

THE PHENOMENON  
HOW TO BECOME ONE

### SAMUEL UFOT EKEKERE

## SOARproject®.

THE PHENOMENON: BECOMING ONE.

Who is a phenomenon? I asked my students. The word phenomenon is familiar word, which i expected my students would know. I waited in anticipation of the answer but got none. Feeling disappointed, I asked the students individually. Pointing at a little white head guy, i called out "John any idea". John had an idea. I know footballers are called phenomenon, John replied. Just that? I asked again. John waved his head in negative affirmation. John was familiar with the word being used to qualify exceptional footballers but not more.

John's like many persons who use the word phenomenon but have no idea the meaning. They know they can qualify people with qualities too good to be true as phenomenon. They wonder at the qualities of these persons and daydream about replicating the acts of these persons but they never imagine they could be the ones others should be replicating.

What's your definition of a phenomenon? Describing who a phenomenon is marked with extreme ambiguity especially as it could be used to refer to many situations. However, the phenomenal state is one everyone wants to be. We do not want to be in the crowd. We want to be considered as special, different and in our own class. We want to be the cynosure of eyes attracting all the attention. Who wouldn't like to be in that giant stage of life and being the one whose name everyone's yelling? Yes something in you is that crave for exceptional glory.

Finding the answer to the question at the first paragraph has taken me into a much deeper thought. Does being a phenomenon mean having an extraordinary capability? It's much more than that. It's an evolution of some sort from the plain of the normal to an eccentric plain, being caught up in an aura that glorifies you from that simple being you had always being to that godlike state. It's a mystical state, uncommon, that the ordinary man will yearn to attain but only a few do.

The proof of our phenomenal attributes are the actions that spring forth from our wellspring of mystery, actions that are only ours, irreplaceable and unrepeatable, actions that bear our name all over it. We become the standard for which any measurement of any sort is referred.

A phenomenon is a god, adored and unquestioned. His acts are standards, his words are ideals. He is never faulted, seeming to know all. The funny truth is he never tries so hard to reach this state. It comes naturally from a deep well reservoir and he releases it string by string each one baffling that you'd wonder how he manages to string in a succinct way acts that thrill.

Why can't that phenomenon be you? What's the difference between the guys who's topping the charts and you. Nothing's different. You have the same make up and ability as those other guys but they are doing something you aren't doing. They are applying their attribute and coining them to suite their phenomenal ambitions.

If you know what your other competitors are doing and getting right, would you do it? Well, you may scream at how different you are as compared to the other person but you know within you that you are often envious of the guy who's picking all the awards. You follow the crowd of admirers who rain phenomenal praises on the guy but you feel unfulfilled that you never made it to the list to challenge the top guy.

Thank God you've finally hit the right piece. The thoughts in this book are thought provoking, practical, and illustrative. Becoming the phenomenon you want to be is not far-fetched. You can and will if you are determined enough to recognize your selling point and drive towards it.

There is a phenomenon in you that have to see limelight. What are you waiting for? Munch these words, it's meant to bring out the phenomenon in you. Release the phenomenon in you.

1

Be the BEACON

You want to be a phenomenon? Let's begin from here. Those who are phenomenal understand that they have an attracting aura around them. They see themselves as light creating warmth and brightness to people that come around them. They don't stay around dark places. They dislike the dark side of life understanding that wherever they find darkness, they have to light it up.

Your voyage to a phenomenal life has to begin with you understanding that you are a light that has to shine. The light in you is so tremendous that a single beam can change the face of a hopeless dark landscape. At this moment, this extraordinary capability is enveloped in a case of metallic covering that has absorbed all the light that you are capable of giving out. This covering makes you content with where you are (the metallic case) and makes you see no need to brighten others other than yourself.

If you visit a lighthouse, you will appreciate the beauty of light's significance. The lights in our home may just be great for our enclosed rooms but its significance is most up there at the lighthouse, what we call a beacon. Lighthouses guide mariners during traffic on the sea at night. Their intense light is often visible from a distance of over a hundred miles due to the height of the lighthouses enabling mariners crisscross the oceans and river ways without fear. These lighthouses are phenomenal saving countless lives that could have gone under water.

The life of a phenomenon captures the eccentrics of the shining beacon which releases beams of hope to travelers as they make their way over the waters of the world. The world is filled with troublous turbulent waters with persons facing dark times that require your warm hands of encouragement, support and care. They want to know they can count on you. They are looking out for you at this their darkest critical moments.

The phenomenal life begins with some service. You have to give out some light. Position yourself to be a resource from which other persons will run to for help. The more you serve people, the more you attract them towards you, and the more dependent on your light they become and soon they will always depend on you for that important service in their life. Phenomenons are dependable people you can count on to deliver the goods. They have been tested time and again and have being certified dependable.

How to make your light shine

No one wants to come down hit by ocean craters so they need light that's bright enough. If they find you a dependable hand, they sure will come running for that rush of inspiration that you can provide. But

  * First, you have to agree with yourself that you are currently in a box that's metal lined.

  * That though you have a light just as everyone has, you are not shining.

  * Recognize that every phenomenon the world has celebrated had this metal lined casing around their light that they had to break away from.

  * Take decisive steps to break the box.

How do you go about breaking the box?

The box is a hypothetical covering that limits our capacity to spring forth into the world. They are the limiting factors we place as shields or are placed by others, which we have accepted as hindrance to our shining forth.

  * Recognize you can do much more than what you are doing now. Sometimes, because we love our comfort zone where we are currently, we close our eyes to the opportunities that present themselves outside our comfort zone. The electric bulb, which provides illumination in our rooms, can do much greater work on a beacon.

  * Get the right tools. To break a metal casing is no mince job. However, with the right tools, it is uhuru. It could be herculean trying a use a stone to break a metal casing. A stone may do the job but it would be exhausting and time taking as compared to a sledgehammer. Cutting the metal casing off with an ethyl flame is a faster option than the use of a sledgehammer. What's the right tool? Do the things that expose your talent most. If you can write, write. If you can speak, speak. Get the right book in your chosen area of expertise from those you can consider as Phenomenons in your chosen field.

  * Discover your originality. As much as you may read from established people who have had their share of the phenomenal stage, the phenomenal you have to be an original. Develop the you that is in you. It's your light you are trying to let shine not some other persons'.

  * Share your originality. You may be an original but the rest of the world will have no idea you've got all that great phenomenal stuff in your head except you let them have a view. That's why the beacon is up there on the tower and not down on the sands of the river or ocean bank.

  * Be rightly positioned. If you have to shine and be seen, you have to be in the right place where you are most needed and most useful.

The understanding that comes with your knowledge that you are light is tremendous. There is so much light in you that's enough to mold you into a phenomenon but the phenomenal you will not be until your light affects lives around you and beyond. You aren't the one giving the grades. Those persons you are affecting are the ones to baffle at how you affect their life phenomenally.

You are having a massive truth in your hands right now. The summary is, if you want to be a phenomenon, affect lives, and affect them in the most phenomenal way you can offer. You are on the first stone to being a phenomenon as you shine out your light.

You can start where you are.

2

Create the EUPHORIA

Having taken the first step in shining as a beacon, the next step is an attribute that captures the minds of those you've being able to draw with your beacon of hope. You won't want to see all your success at attracting people with your beacon fizzle before your eyes. Its best you keep them and how best but by creating a euphoric air around you.

No one loves to hang around a sad person so long who complains just about everything. We are most attracted to joyful happy people. Happy people attract other happy people consciously or unconsciously. They radiate a confident air even when all isn't well. The beauty about the euphoric aura is that it's what makes people stick with you during worst times.

Isn't it baffling to observe that some of the most successful persons from history to now at attracting people and gaining the crowd were not and are not the richest persons? They are the persons with the capability to create the happy, joyful ambience that keep their followers returning for more. They keep their followers basking in a joy that seems mystical and gluing that even if there is good reason for them to break such relationships, they can't see themselves doing it. They are very well drawn by the magnetic force of these persons.

Now you are thinking. Can I develop that aura around me? My reply is why can't you? This is unbelievable but it's one truth that has made some of the greatest speakers and leaders who they are today. The world is filled with enough trouble that can keep your face toughened with all the stretch marks. It's not only you that's suffering under this spell, everyone does but those with those big smiles and phenomenal euphoric air have understood that they have to live with the troubles all their lives so they just have to be cheerful.

I had this experience with my neighbors some years ago. I was always this sad and despondent person and it told on my relationship with people. I had less friends if I had any one and it was quite difficult mingling. I didn't greet or say hello, maybe it was my low self-esteem. I struggled with it until I was admitted into the university and observed that if I really wanted to get through the university, I needed help from the people I never knew. I rose to acclaim in my class because of my academic brilliance, and this light sure attracted people to me. It was difficult keeping this people stocked because I always had this sad mien until I understood after coming across series of books especially the "the 49 laws of power" by J Green that helped me release the power in me to absorb people into my thought and to make them stick.

I got to work developing ideas I derived from these books and soon I was courting a godlike aura. I wasn't the best student in class but I captivated minds because I developed the joyful ambience around me. Though sometimes when I am alone I fall into my previous habits, I ensure that around people, I smile a lot and I show how joyful I could be and they could be. Before long my mates began to see me as exceptional far above the top students in class. I interacted with my neighbors and got their respect and reverence. People began to wonder what had happened to me and how I had suddenly changed. It was unexpected.

Over the years, I have observed as I watch other people who have had success with interacting with others better than me and try to model my life, I have come to discover this secret of creating a euphoric aura over the persons I intend to keep as a very powerful tool even if they prove too difficult for me.

Do you want to create that euphoric air around you that could keep people hanging around you and keeping you as that godly phenomenon that you wish to be?

How to create the euphoric aura?

  * Be always optimistic. People are facing tough times and they know they aren't the only ones having to go through this difficult times too. They want people who will build them and encourage them even in the face of their difficult challenges. People will always stick with people who will pat their backs and tell them "it's going to be alright." See the good in every situation and help people see it. View the glass as half filled instead of half empty.

  * Follow your guts. Making decisions in life can be truly challenging. We tend to consider many factors, trying not to take any risk. We want to make a decision that is best. However those who create the euphoric aura around themselves make decision following their guts however risky it seems. They feel happy making this decisions and they bear responsibility for their decisions. You need to make a choice to take a chance that will cause a change in your life. You might have heard people say, men that guy's got guts. They know those who act with their guts do things that are beyond the normal plain. When you follow your guts others notice and they marvel and surely would come asking how you do it.

  * Own yourself. You have to embrace and accept your difference; your habits, your personality, mistakes, the way you talk, looks, voice and most importantly you. Don't try to mimic some person. Be you and be proud of your individuality. It is the individual you people are desirous to cling to. They know all the superstars and they would crunch at you trying to copy. You have to create the original that they can copy.

  * Be compassionate. We have seen the need to be a beacon of hope. Having compassion on someone is about doing something to help someone in need. Think of effective ways that you can use to make the community outside you a better place. Offer free services such as tutorials, volunteer for a worthy course, get involved with a church group. Find persons in need of clothing, shelter or money and offer them the help they need as much as you have.

  * Smile. Scientists are of the opinion that when you smile whether you are happy or not it elevates your mood and the people around you too. Smile.

  * Forgive. Your ability to forgive however great the wrong is one attribute of phenomenal people. Forgiveness heals the heart and releases stress. It helps you develop a happier mien which in turn will radiate happiness to people around you. Remember the goal isn't for your own satisfaction alone but for the good of the whole, those outside your steel box.

  * Witness the wonder others experience. Get into the shoe of others and examine life from their perspective. Let them know you feel how they feel and you can understand why they are in the situation where they are at the moment.

Creating this aura from yourself to others has the capacity to propel you into an enigma, the kind considered too good to be human. Know the reason you exist. It isn't for yourself alone but it's for the big world outside you. You are a phenomenon in the making.

3

CATALYZE: your responsibility.

The phenomenal life is more than just creating the light that attracts, or striving to keep those you have attracted by your euphoric aura. There is a responsibility placed on you to catalyze and spur up growth and development. Becoming a phenomenon is about taking the leaders spot. The persons drawn to you come because they anticipate the effect you would be making in their lives. They want to move from where they are at the moment to a higher level.

Don't fret about this. With great power comes great responsibility, a popular statement from the Spiderman flick. If you truly want to be a phenomenon, then you must take responsibility. You must be ready to drive the whole people to the destination faster than they would have had it all by themselves.That's what a catalyst does. A catalyst speeds up reactions so that it occurs at a shorter time than it would have occurred.

The scientists in the laboratory make use of catalyst during chemical reactions to cause some chemicals to combine and form new substance. There are reaction that would never take place in real life except a catalyst is added. Phenomenal persons are the catalyst around which other persons interact with themselves and find value and essence. They spur up people interaction and encourage gainful interaction that will lead to the development of a whole new set of ideas. They make other person believe in their individual ideas encouraging them to make their ideas count by giving them all the support they need. Certainly, when these ideas become reality, these persons will always owe it to the phenomenon.

There are many people around you whose ability is phenomenal but lack the capacity to stir it. They want that catalyst in you to trigger that ability and give it a voice.

I had problems during high school with my academics. I struggled with the lower half of the class. It was painful though but I struggled with it. At the end the year my class teacher commented "Samuel is very playful but could be very brilliant". I got home and got the trashing of my life from my dad for being playful. I never knew I was playful because I thought it was normal. But things got to change. The same teacher who said I was playful began to call me "professor". It was a great comment but I wasn't up to it. But as she continued to call be by the tag professor, the professor in me erupted. I needed to be a professor so I worked at it and soon enough, I was hitting the top of the class. That teacher was a catalyst who used the power of her words to cause change in my life. She influenced my upward growth by her tag name "professor. She was a phenomenon.

Are you struggling with children, friends or even acquaintances that are having a downtime because of what seemingly is their inadequacies and limitations? You are around them because you have to help them see why they should be up there. You are their catalyst.

There are traits you will need to become a successful catalyst

  * You need initiative. Catalysts make things happen. They do not wait, they cause. They are focused and determined to get what they want. They know their end point and have developed ideas on how to achieve their set goal. They offer to take risk, and get started at achieving their goal. The initiative is for you start up the process of becoming that leading light.

