a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
There is beauty in almost everything around us. Beauty in everyday mundane things.
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A good number of us tend to search for all the excuses under the Sun to justify why we failed in something and to credit other peoples success with so many favourable conditions, which they supposedly didn’t earn.
That’s telling one’s self a lie, which is like eating comfort food to feel better about something.
Where there is a will, in there lies your way. Find it.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Except your blog is a hot house plant,
That needs to be kept indoors
Pampered and molly-coddled
Then you can remain hidden in the dark
However, if you want to be a hardy planted blog
You need to get out into the sunny side
Of meeting others
So that you don’t
Suffer stunted growth.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
*******An opportunity presents itself through this party link. It’s hopping in here.
Jump right into the fray. You are welcome.
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Need I say more?
Our wishful thoughts on the things that we hope for, will only remain buried, wishful and wasted unless we begin to act on them.
The fear of failure is the greatest failure in itself. Be afraid, but do it!
You just might surprise yourself.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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A saying in my place goes, ‘that success refuses to go to the house of those who fail to appreciate the success of others around them, because success feels that when she arrives, you will equally fail to appreciate her presence.’
Positive energy attracts positive things, we should therefore always try to appreciate the humble beginnings while we plan and wait for the bigger ones.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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Nature teaches us a lot of lessons if we open our eyes to see them and learn.
One of the reasons that I enjoy my little walkies as often as I can fit it in, is that I am always rewarded by stumbling on glimpses of the simple things that inspires my mind and gets me thinking.
My family have grown used to my two steps forward, two steps halt or back and a pause to assimilate something.
These little things are the best things in life and they are totally free. They bring me so much contentment and stimulation.
I took a not so brisk walk off my usual route and this scene of two pigeons trying to pick at crumbs which were scattered on the road caused me to pause, find a leaning spot and watch.
Why was it interesting? It interested me because they both courted danger with cars moving around them. Of course they could easily fly off if a car got too close and one of them did run off when the heat got too much.
The determined one doggedly kept darting back to the pecking spot at every given opportunity , vigorously filling itself while the scared one stood by the sidewalk cooing.
I think I spent a good five minutes or more observing this antics and taking a few photos.
As I watched them, I had several thoughts running in my mind and some of the lessons I learnt and I will write them in quotes are:
‘A little more effort and a little more persisting, that which seemed like it was a hopeless case, might actually become an opportunity for a resounding success.’
‘We should not give up on our quest at the very first sight of a barrier.’
And the last quote from William Eardley IV came to my mind:
‘That ambition is the path to success and persistence is the vehicle that you arrive in.’
One bird ran off, the other stood his ground and was well rewarded.
I want to thank Amra and Spiritual Journey for inviting me to take part in the quotes challenge and I would like to extend the invitation to these three bloggers:
These are the rules:
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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This is self-explanatory isn’t it?
The more you hold on to hope, no matter how tiny, the more it brims over.
Don’t allow the voice of pessimism drag you down and as much as possible, don’t engage in feeding yourself with all the negative back talk nor absorb other people’s negative diatribes.
It’s their opinion and it doesn’t have to be yours.
Remember that there is power in the tongue and the words you speak into your life, embeds in your mind. If therefore you keep speaking negative words, that negativity squashes any seed of hope planted in you.
Hold on to your hope. In everything!
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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The ups and downs of life are guaranteed. It’s full of uncertainties and can never be perfect.
However, how we handle these uncertainties that life throws at us is what perfects our moments.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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When we sow little seeds of good, we have no idea the depth of roots that we plant.
We can actually retrain the battle fields of our minds to think the way that we want it to.
It’s never too late to try to get it right. Except the person reading this post is no longer on this side of the great divide.
Happiness is truly at home with you. It lives and breaths within you and not in someone else’s abode.
Sometimes, in the bid to hide so many secrets, we bury ourselves alive and forget to live.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Noirfifre’s beautiful message is an advise that would suit a lot of people.
Stella’s simple, beautiful thoughts can take us very far.
Oba’s inspiring post on paying it forward speaks for itself.
I would encourage you to take a quick peek at these thoughts. Maybe, they mirror yours.
So, when can we get a sneak peek at yours?
My regards,
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
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