tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-348610762024-03-13T05:51:12.206+01:00Zayzee Writes...realise the dreamZayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-29437228754988330892024-01-22T10:40:00.004+01:002024-01-22T10:56:07.861+01:00Discussing Emotional and Physical Abuse (A Review)<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Book Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"> ENDURING<br /></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Nkechi Pat Nelson<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Publisher:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Zayzee Limited<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Year of Publication:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> 2023<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ISBN:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> 978-978-799-577-0<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Reviewer:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span>Courage Okegbo</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A beautiful yet heartbreaking story. ENDURING is the story
of women in search of love, peace and stability but they get quite the opposite―infidelity, abuse, pain and heartache.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbuW5ta1lkzXMd7-oAiFBLaJFTuuABStBz4rCh2jt8mFLNhWdaTpJIlTvnWd6-nCAOY0irOhAFFtPWZXBtLuh76ouTeqWTdg73cqElhQmEK6wtu0rCRDnnuyZ33PeM_WVX_E9oS60MndNRA3WY54wjXL4wWo6UXkO4_tLIWHPeLjKZWApiQRKdmw/s3244/ENDURING%20book.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3244" data-original-width="3244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbuW5ta1lkzXMd7-oAiFBLaJFTuuABStBz4rCh2jt8mFLNhWdaTpJIlTvnWd6-nCAOY0irOhAFFtPWZXBtLuh76ouTeqWTdg73cqElhQmEK6wtu0rCRDnnuyZ33PeM_WVX_E9oS60MndNRA3WY54wjXL4wWo6UXkO4_tLIWHPeLjKZWApiQRKdmw/s320/ENDURING%20book.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">A series of unexpected events brings about change, confusion
and fear but they have to make a choice, to follow their hearts, get a chance
to love, peace and freedom or continue living in pain. This should be an easy
choice right? Not really.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The women have reasons for enduring and living in pain. For one,
she wonders what society will say, because society always keeps an eye on women
watching and judging yet it is okay for men to carry on as they see fit.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When Ruth does a fraction of what her husband has been doing
for years, all hell is let loose. She is no longer sure whether to move forward
or continue to endure for the sake of her children and peace. For Ethel, it's
the fear of being hurt again by men. This fear stands in the way when Tim, who
has also endured an unfaithful and manipulative wife crosses paths with her.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The focus of this book cuts across emotional and physical
abuse, not just to women but also to men. It looks at how societal norms cage
us in, not caring about our pain, but encouraging us to keep up a front and pretend
we're okay while we're not.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I like how the author shows us that nothing is really as it
seems and a lot of us are “actually” broken inside but society and religion tie
us down, making us unable to speak up or cry out. The entire book took me on an
emotional rollercoaster and the ending made me lose my mind but I understood
why.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p>The author covers the topic of emotional and physical abuse
in a balanced fashion, by showing different instances of both physical and emotional
abuse and also showing that anyone and everyone, men and women can and are subject
to these forms of abuse. </p><p><br /></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-72702949327344561022023-12-15T14:24:00.002+01:002024-01-22T10:40:51.287+01:00Life Is Shutter Than You Think (Book Review)<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Book Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> Life is Shutter Than You Think<br /></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Mosopefoluwa Onanusi<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Publisher:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Zayzee Limited<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Year of Publication:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> 2022<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ISBN:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> 978-978-790-017-8<br /><o:p></o:p></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Reviewer:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> Uzezi Adesite<o:p></o:p></span></div><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTd-1UXGdLVumBEix_fEJzwjNB6P5yIKvB4E7FZ0ynLwjjkVSC1xZlw8SPWy1gzRViFMx0N3IfY4OIudwgsH6vdYkrGz6GIjGqeyvqLqDz4ifM0KpErqpLKoqMTEmrdNAkVT9k6yD6GgO_CK8sDdXC0MyZ-XOwAOTJdjFmUp2MFtOs_0mQ34u4mw/s691/Life%20is%20Shutter....jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTd-1UXGdLVumBEix_fEJzwjNB6P5yIKvB4E7FZ0ynLwjjkVSC1xZlw8SPWy1gzRViFMx0N3IfY4OIudwgsH6vdYkrGz6GIjGqeyvqLqDz4ifM0KpErqpLKoqMTEmrdNAkVT9k6yD6GgO_CK8sDdXC0MyZ-XOwAOTJdjFmUp2MFtOs_0mQ34u4mw/s320/Life%20is%20Shutter....jpeg" width="233" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The whole essence of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Life is Shutter Than You Think</b> is to
motivate the reader to follow his or her heart and pursue dreams. But there is
a difference here because Mosope shows us that you do not put the cart before
the horse. You do not say you have a passion for something and are unwilling to
take any step to live in it and experience it, yet you expect the harvest that
comes with it. You follow your heart but in doing so, you use your head.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In the very first chapter, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Going From the Known to the Unknown</b>, we
were made to understand that the writer had a trainer and she was a student
learning the basics. She wasn’t following her dream blindly or calling herself
a professional photographer just because she liked how it sounded. The parlance
we have all come to know today as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fake it
till you make it</i>. This wasn’t the script she presented. She was training to
be better and developing a skill she was passionate about and while the fire
was burning hot she decided to embrace it because fuel gives us the necessary
speed and courage to move when we decide to leave our comfort zones and no
amount of brakes applied is able to stop someone that has tasted a bit of what
he or she has been dreaming about.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Having experienced a bit of
the life she had a passion for and had decided to move towards, it is no wonder
that her bosses in the organization she used to work in felt she was making a
mistake. She was throwing away a job she was well equipped for, exchanging it
for something there was a guarantee about. And this is the intrigue of this
book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">While the writer did not
take the reader on a step-by-step description or record of how she did it from
the day she left her job to where she is today, she gave a glimpse into her
world, turning the spotlight on the different areas of her life that make her
who she is, but most importantly, the role that being a photographer plays in
all of this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We can also say that her
story going by this book is a journal of the life of an entrepreneur, the good,
the bad and the ugly, but most importantly the lessons gathered and how they
contributed to building that needed credibility based on her consistency and
despite the roadblocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In motivating her readers,
there are pieces of advice strewn around the pages of this book that contribute
to its worth. Take, for example, the chapter that talks about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Others’ Experiences; My Lesson</b>, where
she draws the reader's attention to the fact that we do not only have to learn
from personal experiences but from everywhere, every situation, and everybody
and she went on to share how other people’s experiences that she learnt from,
guided her in different circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Beyond the obvious though,
one of the write-ups that stands out for me is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Mind Your Business”</b> and by the end of this write-up, the reader
gets a different admonition because instead of minding our business, we are
encouraged to get into other people’s businesses by being compassionate. By the
end of this write-up, we get to answer the unasked question to ascertain if we
are succeeding in being compassionate and loving others like ourselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">One thing or value that the
writer possesses, which shouldn’t be lost on any reader because it glares at us
from the pages of the book is her determination and commitment to what she
believes in, doing the hard work and going the mile to build her credibility,
which are assets that many young people today can build on, and assets that no
entrepreneur can do without. Also worth noting is the writer’s ability to dare
to dream because she painted for the reader some interesting images from her
future, giving an idea of what she sees in her future which she is heading
towards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Life is Shutter Than You Think</span></b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> can be described as Mosope’s way of ensuring that she
lives her life meaningfully. That is why the book is packed with 44 articles or
write-ups that are independent of the one that comes before or after them. Each
piece is complete in itself, short captivating and straight to the point, which
is shedding more light on the topic of that entry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Mosope has written a book
that is very entertaining as well as educative. In some places, you will smile,
at others you will laugh and at others still, you will nod your head in
agreement. With her words, she absorbs the reader into her world because this
book is a representation of who she is. It is not fiction but her personal
journey and like in the chapter that says <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“You
are A Pretender’</b>, where she writes that she tells people not to assume her
personality, I can safely say that reading this book can actually help the
reader to assume Mosope’s personality and the reader wouldn’t be far from the
truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Her style of writing is
straight to the point. The use of everyday language that you and I use and is
easy to understand is, of course, what makes the book engaging.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If you are yet to get a
copy, then you can do so <a href="https://selar.co/3few">here </a>if you are in Nigeria, or on <a href="https://amzn.to/3XGrADL">Amazon</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-77177344626219073732023-09-15T10:56:00.001+01:002023-09-15T10:56:12.337+01:00Read ENDURING For Free Here<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SYNOPSIS:</b> She had always desired love, respect, and care from her
husband, but instead, Ruth was subjected to emotional abuse and infidelity.