  * You have to promote the positives. Off course in life, every person, idea, thoughts has its pros and cons. A catalyst blinds his eyes to the negatives and looks at developing the positive side of things. They create a buzz with their ideas and even when a strong opposition stands against them, they hold on to their ideas. The person around you may have negative sides but your responsibility is to help them see their positive side and trigger them to act in that direction.

  * You have to make change manageable. To introduce a new idea to a person could meet some strong resistance especially if the person has being using an old idea and makes some degree of success. As a catalyst, you have to develop ways to break down change into manageable chunks the persons you are spurring can easily absorb without even noticing you are trying to change them.

  * You need agility. To be a good catalyst, you have to have agility. Sometimes while working with people, you could lose sense of direction. When you do, you have to pick up the pieces and return to the path you were heading.

If you have these traits, you can become the catalyst for change in the lives of people by following the following the following approaches

  * Analyze. Analyze the people you intend to catalyze. It is certain they have needs. These needs may be general to the group of person you are trying to catalyze or independent. Note the differences that each person has. Don't try to treat everyone the same. As each person's need is, supply your catalytic ability in proportion.

  * Take initiative. When you see a need that has to be solved in the life of a person, solve them. Don't wait for complaints. Open your eyes to the needs of others and jump at solving them before they even notice they have these needs. Some person may have needs but they won't complain because they just don't know how to get around telling people about their need. When you initiate a solving process, these persons tend to hold you in awe.

  * Give and get feedback. When you offer help or aid, create a feedback mechanism to measure how effective your impact has being to the people. This will help you recognize gray areas where your effect is still needed, areas you can improve upon to have maximum impact.

  * Create an atmosphere for change. You need to develop the atmosphere for change. People should anticipate change anytime you are around. Break off from the normal status and develop air that something has to move and people have to move when you around. When you create this atmosphere, people naturally will see you as a change causer and they will naturally turn to you for some of your change effect.

Being the catalyst for change is rewarding and empowering. Grab the reins, take initiative and make deliberate changes to your life to get you to go faster than you are right now and not just you but the people around you too. That's what phenomenal people do.

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an OPPORTUINIST: be one.

Opportunities to excel don't come every time. The opportunities that make you a phenomenon comes even less, yet phenomenal people discover opportunities and seize on them. They create from almost nothing and become the attraction of awe. The good attribute about them is that they create opportunities for themselves and for others too.

We are often blind to the myriad of opportunities that hang around because we have this myopic view seeing only the dirty, dusty diamond. We lack the tenacity and skill to cut and so we throw our diamonds away thinking it's no good anyway. We are uncertain of our diamonds shining because we expect that every diamond has to shine. We have lost many great opportunities in life because of these.

The phenomenon is different. I'm sure you want to be one. He picks up the dirty diamond and smiles. I will take responsibility for the cutting and package it till it becomes the multi-million dollar treasure. Opportunities and the uncommon ones are rarely packaged in very nice packs. They come dirty and they require some patience and cleaning to make them shine. But they do shine; they are worth more than all the hassles and struggles.

What's going to stand you out as a phenomenon is your ability to recognize giant opportunities even when they look so ragged. All the giant inventors, industrial giants and their likes were people who seized on opportunity. They saw ideas that looked so worthless from the myopic eyes of other persons but converted them into money making ventures worth billions of dollars.

During my days as a teaching corps, I had a friend who was posted to the University of Osun in southwest Nigeria. He looked around to see what service he could offer in the university to get him extra income. An idea poked his head. Since he was in a university, the students would need help with their research so he came to me seeking for advice. We exchanged ideas and soon enough, he had his first seminar on tutoring interested students on the use of a statistical software known as SPSS. He got some extra income. He further provided analyzing services for those who were writing their projects for a fee. He made so much money. That wasn't enough. Since students had photocopying needs, he quickly bought a photocopier and soon he was making so much money from the venture.

As a member of a teaching corps, I was posted to a junior high schools. I observed I had more time so I decided to make some extra money with my teaching skills. I started by providing home tutorial services. I made some contacts and before a week or two, I had clients. My whole extra time was choked with making extra money that at a point I decided to quit some so as to have some rest time.

Often I remember the words of the chief executive of a newspaper house I once worked with. The man would always say, there are opportunities every time but our attitude towards them pushes them away from us. I agree with him wholesomely. We are often attracted to finished packaged but cheap products and less attracted to rusting but valuable ones. We are not ready to sacrifice some time and energy to work on a raw idea. We want a polished and finished idea.

To be a phenomenon you have to see out of the box. Pick up the rust clean it off and bring out its spark. This idea works with dealing with people too. The best hands in any field of endeavor were not the best from birth. If you want the best from anybody however raw their talent,

  * You must agree that there is so much in them which is true.

  * You must help them believe in their capacity to do much more than they are doing now.

  * Invest in them. It is the surest conviction that you believe in them.

There are a few things you can do to optimize your chances of succeeding when an opportunity come your way.

  * Get yourself prepared. In the book outliers, Malcolm Gladwell states thus: it takes time to achieve expertise. To be precise it takes about ten thousand hours of practice to become a true proficient. Ten thousand hours is no small time investment but it's worth it for the kind of opportunities that you desire to come your way. The opportunity you desire may not be around just now but develop the mindset that it is coming and begin to prepare for it. Start with what you have. You want to be a renowned speaker, start speaking even if it means speaking to an empty room. You want to be an accomplished writer, write even if nobody reads. You want to be a great dancer, dance even if nobody's watching. Once you have seriously invested yourself in the kind of opportunity you are desirous of, keep your eyes open because opportunities have a way of showing up once you've prepared for it.

  * Acknowledge that you can't have all the knowledge you need. The fact that you've invested so much time doesn't mean you've obtained all the knowledge that you need. What this means is that there is still chance you may fail because you haven't had a grasp of some truth. So keep learning. You may make mistakes and that's certain. But understanding that mistakes are just part of the bargain eases your mind and keeps you stable. Mistakes are opportunities to learn and gain more knowledge and experience. Mark Batterson writes thus "our best days often start out as our worst days. And our greatest opportunities are often disguised as our biggest problems"

  * Put a lid on those critical voices. There are people who wouldn't see good in the opportunity you are trying to create. That's normal. They will taunt you and rubbish all the hardwork you are putting into that opportunity you are trying to create. The best thing you can do is shut those voices. Close your ears to their howls and treat them like they don't count or matter. You are the boss of your life not them. If you are going to make any headway, then you've got to treat them like one of the stories that will be told like "when I started out, nobody believed I could do it".

  * Put up a fight and believe. There is always this fear that pokes into our head as we struggle to make that dirty diamond clean. You doubt if what you are doing is enough to make a spark or if what you even holding is a diamond. Well, every phenomenon had that fear too. Your fearful self is one part of you. There is another who is stronger, wiser and with a huge capacity to fight. Trigger that man. Tell yourself "I'll struggle till the last, I'll never give up." believe wholesomely in your idea and focus in creating that opportunity. Seize on the moment and be accorded a phenomenal status

You can't afford to quiver on opportunities when they come because truly opportunities abound and everywhere. Your strength lies in you understanding that you are worth that phenomenon you want to be and you can be that man or woman that will stand head high. Seize the moment and seize it now.

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the MIRACULOUS: dare to do it.

Have you thought about an action that someone has done and every one considers that action miraculous? May be the healing of a person who doctors have written off or even the raising form the dead or a slim escape from a ghastly accident. You would have heard people say "that's a miracle. This only happens in movies." Yes there are situations in life that can only be accorded the miraculous unbelievable status.

I have seen miracles happen in my life, family, amongst my friends, acquaintances and those outside my immediate block. With certainty I can say that miracles do happen. I remember watching the UEFA champions' league final some years back that featured AC Milan and Liverpool. AC Milan had gone ahead to lead in that match 3 goals against Liverpool in the hay days of the Brazilian mercurial Kaka. Everyone had thought that AC Milan would carry the day and no one gave Liverpool a chance but suddenly what could be termed a soccer miracle happened. Liverpool turned the heat and equalized going ahead to win in penalties 4-3 to win. In that match it took a phenomenal Gerard to miraculously turn the game around for Liverpool.

Miracles don't just happen; it takes a phenomenon to create one. It requires something inspirational, beyond the normal, metaphysical, extraordinary and out of this plain to create something awesome. People who have being phenomenal through history have had something to do with the miraculous. They had dared to act the miraculous.

Jesus the Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Hindi, Eck, were phenomenal in their own special way. They had something to do with the miraculous that still keeps followers generations after they have left earth in awe of them.

In these generation, there are phenomenal persons who are doing remarkable things by trying the miraculous. They acknowledge that the events they currently think impossible, unattainable or beyond reach are actually illusions.

Until now miracles were thought to be the acts reserved for "saints" or "the spiritually called." But it's no more. It is now for you who desires to leave the phenomenal life.

If you want to leave the miraculous life, then you have to do something. You must raise the volume on the loving voice within us and turned down the knob that has "fear" written all over it.

Here's what you will have to do.

  * Understand your fear. Off course no one's a superman. We must agree that inside us is the fear factor however the feeling of strength we possess. We may be assured of the action of an event but we still doubt if it's really going to happen. As a student I had huge fear about my results coming good each semester. I needed to be at the top cadre of my class and sincerely I was at the middle with a gross product of around 3.37 of 5. I wanted to climb to the second-class upper cadre at least but this never seemed to come. With each semester my fears increased. Even when I was assured that I had written an A grade course, I feared I was going to end up with a C. Often I would permutate several course grade scenarios to see if I had a chance of getting into the second class upper grade soonest. The great thing was that I was brave enough to shoot ahead accepting that the fear was normal but it was not an hindrance. I kept sight of the goal and I broke into the cadre the last semester of my final year in school. I heaved. You must understand your fears and accept their existence.

  * Show a willingness to change. Once you have a view of what the fears are, you need to develop a willingness to change opening our heart, and mind to new perspective and possibilities gaining renewed energy to push on in the new light. The willingness to see beyond the fear zone raises your consciousness to new possibilities driving the inner man, (the one that wants you to live the phenomenal life) into an ignited state for change. Often the guidance may come in the form of intuition, inspiration or synchronicity.

  * Intuition: you may feel an inner knowledge offering guidance. It's like getting water from a deep well. It comes in an uncanny flow that absorbs your thoughts.

  * Inspiration: this is a feeling of flow of excitement that comes through when our thoughts and actions are aligned with love.

  * Synchronicity: there are moments when you are thinking about some person and that person happens to call you. Like thinking about your mother and suddenly the next knock on the door is hers.

  * Forgive. It is said that the easiest sin to fall into in Christendom is lying but the most challenging act is forgiving. Forgiveness is a guide to cleansing ourselves of the old, junky lifestyle of fear, worry, doubts and suspicion to that of hope. Not to forgive keeps its victim in perpetual bondage. When we forgive we illuminate love, hope and beam of smiles. Forgiveness is like air, we need it to survive.

  * Show gratitude. Start every new day with a grateful heart. It helps us live in abundance, acceptance and appreciation. However small the act that some person has shown on you, it pays to show gratitude. You must embrace a way of life that is always grateful especially to the Supreme God from whom the whole essence of life strings from.

  * Express love. Love is the greatest commandment for any human existence. It is the crucial ingredient in leaving the miraculous life. You can't be phenomenal in the miraculous if you don't love what you are doing. Living with an open heart with love as the summary of our existence gives us purpose helping us embrace life in its fullest. If you must deal with fear, then you must embrace love.

Building these principles in your life pushes you more and more into the miraculous. You become the subject around which others experience the miraculous too. When you experience love, peace and joy and it beams beyond your immediate borders, it attracts others who want to experience these too. While I was at school, I might not have been the most attractive in outlook and appearance and to be frank, I wasn't close to the average guy at looking great. But my peers often wondered at the life I lived. They would come asking me what the secret of my life is. I always felt great and I did share with them the secret, I had the phenomenal life at view.

I have seen miracles happen through me to others. I've helped people who had less believe about themselves and have given them reasons to be joyful and glad. I know that in the twinkle of an eye one impossible situation could turn around and become a testimony. I have being the centre around which these things have happened and you too can be.

Come on phenomenon, live the miraculous life. It is possible and very indeed. I know this because I've seen my own life change too. I feel a sense of certainty that there is a power greater than myself supporting my every move, making me into a god the kind we call phenomenal.

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your unique INDIVIDUALITY: create it

Everyone is a unique personality however the semblance with some person that has being before. Our world is filled with too many crowds that soak the true identity of those who would have stood out. The bandwagon effect is the mitigating factor that those who intend to be Phenomenons must fight. It's a really big challenge especially as it seems the attractive and very convenient option. However the challenge, you will have to get of the band wagon and let it go.

How about taking a trek?

The availability of the bandwagon eases worry of getting to the destination, but it heads to a crowded destination. Phenomenons don't share the stage with the crowd. No, they watch the crowd from the stage. The crowd can afford to ease their way to the concert with some silly lucre any time they desire but the phenomenon will have to walk and work his way to the stage and prove he is worth watching. What this means is you may have just only you trekking that long route to the phenomenal status at the beginning with people mocking and yelling at how foolish you may seem. But if you continue the trek, you will find people who certainly will believe in your trek and they'd jump from their wagons and you'd soon need a wagon too and your new status will be driver position rather than being driven.

  * Here's some things to note about the trek

  * It could be TIRING at first. Imagine trying to run the 1KM distance for the first time. Its often a huge task for first timers. You'd lose sweat fast and you'd consider quitting at the first time before even reaching the 500m mark. That's the same feeling trying to become that individual phenomenon creates. You may tire or wear out over thinking of the silence that characterizes the initial individualistic life and the seemingly heavy load of work you have to do. Like the would-be athlete who continues until his body adapts and is disciplined to the distance, you have to persist.

