MAYBE
Maybe. . we were supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that, when we finally
meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.
Maybe . . . when the door of happiness closes, another opens; but, often times, we look so long at the
closed door that we don't even see the new one which has been opened for us.
Maybe . . . it is true that we don't know what we have until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know
what we have been missing until it arrives.
Maybe . . . the happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of
everything that comes along their way.
Maybe .. . . the brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; after all, you can't go on
successfully in life until you let go of your past mistakes, failures and heartaches.
Maybe . .. . you should dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go, be what you want to be,
because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you dream of, and want to do.
Maybe . . . there are moments in life when you miss someone -- a parent, a spouse, a friend, a child -- so
much that you just want to pick them from your dreams and hug them for real, so that once they are around
you appreciate them more.
Maybe . . . the best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and
then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
Maybe . . you should always try to put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that something could hurt you, it
probably will hurt the other person,too.
Maybe . . you should do something nice for someone every single day, even if it is simply to leave them alone.
Maybe . giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they will love you back. Don't expect love in
return; just wait for it to grow in their heart; but, if it doesn't, be content that it grew in yours.
Maybe . . . happiness waits for all those who cry, all those who hurt, all those who have searched, and all those who have tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of ll the people who have touched their lves.
Maybe . . . you shouldn't go for looks; they can deceive; don't go for wealth; even that fades away. Go for
someone who makes you smile, because it takes only a smile to make a dark day seem bright. Find the one that makes your heart smile.
Maybe . . you should hope for enough happiness to make you sweet, enough
trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to make you happy
Maybe . . . you should try to live your life to the fullest because when you were born, you were crying and
everyone around you was smiling but when you die, you can be the one who is smiling and everyone around you crying.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Did you hear about the man who was looking for a job? He noticed there was an opening at the local zoo. Upon inquiry, he discovered the zoo had a very unusual position that they wanted to fill. Apparently their gorilla had died, and until they could get a new one, they needed someone to dress up in a gorilla suit and act like a gorilla for a few days. He was to just sit, eat, and sleep. Of course, his identity would be kept a secret, and no one would be the wiser, thanks to a very fine gorilla suit. The zoo offered good pay for this job, so the man decided to do it. He tried on the suit and sure enough, he looked just like a gorilla.
They led him to the cage; he took a position at the back of the cage and pretended to sleep. But after a while, he got tired of sitting so he walked around a little bit, jumped up and down and tried a few gorilla noises. The people watching him seemed to really like that. When he would move or jump around, they would clap and cheer and throw him peanuts. And the man loved peanuts.
So he jumped around some more and tried climbing a tree. That seemed to really get the crowd excited. They threw more peanuts. Playing to the crowd, he grabbed a vine and swung from one side of the cage to the other. The people loved it and threw more peanuts. "Wow! This is great," he thought. He swung higher and the crowd grew bigger. He continued to swing on the vine, getting higher and higher and then all Last, all of a sudden, the vine broke! He swung up and out of the cage, landing in the lion's cage that was next door. He panicked.
There was a huge lion not twenty feet away, and it looked very hungry. So the man in the gorilla suit started jumping up and down, screaming and yelling, "Help, help! Get me out of here! I'm not really a gorilla! I'm a man in a gorilla suit! HELP!" The lion quickly pounced on the man, held him down and said, NNAMDI NO FEAR NA ME CHIJIOKE "be quiet! You're going to make both of us lose our jobs"
They led him to the cage; he took a position at the back of the cage and pretended to sleep. But after a while, he got tired of sitting so he walked around a little bit, jumped up and down and tried a few gorilla noises. The people watching him seemed to really like that. When he would move or jump around, they would clap and cheer and throw him peanuts. And the man loved peanuts.
So he jumped around some more and tried climbing a tree. That seemed to really get the crowd excited. They threw more peanuts. Playing to the crowd, he grabbed a vine and swung from one side of the cage to the other. The people loved it and threw more peanuts. "Wow! This is great," he thought. He swung higher and the crowd grew bigger. He continued to swing on the vine, getting higher and higher and then all Last, all of a sudden, the vine broke! He swung up and out of the cage, landing in the lion's cage that was next door. He panicked.
There was a huge lion not twenty feet away, and it looked very hungry. So the man in the gorilla suit started jumping up and down, screaming and yelling, "Help, help! Get me out of here! I'm not really a gorilla! I'm a man in a gorilla suit! HELP!" The lion quickly pounced on the man, held him down and said, NNAMDI NO FEAR NA ME CHIJIOKE "be quiet! You're going to make both of us lose our jobs"
Sunday, March 7, 2010
SEVEN LESSONS FROM PRISON BREAK
Now I need to make this perfectly understandable for people who haven’t watched season 1 of prison break -this 24 episodes attention grabber.