Despite the hardships, she endured and adapted to her life, assuming the role
of a submissive wife and providing a stable home for her children.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaT0eRz4i_THoc2cbL1UFrqOzZFpidKnehxWTrIgdpy89Cg-lAUUC8ez1BScad1HwL66Ks_5I3Mr8eYxKmqmI_-kNtEXqBHOvEjyyeK-PVzYEwtZV76eCe0oFY6A0LRq1bK6SnsEIKe7I3N3aOvmrCgbmiwvX5EPue64kPSJJp3N_o19Rb33wx_Q/s3244/ENDURING%20book.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3244" data-original-width="3244" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaT0eRz4i_THoc2cbL1UFrqOzZFpidKnehxWTrIgdpy89Cg-lAUUC8ez1BScad1HwL66Ks_5I3Mr8eYxKmqmI_-kNtEXqBHOvEjyyeK-PVzYEwtZV76eCe0oFY6A0LRq1bK6SnsEIKe7I3N3aOvmrCgbmiwvX5EPue64kPSJJp3N_o19Rb33wx_Q/w320-h320/ENDURING%20book.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">However, a series of unexpected events brought about change,
confusion, and fear, leading Ruth to allow herself to experience love. This act
was considered taboo, yet it was also beautiful and fulfilled her deepest
dreams. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">While grappling with the pain of past experiences and
conflicting teachings, Ruth and the other women who crossed her path faced
challenging decisions. They found themselves torn between societal expectations
and prioritising their own needs.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Are you ready? Click <a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/enduring-preview.html">here</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-66216873718341573662023-09-10T23:50:00.001+01:002023-09-10T23:52:10.112+01:00Meet Our Titles<p>We do books. Let's do yours.</p><p>Special thanks to Sammy (Sage) Hassan, for the beautiful poem used in the video.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxzy8dK1gq1PmMSXbuIjrQrlr08FJbjjvU3XAv97PujwSWJyAuYK07qz8heGw43p4YKxq6SbhMzeLM' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-59358681147585533672023-06-14T11:39:00.000+01:002023-06-14T11:39:43.374+01:00A Note From Uzezi Adesite <p><b><i>My Introduction as published in Prison to Photography</i></b></p><p>I picked up some bits and pieces of Seun’s story from his
articles when we met in 2018. I didn’t have the full picture; the details about
why he went to prison and all that transpired as a result. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHWJ8PrXJv1IdUkY6fWwqLr-NHZqqKfBuOv1TevzC6MY7TzGrgtL-4NVqo2eFmMp-uW2IbbHmEv4NnNs0siEpjWmOoxW6EI9dCOc65TlFzM_Zi_uBOeGRef8Lcl6plN2hpuB8vjKL-K9FxUfgHFl13qQBf-wRbW5-Pp8mBISOLjjLEipFB_Y/s1100/Screenshot_20221118-145146.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="719" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHWJ8PrXJv1IdUkY6fWwqLr-NHZqqKfBuOv1TevzC6MY7TzGrgtL-4NVqo2eFmMp-uW2IbbHmEv4NnNs0siEpjWmOoxW6EI9dCOc65TlFzM_Zi_uBOeGRef8Lcl6plN2hpuB8vjKL-K9FxUfgHFl13qQBf-wRbW5-Pp8mBISOLjjLEipFB_Y/w131-h200/Screenshot_20221118-145146.png" width="131" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When I learned he planned to write his story, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">From
Prison to Photography</i></b>, I knew I would be one of the first readers of
the book because I was already intrigued by his personality and believed
knowing his story would give me a better insight into who he is and the things
he does.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then one day he shocked me. “Uzezi, I have decided that you
should be the one to write my story,” he said to me. I remember that Saturday
in 2019. We were both attending the curriculum review meeting of our class at
Daystar Christian Centre as we are both teachers at the Junior Church, and we
were standing outside the class of Little Stars 7.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Beyond being excited about the opportunity, I felt honoured.
He was going to let me into that vulnerable place to tell me his story. And he
did. How you feel when you’re writing your story alone is different from when
you’re narrating the same story to someone else. Your emotions, intentions and
your truths are laid out. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When you sing to yourself in the bathroom, you pay little
attention to how you sound. It’s just you and you’re not afraid of being
yourself. But facing an audience is bravery. You are vulnerable enough to let
go, to be seen or heard as you are, unsure of the reception or what the critics
would say. And this is exactly what Seun did. As he narrated, I took a trip
with him back in time and became not only a spectator but also a pupil because
Seun’s story is an institution where I had to unlearn things I thought I knew
to learn a different acceptance.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Each time, while listening to the audio files we recorded,
while transcribing and developing the story,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was struck afresh by the magnitude of Seun’s experience and
appreciated the strength in his seeming weakness as a defenceless prisoner, and
the child no parent wants to have. Then, I would arrive at one of the reasons
why I agreed to take on this project with him <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">―</span> The turnaround.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">More than anything, that was the story I was interested in.
Fallen so deep, coated with layers of shame and finding the strength to peel
back layer after layer despite the sting to get back up, is what this book is
all about. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jentezen Franklin, in one of his sermons, said “Goliaths
don’t show up till you enter the territory God has promised you … The presence
of a giant is proof that you have entered your promised land.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ironically, the prison became the path that stirred Seun into
the future he is living today. He wouldn’t have it without going to prison and
defeating the giants. His story has made me more appreciative of challenges
because each one of them has a purpose. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am glad to have been a part of this project that would impact
many lives positively. This gives me a feeling that I am fulfilling my purpose.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Get your copy at any of the listed places.</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Roving Heights is <a href="https://rhbooks.com.ng/product/from-prison-to-photography/" target="_blank">here </a></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Selar is <a href="https://selar.co/prison2photography" target="_blank">here</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Amazon is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Prison-Photography-Journey-American-Industry/dp/9785881318" target="_blank">here</a></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-24384574951002687602023-04-12T08:24:00.003+01:002023-04-12T09:42:55.132+01:00How To Improve Your Writing Skills<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1.
Read. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmd73Tr07VSJLxl8JIa47Qny5Xya4No03-gNWd8IXjb8EK0MNYl4-cfxjCG0e1i6Wd4hWcbfRucxs8Y764lB5Ubw6GG-efkacVkCLiKO3eT1LZ-Dro0qcOk8Bik7XxOTlSB4HEWXprC_2_25-IYRKnWS9NMxikkhRSm7aazR2CIOoZrN5pSs0/s2001/ZAYZEE%20slide-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2001" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmd73Tr07VSJLxl8JIa47Qny5Xya4No03-gNWd8IXjb8EK0MNYl4-cfxjCG0e1i6Wd4hWcbfRucxs8Y764lB5Ubw6GG-efkacVkCLiKO3eT1LZ-Dro0qcOk8Bik7XxOTlSB4HEWXprC_2_25-IYRKnWS9NMxikkhRSm7aazR2CIOoZrN5pSs0/w200-h160/ZAYZEE%20slide-01.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Good writers are avid readers. Apart from
helping your imagination to break borders and expanding your vocabulary,
reading exposes you to different cultures and places * You encounter different
styles of writing that can directly or indirectly influence yours * The more
you read, the more you’ll learn how to structure your writing; sharpen your
descriptive ability and master the use of figures and parts of speech.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you want to be a better writer, don’t stop
reading. Read at least one book every week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2.