  * It may not seem the REALISTIC option at first. Just imagine jumping down the band wagon with all the noise and seemingly joyful people and choosing to trek solemnly the distance where the crowd is heading especially if you have kilometers to cover. It doesn't seem realistic. But individualistic phenomenal people dare to do the unrealistic. They jump out from the wagon and yell "to hell!!" with the howling mob. They'd rather enjoy the silence and inspiration that comes with a trek; feel the pain that the distance may offer knowing that at the other end when they get to the concert, they'd be the ones the howling mob would be watching.

  * It could be EXCOMMUINICATING at first. Those who have lived the phenomenal life had that initial misunderstanding with the crowd in the bandwagon. The crowd turn their eyes against them, seeing them as threats to what seem like their elusive joy. Check on Bill Gates, Martin Luther, Reihnard Bonnke, W.F Kumuyi, Yongi Cho, Martin Luther King Jnr., Mohammed Ghandi and all those who have started one movement or the other through history. The common story you'd get is they were misunderstood, misconstrued and excommunicated from where they had belonged because they chose to develop their new individual thoughts quite different from what they were used to.

  * You may be considered KIND OF NUTS at first. Everyone who's on the crowd think the crowd is the major way to flow. If you are not on their bandwagon then you are nowhere. You may be considered whack, thoughtless, cracked or perhaps even mad. But that's the only way the individual you can be created. You have to accept their verdict at least for now and head on with the phenomenal you in mind.

Developing and maintaining your individuality is a huge task in our modern society especially with the use of propaganda and mass conformism as a means of helping people find sense of value in the community around which they live. This system often has a huge effect on persons who choose to single themselves out. We are faced with a society that kills our capability to think out of the box and abnormal sometimes because we are offered norms and sometimes, even fines against this norms. We often find it difficult to find that individual who we truly are but rather we stick to this callous waste of our energy.

You sure want to break off this.

  1. Spend time with yourself. The strongest part of us is that longing to be welcomed amongst our friends, colleagues, acquaintances and associates. We want that enjoyable communication flow that keeps us around these persons. While this is healthy, we need to learn to spend time with ourselves. This might seem lonely and sad a situation at first but its only in activating this side of us that we truly live the words of Plato "man know thyself, an unexamined man is not worth living". Take some time out in the warm hands of nature and bath yourself with mild creative inspiration that can only come when you are alone. It doesn't mean you are leaning towards being an introvert. Rather you are reflecting into yourself and getting to know yourself better than you already do and you will be able to create your original thoughts and pattern of life that is uniquely you

  2. Try creating something and anything however little. We are individuals with characteristic nature and purpose. We often come to this realization but because of the "adoption of common front" or the "application of universal principles", we have blinded our eyes to the individual us and what we are capable of doing. There is an original creative instinct inside you that is only yours. It's the same for the over 7 billion people who leave on earth's ground. Our genetic makeup is all different meaning God created us differently each to be creative ingenious. There is something creative about you that is too special in a world of over 7 billion persons. Begin to create. If you can write, write. If you can talk, talk. If its sculpting you are good at, do it. If you are good in acting, act. Surprisingly, Phenomenons are not created because they made their way to school. No, they tapped into their creative ingenuity and seized on that. The academic system provides us with already known knowledge. You can't make difference with what is already known. What is inside you is unknown and that's what drives all the scholars crazy. They want to know what the great new idea you are pouring out is. The truth is an original idea however minute it is, is worth a billion already existing idea however giant they may seem. So now, get at creating, that's where your individuality lies.

  3. Set your goals high. For you to get out of the bandwagon of similar thinking men means you know there is something the crowd cannot offer. The crowd only comes to watch and you are not going to watch. You want to be watched. What this means is, your goals must be far apart from that of the crowd. You won't want to make that long trek only to go and watch along with those who had used the wagon. The trek then would be a foolish act. You have the stage at sight. Your goal should:

  19. Stimulate you to get off the bandwagon, make the trek and get through all the challenges that comes with the trek until you make it to the stage.

  20. Target being the cynosure of attention rather than watching those who are the objects of attention.

  1. Activate a passion to improve your creative instincts infinitesimal until it becomes the standard for others.

  7. Get you off the distractions that may come as a result of your seemingly delay in reaching the stage and the mocking that may come as a result of this.

  5. Encourage you with a brighter picture than where you are now.

You cannot afford to lose sight on that delightsome big picture you have creatively designed. You may not be encouraged at first and some unambitious person may advice you to give up because they are afraid of realizing their bad mistakes in life. You can't afford to give up until you achieve your goal.

  4. Allow your instincts rule and be fearless. Encourage your individuality by standing up to defend your thoughts or opinions even if others say they are wrong. Allow your instincts rule and direct you rather than some cowardly person who has not achieved one bit before. It pays to find who you really are and what you really stand for and spread the news about it.

  5. Create your own purpose. What is your purpose? It seems a question clouded in some mystery. To make it easier, find that act you love and can't do without every day, note it. Find people who have lived their lives doing what you love. Meet them, share ideas and then create your own individual identity at what you love. You love music. How about quitting singing people's song and writing yours? You love reading books. How about writing books that others will read? Get at creating on what you love doing and before long you will find you have created your own big purpose for living.

With all certainty the individual you is what everyone wants to see, but everyone won't see it and they won't allow themselves the fun of seeing the individual you if you are hanging with them. The bottom line is; you will have to quit everyone to be someone.

7

be NATURAL: that's what people celebrate.

Since the sporadic growth of industrialization, man has developed his own creations similar to natural sources. They've called it artificial or man-made. It is a fake version of the natural, a kind of imitation, not close to the real thing even though it may look flashy. Human society has come to accept the artificial life as the best because we have lost sight with the natural life. We have lost sight with what we really are (our natural selves) and held on to pseudo placed on us by the society. We go about with dilapidated cocoons delighting in them when indeed we look better without them.

The seeming attraction of the artificial is because of human craving to want to be what they aren't. We have this tendency to show off as being something (carrying effect) when in the real sense, we are just carcasses. Our ladies go about with artificial air, artificial toes, artificial skin colors, artificial nose, artificial everything and these ladies are the choices of artificially minded men.

The phenomenon has always and will always reject the cloak of artificiality placed by society. They refuse society coverings, reject titles of any sort, and refuse any magnanimous attributes. They choose to be their true selves for which the world must accept.

The natural life is a challenging life because of what seems like the popular artificiality that characterizes life. Everyone who desires success seems to do so because of the artificial benefits accrued. They prepare titles for their future glory, edify themselves as gods (not people enthroned) and place around themselves security aides. Its challenging not to think greatness without courting with these notions of life. But not the phenomenon. The phenomenon exhibits a naturality that is humane. He reckons with himself and not the picture that society expects he wears.

One phenomenon that could make you marvel is the man Mohammed Ghandi. From England to South Africa and then back to his homeland India, he showed glaringly what a phenomenon he was. He took the struggle of his people and made it his and when one would have thought he had achieved so much and live with the dignity that his achievements had brought him, he accepted the simple life choosing rather to leave in his single room contented with just a cloak, his bed and his writing materials. He brought the struggle for India's freedom to a head. Ghandi rejected any dignifying attribute of any sort. Rather he thought his followers the power in being natural, leaving all the cleaving of life and keeping confidence on God. That was indeed the secret of his success.

The phenomenal human views life from its natural view. He tries to keep at par with nature ensuring a "unity" that is unusual. He strives hard against the cloak of artificiality around him and manages to cut away from them.

One truth is, there are only a few people with these natural leanings so when the world of artificial people sees one, they yearn to have a second view of them and maybe as many times as possible.

Striving to be natural requires you;

N. Negating generally accepted values. Breaking the crowd syndrome is one-step towards being your natural self. You will have to give up the generally accepted artificial life and hold on to who you really are, the you.

A. Activating your individuality. Since the crowd suffers from the artificial syndrome, the best way off the crowd is a natural way of life, which is a difficult pattern only phenomenal individuals dare.

T. Tasking your mind. The crowd thinks the common mentality. You will have to draw from your own inspiration by tasking your mind and drawing from its well of inspiration.

U. Underlining your individual talents. Everything about you must be stressed. Stressing general obtainable talents makes you a member of the crowd, stress your slightest individual talents and you look just you and natural.

R. Reckon with your capacity. Everyone's got his own individual capacity. Accept your difference, don't strive to be like the Jonesses. They will be the Jonesses and you will be you.

A. Amplify your innate skills. There is something inside you that comes with you into the world. You never strived to develop it. You discovered this skills as you grew. That's the innate skills. Amplify them, that's the difference maker.

L. Live with nature. Nature arouses our intellectual capability. Sometimes you can afford to align yourself with nature and learn from its silent whispers carry enormous messages. Nature never competes, it stands out. It doesn't struggle to be seen, you notice it just the way it is. If you are in line with nature, you will naturally be noticed for your unique capacity, capability, and skill

The natural man is down to earth, simple and magnifies an ordered life similar to what nature offers. He upbraids the beauty of his natural self and elevates higher his natural tendencies more than any other attributes that he may have. He stands his head high up there because his natural beauty attracts more within a crowd of artificial minds. His steps are often impeccable with strong allusions to natures wonder creations that other minds do not fail to agree on his difference.

Though our human faculty has being abused by the crowd of artificially minded people, there is still that instinctive attribute that yearns to return to that natural self we once were in the early days of innocence. The challenge though has being that a difficulty index has being placed before us that we have to struggle against. The difficulty index is the charm of artificiality.

Artificiality Charm;

  * Carouses our mental state blinding us to the possibilities available if we stayed true to who we are.

  * Hardens our resolve to be accepted amongst the crowd because of the seductive capacity that it carries.

  * Activates crowd sensuality that drags us deeper and deeper with the crowd.

  * Releases spasms that dare our ability to try breaking off.

  * Magnifies the nonexistent beauty that artificiality claims to provide.

Once you can break free from this charm, you are on your way to the surreal life that the natural provides.

At this juncture, here is what the natural life provides;

  * Significant bliss.Imagine being at the side of the ocean and all the cool breeze pouring from the ocean. You feel you should be there all year long. That's what the natural life offers, an unending bliss too significant to overlook.

  * Uncanny audacity.The natural life portends an audacious life that is somewhat weird and mysterious. It only takes an uncommon audacity to jump off the bandwagon and take a long trek. But that's all possible when you stick to the natural side of life. Why can't you use your legs? Must you use the wagon always?

  * Realistic joy.The artificial life may boast of all the possibilities it can boast off but one certain fact is it tries to prove it can go beyond the natural life, which is a far lie as it comes short of the natural in all things. The natural life provides you with realistic joy that transcends beyond your imagination. You are not too ecstatic and then your hope dashed like taking opium. You have just enough of what you want that provides you with enough joy for that time and beyond.

  * Rest.Living the natural life provides rest. You have so less to worry your mind about because you are certain things always going to naturally find its place.

  * Excitement.The excitement that comes with the natural life keeps you always anticipating more. You just can't get enough of it. It's an excitement free from hurt, pain and any of the negatives that come with the artificial life. The artificial life provides a joy that hurts. You seem to enjoy the pleasure and then just after it, you get the hurting that comes with it.

  * Admirable life.the benefits of the natural life ensure you remain the cynosure of all eyes. Guess what? The people who assumed you were acting weird and odd to have decided against their artificial lifestyle would consider changing and maybe consider joining you.

  * Leviathan pose. Living the natural life makes you look larger than life when indeed you are simple. You look bigger and stronger having gotten through the difficult hurdles that comes with striving against the artificial life and overcoming.

The would be phenomenon must be fully aware that if he must truly standout, he must create an awareness with himself, the natural instincts imbedded in him and ensure he brings them straight from his heart to the fore. Only then would he enjoy the benefits of being who he really is, the natural man.

8

that's the GARGANTUAN

I was watching the final of the UEFA champions' league 2014 between city rivals Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid and I recall the phenomenal Cristiano Ronaldo pose of the incredible hulk. Oh! What a soccer giant we assume Ronaldo had become. He was far ahead his closest rival Messi scoring the most goals in a season in the champions league. What I admired though was his gargantuan stance indicated by the incredible hulk. He had given himself the acclaim as the king of champions' league football. That's what the phenomenal life makes you become, a Gargantuan.

Evading through the difficult webbings of struggling with the crowd and creating your unique identity, your next quest is towards being the acclaimed at being you. You have successfully made the trek alone and then perhaps some person saw fate in you and desired to join you but all the way it has seemed a silent unknown journey. Well the quality of the journey is when you get to its end and the crowd discovers that you were right to have decided to be you. They see you on the stage amongst others too who have taken time out to take the trek. It's at first unbelievable but they must accept it.

Now here, amongst those who have made the stage, there still is the cadre. There are those who are renowned and those who are just starting up. I've been to a concert the African music icon Akon was billed to attend. Akon was the key man at the event but there were a chain of other talented and renowned artist who would wet the floor in anticipation of Akon's arrival. The artists, each did their best to pull the crowd with their individual capabilities each one different and original and the crowd so engrossed with them that one would assume that Akon would be a shadow. But no, Akon was the giant, others were tall enough to be seen by the crowd. Akon proved beyond all doubt why he was known as the king of RnB. His performance was indeed gargantuan rubbishing all the previous acts added together.

A handful of persons make their way to the stage but only one person is crowned king. Let's take a musical stage for example. You'd find dancers, drummers, disk jockeys, singers and the lead singer. The attraction is towards the lead singer. This does not mean that the others won't get a share of the crowd view but at least 95% attention is grasped by the man who decides to jump out of the wagon first while the rest 5 goes to those who jumped behind him in faith.

The phenomenal man never shares his glory. He grabs the bulk of the attention shadowing all other persons that manage to make it to the stage. My example of C Ronaldo in the final speaks enormous volume of this principle. Ronaldo only managed to score a penalty for all his efforts in the match but he attracted all the attention ahead of teammate Sergio Ramos who had scored the equalizing goal and given Real Madrid the chance for a comeback. The reason is because Ronaldo is the phenomenon around which the team strings.

