Michael Botu's Blog

"The world we have created is a product of our thinking, it cannot be changed without changing our thinking"  ~ Albert Einstein THE MIND It was Ayn Rand who said "Wealth is a product of Man's capacity to think" All Great books conclude on this Fact that our Mind holds the Key to our Success or failure in Life. our most priced possession is not a Rich Parentage, Relation or Connections but our MIND.   THE POWER OF THE MIND: Napoleon Hill  corroborates the Holy Scriptures; "As man thinks in his Heart, so is he." The Holy Bible gives an account of how the people decided to make a name for themselves by building a Tower to Heaven, popularly called the Tower of Babel. what is intriguing is what the Almighty said "And the Lord said, Behold, they are one people and they have one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do, and now nothing they have imagined they can do will be impossible for them"  ~ ...

Obama Accused of Obstructing Battle against Boko Haram to Promote Axelrod’s Nigerian Muslim Client James Simpson  Exclusive to Accuracy in Media  When the notorious Islamic terrorist group, Boko Haram,  kidnapped 278 school girls  from the town of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria last year, Michelle Obama began a  Twitter hashtag campaign , #BringBackOurGirls. But behind the scenes, the Obama administration was undermining Nigeria’s efforts to take the battle to the terrorists. Obama refused to sell Nigeria arms and supplies critical to the fight, and stepped in to block other Western allies from doing so. The administration also  denied Nigeria intelligence  on Boko Haram from drones operating in the area. While Boko Haram was kidnapping school girls, the U.S.  cut petroleum purchases  from Nigeria to zero, plunging the nation’s economy into turmoil and raising concerns about its ability to fund its battle against the t...

"Millions saw an Apple falling but only Newton asked why; because the Apple didn't fall onto his head but into his mind"  ~ Vikrant Parsai If you have a curious mind, you are blessed. Those were the words my maths teacher said to my classmate years back. I did not comprehend the gravity of those words until recently, if you have a curious mind, you are blessed. indeed you are blessed if you have a curious mind WHAT IS CURIOSITY? The Dictionary defines curiosity as a "Strong desire to know or learn something" The emphasis is on "STRONG DESIRE" the World as we know it today is shaped by men and women with unquenchable desire to know, to be more and to do more. AN INQUISITIVE MIND: Two young American Students went to India on Holiday and their first morning they opened the window of their Hotel Room and looked out to see millions of people moving and going about their daily routines on barefoot, one of the students remarke...

"You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing."  ~ Dale Carnegie. It was Confucius who said "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" It will really be a pleasurable ride if our jobs was our Hobby, Life would have been one Happy song daily and we will all be filled with smiles all the way to Heaven. But in a world of very few job opportunities and an ever rising unemployed figures, finding a job you like is like looking for a needle in a haystack, how many of are willing to wait for that dream job? As they say in our local parlance "When the desired is not available, the available becomes the desired" so many are scrubbing it out daily in miserable Jobs, job that are making them sick. Famous motivational speaker Les Brown says; "The number one killer disease in America is Heart diseases." He went on to say Many Americans have their first major heart attack on Monday mornings aro...