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As A Man Thinketh
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

I discovered immediately i finished reading this book that i have been missing so much. My thought used to be impure. I used to limit my thinking to what i hear from my traditional parents and what i see in my environment.

I could remember a time i had a thought of falling ill, to my surprise, i fell ill. Most of us here in Nigeria limit our thinking to what is happening in our country. We believe that our success lies in the hands of the government so we complain so much about their wrong acts. This is affecting our lives. And now that i know that a man's thought determines his circumstance i have stopped such act of grumbling and complaining. I now know that out of a clean heart comes a clean life.

It will interest you to know that i now filter every thought that comes to my mind. I think BIG now. Am the maker of myself via the thought of my mind. My thought has changed my character positively. Even my friends noticed this. This make my friends wonder how soon my life changed.I had to tell them about iigl.

Now, i have started thinking for a purpose. Am living my life with a purpose to re-engineer and reform my nation. I want to live my life with a purpose to helping the black race.

In conclusion, i must not forget to confess that no sooner i enrolled in your institute than my life changed.


Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Assessment by Afere Lawrence (Nigeria)

I seriously need to confess that countless of Nigerians are sleeping and waking in ignorance. Our lives have been stereotyped. Culture has eaten our future. The younger ones don't believe there is any future any where. We are societal oriented. We so much care about what society would do when we make steps to attaining our dreams, that's for those who have.

just like most gulls in Jonathan Livingston seagull believed that the purpose of flying is to put food in the stomach, that's the believe of Nigerians. We believe that the purpose of life is to acquire( for those that can afford it) circular education, get job, get some money, get married , do babies and die. They don't know that purpose of life is beyond that.

These books have imparted so much into my life. My life can never remain the same again. Am seeing life from a wonderful perspective now. I now have a pure and big thought of my future, even for my country. What my eyes are seeing now no longer deceive me.

Just as seagull broke his fear to fly higher, i have broken my fear too. I would not let fear kill the dreams i have for Africa. These books have taught me how to extend love to every one. I need to let you know that i no longer have limitations again.

Also, am now moving with people of great minds in my school. "he that moves with the wise shall be wise' is what they say.

Reading these books is not enough, but applying it immediately to my day to day life. Application of information causes transformation.

How fantastic it is to think purely. My thought everyday now is pure. Most of Nigerians are religious. They read their bibles, attend crusade, and so on but don't understand the information they get not to say application. Thank God i heard about this institute. My life is changing.

QUESTIONS?
1. I believe in the younger ones of my community, especially those in secondary schools. How do i help pass to them life transforming information?


Real Magic
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

PART 1 - Content Review
Real magic is written in three different parts. Each part has life changing chapters. Just a page in this book is enough to make one's day go a long way. having read and digested this book, i have come to say it centers on three most significant aspects of one's life. It talks so much on self improvement, relationships, and spiritual life. Real Magic is truely a book about my miracles. this book has really helped me to believe that all things are possible if it not against the laws of god and our society.

I would like like to discuss some points of this book which are most helpful and important to my life.

THE POWER OF PURPOSE.
Dr. Wayne proved all his words basically on purpose. he says every creature has a purpose. Discovering our purpose makes things easier for us. Some years back, Jesus christ came to this world for a purpose. And am sure he fulfilled that following the laws and commandment giving to him by God. So his everyone. Dr. Wayne says that this world is in order. I believe that so much. God saw that all things he created were good. All we need to do is to put our selves in unison with the order that is already in the world.

Mapping out a strategyto achieve our purpose gives us a successful life. Real magic comes when we are achieving our purpose. it's is my belief that everybody has been given potentials to be used in fulfilling his purpose on earth. The diferrence between the developed nations and the developing nations is "the developed nations strive to accomplish their purpose, while the developing nations strive to make money with any means". This is obvious. My parents are always striving to make more money. They never for once told me their purpose. This is the biggest difference.

In attaining our purpose, God is ready to work with us if we ready to. Just as Dr. Wayne writes in his book "if the student is ready the teacher will appear". This has become my daily words. It is our responsibility to plant and water while God's responsibility is to make an increase for us.

I have now realized that life is more than going to school for degrees, getting jobs for daily bread, getting married to make babies. Nothing adds more to life than fulfilling one's purpose. It gives direction to life.

Moreso, getting our lives to purpose is very exciting. I feel happiest when i motivate young people of my commmunity to motivate themselves. i know where my purpose on earth is taking me to already. Everyday i do things that brings me closer to the achievenment of my purpose. Their is joy in attaining one's purpose.

SPIRITUAL BEING.
"We are all spirit" my pastor said sometimes ago. As a christian, i only look up to God, my creator, for all assistance. I don't claim to be wise with my creator. I believe that everything on this earth has a creator so are humanbeings. And our creator couldn't have created us to suffer or live in abject poverty.

Everyday, i follow his words that says "As a man thinketh, so he is". This makes me a complete man. I think positive all the times. This is the power of the mind. Think positive get positive result. Think negative get negative result. This is the law of sowing and reaping. What you sow in your mind is what you will reap.Just as there is power in the soil, so is our mind. We plant a small seed and we harvest bountifully. This is wonderful!

I feel my spiritual life with what the word of God says. I love the bible so much. Look at what it says concerning me
"finally bretren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things arejust, what soever things are pure, lovely,. of good reports; if ther be any virtue and praise, think on these these."

This statement confirms that we are spiritual beings that can get everything we need .

PROSPERITY
Dr. Wayne discussed so much on this. I was really enthusiastic on this aspect. It was my major focus i must confess. Real magic opened up my blindness of prosperity. in fact, am not the same as before. Am eager to get the young people of my country out of abject poverty. we live in the midst of treasures as trash.

To me, prosperity is when God blesses you and you make yourself a blessing to others. our problem in Africa is that we acquire wealth for only our immediate family. This is not prosperity.

Dr. waynes defines prosperity as "when God speaks through your hands and smiles upon the earth through you, becaause you are an unconditional giver, a purposeful being asking nothing of anyone, prosperity will be your reward" This is the real and original prosperity. This is what i live my life after.

My prosperity is "you give to get to give again"

PART 2 - Personal Impact

To confess, RealMagic has been very helpful to me. It's indeed an inspirational book that must be read by anyone that wants a change of story. It makes me believe that life has a purpose and a process to follow. Time and chance answer to life. Each step and process prepare me for the next stage in life.

Immediately i finished reading Real Magic at the first time, i wrote my purpose just as Dr. Wayne did in his book. I read it to my subconsiousness every day. I make plans and goals every day on how to accomplish it. One thing have come to realize is you may read all the motivational books in this world and still not change or not make it. Why? Action. "You must act now" Dr. Wayne said to me in his book. I plan and i act. i keep trying everyday. I make sure i do what i need to do to get closer to my purpose. This made me form a team in my community that motivates young people to motivate themselves.

I used to think life is an accident. I used to good and successful life come by chance and luck. now, i know you can get what you want when you know what you want and you go for it i.e action.

It's a testimony that my life is changing everyday. Everyday i sit back and i say thanks to Mr. micheal for establishing this institute that God has used to change my life and the lives of others.

RELATIONSHIP.
My relationship with people has changed. After reading Real Magic, i discovered how a true and sincere relationship should be. Real Magic brought a magic into my relationship. At school, i used to argue uneccesarilly with my room mates. Now, this has become a thing of the past. My room mates now see a new person in me entirely. Even my siblings and friends now praise me for my new way of life. They wonder what changed me.

Also, i used to be shy. Now am a free man. I can face anybody. I am now bold. This is a real magic in my life. I now believe that everyone has his or her purpose to attain and they are working towards this. Am no longer a paranoid.

Again, i try not to jugde anyone. I also try not to prove anyone wrong. Even i don't criticise again. I now get my relationship to purpose.

With real magic, i won't have too much challenges in my marital affairs when i get married later in life.

PROSPERITY
It is now my belief that attainment of my purpose in life would bring me the desired prosperity. Here in Nigeria, my country,we fight real hard to become prosperous. And it's hard for us to be because of the wrong meaning we have for it. We want to be prosperous but most of us don't know how.And so most os us get involved in wrong businesses and deals. This is against the laws of God and our society. Also, this has made Nigeria one of the most corrupt nations around the globe. After reading Real Magic, i no longer search for money. Fulfilling my purpose brings all i need.

PART 3 - Summary
I must confess that this book has made so much impart in my life. am recommending it to as many as possible.It has also changed my life just as "As a man thinketh" and "livingston seagull" did. Everyday i open up a page to read and my mind get filled with nutritious words from these books.

Mr. Micheal, God is really using you to change my life and others'. How would i have gotten these changes? so much thanks go to you. You are not only imparting into my life but the lives of other nigerians that i go out to impart into their lives too.

I know that via what we get and put into action from IIGL, Africa nations will be on top some day.

Finally, Real Magic is a book i will never forget in my life.


Success Through A positive Mental Attitude
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

PART 1 - Content Review
This book as helped me so much.it is divided into thrilling parts. I started reading it with a pma. This book is another real magic for me. Infact it was written specifically for me.

in this part of the assessment, i would like to write out those points i find so meaningful to me.

GETTING SUCCESS STARTED.
This book made me meet with the most important person. That is i. It makes it clearer to me how important i am to this world. This is when you get success started. I carry with me an invisible talisman pma on one side and nma the other. The invisible talisman has two amazing powers; it has the power to attract wealth and the power to repel wealth-rob one of those things that make life worth living.

Obviously, it is pma that enables some men to climb to the top and stay there. It is nma that keeps other men at the bottomall their lives. It also pulls other men down from the top when they have reachd it.

Moreso, we are poor not becaause of God. With pma, success will be ours. After the success stories of differnt people in this book, i now put my own pma to work so as to attract the success i need. I want to be successful in my life.

With my pma, i have desired to be successful. Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve their goals. Success is achieved by those who keep trying with pma. I put in effort andwork to achieve my desired goals.