The gargantuan stands head high beyond the reach of any close rival. His absence is certainly felt. You often will not have to wait so long to know he is not around. This is because every other person finds essence being around him and they will return to their ordinary capabilities if he is not around. He is the inspiration that propels others to rise to his own capability. The brazillian team was a shadow of themselves at the 2014 world cup they hosted. The reason being that the sole gargantuan motivation Neymar Jr. had an injury in the quarterfinals against Uruguay which they had won. The absence of Neymar proved a big loss in the next match as they were walloped by hard fighting Germany 7-1, the largest defeat in that world cup.

The qualities of a gargantuan include but are not limited to:

  * Creating giant strides. His steps have to be long enough to be looked upon as example. He thus has to work often extra hard to place the gap ahead of others

  * Taking the lead actor role. The gargantuan is ready to be seen everywhere doing something. He does not fold his hands watching. He strives to be everywhere almost every time for the group in which he walks with

  * Raising the capabilities of others. Because the gargantuan is always seen, those around him are often noticed too. Those around him are also considered to be exceptionally talented too even if they may not be as the gargantuan.

  * Getting people to work. The gargantuan acknowledges the power in others. He may be so acclaimed and renowned but he knows he needs others to pull the strings for him so he makes space for others to do their part. He creates opportunities for others too.

  * Arousing attention. The gargantuan courts attention however little the opportunity. He often plays to the gallery to ensure people come to his direction.

  * Needing attention.As much as the phenomenon arouses and attractions the attention of others, medical care, food, etc because he plays a significant role.

  * Underlining responsibility. The gargantuan is responsibility defined. He bears the burden of others and the team (if he is a member of a team) and ensures others alongside himself are well given care.

  * Activating inspiration. The gargantuan is inspiration defined. He has this well of inspiration from which he draws and offers to others too so that when he is around there is enormous inspiration to carry every one along.

  * Negating competition. The gargantuan doesn't like competition. He loves being on top alone. He may enjoy the fun of others competing for lower positions but not for his. His position he believes is solely his.

Being a gargantuan is one special attribute Phenomenons need. You can't be a phenomenon if you do not stand head high psychologically, educationally, financially and otherwise. How do you become a gargantuan? Here's where the problem lies. But it's all way too easy if you follow the next few steps outlined here

Steps to becoming a gargantuan.

  1. Recognize who, what, how, and where you are isn't who, what, how, and where you should be.

  2. Discover the difference you want to have and make.

  3. Identify your unique attributes, the things that you know deep inside you, you haven't seen anybody yet with.

  4. Develop the identified unique attributes. Gargantuans develop their unique capabilities.

  5. Get people to see your unique attributes. People are the ones who measure your capability. You become huge as your capabilities become acclaim.

  6. Lend a hand to those in need of help.

  7. Support the development of others to see their own capabilities and reach towards attaining them.

  8. Be courageous and take responsibility.

  9. Increase learning by acquiring more knowledge and staying ahead.

  10. Write down your experiences into book formats for others to learn from.

  11. Share through videos and audios your experiences and challenges at reaching your feat. The more you share knowledge, the more you become renown.

The phenomenon's gargantuan attribute places him head above others. He is never limited by any circumstance because he often knows how to climb ahead of the situation. His huge posture proves supportive of him. He stampedes over his challenges.

That astonishing you has to develop the gargantuan pose. You must be the gargantuan.

9

dare to be OUT STANDING and OUTSTANDING

We have seen already that the phenomenal man jumps off the band wagon of crowd tinkers and obeying rules to a new world of acting on his own set of rules and walking alone at least at the beginning of his pursuit. The major reason is that you can't be a phenomenon with the crowd. You can't ride in the same vehicle with mediocres and expect not to be tagged one. You have to jump out and forge a new front. It means you have to be out standing.

The "out standing" man (please note the difference) often makes a choice to watch the crowd. We've seen the stage already as a place where those who choose independent paths often reside. Those who happen to stay on the stage are often the ones who have made the decision to be out standing. They choose to stand away from the group of other seemingly standing people. Some persons may be standing but on the wrong ground. They fix foot on sinking ground and may be very seductive in attracting others who are themselves blind. You can't afford to join others when you can see higher ground up there.

If you visited a concert, especially the reggae hip-hop type, you may have noticed that the crowd also stands. Sure, everyone seems to stand but some are out. Some are watched while most do the watching.

The out standing man is that one who has chosen to take a short though difficult trek away from his friends, colleagues and the conventional thinkers. They are the ones who don't mind having a different thought pattern even if everyone think their thoughts are absurd. This people know that if they have to be outstanding, they have to get out standing.

"Out standing" is the action, outstanding is the endpoint. You sure want to live an outstanding life. Only those who dare to stand out becoming outstanding.

What are the attributes of the out standing man?

  * He dislikes orders. The need for orders is because the crowd has to be checked. Individuals don't need order; you won't be ordering yourself about. The man who stands out also breaks away from the crowd order.

  * He eschews uniformity. You can't afford to be out standing if you choose to be clothed on what everyone's clothed with. You will be no different. The difference comes when you remove that cloak and put on your own difference.

  * He creates tall orders. The out standing man does not wait for others to create his challenges. He goes about creating his own challenges and often big challenges and then strives to overcome them.

  * Space space space

  * He epitomizes Simplicity. Being out standing does not mean you have to be rugged or harsh in appearance. The ruggedness is only of the minds defiance by the phenomenon. He often stands out a huge difference in humility and simplicity, plain to who he really is.

  * He'sthick. The out standing man has everything that characterizes the man of confidence. He is a well of knowledge, standing tall in the face of turbulence proving often very strong against challenges.

  * He's always active. Here is one super attribute of the out standing man. He shows activeness. He is not sterile. Where his capacity is required he builds and encourages others to do same too.

  * He's always natural. Here's the beauty of the man who stands out. He is just him, true to who he really is. He is an original expressing his true self and the reality of who he really is. He does not try to be like the Jonesses. He finds what makes him and develops that.

  * He is sometimes defiant. What a huge difference the out standing man makes. He can defend himself against and stands ragged against rule or laws that are oppressive. He is the crowd mover leading people to take a stand against what's wrong.

  * He is an icon. The out standing man is the man who becomes iconic. He is the hero who does exceptional acts who others find to follow. He is hailed and celebrated.

  * He is a do it nowpersonality. The out standing man does not wait till tomorrow to do what he can do now. He steers his ship and takes that decisive step now.

  * He is a going man. The out standing man is who he is because he has decided to go. He has decided for a move from where he is to take opportunities and seize as many as possible that he can seize.

The attributes of the out standing man is what makes him outstanding. Because he exhibits this attributes, he finds himself in the middle of the stand out possibility, he is naturally noticed, a difference, a difference maker, a change causer and a mover. One can easily notice the difference without even a second thought. This is because of his massive attributes that are naturally vivid before the crowd of onlookers. Here is why the phenomenal man steers towards this attribute.

You too can ride your ship in the light of the phenomenal. Here's how.

How to stand out to be out-standing and outstanding.

The beauty of the phenomenal life is the difference it helps you make and create. It creates an aura that's unusual and keeps you up at the top where only heroes dare. It's the attribute that differentiates real time heroes from mediocre. You can be one by

  1. Acknowledging your difference.Your originality isn't out of doubt. There's no one like you and none could be. Activate your difference. When you do, you will be appreciated for it. The people who are phenomenal know they are who they really are. They may be some debars and frailties but that makes them even more beautiful. Your difference is your strong reference point.

  2. Recognizing your potentials.Inside everyone is the potential factor. You have a huge capacity that's immeasurable and incomparable to some other person. Recognize your potentials, discover them and instigate them. The possibilities that your potentials carry are huge. Many don't reach their potentials because they often do not recognize they have potentials at all. Many do recognize their potentials but do not activate it. How do you recognize your potentials? What's your potentials? It is that thing you love doing that you can't imagine yourself not doing. You have a potential there which if you propel could be your selling point. Phenomenons do very well by recognizing their potentials and they activate it. Do same.

  3. Aiming towards being the best at your chosen potential.I've said that some persons do recognize their potentials and don't activate it. A handful though recognizes their potentials and push for it. There are many like you who have similar potentials. We have many potential writers, actors, footballers, dancers, engineers etc. and they aim towards becoming what their potentials drives them towards. However there are demarcations of achievement. Let's take the music school for example. Singers are of categories. Though all musicians are great potentials, yet some are multiplatinum, platinum, local, national, sub continental, regional and continental musical icons. Not all of them play on the same stage. The difference between the local stars and those who go multi platinum is that the later aim towards being the very best at what they do. Your potential is great and many do have your kind of potential, but you have to strive to outdo them.

The phenomenal outstanding man gets all the awards ahead of others. His performance always shows class and often a huge gap between himself and others who are plying the same path with him. Others with similar potentials also recognize his huge immense attributes and acknowledge the huge gap he's placed ahead of them.

Your standout difference is your phenomenal attribute. Stand out.

10

create NOBILITY and be NOBLE.

The phenomenal man never drops from space. He often isn't born noble. Those born into nobility also often do not make it to the phenomenal life. The phenomenal man creates nobility and builds himself around this attribute. You may be familiar with the phrase "great men are not born but made". Truly, phenomenal men aren't born but made. Check through your history books all the phenomenal men you've come across, one attribute is familiar around them. They come from little backgrounds uncelebrated and unheard.

The quest for nobility is one that is revered. It's an illustrious quest for those who think they must achieve it. It's a quest that permeates through every right thinking man who wants to get away from the normal life. The beauty about this life is how it makes you look grand, larger than life and absolutely spectacular.

Nobility is a trait that was once considered as privy to kings and queens and their royal households. It was never for the common man until the development of a new dynamic leadership style in "democracy" that has taken power away from the click of traditional nobility to the hands of the people. The beauty with this trait is everyone can develop it.

The mishap though that seems a familiar norm is what seems to be the abuse of these attribute. Many persons do not understand what nobility really is. They are thus often misled towards untoward traits in their quest for nobility. They make this quest a "do or die" affair and finally hit the away stretch lost and never to be found.

If you understand the nobility trait, it could help you build and create a purposeful target, envisioning what you desire and then it placing you at the centre to attain this trait. So here we go

What's nobility?

This is thought provoking a question with often a myriad of answers from varying schools of thought. Crazy cults, religious organizations, academics, etc. have being famous for their seeming claim to having the ability to evoke this attribute in their members. Some also have being infamous for this claims. While your search for nobility is on, your quest for the phenomenal life must be the propellant.

Defining the word nobility is such a huge task but it's easier when we observe the attributes expected of such lifestyle.

  * Nobility stirs dignity. The dignity of the phenomenal man is always the centre of attraction and attention. He carries himself with such carriage and respect often seeming bigger even when he knows he is not. He has a huge self esteem which lifts him higher amongst his peers and creates an aura of respect around him

  * Nobility stirs superiority. Superiority is the order of nobility. Those who pursue for nobility whatever path they tend to take do these because of the aura of superiority they want to have. The quest for superiority is not uncommon. This quest resides silently in every one but is often instigated by ones discovery that he can take a bolder step and stand head high above others.

  * Nobility stirs aristocracy. The superior life that nobility stirs often leads to a class order. The superior man thinks he has to deal with superior people like he is so he gets about searching for people with similar attributes. A class order is created and defined. This is what is observed in many social as well as political organizational outfits. This class system now stirs a battle or fight for attainment. The phenomenal man finds himself though in the higher cadre of superiority class.

  * Nobility stirs goodness. The phenomenal man whose quest for nobility is intact often yearns towards goodness. He stretches his hands to uplift and lift others. Their quest is always towards being godlike stringing forth goodly benefits towards those in the lower cadre of life. It is believed that you are nobler when more people can attribute their success and their achievements to you. The beauty of the life of nobility is the increased sense of goodness that it offers.

Our push towards achieving the phenomenal life won't be complete without that huge sense of nobility and all the attributes that comes along. The challenge though is that living this lifestyle seems a huge challenge especially as it seems an attribute for the wealthy class. However whatever class you find yourself, you can live a life of nobility.

Understand first that the life of nobility isn't a quality within the privy of those that have wealth or riches only. Even the poor man on the streets can attain this lifestyle once he acknowledges that this attribute is one of the heart or mind rather than of possession. The beauty about this lifestyle is that it's all about self-discovery. Once you discover your huge value, you can create your nobility form there.

How do you create the life of nobility around you? This is quite simple.

  1. Acknowledge you have nobility in your birth. You don't have to be a prince to have it. It's in you already right from your birth. There is no difference between a baby born in the house of a king and that born in the house of a peasant. If they are both given equal treatment, they would both respond positively to them. Nobility doesn't come by virtue of place of birth. It is an inherent trait in everyone.

  2. Develop knowledge on traits that characterize nobility. The traits that characterize nobility are learned. One can develop such traits and apply such knowledge to live out their life in the most suitable path.

  3. Practically live out the noble life whose traits you have learned. The noble life is to be practically lived. Talk, dress and act in the noblest way. Your noble status has to be practically seen by others.

God has put in every one the noble character. You have it just as the son of the king. You are the son of a king, and that king is God. Don't accept delimiting attributes that do not describe who you are, what you stand for and where you must be. You have the vivid capacity of a noble man. Stir that capacity. Don't accept less than what you are worth.

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be the EDUCATOR

The greatest gift one could have is the gift of educating. While it is a necessary gift which everyone benefits from, it is still a very much elusive gift. Only a few persons have this gift, your guess may be right, only Phenomenons do.

The rare privilege of being an educator stands one out especially as one has to stand on the stage over the students. As a necessary act, the students have to face the educator. Not everyone gets people looking up to them so the educator has a huge privilege on his side.

To be an educator means to share knowledge. The educator must have developed keen knowledge of what he is trying to pass across. He might have learnt by experience, association or under the scholarly prowess of another highly knowledgeable individual. The fact that he is having to transfer knowledge or information to other persons means he carries with him knowledge that is scarce.

The educator serves as a medium to transfer scarce knowledge. He keeps the trend of information going and ensures what he knows doesn't stop with him. He is a genius who has perfected his art and proves ingenuity at it.

Because the educator has what people want, he is often desired. His desirable qualities draw from his pool of knowledge required to solve societal problems. The society has a pool of problems that needs solutions. What this problems actually need is knowledge to come around them. The society thus finds the educator as the perfect well from which they can change the water of help.

