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Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 26 Title:          Maximizing Your Learning Zone! Episode 25 of our daily podcast that was broadcast yesterday dwelt on "Pushing Beyond Your Comfort Zone" and I did tell you that life in the comfort zone is a life of drudgery, a life of management, a life without a shine, a life of fear and lack of faith and courage and today I am speaking on "Maximizing Your Learning Zone". It is commonly said that all that one ever needed to win the game of life is found outside of his or her comfort zone. How true is that? Take a stat of all men and women who are ruling their world, they are those who threw caution to the wind, who refused to accept their family background or gender, who pushed themselves beyond the limiting and artificial boundaries erected and created by man and society and became the best they could possibly be. There is no life

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 25 Title:          Push Beyond Your Comfort Zone!! We live in a world of uncertainties, a world where nothing is really assured. Someone labours and toils all night and has so little to show for it, another sweet talks his way to fame and fortune while yet another does not even care to lift a finger and fortune and fame are thrust upon him. That is the world we live in and these experiences have made us to develop some level or apathy towards making good progress. It's a world where you are told that the race is not to the swift, nor the victory to the mighty, a world where some people live in favour and others live in labour, a world where people who have no jobs prefer to enter the #favourmarket instead of the #labourmarket, a world where we have been psyched to label every thing that happens to us as 'Act of God'. It is the world

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 24 Title:          Your Freedom Is In Your Hands!! There is a popular saying that goes thus "Man is born free, but is in chains everywhere". I had earlier discussed breaking the physical, mental, psychological and even spiritual chains that keep us eternally bound and today I want to tell you something. It is something that either you already know or you must have heard and that is the fact that "Freedom is really not free". There are men who are perpetually bound to chains by other men, not by way of having physical chains to their legs and hands but by way of blackmailing. The blackmailers want the status quo to be maintained, they know that they stand to lose a lot if the one in bondage frees himself or herself as the case may be. Blackmailers are everywhere - in Towns Unions, in Associations (Professional, Community, Social), in

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 23 Title:          Is It Time To Give Up? So things are difficult?, the economy is still in the woods, there's widespread poverty, resentment and frustration; you have tried all you can but nothing seems to be working out, infact things have gone from bad to worse and in your mind, there is nothing else to do but to give up on life and living! do you really think that it's time to give up? Well, I don't think so. I am reminded that necessity is the mother of invention, I am also reminded that it is in times of difficult that the men are separated from the boys, while boys will cave in under difficult situations, men will always stand up to any situation confronting them, face it squarely and then find the way to tackle it. It is at times like this that creativity is called into play; if one door closes, surely another will open and our job i

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 22 Title:          Has Your Certificate Become A Stumbling Block? The system of education which Nigeria inherited from the British is one that prepares the student for life as an employee based on the certificate or paper qualification. Time was when it worked, when Companies would go to Institutions of Higher learning to recruit students in their penultimate year and hope that the persons would come work for them after graduation. Then it was good to be an employee because the pay was "good", and most of the time, the offers came with certain attachments like car, living house and all forms of allowances. It was good while it lasted. But then the economic depression came, Companies retrenched most of the Staff, there was a high level of unemployment, and crime and criminal activities became the order of the day as those without jobs found othe

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 21 Title:          Break That Box! I am sure you have heard the popular saying about "thinking outside the box". It is thought that the best way to tackle life issues is to look beyond the surface and actually extend the gaze far from the source and that's what thinking out of the box means. But today I want to ask you to "break the box". You may be surprised to hear this from me, but it is for good reason; when you are thinking outside the box, it means that you are still caged in the box and would momentarily put your head out of the hole to look around you and take in what you have seen and then go back to the box; it's funny isn't it? but that's the truth. For as long as you continue to be in the box and be thinking outside of it, you are never free. True freedom is not only about freedom of thought, it is also about fr

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 20 Title:          Not All That Glitters Is Gold!!! This is a popular maxim that I bet you have heard countless number of times that it may have lost its true meaning to you. But have you really sat down with yourself to critically examine its worth? From times immemorial gold has been one object that men and women, Kings and Queens hanker after, while some are willing to die in search of it, others are willing to kill to obtain it and all these are linked to the qualities of gold - its durability, its sacredness, its glittering and reflective nature (especially when exposed to light) and the fact that to acquire gold, one rally must be at his best either in the sports or in the mines. Little wonder then that sports men and women want to win the gold medal by any and all means. High quality gold is an object to be desired, however not all golden objects a

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 19 Title:          You Are The Architect Of Your Own Life! An Architect is someone who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings. Architects design all kinds of buildings but before constructing a building, an Architect needs to draw a plan of the building. Sometimes architects will make a cardboard or plastic model of the building. The building is then built by a Builder who follows just exactly the Architect's Building Plan. Can you relate this to the life you have? As soon as you are old enough to understand yourself, you take over the running of your life (design, plan, review, e.t.c.) and how you run it is how it is going to turn out. As the Architect of your own life, you surely need to have a foundation that is deep enough and which will endure the vicissitudes of life and the vagaries of the weather when they do come because as

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 18 Title:          I Challenge You Today! We all want a bright future filled with productivity, successful relationships, peace, prosperity and joy. The thing is, most of us hope for such a future, and then wait to see what shows up. You and I must strategize to create the future we want to live in. We must have goals that are on our mind daily because, to a great degree, our thoughts create our future. The Bible says, "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." It starts with right thinking, that translates into right actions, then we need to couple that with dogged determination and then, and only then, does the future we want become possible. So, don't sit idly by waiting for something good to come to you, start creating the future you want to live in- NOW! When we stop learning we stop growing and whatever is not growing is dying. Successful pe

