Mom Dad is special.

Mom Dad, you are special gift to us.
The first proof of God’s faithfulness we knew.
We never asked for you but God gave you to us.
You are special gift we will always love to have.

Mom Dad, you are skillful artists and we plain papers in your hands.
God expected of you to make out of us beautiful images.
Trace out the hidden virtues in us,
So we may become the Angels, the Champions, and the Eagles He has created us to be.

Mom Dad, you are diligent farmers and we your field.
With you diggers and hoes, you can do great things in us.
You break the fallow areas in us to plant good seeds.
You tirelessly labor to nurture growth in us, you are very special.

Mom Dad, you are a purposeful harvester and we the yield.
You thresh us to do away with chaffs in us.
You sheave us to refine us and bring out the best in us.
You keep awake working to preserve us; you are special and the best.

Mom Dad, you are the first head teacher we knew.
You never fail to discipline us when we faultier.
In love you’ve taught us how to live our lives; what we should do not what we want to do.
You always remind us of who we’re created by God to be: Angels, Champions, and Eagles, you are a gift.

NELSON NWEGBO

Arrogance and Confidence

Arrogance is the act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others
Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Self-confidence is having confidence in one's self.
The descriptions above are from Wikipedia.
In everyday life, confident people are often mistaken as arrogant people and same way arrogant people think there are confident. Most time people become unconsciously arrogant, they never plan to but they are already. The fact remains that you may not always have the privilege to explain your action and as such the task of putting check lies on us individually. Personally watch yourself less the arrogance in you manifests in the place of confidence. We shall look at a few checks below.
Arrogance vs Confidence.
1. Arrogance is a comparison, Confidence is not. When you catch yourself comparing yourself with another person, watch it arrogance is creeping in. you are seeing the ability/skill in you and the ineptness in others.
2. Arrogance is a feeling, Confidence is a knowing. You feel arrogant but you know your skillfulness, this knowing fuel your confidence.
3. Arrogance kills trust, Confidence builds trust.
4. Arrogance is distracts, Confidence does not.
5. Arrogance repels, Confidence attracts.

THE POSITIVE SIDE OF FAILURE

Failure is an orphan is a popular saying, no one wishes to identity with failure; but as hated and abhorred by many, failure has a positive side to it. This positive side is not known and accepted but it does exist, it’s very real as success itself.
It is an understanding and possessing a good attitude to failure that make this positive side of failure glaring to all to show and appreciate. There are some proven facts about failure that one must consciously seek and have understanding of; these I will attempt to discuss in brief in this writing. All most all inventors of all age at some point or the other failed in their effort but that in no way did not discourage them or give them reason to back down in their vision and dreams. They all shared one thing in common and that is an understanding of what failure is and the lesson it has to offer to all who care to learn.
WHAT IS FAILURE: failure is an event not an identity. Men that had made impact in life had this knowing; that failure is only an event and not their identity. They never allowed the dream they had failed to actualize to define their person but had always put it in the past tense and push ahead unto getting their dream actualized. Am yet to a success who had not failed once in the past but their resilience erased the failed past and gave them an identity of a success. They refused to quit, stayed at it over time, and success beckoned on them. Those that failed in one thing continue to quit in other things.
HAVE THESE UNDERSTANDING ABOUT FAILURE
1. Failure plus persistence equal success.
2. Failure is an event or experience not an identity.
3. Those who fail and quit live to quit all their life time.
4. Failure is all but a feedback. Its mission is to tell you that what you have done is not what you need do to have desired result. So do something else.
5. Failure is a trainer. It trains your resilience.