Moment of Inspiration: When you meet with You by Nwachukwu Nancy

Hi there, I know few things about you already. Most probably, you have been through a lot that literally nobody can inspire you way out of the ordinary.

I feel just this way sometimes and it’s certainly natural to feel a complete sense of your own self albeit you get caught up in the middle of activities, situations and issues, still looking for ‘yourself’.

 Can you ever meet with you and get a grip of you?



Lately, I have been spending what I would call tangible time with myself and fixing every assumption I had lined up about myself. Gladly, I am getting very uninterested in other people and in the good way. I have borrowed enough from other people and had enough of other peoples’ God. Just like shopping, I wanted my size of everything that has to be mine.

My love, when you are told that everything begins with you, interestingly it includes how to love, how to care and appreciate every other person around you. The real work is in meeting with you to know how to introduce you to others. There are things and even people you cannot perfectly understand except they are personal. You have heard that right? It is also inclusive of your perception ‘the one personal stuff we all have messed with’. So, I have taken late nights to ask myself; Nancy, who are you?  I have realized that it’s easier for anyone to misconceive my personality when I am confused about who I am. Until I recounted pieces of myself; the few brilliant things and clearly noted the silliest things about myself, I never understood that self-development was my own school for me. I guess I had employed too many lecturers and it was telling that I was learning nothing exactly without taking myself on a basic course ‘self-discovery and development’.

Doing same gives you a clearer picture of what you really need, your own way of spending your money, your own way of showing disgust, your own way of showing appreciation and your own way of correcting people who wrong you. Among all these personal belongings we naturally crave to own, one of the things you really need is Your Own G-O-D.

You and I have never seen our own self’ except in mirrors and believe me, mirrors can actually be so wrong. Have you not felt fatter in one mirror and sweetly slim in another? Have you not noticed your eyes are prettier in the bedroom mirror but the mirror in the bathroom makes you look bloated? It’s only the people who see you from time to time that really know what you look like and if you had their heads, you will see your own self just the way a mirror would never be able to describe you. Until this happens, half the time you think you look like mom or dad and the other half someone tells you how you look just like someone they know and there you are wondering if you could ascertain that for yourself.

6 Steps To Healing a Broken Heart

Hello readers, how have we been. Thanks for the responses towards the Moments of  Inspiration, I am glad and I will keep doing more with the help of God and my awesome speakers. 

Today I want to discuss on Healing a broken heart. The ability to heal is the ability to conquer hatred and find the space to love again.

There is a scar on the inside of a few that is difficult to heal but here is what I think can help:

Accept it: Really it has happened and maybe you would have done something in the past to change what happened, but that’s behind now. Accept what has happened and move on to make things better. 

Don’t blame yourself for too long, blame once and move on: Trust me, you cannot stay blaming yourself, if I had not done this, this wouldn't have happened, please stop the blame game, you definitely would have blamed yourself but that enough, it’s about that time to move on.

Try to see the positives: That hurts? Yes! maybe terrible but learn the best from it, get to see if this had not happened this way, what if it had gone worse

Moments Of Inspiration: Go Pass the Middle to the Other Side with Ezinne Umeh

Hello there!

I trust you are having a pleasant day.

Have you ever wondered why most times when you are in the middle of something important it seems difficult compared to the good experience at the beginning phase? you are not alone. Some married couples can tell what i mean!

When the disciples and Jesus left the shores  in mark chapter 4:35-41, the waves were calm, they were having a good time, some were resting from the crowd. They even thought Jesus was asleep but glory to God he never sleeps nor slumbers!!

 In fact I can imagine Peter and John talking about the miracles that took place earlier on and suddenly a storm arose.....OMG.

My dear friend are you in the middle of a similar situation in your relationship, business, career, academics, you name it that started  out fine but right now you are facing a storm and you feel like throwing the towel, giving up, quitting or even starting again. Can i ask for a favor please PRESS ON it's just a phase that must pass! .

The enemy knows the joy, peace, Laughter, fulfillment and satisfaction that awaits you on the other side that's why he always fights but thank God we are over-comers and conquerors.
Lets do the same thing the disciples did which is to call Jesus and ask for help.

Finally,  the Good news is if you do not have Jesus in your boat please invite him today...guess what he walks on water above the storm... yeah that's the truth or if he is already in your boat just trust him. As individuals we need to have faith in God to help us to the other side because he has the ability, resources, capacity, authority, integrity and in general he is great good GOD.

The middle of the tunnel is usually the darkest but keep pressing on till you get to your expected end.

If this touched you in any way kindly let us know in the comment box below. If you will like to be featured and you have words to inspire our world, kindly send mail to chukwuuju@ymail.com. Your experience can touch a life.

5 Signs to know Mr. Right

Okay ladies (guys are allowed too), here  is to what has been going through my mind all day, not all day per say but then.. I am sure you get what I mean *winks*. I have read a lot from my awesome bloggers/writers on how to know when you are with the wrong guy or when he is not just the right one for you, but then I ask how do you know your are with the right BAE....

I want to share a few of what "I" think is a convincing factor:

-Religion: To me I see this as priority, because it really does matter if you guys have the same level of understanding when it comes to religion. You would not want to get married and have to drive separate cars to church on Sundays to different locations.What happens when children come, where do they go?  Not so healthy, not so good for a relationship or marriage, If I must say, but then that's what I feel.If you feel you cannot go with his, communicate and if you feel you can go with his, awesome, but going seperate ways first of all brings about separation.

-If he listens and makes a move: Oh perfect you have a guy who listens that's awesome, its even more terrible when he does not listen but what then happens when you have this one who listens to your complains and says, okay babe for that minute and the next minute, the listener is not acting? Huh? . So if I must suggest, when deciding please put that into consideration, I know ladies love the attention, in an event where you love bae so much and he listens but does not make a move please try and communicate. But to me the right bae is one who listens and makes a move.

-Peace on your inside: Yeeeaaah! This to me is primary, if you are dating a guy who you are not proud of then are you sure that is the right bae?, when you are with the right one there is this peace on your inside and you know that yes I feel extremely fulfilled. Please do not struggle with your heavy heart, a troubled spirit in a relationship says it all. I cannot exactly tell why your spirit man will be troubled but then God knows best, but trust me when you are with the right partner there is this peace on the inside. Some of us might say I have never had such, you might have but you did not know. But basically just pray.

Monday Morning Inspiration

Hello dear readers, sure the weekend went really well.Thank God for a new week.
I will be giving out a few of the favorite inspirational quotes I like, I believe they can see us through the week, a few about positive personality and a few about growth/change.

A compilation of quotes I love, I hope they speak to you today and for the rest of the week.

#Stay Inspired.

Do you have a favorite quote?

Please feel free to share in the comment box below. Have a splendid week.

Moments Of Inspiration: Self Re-Invention by Chukwu Uju

I am glad to officially kick-off the Moments Of Inspiration Segment.It is going to be an awesome learning period, I know this.  For those who missed reading the introduction of this segment, I will just do a brief of what this segment is all about. It is all about Inspiration. We will be having Guest Speakers(you can be one of them) on Tuesdays and Thursdays giving us the most inspiring words. It is a segment which will be done via blog post and also twitter with #MOI and will expand with time.


I will be anchoring the first topic in this Moments of Inspiration and I will be speaking about SELF RE-INVENTION (Self re-branding).



We are humans created to exit, this I am aware we all know but in the course of existence there are times we decide to live different to re-create that which man has designed for us, for some of us it goes well and for some others it does not.

Making statements like I want to create a new way of wearing this dress, I want to introducing a new method  of using Debit card are statements of re-invention, these things have been there but you want to work on it to make it better.

The Glass Cup Theory

Hello everyone, I am excited for so many reasons and I must say the Moments of Inspiration Segment is one of the major reasons.  Read about it Moments of Inspiration.

Our topic today is one that came while I was reading an article. You have to pardon my scientific skills today because I know it is only scientists that speak theories but then I am speaking a theory to make a difference and I pray it does.

The Glass Cup like we all know is used to hold liquids, water, juice, drink e.t.c. It is either full, half way gone or it is empty but then the most important theory of the glass cup whether big or small is that it can be REFILED. (N.B:The only time this theory has proven to fail is when the glass cup is broken.)

Applying the glass cup theory to our daily lives is what I want to speak about today.

Most times we tend to miss the point in our life just because we are debating on how far we have come and stating the amount of challenges we have faced thus far.

Most times people miss the point because they spend lot of time wailing over a challenge than they spend thinking about the solution. We know they are challenges, they would definitely surface, it is more or less inevitable, challenges maybe in career, in relationship, in marriage or the likes. These challenges will come but thinking of a solution is always the way forward.

Stating an example, one who wants to start a business, you face all sorts of challenges, if the finance is there, you could face the building a team stress, if that is in place you face another one. The challenges we see only come to us to make us think outside the box and think of the best way out, but then most people rather stay with the challenge mourning and sobbing with it than think of a solution.

Going back to the glass cup theory, the glass cup is in your hand and you have it half way gone, rather than keep complaining about how the cup is not full and how you kept it, someone came to pick it and drink from it, why not go ahead and use the solution which is to refill the cup, if possible dispose the water in it and start afresh. Thereby having clean full cup of water.

So my little advice from this theory is do not hold that half cup in your hand and keep complaining go find a solution and to you out there do not let that challenge whether big or small kill the strength you have on your inside, think out of the box and think a solution, for when there is life there is hope.

So here we go, do I have someone there who is saying from today I will stop complaining for too long I would rather look for a solution?

That's the Spirit.

Thank you for your time.

I would appreciate you share your ideas about this theory in the comment box below. And stay tuned as we get to start the Moment of Inspiration Segment Together.

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Do Not Give Up Already

Hello readers, how are we doing today. For some reason which I cannot state, this topic came to my mind and I had to keep writing without even having to take my pen and paper.

I know it is to reach out to someone and I pray for the right words. I know it gets to a point of our lives when it seems like we have done it all, you have said it all and you have even seen it all and you feel this is just the time where you draw in the curtain and say goodbye to all of these things. You have tried so hard to make things work but they ain't working.


But I am here to tell you today please do not give up already. Oh yea! I might not know how much you have tried, I may not have seen how much you toiled even under the sun, called on God timelessly and yet it seems like there is no response. To you I am saying today do not give up already. That zeal that kept you till today should still keep you going strong.

You see this picture above it came in handy at some point of my life and I do not know what interpretation it gives to you but then I almost wept when I saw this picture. Most of us have gotten to that point of our life when the wall is so thin and then we decide to give up. 

The man in the picture above has been digging and digging to get the treasures of the land and when he is almost there he turns his back and says I think I should give up already.

Moments Of Inspiration

Yaay! I am glad to introduce this segment on Life's Treasury blog. Where we get inspiration from different people. I am glad really.

So stay tuned to this page as you will get to hear from speakers who have that word you will want to hear and words that will change your lives forever.

Thanks to all my readers because you make me want to do more. And to my inspirational writers God bless you all for your support even before we commence.

This segment is going to be running twice a weak and we will be reading inspirational notes from our various guests.

If you have suggestions on how you want this to go and if you would love to speak in this segment, kindly contact me via my contact page below.

Stay Tuned.

MOI will be featured every Tuesdays and Thursdays.

If you feel you want to be part of the segment please feel free to send me a mail to chukwuuju@ymail.com.

Moments of Inspiration.......

7 Tips for Daily Happy Living

In our daily lives there are some lifestyles that I believe
by now we should have inculcated into our everyday living. I will be listing a few in the number of 7 (Seven), if you have more feel free  to add yours in the comment bar below.


Be yourself: Never try to be anyone. Be true to who you are and others will love you for that. Pretense definitely fades.

Love yourself: This cannot be over emphasized. Nobody can love you as much as you love yourself. Loving others begins with self love. Love yourself well enough so as to conquer the love of the world.

Smile Always: I love to smile, oh yea I do and it makes people assume I look younger than my age. But then its not bad. Learn to broaden your lips all the time, don't only do it when you think its time to apply a lipstick, a lipstick/ facial touch up is not fine without a smile. Let me quickly state 3 reasons why you should always wear a smile: -(i)It makes you beautiful, (ii) It suppresses your weaknesses (iii) It makes you look younger.

Live everyday like its your last: Do good, be nice, be happy, play when necessary,show someone that you care. The care you show today will definitely speak someday for you in the future.

Supreme Court Upholds Right of Female Child to Inherit Properties in Igboland

The Supreme Court has voided the Igbo law and custom, which forbid a female from inheriting her late father’s estate, on the grounds that it is discriminatory and conflicts with the provision of the constitution.

The court held that the practice conflicted with section 42(1)(a) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution. The judgment was on the appeal marked: SC.224/2004 filed by Mrs. Lois Chituru Ukeje  (wife of the late Lazarus Ogbonna Ukeje) and their son, Enyinnaya Lazarus Ukeje against Mrs. Cladys Ada Ukeje (the deceased’s daughter).

Cladys had sued the deceased’s wife and son before the Lagos High Court, claiming to be one of the deceased’s children and sought to be included among those to administer their deceased’s father’s estate.

7 Things Couples Should Never Stop

In some relationships and marriages it gets to a time people start wondering what went wrong. I will be stating 7 things that couples not minding how long you have spent together should keep doing to keep the spark.