Learn the basic principles of writing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7CAHDeQeeKQPM44PVqxAs2e-tymjZxiM-qNVSkda92aMtlFNaVHPgMcZRU5g1eNa2Q9BtNURaawD0Oi9QBf3h0iSYtd4pN_NTtUFe3Eg5MX13LntA1JDm2da2EokVKeNjFhCHpbwrxtIhV66RY_UadKLFmusL-qIxRgT4M2N6EEaTGzzrDZE/s2000/ZAYZEE%20slide-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7CAHDeQeeKQPM44PVqxAs2e-tymjZxiM-qNVSkda92aMtlFNaVHPgMcZRU5g1eNa2Q9BtNURaawD0Oi9QBf3h0iSYtd4pN_NTtUFe3Eg5MX13LntA1JDm2da2EokVKeNjFhCHpbwrxtIhV66RY_UadKLFmusL-qIxRgT4M2N6EEaTGzzrDZE/w200-h160/ZAYZEE%20slide-02.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Writers write for readers and not for
themselves. With that in mind, when you write, ensure:<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Clarity: the reader should understand your
message easily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• An Active Voice: your subject (the noun)
should perform whatever action you are writing about.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Short Sentences: long sentences can be
confusing and you might lose the reader.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Simplicity: don’t use words that are
unnecessary or hard to decipher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Order: organise your writing in such a way
that it develops and flows from one phase to the next.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You will pick up other principles as you keep
writing. Don’t stop!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">3.
Write consistently.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjTOFMY1_yHUFj4yJacNOhfiBeIlXDAUvJWOJDRmHcnbgAXWjcUiUSMp61hYxdiQ8mcM5dxoV8r2HNCQYKF8HSok-RZzuQ9Oup8YSRY_DA1NNO_UlP7q2vilr2RhxDuUgbq7VPhnERNewegQW99bx_XqGo0G9GTe9MryGwUZl5pWSGNRLkP4/s2000/ZAYZEE%20slide-03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDjTOFMY1_yHUFj4yJacNOhfiBeIlXDAUvJWOJDRmHcnbgAXWjcUiUSMp61hYxdiQ8mcM5dxoV8r2HNCQYKF8HSok-RZzuQ9Oup8YSRY_DA1NNO_UlP7q2vilr2RhxDuUgbq7VPhnERNewegQW99bx_XqGo0G9GTe9MryGwUZl5pWSGNRLkP4/w200-h160/ZAYZEE%20slide-03.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is straightforward; the more you do
something, the better you get at it. Writing consistently will sharpen your
writing skills and help you to communicate more effectively.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">4.
Use an outline.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicXg3YlEOrkJ96NNQujNQlsa7SLU9evDd008CDOUrZj4rLd8mCFQusCKpFhQQMqGr_SbrQpjj_QCjj8tcKxcFlb5kBHQnKUz_alW6KFDd7zkJfaaLwVAFrsov9M_M4hkV0lTVkxfXCitGqa4tHJLH0ySLCXc0WzFYpkQYmgh2gDup1mVWMJ38/s2000/ZAYZEE%20slide-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicXg3YlEOrkJ96NNQujNQlsa7SLU9evDd008CDOUrZj4rLd8mCFQusCKpFhQQMqGr_SbrQpjj_QCjj8tcKxcFlb5kBHQnKUz_alW6KFDd7zkJfaaLwVAFrsov9M_M4hkV0lTVkxfXCitGqa4tHJLH0ySLCXc0WzFYpkQYmgh2gDup1mVWMJ38/w200-h160/ZAYZEE%20slide-04.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">You do not embark on a journey without having
a clear direction of where you are going. In the same light, your book outline
is a roadmap that will show you how to tell your story. What will come first?
What will follow it? What will end it? This outline is the sequence of
information or events your book will contain.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You need an outline to:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. Understand your starting point<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. Separate the main points in your book<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. Set small writing targets<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. Write quickly<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. Know what content to develop<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">6. Plan chapters<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">7. See what your first draft will look like<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Also, the 5Ws and H questions can easily help
you summarise each point on your outline.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">5.
Edit your work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAQCw9ZNsrOyKNorylRv7OqTzQ0a-9fCdQRr9q4M2csxPcb_F0DyjGQOG0whLq5BUvcO73p342Z6rzaNXLvR6o7rESx-Fy11ow9Erx0aSNwj1OI1WSdiu7buh8zOOrMOXqJ1To8iOh-Kn-yiaVf3LdSUvazLbvjApdVk3LGfHuW24qi8QWbg/s2000/ZAYZEE%20slide-05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGAQCw9ZNsrOyKNorylRv7OqTzQ0a-9fCdQRr9q4M2csxPcb_F0DyjGQOG0whLq5BUvcO73p342Z6rzaNXLvR6o7rESx-Fy11ow9Erx0aSNwj1OI1WSdiu7buh8zOOrMOXqJ1To8iOh-Kn-yiaVf3LdSUvazLbvjApdVk3LGfHuW24qi8QWbg/w200-h160/ZAYZEE%20slide-05.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Always do your first editing before sending
your manuscript to a professional editor. Once you have finished writing, it is
advisable to leave your manuscript for a few days or weeks before doing a read
through with fresh eyes, putting yourself in the shoes of the reader and taking
note of what to work on – grammatical errors, story structure, clarity etc.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-36595039625979954932022-03-18T12:11:00.003+01:002022-03-18T12:11:50.436+01:00Happify Your Life<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb13SMfT16lYOVAeZJZmaoIsB-Q4GpaoNXP22lz8q9cLd2qsNR5qLTy1DC7lkYAiMzuwsL3ip6Xp7NdpiHHxY0XIcTyu70LSgOwlVs7sc4q97Nx-wj4CGl5fBfPKLsuR0pyPqrRrUnnqAR2yhfO-mDKWnSiCB7r24X3wJy5oQLHwWvX7yaD9I/s1000/download-34434981647601748.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb13SMfT16lYOVAeZJZmaoIsB-Q4GpaoNXP22lz8q9cLd2qsNR5qLTy1DC7lkYAiMzuwsL3ip6Xp7NdpiHHxY0XIcTyu70LSgOwlVs7sc4q97Nx-wj4CGl5fBfPKLsuR0pyPqrRrUnnqAR2yhfO-mDKWnSiCB7r24X3wJy5oQLHwWvX7yaD9I/s320/download-34434981647601748.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><b>Dinma Nwobi </b>Writes:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">On Sunday, the world will be
celebrating International Day of Happiness. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Why happiness?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Happiness is the new
flourishing. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Yes, you read right. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Happiness is the new
flourishing. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">In a world where everything
seems to be conspiring to drive you nuts.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">In a world where everything
seeks to remind you of your failures and inadequacies. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Happiness is the new
flourishing. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">You will agree with me that our
wellbeing is being bastardized daily. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">From home, workplace,
government, and even our communities, our inner peace is threatened daily. We
can no longer afford to allow negative emotions to rule our minds. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">I have been on this journey of
studying and living out what makes humans flourish and enjoy their own kind of ‘happy’
for years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">In our family, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Raising other happy families is
part of our mission statement and we have been doing it in our unique way until
Sept 12, 2021, when I heard in my spirit, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">“Write a book - the title shall
be ‘Happify Your Life’ and teach Nigerians how to make happiness a lifestyle,
that is what we need now.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">That inspiration grew into an
Experience beyond just a book. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">With Happify Your Life
Experience, You get <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">🎯</span> A book containing the
science of happiness and human flourishing in simple language with practical
positive interventions to make it your lifestyle. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">🎯</span> A Journal that helps
you to reflect on these lifestyle rituals, routines and reminders that optimize
your mental and emotional wellbeing and happiness. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">🎯</span> The community where you
enjoy monthly coaching from certified Applied Positive Psychology coaches and
share courage, connection and compassion with other likeminded people. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">We are set to launch the experience
on March 20th with a virtual party. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvfatuk_1Od2k4H0w_dvQ1NGrH872A2_U_DUqE-Y7S5lQyctCrYYvmDLuUf2NljsCtNiS3E5B5bhnYJhY7yOV3OqickfHEp9FdaVyCisIlJtDZp-105PEUkKD4QDvv_RmBFXQWnTrllZrT1XhALEnsptR6C8ehaNYLqYeCXEFjSqjXNKaGkQ/s1080/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-03-12%20at%206.25.27%20AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="724" data-original-width="1080" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqvfatuk_1Od2k4H0w_dvQ1NGrH872A2_U_DUqE-Y7S5lQyctCrYYvmDLuUf2NljsCtNiS3E5B5bhnYJhY7yOV3OqickfHEp9FdaVyCisIlJtDZp-105PEUkKD4QDvv_RmBFXQWnTrllZrT1XhALEnsptR6C8ehaNYLqYeCXEFjSqjXNKaGkQ/s320/WhatsApp%20Image%202022-03-12%20at%206.25.27%20AM.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Great speakers like Praise
Fowowe, Usar Innocent, Victor Ekpo Bassey, Eyitayo Iyortim, Wendy Ologe will be
there to share how positive emotions impact our lives in different dimensions
of life.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">You want to be there because you
need to hack the skills for more flourishing. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">The launch party is FREE but
you’ve got to register. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Share the link with everyone you
love. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">We will be exploring topics like
<o:p></o:p></p>
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Emotions and Mental Wellbeing. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">👉🏽</span> Positive
Emotions and Wealth Acceleration<o:p></o:p></p>
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Emotions and Out of the Box Thinking <o:p></o:p></p>
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Emotions and Intentional Parenting <o:p></o:p></p>
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Emotions and Peak Performance. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">Register today to hack the