The educator is the perfect phenomenon. His knowledge has the capacity to transform even the worse situations into the best states. He can change challenging situations into winning situation.

Being an educator is no mean feat. One would have to be

  * Modest: modesty is a major attribute of great educators. Pride is a silent killer that brings down phenomenal achievement. Educators understand that it's not in their high minded attributes that they impact into their wards. It is being modest at what they do. Educators act in the simplest manner. They showcase their skill ensuring that even the most simplest of persons understand.

  * Definite: Educators have to be definite in the measure of knowledge they can give. The knowledge they are to offer has an age value. They don't just give out knowledge for the sake of giving out of knowledge; they pass out defined knowledge meant for a definite age group. Phenomenons know that not all knowledge is meant for all persons. They know what to give out and what not to.

  * Hardworking: acquiring knowledge is no mean task especially when it requires going through books of study. But the phenomenal educator lives his life in this light. Being hardworking is a necessary attribute requiring one to strive against the odds of the normal life. Every prolific achiever understands that he requires hard work to create a pace for himself. Because educators have to be knowledge ahead of others, they put in so much of hard work of study to create that gap.

  * Interesting: no one wants to listen to a boring chap. Students find it difficult having a grasp of the information the educator is trying to pass across if the communication level is cold and uninteractive. Every student loves an interesting lecture under the tutorship of an interesting lecturer. An interesting class that carries a participatory air is capable of attracting students. Great educators understand that if they do have to be phenomenal at what they do, they just have to create an interesting air and they try creating this with all their zest.

  * Inspiring: phenomenal educators are absolutely inspiring people. They fire up life propelling superlative changes in the students they are educating. Educators have a responsibility to uplift their students who often are not at the level of the educators. The huge responsibility of being an educator carries a huge burden of ensuring the students rise to that high level they intend them to reach.

  * Attentive: Being an educator means one has to develop a listening ear. While you may do most of the speaking, you still have a responsibility to listen to what others are saying about a fact or idea. It helps shape your views and thoughts and eases the dissemination of your thoughts to cater for the information needs of the students or those being educated. The fact that the educator has knowledge does not mean he owns all knowledge. He still requires the knowledge inputs of others to shape this thoughts and build more knowledge.

  * Faithful. Being an educator requires that you are faithful to what you educate people about. You won't want to teach a certain fact and act in a different way. It could be tagged as hypocritical. Educators believe in the absoluteness of their thoughts.

  * Prayerful: real educators connect with the spiritual life. They hold God in awe believing him to be the source of all things. Prayer is an open door to spiritual understanding of super secrets that comes as a rush of revelation. Some knowledge are not in the privy of the natural. They only come from the supernatural. Prayer connects with this supernatural and grants exposure to these secrets.

The educator exhibits great attributes. However this attributes are meant to meet some challenges. What challenges? The phenomenal educator is blessed with all these attributes in order to

  * Expose sordid truths and cause a change of society by bringing about changes through knowledge impartation

  * Develop strategic processes or methods which will be an everyday pattern or style.

  * Channel information and ensure information passage from one age to another. l

  * Encourage, build and inspire change and development

  * Enforce attitudinal changes through development of society's modus operandi.

  * Elevate cultural and traditional knowledge through acting as storage of norms and traditions.

  * Bring about structural and technical development of infrastructure.

The phenomenon who exhibits an educational lieu is a small god. His capacity puts him at a higher pedestal and opens even greater doors for the actualization of his goals and desire. The educator who is given to educating will forever increase in learning, imbibing in himself focused knowledge that has the capacity to make him generation apart from his contemporary society. Your quest to be a phenomenon is one that requires you share your knowledge with others. You can and will if you persist.

What do you do to become an educator?

  1. Study: take your time to study. There is power in books, mysteries are hidden in books. The man who studies books takes a grasp of the knowledge hidden in books. The man who studies knows and is well positioned for the achievement of a goal

  2. Experience: educators learn from experience. For you to learn great things, you can experience them. Experience is a great teacher as it gives you firsthand knowledge of what should have being difficult a task. Some consider it as the only means through which knowledge can be obtained.

  3. Pray: develop a praying attribute. Praying increases knowledge and opens doors to uncommon knowledge.

The path to being a phenomenon is a path to being an educator. You can take a bold step.

12

discover and apply TALENT.

Everyone has talent and some degree of genius however what separates the phenomenon from every other person is the ability to discover and apply such talents in creating the difference. As much as there are talented beings everywhere, not everyone reaches out to applying their talent in becoming some better person in life or society.

The first major challenge that poses before the average man is the knowledge of the talent he has deposited in him. Our minds often are filled with so many worries and thoughts that we fail to look inwards to discover what's that extraordinary gene imbedded in us that enables us do supernatural things.

Talent may not be a odd concept but understanding what talent is may seem far knowledge that eludes the average man. However, if he tends to have a full grasp of what it is, he could go ahead stimulate his mind towards the accomplishment of that thing that his talent is capable of helping him achieve.

Talent can be described as a marked natural ability or skill that resonates intuitively without any forced act. It springs forth as a well watering our hearts into full actualization and accomplishment of the goal it is set to accomplishment. It is always there like water in the ground but will have to be dugged up or pumped up by a human pumping system.

It's true that talent lies in every one but it doesn't just rush out and work for us. It requires one to instigate and propel it out. Think of the crude oil drilling process. A town may have oil under its grounds without her knowledge but it will take a team of geoscientist to study the rock type and analyze the soil nature and conclude that there is oil.

There has to be discovery process for talent.

How do you go about discovering your talent?

It's a major question that has posed a mountain for many a human. But if you do want it, you can have it.

  * You will have to do some self separation meaning you will have secluded yourself from people for some time. Those who discover what's inside them, set themselves apart first.

  * They ponder within themselves what the major difference they see between themselves and others. This pondering period may require some spiritual reawakening where one connects with the spiritual source of life for some degree of inspiration that reawakens and connects.

  * They listen to their mind's leading. You will observe the instinctive leading that naturally sends you towards one direction. That direction is often your talent.

  * You will seem to find ease at this direction of your talent.

The road to discovering your talent is often not an easy road. It sometimes may be patchy, challenging and difficult but once you hit on that road and get riding, it gets easier as the journey goes.

Your talent is your selling point. Because it is derived from some natural intuition, it seems so perfectly fitting for you and perfectly binds you creating a natural communion between you and your talent. Think of talented musical acts, when you mention their names, its often similitude with their singing talent.

About applying your talent,

You will have to

  * Define a specific goal for which your talent is meant to achieve. Your singing talent has to work towards a successful musical career; your football talent should be targeted towards a goal of becoming a continental best or world best. It helps to define the future fallout of your talent.

  * Create an avenue for the propagation of your talent. When you've acknowledged you have a talent, look for means to have it come to the fore by aligning yourself with people or acts that have similar talents who have been successful with their talents. Watch them and learn from their experiences.

  * You may have to start from very small. This is very true. However great a talent may be, it still has to be touched with that spark of gold. You have to develop this touch as you grow from little. Great achievements often start from little acts. They did not come automatic. The bearers of these talents worked first by themselves in developing their talent until it was discovered by some other person who believed in their talent and propelled it even further.

  * Constant practice is the key. You may have incredible talent but it may be hidden. It only comes to the fore with persistence practice which steers it even higher. Once you've recognized your talent, develop it by practicing even if it means being alone at it. Great bands started as the talent of only just one man.

  * Attitude helps. Developing your talent requires an attitudinal change. There should not be a place for complacency. Take the task of talent application as serious as possible. It's when you show the seriousness in your talent that you actually get at achieving the possibilities entwined in it.

Your talent is a seed that has to be cultivated to full blossom. You will have to water it every day consistently. Every drop of water that falls on it helps it spring. That seed is there right inside you but you have to acknowledge first that it's there and walk towards its application and accomplishing of the future task for which it is meant to perform.

Talent helps stir you away from the crowd. It is the difference maker. If you truly want to be a phenomenon, then find a way to apply your talent. It's right there in you. It's in you.

13

face the HEAT

I've never seen a phenomenon whose phenomenal attribute acted in slumber. He might have had talent but those talents never speak until it faces the heat of challenges. The true test of Phenomenons is when they have a herculean task to overcome. A phenomenon knows he has to face the heat, pass through it and come through at the other end.

Life's challenging situations can be compared to the heat of fire. As much as fire has beneficial applications like heating our meals, warming the body, it also has negative effects. Life's challenges can batter or build depending on what direction it hits us. No one would like the idea of walking through physical fire. The first thought that reflects through our mind is the fire would burn. That fear reveals itself in such a manner that we don't get close to it. But a man who would walk across the fire without fear of being hurt will truly be considered as extraordinary or phenomenal.

When life's challenges come, the first initial thought that walks through our mind is fear. Are we going to get through the challenge? Is the capacity in us to challenge the odds? While a mediocre will accept frailty and weakness and cheapen to fear, the phenomenon wakes up from that slumber and dare the challenge. The heat may rage but that's just when the phenomenon proves his true worth.

The heat of life is often  
Hazardous. Life is filled with hazards. It will take a strong will to go against these hazards. The phenomenon expects these hazards. To him, this dangerously looking situation is a chance to prove his mettle. Your phenomenal desire is staked at the point of your decision not to be encumbered by the hazards that come in life. If you have watched a wrestling match, you would observe the vehement hazards that characterize this sport. Ordinary people won't dare try the stunts that characterize this sport but the phenomenal wrestlers for so they are called dare it. They get fame and wealth by daring these hazards. Hazards are part of the everyday pursuit in life. Your phenomenal pursuit lies when you dare against it.  
Enlightening. Life's challenges are moments of inspiration and enlightenment. Though because they come in the form of strong vehement heat, our fear factor pushes us away and we find nothing to learn from it. The experience that characterizes challenging situations are often enormous. One may never be opportune to get enlightenment in issues of life if they never experienced it. The phenomenon knows that the very fact that he is having some heat to get through means he has more to learn and he brilliantly puts his head down to face the heat, get the enlightenment that comes with the situation and become even more knowledgeable.  
Aversive. No one likes life's heat. Our tendency is to flee or run away from any situation that may pose too hot. We tend to repel or avoid any situation that seems impossible or challenging. Life's heat may pose too hot for some so it is avoided in totality. However those who do want to be phenomenon must give up any aversive attributes and accept to bear the consequences for which they can achieve the phenomenal life.  
Theatrical. Life's heat is often exaggerated in order to create a negative scary effect. It is colored to make one feel there is no chance of coming around it when indeed its heat could be calming. Don't be deceived by the theatrical attributes of life's fire, everyone can often get through it. However only a few who dare, the Phenomenons do.

Facing the heat of life requires some psyche building. One would have to be highly motivated and inspired. The phenomenon welcomes the challenge in full hands, dares the fire and then speeds over it. But is it an ordinary feet? Not at all. You will have to

  1. Develop a fighting zest. Fight, fight, fight. Here's a necessary attribute. You will have to develop a fighting aura. It takes a warrior to challenge life's challenges. When you find yourself under the damning heat of life, you can battle it out and challenge it.

  2. Cultivate your intuitive capacity. Your ability to think freely without requiring conscious thought is a useful tool to getting over life's fire. You just don't have to think of the challenges. Just act.

  3. Stir up your phenomenal reason. There is a reason for which you are poised to achieve that great feat. The reason may just be the inspiration that propels you towards getting through life's fire. When you have the perfect reason, it can be the rallying point for the achievement of that great goal such that however huge the challenge, you are strengthened by the reason to get past it.

  4. Apply other person's experience. Getting through life's fire isn't all about just you. There are others who have also had to get through similar challenges before you. Their experiences can be very helpful. These experienced beings are found everywhere however scarce they may seem. You can take your time to search out these experienced hands that are adept at getting through life's challenges. These experiences could be in books, audios, videos or even the internet.

The phenomenon welcomes the huge fire that is part of life. He anticipates it so he builds his expectation or expectations with a back knowledge. It becomes so easy for him to live life as normal as possible. He creates that notion that all his well and this reflects in his carriage even if underneath his feet is a raging flame. His capacity to live life this way is because of his

  1. Tenacity of purpose. He acknowledges that his pursuit in life must stand ahead of anything else. He thus strives putting all his energy, being dogged, and striving unrelentingly to achieve this purpose.

  2. Passion. He has a quenching passion fueled by a desire to achieve what he wants to achieve however the encumbrances that may stand on his way.

  3. Quest. He knows what he wants at the other end of the challenge. This quest envelopes him, forcing him to act to achieve this quest

  4. Weakness. There is a latent weakness in Phenomenons. That weakness often is the fear of not achieving what he intends to achieve. Rather than let this weakness weaken him further, he uses the weakness as a lunch pad.

  5. Frailties. The phenomenon fears he may be considered too weak or be easily seduced by others. This frail nature is in everyone even if he is a phenomenon. However, he recognizes this and seizes on it to launch himself ahead above his frail nature. The fear of being used causes him to find usefulness for his capacity and talent.

Life's heat is a surety for everyone who desires to be a phenomenon. Bear it, pass through it, and come through it.

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Unravel ENCRYPTED "mystery"

Nothing ever is impossible for the phenomenon. We have seen that he takes delight in finding solutions to problems however huge they may seem. In life, there are way too many things to unravel. Nature has in itself too many facts. There is enormous knowledge in everything and anything. Life is filled with too many unknown that it takes the prolific phenomenal characteristics of the scientists to bring them forth.

The best things in life don't appear so great at first sight. They are like raw diamond, not looking beautiful. In the face of a not too nice situation, the phenomenon finds a way to create value of that almost valueless looking situation. The value is often under an encrypted language or false covering just to ensure that not everyone is opportune to get the value underneath.

Gems of great value are not allowed the privy of all Dicks and Harris. The bearer of such gems finds a box with a lock. The lock has a place for number codes for which only the right arrangement of codes opens it. In the absence of the owner of the box, opening will almost be an impossible task. But anyone who is capable of ascertaining the code and opens the box without having to break the box will be considered to be phenomenal.

