop Who Caught Her

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We all know Jackie Chan as the loveable star of ridiculous action comedies and the gentle recipient of 50 percent of Chris Tucker’s racism. Given his astounding success and lighthearted personality, you’d assume he was born into relative privilege, but his family background is filled with so much despair and intrigue, it could have been written by John le Carre.

Jackie’s father, Charles Chan (not Charlie Chan), had the misfortune of living through the Chinese Civil War, one of the worst periods in Chinese history. Charles found himself serving as an orderly to a Nationalist general when he was only a teenager.

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OK, le Carre may have had George R.R. Martin ghost write that chapter.

Then the Second Sino-Japanese War began, which was essentially the opening act of World War II, and Charles became a Nationalist spy working against Japanese aggressors before growing sick of government corruption and quitting to become a port inspector in Shanghai. It’s remarkably like the origin story of a Jackie Chan character, if his movies were set to a background of war, genocide, and widespread human suffering.

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Not counting the widespread human suffering of watching Rush Hour 3.

While Charles was trying to be one good cop in a world of corruption, Jackie’s mom, Lee-Lee, took the “underworld kingpin” route. After her previous husband was killed by a Japanese bomb, she was forced to abandon her daughters and make a living in Shanghai. She soon discovered she had a talent for the humble professions of gambling and opium smuggling, and before long she had earned the street nickname of Big Sister. Her operation eventually ran afoul of port inspector Charles Chan, but instead of a climactic rooftop karate battle, they decided to get married, because that’s way less exhausting and requires fewer warm-up stretches.

But the 1940s had a habit of being terrible for everyone, and the civil war ended with China under Communist control. A former Nationalist spy and a drug-peddling crime boss were two of the many things the new government frowned upon, so the Chans fled to Hong Kong, where Jackie was born a few years later, presumably doing a series of dangerously wacky stunt falls through the delivery room.

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Motivating Story of Hope

My Story of Hope

Life can be tough and unfair…

 

 

People are broken,
People are going through challenging situations,
People are struggling to feed their families,
People are dropping out of school,
People are hurting from wrong relationships,
People are dying everyday,
People are struggling to keep up with their mortgage payments and the banks are threatening,
People are waking up each day only to realize their pension pot is drying up,
People are tired… really tired,
People are losing hope.

I’ve been there before. I spent my teenage years in Lagos, Nigeria. Born to a father I lost 11 days after my 13th birthday and a mother with 5 other children, I lived 645KM away from my family.

The good life I knew changed when I lost my father to asthma and diabetes. Everything changed! We lost everything!! The years that followed would become my worst nightmare:

• Almost dropped out of high school without education support
• Destitute at 17
• Slept in the church for months
• Lived in a slum for 3 years
• Hungry. Seriously hungry
• Begged or stole for at least a meal
• ‘Hunted’ every tree in the neighbourhood for unripe fruits to eat
• Cooked and ate hand-picked vegetables with salt and no other ingredient
• Fanned and burned charcoal because kerosene was unaffordable
• Borrowed a uniform for my final exams in high school because I could not afford one.
• And at university? Oh dear, where do I start? Results withheld each year because I owed tuition, paid my way through university and stayed hungry half the time, the only child of six to achieve university education

Life was tough for me. Life was hopeless. My teenage years were unbearable. The shame was ludicrous; it just didn’t make sense most times. I nurtured a dream to go to university abroad. Many scorned me for it. They couldn’t fathom how a lad from the slum could find himself in the UK. So they laughed. Only a few listened and even fewer supported.

I remained resolute in my hope. I refused to give up. And my story changed…

• graduated with First Class honours degree in Computer Science
• achieved the best result at faculty level
• received best graduating student award by the British Computer Society
• have my portrait on the university gallery for outstanding achievements
• published two books (one on sale worldwide and a free eBook available on my blog).
• two more books to be released soon
• speak at conferences
• coach young leaders…

against all odds.

Today, I’m a living testimony of hope and I live to inspire others with my story. I didn’t sit down and curse the world for my plight. Yes, events I couldn’t control happened but I refused to resign to them.

