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25/04/2025

Once in a while, I filter my email inbox 📧to display 'the oldest emails first.' Today, I did it again just to look for a particular email. But, I started opening and reading some of my oldest 'sent' emails as far back as 2005 and 2006.

A few things came to my mind. Let me share them briefly with you.

- You would not know how 'stupid or ignorant' you are today until the next 10 years or so when you come back to reflect on today. The typos, grammatical errors, wrong tones of writing were enormous. I can't think or imagine that I wrote those emails 😀.

- If you've put in the work 💪 over those years, you would realise that you are not where you used to be. And if that is the case, you will automatically realise that you will get to your desired future someday, if you don't faint.

- Growth is real and possible 🌾 if you consciously and continuously put in the work. Sometimes, you may not even know what you are doing, but you are moving forward, in the right direction.

- God is faithful and true. Going through those emails, I could see the pains I had to endure with all the rejections and imagined how the recipients of those emails would have rated me so low based on those emails. But if God makes a promise and you believe it and work towards it, it shall come to pass.

- Do not think too much of yourself today for tomorrow's greatness will dwarf the unseen mediocrity of today - only if you pursue excellence today and going forward, though.

Go ahead and try to sort your email by 'the oldest emails first' today. When you do, share with me your experience. I would like to know if you will feel any of these thoughts above.

--
Apeh Omede, PhD




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14/05/2024

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Saturday, 25th May -
9am WAT, 7pm AEST.

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09/05/2024

When God wants to give you direction in life, He places men and women with experience and wisdom in your life.

In 2021, I got an academic position in Scotland while still on my postdoctoral fellowship in Ireland. It was a position I really loved and had worked hard to get. It was like a dream come true as I could envisage what the future holds in the position for me.

However, taking the job would mean 3 things.
- Uprooting them from, and leaving a place we've called home for about 9 years as at then, and lose the benefits we have there. Note that I have been away from my family since 2020 due to COVID as well.

- Starting afresh in a new country in many cases and on many fronts for me and my family. Note that there are some things we've worked hard for that we would lose.

- I asked for a higher level for the position in Scotland, which the organisation refused to agree to. So, if I took the position, I would be going into the role at a level lower than my experience.

But, I needed the position for 2 reasons. First, to get my family to be with me. Second, it was an opportunity to get a job even before completing my postdoctoral position.

So, I had only 2 options.
- Accept the position at the level offered and risk the 3 issues above.

- Reject the offer and go back to my family with no position in sight.

I called a mentor and shared my dilemma with him. He's been in a similar situation many years ago.

He told me one thing. "If they give you anything other than the level you want, do not take it. You have what it takes to get what you want and at a higher level. Go back to your family and you will be fine."

That was the scariest advice I have gotten in my life. But, I knew that was a voice of experience and wisdom. I heeded to it.

I rejected the offer and I resigned from my postdoctoral fellowship position after 3 months later of working from home. I returned home to my family with no job.

Well, that was one of the best decisions I've made in my life.

Just 3 months post-resignation, I got the same type of job I rejected for the sake of what's most important to me. I got back to my family and never have to worry about the 3 issues I mentioned earlier.

One key lesson for me from this is that, you will be in a desperate position sometimes in life but do not let it stop you from listening to mentors.

When you are in a fix and it doesn't get resolved, it is likely that you lack the support of wise and experienced mentors in your life.

If you are in or ever find yourself in such a fix, I pray you have a man or a woman in your life who will be a voice of experience and wisdom in your life to go to.

With men and women of experience and wisdom in your life, your life's journey will be a lot easier.

I hope this helps.

Apeh Omede, PhD.



31/03/2024

Happy Easter!
Know that no failure is strong enough to hold your destiny back.

Failure should not be the end of the story for your life’s dream. No matter how fatal your experience with failure has b...
26/03/2024

Failure should not be the end of the story for your life’s dream. No matter how fatal your experience with failure has been, there’s something good that can come out of it.

Understanding failures, how excellence is linked to failure and how to utilise them for your good is a core skill for growth and success, both in life and business.

Join me at this month’s edition of and let’s explore this topic together.

It’s this Saturday. Time is 9am (Lagos) | 7pm (Sydney)

Register via the link below to receive the livestream link when I go live.

https://lu.ma/scmarch24

—
Apeh Omede, PhD



There are 2 ways to respond to failure - Fail-proof (fail-safe) or Failure-resilient.For me, I believe it is better to s...
18/03/2024

There are 2 ways to respond to failure - Fail-proof (fail-safe) or Failure-resilient.

For me, I believe it is better to seek to be failure-resilient than fail-proof (fail-safe), and here's why.

Most people focus on being fail-proof (fail-safe) as their defence strategy. It works but the problem with this is that you don’t learn anything about failure and so you do not know how to prepare for failure if it happens.

