SO YOU STILL DO THAT?

By Dode Sescri

WORDS TO ELATE

Sixth Agenda

Copyright © 2016 DODE®

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Disclaimer

All readers are welcome to challenge the contents of this book, and should process them with their uttermost intellectual capabilities before they can assess them for reference purposes, because they are largely a work of the author’s own Personal Opinions.

Some stories given as examples in this book do not represent Factual or historical events but have been used fictitiously to bring out the literal aspects of discussions and also demonstrate the author’s intended thoughts and ideas exemplarily. Do not take them too seriously.

This book is stacked up with numerous mini chapters the author refers to as intuitions. Each intuition stands for each idea or topic of discussion.

You will also find some non-English words, the author has used them only for the sake of enhancing description. They are not a result of typo.

Table of Contents

Contention.

Intuition-1-procrastination the thief of time.

Intuition-2-Career a Character changer.

Intuition-3-a better job.

Intuition-4-everyone wants to be a boss.

Intuition-5-Stamp hobby.

Intuition-6-Your Silence my freedom

Intuition-7-bragging brains

Intuition-8-Old time unbelief's

Intuition-9-how to take bitter medicine.

Intuition-10-what I have seen and gone through.

Intuition-11-Winners mind-set.

Intuition-12-What Success means to you.

Intuition-13-Doing the right thing the wrong way.

Intuition-14-Things get tough.

Intuition-15-Do What You Love.

Intuition-16-Pushing the lazybones.

Intuition-17-Getting Inclined towards your strength.

Intuition-18-getting to the headquarters.

Intuition-19-child's strong faith.

Intuition-20-Jumping final hurdles.

Final Clause

More of WOTEs...

Footnotes.

Contention.

What happens when you get stuck on a project? In this case you simply set aside this first task and pursue a greater responsibility, struggle with it in every aspect possible and when it's too hard to accomplish, return to your first project, it is more likely to succeed as you handle them together (hand in hand) this is what we call efficiency moderation.

Intuition-1-procrastination the thief of time.

I asked a prominent lecturer at a prestigious University to help me fight procrastination. He agreed to do so. He planned to begin right away at first, but in the proceeding days he kept asking me to come over & over again every time I visited his office.

I could not believe that Doctor Malik an assistant professor in social psychology & award-winning researcher in the field of mental behaviour also had the same problem

I heard people say things such as, "he likes teaching people how to overcome procrastination" but he still couldn’t find a way to help me out that easily, he kept pushing days forward.

Please come two hours later, there are more important things I have to attend to now, tomorrow, next day, week, month…

Till now, that job has never been completed, one day I rang him early in the morning and said this to him, "Are you not procrastinating my appointment when you keep pushing it back?"

Here somebody who was supposed to help me overcome procrastination is struggling to keep his appointment.

Procrastination is the thief of time, when you want things done in the future so as to be finished properly you end up getting nothing done in the first place

An individual who says to himself, "from now on, blah blah blah..." may be tempted to look too far into the future and risk a heart-breaking discouragement and failure, when a more composed person whose focus is majoring their current chosen field, even though it takes a little longer than they had thought, but they finish it anyway.

The reason that you can't actually get done on time things you planned long ago is due to the fact that you made it a responsibility too big that is to be paid full attention to. For an efficient workout it is not wise to make it the biggest thing of the day's activities, instead reduce it to a lesser value that can be substituted with something else.

Intuition-2-Career a Character changer.

Here's a list of sample career and what they will turn those that strive for them into.

Teacher/Lecturer

Expects a great deal of decency and discipline from others.

Demand respect from the society since they must show this kind of image to the people at all times. The society also demands they practice what they teach.

Business People.

Cooperative/understanding and more willing to listen than talk, to them the customer is always right.

Hard-core Professionals e.g. Doctors, Engineers etc.

They always thrive for perfection, to them everything has to be close to 100% right. They are obsessed with accuracy, since accuracy is essential in their field of professionalism, no one can afford to make mistakes.

Ordinary Citizen/Folk

Have freedoms of all kind, they can do any job, anywhere, anytime, as long as it doesn’t require much technical skills, they don’t care much since they have nothing to lose.