"unless your goals are against the laws of God or the society, you can achieve it" And you have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying. I pasted this to the walls in my room in school and at home to read every time.

Also, if you know what you want, you can find a way to get it.

In conclusion, a person with positive mental attitude aims high goals and constantly strives to achieve them and he can also change the world.

ACTION- The secret of getting things done.
This is also called self-starter. An active man is better than twenty talkers. I found this very meaningful in this book. A man may read all the ispirational books in this world and still not become successful if he lacks ACTION.

ACTION says "anything worth having is worth working for" I read about so many successful people in this book that put in more action. Those who achieved greatness employed this secret of getting things done. "go into action lawrence" i say to myself every time i need to do anything. I don't procastinate.

It was Mary Carty that said "Be like a postage stamp. Stick to a thing until you get to your destination."

Most Africans embrace information. They lack action. Information does not lead to transformation. Action does. All most of us here do is waiting for someday to become successful.

I have employed the secret of getting things done. I don't wait for some day any longer. I plan and work for that someday to arrive. It is obvious that the world is evolving. Africa is evolving too. Transformed leaders are coming up soon in Africa. I am one. IIGL is raising new generational leaders. Even the university i attend here in Nigeria does. We need transformed and godly leaders to return the glorious image of Africa. All we just need to do is ACT NOW. ACTION.

The drawing on the drawing board is not a building until it is built.

I get myself into action everyday. I use the self-starter. I add step to step just as the woman that walked from a state to another. She got there. I would get there too.

It was william James that said "sow an action and reap a habit; sow a habit and reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny" This is wonderful! I have started already. Am doing it now so i can get their in time.

I already act as a leader that IIGL is raising. I coordinate people. I arrange shuttle for the indigenes of my state when ever we are going on break. I help them to their bags in the shuttle. A girl called me "father of all" one time we were going home.

I carry myself about with royal mentality because i already know where am going. I need to confess that the biographies in Success Through A PMA are motivating everyday. Even when i don't have money to do certain things, i don't feel depressed because i know it has an outcome. It is the process i must pass.

When i discovered a problem in my community concerning the young people, i made a plan to solve it. Purpose is all about solving problems. I discovered that our young people have clumsy future. As a result of poverty, they look into the future and see nothing. But i look into it and saw greatness. Immediately, what did i do? I formed a team that motivates these young people to motivate themselves. Last month we spoke to them about "The power of purpose". They were so happy to hear that they are so important in this world. Most of them mailed to tell us how that day changed their lives. The only shortcoming is these young people are mailing to request for motivational books. This, we can't do for now. But my team still goes into action every time to talk to these young people. We are putting so many programs in place soon. THIS IS ACTION. I don't just read the books IIGL send to me for fun. I read them to become what i want. And also share the information.

PMA does not work without ACTION.

PART 2 - Personal Impact
As a young man that knows where his going, i motivate myself with Success Through a pma. I know what i saw. When i see what i saw i can tell. To get what i saw, i need to plan, think, study, and pray. Anything worth working for is worth praying for.

I now keep my mind on the things i want. I want good health. I want happiness. I want good wife. I want developed Africa. I want peaceful world. I want success. How to get this, i do all i must do.

This book makes me believe i am apt to succeed if i do what comes nataurally. My beliefs, relationships, values, goals,are improving every time i read the books sent to me by IIGL. PMA is one of a kind. I awaken the giant in me with these books. I refresh my mind and body always.

With PMA, i now do things i could't. I meet with weathy people. Recently, while we were on break, myteam was in the commisioner of education's office. This was great. What any young person can't do. He is going to be a speaker in a lecture my team titled "Role of young people in developing the nation"

Am so passionate about the development of Africa. It is my strong belief that it is the young people that will cause a positive change in Africa. So we must start to invest in them now. I seize every opportunity to be a part. A chinese proverb advises "If you plan for a year, plant rice, if you plan for 10 years plant trees, and if you plan for 100 years educate your children" This is applicable to African nations. Am eager to see Africa develop. The development of Africa does not lie in our cicular education, nor on our system of government or our religious. It lies on transformed people. This is the part i want to play.

Every day i pray for guidance and direction. I think and grow rich every day.

PART 3 - Summary
Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude is such another wonderful book i would forever recommend to people. When sharing the story of my success, i would always make a mention of this book and IIGL.

There is wisdom in the book. It has imparted so much into me.

Becoming a student of IIGL is a blessing to me.

Laurence


Seeds Of Greatness
PART ONE - CONTENT REVIEW

Every part of this book was significant to me. Every page of the book added new
Thing into my life. It is such an indelible book. The following are the parts that were significant to me:

The seed of self esteem
This part 'Self-Esteem' shows me how I need to about myself. What I think about myself determines what happens to me. My disposition determines my position in life. My worth determines how far I go in life. In essence what I think about or feel about myself is very crucial about the plans I have for my life. The way I feel about myself also shows in the way I treat or associate with other people. This book tells me how to build my self esteem.

The seed of creativity
I consider creativity as the grasping and transformation of portions of truth into forms useful to man. Creativity is the ability to bring knowledge from the spiritual world unto the earth. The earth is not perfect but our creativity makes it perfect and improves it. If there is anything important we need as people it is creativity. It transforms the world. Also, it takes creativity to transform spiritual wealth into physical wealth. This part of this book is so vital to me. Some information I didn't know was revealed to me in this part of the book. Human beings are unique. We are blessed with creative imaginations. This part of the book makes me change the way I imagine. Since 'imagination rules the world,' I have started imagining BIG.

The seed of responsibility
This part is great! It teaches me how to be a responsible African. It teaches me how to change my world. It tells me that 'I become what I do.' The seed of responsibility talks about sowing and reaping. 'Whatever we sow, we reap.' The stories and biographies associated to this part are so wonderful. It has instigated me into the next level of life. I now do what the Japanese do 'building greatness out of ashes' their willingness to look ahead to the future, while is putting in a maximum effort of work and sacrifice in the present. I now know that for me to be responsible I must sow so as to reap. Responsibility says 'life is a do-it-yourself project.'

The seed of wisdom.
I consider wisdom to be composition of information and divine inspiration. Denis waltley says 'wisdom is the combination of honesty and knowledge applied through experience.' The seed of wisdom points out the law of cause and effect. In Africa we have been made to believe we cannot succeed without being honest. Now I know the true meaning of success and I now know that it takes wisdom to possess it. There can be no real success without honesty. I thank God for this information. This part of the book teaches me about integrity, knowledge, truth, and work.

The seed of purpose
Discovering our purpose and aiming to achieve it keeps us away from sin. This part has given me additional insight of my purpose attainment. I have pasted this in my mind 'if we don't know where we want to go, then any road will take us there.' This is a topic that must be preached to every child in this world. It is necessary we allow our children to have this knowledge at the earliest stages of our lives. In Africa, we rarely used to believe in purpose, thank God for enlightenment and knowledge. The fulfillment of our purpose makes the world a perfect place. Mr. A fulfils his, Mr. B fulfils his, Mr. C does too and also everyone does, - imagine how the world would be if this happens! I think of nothing else than my purpose.

The seed of faith
Faith is when you supernaturally empty yourself of doubt and fill yourself with a knowing so that in the moment you cannot doubt. The bible talks so much about faith. Without faith we cannot please God. Faith is a spiritual or divine key that attracts success and repels poverty and oppression. It is the key that unlocks the door of success for every human being. Faith, too, is very essential in fulfilling our purpose in life.

The seed of perseverance.
Perseverance is the test of faith. This book tells me how to be able to bend and grow with the winds of change without my spirit breaking. Winners work at doing things the majority of the population are not willing to do. After reading this part, I asked myself; 'Lawrence, do you want to succeed? If truly you want to, you must read, learn, work, pray and persevere.'

The seed of perspective
What we get out of life depends on our perspective about it. My sense of perception was poor in the past. I used to think life was all about going to school, struggle to get good degrees, fidgeting about the street of Nigeria to look for job, getting married, making babies and getting the same old results my parents and others were getting before I finally die. What a poor perspective. It is common here in Africa. I never knew there is more to life. I was born in this perspective. But now that light has shone upon my life - life is all about CONTRIBUTION.
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PART TWO - Personal impact and practical value.

If there was any book I wish I had read, it is 'SEEDS OF GREATNESS.' This book has transported me from ignorance into knowledge. It has lighted my life. It revealed to me the secrets of successful people.

Principally, this book has given the will, the way and the success I dream of. All I need to do is to put myself into action.

The following points show the impact of this book in the values of my life:

The meaning of Total Success
'Model your thoughts and actions after men and women who have been creative in their service to others' this is the advice of Mr. Denis for me. I heed to this advice. This is how success is achieved. Recently I was preparing blocks of self development for the secondary school students of my state. I went to meet those I knew are doing it and they helped me so well. Two heads are better than one. Nothing is new under the earth again. What I want to achieve someone has achieved it. All I just need to do is to climb their shoulders and even see farther than them and with my creativity achieve greater than they have.

Countless Africans like to conceal their plans and don't like to follow the steps of those that have gone before them. We most times believe we don't need people's interference in the fulfillment of our purpose. Never in my life will I fail to ask what I need to know.

Planting seeds of ideas
Does possessing ideas make us succeed if not planted? No, it does not. It's like putting a seed on cemented ground or on a clay soil. Can this seed germinate? No it will never! A kid knows this. It is absolutely impossible. Even if we fast and pray for years it won't.

Plant apple seeds and you get apple trees. Plant any crop and you will harvest what that crop produces.

Many people who achieve fortune in the world are not born rich. They planted ideas and harvested success. They watered (hard work, conviction, curiosity, creativity, honesty, e.t.c) their ideas and increase was made. God does not even plant for us but he gives us seeds to plant. It is our responsibility to plant this seeds so as to make an increase on the earth.

The bible (1 Corinthian 3:6) says 'I have planted, Apollo watered; but God gave the increase,' verse 8b says: 'and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour' I believe that every one has great ideas. If planted could give great life. Our failure to plant this is what brings people poverty.