science of happiness for all that matters to you. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;"><a href="https://bit.ly/stayhappified">https://bit.ly/stayhappified<o:p></o:p></a></p>Read more about the author <a href="https://dinmanwobi.disha.page/" target="_blank">here</a><p></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-85066209212500564452021-11-11T09:00:00.005+01:002021-11-11T09:48:14.414+01:00The Kind of Endorsement I Love<p> <i>We were arrested and
imprisoned in America. We spent more than five months in four different
American prisons …</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I was there with him;
I saw it all as God Messed Him Up!<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The highlight of what I do is acknowledgement. When I see my
name listed in the Acknowledgement of books I edited, it gets me tickled. With
their acknowledgements, the majority of the authors I’ve worked with leave me
an opportunity to showcase my past works.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlCVwHdb36AGEFh4DPv6IPfdCyiTeD_pUoNH0OHKDEDpjjX6_LTto-RB0g5NaZdghcwUDesfWQCp61hzQB7vFhJ5cPXJmaiMSekEO0IW9F5TFiXUhtxfbWwW86SchFleWiFx9stg/s1080/WhatsApp+Image+2021-11-05+at+1.44.55+AM.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlCVwHdb36AGEFh4DPv6IPfdCyiTeD_pUoNH0OHKDEDpjjX6_LTto-RB0g5NaZdghcwUDesfWQCp61hzQB7vFhJ5cPXJmaiMSekEO0IW9F5TFiXUhtxfbWwW86SchFleWiFx9stg/w400-h400/WhatsApp+Image+2021-11-05+at+1.44.55+AM.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">But as a ghostwriter, it is different. I sign a
non-disclosure agreement. Because I am a ghost and you don’t see ghosts, nobody
is supposed to know I worked on the book. My sister once said it was cheating.
But it is a job and it is not my story.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In 2018, when I met Seun, he widened the door that I’d only
cracked a little and grew my career as a ghostwriter, which has given me the
opportunity to meet some big names I cannot mention whose books I have
ghostwritten. The ripple effect continues with referrals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Imagine my shock this morning. I woke up to the cover of his
book which we started work on in 2019 (yeah, it took us that long and in-between
pauses and other projects too), and is soon to be released in February 2022.
Amazing book, amazing story, amazing testimony, extremely inspiring. And I get
to share authorship? Wow!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This is the biggest endorsement of my life as a writer.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Preorder your copy of this soon of be international
bestseller <a href="https://selar.co/prison2photography" target="_blank">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And by the way, if you are still waiting to book my
services, book now in advance. 2022 is already looking tight 😁<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-42611188080170157512021-07-23T10:48:00.012+01:002023-09-11T00:10:26.468+01:00Book My Services<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Hello,</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Has writing a book about your journey through life (an autobiography) or the
business world crossed your mind but you cannot find the right words or the
time to dedicate to writing? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>My name is Uzezi and I love to write and put life into the words of others, as I express their thoughts and ideas in their voice</span><span>.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCwKwIMuGsn2-IijaYgNhVa7fzRUkCkGjN2C3VdUN0gtlwwMcKrr8K6w_jeSwwCC9oKks7YYEY6ufS0razdeRskyNKCaB3Za_kmGe_Yrxj6gLan6NE4X0DZQMOHXAMfSoTrziABQXzp9UvXySo3aE9e1LDsIqjb_ruMMkriV3mRqCZgQ7u3SXaw/s2048/20200708_224546.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCwKwIMuGsn2-IijaYgNhVa7fzRUkCkGjN2C3VdUN0gtlwwMcKrr8K6w_jeSwwCC9oKks7YYEY6ufS0razdeRskyNKCaB3Za_kmGe_Yrxj6gLan6NE4X0DZQMOHXAMfSoTrziABQXzp9UvXySo3aE9e1LDsIqjb_ruMMkriV3mRqCZgQ7u3SXaw/w213-h346/20200708_224546.jpg" width="213" /></a></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/services.html" target="_blank">Get Editing and Publishing Services Here</a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; mso-spacerun: yes;"><b><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/workshop.html" target="_blank">Get One-On-One guidance to Write Your Book yourself in 30 Days Here</a></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; mso-spacerun: yes;"><b><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/services.html" target="_blank">Get Book Designers, Graphics Work, Illustrators Here</a></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; mso-spacerun: yes;"><b><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/services.html" target="_blank">Print Your Book Here</a></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-small; mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">Beyond the words of my clients, I research other details
related to them or their work and if necessary, add such to enrich whatever work I have been
commissioned to do.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">I would love to offer my services to you as a ghostwriter...</div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Telling your experience in the industry you find
yourself and all that you have learnt; the dos and the don’ts or a ‘How To’
book</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Challenging life events</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">Addressing whatever misconceptions people have about
you</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: -0.25in;">And others…</span></li>
</ul><div style="text-indent: -24px;"><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: 0px;"> </span><span><span style="text-indent: 0px;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdg2Do70ETuz-r5t6LQKhOZ8lR-gfjW22UFU-zOPnxGzpUGfA/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">Book a consultation </a></b></span></span><b style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdg2Do70ETuz-r5t6LQKhOZ8lR-gfjW22UFU-zOPnxGzpUGfA/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">here</a></span></b></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span>Beyond telling your story, documenting life’s events in a
book outlives the writer and can become a resource for someone or many in
another generation to come. Your book might be the closest someone who looks up
to you can get to you. It might be the agent of change that somebody needs. And
of course, another reason to write your story is that it is a business that
will yield income.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">How Do I
Work? </span></b><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">If my client already has a concept for the book, we explore
that concept. If not, it is my job to build one.</span></div>
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<span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">How Fast Do
I Deliver?</span></b><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> I deliver a well-written, edited and ready-to-be-published
manuscript between three to four months.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Why Work
With Me <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Writing is my lifestyle and over the years I have gotten better at what I do. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I worked for 15 years as a journalist, covering different beats. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I have ghostwritten autobiographies; memoirs; specialised books on entrepreneurship, religion, health, motivation as well as fiction. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I have also edited several manuscripts. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My ghostwriting services are confidential – I sign a non-disclosure agreement with all my clients and do not share their works or discuss it outside my work team. I have no claims to the client’s book.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am patient and can get along with anybody to do the job at hand. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I do not infuse myself or my beliefs into my client’s work. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I write to retain the client’s voice and personality. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I work within a projected timeframe and keep to deadlines. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span>-<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I deliver a professionally written and error-free manuscript.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">What do you think? Book a consultation <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdg2Do70ETuz-r5t6LQKhOZ8lR-gfjW22UFU-zOPnxGzpUGfA/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">here</a>.</b></span></div>
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Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-64695307495587313492021-07-08T10:25:00.004+01:002021-07-08T10:27:21.616+01:00My Leaking Water Cistern<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><b>By Anne Oboho</b></u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAftI_4muOGlrw5WRHKXUsK3yPD3qBhN2S-ycjZmDpLe_vupccyUmBKVHPFjNnNfNFdI1fAsOYtWa7o1GG5vWTLFxljIRrTRhD-9CwJjBucRRZbvjopU4Dz4Z7bCA5JClgZzTQg/s310/download.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="310" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghAftI_4muOGlrw5WRHKXUsK3yPD3qBhN2S-ycjZmDpLe_vupccyUmBKVHPFjNnNfNFdI1fAsOYtWa7o1GG5vWTLFxljIRrTRhD-9CwJjBucRRZbvjopU4Dz4Z7bCA5JClgZzTQg/w400-h210/download.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><o:p> </o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I once told you about my one-room apartment.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This one-room apartment has one toilet.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When I moved in 13 years ago, I met a faulty water cistern
in the toilet, but bought a new one and replaced it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But you know how almost everything you buy in the market is
fake.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This water cistern started leaking water and I did not know.