Can we rightfully say that careers change people's character after many years of work, or people choose careers that match their character?

Juniors may say, “Thanks for the information you have provided us, so what now? What do we do? What career do you want us to choose?” anyways none of these things we have stated here have anything to do with one’s happiness in their career or profession. Every person has their own definition of what happiness in a job means. One thing we are certain of is that professions change mental, physical, and social being of an individual, it influences the way they think and the way they relate with one another, it changes the way they perceive, communicate, and interact with the other people around them. For instance...

Doctor uses jargon language in ordinary family meetings

Electrical engineers see electrons being pumped back and forth in a cable, when they talk to others of what they have seen, people think they are going nuts.

A dentist sees or imagines himself walking through the teeth of an ill patient, and sees the larger cracks made by erosion.

A journalist learns to be proactive and to scrutinise everything and everyone, asking questions always, repeating every word said by an interviewee.

Why do some economists and lawyers speak so much jargon? Is it because they want to make you look like a fool? Or to make others approve of them that they are in a better profession than you are?

Intuition-3-a better job.

A guy was asking workers in a shoe factory to quit their jobs so that they can start their own businesses. The manager received news about this Chihuahua preacher and fumed out of his office. “You rascals why are you brainwashing our employees with your dangerous doctrines? You want people to quit their jobs, throw away their education, cut their insurance, what kind of society are you trying to create? Who will be working at the factories if everyone all of a sudden decided to leave the premise to mind their own business, everything will come to a standstill, the economy will collapse and poverty will rise. While you little rascals call this wise counsel, "out of my premise", he screamed. You tell others to do only what they love even if it doesn’t benefit them. If some leave as you wish to start their own businesses, aren't they going to employ others to work for them? This quitting gospel doesn’t make sense to me.

A while ago when there was a great deal of unemployment, people cried out to their governments To create jobs for them so they'd be able to feed their families, years later they have those secure jobs, and many have saved bundles of cash in their bank accounts, now the agenda has changed, they want those jobs no more, they have enough money for themselves, because those jobs have become boring, exhausting, and waste a great deal of their time, they want to move on to something more interesting, now they want to do only what they love, even if it won't give them enough income for their sustenance they still want to do it, they want to do only what they can enjoy.

This quitting gospel does not make sense to me, it does more harm than good, and you tell people to quit their jobs, quit their education and quit their family life. It has created a strong belief amongst young people that for one to be super successful financially, they have to quit their education, many who have done so have ended up in the streets with nowhere to turn back to. They tell workers in a museum to quit their jobs to start their own businesses so they can make more money. Then they might become super rich. Only a very small number of exceptionally lucky made it up to the ladder, they had goals in mind, they did not wilfully toss aside their academic papers to journey into the unknown, a vast majority meet with calamity.

These fellows who are distributing such stories to the world screen are creating a false impression about college education, the young viewers can perceive this to mean that quitting college is okay, that those who deliberately discontinue their education become much more successful and much richer in life.

They say they are leaving their job because their boss in unbearable, let them hire a few employees in their newly made business and see what kind of boss they are going to make,

If you are tired of being pushed around by your unbearable boss, then build your own firm and you shall become the boss, you can then push others around as you please.

Intuition-4-everyone wants to be a boss.

People of the old used to think about receiving the best education, finding a job, preparing resumes, passing interviews, but these days people talk about starting a venture & owning their own business, they want to be the boss, times have greatly changed, long ago having a white collar job was the ideal status every graduate wanted to have in the society, people were ashamed of being called self-employed, now it’s the exact opposite, more people are going to distaste white collar jobs, graduates leave school not with the mentality of finding a well-paying job but to start their own ventures and keep all the profits.

College drums conformity into your mind, the need then becomes to finish quickly then find a job in the market as soon as possible, they believe,

Let those who have stayed for too long in their jobs without being able to find a better one be glad that they have something to keep them busy, something they can call a job, there are millions of people worldwide who are desperate to find any kind of job, no matter how hard or backbreaking it is, so they'd get a few coins to buy bread.