I encourage you today: DON’T GIVE UP.

Your story will change if you keep hope alive.

Dead visions can and will be revived.

And here’s my prayer for you; that God restores hope in you to dream again.

This Couple’s 43-Year-Long Love Story All Started in a Pen Pal Club

Once our paths crossed, being together was all that mattered.

BY ELFRIEDE LUNNERDAL

via Reminisce

COURTESY ELFRIEDE LUNNERDAL REMINISCE

When I joined an international pen pal club in November 1959, I had no idea how it would change my life. I was an RN at a large hospital in Bremen, in northern Germany. By December, the letters started pouring in. One letter from Sweden piqued my interest. It was from a Swedish horticulturist who lived and worked 
in Helsingborg. He wrote the letter in German, and soon many more of his letters crossed 
The Sound, or Oresund, and the Baltic Sea.

Around Easter in 1960, Nils wanted to meet. He arrived on Good Friday. On Saturday, we took a 12-mile hike in rainy April weather to Worpswede, a famous artist village in Lower Saxony, Germany. In the evening, we visited the world-renowned Ratskeller in Bremen, which housed Europe’s oldest wine barrel, dated 1653.

By this time, it was not only the wine that had warmed our hearts. Nils proposed, and we planned our wedding 
in Sweden for Midsommar (midsummer), 
a joyful annual holiday in Scandinavia in late June. Two days later, Nils flew back home, and 
I was left to plan the wedding by mastering piles of paperwork and fighting bureaucracy.

Now what? I did not speak Swedish and decided to cram in 10 hours of Berlitz language lessons a week before the wedding.

We drove to Helsingborg, where the marriage took place in a beautiful old kyrka (church) with Nils’ family and a few friends present. My father was still in East Germany, behind the Iron Curtain. To this day, I do not know what the pastor said, but according to the certificate, we were married!

At the end of 1962, we moved 
to Encinitas, California, to establish a flower business for 
a well-known Swedish grower. 
Nils built the business and eventually purchased it from his boss, changing from carnations 
to roses shipped around the U.S.

We became U.S. citizens and adopted two children. Nils and I did a lot of volunteer work in the community and received many awards.

Nils died at home in 2004 when he was 82. We had a blessed 43-year marriage after our Swedish/German courtship blitz.

4-Finger Pianist

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This story will inspire you… to realize how anyone can overcome adversity!

What do you do when you’re born with two digits on each hand and your legs are amputated at the knees when you’re three? Well, if you’re Hee Ah Lee, you become a concert pianist. She is quite a pro at it now, and you’ll love hearing her play… watch this video below:

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This story will inspire you… to realize how anyone can overcome adversity!

What do you do when you’re born with two digits on each hand and your legs are amputated at the knees when you’re three? Well, if you’re Hee Ah Lee, you become a concert pianist. She is quite a pro at it now, and you’ll love hearing her play… watch this video below:

https://youtu.be/2FSnalrPYpc

Hee Ah Lee was born with sever physical deformities. She only had two fingers on each hand. And her legs ended at her knees. Her doctors didn’t expect her to live.

But she did live. At the age of six she started to play piano. At the time, her four fingers were very weak. She couldn’t even hold a pencil. Her mother hoped playing piano would strengthen her grip.

It worked. But more than that, Lee found a calling. She now tours the world, playing for stunned audiences. She plays pieces that would be difficult for able-bodied pianists.

The videos are real and Hee Ah Lee is Authentic. It is the story of a mother and a daughter who have overcome odds from the very beginning.

Lee’s mother became unexpectedly pregnant while married to a disabled man.  Doctors told her that because of a medication she had been taking her child would not be normal.  She elected to continue with the pregnancy and in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea, little Hee Ah Lee was born with only two fingers on each hand, disfigurement of her legs, and slight brain injury.  The hospital told Sun that she could not care for the child at home and relatives wanted her to place the child for adoption in a foreign country.  Sun thought her baby was beautiful, however, and was determined that she would live a successful life.