For some past weeks now, I have been planning curiously how I am going to plant my idea. I am pregnant with great ideas on how to change my continent. My purpose has been fully stamped to my mind. I sleep, I dream about it. I walk I think about it. Everyday, every minute I make this planting plan on my mind. I know what my world is waiting for me to give birth to it. This fame will go abroad.

To plant my great ideas, I am not heedless of advice. Denis mom gave to him. I am following the lesson of the bible and modeling my thoughts and actions after men and women who have been inactive in their service to others. I am also looking at my IQ as my 'imaginative quotient' rather than my intelligence quotient. Soon it is my belief that so many lives will be transformed via planting my great ideas.

Taking responsibility (seed of responsibility)
'The price of greatness is responsibility,' says Winston Churchill. Am I willing to take the responsibility to attain the success I desire? If you have a seed to sow and you don't sow, when others are harvesting, obviously you won't have anything to harvest. You may be left with the choice of begging. Thank God kind people will give you little, which means that he who doesn't sow reaps nothing.

The greatest tragedy in life, as considered by me, is to become less than your full potential, using less than the abilities you have to work with. Waiting for others to satisfy our needs or desires is an act of irresponsibility. Doing this means we don't want the purpose of this world to be accomplished. Our each contribution makes the world a wonderful place. It is up to us to take the actions and be responsible for our consequences. 'Our responsibility: every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.' Wrote John D Rockefeller, Jr

This is the major problem of Africa. We don't have the sense of responsibility. We believe what would be would be. That is why we are so indebted to foreign nations. Everything that happens to my life is as the result of my action. I know I'm God created and self molded. The way I mold myself is what I see and others also see. I may read all the books in this life and still remain useless to my world if I lack responsibility.

I inspire myself. I read the great books IIGL sends to me and copy of other books I buy. This book spurns me to action. I talk to people who have the vitality I admire about fulfilling my purpose. I'm leading my life; I'm making the necessary changes to be like that. Imagine how many souls would have lost if Jesus Christ didn't take the required responsibility to fulfill his purpose on earth. Imagine if Mr. Michael lightweaver didn't take the responsibility for achieving his purpose. Would any of IIGL students read what they read today, experience the glorious changes or even have a sense of true success that is contributing this world.

Everyday I ask myself 'Lawrence what are you waiting for?'

PART THREE SUMMARY
If my child asks me ( when I become a father) 'Daddy tell me one of the books that transformed your life' without thinking too deep, I would mention this book and will immediately get the book from my library for him to read. I plan to include this book in the list of books Iνm giving to the secondary school students of my state.


Your Sacred Self
By Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

PART ONE - Content

Your Sacred Self by Dr. Waye Dyer is another best of his books. In fact, this book
Is another 'real magic'. This book was sent to me at the right time and needed time.

So many points of this book were most significant to me and they were really meaningful.

BROKEN DREAMS
As children bring their broken toys
With tears for us to mend,
I brought my broken dreams to God
Because he was my friend.
But instead of leaving him
In peace to work alone,
I hung around and tried to help
With ways that were my own.
At last I snatched them back and cried,
'How can you be so slow?'
'My child', he said, 'what could I do?
You never let them go.'

These words by lauretta burns took me from physical level to spiritual level. I couldn't help it when I saw these words. This is what my bible has been saying to me in psalm 37. 'Commit thy way unto the lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.'

This tells me that if I don't commit my ways unto the hands of our divine creator, if I fall into any trouble , I can't blame him. I can't even query him. Until you commit yourself to the divine creator, God, you don't know your sacred self. And if you don't know your sacred self you may fall a victim of this wicked world. It is wonderful that those that have discovered their sacred selves are now spirits and gods. It is only spirits that have access to the Spiritual realm. Our creator is a Spirit and only the spirit can communicate with him. This subject of sacred self is vital if one wants to commune with God and know why he exits and what he exits for.

It is a mystery that all we see today were created from those things that were not seeing - inspiration can't be seen. And you get inspired by discovering your sacred self. 'Your, as said in this book by the author, sacred self was never born.' This is true. Our body only houses our sacred self. We came from no-where to now-here. This is wonderful! These knowings have changed my level of thinking.

FREEDOM
Here in Africa, countless of us believe that accumulation of wealth gives freedom. We put our confidence and self esteem in material things. That is why most of us want acquire this wealth in an illegal way. To me less than 5% of Nigerians know their TRUE SELVES. This is stagnating our success.

My own definition of success is 'divine ways of accomplishing your purpose and living for eternal.' When we have the knowings that there is a place after death where there is no sin, death, sickness, night, devil. This is the place I want to be after this now-here. Is it possible to think eternal without really knowing who you are? Itνs impossible because it is only the good spirit that reminds you of this. The bad spirit only tell your physical body to live for now.

I was in the library some days back. That moment, I was getting exploded with what I see in this book. A girl was sitting next to me. I wrote out this affirmation 'in my world, nothing goes wrong' and gave it to her. She was pretty shocked to receive this. I was happy I obeyed my sacred self by giving her this because she shared her problems with me. She told me about her crumbling relationships with her friends. I was eager to flip through some pages, with her, in this book. And this did her a lot of self improvement. I was really happy for helping her know her self that moment. She told me she was gaining her freedom from that moment.

Freedom is described in this book as 'the total absence of concern about oneself.' Freedom gives, freedom does not fight for more. Freedom is all we should strive for.

THE WITNESS
This point was so significant to me. It tells me how to observe all that happens in my life. This part of this book has made me realize that I am always free to let go and observe my life. Nothing goes wrong again in my life. I now give myself full attention and full examination. This has really helped my sacred self. When I started witnessing myself, I discover something is crying to let go from my inner self. My sacred self tells me what I carry within. It tells me how creative I am. It tells me am a world changer.

I now witness a glorious change in my life. My inner self and my physical self now work in unity. It is that inner self that instigates my hand - physical self - to write this.

PART TWO - PERSONAL IMPACT & PRACTICAL VALUE.

Reading this book, I didn't read it in text or written words but I heard Dr. Dyer's voice talk to me. In the eloquence of his voice he explained the words in this book to me one by one to my understanding. I even heard his smiles. He even called me by my name. 'Lawrence, he said to me, you can be free if you want.' He taught me some very helping points that would help me to be free if well applied. These points relate to every aspect of my life: my relationship, my values, my goals, and my beliefs.

The first point he whispered to my hear was; 'BANISH THE DOUBT' It sounded as if I heard it for the first time. Dr. Dyer quoted what Shakespeare said a long time ago: 'our doubts are our traitors.' He also shared his own experience with me when he said: 'I rid myself of my doubts by remembering that there is a valid reason for everything that happens.'

Dr. Dyer said to me: 'Lawrence, I encourage you to abandon many of those old beliefs and make a new agreement with reality that is based instead on what you know is your truth. Once you know your personal truth, your reality will be free of doubt.'

When he said this I immediately banished every belief my parents told me about my birth. They always tell me that am going to be initiated into a cult that worships an idol that has been in my generation for many generations now. Dr. Dyer's words have helped me to banish that belief.

I can't forget this statement that he mentioned in the eloquence of his voice: 'but when doubt is banished, we come to a knowing that leads to creative and inspired solutions far beyond what we believe were possible.'

I now know the creativity that lies inside of me. My purpose has been energized. My relationships are working perfectly fine. I don't get angry at anyone because I know they have something valuable to perform in my life. My beliefs have been cleansed. Doubt is gone.

FROM TURMOIL TO PEACE.
Peace is one of the promises of God for those that love him. Peace is a result of pure or positive thinking. All God truly wants of man is a peaceful heart. A peace is free to those that really and is ready to get it. When peace gets into you turmoil vanishes.

Good news! My life has been peaceful ever since I discovered my purpose I have been aligning my thought towards it. Even in the midst of challenges I still have peace within me. Peace is not physical but spiritual. Peace does not answer to material possessions. It is true that in every moment of our lives we have the option to choose peace for ourselves. My thought is consistently on how I can accomplish my purpose. This has been banning turmoil from my life. I experience a divine peace within.

FROM DECEPTION TO TRUTH
Ever since I started walking in the path of my sacred self towards achieving my purpose I have been walking in the realm of truth. I feel guilty when I utter a lie and I immediately seek amendment. I was a big liar in the past. I thank God so much for IIGL and the university I am today. They play a great role in transforming my life.

The bible says 'the truth shall make you free.' The words are so significant to me. I witness my physical self work in truth and union with my sacred self each day.

Discovery of my purpose is making me to walk and work in truth. Following the paths of its attainment must be followed in truth. World changers must walk in truth to change the world. Deception repels the accomplishment of our purpose. Deception canνt make us have access to the spiritual realm where we know our sacred self.

I think I need to share my recent experience. In my school, students must take exit permit before they leave the school. Before I left the room one fateful morning, I refused to take permit. My room mate asked if I had but I said no. 'What if you're challenged at the gate?' my room mate asked. I boldly told my room mate that I won't be stopped. 'What would you say if you are stopped?' Mark, very inquisitive, asked again. More than 3 times, I boldly said 'I would never deny my studentship at the gate.'

For the very first time I was stopped at gate and asked to come down from the shuttle. The first statement I made was 'I am not a student here; I only came to see someone.' I eventually denied my studentship. I felt worst for days. I was not myself. The statement kept coming back to my mind. Tears dropped heavily in my heart. I was depressed. But that day opened a new chapter unto me. God spoke to my heart. He showed me who he was. He told me I can't make it by my strength. My life changed from that day. I left deception to truth. I never experienced that kind of knowings.

One great thing about truth is that it brings truthful people to my life. It's true that 'like beget like.' Being truthful makes me associate with people that are committed to change Africa.

'Your sacred self' has made me move from fear to love, from outward appreciation to inner substance, from striving to arriving, from dominance to tolerance, from toxicity to purity even toward an egoless world. I really feel good about myself and my world.

