Four Steps To Developing Patience; Jane Bolton, Psy.D., M.F.T., C.C

The Purpose of Patience
So, what's the purpose of building patience abilities? In a word, happiness. Better relationships, more success. Well worth the effort, I'd say. But effort, indeed, it takes.

We can all work to develop more patience. An important idea here is that developing patience is just that. Developing a skill. We aren't born with it. Think of a hungry infant- shrieking with all it's red-faced, rigid-bodied impatient demand for satisfaction.
After all, we can't just sit down at a piano and play it without ever learning to play and practicing, practicing, practicing.
That practicing includes 1)paying attention to when we are not patient, 2) being kind to ourselves for not being "perfect" already, and 3)changing the automatic judgmental, critical thoughts and feelings.
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Stop Using These 16 Terms to Describe Yourself

Jeff Haden

Ghostwriter, speaker, Inc. columnist

 Picture this. You meet someone new. "What do you do?" she asks.
"I'm an architect," you say.
"Oh, really?" she answers. "Have you designed any buildings I've seen?"
"Possibly," you reply. "We did the new student center at the university..."
"Oh wow," she says. "That's a beautiful building..."
Without trying -- without blowing your own horn -- you've made a great impression.
Now picture this. You meet someone new. "What do you do?" he asks.
"I'm a passionate, innovative, dynamic provider of architectural services with a collaborative approach to creating and delivering outstanding world-class client and user experiences."
All righty then.
Do you describe yourself differently – on your website, promotional materials, or especially on social media – than you do in person? Do you use cheesy clichés and overblown superlatives and breathless adjectives?
Do you write things about yourself you would never have the nerve to actually say?
Here are some words that are great when other people use them to describe you – but you should never use to describe yourself:

A BLIND REPORT... for one eyed men

A BLIND REPORT... for one eyed men

                                                           

The superlative hunger for responsible leadership is to say the least Nigeria’s most important prayer point. But I find it hard from wondering, asking myself the one question we ignore the most; Yes! We need change, agreed, we need some measure of direction in leadership, a responsible government, but do we really deserve it? On a scale of justice, do we stand a chance based on our past and present?

PARENTING TIPS MADE EASY

LETTER TO NIGERIAN PARENTS

 Friends,

Let me add the benefit of my time as a student and then resident in the UK - and I live in Lagos now. The first thing that I discovered about UK-born, white, English undergraduates was that all of them did holiday or weekend job to support themselves - including the children of millionaires amongst them. It is the norm over there - regardless how wealthy their parents are. And I soon discovered that virtually all other foreign students did the same - the exception being those of us status-conscious Nigerians.

 I also watched Richard Branson (owner of Virgin Airline) speaking on the Biography Channel and, to my amazement; he said that his young children travel in the economy class -even when the parents (he and his wife) are in upper class. Richard Branson is a billionaire in Pound Sterling. A quick survey would show you that only children from Nigeria fly business or upper class to commence their studies in the UK . No other foreign students do this. There is no aircraft attached to the office of the prime minister in the UK - he travels on British Airways (BA). And the same goes for the Royals. The Queen does not have an aircraft for her exclusive use.

BETWEEN THE ANT AND THE ELEPHANT, WHICH IS BIGGER?

THINK ABOUT THIS.

Ha! Ha!! Ha!!!

Life is beautifully funny, imagine, even the English language understands that trials precedes blessings and that the mighty is incomplete without the lesser ones. Can you spell ‘testimony’ without test first? Or can you spell ‘elephant’ without ‘ant’ completing it?

Could it be a co-incidence? Perhaps, but it sit shows that the universe testifies to the spiritual make-up of the basic truths and no matter our language differences, there’s always something to point us back to the principles of life as ordained by the creator himself.

Are you passing through test today? I congratulate you because your ‘mony’ is on the way, so there will be a testimony for you.
Please relish every movement of the test for you to have an abundant and ground breaking testimony.
If you are a mighty man or woman, please do not despise the little ones around you for you are no one without them.
There is no animal called ‘eleph’ but there is an ‘ant’, therefore, yours sincerely submits that it is the elephant that needs the ant to be complete as ‘ant’ is already complete without the ‘eleph’

Enjoy the days ahead.