When Lee was a pre-schooler her mother decided that she wanted her daughter to take piano lessons and for two reasons.  One was that she felt it would help her strengthen her hands so she could hold a pencil.  The other was that she felt that if she could master the piano, she could master anything.   For six months piano schools turned them down then the one teacher who did accept the task got discouraged and wanted to quit.  It became a three-month contest of wills between mother and daughter that led to a confrontation in which Sun actually threw her daughter on the floor in frustration.  She said Lee got back up on the piano bench and for the first time played the children’s song she had been trying to learn.  That was the turning point and one year later Lee won the grand prize in a piano concert for Kindergartners. It was at age 7 that Lee won Korea’s 19th National Handicap Conquest Contest and was presented with her award by the President of Korea.

Today Lee is 22, has won numerous awards, and is a widely traveled concert pianist with more than 200 appearances.  Her first album titled “Hee-ah, a Pianist with Four Fingers” was to be released in June, 2008.

Lee gives tribute to her mother for challenging her to master the piano and said that although her training was difficult, “as time went by, the piano became my source of inspiration and my best friend.”

A day with -My name is LINDA IKEJI and this is my story

I started struggling since I was 17 to support my family. I said the day I sell my body to a man for money, may God strike me dead. I was determined to make it on my own, never let any man take my dignity.

It was early 2000, I was 19 years old, in my second year at the University of Lagos. I’d been a model for about a year and a half then. Modeling back then didn’t pay a lot. Sometimes you eat, sometimes you can’t find food. Sometimes you had money, sometimes you will have to beg for it. I’m not from a rich home. I started struggling since I was 17 to support my family.

Linda Ikeji

So I kinda hard a tough life growing up but I kept working, doing all sorts of modeling jobs, ushering, fashion shows, and at one point I sold beer at a hotel. I’d leave lectures, go to a hotel and sell beer from 1pm till 10pm. I did this for a few months. It wasn’t easy but I had to survive. One of the things I said to myself back then was, the day I sell my body to a man for money, may God strike me dead. I was determined to make it on my own, never let any man take my dignity.

In those days, most young girls had an “aristo” I was never one of those girls. I would rather starve or beg for food than give my body to a man for money.

So back to my story. It was early 2000, I hadn’t done any modeling jobs in a bit. I didn’t have any money in school, hadn’t ate a proper meal in days, there was no money at home… My sister called and asked if I could send money home…didn’t have any. I wondered what to do…then I thought of this ” aristo” who had been chasing me for months now…old man…married.. .rich…in his fifties.

I said to myself, why don’t you call him and beg him for money. Tell a lie, say you need it to go to the hospital ‘cos you’re sick or something that desperate. Which was what I did. What he said to me was ‘you know I like you. I don’t know why you’re behaving like a child. You need someone to take care of you blah blah blah’.

Eventually he said I should meet him at a hotel. I will never forget that hotel…Ambassadors hotel in Ikoyi. I was apprehensive about going but I was desperate…I said to myself what’s the worse that can happen? It’s not like he will rape you and there was no way in hell I would sleep with him, so I figured even if he didn’t give me the money I asked for, at least he would give me money for transport fare to go back home…that transport fare was what I was looking forward to honestly. I didn’t have a dime on me, in fact I borrowed small money from a friend to go to the hotel.

So when I got there, he bought me hotel food (my first real meal in days…:-)) and after I was done eating, he made his move. I shoved him off. He kept trying and I kept pushing him away and after a while he got angry and said something like, why did you come here then? Are you a child? He was angry that I made him pay for a hotel room, spent money on food etc and not give him what he wanted. So he got up to leave…and I told him I didn’t have any money to go back to school. If looks could kill, I would have died in that moment he turned to look at me. He left the hotel room, and I followed him. I kept begging and trying to explain to him that I didn’t have transport to go back, he didn’t say a word to me as he entered his vehicle and drove off.