PART THREE - SUMMARY

Mother Theresa said 'to keep a lamp going we have to keep oil in it.'

Dr. Wayne W. Dyerνs book is a book that I must always read to keep my lamp going i.e. my sacred self alive. It is not interesting because it says the TRUTH. This book is very helpful. I have been able to influence some of my friends lives with this book. Every week I write out an affirmation from this book and I paste on my floor in the hostel.

I remember some days back, I was communicating with my friends on 'self confidence.' I discovered they put their confidence on material things. I was able to help them, in some ways, discover who they really are.


Unconditional Life
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria).

This is book that took me through the journeys of unusual healings. I couldn't hold myself reading through different and strange diseases and unusual healings that came from positive minds. It's was inspiring.

PART ONE - Content Review

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE HEALED.
This was the chapter one of this book. Every heading in this chapter was really impactful. The story of Robert was really impactful.

Countless of sick people actually rely on medicines for their healing but this chapter of the book took me through the journey of how a sick person can heal himself with his mind. Patients really want to know why they hurt. They want to know why they have cancers and other dangerous diseases. Deepak Chopra, M.D made a surprising discoveries of how a man could be healed with the power of his mind.

Healing our diseases, mentally, is real but requires courage and faith.

This part of the book makes me understand there is no cure from the outside. But what of drugs and medicines that heal us when we are sick? I asked myself when i meditated on this part. The healing power of our lord Jesus christ does not come from outside. He tells us he sends and would heal our sicknesses. And only those that worship Him in spirit can take part in this healing. You know that worshiping Him in spirit is not from the outside.

I remember a time that i was indisposed and i had to visit our school clinic. Precisely 3 months ago. The illness was diagnosed as malaria. And i was administered some medicines. I wanted a speedy recovery and i quickly took the first dose immediately i got to my hostel. However, that night i went for holy communion service. I was happy , because i believed, when the pastor said that "today's communion is going to heal our diseases." I banished every iota of doubt within. I know my God heals. So happened next? I faithfully dumped my medicine immediately i arrived my hostel. Remember i had only taken my medicine once.. and just after the service i was healed and never felt it again. Did my healing come from outside? We truly have free access to supernatural healing.

THE LENS OF PERCEPTION.
This is the way we regard something and our beliefs about it is like. Deepak buttressed this part of the book with meaningful stories and words.

"One time a man died because of something i said to him," says Deepak. Why did he die because of what Deepak said? I think the man died because of his perception about what he said.

The way we see and view things determine what we get out of it. According to Deepak perception is truly the first and the most important step in turning the raw data of the universe into reality. This means with our perception posisioned right we can turn our world of healings right.

This part of the book shows me how to have a positive perception - enjoy life with what does not terminate it. Our perception is just our eye that serves our minds in any way the mind chooses. It helps us in creating new worlds inside our private universe.

THE IMPORTANCE OF FEELING SPECIAL.
This is a part of this book that was as if a lightning bolt illuminated me when i read it. The story of Ray did. It tells me that what or how we feel about ourselves can also affect our healings. The way Ray felt about himself had quickened his healing. Healing is truly an individual process. Most of us cannot truly imagine what we would do if our nerves and bones were opened naked to air. The way we feel about ourselves is what we are.

PART TWO - Personal Impact

Before i write further, read this: In my moment of reading this book i watched a new born baby on t.v . She had a complicated heart disease and a foundation was raising fund for her treatment in India. I asked myself when i saw it if she could heal herself mentally? Did she even know she was going through those pains? Was she even aware she had a mind that could heal her? She was in deep pain and this made her cry bitterly! I was deeply sorry for her.

Again, i watched on the t.v how Novagin, Anagin and some other medicines seriuosly damaged the bodies of some people. These people were sick and their doctors prescribed these medicines to them and now its reacting negatively on their bodies! Are medicines failing or what? You know there is no negative reaction to healing that comes from within.

Conversly, healing that comes from within does not have any negative reation. We can't continue to swallow chemicals and hard drugs that are dangerous to our bodies. You know our creator had made, right from our creation, arrangement for our healings. These healings come from our minds and it is effective. Thank God we are now in the age of mind-building. People are begining to understand and utilize the power within.

The words in this book have meaningful impact in the field of healing. They have energized me towards healing myself of any illness. But this takes understanding of how it works for it to be effective for any one. My pastor has not been sick for over 22 years since he understood the supernatural healing. It takes unbeatable and unquenchable faith.

However, every chapter of this book has healing words contained in it.

What does it mean to be whole?
Deepak says so much about this question. He also buttressed it with the story of Nick. He says, and which i agree, that being good is not the same as being whole. Making our minds active is the only way we can be whole. We should not put our energy into making life perfect on the outside while on the inside we nurse faer, anger, and guilt. We should be conscious of the power of our minds.

PART THREE - Summary

Truly, i've never heard 95% of the names of diseases i read in this book. I wonder that all these diseases exist!

I want to say that our doctors only care but don't heal, it is only God that heals.

I think this book is a mind-builder. It would be nice for every body to read this in order to possess a right attitude for healing.


Awaken The Giant Within
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

PART ONE - Review of Contents

DREAMS OF DESTINY.
This part of the book is so significant to my life. What can a man achieve without a dream? Every great person we see today became great by first having a nonnegotiable dream. What makes a big differrence in our lives is the intensity of our dreams. Intense dreams guarantees extensive success. Our dreams may seem unaccompanished, just as Tony says, but we should should not allow failure and frustration to dissipatee them.

Living our dreams brings us joy and happiness. since our dreams are to affect people's lives positely. So, when we see people becoming happy, just because we are helping them one way or the other, we are living our dreams.

Living a destiny full of dreams begins with a decision. Tony made his own decision to start living his dreams in his 400 square foot apartment. That decision changed his life positively. How powerful dreams are! Giant dreams can pierce any negative circumstance and any setbacks.

I have realized from what i read in this book that we can achieve anything we want if only we dream it and decide to live it. My goodness! This is awesome!.

DECISION: THE PATHWAY TO POWER
In the indelible words of Anthony, "i made a decision in that moment which was to alter my life forever. I decided to change virtually every aspect of my life. I decided i would never again settle for less than i could be. Who would have guessed that this decision would bring me to such an incredible moment" That is the power of decision. God has given every man the power to make life changing decisions. The decisions we make determines how we live our lives. A great life does not happen by chance. It is decided and pursued. This was evident in Anthony's life. When we start enjoying the results of the our decisions we would begin to wonder could this be real? It is the decision we make as individual that makes the differrence in our lives. Decisions preceeds questions. And questions preceeds anwsers. Our decisions determine the kind of questions we ask.

In essence, if we want to change our lives, we must make great and giant decisions. It is in our moment of decisions that our lives are shaped. The decisions that you're making right now, evryday , will shape how you feel today as who you're going to become in the nineties and beyond.

BELIEF SYSTEMS: THE POWER TO CREATE AND THE POWER TO DESTROY
Can we ever discuss how we can maximize our lives without discussing our belief systems? Even the ancient king Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived , said "for as he thinketh in his heart , so is he:" Everything we become in life comes from our beliefs.That is why every good book today talks so much about this subject. "As within As without." We are made by our beliefs.

Show me a great man and i will show you a man that thinks positively. I strongly believe that we can't go any higher than our belief. Anthony says "Beliefs have the awesome potential to create or destroy." I don't allow negativity to set in in my life. Every time it tries to i quickly remember the words of our spiritual leader, paul. He says in the bible " finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, of good report..............., think on these things." What other thing do we want in life that is not in these words? Wife is good. Mansion is good. Contribution is good. prosperity is good. What else! "think on these things." What we think is what we get.

QUESTIONS ARE THE ANSWERS
In my little life i have asked myself great questions. This started when i discovered my purpose. Prior to this time, all my questions were been asked from my teachers in the classrooms. The questions we asked determine the answers we get. Tony says "our questions determine our thoughts." Questions are the primary way that we learn virtually anything. Quality questions create a quality life. Every now and there am being obsessed with this question i ask myself "how can i help 100 000 000 Africans become rich?" I thank God that as i ask this every time giant ideas are flowing in. Ideas beyond my imaginations. This power is awesome! I know the answers to my questions would make me a world changer.

THE VOCABULARY OF ULTIMATE SUCCESS.
Often i see parents use poor words on their children. Even my own parents do this."you are a bastard, you're too dull, you cant't make it in life," all kinds of poor words. These words have been the major distroyer of Nigerians destinies. They distroy us! These words steal our future and our hopes for ourselves and for our nation. It hurts my spirit man when i pass any street and i hear any parent use poor words on his child and my dear country. I weep inside of me. Our parents don't encourage us with good words they only discourage us.

Tony says "words.... they've been used to make us laugh and cry. They can wound or heal. They offer us hope or devastation." Oh my goodness! I will always be carefull with my choice of words.

And again, am made to understand that it is common among Americans to always say God bless America. I love this! And indeed God is blessing her! Here, Nigerians are fond of cursing their country. All we say is "Nigeria is bad. Nigeria can't be good. Our leaders are bad. Our leaders are thieves......." Our hatred for this country shows bitterly in our utterances. These words are killing us! If only we knew this! I can't just help the tears drop in my heart when i see the reparcussion of these poor words on my country.

Thank God for the light taht has shone upon some of us. I belief Nigeria changers are being raised now. A powerful light has shone upon me via this book. My words can create a new world. Even our creator created this world with His words.

PART TWO - Personal Impact

This book has deposited a lot into my life. It has affected , positively, every area of my life. My values , my relationships, goals, and my belieifs. I will always make reference to this book.

MY GOALS.
Tony says "Giant goals produce giant motivation." This statement made me go back to my goals for adjusment. I now realize i can't go any higher than the goals i set for myself. Could you believe i never knew we are not lazy? we only have impotent goals. This is shocking! I have set a bigger and attainable goals for myself. I believe my goals fuel my action.I was really inspired by the story of OJ Simmpson written in this part ofthe book.

