“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”
—Socrates

Often in life, we witness testing times where we are stuck in a dilemma of choosing between what’s easy and what’s right. That is exactly when we face tough decisions using our conscience.

We should be goal-oriented and focused in life, but that shouldn’t come at the cost of our ethics. A successful person is not someone who amasses only an incredible amount of wealth, but someone who lives by his set principles in life and doesn’t get disillusioned by the wealth so much to indulge in rogue practices. A truly successful life is striking the right balance between a professional and spiritual life.

Is it even a success that doesn’t allow us to sleep peacefully at night? It is crucial to achieve our goals but how we go about achieving them is also no less important.

Today we live in a world where morality doesn’t grab any attention. Matters of ethics and spirituality are neglected amid cut-throat competition. Human beings hardly ponder over their day-to-day activities or take some time to introspect about their chosen path to attain their set goals.

Having clear and effective work-life ethics helps arrive at better decisions and enriches our lives by making them less stressful. While there are many personal and work-life ethics, significantly crucial ones must be incorporated like honesty, integrity, self-respect, respect for others, empathy, compassion, etc.

There are many benefits of leading a work-oriented ethical lifestyle.

Helps prioritize our goals: Having a clear roadmap for our goals leads to advancement in our career. It gives a fillip to our professional life through proper planning.
Enhances leadership quality: A leader is someone who leads others by example. When we are clear about our goals, we can undoubtedly motivate others around us to confide in us.
Effective goal-setting: It helps us to have a clear vision about long and short term goals, our inclination towards various opportunities and our will towards achieving them.
Leads to a balanced life: A person who trusts his instincts and makes the right decisions in life has nothing to fear and lives life to the fullest. A work-oriented ethical lifestyle helps us achieve the right balance in life, driving away stress and workload.
Increased credibility among colleagues: When a person stands by what is right at the workplace, his colleagues can confide in him, leading to increased credibility and cooperation, making it conducive for the team to work towards their goals.
The moral reasoning behind reaching our goals through ethics also implies doing the right thing at the right time at the right place. This mantra, if followed religiously, will not only lead to an enriched lifestyle, both socially and personally but also a productive life that perhaps every professional or student desires.

Never neglect the ethical consequences of goal setting because it impacts our overall psychology. It is the mind and its well-being that matter. Therefore, it must be our continuous pursuit to focus on our goals besides relentlessly working towards enhancing our personality by incorporating value-adding ethics and principles in our lives.

"God may I be so deep in you that my husband has to seek you first before he may find me." - DJ Cuppy shares a heartfelt prayer, expressing her longing for a relationship grounded in spirituality.

Photo credit: @cuppymusic/Instagram

“Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?”
—Socrates

Often in life, we witness testing times where we are stuck in a dilemma of choosing between what’s easy and what’s right. That is exactly when we face tough decisions using our conscience.

We should be goal-oriented and focused in life, but that shouldn’t come at the cost of our ethics. A successful person is not someone who amasses only an incredible amount of wealth, but someone who lives by his set principles in life and doesn’t get disillusioned by the wealth so much to indulge in rogue practices. A truly successful life is striking the right balance between a professional and spiritual life.

Is it even a success that doesn’t allow us to sleep peacefully at night? It is crucial to achieve our goals but how we go about achieving them is also no less important.

Today we live in a world where morality doesn’t grab any attention. Matters of ethics and spirituality are neglected amid cut-throat competition. Human beings hardly ponder over their day-to-day activities or take some time to introspect about their chosen path to attain their set goals.

Having clear and effective work-life ethics helps arrive at better decisions and enriches our lives by making them less stressful. While there are many personal and work-life ethics, significantly crucial ones must be incorporated like honesty, integrity, self-respect, respect for others, empathy, compassion, etc.

There are many benefits of leading a work-oriented ethical lifestyle.

Helps prioritize our goals: Having a clear roadmap for our goals leads to advancement in our career. It gives a fillip to our professional life through proper planning.
Enhances leadership quality: A leader is someone who leads others by example. When we are clear about our goals, we can undoubtedly motivate others around us to confide in us.
Effective goal-setting: It helps us to have a clear vision about long and short term goals, our inclination towards various opportunities and our will towards achieving them.
Leads to a balanced life: A person who trusts his instincts and makes the right decisions in life has nothing to fear and lives life to the fullest. A work-oriented ethical lifestyle helps us achieve the right balance in life, driving away stress and workload.
Increased credibility among colleagues: When a person stands by what is right at the workplace, his colleagues can confide in him, leading to increased credibility and cooperation, making it conducive for the team to work towards their goals.
The moral reasoning behind reaching our goals through ethics also implies doing the right thing at the right time at the right place. This mantra, if followed religiously, will not only lead to an enriched lifestyle, both socially and personally but also a productive life that perhaps every professional or student desires.