How will your employers feel like when they discover that you have been building your business at their company premises during working hours? And worse, you are working on a venture that may in future become a rival enterprise, "a snake in the grass" that’s what they might call you.

Does one quit their job when they are angry with their boss? When you have a bone to pick with one of the senior supervisors while you have got no problem with all the other juniors and employees, do you have to leave because of that one person since they are in charge? The mean boss tells you, “We won't hire somebody who will come to do his own things at the office premise,” if you are concerned about your boss being too strict at the workplace, remember submission is one of the things you signed up for, here you have no say, though some may say that a true genius works at a pace which suits them best, they'd not let anyone rush them, or make them do things in a way different from the one they are used to.

Intuition-5-Stamp hobby.

Jake collects stamps as a hobby, I asked him why he does so and how it became his hobby, in his reply he claimed he was doing it because he read about hobbies, most common being collection of stamps, so I got to try it out and it worked perfectly well, now he has a collection of thousands of stamps. People don’t send letters through regular mail and post office as they used to do in the olden days, that practice is slowly dying out, with the advent of electronic communication, fewer letters are sent physically compared to decades ago.

There's a way in which people watch what others are doing, copy it and in turn soon becomes their hobby. This is a practice that’s slowly dying out yet there are people who are able to find interest in it, keep it alive, it's an idea that others thought it to be crazy, they proved it to be otherwise.

Intuition-6-Your Silence my freedom

It's heart-breaking to see how many people especially youngsters engage in dangerous activities in the name of "exercising freedom," watch your mouth they'd tell you, concern yourself with your own affairs, this is ma-life, and mine alone. No one should poke their noses into it.” “But you are risking your own safety, you are taking a lethal detour, I guess you were much safer in your so-called prison of home. can't you see you are causing yourself more harm than good? Please fold back, would you please stop it?” When they utterly refuse to listen and go on with their mischievous adventures, you have no choice but to let go, then later on they get into hot water and run back crying and condemning you, "why did you let this happen to me". They ask, “I warned you but you refused to pay me any attention, so I had no choice but to let you go.” “But at least you should have tried to hold me back, I wouldn’t be carrying these bruises all over my body,” they remark bitterly.

How could you help such a person whom at one moment he was attacking you for getting into his way and the next minute he's condemning you for letting him go.

Here is the story of an unpopular escape. A group of convicts decided to jailbreak from a remote prison in the alps of Siberia in mid-winter, after travelling for ten kilometres on foot, the cold Siberian winter snow and frost caught up with them, it froze hard on their backs, now they were shaking really bad. The only clothes they had were their pyjamas not a single one had warm clothing or whatsoever, the place is so remote that there is hardly a house for many miles around, “what do we do, what do we do?” Exclaimed one, “Were we not better off in prison, with comfortable beds, warm blanket and food? now we are losing our energy, we can't even find a rock shelter" the others said nothing, by this time now they were so numb, none could say a thing, the winds blew hard, snow particles settled on their heads, shoulders, on their eyelids, ears and lips.

They decide to head in the direction of the main road so that at least a vehicle could stop by and pick them up, and after waiting for two long gruesome hours a military SUV came along, it stopped by as one of them ran towards the driver, there were other people inside the vehicle, the inmate begged him to carry them along, to take them back to prison lest they freeze out to death in this horrific winter world. The other cadets inside began to laugh out loud and mocking them cruelly, "you ran out of prison, now you are begging us to take you back. You have just acquired your freedom, run away and never come back, run into the wild, where no prison guard will find you, flee for your freedom, you worked hard and smart to get it, now you want to throw it away?" “There is nothing for us out there, only death,” replied the man.

They insulted them more then drove away speedily. The men fell onto the road and cried out loud. They blamed their ring leader for a poor escape plan. They waited for another gruesome three hours when a truck came along. It found one man kneeling on the road and another crouching while the others lay still, he hooted at them but all except one remained motionless, he opened the door and came out with an axe held tightly to his left hand to inspect them, by looking at their attire he realised that these were escapees who had made a wrong move, he touched their nerves and felt their hands, all were cold as ice and were barely alive, he at once opened the back of his truck and called his colleague who was asleep to come and help him throw these half dead men to the back of his truck and bolted the doors tightly.

