The journey of Change and Growth

Let me take you back a bit to the book of Genesis, creation in particular. Genesis 1:2. ESV 'The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.' That's a bit of a disorder now isn't it. So God goes ahead and brings some bit of order to things. From there on he commands each of the elements of creation to bring forth what is buried within them, the land the sea and the firmament. God carefully managed and brought order to earth before he could create man, the crown of his creation, his best. Stay with me. God is a God of order. Now I don't know if you believe in God or not and I don't mean to compel you to do so neither do I mean to preach. But there is something very profound about the nature of God and how he works that a lot of 'Christians' seldom talk about. Management and order. Let me throw another verse at you, Luke 16:10 says, "The person who is trus...

Let's be honest, when was the last time you read something? Anything. Besides perhaps a small portion of my blog article yesterday or the day before that. See, there is something very profound about reading, which seems to be a culture that has quickly escaped us as people, leaving us in void and darkness. Mhm... void and darkness reminds me of one of the powerful videos of Dr. Myles Munroe, who's one of the greatest "Men of God," according to me at least. Check out some of his work on Munroe Global, you will agree with me to some extent. This is what Dr. Myles says about Genesis 1:2: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." He says the word "darkness" there, according to the original Hebrew word, translates to ignorance. Hence, it's not darkness in the absence of light you get from the sun or the moon. Instead, it's darkness in the absence of knowledge and wisdom. And so, God said, "Let t...

  So I was talking to my friend about death just a few minutes ago. PS I haven't slept since my last blog, so my friends and I decided today that since it's payday, we should just go out and drink. So drank we did, and here we are now talking about death. The whole argument is about: would you rather know that you are dying, say your goodbyes, and then let go, allow your spirit to leave your soul or your soul to leave your spirit, I mean, whichever leaves? Or would you rather just have sudden death, with dreams and hopes, no sorries, no goodbyes? Look, let's not lose focus on the big picture here while paying attention to things that don’t matter. There is absolutely no real reason why you should feel guilty or empty for having a sudden death. Steve Jobs said in one of his speeches at Stanford Commencement, "If you live your day as if it were the last, one day you will most certainly be right." See, what most people don’t really understand is that death is certain...

Just show up. Sounds simple, right? Yet somehow, it’s the hardest thing to do. Ever notice how your brain is a certified liar? Like, it convinces you that if you’re not doing something grand, earth-shattering, or Instagram-worthy, then what’s the point? Lies. Absolute lies. So you work out for a week and yo still don't look anything close to Dwayne Johnson and so you stop. You start a business it operates for a whole TWO months but it's still not performing at the level of Amazon so you call it quits.  But here’s the truth: it doesn’t matter if you’re doing it small, messy, or even badly. What matters is that you do it at all. Meh...well hear me out. Zechariah 4:10, says, "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin." (NLT). You hear that? REJOICES. Not judges. Not rolls His divine eyes. He celebrates the act of starting. Not even starting BIG, but specifically small beginnings.  Here’s the thing, even Moses had stage fright befo...

You know exactly what I’m talking about. One day you’re firing on all cylinders, a creative genius, a productivity machine, a force to be reckoned with! And the next? You’re sitting on your bed staring at your phone, watching reels of cats playing the piano, wondering if you should just call it a day at 10:30 AM. (Don’t lie. We’ve all been there.) So, what happened? Where did that energy, that drive, that spark go? And more importantly, how do you get it back? The 1st Law of Motion Sir Isaac Newton, that apple-dodging physicist, once said, “An object in motion stays in motion.” Great for physics, terrible for when you feel like a lifeless blob that hasn’t moved in hours. Because guess what? The opposite is also true. An object at rest tends to stay at rest. In other words, the longer you sit in that slump, the harder it is to pull yourself out of it. Science says so. Now, before you sigh dramatically and resign yourself to a lifetime of low energy and unfinished dreams, let’s talk abou...

I want to talk about a very disturbing topic today, one that no one really talks about. Not because it's not important or significant, neither the fact that it only applies to a few and not to many, no. It's because in its very nature death is quite uncomfortable to talk about. Not unless there is a funeral or even in the event where a loved one is remembered. Rarely do we talk about death in application to self. Yet in all of that we will die, all of us, eventually. At a glimpse that is very scary isn't it, no one wants that to happen to them but well it will happen to us, everyone you and me, all of us. And so there is a story of a young man in Baghdad who met death in the marketplace. Out of terror he ran to Samari hoping to escape death, little did he know that later that evening death had long set an appointment with him in Samari. We all have an appointment with the man death. The fact that we haven't been sent a Microsoft Teams Link makes us believe that appointm...

