HopeRising Initiative

Get inspired by this story, don't just read, get the message and apply it to your life, I look forward to see a better you.  A Glass of Milk      One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school realized all he had was a dime in his pocket. Nobody was buying his goods and he was getting very hungry. He decided he would try to barter for some food at the next house.      He rang the doorbell and when a lovely woman answered he lost his nerve to barter for food so he asked only for a drink of water.      The woman looked at him and instantly knew he was hungry so instead of bringing him a drink of water she brought him a glass of milk. He slowly drank it and when he finished he asked, "How much do I owe you?"      "You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."      He said, "Well I...

What is hope? Hope simply means to want something to happen and think that it could happen, or, to desire with expectation of obtainment. Better still to expect something with confidence. Hope implies a certain amount of perseverance — i.e., believing that a positive outcome is possible even when there is some evidence to the contrary.” One of the greatest challenge before us all is to keep hope alive in spite of the unpleasant situations we encounter each day of our lives. That means “hoping when things are hopeless." There is a saying in my language; "If there is Life, there is still Hope" We have to learn to keep hope alive when our enemies come against us. We have to learn to keep hope alive when friends are not friendly. When neighbors are not neighborly. We have to learn to keep hope alive when our Loved ones are not loving or lovable. I have to learn to keep hope alive when my tears overtake me and laughter appears to be looking at me. Have t...

Its Time To Manifest  A journey of a thousand miles starts with just a single step. Its not enough to just wish and want. You can go ahead to wish and want all you like but it will never come to reality if you fail to key into taking the bold step. What does it mean to Manifest? It simply means to make evident to show or to display. The question is what do you want to make Manifest? What lies in your heart that is waiting to be evident or perhaps to display for the world to see. Get this, there is something you have got inside of you that no one has ever seen or heard of, how do I know this? This is because everyman is a potential something awaiting actualization or Manifest action. There  is an Idea burning in your mind, you have so much had a long thought on which as led to overthinking and this as made the Idea to look meaningless and unachievable. Kindly read How to Overcome overthinking. Its Time for that life changing burning desire to Manifest, Enough ...

You can't afford to be a looser   I woke up this morning wanting to make use of the toilet, a sentence dropped to my mind, YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BE A LOOSER!.  I pondered on it for some minutes and I discovered that it is very easy to be a looser, all you have to do is quit and withdraw from whatever you are pursuing. But on the other hand it is very Expensive to live as a looser this is because people will not want to associate with you, and when this happens you will be restricted to some certain privileges and your cost of living will increase. If you don't believe try becoming a looser. You can't afford to be a looser for the following reasons; 1. A loser sees difficulties in an opportunity. He focuses more on the pain than the gain. 2. A loser often uses the word 'What If' more than 'Why Not.' 3. A loser engages more discussions in 'Why I can't' rather than 'Why can't I.' 4. He imposes limits on himself. ...

Is Failure Part Of learning?  This is a question that strikes my mind early this morning, Is failure really a means to learn? Must I fail in order to learn? Why should I fail?  What are the benefits of failure? Must I fail to succeed? How many times must I fail in order to succeed? “Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.” — Richard Branson Below is the story of a curious man and a tied elephant. Sit back, take a  deep breath and read. The Elephant Rope  As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not. He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smal...

What definition do you give to what you see? You define what you see, what you see is what you get, what you get is what you think of. "Adesina Oluwasegun" I was having a conversation with a friend and a benefactor of HopeRising Initiative, in the course of discussion I discovered every individual reads a meaning to any and every situation in life. Everyone is a philosopher under the underlabourers concept of philosophy in as much as everyone gives a particular explanation to any event in life. In other words, a definition is more or less like an explanation on something, hence to every event we attempt to give a definition in other to be able to comprehend and bring such event to our best understanding. This made me realize that what ever definition we give to any event or situation has a lot to play in our day to day activities in life. The question then is, what definition do you give to the events that unfolds around you? Danger of Negative definition....

10 Simple Habits to Stop Overthinking Everything One very common and destructive thing that holds people back from the life  they truly want live very is over thinking  Sometimes we often overthink every little problem until it becomes bigger and scarier and it actually is. We Overthink positive things until they don’t look so positive anymore. This happened to me few weeks ago, I just woke up very early in the morning, and decided to do one of my early morning routine, an Idea dropped to my mind, it was so overwhelming and it really looks good that I almost saw it manifesting, through the whole day I was pondering and pondering, it got to a point I had slight head ache, it got to another point where I got confused, I got lost I can't really find meaning to the idea again, I loosed the meaning.  Take note, over thinking can cause you to overanalyze and deconstruct things and loose the happiness that comes from just enjoying the thoughts, sometimes the momen...

Success is a battle "On the road of success you only see your shadows and none of your friends" The above statement is very true, I could recollect vividly ever since I have made up my mind to start this inspirational blog that has touched thousands of life, although still aiming to reach billions of people at a go, I have not seen any of my friends except for one that has showed interest in the progress of my blog. Only one asked me few weeks ago, why I have not been updating my blog. This is my experience am very sure many readers right now, have experienced such or are experiencing or will experience. This article is written because of you, to let you know, you are the only one on the road of your success. Success! many will love you for it and majority will hate you, because you become better than they are. The question now is, how do you know you are on the right part? This is very important take note; The Battle Of  Character. Your character def...

A truly inspiring story of success: Thomas Edison One day Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, “My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother.” His mother’s eyes were tearful as she read the letter out loud to her child: Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself. After many, many years, after Edison’s mother died and he was now one of the greatest inventors of the century, one day he was looking through old family things. Suddenly he saw a folded paper in the corner of a drawer in a desk. He took it and opened it up. On the paper was written: Your son is addled [mentally ill]. We won’t let him come to school any more. Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by a hero mother, became the genius of the century.” Read more The Coffee Story  ...

Embrace Your Pain Recently I realized that if you fail to curtain or challenge what you ought to challenge they will keep hunting you. You will keep revolving round the cycles of Nowhere.  For years, I have been trying to avoid who I am now, I have tried so much to hide, although it's not been easy to accepting the fact that I have to Lead or become a Leader nor Speak, Teach and Coach People.  I am quite shy, I believe I don't have anything to say that people will listen to, I know nothing, no experience at all, I was terrified accepting the Youth Leadership role in my church, not fully prepared mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally. I failed so many times in implementing things that will cause better change, I keep avoiding challenges, I really don't want to hurt anyone, it really hurts me when I hurt someone.  But I realize if I keep holding back not wanting to hurt anyone to cause a greater change I will be known and regarded as useless an...