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THANK YOU

My first year in the university gave me a good chance to learn something.😉 We were a class of 120 students and we had a course rep and an assistant course rep. They were very exceptional in their work👌👍. They ensured we had accurate information of our Class schedule and other academic info on time🆒. They did this through their sms system, we received sms everyday for the daily📖 lectures📕. I always wondered how they funded it, if they used their money, because we had not yet begun to pay 💰class dues💴. One morning I received an sms❗, informing me of when and where my classes📕 would hold🏤, after reading it I replied 💯"Thank you"💯. After lectures that afternoon, my assistant course rep came to me, 😄she had this look of relief and appreciation on her face, 😅the kind that you had when a friend tells you he'll clear your debt😆. "💙Oh Karla thank you so much for your text message, 💟I was so stressed out the message came at the right time💖". In

JUNK

Is there something in there that you don't need but for some reason you keep holding onto? You tell yourself that'll you'll need it one day, but it seems like that day never comes. You keep it in your garage, basement or roof house, it just keeps taking space and never bringing any value. You have a sentimental attachment to your junks. DANGEROUS  Your body, mind and soul is like a house. Don't keep junks in it !!! Junks like Gossips Junks like Bitterness Junks like Bad memories Junks like Hate Junks like Guilt Junks like Malice Junks like Assumptions Put them out in the trash and let them go. You might have a sentimental attachment to that bitterness because you were the one wronged, but the truth is, when you keep that junk you prevent the good stuff from coming in. You were wronged, -yes-, forgive and let go, don't keep the junk of malice around, too much junk causes cancer !!! If the thoughts you are holding unto are

IMPOSSIBLE

If someone told you- I will meet you by 5:75 PM I will set the date for December 32nd Well, this sounds impossible right? Sometimes we feel that our life or people are as impossible as these. TRUTH IS... Impossible doesn't exist...... it's all a matter of perspective !!! 5:75PM is 6:15PM December 32nd is simply January 1st Before you run along and say it's not possible; Flying wasn't possible.... Electricity wasn't possible..... Speaking with somebody 10,000 miles and time zones away wasn't possible.... Reading my blog now wasn't possible.... Till....... someone accepted and dared to imagine that it was possible Is it possible to have your dreams come true? Is it possible to have the life you want? Be careful what you think is impossible; while you're explain why it isn't possible, someone will just interrupt you with the proof of it's possibility. Put an apostrophe and put a space in there. IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHI

EXCUSES OR EXCELLENCE

"There's such a thing as 100%, there is such a thing as excellence, you can get it right on every levels"....... (Pastor Amaechi Udeaku) It is possible to have 100% ! The moment you begin to make excuses for your not-so-excellent results , is the moment you condition your spirit to accept excuses. Oh we didn't do it right ..... it's because we were doing that one- You didn't deliver the goods on time .... it's because we had such and such- You didn't become successful in life ..... it's because my dad was a drunk- Oh you're still poor .....it's because my family is poor- Why do you still have this habit? ......it's because- EXCUSES TRAIN YOURSELF TO NOT ACCEPT IT FROM YOU!!! Yes you- it starts with you, you have to stop giving yourself excuses for your "Failures" , don't try to pass the buck onto someone else or something else. Accept that it is your fault then deal with it. IT IS MY FAULT, AND I W

MONEY

I learnt this week, that money gravitates, to where it would be multiplied, this is why the rich keep getting rich, and the poor remain poor. Studying economics in school, I never liked the Socialist theory. I thought "why punish the rich for the sake of the poor, why try to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor by trying to make the rich poor". Thats really... *# !!! A smarter way would be to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor by making the poor richer- teach them how to become financially smart. .... Pastor Chris Oyakhilome I heard of a guy who won a lottery ticket and he got over $500,000, but after a year, he went back to being broke, I mean he was reduced to a worse state than he was before he won the lottery, now he was deep in debts. How sad 😥 Meanwhile you find someone who starts a multinational company worth billions of dollars from a garage. It's the multiplier effect at work. 0 x 1,000,000=0 2 x 1,000,000= you know the answer. If

PRIORITIES

I READ THIS SOMEWHERE AND IT TOOK ME A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large empty mayonnaise jar and continued to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.   So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them in the jar. He shook the jar lightly to make the pebbles roll into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full and they agreed it was.   The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the Jar, of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked again if the jar was full, the students responded with a unanimous “yes”.   “Now” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life”.   “The golf balls are the important things; your family, your children, your heal

FIGHT !!!

