Monthly Archives: December 2006

Adeolu Akinyemi
December 18, 2006

Wrong place at the right time.


“Your attitude determines your altitude!” -Zig Ziglar

It’s not what happens to us that counts, it is how we respond to what happens to us, that makes a difference. Success will never be the absense of failure but the handling of failure. The people that we call successful today are not people who didn’t have their own fair share of set backs and mishaps, but they were people who decided to retain the right attitudes in the midst of the wrong events.

Is it possible to be in the wrong place at the right time? I think that sounds like a philosophical question, but take time out to ponder about it, and you might come to discover that it is an attitude question. How do you take it, when you find yourself in the wrong place, do you see anything good in it, or do you take it at face value. When things happen to you, do you win or whin? Do you think like a victor or like a victim? Are you optimistic or pessimistic. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
December 17, 2006

If today was your last!


“People living deeply have no fear of death” – Anais Nin

This is scary territory, I commend your courage for reading further, but pause a bit and think deeply about it. You went for a medical check up today, and your doctor decided to confide in you, you have the whole of today and no more, by 12 midnight today, your breath will literally cease! The question for you today is what would you wish you had done?

Many of us spend so much time chasing the wind, we never pause long enough to smell the roses. Many of us have forgotten the priviledge of smell, of touch, of sight, sound, feelings, love, care, hope and life. What would you look back and wish you had spent more time doing? What will you regret you have done? If you have a long list of to do’s, I put it to you, you are not living life deeply. Believe me, you need to! Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
December 15, 2006

Tapping your Inner Genius


I’ve been working hard on a small project, it’s taken a lot of my time. What was particularly most frustrating was that I almost finished it, and just before saving it, my system hung! I lost everything. I felt very bad for a while, but as the adage goes, the house of the king that gets burnt only beautifies it. This is because normally, the king has money and would build it again only better. Well, unsure if this king had more than he had done to offer, I started from scratch again, and learnt a lesson in the process.

When I finished, I got some of my colleagues to come take a look at it, and compare it to what we had used before. People agreed it was much much better than what we had been using before, in fact someone asked, “where was this all the while?”. I paused, and thought, “I didn’t bring this our of somewhere else other than my head, where was it all the while?”. I remembered, every one of us, had a genius inside, we have loads of untapped talent, we have bundles of abilities, that if we place a demand on ourselves will manifest. There is a lot more to us than we are utilizing. A lot more. You only need to tap into your inner genius. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
December 13, 2006

Is it True?


Hmmm… I heard some things oh, and I felt maybe I should just confirm oh. Some of them haven’t happened yet oh, but I heard that they are postulations sha. Please help me look at them oh, and let me know if it is true oh. (the ohs are deliberate oh)

I am not so much for political calculations, but from what i’m hearing it seems we’ll be in for real surprises in the elections next year. I’m a very optimistic fellow, and believe too much in the future of our great country. In case you don’t, you can check out the list of websites underneath this article and get excited at the generation that is lurking in virtual obscurity, waiting for the batton to be passed. If you read deep into their words and thoughts, you’ll see hope written in capital letters for Nigeria.

Yes, more to what I have been hearing. Gbeborun… you should continue from here oh.. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
December 12, 2006

What are you doing here?


Three workers who were seeing doing similar things at a construction site, were approached with the question “what are you doing here?” The first responded, “I am a brick layer, I’m simply here to lay the bricks”, the second, seperately approached answered, “I’m here to build a house – see, here is the kitchen, here is the bedroom, on that spot will be the living room…”, and he went on and on. The third worker was also approached and gave an answer that will form a foundation of what we want to take a  closer look at, and ponder on. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
December 11, 2006

Who says you are second class?


“For as long as you rely on an external system to define who you are, to give you credibility or enhance your capacity to influence, you are weak.” – Adeolu Akinyemi

I was at Ife over the weekend to speak at an academic seminar organized by one of the campus fellowships. The event had two key speakers, myself and a friend Deji Olatunde. We spoke from different angles about how they can make their academics work. We spoke about a number of things, and from the response of the audience the key concepts sank in. There was however a module of the presentation that left a very strong impression on my own mind. Why do graduates live forever under the classification of an imperfect system? Who told you that making a 2:2 makes you a second class, or making a 3rd class makes you 3rd class? Does any system, perfect or imperfect have the right to class you? Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
December 8, 2006

Laughter does good like medicine


Feeling a bit humourous this morning, and decided to share some lines. Maybe it’s the TGIF (Thank God it’s Friday) thing, but I’m in favour of a few good laughs. I’m sure some of these lines are not totally strange but my comments in italic are fresh :)

Dr. Lee Berk and fellow researcher Dr. Stanley Tan of Loma Linda University in California have been studying the effects of laughter on the immune system. To date their published studies have shown that laughing lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones, increases muscle flexion, and boosts immune function by raising levels of infection-fighting T-cells, disease-fighting proteins called Gamma-interferon and B-cells, which produce disease-destroying antibodies. Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, and produces a general sense of well-being. Net Laughter is great therapy! You can extend this and make us laugh more, or if you have any jokes of your own…feel free to pour them in.

A Laugh a day, keeps the heart attack away – Anonymous

Ensure you have a good laugh today…and indeed everyday. Continue reading →

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Adeolu Akinyemi
December 7, 2006

Doing someone else’s work?


“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it. Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work”? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work–not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.”-Mark Twain Continue reading →

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