THATCHOUSE.

5 UNNECESSARY REASONS WHY WOMEN MUST SUFFER

When a mother (men are not excused) fails to train her son by reason of impossible circumstances, career, ignorance or just foolishness, she fails to tame the beast and nurture the hero in him. By default the next woman is forced to inherit a beast or coward.

The new generation woman prefers a weak man for the purpose of manipulation and control. This helps them puppet the man to their desired direction. However as beneficial as this technique is in the short run, it always back fires at the long run. This is because when the man by way of karma, falls victim to another woman who is more advanced in gender puppetry, the music changes. The hunter becomes the hunted. As for the man, well...minus one.

Most women have allowed fashion to reduce them into sex items; with dress codes that de-emphasizes the woman from the world most important asset to a past time. This in itself is an insult to their maker, the universe which relies on them, and humanity.

Power is good but power play is dirty. A woman’s power before was private, subtle, slow but effective, indirect, playful and abstract but today the woman’s power has become direct, public, serious, loud and easy to discern.
With all honesty, you don’t expect to go into the arena and play fair. This is why Shakespeare said; “all is fair in love and war”.

THE THIN LINE; CROSS AND DIE.

Every meaning and purpose in life is separated by a thin line, it divides and separates us. Like a road path, route, there are distinctive boundaries. Each of the boundaries complements the circle of our existence. Justice and truth is only realistic within the context of these boundaries. This thin line is what explains justice, what uncovers the true meaning of truth.

TIPS AND TALKS.

                5 UNANSWERED QUESTIONS IN MARRIAGE.
 

1. After sex what next?

2. Can the commitment of my choice, outweighs my immediate gains?

3. Have I sowed enough seeds of companionship to guarantee harvest at my old age?

4. Am I really doing my partner a favour?

5. I know my partner has all the faults in the world but where were others before I     married this one?

 

Knowledge is an arrow
On the foot of ignorance
And the application of Knowledge
Is a lethal poison
 To the heart of ignorance

THATCHOUSE 

Women of Owu at a glance

Students arriving for the grand performance

Not many were opportuned to be at the grand performance of Women of Owu... a Femi Osofisan play by Excellence  Bridge International College. The theatrical dialogue on Peace was without doubt a first of its kind.

Students of Excellence Bridge International College in a Dance of Peace

Where roles were reversed and children taught adults the lessons according to Violence and  The ABC of Peace.

NTA Jos Network Centre, CHANNEL T.V, N.U.J were all there to add value.

CAST AND CREW OF WOMEN OF OWU AS PERFORMED BY EXCELLENCE BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL, JOS

  Cast and Crew of WOMEN OF OWU... A performance of Excellence Bridge International College Jos. A play written by Femi Osofisan and Directed by Victor Prince Dickson for Dialogue in Peace and conflict studies.

Zainab Opeyime... Women

Daniel Abraham ...Aulugbua

Veronica  Johnson... Chorus leader

EXCELLENCE BRIDGE PROVIDES LASTING SOLUTION TO PEACE

Femi Osofisan’s Women of Owu, a play, recounts events that happened years ago, an adaption.

What makes it more out of the ordinary is that the play is an African retelling of Euripides’ The Trojan Women. One would gain more from this play if the original book had been read. However, more gain lies on the fact that the play would also be fantastic to see live.

Like some other plays such as Arrow of God, Radio Gulf, Visa to Nowhere, etc. which have been performed live on stage by notable group of artists to the delight of the audience, the Excellence Bridge School is offering an exciting and amazing performance of Women of Owu.

STELLA DAMASUS...Narrates her story in HorseMouth.

 For all those who want to capture the authentic jist on the rise and rise of the screen icon, all you need to do is lay your hand on the latest copy of HorsMoutht at any of your news stand in Abuja  and environs.
HorsMouth  tells the story from a perceptive that gets you thinking, if so why not.
Rich in content and colours HorsMouth leads the journey of relevance to understanding success and failures.

A.A.Ozioma Murders Death.

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 I died a death

Yet in my death I refused to die

Anguish gave me no peace

Solitary gave me no rest

My grave, without me

And the underworld a journey, I never took