Sam Akinpe

Author | Writer | Turning Life Experience into Legacy | Leadership & Life Strategist | Coach | Storyteller

[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

@StacyDotsonRN @Manu_Sisti How did you do it?

[BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® @TheBillionaireU]

Tony Robbins argues that the reason most people fall short of their potential has nothing to do with a lack of talent or ability.

The real bottleneck is something far simpler and far more powerful.
He puts it this way: “The Holy Grail between somebody taking action or not is one word: certainty.”

You can possess massive potential and still freeze in place if you don’t truly believe your effort will deliver the outcome you want. The sequence is straightforward: potential feeds belief, belief drives action, action produces results, and those results either strengthen or weaken the original belief.

When certainty is missing, the cycle turns destructive. Doubt leads to half-hearted effort. Half hearted effort yields weak results. Those weak results then get interpreted as confirmation “See, I told you this was a waste of time. I told you this wouldn’t work.” Belief shrinks further, action shrinks further, and the downward spiral accelerates.

The same mechanism works in the opposite direction. When you generate genuine certainty that a way forward exists, your sense of what’s possible expands. You take more decisive action. Better results arrive. Those results reinforce the certainty. Momentum builds.
This is why Robbins insists certainty outranks motivation. Motivation can spark a single burst of effort. Certainty keeps you moving long after the initial excitement fades and before the proof has fully arrived.

He points to Roger Bannister as living evidence. For decades the four-minute mile was treated as a physiological barrier. The moment Bannister broke it, the barrier dissolved in people’s minds. Within two years, dozens of other runners did the same. Human physiology hadn’t suddenly improved. Only the shared belief about what was possible had changed.

That’s the real cost of treating something as impossible. You don’t merely forecast failure, you reduce the action you’re willing to take, and in doing so you manufacture the very outcome you feared.

[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

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[IB Gèñèräl @IBGeneral001]

Na work I been de go oo💔😂

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

She explains it better here….

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

This is a superficial and ultimately destructive way of framing the problem.

Women deal with the profound biological burden of reproduction: menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. That is real, costly, and non-negotiable. No serious person denies it.

But the complementary burden that has fallen on men for the entire history of our species is equally non-negotiable and far more lethal.

Men have been the ones who die in war — by the tens of millions. Conscription, combat, and the obligation to stand between the tribe and existential threat have been almost exclusively male responsibilities.

Men occupy the overwhelming majority of the most dangerous occupations on the planet: commercial fishing, logging, mining, roofing, heavy construction, oil-rig work, long-haul trucking. The workplace fatality statistics are not subtle. Year after year, 90–95 % of occupational deaths are male.

Men also take more physical and psychological risks. That is why they invent more, explore more, and die younger — from accidents, from violence, from suicide. The male suicide rate is not a minor footnote; it is a catastrophic and chronic reality.

These are not interchangeable complaints. They are complementary sacrifices. One sex carries the primary cost of creating new life. The other sex carries the primary cost of protecting that life and extracting the resources necessary to sustain it from a dangerous and indifferent world.

To reduce the entire male side of this ancient division of labour to “what do men deal with?” as if the answer were “nothing of consequence” is not compassion. It is a deliberate refusal to look at the hierarchical and sacrificial structure of reality itself.

The proper response is not grievance. It is gratitude for the complementary burdens that have kept the species alive, and the individual responsibility to carry one’s own share of them without self-pity.

[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

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[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

The excited ones and the frightened ones are reading identical information. They differ only in what they do next.

[Afghan Zoroastrian @AfgZoroastrian]

This is what happened to Afganistan in four decades.

Be alert!

[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

@JonTheMaverick @channelstv Going to their office is meaningless. Those that went there thinking there is another physical step to be taken ended up doing nothing at the INEC office.

[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

@Anabel_Chi326 @channelstv It is working.

[ProfitableMan @ProfitableMan1]

Wealthy people don't put their wealth in a will.

[Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness @coachajkings]

Rick Pitino explains why selfless teams win.

“When you play for the name on the front, the back prospers.”

“When you play for the name on the back, you never prosper. All you are is guys with good stats.”

Great teams play for each other.

They know connected teams achieve more.

[JAMES WEBB @jameswebb_nasa]

Uma mente organizada faz mais rápido, gastando menos energia.

[MJ👑 @iam__Jezreel]

One of the most powerful sermons I have heard this year😮‍💨🔥

Take a minute and watch this!!🔥🔥

[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

@NickDiFabio1 KDP

[Sam Akinpe @Akinpe]

He got the promotion he'd wanted for years. Eight months later his marriage & his health were gone, & he didn't know why. He wasn't unqualified for the job. He was unqualified for its weight. Competence gets you the role. Capacity is whether you survive holding it. #Formation

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

Don’t say anything. Just repost.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others.

[Kirk Cameron @KirkCameron]

One of my favorite quotes from Ronald Reagan:

“Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve and, when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.” 🔥