I stood in front of the hotel wondering how I was going to get back to school. All I had on me was N15. N15 wasn’t going to take me from Ikoyi to Akoka. In my plans, I never imagined that I wasn’t going to at least get a few thousands from him. I’d seen this guy before…he was a friend’s boss. He owned a media business back then and every time I went to see this friend, this man would call me into his office…tell me how pretty I am, how much he likes me and how well he can take care of me.

And he always gave me 5k whenever I was ready to leave his office. But this time I was the one who called him…so he must have figured I was ready to give in. We both misunderstood each other, I guess…:-)

Anyway, after standing in front of the hotel for a few minutes, I went back in and saw a young man at the front desk. I explained my situation to him…he was kind enough to give me N100 and that was the money that took me half way home. By the time I got to Yaba, I’d run out of cash, so I trekked from Yaba bus stop to UNILAG Akoka. I remember saying to myself while I was trekking with tears in my eyes, that one day I’m going to make something of myself…every money I make in this world would be my own hard earned money…I don’t care how bad it gets, no man is ever going to take away my self respect…that’ s all I have!

And that’s the way I lived. Determined to make it in life. On my own terms. As my own woman. I kept struggling and struggling until God finally blessed me.

Now I have more money than I even know what to do with it. I make millions of Naira from what I love doing…blogging. The best part of all this is that I would blog for free. Now I don’t chase money anymore…it chases me. It’s not even just about the money, it’s the great friends I’ve met via this blog, the wonderful people I interact with here, the freebies I get. How much of a big deal I am to some people.

How some people see me in person and scream with excitement and want to take photos with me. Sometimes I pinch myself…I almost can’t believe this is my life.

Once in a while I think of that 19 year old girl who trekked for miles to school because she would not sell her body and I say to her, we made it, Linda, we made it!

So maybe I’m not a role model in terms of what I do, but I know I’m definitely a role model as a young woman. To all the young girls out there, if you’re reading this, you can make it on your own. You don’t need to spread your legs for men, you don’t need these old married men who just take your glory. You’re strong, you’re beautiful, there’s nothing you can’t achieve on your own. God has given you something no one else has. Find what it is and build yourself. Don’t worry about what other girls around you have. Dignity is far more valuable than a range rover. Make it in life on your own terms and as your own woman, so that you can look back one day and be proud of who you were and who you are.

I wish every one well in their journey. God bless.

5 WAYS TO FIND YOUR HIDDEN TALENTS

According to the dictionary, a talent is a natural endowment of a person. It is an ability or natural capacity that we have, which may range

APRIL 20, 2011 According to the dictionary, a talent is a natural endowment of a person. It is an ability or natural capacity that we have, which may range from our creativity to our athletic abilities. We all have them, but we are not always so good at identifying what they are. Sometimes they can be right in front of us, and we miss them.

If you can determine what your talents are, you can tap into an amazing resource that can help you in every aspect of your life, including your business. Whether you are searching for the perfect type of business to open or you want to find ways to grow the one you have, you may find the answer in your personal talents.

Ways to Discover

Ask 10 people what their talents are and you are bound to get a variety of responses, many of which will include that they simply don’t know. How can that be, you ask? Because people are often too close to what is going on for them to notice their natural abilities. So these gems go unnoticed and untapped, for years!

Finding your talent is actually much easier than you may realize. Here are 5 simple ways to find your hidden talents:

Listen to others.

Those around you usually know what your talents are, even when you don’t. If you think about it, people have likely been telling you that you are good at something for a long time. You just weren’t listening. Now is the time to listen.

Determine what is easy.

Are there things that you find really easy or obvious to do, while others may struggle or muddle their way through? If you have things that you find super easy, you believe that they should be just as easy, or obvious, for others, but that’s not how it plays out. In this scenario, they struggle while you stand there feeling like it was a cake walk!

What you enjoy most.

Your talents may be demonstrating itself in other ways. Are there magazine topics that you just can’t get enough of? Are there shows you love? Think about what it is that you love to do most when you have free time. If you are drawn toward it, it is a natural talent.

Shut up already.

Is there a specific subject that you love to talk about, often to the point that your friends want to shoot you? Consider the subject, perhaps it may be one of your hidden talents or is connected to one.

Just ask.

