#NEIOH

1. Beloved Friends!

As Many Of You Are Second Guessing Every Move You Make, May I Tell You That You Are Absolutely Incredible! So Many Of You Are Light Workers And Patriots And Each Moment You Are Striving To Lead Others...

#IKAI

1. Greetings Planet Earth!

I Share My Family Of Light With You!  I Now Communicate In The Sacred Essence Of ONE!

You Live Now In This Dream That Has Been Anticipated Since Your First Creative Experience!

#AKATU

1. Beloved Friends!

This Is Your Moment To Shine Like Never Before!  Each Positive Move Toward The Light Will Show You That Indeed The Truth Rings Out In Unison Among All Patriots!

#LAKA

1. Beloved Friends!

'Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled, Neither Let It Be Afraid.' As The Darkness Ramps Up, The Light Overtakes! This Planet Is In Chaos, But You Are More Than Prepared!  The Reason For This Is Your Sacred Soul!

2. All That You See And Hear Will Be Gone In A Flash, But YOU, Beloved One, Are Infinite!

The Arrival Into Paradise Is Not Achieved By Death, For There Is No Death!  There Is Only Change In Frequency  And Expanded Consciousness!

3. In One Moment, You Will Remember All, As The Matrix Of Lies Falls Away! You Are Free Now, But The Unseen Workers Of Iniquity Are Busy In Clone Production And Puppets! Remember That All Puppets Have A Master. If A Clone Is Manufactured, The Master Is A Handler!

4. Indeed, These Moments Are Strange To A Human With Identity, But Your Soul Knows All That Is Transpiring. Live As Much As Possible As The Awareness Of It All. Be Your Soul. Nothing Can Harm Your Soul!

5. Allow Emotions To Flow When Needed, To Avoid Blockage Or Illness. Breathe In Deeply Through Your Nose, Hold For A Few Seconds, Exhale Slowly With Pursed Lips. Repeat Throughout Moments Of Anxiety.  This Too Shall Pass!

#AKATU

1. Beloved Friends!

Indeed You Are Waiting For The Boomerang To Return! Do Not Be Concerned With The Timing Of The Return, But Know It Most Certainly Will!

#LAKA

1. Beloved Friends!

The Planet Is In The Midst Of A Great Transformation Of Being!  You, Beloved Ones, Are Also Transforming Moment By Moment!

The Law of Trust

“I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe in you”- Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes in October, I received a call from a former client who had been out of the country for almost a year.

He is not a Nigerian but had just secured an appointment with a company. His first statement was “Bayo, I need to pick your brain on this because with you I know where I stand. I know you’ll not deceive me”.

After our discussion, he told me he had already informed his Chairman that their banking relationship had to come to me. I’ve signed it on since.

I’ve had cause to reflect over his statement many times since then. Here was a man whom sometimes I had very difficult conversations with. I’ve had to tell him no when I knew his requests were not possible. Sometimes, the relationship was stormy.

I never fail to tell my colleagues that the major currency for transaction is integrity and this will only be sustained in an atmosphere of trust. Never lie to customers in order to make a sale.

20 lies that the world feeds us everyday

A thread...

Lie 1:
If you don't settle in your 20s, you are gone!
This is the decade.
You don't get another chance.
Study fast, get a job, get married, kids, that car, that house.
Quickly!
Time's running.
Look at everyone else doing it!

Lie 2:
People who are poor are lazy.
People who are rich are hardworking.
It is your fault if you haven't made it in life.
Look at everyone else who made it.
There is nothing granted or gifted in life.

Lie 3:
Those in corporate jobs, are unambitious.
They have sold their soul.
They are addicted to the salaries.
They could have done so much more with their life.
But they decided to spend it working for someone else.

Lie 4:
Starting your own business is the surest way of making money.
You can never get rich earning a salary.
You can never get rich working for someone else.

If there is one thing I have learned it is that people love bullshit. They buy bullshit stories from professional bullshit artists, accept bullshit philosophies, purchase bullshit how-to-books, vote for bullshitting politicians.

At first, I resisted believing this because it is illogical and dumb and frankly, doesn't reflect well on the human race of which I am a member (and thus have long been hopeful that it is more of a distinction than it actually turns out to be.)

But if you actually are interested in facts you begin to notice how little most people care for them. Sometimes it is because they are heard to learn and bullshit is so much more widely and easily available. Sometimes it is because facts make them uncomfortable about themselves.

Sometimes it is because just one tiny fact will upset a whole worldview that has grown as comfortable as an overstuffed chair. (Settling into such worldviews is a lot like settling into chairs like that because the longer you're there and the deeper you sink...

...the harder it is to hoist yourself up and out of your fat-assed intellectual laziness.) But I actually think the reason people have such an appetite for bullshit goes deeper, goes to an aspect of ourselves we just can't accept.

I met her, a couple of Feb 14s earlier, on the way back home. It was post-9pm, the compartment was empty, save one girl.

She was dressed up—dress, heels, lipstick—the whole deal. She quickly wiped her tears when I walked in, switching to looking out, resolutely.

THREAD.

I tried doing nothing for a few stations, but then, restless about all the grief that came off her, took the bench opposite hers, finally.

“All okay?” I asked.

She hesitated. Blinked.

“Valentine’s Day,” she replied, sadly.

“Date didn’t work out?”

“He dumped me!”

2.

I winced. An asshole with no respect for symbology!

She rubbed her nose, looking both sad and angry.

Tired from a day of work, I groped for words. What could I say that would help?

"Maybe if—," I began, but she cut me:
"How many times will this same thing happen to me?"

3.

"Every time I like someone, they turn out to be assholes. I was so happy I wasn't single on Valentines' Day. FINALLY. But this is WORSE! I dressed up so much. And went all this way from home... And he, and he..."

Turns out, I realised, one doesn't need to say much.

4.

All sad people on Valentines' need, is a listening ear.

Till, five stations of ranting later, they ask, "So YOU tell me, WHY should I believe in love?"

Interrogated thus, in a local train corner, I felt... cornered. Why should one believe in love, I wondered?

5.

The reason to try a new approach to things is because you have demonstrated proof that existing approaches are not working.

let's unpack:

1. what counts as proof?

2. what counts as failure?

3. not working for whom?

4. not working towards what end?

what counts as proof? and what counts as failure?

in order to answer this one needs to understand a thing well enough to know what success looks like and to know what failure modes exist.

A thing can fail by succumbing to a known failure mode, or failing in a new way. New failure modes commonly emerge from new contexts. Or they may be due to new developments in an existing context.

proof of failure means you have observed (rather than concluded via hearsay or via abstract reasoning) failure in a known mode or new mode. in order to obtain this proof, a relatively close distance or even insider perspective is usually necessary.

failure modes are specific to the thing being examined but there are some very common patterns. here's a couple of the most common patterns: