VICTOR COSMAS BLOG

The inspiration to make this up came yesterday when I read the sentence of the Ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor , 64 to 50 years behind bars where he had sent countless people to when he had the power. Charles Taylor's sentence points out that he was guilty of an 11 count charge of war crime which extends beyond the shores of Liberia . He used his blood diamonds to exchange for weapons to fuel the war in neighboring Sierra Leone which lasted for 6 years and took away the lives of 50,000 potential African changers, positive history makers, and dreams embedded Africans before it ended in 2002. Now this is where the history about this guy lies, HE WAS THE FIRST FORMER PRESIDENT TO BE SENTENCED FOR WAR CRIME SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR II . Now this kind of history don't make a New York Times Best Selling book of Success Stories. This is the wrong kind of History! Hey! there are good money and there are bad money. There are good successes and there are bad successes. ...

I went through an old diary and I mean a really old one at least for me. I have had it since I was 13. It was my jotter in church which also doubled in as my 'Idea Book' . I had just started to read some books then from the motivation I got from a man I owe a lot to. He is my pastor, Reverend Rotimi Andu . I heard it for the first time in my life from him that 'Idea Is What Makes A Man Rich' and since then I have decided to be rich and I Know you want to be too.  I heard all it takes was to have ideas and then package it for sale and the world will buy. Since then I have started penning my ideas in that book and all of a sudden, I kept it away where I couldn't remember. One day, I ran into it again while trying to get my books into a new order. I am never satisfied with my books arrangement for too long, hahahaha. You know something? I have written well over 20 business ideas since I was 13 . Someone might ask, 'So are you a CEO yet? ' I will answer ...

There are only few things that hurt more than the pain of failure. It is the pain that tears and pierces through the body, soul and spirit.  It reminds you of how you could have succeeded if you had maybe pushed a little harder, been much smarter, taken a certain step that you didn't take, didn't do what you did or how you should have rejected an advice that didn't turn out well. It brings about that debilitating feeling that you could have been the one focused on the screen and being applauded by the crowd if it were in some games rather than strolling out with a bottled water of consolation and face buried in the ground.  Well what choice do you have now that the game ended against your favour?   Just One! Buckle up for the next match and be prepared to fight again.  You may not have won this fight but that doesn't mean that you have lost the one ahead.  Jump up and pick yourself up and scream like that little David before that giant Goliath '...