Being a series person myself, it’s one of those films one needs to get one’s personal copy of. I can bet that the person who wrote the script of this film didn’t have a clue where it would end when he started. It’s by every standard a masterpiece. And every chapter closes leaving questions on your mind. I spent close to an aggregate of 12hrs on this season one already and I’m very close to the end. It’s been very good for adrenalin, but more importantly, I have picked up some interesting life lessons, reinforced some personal beliefs, and I think I have something to share with you from this master piece. The prison break film is a story of how a successful civil engineer- Michael, deliberately sets himself up to go to jail in order to set his innocent brother who is on death roll free. It is a film that unveils intense preparation, planning, the calculated risk
taking, relationship management, sacrifice,negotiating etc. In this film Michael tattoos himself with a cleverly concealed plan of the prison and contingency plans in the case of possible foul ups.
LESSON 1: Fear is a monster made up of invisible molecules.
It’s strong and alive for as long as it remains unconfronted! “There was a scene in which the doctor asks the lead actor Michael if he had no fears about his being in prison. This was after two of his toes had been chopped off by one of the other inmates. He responded by sharing the story of what happened in his childhood, how he found it difficult to sleep at night because he thought that there was a monster in the cupboard. Back then, his brother told him that fear is made up of invisible molecules, that when you ventured to open the cupboard, the monster will disappear.From then he had learnt to confront his monsters - even when behind each door were 1000 other doors” Fear unconfronted grows. There is nothing to fear. What are your fears? Another human being? No matter how big, rich or fierce the human being is, he/she is still human. When he/she wants to take a shower, he/she must take off his/her clothes. There is nothing to fear in any mortal? Are you afraid of
tomorrow? Open the closet, there is nothing there. I remember a day I wanted to hire a
taxi at a taxi park. The clowns there were charging exceptionally high, I told them it was much cheaper off the streets but the guy in charge started a story about the safety of picking up their taxi and the risk involved in just a taxi off the street. I looked him in the eye and told him to scrap that line, I asked him to look at me carefully and be sure that it doesn’t matter where I picked the taxi from, it’s risky to carry me, I am the one to fear, any driver should be more concerned about his own safety than mine… he laughed heartily and agreed to carry me at my price, Why should you be the one that is afraid rathe than the one that is feared?
Lesson 2 Things are not always as they seem
This was a phrase used when Michael scorned his elder brother just before he was convicted; that what he had done with is life. According to him, their mother had left them some money from her life insurance, he had used his to go to school and better his life, while his brother-Lincoln had spent his recklessly and had neither an education nor a life. Lincoln responded by saying “things are not always as they seem”. It turned out, that their mother had left no life insurance. What had actually happened was that Lincoln had borrowed $90,000 for his brother to go through the best of schools, he knew that if he had told him, he would not have accepted
it, so he had framed it as their mum’s life insurance.” The human mind has a habit of jumping
into conclusions and making assumptions. Don’t make assumptions about peoples guilt until it is proven, things are not always as they appear. Never judge a book by its cover, don’t only look, observe and behold. Be slow to jump into conclusions and quick to forgive. A closer look will reveal more, things are not always as they seem.
LESSON 3: Impossible is nothing
When Lincoln and his bother saw for the first time in the prison, Michael told him, “I’m going to get you out of here”, the brother responded saying, “That’s impossible!” Michael went on to tell him that it was not impossible if you were responsible for designing the prison. He had not only
seen the master plan, he had it tattooed on his body and had spent quality time understanding both the map and everyone in the prison who was going to be critical to the prison break. Things are only impossible for as long as we do not allow our minds to stretch to accommodate possibilities.” To a person whose mind is set on the end, who confidently moves in the direction of his/her dreams. Nothing is impossible! Where there is a will, there is always a way. The
world was not created with a road network, men built roads. There was and is still no master plan for the development of roads, man simply made a way to wherever he wanted to go. There is no such thing as there is no way, if there is no way yet, create one!
LESSON 4: Sooner or later, everybody has a need
It was interesting to see how the team who will carry out the prison break was formed.
These were people who would not work together by any means. But each forged together by their individual and selfish needs became an exceptional team. One wanted to see his girlfriend desperately, another’s children were about to be killed, one’s daughter had cancer, another’s family didn’t even know he was in jail, one stumbled on the opportunity etc.You can get anybody enrolled on your team if you understand their needs, and make the goal relevant to them. Sooner or later everybody has a need. People are not sympathetic to corporate visions that have
nothing in it for them.
LESSON 5: The leader is the one who has thought about it longest.
You’ll wonder how Michael would be the leader of this prison break team. He looks most fragile, he’s not the strongest, not the wildest, not the hardest, but he is incontestably the leader of the pack. He calls the shots and everyone else asks him for the next step. He put the team together,and more often than not, his say his final. If he says let’s jump, the group has more
confident in it than the ravings of any of the team members. Why? Because he had demonstrated clearly that he had be demonstrated clearly that he had been thinking about this exercise and has it all figured out.