That old looking box of opportunities does not look odd to the phenomenon. Rather, it attracts his creative mind. He queries what the content of the box looks like and focuses his mind on what's inside the box. To him, what's more important is getting what's inside the box. He gets all the code breaking skills. Often these skills don't come easy to develop but he obtains it from his many studies and soon discovers the code.

No encrypted situation stands beyond the privy knowledge of the phenomenon. His store of knowledge extends infinitum with every challenge that he faces. He thus manages to find a solution for his challenges however complicated it seems. The true test for a phenomenon is the extent of complexity of the challenge. Complex problems are solved by the development of complex codes.

These complex codes are  
C – Causative. Life's codes to solving difficult problems are causative. They can enforce a person to carry out an action once it is available. What this ,means is that, in the presence of these codes, the phenomenon develops the habit of searching out for encrypted mystery and solving them  
O – Oddish. Solution to life's mysteries are odd. They are not the normal solutions that the common man is familiar with. It requires some painstaking thinking and twitching of our brains faculty. If you truly want to get over life's mysteries, you must be ready to think out of the box. This thinking may be weird.  
D – Dexterous. These codes require some skillfulness at applying them. One must be flexible, fluid and graceful. One does not stick to one style or principle because it has been working before now. It may not work the way you think. The style or pattern may change so does the phenomenon.  
E – Educative. Life's encrypted codes are often learning processes. Due to its difficulty index, one has to undergo learning on how the code works. The solution to get through difficult life situation may not be at your privy now but you can learn and apply.  
S – Secrets. The password or key to opening great opportunities are not often in the privy of everyone. Some of them are hidden facts or truths that only those who know ever get to use them. They are often safe guarded to ensure that only those qualified to use them do. The phenomenon delves into secrets and has a lot of secrets to guard. This secret knowledge in his disposal is what keeps him knowledge ahead of others.

The phenomenon understands mystery. He loves to deal on mysterious matters. As a proof of his mysterious nature, he delves into mysterious knowledge. To him, no knowledge is hidden. He can search it out and develop an application for it.

How do you go about it?

  1. Master your books. The finest mysteries are in books. The more books one familiarizes self with, the more knowledge he knows.

  2. Yearn for knowledge. Knowledge is a door opener anywhere. Every situation in life is a chance to learn something new. Phenomenons always yearn to know more no matter how much they know. They believe life is a learning process.

  3. Stir your quest. Many find themselves contented with their current state or situation. To know mysterious knowledge, you can't be contented with what you know or where you are. You have to strive for more and much more.

  4. Take bold steps. Anyone who wants to acquire knowledge must take bold steps towards getting it. Some knowledge are difficult to get, that's why they are mysteries. However there must be a strive to get uncommon knowledge.

  5. Eradicate fear. What makes knowledge mysterious is the fear associated with it. Phenomenons acknowledge the fear factor but the push aside. They know what they want and if they do get it can give them uncommon opportunities.

  6. Reach for the highest peak. Anyone whose quest to achieve doesn't push him towards the highest peak doesn't need mysterious knowledge. The phenomenon who delves into mystery pushes to be the best at what he does.

  7. Yield your whole self. The knowledge of mystery requires a wholehearted devotion to the course of study. You can't know when you don't dedicate yourself in totality to it.

Knowledge is what you know that gives you the edge. Mysterious knowledge even sparks your mental psyche into a knowledge of deep facts not familiar to the average tinker or reader. The phenomenon doesn't want to be like the average or good student. His quest is for a phenomenal outstanding edge that cannot be in anyway compared to some other person.

The phenomenon goes all the length to unravel any difficult task as a matter of must. If you must get ahead of the rest, unravel all those encrypted facts.

15

POLICE your subconscious mind

The phenomenon is an achiever. But his achievement is based on also his ability to check his subconscious person. He understands that if he is going to succeed, he has to develop his mind to that extent where within him there is a natural instinct towards doing great phenomenal things.

Our mind is the centre from which the external life radiates. A perfect mind is a great body. The phenomenon pushes to ensure that the light that he desires to propel him isn't a halfhearted one of just body alone but its uniformity with the mind, soul and spirit. Thus he seems to act in a seamless uniform manner radiating uncanny energy.

Our mind is the base from which our physical actions are based. The nature of the mind reflects on the external actions. As a man thinks, so he is; as your mind is, so you are.

There is a need to check what goes through our mind. It's a major challenge though having a check on your subconscious. But the phenomenon manages to find a way around it.

How? He polices his mind by;

  * Placing God's rule as the guide for his life. God's word builds up the mind. The more of God's word a man knows, the stronger he becomes and his mind is set towards doing the right.

  * Ordering his steps in the footsteps of achieved Phenomenons. There are people who have achieved phenomenal achievements. They can be looked up at.

  * Leading. Being the leader helps focus the mind knowing that you are an example for which every other person follows. A leading mind is a focus mind.

  * Inspiring others. The mind is the seat of inspiration. A checked mind inspires others. The phenomenon polices his mind by ensuring he inspires others to live the better higher life. By doing this, he becomes a standard for others to look up to.

  * Control what he sees. The pictures in our mind are often created from the things within the privy of our eyesight. Our mind's camera is the eyes. To have a mind that creates a phenomenal impact, the phenomenon ensures he doesn't use it for everything but for only what is worth seeing.

  * Enforcing strict rules. The man who makes the rules sure has to live by the rules. The mind welcomes a strict environment. The stricter the environment, the stricter the rules the mind works under. The phenomenon thus ensures that he sets himself under a set of rules to focus his mind at achieving what he really wants to achieve.

The mind of the phenomenon is focused. He is not deterred by what he sees or how he sees. He is propelled from the inside out and he reflects that fullness from his developed mind. He acknowledges how much his mind is capable of helping him achieve and strengthen by a strong resolve, he achieves what he wants to achieve.

The phenomenon is a mind juggler. He knows how to read other minds too. He may seem frail or may lack energy but his strengthened mind helps him make the resolve to do great things.

To the phenomenon, the mind is

  * A mustard capable of growing with the right water and manure.

  * An ingenious creation of God capable of helping him do great things

  * A neuter in life's pervasive world

  * A decider on life's multidirectional path.

The phenomenon always fights to protect his mind from corruption. He knows his mind is like a memory of a computer system which once corrupted can rubbish the hardware. He fights because he is afraid of being

  * A FAILURE. What the phenomenon fears most is failure. That fear forces him to act in a forceful manner, pushing hard to ensure his mind is focused.

  * IRRITATING.

  * A GAG

  * HURT

  * Wrongly TAGGED

The bridge the phenomenon has to cross in empowering and policing his mind is often one only a few dare. Because of the huge challenge this poses, he stands alone amongst the crowd to carry out this exceptional task.

In the face of the massive challenge faced by the phenomenon at policing his mind, he gets foe himself a gun of life. This gun gives him the confidence to;

  * Go straight and get what he wants.

  * Undo limitations and debars and forge ahead against the odds.

  * Nurture what he has taken over for his benefits.

When he releases his bullets which he scarcely uses, it is because his quest:

  * Burns in him to make him take action to protect the precious asset of his mind.

  * Unleashes feverish passion for what he has which deserves protection

  * Lets him take the right step every single step way.

  * Launches him into uncommon manifestation of the possibilities that lie in the mind.

  * Energizes for unlimited achievement of his set goal

  * Tends him slowly even in his weakness toward maximizing his potentials.

The phenomenon has no fear whatsoever of what can happen or will happen. His mind is focused whatever befalls. He is ready to bear all to ensure he achieves all his goals. He is strengthened with courage and zest, fired up for uncommon spectacular phenomena.

16

Develop a HEIGHTENED influence.

The phenomenon aims for influence. As much as possible, he seeks to reach the top of whatever he does. He does not look for the average life. He guns for the best of everything

There is an uncommon influence level that is a place for Phenomenons. It isn't that every other person do not have or seek influence, it's that the influence level the phenomenon seeks for is the highest peak of influence, an influence where only a few dare try and only a handful reach.

The kind of influence the phenomenon pushes is a characteristic influence. It's an ingenious influence that places the phenomenon at the level of life where others look up to him. Because of the phenomenon's self styled influence, he attracts even the greatest of men who come rushing under his air of influence.

The phenomenon's play ground is influenced filled. He is the master of influence, influencing other influential men who also influence other influential men. The influence is passed down from generation to generation.

The phenomenon's influence transcends beyond generations. What would you call Jesus? His influence has transcended over twenty generations, a feat extraordinary. All those who have followed Jesus also get reckoning as influential people once they can associate with his kind of influence. That's the phenomenal influence.

What attributes characterizes this heightened influence?

  * It is an inspiring influence. This is a kind of influence that uplifts others to also spark up the phenomenal life that they have inside them. Influence is about how much you can make others find what's inside them.

  * It's a natural influence. This kind of influence occurs naturally as one develops. It's not forceful but tender attracting others slowly but surely under its air.

  * It's a frontier influence. This influence places you allays at the top or front of every situation.

  * It's a lawful influence. This influence acts within the comfits of the law guiding everyone. It isn't a lawless influence.

  * It's an uniform influence. This influence is not a unilateral influence but one that affects all side or areas of one's life.

  * It's an ethical influence. This influence is morally acceptable based on principles of right and wrong

  * It's a networked influence. This is an influence that is transferred from one person to another around a single generation and also later generations.

  * It's a consistent influence. It's a regularly occurring influence acting often and as many time as the influencer desires to apply it.

  * It's an elaborative influence. It's a complex, detailed as well as sophisticated influence level that could cause the influencer to leave an intricate, fancy, flashy and showy life.

Everyone wants the phenomenal influence. But how, remains the unanswered question. We've seen Phenomenons come through life and live. Scientific, architectural, mathematical, leadership, political, academic and other genre of Phenomenons have come and gone and they have left people in their wake especially this generation wondering how they did it.

Phenomenons such as Einstein were alluded to have had some extraordinary spiritual source. Super star footballers such as Messi and Ronaldo were considered to be out from space with their extraordinary genius. A host of others uncommon Phenomenons who have had heightened influence were alluded to have had that uncommon spiritual interaction.

How did this Phenomenons develop this heighten influence?

  1. They tapped from a spiritual source. When you watch a Messi or Ronaldo on the pitch of play after scoring a goal, they'd throw their hands up in signia to their success being accrued from God. Einstein the phenomena scientist often threw his ingenuity to God as his source of inspiration. The source of all inspiration is God. Anyone who wants to develop an heightened influence must acknowledge the supreme source of this influence and tap from it.

  2. Develop a love for study. We have seen the influence one can have when one unravels encrypted mystery. The need to study can and should be emphasized. No genius got caught up in his web of achievement over night. He appreciated the power in books, studied them, gained knowledge, applied it tenaciously and influenced others through their knowledge.

  3. Meet the right people. Every person who needs influence must associate with persons of influence. This is to allow for the sharing of knowledge between them. Associating with the right persons opens door for the acquisition of more knowledge and the testing of the knowledge available at your disposal. The true test of what you know is against those acclaim as knowing.

  4. Find those to influence. You have to start from somewhere. You won't influence great people automatically. It starts from influencing people of fewer capabilities slowly and slowly. There are lots of these kinds of persons everywhere. Find them and begin to impart into them. As you do, those persons increase too and become great also influencing others and then your chain of influence increases. You also develop a heightened influence as your influence grows.

  5. Be disciplined. When the influence level increases, there is a temptation that it could get over ones head and act in the weirdest of manner. The need for discipline cannot be over or underemphasized. The phenomenon puts himself under his influence level. He allows his influence change him and others by acting as an example to others and towing the same line of example. Discipline must be a watch word as one gets higher under his reign of influence.

When the heightened influence arrives, it enforces on the influencer, the phenomenon, the uncommon passion, zest and zeal to do great things. It fuels a passion that is transferable to others. The phenomenal life is about influence and an uncommon type for that matter.

What happens when one develops a heightened influence?

  * Lives of persons are transformed and edified.

  * You develop kingly attributes that places you on top of others.

  * Your knowledge is vast and much acclaimed as compared to others.

  * Your talents become the gateway for the attainment of the uncommon achievement.

The phenomenon's influence is an uncommon one. It may be considered metaphysical or beyond the natural. It obeys beyond natural laws that have a stint of the uncommon around it.

You can have this heightened influence. Yes you can.

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Develop the EAGLE attribute.

Like the lion on land, there is a giant in the air. It is the fearless eagle. The qualities of the eagle are characteristic of its many abilities that make it survive even in the most precarious situation. In the air, against any intruder, its imposing structure sends spasms of fear over other birds. It soars over any other bird and covers longer distance no other bird can compare.

The phenomenon develops the eagle attribute. The eagle is a genius going through all its challenges one ease of step after another. Its uncommon attributes ensures no other bird can stand in its way. It is a phenomenal bird.

The phenomenon takes the eagle for example in its simplicity and yet congruent attributes. For him, the eagle's foresight and tenacity is a copy one could follow. He looks at the eagle and marvels at how a complete bird it is. He thus sits down, studies these infringing attributes and then seek to apply it in creating his phenomenal life.

What attributes of the eagle does the phenomenon find phenomenal.

  * The eagle has an uncommon eyesight

The eagle's vision is an extraordinary one capable of seeing kilometers away. The phenomenon in its model tries to develop a far sight. He looks very far into the future in anything he does, watching for possibilities and limitations that may occur in the future. His far sight isn't to distract him from taking actions. Rather, it is to guide him in making better steps to overcome the future challenge.

  * The eagle has an uncommon acumen.

The tremendous insight and wisdom the eagle has makes it the most feared bird. It does not rush to make decision. It roves over its prey for some time before acting out its carnivorous intentions. The phenomenon does same. He thinks very much about his actions and the outcome before he acts. He knows that there is a chance he may not succeed. In the face of the possibilities, he takes the most wisdom filled decision.

  * The eagle has an uncommon gait.

Watch the eagle fly in the sky, it soars. Its gaits are those of supremacy over any other bird menacing as he roves. The phenomenon develops his gait too. His style and manner of work shows the power inherent in him. His posture is of a kingly manner showing his high class.

  * The eagle has uncommon legs.

