rasheed-ogunlaru

Your words, thoughts, intentions and actions today are your best hope, comfort, building blocks and insurance for tomorrow. But it is now alone that is guaranteed _ tomorrow is a dream, a maybe a potential gift. It__ now - not tomorrow - where happiness and fulfilment live...awaiting your discovery. It__ all this that will make each extra day that may arrive extra special and rich.

You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.

Role models are only of limited use. For no-one is as important, potentially powerful and as key in your life and world as you.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

Choose your counsel, company and companions wisely: beware seeking wise words of advice from a fool or expecting informed opinions or decisions from the ignorant.

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

Communication is the breath or death of any relationship

Our abilities and possibilities are at one and the same time very limited and quite infinite dependent on the depth of our relationship to our 'self', others and life itself.

Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself.

Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within

While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.

Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth

Just like the cast of a great movie and the career of great athletes few success stories are a one man show. Build your team and grow.

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart.

You are not who you think you are. You are not who they want you to be. You are not merely your colour, class, gender - and so on - these are quite narrow things. You are not the ideas you are given and gather. You are not what you own or lay claim to. You are not even your life story - for that changes through time, perspective, emphasis and many things. You are what resides before, between and beyond all these things." - R. Ogunlaru