The role of a leader is clear, and every one of the 5 E’s that characterize a leader where clearly displayed. He envisioned the future, spent quality time meditating on it. He energized his team; he connected with a selfish need in every one. He enabled his team; he gave them access to all the tools they needed to achieve the vision. He engaged the team; he formed relationships
with each one of them at a level that ensured that the work would be done. He didn’t give orders, and he did what had to be done.
THE FINAL BREAKER!!!
LESSON 6: Every experience is useful!
Michael had a bad accident and was injured, in which a critical part of the map on his back was erased. He tried hard to remember the content of that portion but was unsuccessful. He quickly remembered a lunatic who had been transferred to his cell for a few weeks, who had been able to draw the entire map in an attempt to decipher if it was a partway to hell. Back then he tried
desperately to get the guy out of his room, but all of a sudden, he became valuable.
His ability to remember the missing piece became critical to the prison break”
Have you ever had an experience that you desperately tried to get out of? Has it ever come back to be useful to you? Every experience is valuable, everything counts, and all things work together for good. Not for everybody, but for everyone whose eyes
are set on a purpose, for those who have a higher meaning to their existence. For those
who live for a course, who are on a mission.
Every experience is useful.
LESSON 7:When you come to the end of your plan, keep running
“I Finished the film eventually, but I’ll leave out the juicy details for those who want to watch it. When all the plans finished, the next action was run! Just make a run for it!” The reason why you don’t know the people you don’t know is because they stopped doing whatever it was that was going to get them to their goals. I hear that a fanatic is someone who doubles speed when
direction is lost, haven’t you also heard that only the paranoid survive?
Life is funny, I once read an analysis that back in the days of the early men, there were two types of people, the impulsive and the analytical. The impulsive man hears a rumble in the forest and runs, the analytical man hears the rumble and tries to find out if it is a squirrel or a lion. The analytical man gets eaten if it is a lion, and gradually the analytical man dies, while the earth is filled with impulsive men. Now the impulsive man needs to analyze deliberately, but run
impulsively. Whatever you have set your hands on, run with it! Many people quit their dreams because of temporary set backs and go back to their vomit; they stopped to analyze and went back to status quo. When you reach the end of the plan, keep running, it gives you the opportunity of featuring in season 2!
Being a series person myself, it’s one of those films one needs to get one’s personal copy of. I can bet that the person who wrote the script of this film didn’t have a clue where it would end when he started. It’s by every standard a masterpiece. And every chapter closes leaving questions on your mind. I spent close to an aggregate of 12hrs on this season one already and I’m very close to the end. It’s been very good for adrenalin, but more importantly, I have picked up some interesting life lessons, reinforced some personal beliefs, and I think I have something to share with you from this master piece. The prison break film is a story of how a successful civil engineer- Michael, deliberately sets himself up to go to jail in order to set his innocent brother who is on death roll free. It is a film that unveils intense preparation, planning, the calculated risk
taking, relationship management, sacrifice,negotiating etc. In this film Michael tattoos himself with a cleverly concealed plan of the prison and contingency plans in the case of possible foul ups.
LESSON 1: Fear is a monster made up of invisible molecules.
It’s strong and alive for as long as it remains unconfronted! “There was a scene in which the doctor asks the lead actor Michael if he had no fears about his being in prison. This was after two of his toes had been chopped off by one of the other inmates. He responded by sharing the story of what happened in his childhood, how he found it difficult to sleep at night because he thought that there was a monster in the cupboard. Back then, his brother told him that fear is made up of invisible molecules, that when you ventured to open the cupboard, the monster will disappear.From then he had learnt to confront his monsters - even when behind each door were 1000 other doors” Fear unconfronted grows. There is nothing to fear. What are your fears? Another human being? No matter how big, rich or fierce the human being is, he/she is still human. When he/she wants to take a shower, he/she must take off his/her clothes. There is nothing to fear in any mortal? Are you afraid of
tomorrow? Open the closet, there is nothing there. I remember a day I wanted to hire a
taxi at a taxi park. The clowns there were charging exceptionally high, I told them it was much cheaper off the streets but the guy in charge started a story about the safety of picking up their taxi and the risk involved in just a taxi off the street. I looked him in the eye and told him to scrap that line, I asked him to look at me carefully and be sure that it doesn’t matter where I picked the taxi from, it’s risky to carry me, I am the one to fear, any driver should be more concerned about his own safety than mine… he laughed heartily and agreed to carry me at my price, Why should you be the one that is afraid rathe than the one that is feared?
