Iyabo Ojikutu's Blog, page 13
May 26, 2017
Permanent Happiness Book Release
Dear friends,
Permanent Happiness is now live on Amazon. Yes, you can now download a copy on your Kindle and start to embrace the three easy steps to
peace-permanent happiness. You'll also learn about my life story and my perspectives on pursuing peace in all life situations.
You will also be able to order a print copy in the next couple weeks. In the meantime enjoy it on your Kindle.
Get your journals ready to write down your aha moments. Share those thoughts with me here! I'd love to hear all your thoughts and share in your
perspectives.
My hope is for you to be inspired, motivated and excited to find that craved-after state.
May we all be permanently happy,
Iyabo Ojikutu
Purchase
May 24, 2017
We All Have IT in Us to Get IT Done
What is the IT you've been trying to get done that you keep putting off? The IT you need to get IT done is already within you.
We all have dreams, those aspirations we keep hoping to achieve. That big idea. That project. That life decision. That goal that won't go away. That next step. That huge leap.
We are all aware of what I'm talking about.
Most of us know exactly what those hopes, dreams, and goals are. Some of us say we are not sure of what our future plans are, or we have no idea what our goals are, or we don't really know what
steps we should be taking or what direction we should be going. The latter group, I believe, actually do know what they want to achieve in their futures—but do all they can to suppress those
thoughts or to detach from them as much as possible.
The reasons we do that is multifold:
• our fears
• feeling we are not capable
• thinking the idea is not good enough
• comparing ourselves to others and trying to live other people's dreams, and so on
The IT we are trying to get done are our dreams, hopes, goals and aspirations, and ultimately our life-given purposes.
The IT in each of us is our God-given gifts and our God-given internal power.
There is another "it," but I choose to write it as a lowercase. This "it" represents opportunities.
Opportunities are worthless if you don't know exactly what your goals are and if you haven’t noticed your gifts and not grabbed your internal power. Opportunities are everywhere. They surround us
in different forms:
• time
• family support
• experts in the field
• good infrastructure
• the internet
• social media
• lean cash
• travel
• solitude
• good physical fitness
• reading
• journaling
• a stable government
• good transportation
• healthy meals
• electricity
• a good education
• mentors
I can keep going with that list. You will notice some are external factors. Some are internal choices.
Can we try to figure out which are external and which are internal?
Which opportunities would you say are most important?
Can you try to list them in order of importance?
Ultimately, what we need to achieve our dreams is already within us. We were born with both of them—gifts and internal powers. We all at some point have noticed our gifts. Some suppress them
their entire lives for different excuses and reasons, while some nourish them and start to live out their life purposes from a young age. These gifts then branch out and birth more gifts.
Nourishing our gifts and using our internal powers to stay the course, and seeing the full manifestation, inspires us, grounds us, makes us have more self-worth and self-confidence, and provides
more resources to birth more gifts. As these gifts are manifesting, we are being elevated, and we are elevating others around us.
This is the beauty of using the IT in us to get IT done.
All those opportunities listed above have no worth if you have not identified your gifts or are suppressing them—which wastes away your internal power.
We can complete the sentence as such:
-The opportunity of TIME is worthless if I have no goals and have made my gifts and internal power dormant.
-The opportunity of FAMILY SUPPORT is worthless if I have no goals and have made my gifts and internal power dormant.
-The opportunity of a STABLE GOVERNMENT is worthless if I have no goals and…
Everything you need to achieve your goals is within you. You were born with them.
The IT is within you.
Affirm those words daily, believe them, write them down, frame them on your wall, sing a song with those words, and repeat them until it sticks:
The IT is within me. The IT is within me. The IT is within me…
The IT is within me. The IT is within me. The IT is within me…
May 22, 2017
My first blog post
Savoring this moment. Heeding the call.
The time for me is now. I'm excited. I'm full of joy. I'm at a state of permanent happiness.
My dream is unfolding before my very eyes. Or did I even dream this?
Did I dream about being an author? No.
Did I have a dream to inspire people? Yes.
I've been a pediatrician for more than half of my life.
I've been a teacher and a business owner for about a third of my life.
I've been a mother for a little less than half.
In all these roles, I believe I have inspired people, and they have inspired me even more.
I knew my journey could only go upward. I knew I had no choice but to continue to do better, aim higher and bigger at my goal of inspiring and elevating myself and all others around me.
But I didn't dream of being an author.
To put all my thoughts, my life story, my learnings, my lightbulb aha moments in text and share with others.
I embraced this calling. I did not resist the urge or the calling. Didn't question it. I was open to it. I allowed my thoughts to guide me, my instincts to pave the way. This process birthed my
first book—Permanent Happiness.
Now, I'm fully aware we plan some of our dreams, but some may just suddenly creep up on us from nowhere. Maybe they fall from the sky. Maybe they sway toward us in the wind. Maybe they just had
to find us because it was just meant to be.
Or maybe they are just simply a manifestation of our gifts from our heavenly Father.
The key is, we must be open enough to receive the urge and the calling. We must have so much internal peace that we can hear the whispers of the calling, the clapping of the calling, the drum
rolls of the calling.
We must be ready.
Because if we still have breath, our dreams will keep calling—they will find us, and they will demand our attention.
We must listen and heed the calling.
Living our dreams and influencing others positively is a big step in the pursuit of permanent happiness.
My books, my blog, my connections with you will center around pursuing this state of permanent happiness.
