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30/08/2026

CAPTURING THE FUTURE NOW!

IT IS WORTHY OF NOTE THAT MOST PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES WITHOUT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES; NO VISION, nothing they desire to achieve. They just live every day as it comes, they flow with time and life. It is where ever life's wind blows them that they go. THIS IS NOT A HEALTHY WAY TO LIVE, IF YOUR LIFE WILL BE MEANINGFUL.

Not only adolescents, teenagers or youths are guilty of this. There are so many people in their 40s or 50s that still have no vision 🤷‍♀️.

Have a VISION.

VISION is the ability to capture the future in the present.

You should know what you want to be in the future and then start working towards it now.
THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS A FUTURE FOR YOU AS LONG AS YOU ARE STILL ALIVE.

The Bible says in the book of Habakkuk 2:2, “Write the vision and make it plain… “.

WHEN YOU SPECIFY WHAT YOUR VISION IS, YOU RUN WITH IT.

So, every decision you make now, every plan, every purpose, will point you to that vision.

Sometimes, you don't need to have it all sorted out all at once.

The objectives you set for yourself now can easily point you towards your destination in life. But not having any objectives, goals or plan is a problem.

You can receive clarity gradually.

Yes, it can be a gradual process, but just know what you are doing per time.

Life is not supposed to toss you to and fro.
You should have a short term and a long term goal. Live a purposeful life.

BE INTENTIONAL!

I bless God for the day I met an elder brother (Mr Gbolahan) who taught me the meaning of purpose.
He analysed clearly the reason I needed to have a goal or vision per time. And that helped me as I grew into adulthood.

He impacted me and that is why I am writing this right now to also be an impact to someone else out there.

LIVE INTENTIONALLY, NOT ACCIDENTALLY; LIVE A PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE. LIVE MEANINGFULLY.

I love you and I want the BEST for you. Cheers 😍.

Elizabeth Oduwaiye
Life Skills Counsellor.

12/08/2026

DENIAL DOESN'T CHANGE THE TRUTH

In life, there are people I like to refer to as 'exceptional beings'.

It's not only a particular gender that can be exceptional though. There are exceptional men, and women.
God, the Creator of all human is not, and will never be gender bias. So, He did not just input exceptionality in a gender and leave the other gender unadorned. He is not a respecter of persons.

It is noteworthy though, that, the level of exceptionality in various people differs; their gender notwithstanding.

Why then, is it that most men find it difficult to come to terms with it when a woman is more intelligent than they are?

Though, some men happily admire and value women who are more intellectually endowed...at least, I have met some of them. But there are men who see it as an insult 😂
"How can you even think it, let alone say it out loud that a woman is more intelligent than me?", they say.

It is safe to say: the exceptionality of some women is a truth most men shy away from.

Some are in total denial, some know but will never admit it. While some, instead of admitting, they say, 'she acts as if she knows it all', 'she believes that she is above mistake'.

Such men have refused to come to terms with it that some women are so self-trained that they have attained the level of excellence. On this level, it's not that they don't make mistakes, but it is very minimal, therefore hardly noticeable.

This kind of women, interestingly didn't get to that level in a day, it takes years to become.
Years of self-training, years of making mistakes, years of getting it wrong before getting it right. Then, they stay on the pedestal that they have so attained.

The beautiful thing about such women is that from every mistake, they pick at least one lesson to learn.
So the more the mistakes made, the more lessons learnt. After each mistake, they are wiser, better, more determined to succeed.

Also, they choose their battles wisely. It's not all battles they fight. This helps them to focus on what is necessary, shun what is not, thereby reducing errors.

They make sure mistakes don't repeat themselves and they look out for others, so others don't make the mistakes they have made.

They make progress, they grow, they don't give up.

Even though they feel bitter after every mistake of falling, they don't stay down or beat themselves down.

They pick themselves up and keep getting better until they attain 'level of excellence'.

So the excellence you see in them is not an act, it's not pretence, it is not charade, it is who they have become. It is who they have built themselves to be. And it took years of falling and rising to get there.

The least you can do, is to respect that, instead of building a limitation in your head for them and then, try to box them into it.

It is amusing how some men just choose to believe that women are not what they are j;ust to make themselves feel better.

Being in denial has never given anyone the power to change what is true.
If there is truth, face it, live with it. It won't reduce your worth in any way.

Written by.
Elizabeth Oduwaiye
For Life Skills Counsel

18/07/2026

HEARING IS NOT ENOUGH. LISTEN!

One of the hardest things you can tell a human being to do is to listen.
Most people hear but they don't listen.

Listening is a skill. It has to be learnt. But very few people see the need to acquire this skill.
Listening is a communication skill.

The listening akill is often overlooked but it is essential in relationships, learning, leadership, and everyday life.

For you to hear, you need your ears, but listening is much deeper because it requires more than ears to achieve. It involves the use of other senses like the eyes, touch and so on.

This goes to show that listening is far beyond hearing.

I would say one of the best (if not the best) definition of listening is, 'the ability to correctly perceive and interpret the message transferred by the other party in the process of communication.'

Listening has to do with accuracy, assimilation and understanding. So it is different from hearing.

Someone once said "Hearing is through the ears, but listening is through the mind".
That's true.

Acquiring of knowledge cannot happen without listening.

You cannot gain understanding if you don't listen.

Receiving of information cannot begin if you are not a good listener.

Hearing on the other hand can be done passively and absentmindedy. But listening has to be done actively and intentionally.

At this point, It is fitting to say that listening is an intentional skill that leads to understanding and learning.

Yet, a lot of people can hear, but only a few people possess the skill of listening.

WRITTEN BY,
Elizabeth Oduwaiye
Founder, Life Skills Counsel

21/06/2026

Dear fathers,

Thank you for the sacrifices and the genuine love.
Here is cheers, to the fathers who are 'fathers' in all sense of the word 🥂

19/06/2026

Looking good right? 😉
Thank you.

But remember, I too face challenging times, but I don't allow it to weigh me down or steal my joy...
I CHOOSE TO WIN DAILY.

Take a cue from here & have a beautiful day 🥰

Elizabeth Oduwaiye
For
©Life Skills Counsel

15/06/2026

THE BEAM AND THE MOTE
Every human being has either one weakness or the other (a beam or mote). The only way to help others with their weakness is to deal with your own first. It is really a pity that most people spend half of their entire lives analyzing the faults in other people’s lives when their own lives need urgent repair. This is one of the reasons why you MUST NEVER ALLOW THE OPINION OF PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T SEE YOUR PAST TEARS STOP YOUR PRESENT LAUGHTER IN LIFE!

No matter the position you find yourself in life, people will always talk. If no one has ever gossiped about you or spoken negatively about you, it means that you have never achieved something worthwhile. You owe no one an explanation when you are happy and successful. The only person you owe an explanation is yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by everyone, you just need to be more focused on pleasing God and accept yourself for who you are.

Here are a Few Rules to Guide:
✔️Never see yourself through the eyes of those who don’t value you.
✔️To be beautiful means to be your self at all times.
✔️To stand out is to be outstanding.
✔️Never belittle yourself while you hold others in high esteem.
✔️Anyone who sees you like an option doesn’t deserve to be a priority in your life.

REFERENCE:
Luke 6:42
– “Either how can thou say to thy brother, ‘Brother, let me pull the MOTE that is in thine eye’, when thou thyself beholdest not the BEAM that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye”.

Written by
Light Okechukwu
For: Life Skills Counsel

First published: June 2021

27/05/2026

HAPPY CELEBRATION🎉
May we witness many more of it

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