FINANCIAL DESTINY
This part of the book opened a new chapter in my life. I now know the mystery behind wealth creation. I now know how creativity helps to transfer invisible wealth to visible wealth. I have longed for this information for a long time. Being a student, i used to wonder what to do to make money. Now i know and understand the principles behind it. I now understand how to earn money by adding value, maintaining it by spending less than i earn, investing and protecting it. What a blessing!

PART THREE -Summary

This is an invaluable book. I wish i had read it some years back. Success, to me, is not a function of connections. This is basically our belief here. I used to believe it too - that success is a function of those we know. Now, i believe that success is only a function of revelation. And where do we get revelations from? We get revelations from the books we read. Obviously, i've got great revelations from "Awaken The Giant Within." Again, revelations define our destinations. Having read and meditated on this book, i have gotten revelations for my finances, relationship and infact my destination. This book has brought showers of revelations to my life.


Psycho-Cybernetics 2000
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

Part One - Content Review

SELF-IMAGE
This part of the book was so significant to me. I had an erroneous idea about it. Psycho-Cybernetics flushed out this errorneous belief about my self-image. This book made it clear that every one of us always acts , feels, and behaves in a way that is consistent with our self-image. This tells me that everything i do or say is consistent with my self-image. Fantastic!

Again, i realized that our self-image is the mental picture or blueprint of ourselves. It is our inner quality. So, i could say that dogs, too, possess self-image. I remember a time i bathed my beatiful dog with pesticide. The application was too much on his skin and it peeled his skin seriously. My extrovert dog knew this damage and immediately became introvert. He wouldn't want to see any one nor bark again. I knew he was in an ignonimous situation all through this time. I was very sorry. After his healing, my dog became lively again. I think he lost his self-image for that period.

In Maltz's words " all behaviour - all actions, all feelings, all human capabilities- was defined by self-image. No real behavioral changes could take place unless the self-image was changed."

Self-image is a crucial subject that should be thought to our young people in this age. Especially at a time like this where our young people are so crazy about looks. We want to act or behave in consistent with our looks.

The position of our minds determines our actions. poor self-image causes poor behaviours. Am now developing a self-image that will enable me to add more living to my life.

HOW TO PROGRAM YOUR SUCCESS MECHANISM
"The creative mechanism within you is impersonal. It will work automatically and impersonally to achieve goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure, depending on the goals which you yourself set for it." -- Maxwell Maltz.

Success is instinctive. This means we have the natural ability to be successful without learning it. We all have a built-in guidance system. I found this meaningful because it has helped me to program my success mechanism. This has helped me to be self-confident and base my self-image on my own opinion.

IMAGINING YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS.
What a significant part of this book. It made me realize how significant my imagination could be. I am responsible for the thoughts i have in my head at any given time. I have the capacity to think whatevr i choose, and virtually all my self-defeating attitudes and behaviours originate in the way i choose to think or imagine.

The story of Geoff, in this part of the book, really inspired me and made me understand that the word "imagination" is related to the word image: that which is seen. Our self-image is bound up intimately with our imagination. It is based 100 percent on what we imagine to be true. The image and thought we have on our minds preceed our actions.

We can consciously use our imagination to change our beliefs. Since the subconscious mind can't tell the difference between a real experience and one that is vividly imagined, then we should all imagine success in all our goals.

I now take these four keys to create new atttudes and behaviour:

1. Anything i imagine to be true is accepted as true by my subconscious mind,
2. An imagined experience is perceived and acted on by my subconscious mind exactly the same as a real experience,
3. My behaviour follows what i believe to be true,
4. My behaviour changes in the direction of my beliefs.

Our subconsious believes what it sees.

FREEING MYSELF FROM FALSE BELIEFS
It is vastly taught that beliefs are powerful. This book made it clearer to me once again with its vivid illustrations. Our beliefs determine the way we live our lives. If we believe we are limited to a particular way of living, then we are.

False belief is detrimental to success. If false beliefs keep us from setting big goals , it becomes impossible for us to reach any. False beliefs is a conversant problem among nigerian youths. Our parents have instilled into us beliefs that are errorneous. What we believe conditions what we can do.

LIVE LIFE BY YOUR OWN SCRIPT: HOW TO CHOOSE AND SET GOALS.
"A man or a woman without a goal is like a ship without a rudder . Each will end up on drift and not drive . Each will end up on the beaches of despair, defeact, and desponduly" - Zig Ziglar.

Planning our lives is a worthwhile event and this guarantees a glorious future. Show me a great man and i will show you a man that plans his life. Planning our lives or setting goals is just a way of giving conscious direction to our lives and how to get moving in that direction. In this part of the book, the author opened my eyes and mind to better and effective ways of setting and accomplishing goals. I realized how my self-image could condition my goals.

The questionaire in this part of the book is really helpful. This part was most helpful.

PART TWO - Personal Impact and Practical Value.

This book, i can't deny, has affected some areas of my life. This is what i shall be discussing in this part.

SELF_IMAGE
What makes me feel inferior every time am in school? It's clear enough i don't feel this way every time am at home. Self-image! I have overcome this with the practical use of this book. This book has affected my relatioships, my values and core values and even my goals. My inner quality is now wonderful. I can now relate with people looking straight into their eyes. I didn't like to spend much time with my friends in school. But i think i can do that now when i get back to school.

GOAL SETTING
The benefits of goal setting is invaluable. yes, i've read this and heard this a number of times. But this book gave me a new and better techniques of setting them. "Don't lose sight of your goals," and the SMART method. I love this!

MOVING AHEAD FROM GOAL SETTING TO GOAL GETTING
I was charged by the words of Terry L. Paulson "life is a moving vehicle with no brakes... If you spend too much time looking in the mirror, you'll hit a tree... That is why your front window is bigger than your rearview mirror. If you set realistic goals and balance self-support with appropriate self-critcism, you 'll stay on the road"

If this means anything to me, it means setting my goals is not the end and does not make me attain it execpt i act on it. I was moved by this book from a goal setter to a goal getter. Wonderful! I wish you saw how excited i was!

PART THREE - Summary

This is a book that should be read by all WORLD CHANGERS. It teaches how a nation and people can be self-confident. In this book i encountered life changing words and illustrations. It is worth a book in the library of every world changer.


Build A Positive Mental Attitude

PMA is a vital ingredient of success. One must depend on it in everything he does. Alot has been written about PMA. it tops the list of success recipe. I love how Napoleon described it in this book and in his other book-- success through PMA. He said " A positive mental attitude is the right , honest, constructive thought, action, or reaction, to any person, situation, or set of circumstances that does not violate the laws of God or the right of one's fellow man." Isn't this great? I love it. It must respect our creator and our fellow brothers and sisters.

PMA builds on hope and overcomes the negative attitudes of despair and discouragement.

CONTROL YOUR ENTHSIASM.

To keep a flame burning we must add fuel. Enthusiasm fuels our will to act. It is the fuel that drives things forward. We need to control our enthusiasm. It stimulates our subconscious.

ENFORCE SELF - DISCIPLINE.

Self - discipline is when you have to do a worthwhile thing even when it is not convinient. It will be difficult to achieve what we conceive if self - discipline is not in place. It enables us to develop control over ourselves. It begins with mastery of our thoughts, what we really are, what we really do. It is a means of directing our thoughts, controlling our emotions and ordaining our destiny with PMA.

THINK ACCURATELY.

It is what we think that overwhelms us. We need to nurture ourselves with accurate thinking so as to achieve success. hill said that our mind is like a piece of land. Through diligent, planned work, it can be cultivated into a beautiful and productive garden, or it can be fallow , overrun by weeds sprouting from seed carried by passing birds and wind. All that we achieve are the result of our thoughts. As written by hill, the accurate thinking is based on two types of reassoning:

  1. Induction,
  2. Deduction.

They work together but they are different.

CONTROL YOUR ATTENTION.

This is the eleventh principle in this book. It talks about focusing our attention to one definite major purpose. Also, focusing all our resources , time money and mind etc on this "one thing" We should be a man of one thing.

INSPIRE TEAM WORK

There is no musiician that does all his music alone, plays the drum set, plys the quiter , sings, choruses - all alone. he needs a teamwork to produce a good music. It is of paramount importance that every leader inspires or encourages the heart of his workers. This will make them efficient and effective. With this, productivity will boost. The cooperation of employees is needed to attain success in our field.

LEARN FROM ADVERSITY AND DEFEAT.

I consider defeat to be a stepping stone to where i want to get to. I also consider every setback as step back.When a sportman that runs or does high jump wants to do it he first step back so as do it well. So setback is a means of preparation. It is a means of learning what you must know in order to succeed.

CULTIVATE CREATIVE VISION.

Vision is the only thing that differentiate a person from his colleagues. creative vision is a big picture that others cannot forsee that enhances the perception of people and the entire world. The accomplisment of a creative vision is usually a significant contribution to the world.. i believe that the ability to think is the greatest gift of man. What can be conceived can be created.

MAINTAIN SOUND HEALTH.

If our health is not sound we may not be in a good position to pursue our passion. Sound health is very vital in life.

BUDGET YOUR TIME AND MONEY.

Time is money, money is time the say. We must harness the two towards our purpose. We must intelligently use them. Planning our time and money is the best way to spend them.

USE COSMIC HABIT FORCE.

Cosmic habitforces are the powers we apply with PMA when we use the universal laws or principles. They are employed when we use our mind powers.

PART TWO. -- Practical values.

Napoleon Hill said that our progress towards success begins with a fundamental question : where are you going? For anyone to get somewhere, he must leave somewhere. Giving a detailed answer to this question would help alot in getting where one plans to get to. Personally, the answer to this question is sticked to my heart and mind. I think about it every time. It is a focus that won't let go. It makes it become clearer to me everyday. I have discovered that achieving success in life is not an event, but a process. It can't be accomplished in a day. It is a gradual thing. It is a one-by-one thing. It is a day-by-day journey. Am now part of this process. I read these books . I learn the invaluable words in them. And importantly, i apply and live them.

