Author: jacquelineobyikocha

A wordsmith with a vivid imagination, an eager mind and a burning desire to carve out tales. As I journey with my muse to that land of all possibilities and self discovery, I hope my personal evolution will serve as a beacon of inspiration for anyone who chooses to stop by.
Positive Affirmation Challenge

What About You? Affirmation Challenge Day 32

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I am free. Free from the bondage of unforgiveness and self-blame.

It has taken me a long walk of bondage to get to this freedom in the state of my being and believe me, I never want to go back to where I was coming from.

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Positive Affirmation Challenge

What About You? Positive Affirmation Day 31

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I am favoured. The Universe continually draws me to the right kind of people.

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I Totally Enjoyed Reading These Quotes From Yesterday:

Susieshy45 ” Remember that no one kicks a dead dog”.

About a century ago, the Prince of Wales( the future Edward VIII) attended the Dartmouth College in Devonshire. He was about 14 years of age. One day one of his teachers found him crying and asked him what was wrong. He refused to tell at first, but finally admittend that he was kicked by the naval officers, his classmates and others. The Commodore of the college summoned the boys and explained to them that the Prince had not complained but he wanted to find out why the Prince had bee singled out for the kicking.
After much humming, hawing and toe scraping, the cadets finally confessed that when they themselves became commanders and captains in the King’s Navy, they wanted to be able to say, they had once kicked the King!
– Dale Carnegie- ” How to enjoy your life and your job”.

Eugenia “A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.”-Serena Williams

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Positive Affirmation Challenge

What About You? Affirmation Challenge Day 30

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I am equipped with everything that I need to live this life fully and richly. I am here at the right time and fully involved in this lifetime process.

How much d’ya wanna bet the person who pinned this is like 22...

I Love This Comment From Yesterday:

CupCakeCache Trying to keep it simple is a good idea!

DancingPalmTrees:  I have dreams, hopes and goals but I gave up the outlandish fantasy expectations long ago. Yes I want to take my art and photography further but life is not a competition.
When opportunities arise I take advantage of them.

Whatever is meant to be will be. I don’t have grandiose out of reach expectations. I enjoy creating my artwork and photography for the pure joy of it. That way I stay happy and at peace with myself.

P.S. If you wish to join this positive affirmation challenge running for 90 days, please add your quote to the comments and each day, I’ll share everyone’s quote with their links.

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Stream of Consciousness Saturday.

Remember to Breathe…Stream of Consciousness Saturday

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Life has taught me that being of good cheer is a value not outwardly acquired, but one that is fostered from within. Why do I say this? Because day by day the vicissitudes of life seeks to weigh us down.

It takes resilience and constant mind-over-matter not to get submerged under the flood of misery and bad news which seems to prevail these days.

It takes uncommon grace to build an oasis of peace within you and to keep your chin up even when life batters you.

It takes wisdom to know that each day lived in misery is a day lost to misery and we must find moments of cheer in every given day no matter what.

These moments of cheer could be as little and as simple as finding solace in a quiet moment, a power nap, a smile, deep meditative breathing, regular reminders of gratitude, a glass of milk, sharing a hug…

On the other hand, school is out for Summer and the kids are ecstatic. I have mixed feelings ha, ha. I love that there is no school and we all get to unwind a bit, but I know that in a couple of days after mindless hours spent on games and what not, they will start singing the ‘I am bored song.’

I’ve got to put on my mama cheerleader cap on and think of cheap and cheerful ways to keep them positively and gainfully occupied without having to rob a bank.

With each passing school year, I watch my young ones’ gallop through their classes, growing older and inching day by day to the time they have to leave for college and fly the coop.

Gulp! The thought leaves butterflies of apprehension in the pit of my stomach. I hope that I’m equipping my chicks well enough to survive life’s onslaught out there without mama dogging every footstep that they take? Only tomorrow will tell.

For now, let’s enjoy every bit of our simmering Summer with copious sips of cold, freshly squeezed orange juice or watermelon. Cheers.

Jacqueline

Stream of Consciousness Saturday – Cheers

Poetry/Poems · Social critic

Rivers Of Blood…

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Rivers of pain

swim deep in her eyes

each droplet of tear

a raw testimony of anguish

that words fail to capture.

 

Rivers of blood

flow down her tributaries

for every slain soul

a Country torn with genocide

bloodletting too much to comprehend

 

Mountains of prayers

offered up

Chineke, Kabiyesi, Jehovah

forgive us

Mercy we seek, solace we plead.

