NDUKA B. OJAIDE

The secret to how productive, efficient and successful you are in life is dependent on how well you use your mind. Brian Tracy said: "You become what you think about most of the time." In other words, the thought process is the key to accomplishing anything. What you think about, and how often you think about that thing, attracts that thing into your life. It is difficult, if not practically impossible for you to become what you have never thought about or what you are not thinking about. Success and failure follows the Law of Cause and Effect. This law states that if you want to effect anything in your life you must take some specific steps. Success does not show up by mistake, neither failure. We are all responsible in one way or the other for what comes into our lives. Learn to think positively most of the time. If you think positively about what you intend to accomplish most of the time, you will always find answer to the "HOW" question. People who think positiv

"Work is the source of Happiness, Self-Esteem, and Prosperity. It is the way we accomplish good things in our lives." In 1936, the welfare programme of The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints was established. The leadership of the church then made the following statement about the importance of work: "Our primary purpose was to set up, in so far as it might be possible, a system under which the curse of idleness would be done away with, the evils of a dole abolished, and Independence, Industry, Thrift and Self-respect be once more established amongst our people. The aim of the church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be reenthroned as the ruling principle of the live of our church membership." (Conference Report, Oct. 1936, P.3) The foundation of Self-Esteem, Self-Respect, Independence and Industry is Work as a principle of Self-Reliance. Simply put, Self-Reliance means your ability to take care of your needs and the needs of your family i