Hill's keys to success is a book that has set a good foundation for my success in life. I love every page of it. I share its words with people. It gives them a new revelation about personal achievement. in life. I love every page of it. I have already started applying its principles where i can for now. It says all about achievement.

Again, i apply it to my studies at school. And this is really helping me. I go extar mile in my studies. I establish a mastermind alliance for courses i don't understand. I also apply faith. My self discipline is awesome. In all, i budget my money and time very wisely. Though i don't have any source of income for now apart from my parents but i still spend wisely the pocket money i recieve each time am going to school. I know that the way i handle my resources today determines how i handle them tomorrow. God does not bless wasters. He blesses managers. P

rincipally, no matter what i do , or, follow, what helps me most is not when i 'try' or 'struggle' to do things i have to do but it is only possible when i trust the divine power of God. And also when i surrender to it.

My last semester's exam's result was a big testimony. I stopped to struggle to pass. I just applied some principles in one of the books and i trusted God for it to work. It did. I have realized that when i struggle to do things i am only manifesting competition. I don't think God wants us to compete with each other. I believe when am faithful to my part God will also be faithful to do his own part. This helps us to manifest anything.

PART THREE...Summary.

This book is helpful when you read it, learn it, and live it. Also, it is worth passing to others who truly want personal great achievement. I give it 98% rating .

Thank you <where ever you are now> Napoleon Hill for your ever indelible wisdom. says much about achievement.


Manifest Your Destiny

Part 1 - Content Review

Consciously, i let the words of Dr. Dyer sink into my heart. Reading this book all alone in my quiet room was a never-to-be-forgotten thrill. Dr. Dyer, indeed, speaks into my heart in this book.

THE POWER WITHIN.ε people are still ignorant of it. And nothing good is happening in their lives. It is this power that brings manifestation into our lives. This is the power that makes things work. I watch myself everyday as i consciously utilize this miraculous power. I, too, know that this power works.

How do we discover and utilize this power? Dr. Dyer answers this question in this book. It's a big revelation i bet you.

BECOMING AWARE OF YOUR HIGHEST SELF.
Can a person manifest anything in physical without becoming aware of his highest self? A thunderous no! Without discoring yoursel there is no capacity to manifest and attract all that one needs or desires.

We are all both a physical body in a material world and a nonphysical being who can gain assess to a higher level. When we are conscious of this , we begin to manifest our destiny. The four stages of adult development talked about in this book are what i take serious. The more we grow in life, materially and swpiritually, we move from one stage to another. But for us to really know ourselves we must be enlihtened.

TRUSTING YOURSELF IS TRUSTING THE WISDOM THAT CREATED YOU.
I read in this second principle that authentic trust is only available through the knowing heart. I took a conscious time to study this principle very well and i discovered it is necessary we trust in ourselves and this means trusting the wisdom that created us. When we do this we become manifesters because we have created the inner capacity to become it. Again, all that we desire or want is part of us already.

God is already in us. I trust His words that i read in my bible. Trusting His words means trusting Him, too. I read His word without a smidgin doubt. My God and I are one. This is a truth.

YOU CAN ATTRACT TO YOURSELF WHAT YOU DESIRE
Everyone can attract to himself what he desires. This is only possible if we are conscious of the power within. This power is within us. Just as Dr. Dyer writes that creative energy is neither solid nor restricted. I belive we must first trust in this power and God. We must
love to utilize it and love God. With this , i believe we can create or attract anything. With our creative power we have the
ability to convert our thoughts into physical ---- This is the manifestation he, Dr. Dyer, talks about.

CONNECTING TO THE DIVINE SOURCE WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
This is the principle i liked most. Why? The divine source, which is God, is LOVE. Even writing this book was love. "There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than pure, unconditional love" --writes Dr. Dyer. The bible says "For God so loved the world He gave his only begotten son" Without love you can not manifest anything. This book would not be solid or "tight" without this love principle. For us to connect to spiritual realm we must first turn to love. "Seek you first the kingdom of God, and his right path; and all these things shall be added unto you" says Jesus. To paraphrase what jesus says: "seek you first the love of God and do things rightly ; and you will begin to manifest your destiny" You know that the kingdom of God is created with love, on love, and for Love. Without mincing words, becoming a manifester begins with love. The greatest of all things is love. With love we can do all things. It is only love that can transform this world. Let us stop craving f or materialism let us crave for loveism. Show me a manifester and i will show you someone that loves unconditionally.

REACTING TO YOUR MANIFESTATION WITH GRATITUDE AND GENEROSITY.
This can also be done with love. Anyone that is not always in his heart can't react his to manifestation with gratitude and generosity.
This ends my content review. I find them meaningful and significant to me.

PART 2 - Personal impact and practical value

This book has been helpful to me. I have started applying it already to some areas of my life. I live in a culture that has a wrong concept of God. People say God is far far away in the sky, jugdmental, and not personal.This beliefs are so strong. You will often hear people say God is looking down on you fromm the sky. And so we look up into the sky when we want to see him. We trust in the God that resides in the sky.
Also, we believe in atomic prayers. We shout, scream, hit our legs on the ground so that God can hear. We believe you have to do this for God to hear.

We are ignorant of that truth taht God is in us. Dr. Dyer write more on this in this book. I thank God for the light that damaged my ignorance.
Here, we pray using so much repetition. We pray for God to come down and do it. "do it do it do it" that is what you hear in our churches. We don't understand that God gives us the ability or capacity to manifest.

So, from my clear understanding of this book, ability and capacity to manifest this blessing <which is our destiny> is what brings manifestation into our lives. I love this revelation.

I now lead my live on the revelation that i ordain my own destiny. I do this perfectly by staying in my heart. I used to believe that our destiny is preordained. I used to leave the responsibility to God. Now i realize that God gives the ability to manifest. And this ability is the power within. God won't appear physically to help.

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
I love this part of the book. Love, i believe, is a glue that holds us to God. How do we express our love to God? This is what i have started to do. Obeying and walking in line with the truth. What is the truth? The words of God. When we align ourselves to that right path, we are living with love. When we understand that other people are our extension we are living with love. Love, truly, is the will of God. I apply everything in my life to it. My relationships run smoothly with love. Love is my greatest value.

This book has opened my understanding to a new dimension of love---------to love unconditionally. This is what i have begun to practice. If we give without love, it profits us nothing. LOVE IS THE ARTERIAL HIGHWAY OF LIFE. Without love we can't commune with God. This one life will soon pass, but only what is done with love will last.

This book has increased my belief of love. I can now write about love and not stop. If you want a peaceful life, first want love. Love is the begining and the end. Our purpose in life is to become a totally loving. Let us forget about the mechanical and technical ways of manifesting destiny, love is the only celestial means to manifest it. Give love and you will get back peace, joy, hapiness, riches and wealth.

This book is anchored on love. The best gift you can give is an unconditional love. Everything in life, name it---leadership, government, people, giving etc if anchored on love it will produce peaceful results.

Love is powerful. It is sharper than any two-edged sword. It can pierce through any challenge- terrorism, poverty, sickness. Love heals. Love can open any door. Love redeems. To be a manifester, in all the 9 princip[les in this book, you must learn to and practice unconditional on evry occasion, at every opportunity.

Pause reading. Close your eyes. Imagine yourself in a world where everybody is love. What is the condition there? I do it and the condition there is: No poverty, No terrorism, No war, No homeless people, No hungry people, No disease, No religions, No jugdment and there are millions of people living happily with a divine presence. Do you see that ,too,. In all your getting. Love is the only arterial highway of life. I wish you an unconditional love.

Part 3 - Summary

Manifesting our destiny is a function of aplied revelation. This book contains indelible revelations. I can't just take my mind off them. It has damaged every ignorance about my destiny.

I thank God for this revelations.


Keys To Success
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

PART ONE - Content Review.

DEVELOP DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE
We are in the age of achievement. People are achieving more success in this age than before. The quality of life is transforming everyday. Practically, every one today lives better lives than a king in the late 50s 60s 70s. there has more progress in the world. I think this is the power of knowing what you really want and love to do-- definiteness of purpose.

People, unlike years back, have begun to awaken their subconscious to the truth that they exist for a definite reason. This is what differentiates most people from their colleagues. The power of purpose in people's lives is great. If one can develop it, pursue it, and be faithful to it, its result is marvelous. It produces a significant contribution to the world.

In truth, definiteness of purpose is truly the starting point of all achievement. It is the only thing that guarantees success. Conceive it, believe it and you will achieve it.

ESTABLISH A MASTERMIND ALLIANCE
Forming a mastermind alliance is a good thing in order to achieve one's definite purpose. As defined by Hill, " A mastermind alliance is built of two or more minds working actively together in perfect harmony toward a common definite object." I can say that this principle truly started in the ancient days of Jesus Christ. He had twelve people as his mastermind alliance.

Obviously, a person can't know all and even do all. He needs people that are ambitious to work together for a superordinate goal.

ASSEMBLE AN ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY.
Our personality is our greatest asset or greatest liability, for it embraces everything that we control: mind, body and soul. What we do is us. For us to achieve lasting success, we must develop an attractive personality. We must possess PMA, tolerance, flexibility, sincerity of purpose, courtesy, promptness of decision, tact, tone of voice, the habit of smiling, patience, and so on. We must master all these so as to attract what we want.

USE APPLIED FAITH.
Faith, I believe, is exercised with action. It is a state of mind through which your desires, aims, plans, and purposes may be translated into their physical or financial equivalent. We must apply this faith, just as being advised by Hill. Faith without work is dead. We have faith when we act on what we decide and believe. This helps cast out fear and disbelief.

GO THE EXTRA MILE.
I call it GEM. " Render more and better service than you are paid for, and sooner or later you will receive compound interest from your investment. It is inevitable that every seed of useful service you sow will sprout and reward you with an abundant harvest," advised Hill. This simply means you have to go the extra mile to get worthy things done.