1. Praying together: A praying couple they say most times stay together. More often than not when people are new in relationships they tend to make all these a priority but with time these things begin to fade off and you hear excuses like no time again and for the married ones with kids, the children do not allow us to have time again and I ask since when did the kids stop becoming family? Why can't they be involved in the prayers. How busy can you be to spending 10 minutes to pray together becomes a long story. Choose a time today either in the morning or at night to say a word of prayer together. It is nice to actually hear your partner say blessings to your life. It is a form of keeping the bond stronger.

2. Complimenting Each other: Oh yea! I Know, I know.You see this guy/lady like everyday of your life I know but you know the truth you might be the first to see your partner everyday but you might not be the first to make them smile. Who is a witness of how a lady smiles when you tell her she is beautiful or how a man's confidence steps up when someone's says you are looking handsome, we know all these things, me I am guilty too o. So not minding the time or the number of years, compliment should be a way of life.

3. Plan a Surprise: I have heard couples say all these things na oyibo things, no be oyibo o. It is niceeeee. Surprises are never too much. You could even make it sweeter by planning a surprise after a misunderstanding. Nothing too big, you could decide to get a cake on your way home one day with sweet write-ups. The point is he/she never expected it so it brings the spark to the moment

Regrets are Expensive, Please do not Buy.

Hi People, I am glad to be posting on a Monday morning, something different. I am sure we all had a restful weekend.
Today I will be discussing the price tag on regret, how expensive it is and this is definitely to inspire someone out there.

Every second, Everyday , Every week, most people or better still lots of people make that one mistake that make them hate themselves. Most people make that killing decision that changes lot and we hear them say I regret ever doing this, I regret ever doing that.

Maybe you went into the wrong places over the weekend, or you drank lot till a point of regret or someone said something to you and you gave them a nasty response or you did something wrong at the office last week and you are wondering how will people see me at the office. These actions you definitely might have regretted but one thing you must understand is that day is gone and you cannot go back to it, why not pick yourself and make amends for today. If there is an I am sorry to be said, go do it, if there is a correction to be made, go make it.

It is a new day , a new time to plan all you have to do. It will only be terrible, if your regret of the previous week or the weekend affects what we do with our day and our week, because then you are piling lots of regrets.

Lady In Distress

Dear readers, I got this from a lady seeking our advice.

I cheated on this guy 2 years ago when we were dating, because I did not really love him then. So we parted. Last month, he came  back saying he wanted to marry me , that 2 different pastors told him i am the right lady for him.

I have not told him Yes or No. Presently,I am not seeing anyone.

I do not think he will trust me. I cheated on him twice.

What do I do?

Please be polite with your advice.

5 T's for Success

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him". David Brinkley

Lets discuss success today. I hear a whole lot about the C's of success of life and all. Today let's talk about the T's for success. Success cannot be over emphasized because we are all living to succeed at all that we do. Falling and constantly rising can be associated with success.

We will be discussing 5 T's that I believe can lead to success and they include: 

Truth, Time, Today, Tomorrow and Thank you.

Why are they chosen to be the 5 T's its because:

- We need them everyday

- We live them everyday

And since success is a daily pursuit we apply what we need everyday and our way of living.

Truth

There are some truths we should know about success which help us through our journey of life. It is important that you always have it at the back of your mind that you don’t have a choice other than to succeed despite the hurdles you might be facing.

To succeed, you need to know the truth first of all which is that God, your heavenly father has made sure of it that you succeed but what you do with the knowledge of this goes a long way in you succeeding

John 8:32 “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free”

When we work with the consciousness of the truth that the One that always has our back is in support of our success, it makes us put in our best and keep pushing even when things seem to be going not as we planned. 

They are some truth tools we need to always hold on to and they include but not limited to:

• Success is for everyone

• Failure is a step to success

3 Things you should never do when you find out your Man is cheating

I realized speaking to ladies is the most interesting aspect of my life thus far, because there is always a lot to be said. This topic we want to handle today, I will write the English as simple as I can be because it is time for our girls to wise up, do not be the pity party guest.

Most ladies are in relationships and they keep asking questions just to be sure they are doing the right thing or taking the right step. I must say I admire that because when you do not know and you ask questions most times you are guided properly but other times you could be led into the gutter.

Okay o , I have been in various conversations when ladies are asked if you find your man cheating what will you do. And then most of them give replies like I will walk away and never turn back, that's modest but how many of us will walk away and feel that walking away was right and not want to blow the dust?