A part of the body the eagle uses to its advantage is its legs. It uses the legs to catch prey. Its claw filled legs tears its prey apart and helps him feast on them. The phenomenon has legs too that are extraordinary. His legs moves him from place to place. He applies his legs to any destination of choice. The phenomenon knows that if he has to get any place, his legs have to take him there.

  * The eagle has an uncommon etch. The effect of the eagle's etch can be felt when its scratch is seen on the ground or on its prey. It tears apart. The phenomenon tries to cause his own etch everywhere. He seeks to make impact in every situation placing his sign in whatever he does. This enables him effect in lives the kind of change he so desires.

The phenomenon sees the eagle from different perspectives. He does not just see it as just another bird in the sky. He sees it as a tool in his learning curve which will help him direct and influence his life and others. He appreciates the creative work of God in this creation, the ingenuity of God at creating the eagle and understands that in the eagle is a message to him to advance his course and develop mankind.

Developing the eagle attributes requires that you learn from eaglets (baby eagles)

  * Act submissively.

Eaglets follow their mother eagle everywhere they go. They may have the qualities of an eagle but it is undeveloped. They have to watch the eagle act and do same too. Your desire for phenomenal achievements requires that you act submissively under the masterly hands of those who have achieved phenomenal things too. You can't be a guru by yourself. You have to develop knowledge from gurus. This means you have to submit yourself under their learning curve.

  * Act on instructions.

The eaglet only flies when mother eagle gives the go ahead. The eagle throws the eaglet down when it deems fit for the eaglet to fly. Some times while learning, we think we have known enough and should be on our own. Your mentor may think differently that there is still a lot to offer you. We fail to heed instructions and end up losers, never reaching the phenomenal level.

  * Act on instincts.

When a mother eagle throws its eaglet down from a height, what envelopes the eaglet is fear, however the mother realized before throwing the eaglet down that the eaglet has developed the capacity to fly. The eagle allows her eaglet act on instinct. This instinct is what allows the eaglet discover its flying ability. You too do not have to allow all the work on your phenomenal mentor. He may have taken you through the learning process but you have to apply your instinct lead you from where your mentor has stopped. There is a limit your mentor can go, that limit is where your instinct begins.

  * Act defensively.

The eaglet acts defensively. It ensures it is always around the mother eagle. It does not hurriedly live the side of the mother until it is assured it can defend itself. You can afford to take your time to learn from your mentor until you fully learn all that you should learn. Hide under the covering of your mentor, while you develop your personal instinctive style and capacity.

The phenomenon and the eagle are two of a kind. If you do want to be a phenomenon, develop the eagle attribute.

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Act NOW?

Time is precious as well as scarce commodity. While it seems there is plentiful of time, the phenomenon knows there is much as little time to waste. If ever he has to do great things, the only time he has is now.

There seem to be enough time when we look at how long we anticipate we are going to live on earth, but it just hits us that with each day that passes, the long years before us become only a mirage. The phenomenon has his eyes set for the future. He has enough ambitions and goals to feed his hope but he knows that the hope he so has is built upon his present actions.

The future is so bright in our mental picture. The posh car, the duplex near the sea, business, wife and children are very nice accessories in that future but we won't get that future if there is no immediate action. The phenomenon acknowledges that his great attribute of keeping faith with his future is an asset however that faith is only fed by his immediate action.

Phenomenons put time first. They see that there is nothing as "so much time". He reaches out to immediately plan and take action for the accomplishment of what he so desires. His believe is that the future arrives when he takes action now, possibly it will arrive now.

What is it to be done now? You have to

Activate your indwelling talent and skill. There is chance that the future you so want has a resource in you that will help activate it. Our talent is God's gift to help us achieve our goals and vision. God has placed it inside you to direct you towards your drive for the future. What you have to do is find a way to get it working, that innate capacity. First though, you have to discover it. You have to know what that talent is. You can't use what you don't know. You have to skillfully direct you mind towards self discovery. It's often sitting there, but underrated. It's a massive gift once you can discover and get it to work for you.

Capitalize on opportunities. Opportunities abound every time and everywhere, however we don't get to see them or even apply them because we tend to overlook them like our talents. The phenomenal man searches for opportunities. He does all he can do to find them like we have seen earlier and jumps on them once he acknowledges the inherent opportunity. He seizes on the opportunities however minute they may seem to create an opening for himself.

Target future achievements. Once you are able to activate your talent and capitalize on the opportunities that come your way, the next task is the goal you want to see this actions attain. You have to begin to work towards achieving them. They may seem huge targets to reach but every single step you make towards it is worthwhile. Like the dart that is aimed towards the bull's eye, you have to aim towards the target. It may be huge but keep pushing throwing till it hits the eye. It's not always easy reaching the target. It will sometimes require persistence and diligence. You have to push till something happens.

Why do you have to act now? You have to act now because now is the

  * Nearest time for action. Phenomenons are not known to procrastinate. They acknowledge that if they get anything done, it is not a future one. They know the nearest possible time to act and get anything done is now.

  * Oddest time for action. Phenomenons acknowledge that the only time they have to get something done that will be considered matchless, peerless and unique is now. Now is so unique and peculiar a time that if nothing is done now, it's going to disappear as it came.

  * Winning time for action. The time that comes first above any other future is now. To win is to act now. Winners don't wait for the future, they find the present time the only opportunity for their winning streak

The phenomenon develops the ac t now mentality for even the slightest or littlest task. He knows he does not have to wait till he has developed all there is to be developed before he takes up that task. What he has is enough to begin the now step. The mistake most persons make is that they think what they have isn't enough to try out the big task of the future. They choose to wait. Well, waiting may be great but often most do not know that what is inside them is enough to finish the project or achieve the future task.

While sometimes you can wait, Phenomenons know that the little they have can start up that big business in the future. Guess what? They start up and find help to continue. They know that the big challenge is often starting. One can never have enough to start at any goal or project. Big things are only done from small acts.

Think of trying to cover a 10 km distance. You may choose to wait for a perfect car for the distance which could possibly make it easier. To buy a car may take years but if you start with your legs each step all the way, you may still get to that endpoint even if it will take some longer time. A footstep moved now is worth more than an expected future car.

No matter how challenging the present now is, when you choose to act now, you

  * Actualize your goals.

  * Conquer your fears

  * Tap into uncommon possibilities

  * Nurture present desires into future accomplishments

  * Overcome huge challenges

  * Win over delimiting factors.

The time to get that task going is now. However little this now step may seem, it has the capacity to multiply in the shortest time.

You can great things, yes you can.

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EMPOWER others.

Empower others. That's the phenomenon's thought. The position of a phenomenon is a high position, one which expects from him a responsibility to build others up as well as create opportunities for others. Others often have to come around the phenomenon to give strength to the quality embedded in him. He knows that his quality only reveals itself in the number of person he can help find purpose and fulfillment.

The phenomenon is especially gifted with talents and almost extraordinary gifts that others are desirous of having or would like to have. He finds himself encumbered with the responsibility to push these talents and gifts to others who will find it useful. It would be useless however, having all the super attributes and not being able to impart. It would be a gross waste of capacity.

The quality of a true leader and phenomenon is the number of himself he can recreate in others. He has to uplift people from their ground state into being super talented beings as he is. This empowerment may take varying forms but the end point is to uplift even the worst persons to find value in themselves.

What does it mean to empower others? It means to

  * Enliven others. The phenomenon has a responsibility to make others cheerful, lively and revived in situations of down casting and depression.

  * Motivate others. The phenomenon provides the incentive to carry out a task. They act as propellants to steer those under them towards reaching their peak performance.

  * Propel others. The phenomenon creates a path and causes others to move towards that direction.

  * Orient others. The phenomenon sets the focus of others and ensures it appeals to them.

  * Warn others. The phenomenon has a responsibility to warn others of impending danger when a wrong step is taken.

  * Encourage others. The phenomenon has the responsibility to foster, give help and patronage, spurring towards the achievement of a task however challenging it seems.

  * Reach out to others. The phenomenon attracts others to himself and pushes himself to others. He ensures his hand is always open to offer help however little or much it may seem.

The phenomenon's role at causing change in society is largely because of his phenomenal duty and role of empowering and empowerment. Each step he takes, is an admonishment of his uncommon role to make change and cause impact across each levels of society. His greatest desire is to break the divide between those who have and those who don't. This phenomenal attribute of his, helps him transcend into a godlike fellow impacting into lives and raising champions on their path.

Your desire to be a phenomenal person has a place in your ability to empower people who may not have as much similar capacity as you do. Some could be beggarly, hopeless, and in need of help. They are everywhere craving for your support. The capacity to reach out a helping hand however class the persons you are helping galvanizes you, helping you form a circle of semi-dependent people who look up to you as mentor and inspiration.

The process of empowering others isn't always a natural attribute. There seems always a debacle standing against our natural tendency to offer help. It take the development of self against these odds to overcome them.

Developing an empowering attribute requires that you live

  * An Exemplary Life Style. You can't empower when people don't see what they want in you. It is what you have that you share with others. When they see you act out what they can't find in their lives, the natural tendency is to follow your mentoring steps. They may just find their way round you for help.

  * A Mustering Life. The empowering attribute summons together, gathering people around. The phenomenon doesn't stand afar from others. If he must empower, he must get people around himself.

  * A Pleasing Life. The phenomenon tries to live a life that pleases people making him desirable to them. People often run to people that run to them. It seems a natural course of action that if the phenomenon would desire to empower people he must be ready to please them.

  * An Orderly Life. The empowering life is also an orderly life following a laid down set of natural rules which when strictly adhered to uplifts the man who lives according to the laid down precepts.

  * A Wow Filled Life. This kind of life is excitement filled with amazements and awe and results that are incredibly surprising and unbelievable.

  * An Elevating Lifestyle. An empowering attribute is one that comes as a result of one's capacity to elevate and uplift others, helping them find value in their lives.

  * A Far Reaching Lifestyle. The man who empowers influences lives beyond the natural borders of his immediate environment. He impacts tremendously and transforms far beyond his immediate influence.

The phenomenon's empowering attribute is his strength value that creates even more opportunities to make influence. That phenomenon you want to be means you must empower.

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Send fear to OBLIVION

A major factor that diminishes the chance of a person achieving a set out goal or a defined phenomenal status is fear. There is always the fear factor hanging around that as much as a person strives to get at his potential phenomenal position, this weighs him back. Fear is a heavy stone on the back of any contender however gifted or talented he may be. It's the possibility of taking that stone off that usually becomes burdensome. Since the stone has always being there on their backs, the average man does not see the possibility of having the stone off his back. He expects life to be burdensome and so it is.

For the phenomenon, fear must go. He picks the load off his back, pushes it and eases himself to the full possibilities that should be part of his life. The phenomenon sees potentials all the way and anything that can be a hindrance, he sets apart and builds himself with the notion that he is in for a life of possibilities.

The phenomenon understands that the initial fear always exist and he has the biggest fears however his peaceful demeanor. What distinguishes those who are crushed and those who achieve phenomenal status is how they both relate to fear. Its either you accept your fears and fall under its hammer or you accept the fears still and work against it.

The phenomenon's achievements are always driven by fear, the fear of failing. This is the instigating factor that causes him to work excellently hard so as to avoid what his fears drives him to think. No one like to fail and the phenomenon hates to fail excellent. This attribute stirs his inner quest, propelling him towards the big picture he has in his mental world.

FEAR refers to

  * False

  * Experience

  * Appearing

  * Real

What fear does is make something that is false look like it's authentic. What mostly we fear about are only concepts that has never happened which we only feel will but which the possibility of it happening is doubtful even in the realm of common sense.

  * Frivolous

  * Expressions

  * Appearing as

  * Reality

Sometimes it's the statements people make that we accept as true when indeed such statements are untrue. People may have conjured some fearful hate statements. These statements often seem like they could happen in real life but in the real world they are only mere threats. People subject themselves under the statements of others and they never do beyond their present capability even they have the capacity to do more.

  * Feeble

  * Emotions

  * Appearing

  * Real

Sometimes it's our thoughts or feelings that we accept as being strong enough to guide us in making decision. Or our hearts is feeble we think we cannot make the right decisions or lack the capacity to carry out that action that we consider necessary or important. This inability on our part builds fear in our hearts. However it's our emotions. It can be wrong. Don't let how you feel stop you from doing that great accomplishment that you so much desire to accomplish.

  * Faltering

  * Emissions

  * Altering

  * Reality

Sometimes we make mistakes of releasing information or something that we so cherished or guarded. This faltered step so blinds our eyes from seeing from a different perspective. We feel that our unguarded information can be used against us. This feeling puts fear in our heart taking away from ourselves the consciousness of who we really are and giving our minds to frivolous thoughts.

However the fear and its cause that has rendered us incapacitated in pushing our dream, we can send them to oblivion. How about that?

You can

Order your fears out. The power in your fears is you allowing it stay. You have the words of power to kick them out. Just give the words of order, "get out fear" and it will obey.

Bind the fear causer. Knowing the root cause of your fear can help you develop a strategy for kicking it out of your life. You can bind the cause of that fear.

Leverage on possibilities. Rather than focus on what causes the fear, focus your mind on the possibilities beyond the fear. Focus till all you see is possibilities fear becomes too small to be considered.

Idolize your ideal phenomenal status. What you really want to have is an ideal that you must be crazy about. It must take over you remove all possibilities of doubts and propel you towards its accomplishment

Vaunt about your present achievements. You have achieved quite a lot even if you haven't achieved all you desire to achieve. Vaunting allows you the free space to see yourself as having accomplished something. It steers fear away helping you acknowledge that if you have achieved a little, you can achieve more.

Internalize the "I can do all things" statement. You can do all things and everything you want to do. Fear makes you see the opposite but right inside you is the always possible trait. Speak it and act.

Obliterate any trace of failure. Those past failures are past. You can't afford to allow them live in the present. Remove completely any past failures and arise to a board where you can write new possibilities.

Nullify any fear thoughts. You can afford to make useless any fearful thoughts. Success is a mental state and the moment one is able to control that mental state, he can do more. Close any chance fear may pop in and live a proactive life.

