Salisu Umar - My Blog

From birth we tend to be controlled by parents. They feed and generally take care of us and most of all they try to determine our future – ‘no you won’t study the theatre arts, you shall study law’ – is something common to hear some parents say to their kids. But what right do the parents have to choose a career path for kids? The best they should do is guide, NOT choose.
If I say I want to make a career out of football, they can only guide, counsel and put me in a football school where I can get a combined knowledge of education and football, anything outside that is an encroachment and most definitely going overboard.
I don’t need me an accounting parent telling me to study medicine over something I have so much passion for, if they so much love law as to want their ward to study it, why didn’t they study medicine themselves? We should stand up to them and say no I don’t want what you want, I want what I want. Tempers may flare, emotions may rise and all but hey it’s my life and I know my personal SWOT, no one knows this for me.
After all, they have lived their life with little or no interference, I expect them to mind their business while I mind mine.

FEAR – MAN’S GREATEST ENEMY
Can we ascribe man’s greatest drawback to be fear?
I certainly will. Let’s take Robert Greene’s books for instance. I have all three books and I must say they are perfect even though some people criticize me for having them. One thing is certain, there are some strategies we as a people may find difficult to take action due to one factor: FEAR.
Fear makes me not want to trust my enemies over friends, fear makes me not want to crush the enemy totally, and the list is endless. We fear because we do not know the outcome of our actions. As we can’t predict what may happen in the next second, why don we just face our fears and do what we have to do anyway. It is my belief that procrastination derives its roots from fear. If I fear something, I’ll procrastinate till I can’t do it. That’s just it. But if I can take control of my fears, procrastination will be a thing of the past.
Overcoming fear is the key to great things in life for everybody.
Once you overcome fear, the fear to begin to implement strategies, or even the fear to overcome fear, you are on your way to where your heart desires.
It could be fear of failure, fear of the unknown, fear of criticism, any fear at all. Man can never make head way with fear in his heart.
One method I can recommend we use in overcoming fear is by following Napoleon and Clements advice in their book “success through a positive mental attitude”. PMA
“When you are about doing something and fear creeps in to dissuade you, all you need to do is to invoke that self motivator “DO IT NOW”. You’ll be surprised at how many times you would have conquered fear by just invoking that word “DO IT NOW”.
Try it, you’ll see

3 PRICELESS PRINCIPLES OF OUR TIME
I’ll like to introduce 3 priceless principles of life which when utilized guarantees you enormous success in endeavors.
Success as we know come in different forms and formats. We can say we have a successful marriage, career, even successful studies. But can you have success without proper planning? CAPITAL NO!!!
Based on this and haven read books, seen happenings around and other personal experiences, I derived 3 timeless principles used by many a great number of people (either consciously or unconsciously) and which really is going to work for anybody who uses them properly.
Have No Fear
Take That 1st Step
Stay Focused
I. Have No Fear – the fear factor, man’s greatest enemy, the only limiting factor man has.
Any time we come across one great idea or more, we are bedeviled or discouraged by our right hand man; FEAR who pops out and gives 1001 reasons why that brilliant idea is a waste of intellect. Or there are times when we have to do something and then that same man comes up and says ‘hey leave that for tomorrow, not now’.
Some will say that’s procrastination but believe me procrastination majorly arises out of fear, conquer fear and you see that procrastination flees you lie a mouse fleeing a hawk.
So I say No. 1- Have No Fear. You want to carry out a task? Do what Clement and Napoleon n their book “Success through a Positive Mental Attitude” PMA said “DO IT NOW” book “success through a positive mental attitude” PMA
Doing it there and then means you have conquered fear.
II.Take That First Step – Now conquering fear will make you move that baby foot of yours. Like it is said; ‘the journey of a thousand, miles begins with a step’. Take that first step.
The magic in taking the first step is that after that, thousands of giant steps follow because that first step has shown you that there is nothing to fear.
III. Stay Focused – Stay focused and never look back. You want to start a business, have no fear that it’ll fail, take that first step then stay focused on the goal you set for yourself.
In everything you do in life, detractors are ever ready to bring you down, to distract you. By staying focused, you eliminate all forms of distraction; you put the enemies under check

3 PRICELESS PRINCIPLES OF OUR TIME
Translated into French by: el'supremo
3 PRICELESS PRINCIPLES OF OUR TIME
I’ll like to introduce 3 priceless principles of life which when utilized guarantees you enormous success in endeavors.
Success as we know come in different forms and formats. We can say we have a successful marriage, career, even successful studies. But can you have success without proper planning? CAPITAL NO!!!
Based on this and haven read books, seen happenings around and other personal experiences, I derived 3 timeless principles used by many a great number of people (either consciously or unconsciously) and which really is going to work for anybody who uses them properly.
Have No Fear
Take That 1st Step
Stay Focused
I. Have No Fear – the fear factor, man’s greatest enemy, the only limiting factor man has.
Any time we come across one great idea or more, we are bedeviled or discouraged by our right hand man; FEAR who pops out and gives 1001 reasons why that brilliant idea is a waste of intellect. Or there are times when we have to do something and then that same man comes up and says ‘hey leave that for tomorrow, not now’.
Some will say that’s procrastination but believe me procrastination majorly arises out of fear, conquer fear and you see that procrastination flees you lie a mouse fleeing a hawk.
So I say No. 1- Have No Fear. You want to carry out a task? Do what Clement and Napoleon n their book “Success through a Positive Mental Attitude” PMA said “DO IT NOW” book “success through a positive mental attitude” PMA
Doing it there and then means you have conquered fear.
II.Take That First Step – Now conquering fear will make you move that baby foot of yours. Like it is said; ‘the journey of a thousand, miles begins with a step’. Take that first step.
The magic in taking the first step is that after that, thousands of giant steps follow because that first step has shown you that there is nothing to fear.
III. Stay Focused – Stay focused and never look back. You want to start a business, have no fear that it’ll fail, take that first step then stay focused on the goal you set for yourself.
In everything you do in life, detractors are ever ready to bring you down, to distract you. By staying focused, you eliminate all forms of distraction; you put the enemies under check