My Thinking Corner…

July 11, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha8 Comments

You truly can’t afford the cost of staying at the bottom. That space is overcrowded. Crawl, climb, jump, keep moving in any way that you can, but just get out of there.

The problem with staying stuck at the bottom of the barrel is that there are far too many enablers who are willing to keep you company and even provide some background music to your whining.

If you want to change your direction and growth, you have to lead yourself out of that confined space. It may mean losing your backup singers but know that the orchestra sounds better the higher you go.

Saying that our destiny lies in our hands may be clichéd but nonetheless true.

Lots of times, the odds would be stacked heavily against us at the bottom, however, we mustn’t keep our eyes on the stumbling blocks in our path, but on our aspired destination and keep pushing.

An inspiring post ‘subscribe to your successful self’ from Lady Cee is a great read that buttresses these points.

Jacqueline

Today

Today…

July 5, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha3 Comments

Just Go! You’ve got this.

My Thinking Corner

My Thinking Corner… Your Standards

July 4, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha8 Comments

When we lower our standards to trash, we simply succeed in putting ourselves in the trash can. Stand tall

It’s amazing how many people go through life without any personal standards or with standards as fickle as the wind.

They never know where they stand at each point in life and a life of anything goes is what it is…anything goes, that way they don’t even know when nothing is going.

When you keep lowering your standards, you keep going downhill but when you raise them you rise with them.

Be mindful of accepting every nonsense dished out there because of the fear of being politically incorrect or being labeled as a hater.

Not everyone will meet your standards neither will you meet everyone’s standard and that’s absolutely fine.

Today

Today…

July 4, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha6 Comments

Today, I am going to do something that tomorrow will thank me for.

Have a great day today.

Today

Today…

July 3, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha13 Comments

I have learnt that fretting over things that I have no control over is energy expended for nothing. Jacqueline

Have a good day today.

My Thinking Corner

My Thinking Corner…

June 28, 2017June 28, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha11 Comments

Life offers us two choices, to sit and laugh with it or to sit and be the butt of its jokes. Jacqueline

One characteristic that I would recommend for anyone to cultivate is a decent sense of humour and I am not referring to the surge in finding fun in sick, derogatory and hurtful jokes made at the expense of others.

I talk about learning to laugh at yourself and the things that life toss at you.

From personal experience, I know how easy it is to get caught up in bitterness at the hard punches thrown at you, and how we could find ourselves walking the path of unforgiveness without even knowing that we are doing so.

Like a revolving door, holding on to the door of bitterness and unforgiveness only keeps you going round in circles and often times, it might hit you in the face or the back side.

A daily example that comes easily to mind is my husband’s idiosyncratic attitudes that used to drive me up the wall. As long as I kept my eyes’ on them, they simply became more magnified and drowned out other sides that were far better.

It took the conscious effort of cultivating an attitude of changing my perspective and searching for reasons to laugh over it and not stew in annoyance – it took me years of sweating the small stuff – I found very good reasons not to throw shoes at him 😉

Jacqueline

Midnight motivation and musings

Midnight Musings and Motivations

June 22, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha8 Comments

For sure, achieving success is glamorous but remember that its road is neither shiny nor paved in a hurry.

The want to succeed is often expressed and held in the heart of many, but the need to succeed is expressed by few.

We are all free to want, but our zeal to succeed must be fueled by our driving need. Remember that a need is something that is vital for your survival (such as food and shelter), whereas your want is simply something that you would like to have.

Success takes the whole nine yards and more. Always ask yourself, why do I need to succeed in this? Is it vital to my well-being?

Will failure in this pursuit be detrimental to you or is your wish to do this just one of the notches to add to your list of achievements?

Holding on to that hungry need serves to drive you, that even when you fall down today, you’ll get up tomorrow and keep going.

Midnight motivation and musings

Midnight Motivation and Musings – A Mouthful of Food

June 14, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha12 Comments

No one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth.

As I sat in a reflective mode of the things that I need to do, this old adage that my dad used to say sprouted in my mind and it was just as if I heard him repeat ‘no one gets a mouthful of food by picking between another person’s teeth.’

We sit and plan for things that we would do in future and sometimes from afar, we look at those who are doing things that we hope to do and the time just keeps ticking by.

We can learn from others, but when we don’t put our learnings and experience to use, it becomes a futile effort.

Someone could take crumbs from their table and give to another, but it would still remain crumbs that are given when the other person is inclined to do so.

Featured Blogs

Posts That Caught My Interest – 2

May 26, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha2 Comments

I recognize that a lot of bloggers – except few – bother to follow a link to read reblogs and now and again, I stumble on posts that I find myself nodding along in agreement as I read them and wish to share.

I offer these few. I found sense, laughter, reflection and inspiration. Do take a peek. I am disabling the comment button to encourage you to visit the blog sites.

Healing properties of lemon

From homeless to Harvard graduate

Time for us all to bloom

Forgetting to be grateful

Crippling effect of poverty

Thank you for stopping by and do have a great weekend.

Jacqueline

Midnight motivation and musings

If We Wait, We Die Waiting – Midnight Motivation and Musings

May 8, 2017 jacquelineobyikocha4 Comments

It’s commonly said that when you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Living a successful life that you want requires conscientious steps to building the life that you want and like every builder worth his salt, you need your master blueprint to serve as your compass in your journey through living that successful life that you seek.

Your blueprint will make you more productive, progressive, inspired and fulfilled.

How to create your blueprint and what it does for you. Connect with me on my Vlog let’s talk.