I only observed that my toilet was always flooded and I would bail water every time
I want to use it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The plumber could not detect the source of the flood.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But one day, I heard the sound of dripping water and
discovered it came from that cistern.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was happy that the source of the constant flood had been
spotted.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I did not want to rush to the market and buy another cistern;
that thing cost N5,000 13 years ago as fake as it is. I imagined that I might
have to part with at least N50,000 for it now.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So, I did what any economic minded person would do. I put a
small paint bucket under the cistern to collect the water.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But the paint bucket is small, so, I regularly empty it when
it is full and keep the empty bucket back to collect the water.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">One morning, however, I went to the toilet and saw that a
small body of flood had collected and the bucket was full of water. The bucket
must have been full overnight.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I just mumbled under my breadth ‘while men slept’.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then I remembered Christ telling a story of how somebody's
enemy went and sowed tares in his cornfield “while men slept.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It occurred to me that most of the problems that visit us,
visit us at night while we sleep.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Bible says God who keeps us neither sleeps nor slumbers,
but so is the devil and the various challenges we face in life; they don't
sleep, they don't slumber.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The number one desire of Nigerian youths is money.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Because Nigeria is a place where people look down on you,
write you off and refuse to give you opportunities if you don't have money.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So these young men work hard to get money, (any which way).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then the herbalist who works with them to get this money
does so (at night). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You will usually hear that baba says, wake up by 1am, or 2am
and go to the junction and do sacrifice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The same method is used by politicians seeking power.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">They work at night (while men sleep).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I can't even start talking about witches and wizards, those
mystical unseen powers we attribute our problems to sometimes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The fact here is that your problems are sowed at night and
they manifest themselves in the morning.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the morning, you wake up to face sack from work, no
customers to buy what you sell, quarrels and beatings from your spouse,
rejections from people who are supposed to support you etc. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The lesson is that you have to stop being a lover of sleep.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is no mystery solution to your problem, the solution
is to stop sleeping and start working at night, like your enemies and other
ambitious people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If you are a Christian, Christ said, “watch and pray” watch
means “keep your eyes open” stay awake at night while men sleep.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Watch, because when you watch, you can ‘see’. When you see
what is coming after you, you can fight it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Even when you pray, if you don't have an idea of what is
disturbing you, or the cause of it, you will pray a general prayer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But God loves specifics, He wants you to say, “Lord my
landlord is on my neck for this month's rent, Lord I don't have the rent. The
reason I don't have the rent is that I have been laid off from work. Please
provide a job for me so I can pay my landlord.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These kinds of prayers have the What, Why and How elements
in them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is how you pray when you stop sleeping and start
watching to see who that enemy is and where they are operating from.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I Hope You Enjoyed My
Little Story.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: center;">(Image culled from </span><a href="http://compellingtruth.org" style="text-align: center;">compellingtruth.org</a>)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/contact.html">Write To Me</a></b></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-83414699535949108792021-07-01T16:24:00.004+01:002021-07-01T17:24:15.625+01:00Mood Interrupted<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">He said I should ask Him for
a birthday gift and immediately, the waterworks started.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTefcR2k01qDm63FYNYUoCkABq0yWfZiDbyeJhyphenhyphenp1kktzzjdrKQX-4hBq5PdvTi-x9fc0B3eEtemTXGq1qFgif8LEfIuNthsCh12LlhW3MqDmYB-LDMFaOkiQa48NYd5WKaARyQ/s944/WhatsApp+Image+2021-07-01+at+4.19.36+PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="813" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTefcR2k01qDm63FYNYUoCkABq0yWfZiDbyeJhyphenhyphenp1kktzzjdrKQX-4hBq5PdvTi-x9fc0B3eEtemTXGq1qFgif8LEfIuNthsCh12LlhW3MqDmYB-LDMFaOkiQa48NYd5WKaARyQ/s320/WhatsApp+Image+2021-07-01+at+4.19.36+PM.jpeg" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I went into His presence
this morning not to study the Word or meditate on it. I went not to show
appreciation for all He has done for me or to pray. I simply went into His
presence to vent on the first day of July because somehow, I found myself in
that place nobody loves. Gloom accompanied me to bed and woke with me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I knew I wasn’t going to
achieve any meaningful work today so waited for my husband and kids to leave
for work and school because I wanted to sulk alone. Being alone and sulking are
BFF.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The rest of the day ahead
was glammed up in gloom, patiently waiting for me at the front to present
myself, like a bride approaching her groom at the altar. I didn’t want to be a
late bride, so made haste to finish the morning chores so I could finally glide
down and commit 100% of me, mind, body and soul to gloom for a memorable date. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But the Holy Spirit didn’t
let me. He knew the barrage of thoughts the enemy had in store for me once I
took that final step into his presence. As I tackled some chores, He whispered
“Talk to me.” I didn’t feel like ‘talking’ to Him. This day will belong to
gloom. At the end of the day, I will shake out of it and call on Abba.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He still wouldn’t let me. He
knew my instant motivational verses posted on my wardrobe door weren’t what I
needed this morning. “Talk to me, Uzezi.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I’m not going to read the
Bible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“That’s okay,” He said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I don’t want to feel
thankful today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“That’s okay as well.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And then I started to vent.
He kept quiet and listened. At a point, I told Him I knew the enemy was going
to have a field day dragging me and I don’t have the strength to stop him. He
didn’t push me to ask Him for strength.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I said, “I have been here
before. Time and time again, You lifted me from this pit. I feel so guilty
coming to ask for the same thing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Uzezi, if you cannot come
to me for help, who can you go to?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And that reminder that I
could go to no one for help turned my vent parade into a thankful Thursday. I
didn’t have to count my blessings one by one to know what the Lord has done. I
didn’t need to taste and see that the Lord is good. Is everything about my life
not a testimony?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I felt free as a bride who finally
realised on her walk down the aisle she didn’t want to marry the groom. I wasn’t
going to be his victim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">But my Lord wasn’t done with
detangling me from Mr. Gloom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He said, “Ask me for a
birthday gift.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And the dam broke. My vision
blurred as my face carried the tears whatever way they wanted to flow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I wanted to say “Surprise
me, Lord.” But He reminded me, He was still going to do that. So, I promised to
get back to Him on the gift. He doesn’t need ample time to prepare. Minutes
later, I asked the Holy Spirit if I could make a list and guess what He said.
