DOING GOOD IS BAD!!!

Doing good could mean doing what will bring comfort to another person or yourself. When you do something good for yourself, it doesn't count as much as when done for someone else. In another term, you appreciate the good that someone does to you than the good you do to yourself because everybody has his own self to care for. Therefore, doing good to yourself is natural but doing good to others distinguishes you to be good natured. When Jesus Christ was called the good man, He stated clearly that no good man is on earth, should this be confusing? An average man is selfish and if he does good to another man, he tends to be expectant of something in return. Doing good naturally is good, but according to the title of this piece, it is bad, in fact, very bad if you won't continue to do good. The scripture teaches us not to grow weary in doing good. The fact is just that there is no good thing in doing good and later doing otherwise. Doing good will only remain good if and only if the following are done:

1. doing good directly from your heart just for the purpose of doing good.
2. not doing good if you know that you will end up doing bad.
3. doing good anytime, anywhere you have the capacity.

Note that every good you do to another man stores great returns for you in the heavenly treasury, doing good to your fellow man is doing good to God. I hope this message was successfully delivered to you, i hope you understood it well, i hope you'd start doing good to everybody and not see it as a burden.
YOU CAN START DOING GOOD TO MULTITUDE BY SHARING!!! GOD BLESS.

TIMI OGUNTUYAKI

LISTEN FIRST!!!

“Great leaders listen more than they speak”……… Brian Tracy

When you listen, you gain from others

When you gain from others, you are more informed

When you are informed, you know more

When you know more, you do better

When you do better, you are recognized

When you are recognized, you start building a personality

When you have a good personality, you are respected and accepted

When you know you are accepted, you have self-confidence

When you are bold, you will try to attempt anything

When you attempt everything, you are vulnerable to failure

When you fail, you learn better

When you learn, you are more experienced

When you are experienced, you have an edge over others

When you have an edge over others, you are selected instead of them

When you are always selected over others, it means you’ve become people’s choice

When people choose you, you are likely to be hated by some

When some people hate you, you realize you can’t be loved by all

When you get to know that everybody cannot love you, you develop human management skills

When you can manage people, you will be able to elicit their strategies

When you can elicit their strategies, you can influence their thinking

When you can influence their thinking, you can decide their moods

When you decide their moods, you can lure them to obeying you

If people can obey your rules, you can lead them.

Hear this, to listen is one thing, to do is a better one. One of the important powers that great leaders have is the listening attitude, listening gives your internal an advantage from your external. If you want to know more or lead well, you must be a listening type.  As a success driven person, endeavor to listen not only to the people around you but also to your inner self and EVERYTHING that surrounds you. This is when you can be able to control what’s within and around you.

Note: Every successful person plays rules. It’s a rule to selectively decide for yourself what and who to listen to. Don’t just waste your time listening to what will not contribute to your success. When a discussion is raised, I know for sure that you would be able to envisage if it is worth your time and patience or not. Found this post useful and inspiring? Kindly help a person or even persons by telling them to always…………… listen first.   

 God bless!

TIMI OGUNTUYAKI

 

WHO IS YOUR FRIEND?

“Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are.”

 

A friend simply defined, is anybody who likes you and has the same interests as yourself, who will support you. A friend could be met anywhere; in school, church, events et al. Also, your friend could be anybody who you feel comfortable to work with, talk to or play with. Your friend could be your mom or dad, sibling, even your teacher. Generally, a friend is who you spend most of your time with, who you walk with. One thing is true about life, no matter how unfriendly you are, you will still have at least one friend. My thought about “what” people consider friend to be gives birth to this piece. Many people consider a friend JUST as someone who they will meet and part with, someone that will be at a time, part of their lives. But I tell you, a friend is far more than that. A friend could be the person who will help you achieve your aims in life or someone who will destroy your life without remedy all within a shortwhile. This piece is all about carefully choosing who you think will be good for you. Take a little time to check the combination of these pairs of people;

1.       Abraham and Lot (Genesis 12:5, 13:1, 13:5-6), Lot became rich because he was walking with Abraham who has been blessed of God.

2.       Jacob and Laban (Genesis 30:27-31), God multiplied Laban just because he was connected to a blessed man, Jacob.

3.       Joseph and Potiphar (Genesis 39:5), same was the case of this Egyptian, he got connected and the blessings flew to him.

There are many examples of blessings-attached collaboration. Look around you; are you a blessing to people around you or a parasite?

However, the person you walk with might be destroying you, if Samuel had done what Eli’s sons did, the unction on him might not manifest. A wise saying goes thus; “If you hang out with the chickens, you’re going to chuck and if you hang out with the eagles, you are going to fly”. This piece is not advising you to start condemning your relationship with some people. Rather, it’s about critical and careful observations of the said people. Look at their attitudes outside their relationship with you, you know, they might be polite and responsible to you because of the interest you share. Be sure, someday, they will show their true self to you. Then, how do they talk, act, appear in a social setting... Mathew 7:20 says “by their fruits, you shall know them”, their fruits are their attitudes. I want you to know very well that the attitudes of your true friends will reflect in you... Proverbs 13:20. Even if you are good from home, your corrupt friends will spoil you. If you seem to observe that your friends are corrupt and not good for your progress, it is safe for you to flee from such friends, but it is kind to help them change. If they are not changing then you dispose them.

                Ensure that you are not friends with someone from whom you are not gaining at all, your friend must be adding to you and not just drain the little you have. As a student, if your friend is not helping you academically, what about spiritually? However, it is not all about receiving, you should also have something good to offer to your friends, in fact there’s more blessing in giving than receiving. After reading this piece, please make sure you take an effect, will you be changing someone or even yourself? Will you have to let go of some friends and let God? Will you share to help a FRIEND? Bless you!

                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                

                                                                  TIMI OGUNTUYAKI

Living in Success.....

'' If you want to live long and successfully on earth, you have to live as though you just arrived in it'' Timi Oguntuyaki......