After 33 long working days of waking up at 3:30, and well, at 3:00 in the past week, today I woke up at 6:45. Well, I was woken up. And I don't feel okay. At this time, I should have done about 25% of the tasks on my daily schedule, and I'm just starting with the blog at this hour. I don't even know what to write about, seeing as I am now under a lot of pressure, and time is really not on my side. I feel like somehow I have failed something or someone, as if everyone in the world knows that today I defected. I derailed from my daily routine, and this today is a setback. But wait, enough about me; let's talk about setbacks. Don't we all experience such? How best do we deal with them? Do we just throw in the towel and label ourselves as failures after a couple of setbacks? (Deep sigh.) Okay, let's get real. Life is a bit like a rollercoaster, isn't it? Full of ups and downs, twists and turns, moments of sheer exhilaration and moments where you just want to ...

Alright people, let's have a little chat about social media, shall we? That wonderful, horrible, time-sucking vortex that has somehow become as essential to our daily lives as breathing, eating, and complaining about the weather. We scroll, we like, we comment, we share, we basically live our entire lives through a 5-inch screen. A bunch of overreacting addicts (that's the phrase I am going to use to refer to us people now), hooked on virtual validation and incapable of having a normal conversation without bursting into a fit of rage? Think about it. How many times have you been scrolling through your feed, minding your own business, when suddenly BAM! You're confronted with a post that makes your blood boil? Maybe it's a political rant, a controversial opinion, or just someone bragging about their perfect life (which, let's be honest, is probably a carefully curated illusion anyway). And what do you do? You react. You comment. You engage in a digital war of w...

DISCLAIMER: THERE ISN'T ANYTHING MUCH WRITTEN IN THIS THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW. INSTEAD OF WASTING THE NEXT 15 MINS OF YOUR LIFE, JUST GO ON WITH IT. WELL IN CASE YOU WANT TO WASTE IT ANYWAY, DO NOT READ ANYTHING IN BRACKETS OR IN RED TEXT, THAT'S A BIT OUT OF CONTEXT USUALLY MY MIND OFF RAMPING. IT WILL SAVE YOU SOME TIME TO DO MORE IMPORTANT THINGS. (SOMETIMES IT'S GENUINE LINKS TO ARTICLES WITH MORE INFO SO READ AND CLICK IT). We're raised to be nice, to be helpful, to be accommodating. We're taught that saying "yes" is the polite thing to do, even if it means sacrificing our own sanity in the process. It's like we're all programmed to be people-pleasing robots, constantly saying "yes" to everything and everyone, even if it means ending up with a schedule that has more people pleasing and less personal time. But here's the thing: saying "yes" to everything is actually a form of self-sabotage. It's like slowl...

  DISCLAIMER: THERE ISN'T ANYTHING MUCH WRITTEN IN THIS THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW. INSTEAD OF WASTING THE NEXT 15 MINS OF YOUR LIFE, JUST GO ON WITH IT. WELL IN CASE YOU WANT TO WASTE IT ANYWAY, DO NOT READ ANYTHING IN BRACKETS OR IN RED TEXT, THAT'S A BIT OUT OF CONTEXT USUALLY MY MIND OFF RAMPING. IT WILL SAVE YOU SOME TIME TO DO MORE IMPORTANT THINGS. (SOMETIMES IT'S GENUINE LINKS TO ARTICLES WITH MORE INFO SO READ AND CLICK IT). In 1968, a psychologist named Walter Mischel conducted what would become one of the most famous experiments in behavioral science, the Marshmallow Test. A bunch of kids were presented with a single, glorious marshmallow. The deal was simple: eat it now, or wait 15 minutes and get two . Think of it as the original "buy one, get one free" deal, but with more sugary goodness and less screaming toddlers (hopefully). Some kids dove in face-first (marshmallow-first?), while others squirmed, sweated, and probably contemplated the exi...

DISCLAIMER: THERE ISN'T ANYTHING MUCH WRITTEN IN THIS THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW. INSTEAD OF WASTING THE NEXT 15 MINS OF YOUR LIFE, JUST GO ON WITH IT. WELL IN CASE YOU WANT TO WASTE IT ANYWAY, DO NOT READ ANYTHING IN BRACKETS OR IN RED TEXT, THAT'S A BIT OUT OF CONTEXT USUALLY MY MIND OFF RAMPING. IT WILL SAVE YOU SOME TIME TO DO MORE IMPORTANT THINGS. (SOMETIMES IT'S GENUINE LINKS TO ARTICLES WITH MORE INFO SO READ AND CLICK IT). Unless I'm the psycho, but I'm pretty sure that most of us always have this premonition at the beginning of every new year, where we know deep down and can actually feel it, this is going to be a really great year. Way better than the last, filled with success and immersive progress. So what do we do? We pull out pens and diaries, others log in to their phones and PCs and create a 'Vision Board.' Oftentimes, it doesn’t occur to us that this is exactly what we did last year, and probably the year before last, only to end the y...