He was a farmer carrying food to his flock of sheep starving at his barn, he laid them on Napier grass and leaves of fodder crops which formed the bulk of the transit, he sped away to the nearby police post 120 kilometres away where he handed them over to the authorities, after going through several months of treatment at the hospital, all but one survived the ordeal. They suffered serious frostbites, to their feet and hands but all in all, they thanked their anonymous driver who saved them from an untimely end.

Our current situations however unpleasant they may seem, they may be better than the unknown we are about to plunge ourselves into.

Intuition-7-bragging brains

It’s quite common about how people brag about the knowledge they have acquired over the years, "I have learned a lot of things man, you should treat me differently," knowledge accumulated over the years is worth keeping if some day it shall find its practical applications. Then they will say, "I do not regret that I kept all that knowledge stuffed in my tiny brain for all those years, now it saved my life, very close to destruction I was, everyone can know anything, what makes the difference is the doing, if every professional were to stop working and brag about the extensive knowledge of their careers, all the public and private work would come to a standstill.

Intuition-8-Old time unbelief's

Once a military police took his pregnant wife to a general hospital, she was beginning to experience labour pains which put the young mother in great danger, upon reaching the hospital, the two were quickly directed towards the emergency section, they were definitely not going to wait for an appointment, the doctors on shift quickly rushed in to assess the situation, the woman is laid carefully onto the patients bed and was being ridden across a long wide pavement accompanied by three practitioners including the officer.

One of them seemed to have noticed the officer’s face to be familiar, "cliff, is that you?" asks one medic. The officer on the other hand seemed to have noticed his old school friend Nathan, they then proceed to shake each other's hand with a firm grip, hugged one another and tapped each other's shoulders.

"I can't believe it's you Nathan", says the Officer. Now the bed trolleying was stopped for a moment by the other practitioners, they watched in amazement as the two fellows greet one another roughly, they spoke and laughed out loud as if no one else was present. "How did you become a medic, you always performed poorly I remember, especially in math and chem.?" then Nathan replied, how did you become a military police? You were always a coward, you could not hurt a fly, I remember there is a day you hid in the ceiling of the bathroom the whole day because you feared some bully boys would peck on you, now that I remember it too well" "I guess that’s another mystery" replied cliff then in unison laughed out loud, they spoke for another minute or two, standing at the corridor, when the officer’s wife shrieked out, "CLIIIIIF! THE BABY’S COMING," she cried, another nurse who was passing by rebuked them upon witnessing this, she snatched the trolley bed from the practitioners hand and hurriedly pushed it into the maternity ward, the sluggish old men slowly strolled behind as if there was nothing to worry about, deep inside the ward the groaning lady was attended to by a pair of nurses, who quickly delivered the baby safely, the two fellows continued to discuss with one another at the narrow corridor of the ward, they discussed many things till late into the evening.

Intuition-9-how to take bitter medicine.

You know very well how to take bitter medicine, it tastes terrible, uneatable yet you need to forcibly take it down your throat for your health's sake, maybe it was the only medicine that was to save your life, so taste no matter how bad it may be should be a non-issue. All you need to do is to grab the medicine, add a few fresheners and sweeteners then gulp it down your throat with your eyes closed. And relax, you have saved yourselves from another worm. When something necessary to be done turns out unpleasant, we have no choice but to take it as it is.

Intuition-10-what I have seen and gone through.

When you try to tell a junior staff or employee to hurry up with their work, then takes that as an harassment, saying, "listen to me pal, don’t you dare speak to me that way, you have no idea the things I have gone through, if you knew you would be showing me some respect." the only reasonable way they could be replied to is like, "you claim you have gone through much in life, how come those experiences didn’t make you a better employee," those experiences should have taught you to work better and smarter, I am a contractor, the more time we spend here the more losses we make, you know that, so anyone who won't undertake their duties in the most appropriate time , unfortunately I have to remove from the schedule, there is no harassment here sir, it’s the nature of the job, if you are doing nothing, I will have to tell you that.

