a cooking pot and twisted tales
Thoughts and Tales…A Lifestyle Blog with a Zing.
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.
From homeless to Harvard graduate
Thank you for stopping by and do have a great weekend.
Jacqueline
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.
Each day out of 365 days you are given an opportunity of a lifetime to live purposefully – Jacqueline
Sometimes we flounder because we don’t know which path to follow in our lives or because the path we’ve chosen seems to be going nowhere, but the pure truth is that the answers to the path we seek are there inside us.
All we need to do, is to scratch beneath the surface, to listen to our heart with keen ears in order to hear with clarity. Sometimes, we have to cover our eye’s to see through the window of our soul.
Lady Cee shares a nugget that tugs on my mind ‘from slavery to celebrity.’ The message I received from this post is that God is not interested in your background, gender, wealth or whatever before he can use you as a vessel.
Please check this short post out, you might receive a nugget too.
The singular reason why some people succeed in life while others fail is found in their discipline. Identify the primary cause that stops you from gaining the success that you seek. It is commonly said that knowledge is power and when you know better you do better. When you identify the cause of your failure, you are empowered to find sustainable solutions to achieve success.
If you are in search of ways to be the best you that are meant to be, to increase your productivity, live the life of your dreams, reach for your greatness and abundance, this is a space that you can visit anytime to get realistic, step by step tools on how to gain control of your life and to achieve your aspirations.
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Row, row, row your boat
gently down the stream,
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
life is but a dream.
Humming this childhood nursery rhymes made me think beyond the words of the rhyme in a way that I had never thought of.
Life is certainly a dream and your dream is what you make of it.
When you wake up to life, life will surely wake up to you.
Staring at that boat – called life, with your hands in your pocket won’t get it across the seashore; you’ve got to start to row the boat of your life diligently.
Grab your oars.
Jacqueline
Quit carrying that baggage of guilt
it ain’t gonna buy you redemption.
Quit holding on to other people’s criticism
they have their own issues to deal with and ain’t perfect themselves.
Quit seeing yourself as not enough
nobody else can be you or as enough as you
Quit comparing yourself to others
your goal is to compete with yourself and be better than you were yesterday.
Quit bemoaning what yesterday could have been, it’s gone!
Look up to today and make it the damn best that you can.
Quit worrying about the future
when you are not done with admiring the present.
Quit holding on to your expectation of others,
it doesn’t belong to you and letting go will bring you peace.
Remember that though we are in this life together, your track belongs solely to you.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Most times where we are is not where we belong and to get to where we need to be, we must restrategize and keep pushing.
Sometimes life if like playing a game of chess. You must not rest on your laurels and take your opponent for granted. You can’t afford to tip your King before the battle is over because life continues till the last moment.
Your opponent in your life could be your complacent approach to life. It could be a bag of mixed factors that only you can identify and deal with in accordance with your aspirations.
You’ve got to keep holding on and nudging up to where you belong. You’ve got to take those adventures in life to truly find your sweet spot.
Jacqueline
How much are you desirous of change and success? It lies in your transformation.
To exist is easy. So many are doing that already. What is far more challenging is to live. Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
To live means to experience life and to truly experience life, you have to open all the windows to your soul.
The gift of the senses is given to us to maximise this opportunity. Stop and admire the flowers and your surroundings, listen to the buzz of life around you, see others with different eyes’, listen to hear and not just to reply, touch – embrace not just the familiar, taste something new, be adventurous, inhale deeply and identify the various smell.
Don’t just go through the motion of getting through the day. Open up your mind and live. Take an active role in your own development. Take advantage of your own potentials and uniqueness. Keep reaching for richer, deeper, life-changing experiences.
Your life is a story that only you’ve lived to tell. Write it like no one else could.
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Thank you 🙂
Jacqueline
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