He is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that I can ask or think … <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">PS: Even when we have
everything going for us, the enemy can come to take one insignificant
occurrence and blow it out of proportion. If we aren’t careful, we spiral down
to the enemy’s will for us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I don’t know where you are,
but if you are having one of those blue days and need to vent, He is waiting to
listen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And by the way, today is not
my birthday. Have a fabulous July.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><b><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/contact.html">Write To Me</a></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-66044561699739259492021-06-29T13:39:00.004+01:002021-07-01T17:24:52.892+01:00After Lights Out (A Review)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhniuGKIwyGc9X7vA0Xi9tMpg3HTAd31D03iNQzCDyug-AulqCd7mitVWThHVNs3UWVygg8LgXHs_gIBERM7PsQ5BVwtXDYwwVX9YaozAY98Dma2nSgk86M7eWUZsFR5iwSUvkp0A/s475/56127300._SY475_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="317" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhniuGKIwyGc9X7vA0Xi9tMpg3HTAd31D03iNQzCDyug-AulqCd7mitVWThHVNs3UWVygg8LgXHs_gIBERM7PsQ5BVwtXDYwwVX9YaozAY98Dma2nSgk86M7eWUZsFR5iwSUvkp0A/s320/56127300._SY475_.jpg" /></a></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Book After Lights Out, written by Kemi Owonibi,</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is a story of new
beginnings – the perfect interpretation of 'joy comes in the morning', after a
night (season) of weeping (disappointments).</span><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The story centres on Anita and her
relationships with Fisayo, Sofie and Tolu, three people whose past stories were
essential in ushering Anita into a new season.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Being human and longing to have her
dreams fulfilled, Pastor Anita, like many Christians do, unintentionally
ignored the small, still and silent voice, ultimately shutting out the help of
the Holy Spirit when she allowed herself to be led up her mountain of desires
to be tempted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The pages of this book will take the
reader through collisions, as man's plans interfered with God's original
assignment resulting in frustrating circumstances, loss of clarity and
hollowness.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The writer took a risk by introducing
an entanglement that could have easily ripped the story off its purpose, but
Kemi skillfully wove her intention out of that entanglement, showing how
relationships are meant to be repaired and maintained without bridges being
burnt, especially with the help of the Holy Spirit and the promise of a new
start where events of yesterday are blotted out and replaced with dawn and new
dreams.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The writer also shows a recognisable
crack in the church and how as Christians we forget only to cast a stone if we
are without sin, we forget that our actions can cause stigma and social
isolation to God's children in God's house, with the ability to permanently rip
a soul off the right path and prevent another from coming onto the right path.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Kemi also wove mental health disorders
into this book, showing how the right care and support can help victims of
mental health disorders recover to lead a normal life.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">What's more, </span><b style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">After Lights Out</b><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, is a Christian romance fiction and the writer was
bold in capturing vividly the lust and thirst as the major Christian characters
yearned without any resistance to satisfy the hunger of their flesh and the ensuing
consequences they had to live with until they retraced their steps back into
the right paths.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the end of this book, the reader
comes off with lessons about friendship, perseverance, setting healthy
boundaries, and above all faith in God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p>Read more about the author and download her books <a href="https://kemiowonibi.com/2020/11/29/after-lights-out/" target="_blank">here</a>.</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Reviewer:<span style="mso-tab-count: 3;"> </span>Uzezi Adesite</span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></b></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Book Antiqua",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/contact.html">Write To Me</a></span></b></o:p></span></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-32280430491795597952021-06-13T23:18:00.008+01:002021-07-01T17:26:09.177+01:00Write Your Book In 30 Days<p>It is time for you to tell your story. 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permitted. There was a set time for everything.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">One woman’s mistake will cost three others their happiness.</span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpVa96AnOhPlKtHZX7aMnJHkH4dNnExCXLdAXiTtmyEKtz7ZZ5hMGdfd6RkTORXzDQsHk_OYyHMxKCyJQTP49rsixW6Ft0m-KnGtxEW8-q2NcUdyBolqTBhWHwEz4U5c7a41oGg/s1080/Ciri+Mock.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><i><img border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOpVa96AnOhPlKtHZX7aMnJHkH4dNnExCXLdAXiTtmyEKtz7ZZ5hMGdfd6RkTORXzDQsHk_OYyHMxKCyJQTP49rsixW6Ft0m-KnGtxEW8-q2NcUdyBolqTBhWHwEz4U5c7a41oGg/s320/Ciri+Mock.jpeg" width="320" /></i></a></div><i><br /><o:p></o:p></i><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Omah’s future was already written in stone until her father
dared fate. Death hovered always around her loved ones. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ada’s life was simple
and beautiful until destiny threw her into the path of <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Leila, who is tormented by her dreams and visions. Both bear
an uncanny resemblance that is difficult to ignore, stirring deep secrets.
While Ada wants answers, Leila wants the past to remain asleep but her actions
are beyond her control, hurting the people she loves.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Funmi; meant to be the new beginning, is the link that
brings these women together, thereby setting the dice rolling towards the end
of their happiness.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now available on <a href="https://okadabooks.com/book/about/ciri/42319" target="_blank">Okadabooks</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9789829272" target="_blank">Amazon</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Read an excerpt </span></b><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><div class="WordSection1">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">da felt bad about what happened but hurt she wasn’t told
they were having a baby.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What sort of shock would make someone pass out?” She turned
to Zim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He shook his head without looking at her. Zim wanted to
leave and drag Ada with him from the hospital. He suddenly felt very protective
over her. She had confided in him about being adopted, her unproven
relationship with Leila and the truth they didn’t know. And sitting across from
them was a woman who could pass for Ada and Leila’s relative because of their
identical features. She stared at Ada in fright and Zim couldn’t take his eyes
off her for a second. It was as if he was looking at how Ada would look in
another fifteen or twenty years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He dared to take his eyes off and looked at Ada for a moment
to see her downcast. When he turned his eyes back on the woman, their eyes met.
He felt her hold her breath as if she’d been caught. Nervously, she glanced
back at Ada, then at Zim and quickly jumped off her seat and took fast
tottering steps away from the waiting area. She stopped and glanced back at
Ada, before disappearing into a corridor. Involuntarily, Zim shot up from his
seat looking in the direction of the corridor where the woman had disappeared
into.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Zim?” Ada called gently, startled by him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He looked down at her and sat down. “I'm sorry,” he
muttered, and then faced her. “Look sweetheart, do you want to go home now?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ada looked at him. “Okay,” she said uncertainly. “Are you
alright?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He smiled. “A sudden ache in my head,” he took her hand. “Come
on, we’ll see if Glory is awake.” What a night. He shook his head.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Later, when Chuks walked into Glory’s room, she was awake.
He went and sat by her. Taking her hand in his, he kissed it. She was watching
him. Her face was still very pale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glory was sad about the loss of the baby, but she had no
regrets. Ever since they were married, she had always known how difficult it
would be to carry a pregnancy to term. Even Chuks knew, so they didn’t push it
after her first three pregnancies ended in the first trimester. So why does she
have the feeling that her husband was sad at the turn of events? Was he sad
because she didn’t tell him?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“How many miles away are you?” Chuks leaned down to kiss
her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">She smiled wanly. “I'm right here.” She squeezed his hand
weakly. “I'm sorry. I should have told you, but I wanted to get through the
first trimester before raising your hopes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Shh,” he held a finger to his lips. “It doesn’t matter. I
need you to be strong. Don’t waste the little energy you’ve got.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">She smiled.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Zim and Ada were here also. But on returning, I missed
them. Did you see them?” He asked her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">She shook her head. “Love, there’s something I have to tell
you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Not now honey,” he shook his head.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“This can’t wait,” she said, making sure she had his full
attention. “When you came downstairs with Ada while I was on the phone, was I
alone in the living room?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chuks made a face and wondered what a ridiculous question.
“Of course, yes. We are just three people in that house remember? The maid left
earlier.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glory held his gaze. “Leila wasn’t in the house? I mean,
after I left for the hospital, you guys didn’t see Leila?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chuks could see she was serious. “Honey, Leila is not in
town. Remember they left to bury her father-in-law weeks back. She cannot be
back yet and Ada wouldn’t know.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I know that,” she interrupted him. “Which was why I was
surprised when the doorbell rang and it was Ada at the door. At least you heard
the bell ring, right?” he shook his head in the negative giving her a strange
look. Glory sighed. “Now I am getting scared,” she said as her eyes watered up.
“First I wondered why Ada wasn’t with her key. I didn’t even know she stepped
outside.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Ada and I were upstairs,” Chuks put in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“So I thought,” Glory said. “But then, she said something was
about to happen that will unravel things and that I could stop it. That was
when the phone rang and she quickly asked me not to answer it until she was
done explaining because it was connected to the call. I laughed it away and was
going for the phone and she yanked me back with so much strength, I almost
fell. She insisted it was the hospital calling and that I shouldn’t come in
this evening no matter what the emergency was.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Honey, are you sure I shouldn’t call the doctor? Ada
couldn’t have been with you when she was with me. And Ada has never taken such
a tone with you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glory nodded. “That was why I was surprised when you guys
came down and I looked behind me, and there was no one. It was at that point I
realised it wasn’t Ada. It was Leila.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Glory? But of course, you can tell them apart and Leila
isn’t in town. Aren’t you imagining things?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glory shook her head. “No honey. I am not. Because I thought
I was as I drove down here. But on getting to the hospital, I think I know why
Leila or whoever that was – whom you guys didn’t see – didn’t want me to come
here today.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“What are you talking about?” Chuks asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Where is Ada?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“She is not here.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glory nodded. “Good. Don’t allow her to come into the
hospital.” She raised two weak fingers.
