Principles For Living
Inspiring And Motivating Stories For Overcoming Life's Storms
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A NEW BEGINNING
Starting Over Again
Let us assume this is the first day of a New Year in your life. There is celebration, congratulations and exchange of good wishes. As you celebrate, you suppress that twinge of sadness and force a smile, hoping that the pain of misfortune, failure, sorrow, and setback of the past year would go away. But when the merriment is over and you sit alone to count your losses, tears sneak from the corners of your eyes and spill down your cheeks, bringing with them a hopeless feeling that there is really no need to go on. “What’s the use?” “What’s the point?” You ask yourself repeatedly.
Many have reached this point in their lives. They have paid large sums to psychiatrists and counselors to help them make meaning out of the chaos their lives had become. Some indulged in drugs in order to find pleasure. Others have ruined their lives with
A few despondent fellows have committed suicide when they could no longer withstand their own lives any more. If this is how you feel as you take stock of your life, remember that one of the greatest joys in life is the opportunity to begin again after a great fall. After a lifetime project ends in a fiasco. After a young healthy body caves in to disease, and a warm intimate relationship deteriorates into a cold war.
Beloved, starting all over again is difficult but it is the right thing to do. It is said that gallant men and women tread the path of difficulty while Cowards look for an easy way out always. It makes no sense to believe that one can glide through life in flowery bed of ease without challenges and obstacles to contend with. Problems make us tough and strong. They prepare us for a life that exudes balance and durable riches. It is often true that those who tread on easy path and look for cheap and challenge-free lane to victory are acute failures in life.
You can begin again. You can make a powerful come back to your abandoned career, to ideas that you throw into the sea because of discouragement, and to those habits and disciplines of
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Ahead of us lies the future like a road stretching into the distance. Along that road are hopes and dreams we wish to accomplish, assignments we hope to finish, and goals we desire to attain. To realize our aspirations in life, we must understand that mere ‘wishing’ can only get us nowhere. A thorough understanding of principles that evoke a sequence of positive events in life is inevitable.
Nowadays, young men and women go through life with zero morals, culture, diligence, and focus. They hope to accomplish their goals by luck or sheer stroke of coincidence. They expect everything they desire to fall into place at once. Unable to figure out why they have to endure for a while, their untamed passion for success lights up the sky with blazes of anxiety, instant achievements, and material aggrandizement.
Sustained growth in life is not about big initiative, but about habits, principles, mindset, and process. Sadly today, the mainstream of people in various strata of societal divide are thrown into frenzied state of despair as a result of ignorance and total neglect of how these laws or principles work.
The emphasis in this book is not only on self-development, but also on spiritual illumination and progress. It offers a healthy reading for every section of our society. I wrote this book in such a reader-friendly style so that people from diverse denominational construct, religious background and social standing can easily relate with the context of the messages embedded in the stories that follow.
About the Author
Fidelis Chukwuemeka Odogbo is a motivational and inspirational writer. He has authored several published articles in national newspapers in Qatar and online magazines on various motivational and inspirational websites. Gifted in the area of counselling, Fidelis has spent over thirteen years working as a child/youth worker, teaching and counselling youths on life matters. His proclivity for moral uprightness and successful achievements has ocassioned many of his writings.
Fidelis hails from Nigeria and currently resides in Doha, Qatar, Middle East. He is married to Elo Claire, a financial consultant and talent coach and blessed with a beautifull daughter, Sophie.