Mikey Ebbs

@ManUtd. Music. Information. 🌍🇳🇬

'...and I shall wear my imperfections with a dainty poise. For therein, lies the essence of my elegance.' ~15-01-24/00:03

[conduct|r @conductr_]

I know it sounds counterintuitive at first: why should you change your identity first in order to achieve your goals? Let me explain.

You do not have a discipline problem. You have an identity problem. The person you are right now is built to produce the life you already have, and anything that does not align with that person gets dropped after a few weeks.

Maxwell Maltz was a plastic surgeon who fixed people's faces and watched them stay the same person underneath. In Psycho-Cybernetics he wrote: "You will 'act like' the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. Not only this, but you literally cannot act otherwise, in spite of all your conscious efforts or willpower."

That is the whole problem. If you want a specific outcome in life, you must have the lifestyle that creates that outcome long before you reach it. Nobody is fighting their goal. They are fighting the gap between who they are and what they say they want.

And you are not undisciplined. All behavior is goal oriented, and you are already very disciplined toward one goal you never picked: staying the same. That is the one you have to change first.

Do this now:

1. Write down where your current life ends up in 5 years if nothing changes

2. Finish this sentence: "I am the type of person who..."

3. Pick 2 things that person does daily and start them now

You are not forcing a new life out of the old you. You are becoming the person that life already belongs to.

[27. @dimvji]

all roads eventually lead back to the interests you had as a child

[Abdool Moh. @abdool_moh]

Dear Anonymous,

I spent my entire university life at ABU Zaria hitting back to back first class GPA for 6 semesters in Political Science. My very first GPA was 4.79/5.00 which was the overall best in the whole faculty of social science consisting of over 600 students. I maintained it for almost my entire university life.
Unfortunately, In the first semester of my final year, my CGPA dropped to 4.47 exactly like you, with just one semester to go (see my pinnned tweet). I needed a 5.00 GPA in the final semester including research project to achieve my dream of graduating with a first class and breaking the record in a program that no one believed first class was possible. I was stuck between giving up to avoid last minute heartbreak or try to break a longstanding record as first class in political science was impossible for over 40years and hitting 5.00 CGPA in final semester was something students used to say only God could achieve. The two final year courses were enough hell, but I also needed ‘A’ in research project which further complicated things. Hundreds have tried, Hundreds have failed. People used to mock me in the library saying “haba scholar, in the end it’s just second class upper” just like those who tried before me.

However, I remained focused and locked in with hardwork and prayers. I had to travel twice to my village, stayed for weeks without electricity just to get data for my final year project. I stayed back in school during first semester holiday while everyone else went home to their families. During the dark days of no light on campus, I used ABU streetlights to study outside. Sometimes, I entered the bush behind the hostel to sit around trees to study during exams when libraries got overcrowded (until snake killed one old woman). Those who were close to me said I was going crazy and nicknamed me “books”.

Today, I am proud to tell you that I have a record breaking first class degree from ABU which has changed my life forever. I featured in several newspapers & blogs for achieving the impossible, bagged a fully funded EU scholarship which resulted in me bagging two more first class degrees from the UK & Netherlands and currently working as the only black Analyst in my team at a silicon valley tech giant with a less than 1% global job acceptance rate.

All these dreams were possible because I didn’t give up
I didn’t listen to people
I worked hard and prayed and the almighty lifted me in his blessings.
I hope my story motivates you and others like you who are considering giving up.
And if you see this, please send me a DM I would like to know & support you personally.

[Mikey Ebbs @WorldlyShide]

@YusufAsunmogejo What, by your reckoning, do you feel is the misguidance from this video?

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

It's crazy how most "life problems" are just 2-10 hours of actual work you keep avoiding. that's it

[Mikey Ebbs @WorldlyShide]

@favour75245 I liked it tbh... Iasb, sales documents, distinguishing tb from journal from ledger, learning double entry... I read the ican pack like a storybook lol

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The distance between dreams and reality is called discipline.”

— Paulo Coelho

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

if you spend all day at a fish market, you’ll leave smelling like fish, even if you never touched one

but spend your day in a perfume shop and you’ll carry the scent even if you didn’t buy anything, that’s how environment works. it rubs off, whether you realize it or not. stay around complainers and everything starts to look negative. stay around excuse makers and growth feels optional but get around people who move with purpose, you’ll feel it.

get around people who live in gratitude, you’ll start to see differently. the scent of your environment will always follow you.

[Francis @ghostof_francis]

A nigga like me wasn't meant to be average

[UG @UgwunnaEjikem]

Poverty is dehumanizing. Fight it with everything you have.

[Bayomi @SemudaraAbayomi]

The Origin Story of Opay: The Birth, Struggles and Success…

[Uchenna. @Favour_Ogazi]

A few years ago, I was at a shoot where all the girls were talking about how men had stressed them. Everyone had a story except one girl. She tried to relate, but genuinely couldn’t. When they asked her why, she simply said, with so much confidence, “I am with a very good man.”

[Mesoade @Horiawlar]

"if they cannot understand books written for grown-ups, they should not talk about them" then drops a Schrodinger explanation someone cannot confirm not refute. Only thing holding it is one's belief in it.

For the "Smart" explanation contained in the picture, you can also say Jesus walking on water was a metaphor, or moses splitting the red sea, or any ridiculous thing you deem fit.

Similarly, muslims can claim the "72 virgins" promise is "72 untouched blessings from Allah".

I understand the several parables in the Bible but the Bible explicitly called them so. No extra mental gymnastics needed. The parable of the virgins was clear, that of the prodigal son was clear. "Eat this as my body and blood in remembrance of me (not verbatim)" was also very clear.

However, You see this across the 2 religions, they explain something in plain terms when it can be easily explained, then default to "metaphor" when the text is not sensible or could be controversial, even when the bible did not explicitly say so or even remotely insinuate it.

[Luo Boy𝕏 🥶🇺🇬 @oedmonlucas]

The same hands that raised me are now unboxing my car😭❤️❤️

[Ozedikus Nwanne @Ozedikus]

Any leader you cannot question is a tyrant
Any group you cannot question is a cult
Any belief you cannot question is a dogma

[Titóbilóba Àdùkẹ́ @Teetoh10]

I lost my memory for almost two months after delivery. 😭I’d call anyone passing by to come and carry the baby in my room because I genuinely didn’t know whose baby it was.

My husband said he’d just pet me and calmly tell me, “Please breastfeed the baby before the mother comes”

[rewaju @onedarkhorse_]

this cooking of a thing btw, for me e no really go far, if na you sabi cook that thing wey we wan chop, cook am make we chop abeg, and if you dey tired at the moment or you no feel like, i go enter kitchen go cook wetin i sabi for both of us or make we go buy food if raba dey😂😂

and if na me sabi cook wetin we wan chop, i go enter kitchen go cook am, but if im also tired or don’t feel like cooking, you enter kitchen go cook the one wey easy for you or make we go buy food😂

or make we just gather enter kitchen 🤷🏽‍♂️

same with bills, if na me guide at the moment, i go guide both of us, if na you guide at the moment, guide both of us too abeg😂🙏🏽

there’s a reason why we are called “partners”

[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

I did all I needed to do because I had almost all the info I needed while in school, so nothing to advise self again.

But for those that didn't have, read these old articles from me.

2014: https://t.co/ursgEFz0j2

2013: https://t.co/cMNljtfXja

[fresils @iFresils]

please, wear your nice clothes everyday. the special occasion is being alive.

[YabaLeftOnline @yabaleftonline]

Man shares what his neighbor did after she stopped seeing him during her evening walk