“There are two of them. Two,” she told him. “I don’t think Ada should see
them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chuks pondered her words. Glory sounded so serious and
scared all at once. “What are you talking about?” he asked gently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glory hesitated to collect her breath. She was still very
weak. “At the hospital entrance,” she began. “I saw the woman. I could have
passed, but I was strong.” She sighed. “The emergency patient,” Glory shook her
head. “A little girl. She looked at me Chuks,” her voice broke and she couldn’t
hold the tears anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chuks was now very attentive. He used his fingers to wipe
off the tears “I don’t understand.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Tell Vivian to show you the girl I was called in to attend
to.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chuks hesitated, but she urged him on and he went.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Omah watched Funmi. Her daughter was sleeping peacefully. She
knew she came close to losing Funmi and the development left her very confused.
The whole thing made no sense. What sort of life was it? Whether she loved
Funmi or not, what would happen would happen. Her belief that putting Funmi at
arms’ length would lessen the pain when Funmi was gone was destroyed. As best
as she could, whatever time they had left together, Omah was going to love her
daughter. She would give her life to make Funmi happy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Omah didn’t understand what kind of convulsion that was. She
thought only infants convulsed but what Funmi went through was beyond her
explanation. She told the cab to take her to the nearest hospital. When Funmi
continued to convulse, Omah ran out of the hospital. She was afraid and didn’t
want to see when her daughter died. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">When she went back into the hospital minutes later, she
found everyone tending to the lady doctor who fainted in Funmi’s room.
Instincts told Omah something wasn’t right. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nothing scared Omah in all her years as that girl in the waiting
room did. Not even the fear she felt all those years back when Mohammed Adamu
locked her up could compare to what the sight of that girl inflicted on her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">A stranger with the Watcher’s face! The resemblance pulled
at her memory, trying to reveal a story that was buried. As scared as she was,
her eyes never left the girl. Omah kept staring and blinking, hoping the
picture would disappear. But it was real. She stared at a younger version of
herself. Omah then made a mistake of glancing over at the girl’s companion who had
noticed what she noticed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">That was when she fled. Omah was scared. The girl must know
the doctor and the doctor had been shocked to see Funmi. Omah wished Funmi took
after her father in looks. It would have made her life easier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sitting beside her sleeping daughter, she wanted a doctor to
tell her she was free to leave with Funmi. Though it was past midnight, time
wouldn’t delay her. She wasn’t sure what would happen if she saw that girl
again. She wanted to run. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Suddenly feeling the presence of someone else, she turned and
saw a man standing inside the room and looking at Funmi, his face
expressionless. Thinking he was a doctor, Omah rose to meet him. “Good morning
doctor,” she said. “Do you think she’s alright now? Can we leave?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He stared at her quietly in hesitation before nodding
towards the bed, not taking his eyes off her face. “Is that your daughter?” he
asked gently.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Omah nodded. “Yes, doctor.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I'm not a doctor,” he told her, returning his gaze to the
girl on the bed. “I'm sorry. I walked into the wrong room.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Omah looked disappointed. “Oh.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I hope she gets well soon, madam,” he told her kindly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Thank you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chuks didn’t return to Glory. All he could think about was
his daughter who wanted answers and here at the hospital were two clues they
could explore. He was glad Ada wasn’t here. He wanted to speak with the woman
before bringing his daughter into it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*****<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ada woke at dawn. Through sleepy eyes, she looked around the
dark room. She could see the window. But her bed was wrongly positioned. She
sat up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Trying to remember where you are?” Zim asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Oh,” she said. “I did forget where I was. Morning Zim.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He sat up. “Morning sweetheart,” he felt for her hand. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">The moment they got to his place the night before, Ada fell
across the bed. He watched as she rolled away and fell into a deep sleep. But
his night had been bad. The woman at the hospital invaded his dreams. He didn’t
know if he should tell her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I'm hungry Zim,” Ada cut into his thoughts. “We didn’t eat
last night.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“My fault,” he said straightening up. “I’ll go into the
kitchen and see what I can do.” Zim wondered just how he managed to fall in
love with this girl. He had known Glory for many years. Through her, he started
working for Chuks some two years before. He also knew about Ada but never
imagined he would meet her and fall for her. She was more than a breath of
fresh air. She made him feel very different and he felt very protective over
her. But he didn’t understand why he fell so hard and so fast. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ada had issues. He didn’t like Leila. He didn’t like the way
she looked at him. He didn’t like how attached Ada was to her but she was part
of the package. Then out of nowhere was the woman at the hospital. What would
he tell his family about Ada’s family?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Are you alright?” Ada joined him in the kitchen and he
nodded. “You sure?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He hesitated. “Let me ask you,” he started. “What would you
do if you saw someone you resembled? Identical looks.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Like Leila?” she asked and he nodded. “I will run after
that person and maybe I might get some answers.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">He hesitated no further. “In that case, I shouldn’t have
kept this from you yesterday.”<br clear="all" style="break-before: page; mso-special-character: line-break; page-break-before: always;" />
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That is, you are employed by the story owner to write the book, but your connection to that book begins when you take on the project and ends once you have submitted the finished manuscript.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXLkBDlVZvmLRp7jHw-w35e9gb7VQkHLXTopf7KNCNRMUmqUl8oH0aEhgUfXoiWLeXM3SKvKaOjtv7kWXV9IEkk6vSfx-gnIjLdgZf8ns3Y72tdvB7rJPLKBuYeNs4-NK1Dr67Q/s640/dead-2659885_640.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXLkBDlVZvmLRp7jHw-w35e9gb7VQkHLXTopf7KNCNRMUmqUl8oH0aEhgUfXoiWLeXM3SKvKaOjtv7kWXV9IEkk6vSfx-gnIjLdgZf8ns3Y72tdvB7rJPLKBuYeNs4-NK1Dr67Q/s320/dead-2659885_640.png" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are different stages involved in ghostwriting a book from start to finish and they are:</span><p></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">1. Gathering data. This includes research on the topic you are writing, interviewing the client to get his/her story or perspective (Know how to conduct interviews, ask the right questions and follow up questions to ensure you have not only sufficient materials to work on, but necessary ones.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">2. Transcribing the interviews.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">3. Developing the first draft, using gathered data and/or transcripts from the interviews. Here, your creative writing skills will be needed.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">4. Client's review of the first draft.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">5. Writing the second draft, taking the client's feedback from the review into consideration.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">6. Client's approval of the manuscript after the first draft has been reworked.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">7. Editing and Proofreading (have an editor and a proofreader on your team).</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">8. Deliver the finished, ready to be published manuscript to the client.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Done.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Give it a try.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.zayzeewrites.com/p/contact.html">Write To Me</a></b></span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></div>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-75182996841002127522021-03-22T10:19:00.004+01:002021-03-22T10:40:00.678+01:00Money Transfer: The Fastest and Easiest Way<p>Are you looking for the easiest and fastest way to receive USD from abroad? 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live in a society that is constantly leaving us little time to read.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnlsmcsQCSKW9h9yKrGkS0vfVAxvNTvbigNu0tfWi9wX3T_2rxOoU6wumBjBgxGJqB3bIp1i9O7gGnsEAFAZ8aSxBoMdsOP11Evl2uAy5gWpUFy1YSCyKs0JXy8xLwdE8AxUQ9AA/s390/Biblioaud+Type+1+jpeg.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnlsmcsQCSKW9h9yKrGkS0vfVAxvNTvbigNu0tfWi9wX3T_2rxOoU6wumBjBgxGJqB3bIp1i9O7gGnsEAFAZ8aSxBoMdsOP11Evl2uAy5gWpUFy1YSCyKs0JXy8xLwdE8AxUQ9AA/s320/Biblioaud+Type+1+jpeg.jpg" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because books are important for many reasons, we have