What do you do when life denies it knows you How do you change it's point of view When your intentions are turned to conclusions of failure Before you ever start the big giant NO says yes to giving up , like a despairing sailor That anticipates the waves before embarking on the journey and succumbs in despair How do you make life's complexion fair Principles, mindsets, mind-games and strategies to hang your gloves A million reason life gives to you to stay in a corner of the globe But the world's not flat or square you are meant to go round it Not stay in a corner made by 2 horizontal walls of "I & Quit" If you can't build the bridge, take a leap of faith This is war and the fight would burn the bridge but not your faith For that is where the victory lies, when you look life in the eye and say "you can't stop me" I WILL BE ALL THAT I CAN  WANT TO BE * * What do you do when life denies it knows you How do you

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

If you were standing in front of God and he asks you....... Don't answer yet. Take a moment; - pause - think - breathe - reflect now......... CHOOSE!!! THERE. YOU HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -What you don't believe me- I thought you just chose? Well I don't have it? Well how did you choose it then? If you chose it, then you have it! If you have it, then you chose it! You might not accept it, but it is the truth. Dreams and wishes are not the same. EVERYTHING IS A CHOICE - THERE ARE ALWAYS OPTIONS The fact that you don't see them doesn't mean they're not there. Your life is not ruled by circumstances, it is ruled by your decisions actions. I learnt in today's rhapsody that you can replace your fear with faith. You can choose to be rich or be poor. You can choose to be a complainer or an agent of change. You can choose to be a victim of circumstances or a victor. You can choose to let the system affect you, or be above

WHY?

Sometimes that's the hardest question to answer. Why did you do it? Why do you act like this? Why are you the way you are? Why do you have this kind of principle? Why do you keep these kind of relationships? Growing up as a teen, the hardest question anyone could ask me was "Tell me about yourself". Honestly, I didn't know where and how to start, part of the reason was because I wouldn't know how to explain the rationale behind who I was. If I told someone, "Karla is such and such" and they asked- "really, so why are you like that?" I would not know how to explain it well enough to even satisfy myself. Till I had an encounter with a my Man Of God- Pastor Amaechi Udeaku , I was 19 when I first met him. He said "there is a you, in you that you don't know yet, but that God knows and wants to introduce to you, refuse to remain you, meet the new and improved you through HIM" I will not kid you, I didn't get

RIGHT OR EASY?

The right thing to do isn't always easy The easy thing to do isn't always right To always want easy is to be cheezy A weak person who doesn't have the will of might Tossed to and fro on the swing of indecision Satisfying the walls of challenges the confidence to stand Because you have not yet the principle to stay through with the tunnel vision So you fall in, face down, and give up, to let the opposition stand How sad to give in to the doubts and give up on your dreams Sleep walking through the years but you thought you were awake to the reality The reality that said, "you will not make it, it's too hard" was all but a scheme Of work by the opposition to keep you napping on "seeming" failures of bravery That are there to build you character strong to  never give up because it's easy But stay through to accomplish and experience the joy of finishing If your plans change, it should be for bigger fishery Bigger net

LIMITS?

I was seeing a cartoon recently, KungFu Panda 3, Master Shifu said something in his training - "If all you do is all you can, you will never be more than you are now" It took me. I rewound to that scene for about 5 times, before I continued the cartoon, it was like Rhemah to me. Don't be limited to only what you can do. There's more There's always more There is always more. I have met people who say "I can't kill myself, this is all I can do" No one's asking your to kill yourself, I'm asking me (you) to be more than myself (yourself) . Sometimes we think the limits are external, or are consequences of someone else' actions - when the truth is that they are internal. They exist in your mind, but you're not telling yourself the truth so you come up with excuses that are too lame to sit up to the truth about why you can't achieve your dreams. "If all you do is all you can......" I like to go beyond
LIES - TRUTH / BLACK - WHITE Have you ever done something nonconstructive spontaneously, out of the blue? Which you somehow managed to convince yourself that "It would be fun"!!! . There are times when, we know, in our hearts that an act would only lead to futility and ephemeral gains, but still you want to get to the end of it- in spontaneity . Tell yourself the truth, be honest with you, did you completely agree with yourself that there would be no consequences and that if there were any, you would be able to handle them? Life is much more than what we see or feel with our senses, there is the part of a man's spirit that is cardinal to the quality of his life. People say the truth is black and white- NO! The truth is either black or white The truth is either left or right The truth is either wrong or right (Really Karla? Did you have to make it rhyme?) Yeah I had to, but you get my point. Be honest with yourself, did you tell yourself the trut

Deliberate Mistakes

I know I got a strong heart but weak eyes Cry when I'm angry, laugh when I'm sad Don't mistake dem liquid for weakness Wouldn't let hate burn me so I let it flow out through the windows of my soul Bitterness turns to salt and water when my knees hit the floor Not worried about any disrespects I got God's respect It is our month of moving forward after all