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Jacqueline

My home Country Nigeria groans in pain under poor leadership. When evil men occupy spaces where they shouldn’t, strife and anarchy reign supreme. The sufferings and gnashing of teeth of Nigerian indigenes keeps multiplying by the day due to the recycling of avaricious, deeply corrupt, mean-spirited and small-minded old politicians. I pray for the revival of my Nation. I pray for a revolution and restoration.

 

 

 

Positive Affirmation Challenge

What About You? Affirmation Challenge Day 29

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I am happily dreaming big dreams, working hard and attracting the right resources to help me bring them to fruition. I am worthy and every day I choose to believe this.

I Love This Comment From Yesterday:

Elihu: What a great reminder for today! I can’t tell you how discouraged I’ve been lately. I’ve wanted to throw in the towel on so many of my pursuits, but I know I need to stay the course. God isn’t finished yet!

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Featured Blogs

Posts That Caught My Interest

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Make Your Dash Matter Thought-provoking, insightful post and worth reading.Image result for images of sharing

Feel More Grateful Every Single Day Here’s a little list of ways we can fight our brains and bring gratitude to the foreground of our minds and lives.

Let’s Keep It Simple Most times we complicate our lives by making trivial things important.

Why Your Greatest Asset Is To Embrace Change

The Breathing Air  I enjoyed this.

Comments are closed to encourage you to visit the featured posts.

 

 

Positive Affirmation Challenge

What About You? Affirmation Challenge Day 28

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I am confident of this. That HE who began the good work in me is faithful to the end.

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These are awesome quotes:

Mandibelle “There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end, they are all uniquely different.” – Piper Payne

 

Susieshy45 Matthew 6 “25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?”

I was worrying about my graduate degree and what I will do with it and how famous I would become after it. How stupid. I understood that the Lord needs me to live in the present and not some hypothetical distant future.
Susie

Eugenia Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Bette A Stevens “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead

Canadian Teacher Way back someone once wrote me a short quote that I often remember too late. I rush through places and things because I want to do something else or be with someone at the end of my travels – missing the things along the way. Getting to my destination and usually wondering why didn’t I stop and enjoy things along the way? I think I should write the quote and post it in my car. The quote is “Be where you are at.” I’m trying to.

P.S. If you wish to join this positive affirmation challenge running for 90 days, please add your quote to the comments and each day, I’ll share everyone’s quote with their links.

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Positive Affirmation Challenge

What About You? Affirmation Challenge Day 27

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I am thankful for the blessings of this day. I am grateful for a secure place to lay my head and rest, surrounded by my loving family. Indeed, I am richly blessed.

Many of us take the basic comforts of life for granted. There are countless people who are displaced with no safe place to call home.

These are awesome quotes:

Bernadette

I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
‘Cause I’ve heard it all before
And I’ve been down there on the floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again.

-Helen Reddy

 

Eugenia

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
― Maya Angelou

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Blogging

Give Your Blogging Business That Professional Look

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To successfully make money with your blogging business, you need to ensure that it does look the part. Often, this means that you need to go out of your way to ensure it is as professional as you would hope. If it is not quite there in this respect, it is much less likely that people will really admire or respect it, and that will only result in fewer customers and less income. Fortunately, it is not too difficult to ensure that your blogging business looks the part, and as long as you take care of the following elements you should be able to improve its professionalism greatly.

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Make It Look Bigger

In some respects, it can be helpful to make your blogging business appear as more than it is. This can be done in many ways, and it is a matter of thinking about what a larger business looks like, how it appears and making sure that your home business follows suit. To achieve this, you might want to begin with the way that customer get in touch with you. They can immediately tell if it is a much more humble business if you have a normal home email address and are using a home address for the post. Instead, you could make use of a cheap mailbox forwarding service to give your company a little more credibility, and you can make sure to sign up for an email address attached to your own domain. It doesn’t cost much to do, and yet it can make a significant difference.

Spruce Up The Site

Clearly, a blogging business’ most important asset of all is the website itself, so working on this is a great way of ensuring that you are keeping things running well. Regarding giving your business a professional look, you can easily achieve this just by ensuring that your website is exactly what you would expect a professional site to be and to look like. You can spruce up your site by using a service like Wix, or if you are happy to spend a little cash you could hire a professional web developer to do it for you. However it’s done, this will certainly ensure that your business appears much more professional as a result.

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Act Professionally

Ultimately, the best way to make your business appear professional is to approach everything that you do professionally. What this entails is up for debate, and it varies from company to company and individual to individual. But as long as you act professionally, you can be certain that at least some of this will carry over into how your business looks, and you will end up looking professional as well. Remember that, and don’t be tempted to lull yourself into an unprofessional approach at any time. You will find that doing this makes an enormous difference to how well your business is received.

The above three examples are all great ways to give your business a little more professionalism in appearance, and it’s worth considering them all.

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