Everyone believes they have gone through the greatest hardships, they believe they have the biggest problems in life. Everyone believes he/she has worse problems than everyone around them.

A fellow says to another, "you have no idea the kind of life I went through in the past, can you believe that I spent seven years in a van? With nowhere to go to?" then the other replies, that’s nothing compared to my own, "I spent fifteen years sleeping in the open, you at least had a van to feel comfy inside, but I battled the forces of nature from more than two and a half decades of my life, I moved from place to place, sometimes I found sympathisers who pitied me sometimes I got nothing," he said.

Then another person who was sitting beside them said," the hardships of the two of you combined is nothing compared to the many past difficulties of mine, I spent forty years in a dungeon in a foreign country, during the great Rogtran war some of my comrades and I were captured by the enemy and put into filthy cells, they tortured us any time they wanted to for as long as they please, at the beginning of each quarter they came in and flogged us, many of my comrades lost their lives due to serious injuries caused by brutal beatings. Even after the peace treaty was signed, they refused to release us, the prison was hidden away in a far location, a place so remote that no powerful marine telescope could reach it. They delivered reports to our families that were missing in action, to them we were dead men, our families put up our graves for us, I went home the other day and saw my own grave, the people at home would not recognise me, there is not left who is able to do so, the handful I found would not accept the situation and did not welcome me, so I still remained a lost warhorse. Forty years without seeing the light of the day and without breathing fresh air, the worse feeling for me is that even after being found my situation does not improve, no one is willing to welcome me back home.

Intuition-11-Winners mind-set.

Winners look for strengths in others and become stronger, failures look for weaknesses in others and become weaker. Winners keep in account the hardships others went through before they succeeded, losers keep telling stories of others who started off well but ended up in failure, winners anticipate success in every venture, losers anticipate potential failure in every attempt, winners let the sleeping dogs lie, while losers continually remind others of the mistake they made in the past. Winners compete with themselves, they set their own records which they work hard to break, losers see everyone who is making a significant achievement around them as a competitor.

Intuition-12-What success means to you.

After successfully going through a progress some critics emerge out of nowhere and give your work a tongue lashing, they speak that way because they did not see the hardship you had gone through from the beginning, whatever you have achieved is not enough for them.

True encouragement and motivation always arise from deep within oneself, that old feeble voice that says keep going, you haven't finished yet, and there is a lot of work ahead of you. There is nothing more valuable than the inner coach.

Intuition-13-Doing the right thing the wrong way.

After four years of some gruesome work, I came to realise that I was flogging a dead horse, I had to change my schedule and turn to something more useful, as far as I can remember I have flogged many dead horses. Take for instance this case story.

Poor Studying/research Programme.

Some students came over to me a while ago to ask me for advice on how they should conduct their studies efficiently, they wanted to cover as much information over the shortest time possible, is there a miracle way to download all information in books into your brain and save it there so that you won't have to spend another day studying?" they asked me. "We want to read through the books only once then we hope to remember all information therein for the remaining days of our tuition,” “Well to be frank,” I told them the is no scientific or sorted out way to do that only if they try the fiddlers research,” they described this situation of theirs to me saying…

"I study day and night I work hard, really hard, I do as much revision as I can and as well as others do, but nothing changes, why is it that when other people study hard, they always get good grades, wonderful grades I mean, why not me? We should be awarded equally what makes the difference between me and them? They move from very good to Excellent whereas I remain stuck on this little basket of failure, but the question still remains, where is the problem, where am I going wrong? Please don’t say it's because they are smart and I am dumb."

When I did not answer he concluded it all rested in natural ability, that it is indeed a God given gift, maybe I was meant to succeed somewhere else in life and leave this book issues to the owners.”

“If this is happening to you, then there are two things involved you are either

- Not working hard enough or

- Doing the right thing the wrong way

Either of the two applies.” I said to them.

Intuition-14-Things get tough.

When things get tough, I would continue encouraging myself, to make myself believe that there are more difficult tasks waiting ahead, if I do not successfully pass through this simpler one how sure am I to succeed in the coming ones?