Once you've let fear have its way, it destroys even your strongest chance you can do great things. Its good you find a way to knock them off become you become another statistic of those who allowed fear ruin their lives. Act now before you allow fear

  * End your good financial fortunes. Some persons have lost wealth just because they gave in to Mr. Fear's succinct but incredulous advice.

  * Limit your education. Some persons would have become professors or renowned scholars in a chosen profession but they allow fear in and they got limited.

  * Change your attitude. Some persons who were highfliers and possibility thinkers have given up that high placed position to fear. They allowed fear's lies control how their mindset evolves creating for them an attitudinal problem that they had once being over.

  * End you in requiem. After all about life is lost, fear would push you top death. Many persons have died not because they should have died but because of the fear they had. For fear, some had hit the road when they should not have and got hit.

You can't afford to allow fear rule how you think or relate with people in life. You will never see the right picture when there is fear. Change your attitude, send fear where it belongs, the phenomenal life will dare.

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JUST MENTOR.

Who is a mentor? A mentor is a wise and trusted counselor or teacher. He is an example that others find to follow in their steps. He is looked up to and takes the responsibility of lifting others up. This attributes is also what the phenomenon has. The phenomenon mentors.

The phenomenal life we have seen is a life of example. Whether the phenomenon knows or not, his life is being watched by the countless number of onlookers who see his difference and long to be just as he is. The phenomenon though works consciously towards ensuring his life is such a life that others will look up to as worth copying. He develops a conscious effort to create himself in others. He finds those who are at the lower cadre of life and does his best to uplift them to higher level or better still just like he is.

His phenomenal mentoring attributes enables him pass himself in every medium he can use to touch as much lives as he can touch. He applies books, videos, audios and seizes as many platforms as possible to touch as many lives as he can. He wants to see as much of himself in others while also desiring that each person he mentors discover who he really is.

The phenomenon epitomizes that life of sacrifice as we have seen already. The mentoring attribute requires sacrifice. The kind of sacrifice that ensures that as much of himself is offered to others. Because to mentor isn't a little task, he pushes himself often to the wall to ensure he makes the most impact on the lives he is called to change or uplift.

The mentoring life of the phenomenon is a great life and you do want to be a phenomenon then you must mentor.

How do you go about this mentoring task? You have to:

  * Muse into the thought of how to impact positively into others while also developing yourself to be that kind of person that others can see as exemplary.

  * Eradicate any iota fear about your capacity to uplift some other mind. Everybody can and you too can.

  * Nail your actions towards becoming the mentor. Think of all the means you can apply to becoming that mentor and how you can reach as much people as possible as you can.

  * Tailor your goals. Mentors develop goals for which they pursue to attain. The life of a mentor is a goal pursuing one.

  * Be obsessed with your new role in the lives of people. This will make you develop yourself through all the means that is available; the internet, books, audios, videos, listening to peoples experience etc.

  * Reach out however far those you desire to mentor are. Get to them, present yourself as a helping friend. You will be uplifting so many great future hands too.

The role of a mentor in the life of any would be achiever is phenomenal. When you have someone you look up to, it helps you set goals that are reachable. You carry within your mind that if so and so person can reach a height that you are looking up to, you too can. The mentor becomes a beginning benchmark that a would be future achiever yearns to meet. The mentor becomes the possibility of a future thought today.

But becoming a mentor, isn't as easy as ABC. It requires that a person

  1. Believe in himself entirely. You don't want to sell a half hearted you to the world. You must have absolute confidence in the person that you are and how much you can do and then you will get others to follow you to. People follow people who are confident they know where they heading to.

  2. Accepts responsibility. The mentor has a huge responsibility. You have to develop big shoulders for the burdens of others. People find mentors because they think they can be a huge burden bearer or help them on how to get their burdens of their back.

  3. Dares the impossibility. Who wouldn't love to be mentored by a person who does acts of the impossible? It is refreshing having to work in the steps of such a man and knowing that you too will be acting in that realm of the supernatural too. Impossibilities are everywhere and scarcely everybody can do it but the phenomenon who always dares.

  4. Exhibit sportsmanship. The mentor doesn't think he knows all by himself. He has a cha\in of persons who he also plays around with. Everyone has a role to play in his pursuit so he finds that everyone, allows them play their role with freedom but with a back knowledge that he is getting something from his fellow pairs.

  5. Carry an uncommon fire. There is a fire that burns inside the mentor. It is passion filled and fuelled by a desire to reach the peak of whatever he is doing. The passion to outclass every known standard drives him to

  6. Formulate your own set of rules. A mentor is guided by his own set of rules and is not cowered into following the rules of others. He is guided by his own choice, follows strictly to that choice, believes absolutely that is choice is right and stands by that choice entirely even if it fails.

  7. Goad phenomenal achievements. The mentor stimulates or incites phenomenal achievements in others. It is his greatest joy to have others attain heights just like himself.

  8. Hasten towards a domineering championship status. Being a mentor means you must have an edge over others. This edge puts others under you and forces others to tread your path.

  9. Inspire himself and others. The first person a mentor works on is himself. If he cannot inspire himself to attain a height others can look up to, it is hardly possible he will be able to help others achieve great things. So the mentor has two responsibility of working on himself and working on others.

  10. Jumpstarts future success stories. The success stories of the future are developed by present actions. The mentor helps jumpstart those future stories by helping them start the present writing of them.

The life of a mentor translates into others. Their lives are copied lives which people long to live. You can be that mentor and everyone can be.

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NURTURE

For one to become a phenomenon, he must develop a nurturing capacity. When a child gets into the world, the mother grooms the child from absolutely year zero slowly from one developmental stage to another teaching him what's meant for every age until he becomes grown enough to think for himself and make his own decisions.

The phenomenon's attribute is like a baby's mother. He has a responsibility to see possibilities in people even when they hardly know they have that capacity. He sees beyond the present when his would-be student would join him at phenomenal stage. He picks his trainee and begins work at slowly inculcating phenomenal attributes into him.

The nurturing process isn't always so easy. A mother often has to sacrifice her health, wealth, time and resources to ensure her child comes through every stage. Each stage has its challenges and with each comes the passion to overcome the challenge. A phenomenon puts down everything too. With each step of the way, he raises his training as he find challenge in his student.

To nurture requires patience. It is painstaking and hard work. But the phenomenon bears all the burdens there is to be bore. He smiles with each turn of event looking only at the person he sees in the future. It may be tough work but he is encouraged by the possibility of impacting into a life.

To nurture isn't so easy a virtue. You will have to learn to

  * Develop novel attributes. Being original is one great characteristic of a man who nurtures. He creates his own creations, works on his creative side and has others follow him.

  * Spur upward. The man who nurtures spurs and propels towards an upward direction. His gaze is fixed on that high position which he has sight of. He finds ease pulling people around him and helping them believe they have a high upward port to port at.

  * Act revolutionary. The nurturer doesn't accept the common standards. He creates his standards, chooses his own path and looks over at people he can help see in the same direction as himself. He manages to create the feet of getting people to believe in him.

  * Think tall. The nurturer thinks very far beyond the common eyes can see. He thinks metaphysical and acts in such a way as to propel his belief towards his thoughts. He influences people with his positive high thought that they get consumed with supporting him reach the possibilities of his thoughts.

  * See and act unlimited. Life is filled inconsistencies and limitations but the nurturer tries as much as possible to look unlimited. He wouldn't like to show his students that he has limitations. He wants them to see beyond their own limitations too to achieve. Even if he may have limitations he sees and acts in an unlimited way.

  * Be reckoned. When there is a difference in thinking and skill, it tends to attract people around. The nurturer thus develops reckoning for his originality and capacity to develop and bring out the best out of everyone who comes his way. It's a gift not common to everyone.

  * Act exemplary. You can't nurture people into what you haven't being. You can only effectively pass across to others what you know. It's the easiest message, you.

The man who is patient enough to nurture some person into adulthood often finds joy at the end of the ordeal. He beams with smile and finds fulfillment in a worthy task. Step by step, as the nurtured develops, he finds himself increasingly independent till finally the nurturer declares his freedom often sometime with fanfare and pride at a job well done.

The measure of the capacity of a nurturer is in the quality of the person he has nurtured. A teacher who nurtures a student often expects the student to arise and be as he is. People look up the characteristic attributes of the nurturer in the nurtured. Once the see some attributes in the nurtured, they define the nurtured as being in the image of the nurturer.

To become a nurturer,

  1. Be nurtured first. You can't be a teacher without having being taught or gone through the learning process.

  2. Develop independence. You must have being independently making decisions before you can qualify to be a nurturer. There are substances of knowledge that a nurturer can never teach. Such knowledge only comes with independent experience.

  3. Develop foresight. Foresight helps one view the future in a present sense. It helps you plan ahead anticipating what will come and how to avoid them.

  4. One must transcend self. You have to be sacrificial, putting everything down. You can't influence a life that you can't put something down for. You should be ready to lay down or give up something close to your heart. It's the one perfect proof of your nurturing attribute.

  5. Develop poise. Developing the nurturer's poise and determination to succeed however challenging the situation is key. You will face challenges that may scare you especially if the one you are trying to nurture do not value what you doing or is not growing at the pace you think he should grow.

  6. Develop nuance. You must be distinctive. It is your distinctive nature that separates others towards you who want to be distinct too. Nurturers must be distinctive in their relationship with people and how they relate to issues of life.

The phenomenon's nurturing attribute puts him a class from everyone. Everyone who desires to be a phenomenon must nurture. You can nurture.

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Help OPEN DOORS.

The phenomenon helps open people's door he often finds himself at positions of opportunity. This attribute makes people run towards him. People love those who can help them with opportunity for a better life. Life is characterized by many shut doors. These shut doors often pose a bar for the 'would be' achiever. The phenomenon often understands how to open doors because he has had to open his own door himself and has helped others open their doors.

His increasing experience as he opens doors increasingly puts him in a door opening position for others. Every door of opportunity he opens is a door opened for many people. Some doors have to be opened to allow others open their doors. The opportunity the phenomenon creates affects lives in a geometrical way.

When a person takes the position of opening the shut doors in people's life, he does not only derive joy from his task he also finds fulfillment and attracts people towards himself. This phenomenal attribute is one the world needs but only a few develop this part of them. Why? Because most persons are self conscious grabbing only for themselves. They may have the capacity to open doors but they never dare open it for others. They only open the doors when it's going to affect them positively.

The phenomenon is thus a special breed that sees opportunities in closed doors, opens them and calls people to join him enter the new opportunity that the open door requires.

If you must be a phenomenon, you must learn to open doors especially those it affects. How do you go about it?

  * Orient your mind towards uplifting others. The phenomenon thinks people first. Once he successfully opens his own doors, he begins to think of how to open some person door that like he once had have shut doors.

  * Position yourself at doors. You can only open doors when you stand by it. What this means is you can't stay in the comfort of your home and expect to uplift people. No. you have to hang around where people need you.

  * Entertain questions. Opening doors requires that you welcome people's confusions and doubts. There are troubling questions that disturbs minds which if they get the right answer may pave a way for them to have their shut doors open. Listen to people and be ready to entertain questions.

  * Naturalize with peoples inconveniences. The need to familiarize with the challenges of other people will help you appreciate the effect of having closed doors and will help you stand in position to advice and offer help that may come handy.

  * Dare to ask questions. As much you can afford to answer questions about others, you can afford to ask questions. Ask people how they feel, their challenges, what motivates them, what they lack and need. You can afford to proffer answers to the questions you ask people of.

  * Develop an orienting mindset. Help people focus. Some persons do know what they want and where they want to get to but they do not know how they'd go about the route to their destination. Your opening doors attribute should help them build focus.

  * Help create order. Those who open doors create order. The man who wants to achieve more must be a man of order. Doors allow for order. Everyone cannot rush in through the door at the same time. Its often one person at a time. So the man who stands at the door helps for order.

  * Revolutionize known standards. The man who opens doors stand in a position to change how people think. How? He can always place a condition for people to make it through the door. His new rules can help people change their thinking and thought patterns in pursuit towards the achievement of their own goals

Life's doors are always there for all to go in but because some are closed, and only a few open for a few who will, the challenge of opening them becomes a worthy task for the phenomenon. As much everyone have the capacity to have their doors open and help others open theirs too, only a handful of persons ever seize on it and only a handful become phenomenal in life.

The phenomenon's capacity to dare open doors is a scarce capacity but worthy of pursuing. It doesn't come to everyone even if everyone have the capacity. It goes to only those who desire to be phenomenal

A huge part of the world are desirous of having their doors open but they can't and may never open them except some person dare to help them come through. So you can be that help, you can be the one they would be running to for help, you can be that phenomenal change case and door opener.

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Create your NICHE and stay on it.

The phenomenon knows quite a lot but he is not a jack of all trades. He is a perfectionist at what he does. He has a niche where he specializes and shows expertise at. Often, his area of specialization is independent of others because he finds a field where he is the only perfect player. He knows he cannot afford to be crowded out in life's game. He has to find a way to stand out.

The capacity to create niche is subject upon knowing your strength. Each person has his strengths and weaknesses. The phenomenon acknowledges he has weaknesses but he strives to catch on his strengths. He thus ventures on an area where he knows his strength lies, perfects himself and positions himself to help people in his strength area.

While he may seem to know quite a lot, or he is expected to know quite a lot, he defines his own lot. He does not allow the thinking of people or their expectation blurs his vision of what he wants and can do. He acknowledges the strength in his capacity and strives to ensure he becomes that best he knows his strength is capable of making him reach.

The phenomenon's outlook of life is; he may not be the best at everything he does but he can at the least minute thing he finds and derives joy doing. His choice to stay at his strong area helps him derive the attention he desires so much to attain.

It is for this reason we find Phenomenons in every field of endeavor. We call them professors in our academic world, genius at our work place, icons in government, and achievers in life. The professor in biotechnology is a phenomenon but in his field of endeavor yet that does not stop another professor at engineering from plying his profession. They are both professors and phenomenon in their individual fields where they have chosen to perfect.

Each and everyone have a strength area that others may not have. It is for you to understand that strength, push for its actualization and stand out right there.