CREATE PERSONAL INITIATIVE.
Hill said " personal initiative is the inner power that starts all action." It is the power that inspires the completion of that which one begins. It motivates people to start acting on the plans in ink or on board. It pushes people to start and do it now. It also brings advancement, attention, and opportunity.

BUILD A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE.
PMA is a vital ingredient of success. One must depend on it in everything he does. A lot has been written about PMA. it tops the list of success recipe. I love how Napoleon described it in this book and in his other book-- success through PMA. He said " A positive mental attitude is the right , honest, constructive thought, action, or reaction, to any person, situation, or set of circumstances that does not violate the laws of God or the right of one's fellow man." Isn't this great? I love it. It must respect our creator and our fellow brothers and sisters. PMA builds on hope and overcomes the negative attitudes of despair and discouragement.

CONTROL YOUR ENTHSIASM.
To keep a flame burning we must add fuel. Enthusiasm fuels our will to act. It is the fuel that drives things forward. We need to control our enthusiasm. It stimulates our subconscious.

ENFORCE SELF-DISCIPLINE.
Self - discipline is when you have to do a worthwhile thing even when it is not convenient. It will be difficult to achieve what we conceive if self - discipline is not in place.

It enables us to develop control over ourselves. It begins with mastery of our thoughts, what we really are, what we really do. It is a means of directing our thoughts, controlling our emotions
and ordaining our destiny with PMA.

THINK ACCURATELY.
It is what we think that overwhelms us. We need to nurture ourselves with accurate thinking so as to achieve success. Hill said that our mind is like a piece of land. Through diligent, planned work, it can be cultivated into a beautiful and productive garden, or it can be fallow, overrun by weeds sprouting from seed carried by passing birds and wind.

All that we achieve are the result of our thoughts. As written by Hill, the accurate thinking is based on two types of reasoning: Induction and deduction. They work together but they are different.

CONTROL YOUR ATTENTION.
This is the eleventh principle in this book. It talks about focusing our attention to one definite major purpose. Also, focusing all our resources, time money and mind etc on this "one thing." We should be a man of one thing.

INSPIRE TEAM WORK
There is no musician that does all his music alone, plays the drum set, plays the guitar, sings, choruses - all alone. He needs a teamwork to produce a good music.

It is of paramount importance that every leader inspires or encourages the heart of his workers. This will make them efficient and effective. With this, productivity will boost. The cooperation of employees is needed to attain success in our field.

LEARN FROM ADVERSITY AND DEFEAT.
I consider defeat to be a stepping stone to where I want to get to. I also consider every setback as step back. When a sportsman that runs or does high jump wants to do it he first step back so as do it well. So setback is a means of preparation. It is a means of learning what you must know in order to succeed.

CULTIVATE CREATIVE VISION.
Vision is the only thing that differentiates a person from his colleagues. Creative vision is a big picture that others cannot foresee that enhances the perception of people and the entire world. The accomplishment of a creative vision is usually a significant contribution to the world. I believe that the ability to think is the greatest gift of man. What can be conceived can be
created.

MAINTAIN SOUND HEALTH.
If our health is not sound we may not be in a good position to pursue our passion. Sound health is very vital in life.

BUDGET YOUR TIME AND MONEY.
Time is money, money is time the say. We must harness the two towards our purpose. We must intelligently use them. Planning our time and money is the best way to spend them.

USE COSMIC HABIT FORCE.
Cosmic habit forces are the powers we apply with PMA when we use the universal laws or principles. They are employed when we use our mind powers.

PART TWO. – Personal Impact

Napoleon Hill said that our progress towards success begins with a fundamental question; where are you going? For anyone to get somewhere, he must leave somewhere. Giving a detailed answer to this question would help a lot in getting where one plans to get to. Personally, the answer to this question is stuck in my heart and mind. I think about it all the time. It is a focus that won't let go. It makes it become clearer to me everyday.

I have discovered that achieving success in life is not an event, but a process. It can't be accomplished in a day. It is a gradual thing. It is a one-by-one thing. It is a day-by-day journey. I am now part of this process. I read these books. I learn the invaluable words in them. And more importantly, I apply and live them.

Hill's keys to success is a book that has set a good foundation for my success in life. I love every page of it. I share its words with people. It gives them a new revelation about personal achievement in life. I love every page of it. I have already started applying its principles where i can for now. It says all about achievement.

Again, I apply it to my studies at school. And this is really helping me. I go the extra mile in my studies. I establish a mastermind alliance for courses I don't understand. I also apply faith. My self discipline is awesome. In all, I budget my money and time very wisely. Though I don't have any source of income for now apart from my parents but I still spend wisely the pocket money I receive each time I am going to school. I know that the way I handle my resources today determines how I handle them tomorrow. God does not bless wasters. He blesses managers.

Principally, no matter what I do or follow, what helps me most is not when I 'try' or 'struggle' to do things I have to do but it is only possible when I trust the divine power of God. And also when I surrender to it.

My last semester's exam's result was a big testimony. I stopped struggling to pass. I just applied some principles in one of the books and I trusted God for it to work. It did. I have realized that when I struggle to do things I am only manifesting competition. I don't think God wants us to compete with each other. I believe when am faithful to my part God will also be faithful to do his own part. This helps us to manifest anything.

PART THREE - Summary.

This book is helpful when you read it, learn it, and live it. Also, it is worth passing to others who truly want personal great achievement. I give it 98% rating . Thank you <wherever you are now> Napoleon Hill for your ever indelible wisdom. says much about achievement.

NIGERIA - Afere (KTS) copy


10 Secrets For Success and Inner Peace.
Assessment by Afere A Lawrence (Nigeria)

Introduction.
Dr.Dyer, like never before, takes me to another spiritual level with this book. Success is not a function of financial planning, relationship strategies, money making, but a function of inner peace - knowing who you really are and living in that consciousness all the days of our lives. This book says so much about inner peace. It helps you to be conscious of God. The 10 secrets in this book are really worth reading. These ten secrets allow our spirit to guide us towards the path of success and live with inner peace.

PART ONE: Book Review.

The first secret: Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. It is obvious that at this stage of my life, especially before i became a student of iigl, so many conditioning has taken place in my life, by geography, religious etc. This nurturing has affected my life in so many ways. Discarding some of those beliefs was very difficult. Beliefs that were of closed-mindedness ---- christianity is superior to muslim, yoruba is superior to hausa and ibo and so many other beliefs that used to make me say " is this life?" An attempt to have an open-mind or go outside the box of those beliefs sometimes get me into trouble. This is what this first secret is about, becoming closed-mindedness as a result of the old styles of our elders. This makes our minds closed to possibilities.

This first secret also talks about our inability to know all about this world. He says we don't know how most things work. The author butressed this with relevant examples. And he also says there are many things to know in this world. He says we hardly know anything at all in comparison with what there is to know. Allowing your mind to be open to everything makes you know more about the trillions of things yet unknown. And he says this causes creativity to flourish.

He also explains in this first secret the miracle mind set. This means refusing to allow yourself to have low expectations about what you are capable of creating. He advises us to have an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before us. However, he explains what being open to everything means. "Everything means just what it says. No exceptions." Says the author. This means that everything is right. If you think you are not good enough you are right because that is what will show up. All you will get from your effort is being right.

In conclusion, the author says that this first secret has two components: 1) a mind that is open to everything and 2) a mind that is attached to nothing. He says that our attachments are the source of all our problems. What does this mean? It means the need to be right, to possess someone or something, to win at all costs, to be viewed by others as superior - these are attachments.

Finally, he says that the open minds resist these attachments and consequently experience inner peace and success.

The second secret: Don't Die With Your Music Still In You.

He begins this secret by telling us that behind every moving thing there is a mover. He says we are also part of those moving parts. We all moved in here and we shall also move out. All these, he says, for a reason.

Also, he speaks about listening to our heart. He says our heart is who we are. The constant beating of our heart in and out , out and in, is a symbol of our infinite connection to the heartbeat of God.

I think this music he talks about is our purpose for being here this time. He says that when we listen to our right brain, it will always lead us passionately to our purpose This is our intuitive inner voice that keeps urging us to play the music that we hear so that we don't die with it inside us. He says that the left brain does otherwise. It does not want us to play this inner music. It tells us to wait for a minute, be careful, don't fake risk and other things keep us away from fulfilling purpose. Listening exclusively to our left brain turns us to pretenders.

The author says a sentence that thrills me. He says " let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion." Doing it with passion means taking risks.

In conclusion, the author says that the only thing that will keep us from playing the music we hear is fear.

The third secret: You Can't Give Away What You Don't Have

I have heard people say these words but never like this have i understood it. Dr. Dyer writes about this with great illustrations and these are very helpful in understanding this concept better than before.

Dr. Dyer starts elaborating this secret by telling us to change what is inside. It is what we have inside that we give out. He says that our thoughts create our reality because our thoughts determine how we respond to situations in our daily life. Our thoughts are inner.

In furtherance, he explains what he calls attractor energies --- you get back what you put out into the world. By loving and respecting ourselves, we attract higher energies to change what's inside us. It was also interesting that our purposes are ones of those things we can have in order to give away. Being in the service of others is what purpose is. Giving service!

The Fourth secret : Embrace Silence

It is true we live in a noisy society. Sirens everywhere, music at the highest volume, noise in the classrooms, noise in the hostels, noise in the libraries (where silence should be maintained), noise noise noise everywhere. Even noise in our churches and mosques.

The author writes indelibly about the value of silence. He says there is a momentary silence in the space between our thoughts that we can become aware of with practice and it is in this silence that we'll find the peace we crave for. He says that we can't know peace if we have no spaces between our thoughts. So in other words, the ultimate result of silence is peace. It is fantastic to know that everything that's created comes out of silence.

Again, in this secret, Dr. Dyer urges us to demand more and more time for silence in our lives. He believes that we can only make personal and conscious contact with God in silence. I believe this too. I have noticed and experienced this. I commune with God when am silently alone. Just as that ancient king, king David used to do. This is done by a way of meditation. I am used to this now. It works like a balm.