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Previously, that was one service we didn't offer.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyCPac-jttQMtHFtulPko8CYwv8UWJlkvRQOxG7wZ7wH2lIJ-UOcvB0fZFTAg7BgT-R4jxjrzAp20XX3KFM2Gu5AY_ryaHZ_M5xgrw4vYtHGH4Dvz1zK2UQBxdh-_tfLEfiFB5w/s2048/c.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1465" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyyCPac-jttQMtHFtulPko8CYwv8UWJlkvRQOxG7wZ7wH2lIJ-UOcvB0fZFTAg7BgT-R4jxjrzAp20XX3KFM2Gu5AY_ryaHZ_M5xgrw4vYtHGH4Dvz1zK2UQBxdh-_tfLEfiFB5w/w187-h262/c.jpg" width="187" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But now we do! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are now distributing and selling books. Though we are presently covering Lagos state, plans are on the way to take our sales and distribution nationwide. So, watch this space for book news and reviews, then with just one click, buy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Click <a href="https://flutterwave.com/store/zayzeebooks">here </a>to see the books that are currently available. We will deliver to your doorstep.</span></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-34775697363434186022020-08-14T14:39:00.000+01:002020-08-14T14:39:45.851+01:00For The Love Of Me<p style="text-align: left;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">For The Love Of Me</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> is a collection of narratives that aim to introduce the reader to, or present the reader with the word of God in a unique and novel way. Employing popular Bible stories, the fictional characters go on a journey of discovery, walking the reader through some fundamental life principles which, for some reason – either through design or omission – prevailing traditions, institutions, interpretation and responsible leaderships have prevented most of us from learning and appreciating.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-39Ke5kczGGxUms1jjsGyD0-fo0NWQ9AcOZQAWI5Tk47YdkqjvNe3mA5t9Abu2Lh9CoJLR8r0L7K9SWZ3L2l2xmEDZoQgNhHML3tP0ASYvhys1WyTJ5PmuO_0ECFW__mIFzoDg/s787/WhatsApp+Image+2020-08-12+at+2.48.07+PM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="642" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-39Ke5kczGGxUms1jjsGyD0-fo0NWQ9AcOZQAWI5Tk47YdkqjvNe3mA5t9Abu2Lh9CoJLR8r0L7K9SWZ3L2l2xmEDZoQgNhHML3tP0ASYvhys1WyTJ5PmuO_0ECFW__mIFzoDg/w334-h410/WhatsApp+Image+2020-08-12+at+2.48.07+PM.jpeg" width="334" /></a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">For The Love Of Me</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"> also aims to show the immense love of God, and how soaking in that love – by cultivating personal relationships with Him – releases us to live lives that are full of fun, successes and productivity since the lessons we read in the Bible are in reality spoken to enable us to make the most of our world, talent and dreams, empowering us to serve in such a time as this, here and now, as we aspire for a dwelling with Him in eternity.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;">Get your Paperback copy or Kindle eBook <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Love-Me-Olutunmbi-Idowu/dp/9789828225/ref=pd_ybh_a_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3W91ZMDEAF1EGTWPWD4M" target="_blank">here</a> or Okadabooks version <a href="https://okadabooks.com/search?query=For+The+Love+Of+Me" target="_blank">here</a>. Don't forget to leave a review</span></p>Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-63098356160060144392020-06-02T18:44:00.002+01:002020-06-02T18:45:16.774+01:00Key Person Number Two<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Her name is Frances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Do you believe in coincidences? I prefer divine
orchestration. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The same school brought my brother and her cousin
together. Before I met Frances, I had read her novel. My brother who brought the
book, challenged me if I could write like her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I read it, and I wrote. This time around, I didn’t
tear up the story. It wasn’t an ending to a novel whose ending I wasn’t
satisfied with. It was me, from the beginning. Since then, I haven’t stopped
writing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Booms novella – when I worked at Hints magazine back in the days – was dedicated
to her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I probably wouldn’t have been motivated to take
my passion for writing seriously, if I hadn’t read Frances’ book when I did. She
influenced something good in me. I pray with the little I do, I can influence
something good in somebody, pushing them further down the path they belong, on
their way to their destination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Thank you, Frances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-3155002897223198602020-06-01T15:48:00.000+01:002020-06-01T16:10:29.912+01:00Key Person Number One<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It was my dad; God rest his soul. He pointed me in the
direction my future will ultimately take without realising it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">He loved books. And at an early age, I too fell in love with
books; story books especially. I was exposed to different kinds of books.
Foreign story books, Nigerian story books, Pacesetters, African Writers series
and some that I was warned not to read because they weren’t for children. Well,
your guess is as good as mine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took pen to paper to create my own conclusion. It was fun doing those. I would
create an ending to my satisfaction, tear it up and trash it. I didn’t know those
playful tasks were preparation. I thought nothing of them. Then, in my late
teens, my path crossed with Key Player Number Two. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-27934394877445187502020-05-31T15:15:00.003+01:002020-05-31T15:15:41.573+01:00Keep Going<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-47031014668614303672020-05-30T14:11:00.001+01:002020-06-01T15:48:46.415+01:00Right People, Right Place<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Jentezen Franklin; I have probably come across his name
or show many times which didn’t register until the one he taught about Right
People, Right Place, Right Plan. I connected with the sermon. Meeting the Right
People, by being in the Right Place has been my testimony. The Right Plan is
continuous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I would eventually meet one of the Right People just
by planting myself in this Right Place and the Right Plan finally began to
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acknowledge these people who have been instrumental in getting me to where I am
today. Without these relationships, I would have been on a different path.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-6271623238591935152020-05-29T03:46:00.000+01:002020-05-29T03:46:01.809+01:00Ordinary Paper Bag<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Once upon a time, I was a collector of paper bags. I
loved them. One day in February, 2008, I saw one in my friend’s house. It was
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">That sort of ended it. I never honour any invitation
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But Sunday came and I actually followed her to her
church. Because I wanted that blue paper bag. When first timers were asked to
show a hand, I was first. Just give me the welcome pack already. It was what I came
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I got the bag. My life sang Amazing Grace. With the
bag, I received a compass, so I wouldn’t ever get lost again. It was a defining
period in my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zayzeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11907709431101967094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34861076.post-89699485501377431292020-05-28T04:36:00.003+01:002020-05-28T08:08:41.609+01:00I Was Given<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">…this dream. Yes, I was. Not today. My dad set the
ball rolling many, many years ago when I was just a child. When I realised it,
I didn’t understand its purpose, but it felt dope to tell anyone who cared to
listen, “Hey, this is what I am….” and “I am going to be …”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">My motivation for “this is what I am” and what “I am
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I couldn’t fit into the shoe I had created for myself
because it didn’t belong to me. Also, the journey felt like going in circles
because though I set sail, I wasn’t arriving at any destination neither was any
bank in sight. It seemed as though I was lost at sea.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Then the clues started to fall around me. First, I
uprooted from a known ground and transplanted in the unknown. Yeah, that
youthful exuberance. But I was ill-prepared and unaware it was rocky ground so,
I sprouted quickly because the soil wasn’t deep, and because I had no roots, I started
to wither. Quickly, I moved and soon found myself among thornbushes. Though I
grew, the thornbushes choked me and I couldn’t produce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was the only way the dream I was given could be realised. But I didn’t know
what to do. I didn’t even know where to get help because I didn’t know where I
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Imagine a bird with broken wings on the ground, unable
to flap those wings and take flight. Help finds it and filled with compassion
helps the bird to heal so one day, it will fly again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lost girl. With a bag, I received a compass, so I wouldn’t ever get lost again.
Finally, I understood the purpose of the dream. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yes. Of all things, Help used a bag to reroute me.
Let’s talk about this bag tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">#40DaysChallenge #SupernaturalHelp #Guidance #Gratitude #Strength #NewLevel #PersonalDiary
#ThisIsAllAboutMe #IAmZayzee<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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