Lesson 2 Things are not always as they seem
This was a phrase used when Michael scorned his elder brother just before he was convicted; that what he had done with is life. According to him, their mother had left them some money from her life insurance, he had used his to go to school and better his life, while his brother-Lincoln had spent his recklessly and had neither an education nor a life. Lincoln responded by saying “things are not always as they seem”. It turned out, that their mother had left no life insurance. What had actually happened was that Lincoln had borrowed $90,000 for his brother to go through the best of schools, he knew that if he had told him, he would not have accepted
it, so he had framed it as their mum’s life insurance.” The human mind has a habit of jumping
into conclusions and making assumptions. Don’t make assumptions about peoples guilt until it is proven, things are not always as they appear. Never judge a book by its cover, don’t only look, observe and behold. Be slow to jump into conclusions and quick to forgive. A closer look will reveal more, things are not always as they seem.
LESSON 3: Impossible is nothing
When Lincoln and his bother saw for the first time in the prison, Michael told him, “I’m going to get you out of here”, the brother responded saying, “That’s impossible!” Michael went on to tell him that it was not impossible if you were responsible for designing the prison. He had not only
seen the master plan, he had it tattooed on his body and had spent quality time understanding both the map and everyone in the prison who was going to be critical to the prison break. Things are only impossible for as long as we do not allow our minds to stretch to accommodate possibilities.” To a person whose mind is set on the end, who confidently moves in the direction of his/her dreams. Nothing is impossible! Where there is a will, there is always a way. The
world was not created with a road network, men built roads. There was and is still no master plan for the development of roads, man simply made a way to wherever he wanted to go. There is no such thing as there is no way, if there is no way yet, create one!
LESSON 4: Sooner or later, everybody has a need
It was interesting to see how the team who will carry out the prison break was formed.
These were people who would not work together by any means. But each forged together by their individual and selfish needs became an exceptional team. One wanted to see his girlfriend desperately, another’s children were about to be killed, one’s daughter had cancer, another’s family didn’t even know he was in jail, one stumbled on the opportunity etc.You can get anybody enrolled on your team if you understand their needs, and make the goal relevant to them. Sooner or later everybody has a need. People are not sympathetic to corporate visions that have
nothing in it for them.
LESSON 5: The leader is the one who has thought about it longest.
You’ll wonder how Michael would be the leader of this prison break team. He looks most fragile, he’s not the strongest, not the wildest, not the hardest, but he is incontestably the leader of the pack. He calls the shots and everyone else asks him for the next step. He put the team together,and more often than not, his say his final. If he says let’s jump, the group has more
confident in it than the ravings of any of the team members. Why? Because he had demonstrated clearly that he had be demonstrated clearly that he had been thinking about this exercise and has it all figured out.
The role of a leader is clear, and every one of the 5 E’s that characterize a leader where clearly displayed. He envisioned the future, spent quality time meditating on it. He energized his team; he connected with a selfish need in every one. He enabled his team; he gave them access to all the tools they needed to achieve the vision. He engaged the team; he formed relationships
with each one of them at a level that ensured that the work would be done. He didn’t give orders, and he did what had to be done.
THE FINAL BREAKER!!!
LESSON 6: Every experience is useful!
Michael had a bad accident and was injured, in which a critical part of the map on his back was erased. He tried hard to remember the content of that portion but was unsuccessful. He quickly remembered a lunatic who had been transferred to his cell for a few weeks, who had been able to draw the entire map in an attempt to decipher if it was a partway to hell. Back then he tried
desperately to get the guy out of his room, but all of a sudden, he became valuable.
His ability to remember the missing piece became critical to the prison break”
Have you ever had an experience that you desperately tried to get out of? Has it ever come back to be useful to you? Every experience is valuable, everything counts, and all things work together for good. Not for everybody, but for everyone whose eyes
are set on a purpose, for those who have a higher meaning to their existence. For those
who live for a course, who are on a mission.
Every experience is useful.
LESSON 7:When you come to the end of your plan, keep running
“I Finished the film eventually, but I’ll leave out the juicy details for those who want to watch it. When all the plans finished, the next action was run! Just make a run for it!” The reason why you don’t know the people you don’t know is because they stopped doing whatever it was that was going to get them to their goals. I hear that a fanatic is someone who doubles speed when
direction is lost, haven’t you also heard that only the paranoid survive?
Life is funny, I once read an analysis that back in the days of the early men, there were two types of people, the impulsive and the analytical. The impulsive man hears a rumble in the forest and runs, the analytical man hears the rumble and tries to find out if it is a squirrel or a lion. The analytical man gets eaten if it is a lion, and gradually the analytical man dies, while the earth is filled with impulsive men. Now the impulsive man needs to analyze deliberately, but run
impulsively. Whatever you have set your hands on, run with it! Many people quit their dreams because of temporary set backs and go back to their vomit; they stopped to analyze and went back to status quo. When you reach the end of the plan, keep running, it gives you the opportunity of featuring in season 2!
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