My Earliest Memory

The woman had a basket on her head full with fishes; there were little ones and big ones. I knew this because this was not the first time she had been to my grand-mother’s shop. I was standing there beside the half broken protector wrapping my fingers around the belt attached to my favorite navy blue colored gown. “Were your mama, go tell am say fish don com”. I stood there studying her as she let down the basket of fish from her head without dropping the piece of rag from her head that she uses to steady it; I found it intriguing and curious, but the curiosity vanished as soon as she removed the rag and stood akimbo looking tired and staring at the little girl who wouldn’t go call her grandmother. “Were your mama na” she asked in an irritated tone, “abeg call am come, I get market to sell for olori road”. Bashful me stood there staring and studying her with curiosity that I could not explain, until suddenly my aunt Jorfa (meaning: add another one) ran out, “mama dey come, she de

SMILE

Even if the rain poured, it still can't take away your shine You got the Son in you so baby give that rainbow smile You are His perfect picture, let Him be your perfect standard You are as beautiful as the words He spoke with no blunders So let His word be the judge and this poem be the jury We'll sentence you to a happy good life with no sorry(s) Don't be sorry, you're God's best it means you're better than your past So be what He wants you to be and you'll never come out last

I LEFT MY EMOTIONS TO RIGHT

I learnt recently that you can talk to your emotions no matter how overwhelming the situation is. I had a very painful experience once, and I was trying to explain myself; but you know what happens when you're trying to talk especially out of hurt, you tend to cry more than the words can come, lol. In that moment as I was trying to talk, I told myself, I just spoke out "Stop crying Karla!" And the tears stopped,faster than the snap of  fingers. Days later, while thinking of the scenario, I found out that you can talk to your emotions and actually control it. I knew this before, but now it was like it was a knew knowledge. You can choose to be happy, you can choose to be sad, you can talk to your emotions and tell them to stop being angry, you can choose to be in a good mood. You can also talk to your emotions and teach them to be inspired and excited in certain things. It's not a "hormonal work", it's a "word work". Think about it, why

FORGET THE PAST; REMEMBER THE FUTURE

If you took a snapshot of your dreams, what would it look like? If you rewound to your past, what would you learn? A friend of mine always say, "I have no regrets, just lessons". Most times we are asked to forget the past, but it is not just the mistakes of the past that should be forgotten, forget also the successes so you don't have something called "a success hangover". The thing that happens to almost successful people who hold on to what they did in the past that succeeded but never improve on it. LEARN TO BEAT YOUR OWN RECORD You have a personal race to run, you can't compare yourself with anyone but you, that is why your present must be better than your past and good enough to inspire your future. It's like what happened to me in the process of releasing my Mix-Lyric I wanted it to be out so good so that I could set a standard for myself to beat. Keep your desires dedicated to the direction of success.

My R and B Experience

So we had decided, we said we would hold the R&B concert, and it was going to be the bomb, we didn’t care what the challenges would be, or the circumstances that surrounded our decision. We said we would hold it and that was final!!! We had meetings; at church, at the studio, during the day and at night, we prayed like we had not prepared and prepared like we had not prayed, we went out on publicity even at 11pm into 12am placing banners and posters. Preparing for the R&B concert did something to our spirit, mine especially, I learnt that whatever you want you can get, no matter how hard it might seem. I learnt the power of proper leadership, I learnt what faith means, faith says I want this thing and I have it even if I haven’t seen it yet. We needed a lot of things, we needed more partnership, we made do with the ones that came to us from our friends and church members. We went to the radio station Today FM 95.1 to talk about our concert. We went to the press to get our publi

THE MIX-LYRIC (TRACK BIBLIOGRAPHY)

  Track 1 - THE BIRTH OF KARLA GOD This was my first ever attempt at rap, it was my first ever hip hop related work, I wrote this at a stage in my life where I didn't even know what punch lines were, I didn't even know or had the inclination that I could become a rapper. So when White Mic, picked me and said “You seem bold, you’re bold, I think you can rap, come I’ ll teach you”, I went to him and he took me on 2 rap classes, the things he taught me spiked something in me, it was like he brought out rap from me, even when I didn't know it was there. After the classes he gave me an assignment, to write a spoken word, I picked one of my write ups from my archive of “stuff I have written”  which was this one, tweaked some lines, and made it into my introduction. Track 2 – GOSPEL GANGSTA Yeah I just wanted to brag and throw punch lines at anyone who thought they could mess with me. Track 3 – WHO YOU ARE This was my first ever Solo. I wrote this t

THE MIX-LYRIC FINALLY OUT

Finally , the Mix-Lyric is out, ready for download. Tracks are completely uploaded, click to download.. Track 1 - Birth of KarlaGod Click here to download Track 2 - Gospel Gangster Click here to download Track 3 - Who you are Click here to download Track 4 - T.G.I.G.C Click here to download Track 5 - Salvation Song ft Myrah Click here to download Track 6 - Perfect Picture Click here to download Track 7 - No Doubts Click here to download Track 8 - P.A - Attitude Click here to download