Association
(The Power Behind Success)
Be a discriminator in your association. Your associative choice, if wrongly chosen, can drain your potential power to create, develop, and become what you want to be.
Associate only with those with positive mental outlooks, especially, those who exude optimism to the core. III association is a typical luxury which you can ill afford. It is a luxury that spells out doom. "Luxury is more ruthless than war" wrote Juvenal.
Manage your trust in a power group. Warnings are signals for a change.
When one is sternly warned over and again, caution, action, and correction must be taken to remedy the faltering condition. Warnings and corrections are necessary for success.
Do not rebuke the members of your association if the rebuke is not meant to enhance an output in a creative channel. Otherwise those who see you as an antagonist will turn around only to be displeased with all your performance.
Succeed Where You Area: Truly, a human present station is not always the greatest factor in success determination. This fact was demonstrable in a thing that happened many years ago in a small African village. The thing happened then, is still a fact that nullified numerous excuses many people give with regard to their current environments in relation to where they would have reached had they been in an entirely different locations in their lives.
Mr. Samuel Osondu Nwosu and his sister, Nwodo were two most intimate siblings who, perhaps our world would ever have. They trusted each other.
They looked after each other's interests. They truly cared, loved, and did everything to protect and defend each other.
Before they left this world, their deeds were obviously demonstrable that active love and courageous stand for that which is right are evident grounds every lasting success must be founded.
One day Mr. Samuel Osondu Nwosu's daughter got married. The young man who married her was well to do. He paid a handsome brideprice as it is the custom of the land. He and his relatives happily took the 116 new bride, Ikepeghe-bu-ure (Money is Pride) to her new home.
The newly married couple lived happily for a while before some minor matrimonial misunderstandings started to prop up their hateful appearance.
lkpeghe-bu-ure, or Obu-ure (is Pride) for short, was in a sad state.
She and her husband could no longer get along.
It was obvious that she nagged him often while the stronger partner responded by beating her quite often. Obu-ure sent message to her father to do something about her situation. "Papa please return the bride-price to the man. I'm dying. I'm lost. I want to return home" was her message.
Mr. Samuel Osondu Nwosu was gravely touched by the "plight of my daughter in her husband's house" as the man later narrated.