I often think of others who have gone through a much rougher experience, more difficult and treacherous than mine. Then say unto myself, if they did it then why shouldn't I?

Ninety nine percent of all careers in the world are about solving problems, if there is a problem somewhere then there is always somebody somewhere who can solve it.

Jane and I work very hard to sustain our family, however every day When Jane and I come back from work, we find the children have grown bigger and are demanding more food each coming day, we have to sleep less, work harder and run faster in order to fulfill our obligations as parents

When things get tough, I reflect on the life of others who went through harsher conditions, worse realities & experiences than that of my own, it then gives me the strength to work harder, hold on longer, and keep pushing forward.

Better know that in this world you are competing with nobody other than yourself, if people were to set goals and thrive to accomplish them without having to waste time watching others backs, clashes would be minimal.

Intuition-15-Do What You Love.

Some people who are claiming themselves to be professionals are teaching our juniors that they should do only what they love, then they'll have many riches, they are advocating that they should restrict themselves to focus on doing things they love very much, this is however absurd. There are a lot of things we don't like but have to do them anyway, no one likes to take the garbage outside in the morning, no one likes to clean the toilet, if we don't do any of these things simply because we don’t love them our homes will be infested with cockroaches and flies.

Use of the Scales.

I hear some popular speakers say, "If you continually imitate the works of others then you are limiting yourself to their small perceptions. if you follow other people’s ways every single step, you shall never prosper in achieving your dreams, you are blocking your path with a too narrow mind-set, well on the other hand a Formosan proverb says, “those who imitate nothing produce nothing,” their words have some truth to an extent, these are extremist ideas complete opposites of one another, the pioneers of these ideas probably were having their own hallucinations when they were thinking up such thoughts,

So we put them on the opposite side of the scales, to achieve a perfect balance, they'll help us avoid going too close to the either side of the extremes, they give us the exact quantity of how much is too much, they have set boundaries in place saying, this is the line you should not cross but you can freely operate between here and there.

A labour of love.

Mrs Fiona went to her classroom in plan to give advice to some of her successful students who have just gone to the next final stage of school, they were among the top ten students in the districts according to the national exams that were done recently, she wanted others to know what it it's like out there at the top and things they'd need to do to stay on course, she wanted everyone to be inspired to do the same.

To her surprise the kids responded positively to her remarks, in fact some told her more than she had equipped herself with, some of the kids especially poor performers ended up teaching her back, in fact it looks like she has been teaching them how to teach her back. These kids they know so much but how comes they are not performing? It all boils down to one thing, a labour of love, everybody knows about everything around this place, it’s the only thing that I will distinguish success from failure, knowing is not enough, they must do, says the famous rhetoric.

How come some of the people who seem to know everything do nothing?

Intuition-16-Pushing the lazybones.

The like-minded people speak the same word in a sentence, only the somehow successful people get to appreciate a motivational speaker’s success,

Even with the best words and phrases, you cannot make unwilling people work, sober minded needed not much preaching & mind-boggling words to wok, all they need is a simple direction, a clue, not even a full speech.

Even the best motivational words cannot drag lazybones from their chairs to work. Those who made the least contribution claim to deserve the best of the reward. They give nothing while they expect others to give them everything they have.

After working oneself extensively hard the wise fellow grabs whatever they have gained so far and walks away with it, they won't claim themselves to have more than they deserve. Losers think of themselves to deserve more.

Sometimes the best way to being blameless is to do nothing at all, if you get your hands busy to do something, you will always make mistakes.

To a lazy-bones, no volume of motivational words will inspire them to stand up with their shovels and begin the work.

There are those who go out to work their plans while there are those who remain behind to study the works of others.

Intuition-17-Getting Inclined towards your strength.

If one is planning to do something, if they really intend to achieve a particular goal then it would not be wise to openly describe it to others, saying how you are going to get something done vaporises the enthusiasm needed to do the job, when energy is released through the tongue, there is nothing left for the hand work.