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 17 Title:          Your Worst Bullies 3 - Your Inactions! The last of the worst bullies for any man or woman is his/her "Inactions" I grew up knowing that what distinguishes the rich from the poor is a 6-letter word "action". It is not for nought that the maxim has it "Action is everything" and this is tied to how our brains are wired. It is said that the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak, but those who have conquered life have learnt to move the flesh in its weakness and subject it to the willing spirit. Those who watch their dreams evaporate like the early morning dew when the sun comes out are those who refuse to submit the unwilling body to the willing spirit. Their inactions constitute their worst bully. They wake up daily determined to do something to move their lives forward, but at the slightest excuse, they

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 16 Title:          Your Worst Bullies 2 - Your Thoughts! In continuation of our talk on Bullies which started two days ago, I want to briefly talk on Your Thoughts as a mental bully to you. After reading the book titled "As A Man Thinketh" by James Allen, I couldn't help but agree that what the Good Book says "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he". Our thoughts flowing from the deep recesses of our unconscious and subconscious minds are the architects or our fortune or misfortune and this is simply because, those thoughts are what guide our tongues in producing words in our mouths and actually saying them out. Again the Good Book says that "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh" meaning that any heart that is suffused with darkness and negative thoughts would usually spill out negative words and senten

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 15 Title:          Your Worst Bullies 1 - Your Mindset! Yesterday, I shared with you my experience with a physical bully way back in my High School days. But I did tell you that even though physical bullies do hurt us, the ones that hurt us the most are the mental or psychological bullies and today I want to discuss one of them - Your Mindset. I am sure that you are not a stranger to the fact that human beings are made up of an "organ" which is not like other organs of the body - the Mind. You also know that there is the conscious and the pre-conscious (sub-conscious) and the unconscious mind. Your conscious mind is what most people associate with who you are, because that is where most people live day to day. But it’s by no means where all the action takes place. Your conscious mind is a bit like the captain of a ship standing on the bridge givi

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 14 Title:          Your Worst Bullies Are Inside Of You!! In the High School, I was the Class Prefect from Class 1 to Class 4 (I dropped that in Class 5 to pick up the School Prefectship) and in my Class, there was a huge guy who was my class mate. He was far older than me of course and quite big for his age though. He was always making noise when the Teacher was not around and each time I asked him to stop making noise, he would threaten to deal with me after School. I was not the only one he bullied by way of words, other students both in my Class and other Classes had a taste of his bullying attitude. One day, he just decided to disturb the entire class at every small provocation, I had no other choice but to report him to the Form Master, who called him to the Staff Room and gave him 12 strokes of the cane on his buttocks. He came back to the class roo

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 13 Title:          Are You Still Living In "Wishes" Land? As Children growing up, we had lots of wishes. Whenever we saw an aeroplane fly across the skies, we wished we were in there as one of the passengers, infact we went further to wish that we owned an aeroplane and so we used paper and rope to design our own aeroplanes which we ran around with. Whenever we saw a nice car pass by, we wished we were the owner of such a car. When we saw beautiful ladies pass by, we wished to grow up quickly so that we can also have our own beautiful ladies as our wives. We wished so many things back then, to travel round the world, to have lots of money, to buy cars and houses for our parents, infact the imagination was very fertile and there was no limiting it. But then we grew up without knowing it and suddenly our imagination has become so dim and limited th

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 12 Title:          Are You Your Own Enemy? I once read an article titled "The Witch In You" and I was amazed at how the writer took out time to convince the reader that most persons who may not ordinarily be witches on the outside, might just be witches on the inside. He made references to the things we think, the things we speak and the things we ought to do but which we do not do. And that reminded me of a question posed by a Man of God whom I listened to sometime ago; he stated "yes, it is that no weapon fashioned against me shall prosper" and then he asked the question "How about the weapons you fashion against yourself?" And that is what has necessitated my talk with you today. Are you your own enemy? Not many of us are aware that we are our own stumbling blocks on the road of progress because we have not been suffici

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 11 Title:          Do You Have Reasons Or Excuses? Many a time, many a man is stuck at one place simply because he lacks the will power to make that move that will catapult him out of the depth of despair he has fallen into and such inability takes him deeper into the vault of failure and depression. It is said that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result", there's no way a man will make progress if he refuses to do what is essential and necessary to achieve success. And majority of the times, men just have excuses to give for their inabilities and their failures. If it is not that they come from a poor background, it will be that they are derided by the society. If it is not that they feel inferior to everyone else, it is that they find no joy to do what they have to do. If it i

Morning Vibes With Dr. Jerry - the First Hello and welcome to #MorningVibesWithDrJerryTheFirst-Episode 10 Title:          What Are You Sowing? There is a Scriptural verse that appeals to me so very greatly and it states "as long as the earth remaineth, SEED TIME and HARVEST TIME shall not cease" This verse has really helped me to keep a check on the things I sow because as day is clear from night, that which I sow, I shall surely reap. It has helped me to learn to forgive those who have hurt me even if they do not realize it and thus make no apologies; it has helped me to render to no man "evil for evil"; it has helped me to know that if we all took the Law of Moses of "tit for tat" literally, then sooner than we expect it, the world would be filled with toothless blind men. It has taught me to differentiate the good from the bad and the bad from the very bad. How about you, what are you sowing? Are you sowing hatred, envy, covet