In conclusion, the author says we don't use our ego to manifest. So, it is necessary to keep our silent communion with God to ourselves.

The Fifth Secret: Give Up Your Personal History

The author starts the fifth secret with a very exciting illustration. it has to do with a speedboat and the white foamy froth behind it when it zooms across the surface of the water. This white foamy froth is called the wake. What he means is, the wake does not drive the boat. The boat is driven by the present moment energy it generates. This illustration is applicable to our lives. The wake of our life is nothing more than a trail that is left behind us. It is not possible for it to drive us forward. This wake is our personal histories. The author says we should not hang on to past pains, abuses and other shortcomings. If what the author means is, we should not hang on to them but we can remember them for lessons then i agree totally. It is not possible for me to forget all i had gone through in the past. But it is possible for my past not to affect negatively my present. Hanging on to it can deter my inner peace and success. The author says our past is over and we should not be glued to it. I agree.

Also, the author advises we live on now and not in the past or future. "God is only here now" he says. Is Dr. Dyer telling me not to project a future that i want to live in? Remember some people tell us to forget the past and the present and think of the kind of future we want. Are these different thoughts not conflicting? I can remember he wrote about being born again in sacred self. It was a reference. He said that to be born again means looking into the future with no condemnation. I think it is necessary for us to project the kind of future we want and not limiting our thoughts to now alone.

In conclusion, the author says we should no longer rely on our personal history. Am in agreement with him where he says we should make an effort to remove all labels that we've placed on ourselves.

The sixth Secret : You can't Solve a Problem With The Same Mind That Created It.

This is a fantastic secret. It tells us that any problem can be resolved with a spiritual solution. This tells us that if you are spiritually inclined you will come to believing that there are no problems. Am not in total agreement with this. There are problems in the world now. These problems are self inflicted ones. Look at Africa for example. The masses are suffering and the people in the positions of power are seriously enjoying with the stolen public funds. This is not the plan of God for us, i believe. The author says that all God created was good. Yes i believe. But man has made it other way round. The author says that bad does not exist. Not everyone can agree with this. But those that are spiritually inclined can understand. Those that are ego minded would not. I would not understand this if someone told me that bad does not exist 9 months ago. According to the author, until we change our mind, we will not solve our problem. This is what has happened to me in the last nine months. My mind was in the process of change. I have now made a new agreement with reality. I now believe, according to the author, that spirit always cancels problems. God is a spirit. I remember what Micheal Lightweaver wrote in his book "A day of grace". He says " It is the who of our being and not the what of our doing that will transform the world." This is true. We have to change our ego dominated mind to spirit dominated mind.

Also, the author tells us about the three levels of consciousness in this secret. These are:
1) ego consciousness
2) group consciousness
3) mystical consciousness.

He says we should crave for the third one. It is when we are spirit conscious that we can be peaceful and successful. It is distinguished by the feelings of connectedness rather than separateness.

The seventh secret: There Are NO Justified Resentments.

This secret talks about learning to avoid negative thing --- anger, hurt, depression, fear and so on, so as to live a life of inner peace, success and happiness. The author says that any time we are filled with resentment, we are turning the controls of our emotional life over to others to manipulate. He says that resentments give us an excuse to return to our old ways. I agree with this.

He says we should remove blame from our lives. We should take responsibility for our lives. He also says we should stop looking for occasions to be offended. This secret is too valuable to me. It helps me to forgive before being offended because i have forgiveness in me already. I have just learnt that the root of virtually all spiritually practices is the notion of forgiveness.

The Eight Secret: Treat Yourself As If You Already Are What You'd Like to Be.

I agree with the words of Thomas Paine used by the author in the begining of this secret: "it is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself." I think this means we should not pretend with our lives. We should not live two lives that are incomplete but one complete life.

In this eight secret, the author says that whatever we envision for ourselves - no matter how lofty or impossible it may seem to us right now, we should begin to act as if what we would like to become is already our reality. Doing this, he says, we are setting into motion the forces that will collaborate with us to make our dreams come true. In conclusion, Dr. Dyer says that if all we want is going to be, it is up to us, individually.

The Ninth Secret : Treasure Your Divinity.

The words of Walt Whitman are true. " In the faces of men and women , i see God." That is another way of saying God is love. And loving people means loving God. Everyone is a divine creation of God. We can never be separate from that which created us. Dr Dyer exposed me spiritually to all these life changing words in this ninth secret.

Treasuring our divinity means having a knowing that we can't be separate from our creator, god. If we believe we are separate from our divine source, we lose our divine power. Our ego does not want us to treasure our divinity. Our ego is an idea we carry around with us everywhere we go. it tells us that we are separate from everything and everyone in the world. he says that every time we experience fear, self-rejection, anxiety, guilt, or hate, we're denying our divinity and succumbing to the influences of that insidious ego mind that has convinced us of our disconnection to God.

In conclusion, i know that i am a God, i.e am connected with every creation, including my creator.

The Tenth Secret : Wisdom Is Avoiding All Thoughts That Weaken You.

Thank you Mr. William James. He says i should believe that life is worth living, and my belief will help create that fact. Without a smigdin of doubt, i believe.

In this last secret, Dr. Dyer writes about what our thoughts can create for us. Our thoughts can weaken or strengthen us. He, in this secret, tells us about the book of David Hawkins, M.D "power vs force." He says that power thoughts energize us, since they make no demands on us. But a thought of force weakens us. It consumes our energy.

Also, he says that shame is an example of force thought. It weakens us. He also says that forgiveness is always necessary in our daily lives.

The author says that no one can put a thought in us. All is our choice. We individually choose what to think about. And what we think about we bring about.

I always make a decision to think about what we make me live a complete life of inner peace. What about you? It is truly our choice.

PART TWO. Personal Impact.

Dr, Wayne Dyer is my favourite spiritual author. There was no time i read his book that i remained the same, spiritually. I think i need to tell you that no day passes without drinking and eating from his indelible words. God has used his writing to put me on this spiritual path.

10 secrets For Success And Inner Peace is another book that uplifts my soul. It has made me to know what true success is and how i can live with inner peace all the days of my life,. It tells me that living a life full of all kinds of accomplishments without inner peace is no success.

I joyfully allowed his words to sink into my heart as i read it. Word by word it sunk in my heart and cleaned all old beliefs, resentments, guilt, and hatred. This book, i must confess, is a reminder of what i have read from his other books.

I have learned to have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. I now learn how to disallow myself from having low expectations about what am capable of creating. Within me is an imaginary candle flame that burns brightly regardless of what goes before me.

Dr. Dyer has shown me, in this book , new ways of being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and visualizing myself as capable of doing anything that i can conceive of in my mind and heart. This is gradually helping me to banish fear and doubt. It can't be done in a day. I am conscious of this every day and so i put it into practice.

This book, i must confess, and all other Dyer's books, make me think about my creator every day. I think it is in this thought that inner peace comes from. I hope to share my Sunday experience with you in this part.

What else can i say? What i can say is endless. God is peace. peace is God. Life is all about enriching our lives with what we truly want and at the same times living with inner peace. We won't enjoy life except we live with a continuous inner peace. We can't be at peace unless we know who we truly are and who truly moved us here, God.

I had this experience some Sundays back when were singing a song we really love.

" father i declare that i love you i declare my ever lasting love for you."

As we sang this song in unison, my inner companion whispered to me; "stop singing and listen." I quickly obeyed him, waiting for another unforgettable experience with him.

As i listened inwardly and silently, he asked ; how can you love God. an invisible being? How do you show your love to him? Is it by this song you sing?"

"What are all these perplexing questions again? Why all these questions coming this time, in the house of fellowship ---church?" As i witnessed these questions, i inwardly said all that.

This is a time i want you to be mindful and learn from what i have to say this time." He continued as he noticed my feelings. "This song is an interesting one. But singing it is not a prove of your love for God. Declaring, verbally, you love God is not what love is or what loving God is. Love is meant to be exercised. Love is tangible. And it becomes tangible in the love between you and your fellow brothers and sisters. It becomes real as you reach out to the poor and those you call you 'enemies' that God longs to transform into friends. When last did you visit an orphanage? When last did you feed your hungry neigbour? When last did you see God in the faces of other people? Love is not declared with words towards God. Love is declared with action towards all creatures."

I was in absolute silence. I stopped hearing the song because my inner companion's voice was very audible to me. At this moment i wished that the other thousands (about 4000 students and staff) could hear what my inner friend was saying to me.

"When are you going to start declaring your action-filled love? It's up to you! That's all i have to tell you at this moment. Always remain conscious of me. I wish to say this to so many here but they've blocked the interconnectness, so they are not conscious of me. I shall come another time." He finally said all that.

I think that is what consciousness can do. And Dr. Dyer defines consciousness as a mental state of being aware. It's always interesting to be conscious of our true selves. It makes us know what to say, do and , even, eat. I think this is what the bible means when it says we are in this world but not of this world.

SUMMARY.
No day goes away without reading from Dyer's book. I don't read these books for the sake of assessment. I read them because they add values to my life and i add these values to my community.

Do you truly want success and inner peace? Read this book.


Nonviolent Communication-A language of Life
Assessment by Lawrence Afere (Nigeria)

1. Discuss the main ideas that you found most important in this book and discuss why they were important to you.

Nonviolent Communication, also referred to as Compassionate communication: A language of life shows how to reach beneath the surface and discover what is alive and vital within us, and how our actions are based on human needs that we are seeking to meet. NVC helps us to express our minds in a way that meets both parties’ needs.

I have found the following ideas most important to me as I read this book:

Giving from the heart
I would say that giving from the heart means giving with love, being dominated by love rather than self-centered and selfish attitude. Personally, I call it inert giving.

As written by the author, NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish. He says that NVC is a way of communicating that leads us to give from the heart.

However, giving from our heart helps us to