This is where you fold the shirt on your arms and get down to work, you need the kind of mentality and approach necessary so that you may work smart and not hard, do more in less time and effort. It's time now to let go of the excitement and get down to work.

We shall also keep in mind that too much excitement is a distractor.

Remember the lunch party last month? Everybody was so excited that nothing gets done, at the big celebrations there was so much chattering that no one had time to handle any task, we shall have to do frequency moderation again, no too much attention-grabbing display lights, no more attention diverting comforts. From now on we shall strike while the iron is hot.

It’s high time to focus on where we are more likely to succeed for example, I find long term projects more comfortable than responsibilities you will have to handle day in day out without knowing when it's going to end. Uncertainty scares me off, those guys who are usually far sighted are definitely more likely to succeed in project oriented businesses, where you squeeze in the full volume of your passion during your first moments and quickly forget the story shortly after the project is over, these folks are good project managers, we can call them contract kings, you see them moving from plan to plan, they start a piece of work enthusiastically but then soon lose interest and shortly abandon it leaving it for a fresher one, most of their efforts drain into the first part of the work. These fellows include, manufacturers, designers, software developers etc.

On the other hand, caretakers have the ability to withstand long, slow, painful and boring responsibilities, they possess a great deal of patience, what matters to them is how to deal with current situations, our matters of interest are now, they never bother much about how it's going to be like in the near future.

You will never loose when you give in your best effort, those who put in their best shot become the best shooters in a duck hunt.

Intuition-18-getting to the headquarters.

Finding Places Where the Mood is Ripe.

My distant friend Abdul stays in the Emirates, Abu Dhabi, he complains so much about having an ineffective swimming coach, he is not elegant enough, he declares so quiet often, how I wish he was here where I live, then his case would be a little less complicated. I continually advised him to go where mood is intense and the type of business or activity one is looking for is well cultured.

If you want to learn how to ride a camel then go to Western Sahara, if you want to become a long-distance runner, then go to Ethiopia or Kenya, if you want to be a soccer star then go to South America, or Europe because that’s where the atmosphere for that particular of culture is at its most intense.

If you are in Egypt and want to learn how to swim fast, I mean really fast like a tiger shark, then you better come to the Caribbean Islands, the great Nile isn't wide enough to exercise your swimming freedom, you won't be able to throw your arms and legs more freely, here you will find fellows who will surprise you, everyone here knows how to swim, including the young children and infants, as soon as a child learns to walk, they run from their homes and go to throw themselves in the oceans, when you watch them swim you are taken aback, you will be greatly surprised, they are like wiggling worms, they swim like tropical fish, you might think they were born under the oceans. The children of the Caribbean will show you great wonders of swimming.

Intuition-19-child's strong faith.

When I saw papa leaving, I used to follow behind asking, hey papa where are you going? Can I come with you? "No!" the kid sadly receives the reply, he pleads with his dad to let him go wherever he's travelling to. He receives a scorn that makes him hurry back into the house, then before he's gone, he comes out again, watching his dad’s back disappear into the maize plantations. He then begins to visit the place regularly, on every evening, the kid comes to sit at the door steps watching his papa go, and disappear over and over again, he still believes his papa will come back the same direction he went, even if others tell him otherwise he refuses to believe, "papa will come back, and we are going to play the piano together again," even after many months past, a year turns into two, he still visits the same place, hoping he's going to watch his father come back through the same path.

Finally, one evening a human like shape slowly emerges from the horizon, it appears to be something like his papa’s hat, he runs over to meet him, he becomes the first person the Wanderer meets on his return journey, he's greatly overjoyed to see his family again, he's told that little Pippin has been waiting for him every night at the doorsteps since the day he left, sometimes he refused to eat, and stayed out in the cold night. "I knew you'd come back pap,” says little Pippin, “everybody in this house was telling me lies, saying that you were going forever. I refused to believe it, because I knew you will come back dad, you always came back whenever you went out.”

The wanderer now a veteran finally broke his silence several weeks after rest, "we were to be transferred to a different place after our first encounter in Thorn Islands, but the Supreme commander requested all captains who showed heroic moves in in the first combat to be relieved of duty, and sent home immediately, that’s how I got here, thank you Pippin for your supplications."