Further, when dealing with human nature, fail-proof is never 100% possible.

And so when failure eventually happens within a supposed fail-proof system, it is usually disastrous because no one knows what to do to arrest the situation until things are beyond repair. People do not know what to do in a 'failed' fail-safe situation because they do not have experience with such a situation.

They fail over and over again because they trust their ‘frail’ system and choose to play the short game rather than face the fear of failing and getting up back again.

On the other hand, failure-resilient people do not fear failure. They expect it. They prepare for it but never count it off as impossible.

With this, they build a mental resilience that empowers them to face any form of failure. When failure happens, they stand up to their feet, learn from the process and keep moving.

Most importantly, through the process, they learn where loopholes exist in the system and they seal them up with higher performance strategies that ensure success.

They don’t feel like they are failing in the same thing over and over again. Instead, they feel growth as each time, they become better!

I hope this helps.

If you’ll like to further explore the topic of failing, join me on this month’s edition of as we discuss ‘Understanding Failures.

It’s going to hold on Saturday, 30th March 2023, 9am WAT | 7pm AEDT.

The link to register is https://lu.ma/scmarch24

--
Apeh Omede, PhD




15/03/2024

I’ve had my fair share of failures.

During my university days, I traveled to visit a close friend at another higher institution and also to have a quiet time to read for an exam. I took note of the time table and knew when a particular exam was meant to be held. I came back prepared for the exam only to learn that there was a change in the time table. The exam had been taken. I failed the unit.

In the first semester of my 4th year, I failed another unit on agricultural statistics because I didn’t buy a textbook written by the chief lecturer of the unit.

The first time I applied for World’s Poultry Science Young Scientist Award, I was not successful. In fact, a professor who helped to review my application materials bluntly told me I was not going to be successful. But I went on to apply. I’ve now won the award 3 times.

I failed at convincing 3 different ladies in my journey to marriage to be my wife. I wasn’t playing games with them. I was damn serious. It was a fourth time that finally worked.

It took me more than a 100 applications to finally secure a scholarship, and when it happened, there were multiple offers. But I tasted scholarship rejections before then@.

These past 2 weeks, I’ve had two rejected applications in an attempt to secure research grants.

Today, I’m in a job I love and always dreamed of, where I know my purpose would gain expression. It took me several failures and rejections to get to where I am today.

Why am I sharing these with you? To let you know that:

1. If you’re experiencing failures, you are not alone.
2. Failing doesn’t make you less of a human than anyone else.
3. Failure is not the end of the world, not the end of God’s plan and purpose for you.
4. Coming from failure to success gives you the authority to stand up and speak on a subject matter.
5. It is better to be failure-resilient than to be fail-proof (fail-safe). I’ll discuss this in another post.

I encourage you to enjoy the process. Success will happen in the end of the journey.

Keep faith! Continue to work hard!

I hope this helps.

—
Apeh Omede, PhD



10/03/2024

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

- Paul

Hope your Sunday has been lovely.

Have a blessed week ahead. It shall be fruitful.

09/03/2024

If you are not failing..

If you are not failing, you are not venturing into new territory. This does not mean that all journey into new territory is faced with failure. There are people who ventured into new things just once and succeeded.

But sometimes, failure is the only way you know you are making progress. This should be obvious because failure can only happen when you are trying something new or different.

There were times I tried certain things so many times without success. When I eventually succeeded, and looked back to where I had journeyed from, I could see how much growth I’ve experienced.

Failure is not your enemy. Failure is there to bring out some part of you that’s not known to you and the people around you.

Learning to love failure as much as you love to succeed makes you a better person every day. It makes you courageous and prepares you to take any opportunity thrown at you.

This is what differentiates you from everyone you admire for what they’ve achieved.

I encourage you to change your perspective about failure and give yourself a chance to try that new idea.

I hope this helps.

Apeh Omede, PhD


07/03/2024

In reality, many people want to make positive changes in their lives.

They have the courage to examine themselves. Sometimes, they are bold enough to tell themselves the truth and accept the verdict of change.

The problem is, most people do not know how and where to start implementing the change they desire.

Knowing how and where to start is the key to effecting a lasting change.

Here are a few things to think of when you want to start a change in any given situation in your life.

- Begin by identifying specific areas you want to improve.

- Set realistic goals around what you want to change and what you want to see.

- Create a plan, and take small, consistent steps toward the positive change you desire.

- Let someone you trust know about your decision to make a change and ask for/accept their support.

These may look easy, but they are not. You’ll need a strong determination to get going with them.

But if you can start, and further anchor yourself on the divine support of God, they’ll become easy for you.

I hope this helps.

—
Apeh Omede, PhD


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