Elvis C. Umez

Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention. - E. Stanley Jones Brian Tracy, in his book, Principles of Success, posits: “your mind is your most precious asset. You must be continually working to increase the quality of your thinking.” We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you . . . we are in charge of our Attitudes.” Let every minute of your life count. Live intentionally, never waste your time, rather spend or invest it on things that are of worthy purpose. Do not underestimate the unimportance of practically everything.Living intentionally, according to Ralp...

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. - Tony Robbins Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating your efforts upon a few major goals, your efficiency soars, your projects are completed - you are going somewhere. By focusing your efforts to a single point, you achieve the greatest results. ....the power of focus The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.  Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.  The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until...

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt “The value of decisions depends upon the courage required to render them. The great decisions, which served as the foundation of civilization, were reached by assuming great risks, which often meant the possibility of death.” “The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs, are, generally, easily influenced by the ‘opinions’ of others.” Were the words of Napoleon Hill, in his book, Think and Grow Rich. He continued, “They permit the newspapers and the ‘gossiping’ neighbours to do their ‘thinking’ for them. ‘Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who  will accept  them. If you are influenced by ‘opinions’  when you  reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in  any undertaking ...

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. - Ayn Rand Your greatest power is the power to choose. You can decide where you are, what you do, and what you think. No one can take the power to choose away from you. It is yours alone. You can do what you want to do. You can be who you want to be. You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may make use of it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.  You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life - no one can take that away. Any person can choose to activate real directions of the self. It is true for every individual that at any moment he can choose to become himself.  Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives you love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is yours is the power to choose which imp...

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. -Marcus Tullius Cicero This is the law of averages; the more you fail, the greater your chance of succeeding. Failure is often the first necessary step toward success. And if you don’t take the risk of failing, you won't get the chance to succeed. When you are trying, you are winning.   Many a one has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. The truth is that you are not judged by the number of times you fail, but by the number of times you succeed; and the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you can fail and keep on trying. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight. What is defeat? ...

Because you live, There's a purpose to fulfill...  Because you live, Problems will persist... Because you live, Miracles abounds... Because you live, Necessity is the mother of invention... Because you live, Matters are concealed, yet to be discovered...  Because you live, Love must be shared abroad... Because you live, For every cause there's an effect... Because you live, There's Hope for the hopeless... Because you live, There's consolation to the downcast... Because you live, Many discussions are not done with...  Because you live, People will live to smile again... Because you live, Solutions abounds... Because you live, A change is coming to the world... Because you live, Forgiveness is guaranteed...  Most times the most of the things we worry about, instead, worry about us. Make that difference now and live to touch lives.

Most of the times we fail to understand how to see realities of our intentions. We live but truly we do not and I begin to wonder why. Everybody seems to be busy, but busy doing nothing. Everybody seems to be living but only living for the less. We cannot underestimate the unimportance of practically every, hence to exude the real life, one must pay attention to details. As such we owe ourselves one simple truth, to live for the intended purpose, to some, ultimate, yet other mundane. The beginning of life is supposed, not by appearance, but by design. The designer, I wonder at it, so conceived and manifested. Everything seems to originate from Him, all are and yet not all is. By design, we are meant to function for the intended purpose which we are created. Do we understand this? I doubt. I wonder how this world would have been if all of us live intentionally and suffice to nothing else. But can all live by purpose? Another question is why am i? Others are; who am i, what am I ...