Never neglect the ethical consequences of goal setting because it impacts our overall psychology. It is the mind and its well-being that matter. Therefore, it must be our continuous pursuit to focus on our goals besides relentlessly working towards enhancing our personality by incorporating value-adding ethics and principles in our lives.

Spirituality is not a religion or a trend—it is a lifestyle. It is a lifestyle of awareness that combines the understanding of faith, body, mind, and soul, allowing us to live modern-day enlightened lives in small and big

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Mount Fujiyama, the highest point in Japan, is located on the main island of Honshu, specifically in:

Yamanashi and Shizuoka Prefectures.

Mount Fuji, an active stratovolcano, stands at:

3,776 meters (12,388 feet) above sea level.

It's a sacred and iconic symbol of Japan, inspiring art, literature, and spirituality

Sultan sent a message to leaders.

President Bola Tinubu, governors and other leaders have been urged not to forget the day of questioning.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa'ad Mohammad Abubakar II, made the call while giving Nigerian citizens their own share of the spirituality.

Here are some inspiring quotes about birds:

*Freedom & Inspiration*

1. "The bird that soars highest is the one that faces the sun." - R.W. Ritchie
2. "Birds have wings; humans have dreams." - Unknown
3. "The freedom of the bird is an inspiration to us all." - Hal Runkel

*Nature & Wonder*

1. "The song of the bird is a reminder of the beauty of nature." - John Audubon
2. "Birds are the messengers of the earth." - African Proverb
3. "The wings of birds are the fingers of the wind." - John Ray

*Courage & Resilience*

1. "The bird dares to storm the sky." - Maya Angelou
2. "Like birds, we must learn to adapt and fly again." - Unknown
3. "Birds have a remarkable ability to survive and thrive." - David Attenborough

*Spirituality & Symbolism*

1. "Birds are symbols of hope and renewal." - Pablo Neruda
2. "The bird's migration is a metaphor for life's journey." - Barbara Kingsolver
3. "Birds carry the souls of the departed to heaven." - Ancient Egyptian Mythology

My mom shared a story of how she entered a bus one day on her way to a particular city here in Nigeria to purchase materials for her business.

Immediately the vehicle took off,she started to feel uncomfortable. Her spirit became restless and she started feeling that something bad was going to happen.

So she began to pray in her spirit. You know when the holy spirit begins to bear witness within you that there is an operation of the kingdom of darkness within an environment.

As she continued to pray silently,she began to see the spirit of death hovering around their vehicle.

So she began to pray more seriously. One of the advantages we have as children of God is spiritual sensitivity. We can decode when an atmosphere is not just right. We can feel it.

She began to talk to God. She told God that because she was in that vehicle,she is cancelling that projection of death no matter who they sent it to. She and other innocent souls will not dìe because of one person carrying a projection of car accident.

Hmmmmm

Not long after that,the driver of the vehicle pulled over to the side of the road and stopped. He told them to excuse him while he eased himself. Of course the passengers allowed.

10 minutes went by, driver did not return.

Passengers started to murmur. Didn't he know that they had appointments and deadlines to meet?

Did this man not know that they were working with time?

20 minutes. No sign of driver.

Haaaaaaa! Everybody started to come down from the vehicle to look for him.

Just at the side of the vehicle close to the boot was the driver.

Standing still. Not moving.

Passengers started calling him to come and move the vehicle because they were running out of time. Driver wasn't moving. Just standing where he was. Still like a statue.

Hmmmm

One of the passengers then walked up to him in anger thinking that he was deliberately ignoring them and touched him. The driver just dropped down on the ground. Dead.

People started to scream and shout and all of that. Mom said she couldn't even move.

She was just there wondering.

What would have happened if this driver had died on the steering wheel????

Imagine how many people that he would have taken with him?

Kai!
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We really need to take our spiritual life serious, your level of spirituality determines your closeness with God.

I want you to know that God has already made provision for you and I in every situation we may find ourselves. But the issue is are not keyed into the realm He wants us to be, before we can be able to access all His promises and provisions for us.

God loves you and I want you to know that God is doing everything, just to be close to you. God wants us to have a relationship with Him. And this relationship is an intimate one. God wants you and I to have an intimate relationship with Him.

But we can only achieve all these by, building our spiritual lives through nurturing of the inner man. We need the leading of the holy Spirit through the inward witness (inner man)

God bless you all as you read and work on this Words of mine . Amen

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.