I will be stating 3 things you should never do when you get him cheating:

- Meet with the Girl: What is it?! Why will you want to do that. Most times this is the first step people think of, but NOOO!! You should be able to guide your worth, act the mature one and do not even make the lady realize you are aware of her existence. If the foundation of the relationship is right and you committed it to God at the beginning take it back to him as he is the only one who can solve the puzzle. Your mouth does not have the ability to change a man just like I stated in my previous post DO PEOPLE CHANGE PEOPLE IN RELATIONSHIPS, only God has the ability to.

Self Inspired Woman

It is beautiful if we actually look at ourselves in the mirror and smile at who we see, inspiring ourselves as Ladies helps to overcome a few things like Depression,Sadness and it fills us with a Spirit of Self Love, happiness and the zeal to exist. A happy lady awakens the spirit of everyone around her, because her happiness is like a virus.

I write this to us and plead we say this to ourselves everyday, make it a lifestyle and watch your life turn in style. Let's say these words together:

- I am Beautiful
- I am Powerful
- I am Confident
- I am the best the world has ever had
- I am unique because there is no other me on earth.
- I am a lady of great Impact
- I am set aside for glory
- I am the light of my home
- I am the salt of the earth
- Above all I am blessed.

Do not just say these words, see yourself in them and mean everyone of it. Inspire yourself daily because sincerely there are people out there who will do anything to be where you are today.

To all the women out there, I love you all and we are great.

There are lots to be said to inspire ourselves and will appreciate your input in the comment box below.

What is that word you will say to yourself today?

5 Truths about Friendship

The friendship questions, Are you a good friend and do you have good friends?

Friendship is a 2-way thing, you leave a mark on me and I do on you.

At a stage of my life I learnt that I have the right to choose my friends, but then I did not just take it in like everyone would, I thought about it. If Uju has the right to choose her friends, Grace has the same right too. So if I see Grace as a right friend and she sees me as a right friend, we can both choose ourselves, and this right is not limited to anyone.

You might be at one phase of your life and your friends decide to change from who you knew them to be to become someone else. Two major things have gone wrong;

• It is either they have found a different characteristic and decided to move along with that.
• It is just that change you needed to make your own choice.

In friendship, there are 5 truths I want to share
• The friends you move with say a lot about who you are.
• Friendship fades when priorities change.
• In friendship, do not expect the other person to always please you, it is a two way thing.
• True friends are rare, so do not believe you have millions of friends, from a percentage of 100 less than 50 percent might be the true friends
• Friendship begins by being friends with yourself.

Learn to choose right, you can have friends for class, money and all but never let them lead you out of who you truly are. You have the power to influence and you have the power to choose.

Have you made a list of your friends today?

I would love to hear from you. Kindly drop your comments below. 

The Boss Lady

 Ladies with Spirituality, class, charisma, successful careers and money are just to be admired.

Do not believe the man should do everything as a married woman. I hate it when I hear, he is the man of the house so he should provide/take care of the house.

Okay tell me Woman of the house what is your own role, we should not let the man do everything to the extent he begins to believe he can do without us.

A boss lady is not one who controls her husband, she is not one who men are scared of, she is rather one who is in control of her home and the lady men admire. I heard men say in recent time, I do not want to marry a liability, rather I would love an asset. Who is this woman that can be described as an asset is a woman who plans right, a woman who works right, a woman who has a say in the affairs of the house, even in minor things like choosing the color to paint the house.

Who is a Boss Lady:

- A planning woman: I fell in love with an article written by Tale about the spreadsheet guide to becoming a boss lady, never knew we still had women that thought in that manner. A boss lady plans herself and plans her time, she is best friends with her diary.

- A praying woman: Whether we like it or not this is our major role in the family, except God blesses us with a pastor, even pastor sef your prayer will increase. Not when the man misbehaves you too, you will join him and misbehave. If your husband misbehaves, pray him back to shape, if your children are beginning to go out of control, pray them bac. We cannot see everything but God sees everything, do not give yoursefl a job role of trying to monitor your husbands movement when you can pray about it.

- A homemaker: Primary duty of a lady, from the day you say I do from the altar, you automatically signed up for this contract. Make sure your home is clean, make sure the family is fed at right times. Do not get to a stage when your children start calling you aunt and they call your nanny Mummy, then you have failed. Your daughter as a first link is supposed to proudly say my mother is my role model.

A woman who can manage work and home is the ULTIMATE BOSS LADY.

What are you doing on becoming a boss lady?