Ask everyone you know that will give you an honest assessment about what they think your talents are. Ask them to ignore your bad habits and have them share the one or two things that they think you are hands down most talented at. Ask a lot of people who know you, but always ask them one-on-one. Compile the results and there is your hidden talent.

Key Components

When you know what your talents are, you feel more in tune with your life. You can also use those talents to excel in the business world. Whether you leverage those talents in your product or service, or you use them to network and make quality connections, they are important to know. When you capitalize on your talents, it no longer feels like work, it just feels like living. And anything that makes business and life more enjoyable is bound to

A Must Read For Ladies:- Worst Mistakes Women Make With Men

Let’s face it, who would not want to have a simple guide to help them create the ideal relationship with their partner?

When it comes to starting a relationship, there are certain mistakes that most women commit thinking they are doing the right thing, when in reality it is the opposite. Here are some of the worst mistakes women make with men:

Being an open book: This is probably the worst mistake, a little mystery is a good way to make a man’s interest lasts.

Women should not stop sharing their feelings with the man they love but, you should have a little (or a lot) moderation and don’t share all your history immediately;

nothing wrong with being interested in a man, but if you are very obvious, it is not only distasteful but also makes the man to loses interest quickly.

The mystery creates a lot of excitement for a man during the initial phase of a relationship.

Overexertion: Naturally, to get something you want, you have to work hard but in the case of men, it is the opposite.

This is because men are illogical and tend to lose interest in something that is very easy; even worse, instead of feeling comfortable and happy with the relationship, they can feel you pretend every movement and do not to see the effort.

Trying too hard is one of the worst mistakes women make with men, this behaviour sends the signal that you are not good enough for him and this will only make him lose interest.

Allowing a man to take advantage: Men love challenges and love to chase something or someone who can not have, finally getting the person is the most rewarding part for them.

Giving him the advantage is like giving him permission to take you for granted and the common result is that he’ll stay away.

Saying “Yes” to everything: Most women are attracted to alpha males, it is men who like to give orders, master and tell people what to do.

Although this is $exy for most women, you should not give in to everything he wants because allowing him to dominate all the time makes that most men get bored and lose interest.

If you say “Yes” to everything, he moves to the next conquest after getting tired of you so you should set limits and learn to say “No” from time to time.

The Reason Basketball Is A Important Aspect Of My Life

PASSION

For starters, It’s something I love to do and makes me happy at the same time. Ever since I seen Allen Iverson cross Tyronn Lue, I was hooked. I watched Basketball for 20 years now and it’s been awesome to say the least.  My Dream was and still is to be a NBA Player.  It’s been my childhood dream and when I make it,  I will make a difference in My Family’s life and people around the world.  I want to use my platform to influence and inspire someone as well. I’m not afraid to say it, but I love basketball.

You know how people say” if you don’t know your future career plans, you better find out”, I already know my career and how to use in a manner to benefit others. To be honest, when I make it to the professional level( I will try to update you guys about the process) I will literally burst into tears because the journey was difficult, Nerve-Wrecking and faced with adversity throughout the way.  All the people who told me I couldn’t, wouldn’t or won’t, my family who supported all the way including my mom who always believes in my dreams, lastly to my friends or fans who had nothing but support and unconditional love for me.

I did it, and I did for y’all , never forget that.  I strictly promise to give back to my community, and never forget those who was by your side when others wasn’t. #IPromise  #Neverforget  #Ballislife  #FutureNBAPlayer  #MotivationalSpeakerinthemaking

 

Submitted by Javier sarmiento

Believe In Your Self

     When I was growing up, people used to tease me about the fact that I am not having some certain possessions like other people. Sometimes when I am having a task to do,some of my friends would tease me and just underestimate me and that gave me a crushed heart. So as I kept learning from life’s experiences, one thing that kept pushing me forward was the term “BELIEVE IN YOURSELF”. It worked for me and now I learn from great people in my life and it is still working for me. So no matter the situation you are going through, just believe in what you can do, and it will miraculously work for you.

 

Submitted by Emmanuella N. Williams