Amachukwu Innocent's Blog

Get in front of the mirror and gas yourself up. Pump adrenaline into your consciousness. Provoke positive mentality in your mindset. Infuse yourself with the I-can-do thinking that dilutes every doubt, pessimism and self-imposed limitations. Take walks and charge yourself up. Encourage yourself till every fibre of your being synchronizes with your daily confessions. Celebrate every good thing about you. Acknowledge your innate talents and congratulate yourself for making it so far. Be your biggest fan. Show up for yourself and let your body know it can trust you to pick yourself up when you fall. Hyping yourself is like adding water to garri to rise. To hype is not denial things may not be tough or rough, it is denying the situation the right to control your existence. While hyping oneself may have a short-lived impact on one's mood or circumstance, it is the consistency that ultimately matters. The beautiful part is, the way you hype yourself robs off on everything and everyone...

  Sometimes all it takes to change a story, a generation or alter the course of one's destiny is taking that one step. A well-timed move. A perfectly struck conversation or a bold decision. The trajectory of my life in the last half a decade can be tied to one major decision. It was one that the caused the domino effect for everything else to align. It is cumulative of several leaps in time. The first leap was leaving my comfort zone. The crazy but destiny altering decision to relocate from Enugu to Abuja, without any job or permanent accommodation. The second leap was refusing to settle for the job that brought some good side hustles, for the one that would eventually pave the way for the UK. If I settled for the former, I would have lost the opportunity that came with the latter. The third leap was having a plan and executing it while in the UK. I saved every penny of my scholarship money as the seed needed for my next move. The fourth leap was knowing when to move to another cou...

Everyday I hear and see countless stories of people who by sheer determination and resilience have catapulted themselves to incredible heights. They took bold steps. Swam against the tide of fate. Became affirmative in their resolve and shunned every distractions. I am talking about real people that have become nothing short of a miracle by the measure of success they have achieved. They have lifted their families out of perennial poverty. Scaled new heights in their career. Pivoted into new career pathways and are blazing the trail for others to follow. These ones are proof that diligent enterprise births evidential results. I pray tell, how do you define a miracle better than this. That a person from a poor background, whose family lives in a mud house, secures a life changing offer abroad that will change the story of every member of their family. Or how can you explain that the child of a poor farmer for many years is now a Director in a Fortune 100 company in the United States. Or...