DO YOU HAVE A JACK?

If your car breaks down with tyre issues and you don't have a jack, you will be stranded as there’s no way to change your tyre without a jack!

As small as it looks, a jack is a must-have item that must be in the boot / trunk of every car. A Jack is an equipment with lifting capacity of 500 kg or more'

It is amazing how a small jack can lift a big car. Our lives are like cars. We all need to have a Jack in our lives. There are things that represent these jacks that can help lift us, and can help when we want to change levels, change habits, change our situations for better just like when you want to change your deflated car tyre. Let me mention two of such 'life Jacks' we all need to have:

RELATIONSHIP IS A JACK! Life is not meant to be lived in isolation but in association. You will do well to be intentional about your relationships. Do you have friends that can lift you when life knocks you down and flat? One good relationship can lift you from a pit to the palace. If you lack quality relationships, you will be stranded in life.

RIGHTEOUSNESS IS A JACK! Scripture says, ‘Righteousness exalts a nation...'. If Righteousness can Jack up, lift and exalt a whole nation, how much more an individual? Righteousness can bail you out when the 'tyre of your destiny car' gets deflated.

Get these 'jacks' and maximize them. They will help your life in no small way.

Written by:

© Bisola Mogaji

FLEX THOSE MUSCLES!

Sitting for too long is not good for your muscles and your body generally. Be it in your office, home or during long flights, sitting for long hours can have negative effect on your body.

At first, sitting brings relief, comfort and rest. Sit for too long and the initial benefit quickly becomes a detriment.

If you have been sitting down for a long time, it's important that you get up, exercise your body, stretch and flex your muscles!

Many have been 'sitting for so long' that it’s already telling negatively on their mindsets, performance at work, at home and even in relationships- It the same old routine, day in, day out. You may need to stand, exercise and stretch a little.

I am not referring to physical standing, exercising and stretching alone. I am talking of re-evaluating, readjusting, re-strategizing, re-positioning your mind for better opportunities, achievements and performance.

Are you reading this and you know you have been 'sitting’ for too long, and have not challenged your mind lately? Have you been secretly despising those around you for ‘doing too much’? Perhaps you are the one functioning way below your capacity.

I challenge you to get up, exercise, stretch and flex those muscles!

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© Bisola Mogaji.

WHAT'S YOUR FLAVOUR?

Here’s something I have discovered over the years through cooking. All classes of fish and meat have their own peculiar taste and flavour they add to the soup or whatever you add them to. For example, the taste of goat meat in any soup is different from the taste of cow meat. The taste of catfish is not the same with that of Tuna fish. Each of them comes with their own unique taste.

This is exactly how we are to bring our unique taste into any 'mix' we are added, releasing our unique essence.

I have not seen where goat meat struggle or compete to taste like pork neither have I heard of the cow meat struggling to taste like egg. Each of them is unique in their tastes, and this to a large extent informs our choices of which one to use for what dish.

Friends, stop losing your flavour because you want to taste like someone else. You cannot be good at everything and for everything. Accept that some people will be different from you and maybe better preferred. It doesn’t diminish your uniqueness. You’re unique in the flavour you bring to the table. That, my friend is what makes you, you.

Not embracing your difference blinds you from your uniqueness and lands you in identity crisis.

Don't hide your flavour! Don't swap your taste.

Written by:

© Bisola Mogaji