Intuition-20-Jumping final hurdles.

There are times when we feel vulnerable to the traps laid in our paths, but that doesn’t mean the end of journey for each one of us, when a baby is born, simply because they look tiny and vulnerable doesn't mean they will never make it into adulthood in life, or grow into an old ripe age,

If only people retained the hope and enthusiasm they had envisioned at the beginning, then their dream could not be far from reality,

Many people start out enthusiastically but when they feel they are being drawn too deep into the project and the responsibility proving too demanding, they quickly withdraw & eventually quit. They easily give up.

Most often, people think that there is one thing stopping them from achieving their ultimate dreams when in reality there are several of them, they look at it as if it is the one and only, as it may appear, if that hurdle is surpassed then believe they will be out of trouble, the truth is that dozens of barriers charge at us all at once, however you can grab them by the horns and deal with them one after another, it doesn’t matter which one you begin with. We have to believe we need to eliminate that one thing as soon as possible so that we can attend to the others in due time.

People who have long term goals are less likely to be affected by current problems they face, they simply jump over problems like hurdles in a race and those without plans are the ones that always get disappointed, their eyes stuck to the floor, crying over spilled milk, then tomorrow finds them just the way they are. It catches them unprepared, then they blame their companions for not letting them think clearly.

Should you find your way blocked by multiple obstacles, calm down and try to imagine nothing else existed inside your head except the target only, if only after you do that will the obstacles become less obstructive & less obscuring.

There is no need to wear yourself out with too much caution now since you are a simple starter, anything is worth testing, we are not certain what might work for us and all the crew members need to consider this first before jumping into any plan, they don’t know what is laid ahead.

There are always bigger obstacles ahead, when done with one hurdle, greater challenges quickly present themselves. If we were to easily be given everything we wish or ask for, then life would lose its meaning, it's no longer fun when you have all you want.

Anti-success fellows- going around them.

Only failures prevent others from succeeding, they want others to continue to fail, just the same way they themselves are. There is an old saying that those who block the way into promised land for others or discourage them from entering means that they themselves do not enter.

An ill remark that discourages you from proceeding with your project is like seeing your new clothing getting splashed with dirty water by a careless driver after walking out of the house to attend a special ceremony. If people write you messages saying your work is amateurish, flimsy, then this is your time to protest back, everyone needs time to grow it's like claiming to be born full grown, were they born as adults?

Don’t quit because of discouragement, remember the brighter the future appears to be the darker the reality is likely going to be, remember only after a very dark night that dawn comes forth.

When you shall finally look back at the past of your journey, you shall get to say, “Well it was worth it.” All the pains and sufferings vanish away.

END OF INTUITION

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Footnotes.

My most used/favourite stylistic features

- Sharp contrast

- Heavy metaphor

- Extravagant exaggeration.

The reference to masculine characters In the above stories is not a biased motive to discriminate against any gender, it's just for the purposes of description, the authors repeated use of words such as he/him/man/king are just for the purposes of enchanting the narrative, if you feel offended by them then feel free to replace them with whatever words you choose as you read along, these pronouns are NOT put in place to intimidate, you can also contact the author directly and specify which part should changes be made to and to what particular effect, the author respects all readers and will not misrepresent members of any class, age, status or gender. All readers are precious.

I am trying to avoid the inconvenience of having to jump from one side of the group to another as it easily puts the readers off, jumping from side to side, back and forth, here and there is really irritating, take for instance it's better to say, "the king came out of his castle, called the knights and asked him to take him out on a ride through the royal forests and left his son in charge of the castle," than to say, "the king/queen came out of his/her castle, called the knight/knightess and asked him/her to take him/her out on a ride through the royal forest and left his/her son/daughter in charge of the castle"

Textual homogeneity- some aspects of the words, phrases and stories share lots of similarities with one another, the keen reader who repeatedly crosscheck between different tittles will definitely notice this trend, if characters are portrayed in such a sluggish manner that makes the text boring to the reader, then reader please remember to inform the author as soon as possible.

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