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                              COURAGE AND FEAR What exactly is courage? What exactly is fear? I'm going to define them using the Merriam Webster dictionary. Courage is the mental or moral strength to venture, persevere and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by being aware of danger. Anxiety and loss of Courage.   Fear is an emotion, Courage is merely Toughening your mind to face your fear. This is just basic psychology I will explain fear in bits so we can know how to tackle it and actually toughen our mind against it and be courageous. The fact that you feel fear doesn't make you a coward, it means you're human even the bravest of men feel it. But when you let fear grip you to the point that it clouds your intellectual thinking process, you have lost that battle. PHAS...

                                  GOAL SETTING The topic for today is goal setting Truth be Said, we all have dreams and aspirations. The idea of having a yearly resolution even if we won't be faithful to it is not strange! The question really is how do we set a workable goal   Before I continue, am sure there people who set New Year goals here?   Thank God I had goals too, So, another question, please answer individually too, how many of those goals did you plan to achieve by this time of the year? And how many have you really achieved?? On a scale of 1-10, just give me a number that you would give yourself in achieving your goal, oya!   At least, today is long enough! First, we really need to know what a goal is. A goal is *The end towards which efforts are directed! That spe...

       Failure, another stepping stone. In all truisms, if one has never failed, it could only mean one has never tried something new. I would rather try and fail, than later, when I no longer can, wish I did. The topic of discourse is;      FAILURE ANOTHER STEPPING STONE I pray my ideas make sense to you and strikes an impact.                      what is Failure? The word failure is perhaps one of the first words we understood the meaning through our parents. The following statements resonates, “Study well, so you don't fail.” “If you fail, you will be punished” . MY CHILD, YOU SHALL NOT FAIL (in our mother's voice). In kick-starting the conversation , I will like to dwell more on what failure is not. But before we proceed, lets have few definition of failure.       ...

              MANAGING YOUR EMOTIONS Before we state and discuss how we can manage or emotion, let's start by shedding light on some things   Define emotion?   Emotion is any strong feeling. .( Love, fear, anger, compassion etc). It is a feeling all human exhibit at different proportions. All human exhibit emotions... ”Even Thanos cried out of love” what differentiate a man from another is what we do whenever any of these emotion is in play... There are people who have made deadly mistakes because of love... Love also doesn't always give birth to the best. Anger had also pushed some people into making positive life changing decisions So, anger isn't all bad........ Now, lastly, before talking about managing. . Let's talk about being emotional... Being emotional means acting out of emotion and not reason   This definition has two sides too... But we must not be slaves to i...