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Dear God

A little boy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened.
Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100. When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, USA, they decided to send it to President Bush.

The President was so impressed, touched, and amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a $5.00 bill.
President Bush thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy.
The little boy was delighted with the $5.00 and sat down to write a thank you note to God, which read:


Dear God,

Thank you very much for sending the money, however, I noticed that for some reason you had to send it through Washington D.C. and, as usual, those crooks deducted $95.00.

The Elephant Rope

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.

11 Amazing Personal Development blogs for Smart People

Personal Development is a conscious effort an individual makes to become a better person. I am passionate about  growing and blogs, apart from books have been a wonderful learning medium for me. There are lots of them out there.  Below are some of my favourites.

I enjoin you to check them out.

1.       www.pickthebrain.com – Is a blog written by many guest writers and dedicated to self improvement with a focus on personal productivity, motivation, and self education. It’s one of the biggest personal development blogs on the net. Lots and lots of great articles.

2.       www.marcandangel.com – owned by two lovely husband and wife who enjoy sharing practical thoughts on a broad range of topics pertaining to life, hacks, productivity, aspirations, health, work, tech and general self improvement.

3.       Advanced Life Skills  by writer Jonathan Wells  an certified personal and professional strategy coach who shares his career insights with practical, useful, and inspiring articles on all aspects of personal growth.

4.       http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/ --founded by Steve Pavlina. This man is simply amazing.

5.       http://personalexcellence.co/ -- by Celestine Chua is one blog a visit virtually every day.

6.       http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/--Life  ptimizer is about living your life to the fullest.  It founded by Donald Latumahina,  an Indonesian. He is an avid learner who has deep passion in information technology (IT) and personal development.

7.       http://www.missiontolearn.com/ by Jeff Cobb, a dedicated lifelong learner, an author, has been working in the field of continuing education and professional development for well over a decade.

8.       www.positivityblog.com - Well-known self development blogger Henrik Edberg (of Sweden) writes beautiful articles  on how to live more consciously, simplify your life, become happier, create new habits and replace some old habits with better ones, improve your self-discipline, and much more.

9.       www.dumblittleman.com – Writer and founder Jay White offers “a handful of tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or simply keep you sane.”

10.   www.zenhabits.net – Leo Babauta is one of the top 25 bloggers in the world (according to Time Magazine), but he’s mainly a really nice guy who writes beautiful, pithy posts about living simply, being healthy, and creating life-long positive habits.

11.   www.selfhelpzone.com – This blog is totally devoted to everything self-help. It’s a super-blog crammed with great info on every possible life betterment topic.

14 Bishop David Oyedepo’s Quotes that Will Motivate Your Mind, Soul & Body

Bishop (Dr) David O. Oyedepo is a Nigerian Christian author, preacher and the founder and presiding bishop of Living Faith Church World Wide, also known as Winners Chapel, with headquarters in Ogun State, Nigeria.

He is also an academician per excellence. He is the Vice Chancellor of Covenant University as Well as Landmark University, and a host of other schools and colleges.

A very striking characteristic of this clergy man is his deep insights, wisdom and tongue-twisting way of presenting ideas. Below are a few of his quotes I so cherish. Go over each one meditatively and don forget to share.

You are running with a vision, going on a mission, or burning with a passion, if you do not belong to any of these, life is reduced to a burden.  --Bishop David Oyedepo

Knowledge is not marketable, it is skill that you market, skill is not a function of the papers you carry, it is a function of the tactics, and the strategies you engage in handling your assignment. -- Bishop David Oyedepo

There is no mountain anywhere everyman ignorance is his own mountain-- Bishop David Oyedepo

When you know little more than others you will lead them without stress -- Bishop David Oyedepo

Staying in the word of God will make you be on top of the world. -- Bishop David Oyedepo

Nothing is more valuable than insight in the journey of life--Bishop David Oyedepo

If you leave your life to chance, you don't have a chance. -- Bishop David Oyedepo

When you stop thinking, you start stinking, because it is the thinkers' world. -- Bishop David Oyedepo

You cannot be committed and not be creative, you cannot be creative and not be productive and you 

cannot be productive and not be successful and you cannot be outstandingly successful and not be impactful  -- Bishop David Oyedepo

You can't live in the midst of noise and make the most of the treasure called the mind. DAVID OYEDEPO-- Bishop David Oyedepo

Dedication is the mystery behind distinction. How dedicated you are determines how distinguished you will ever become in the kingdom. --Bishop David Oyedepo

A change of status begins with a change of desire -- Bishop David Oyedepo

Until something changes within you nothing changes around you -- Bishop David Oyedepo

Don't assume knowledge, consciously acquire it. --Bishop David Oyedepo