Hello Guys and Ladies,
How has it been with you over the past ten months? I guess it's been very challenging, interesting, eye-opening, fulfilling, rewarding and whateve you might have to say about the year so far.

For some of us, it's been another year without fulfilling or accomplishing the goals we set out to achieve at the beginning of the year, and this might want to make these group of people discourage and throw in the towel because they feel like they have failed once more...

BUT I want you all to know this for sure, that regardles of how the past ten months had been for you, you can still rise up to the challenge and maximise the remaining part of the year positively to your advantage.

Don't pity yourself or allow others make you feel discouraged, instead make up your mind and settle it within you that you can achieve whatever you set your mind at achieving. You are not a failure but a success and God will surely see you through.

As the year runs to an end, I encourage you not to hang up yet, put yourself together, braze up for the challenge ahead of the remaining part of the year...and SUCCESS IS YOURS.

Have you ever wondered that...S-U-C-C-E-S-S has never, will never and can never be spelt without including U in it. You are a SUCCESS and nothing can stop you from reaching your proposed end.

Keep it up my dear and God bless.

Based on recent information reaching me through some members of the TIG network, I hereby want to use this opportunity to send warning signals to sincere and simple TIG members to beware of fraudsters who are parading themselves as change agents through social works.

This warning signal is expedient because I've received mails of this nature too in recent times and I deemed it fit to communicate with you all to help prepare you against fraudsters who are parading themselves as change agents.

Please, do not hesitate to communicate sensitive issues with us on TIG to help safeguard our colleagues from fallen victim of any of these fraudsters.

Take good care of you and keep impacting your primary scope of influence.

When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked.
When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings.

When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem, you have failed me, strange as that may seem.
Listen ! All I asked was that you listen, not to talk or do -- just hear me. Advice is cheap; twenty cents will get you both, Dear Abby and Billy Graham in the same newspaper. And I can do for myself. I am not helpless. Maybe discouraged and falter, but not helpless.

When you do something for me that I can and need to do for myself, you contribute to my fear and inadequacy. But when you accept as a simple fact, that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I can quit trying to convince you and can get about the business of understanding what's behind this irrational feeling.

And when that's clear, the answers are obvious and I don't need advice. Irrational feelings make sense when we understand what's behind them. Perhaps that's why prayer works, sometimes, for some people -- because God is mute, and He/She doesn't give advice, or try to fix things.
'They' just listen, and let you work it out for yourself.

So please listen and just hear me. And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn -- I'll listen to you.

There's nothing to fear --- you're as good as the best,
As strong as the mightiest, too.
You can win in every battle or test;
For there's no one just like you.
There's only one you in the world today;
So nobody else, you see,
Can do your work in as fine a way:
You're the only you there'll be !
So face the world, and all life is yours
To conquer and love and live:
And you'll find the happiness that endures
In just the measure you give;
There's nothing too good for you to possess,
Nor heights where you cannot go:
Your power is more than belief or guess ---
It is something you have to know.
There is nothing to fear ---
you can and you will. For you are the invincible you.
Set your foot on the highest hill ---
There's nothing you cannot do.

Watch Your Thoughts - They Become Words.
Watch your Words - They Become Actions.
Watch Your Actions - They Become Habits.
Watch Your Habits - They Become Character.
Watch Your Character - For It Becomes Your Destiny.

There is a cute story told about the Governor of Texas, then Mark White. Governor White and his wife were driving through the open Texas countryside one day, out for a relaxing drive and talk.

The couple happened to be around the area where Mrs. White grew up, and as they pulled into a gas station to fuel up and check out the car, Mark noticed a little nervousness with his wife. He didn't say anything, but when the gas station attendant came out to their car, Mark began to notice what was really going on. Both his wife and the attendant looked surprised to see each other, and they acted with that awkwardness that two people have when they've been close in the past, but weren't anymore.

Governor White pretended not to notice this. They finished at the gas station and continued back down the highway. The car fell silent and neither said a word. For a long time they remained silent, and all the while Mrs. White kept looking out the window, staring off out into the distance. Mark was
considerate and patient with this silence, and he continued to drive in the silence. But after the silence had gone on for almost an hour, he interrupted, trying to break the silence.

"Honey, I couldn't help but notice how you and that gas station attendant looked at each other. You were involved with each other at one point, weren't you," he asked ? "Well, yea," She responded, quitely. "Well, I guess I know how you feel. You were probably thinking about that and needed some space, right," he continued ? "Yea," she said again. "I guess you were probably thinking about how different your two lives had become. I guess you were thinking that if you had married him, then you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant now, instead of my wife. Right," he said ? "Well, No. Actually I was thinking that he'd be the governor now."

40% Of the things I worry about will never happen, for anxiety is the result of a tired mind.
30% Concern old decisions which cannot be altered.
12% center in criticisms, mostly untrue, made by people who feel inferior.
10% is related to my health which worsens while I worry.
8% is legitimate, showing that life does have real problems which may be met head on when I have eliminated senseless worries.

Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously.
You know when you need a break.
You know when you need a rest.
You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of.
And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself.
To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete.
Because you know it's never too late to have a life.
And never too late to change one.
Just Do It !
(This is an actual NIKE advertisement found in a magazine)

Be Yourself -- Truthfully
Accept Yourself -- Gracefully
Value Yourself -- Joyfully
Forgive Yourself -- Completely
Treat Yourself -- Generously
Balance Yourself -- Harmoniously
Bless Yourself -- Abundantly
Trust Yourself -- Confidently
Love Yourself -- Wholeheartedly
Empower Yourself -- Prayerfully
Give Yourself -- Enthusiastically
Express Yourself -- Radiantly

You've failed many times, although you may not remember.
You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?
Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.
R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
English novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Failure is not an end in itself but a pathway to success and if you want to succeed you must know how to manage your failures and take full advantage of them.

Remember: "failure to try at all is trying to fail" Keep trying you'll experience a major breakthrough soonest.

The Brooklyn Bridge that spans the river tying Manhattan Island to Brooklyn is truly a miracle bridge.

In 1863, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea for this spectacular bridge. However, bridge-building experts throughout the world told him to forget it; it could not be done.

Roebling convinced his son, Washington, who was a young up and coming engineer, that the bridge could be built. The two of them developed the concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome.

With un-harnessed excitement and inspiration, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge. The project was only a few months under construction when a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling and severely injured his son, Washington.

Washington was left with permanent brain damage and was unable to talk or walk. Everyone felt that the project would have to be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built.

Even though Washington was unable to move or talk, his mind was as sharp as ever, and he still had a burning desire to complete the bridge. An idea hit him as he lay in his hospital bed, and he developed a code for communication.

All he could move was one finger, so he touched the arm of his wife with that finger, tapping out the code to communicate to her what to tell the engineers who were building the bridge. For thirteen years, Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger until the spectacular Brooklyn
Bridge was finally completed.

What excuse do you have not to get your dreams accomplished? As long as there is still breath in your nostrils anything is possible that you can conceive in your mind.

No one can put down a soaring eagle except it does so by itself. Keep flying higher and higher, because one day you'll get to the top of your mountain.

• Respect all people - the old, the young, the rich, and the not so rich.
• Try not to worry.
• Don't tell everyone your business.
• Be happy with the things you have.
• Exercise every day.
• Don't go looking for trouble.
• Look for the good in everything and everyone.
• Get enough sleep.
• Try to forgive and forget.
• Always do what you think is right.
• Don't worry about what people think of you.
• Spend time with your family.
• Make time to see friends.
• Don't spend money that you don't have.
• Try to be happy.
• Be kind.
• Don't be afraid to say what you think.
• Try to be the best that you can be.

Just for today I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once. I can do something for twelve hours that would appall me if I felt that I had to keep it up for a lifetime.

Just for today I will be happy. This assumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said, that "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

Just for today I will adjust myself to what is, and not try to adjust everything to my own desires, I will take my "luck" as it comes, and fit myself to it.

Just for today I will try to strengthen my mind. I will study. I will learn something useful. I will not be a mental loafer. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration.

Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn, and not get found out; if anybody knows of it, it will not count. I will do a least two things I don't want to
do--just for exercise. I will not show anyone that my feelings are hurt; they may be hurt, but today I will not show it.

Just for today I will be agreeable. I will look as well as I can, dress becomingly, keep my voice low, be courteous, criticize not one bit. I won't find fault with anything, nor try to improve or
regulate anybody but myself.

Just for today I will have a program. I may not follow it exactly, but I will have it. I will save myself from two pests: hurry and indecision.

Just for today I will have a quiet half hour all by myself, and relax. During this half hour, sometime, I will try to get a better perspective of my life.

Just for today I will be unafraid. Especially I will not be afraid to enjoy what is beautiful, and to believe that as I give to the world, so the world will give to me.

Nicolo Paganini was a well-known and gifted nineteenth century violinist. He was also well known as a great showman with a quick sense of humor. His most memorable concert was in Italy with a full orchestra. He was performing before a packed house and his technique was incredible, his tone was fantastic, and his audience dearly loved him.

Toward the end of his concert, Paganini was astounding his audience with an unbelievable
composition when suddenly one string on his violin snapped and hung limply from his instrument. Paganini frowned briefly, shook his head, and continued to play, improvising beautifully.

Then to everyone's surprise, a second string broke. And shortly thereafter, a third. Almost like a slapstick comedy, Paganini stood there with three strings dangling from his Stradivarius. But instead of leaving the stage, Paganini stood his ground and calmly completed the difficult number on the one remaining string.

Regardless of whatever you may be going through life, "JUST HANG IN THERE TILL YOU BREAKTHROUGH IN LIFE"

Woody Allen said it best when asked about "relationships," and he told a story to illustrate. He said I think this story speaks about relationships.

A man came in to see a psychiatrist. When the psychiatrist asked him what the problem was, the man said, "Well, it's my brother. I think he's crazy."

"Why do you think that," asked the Doctor.

"Well," said the man, "he thinks he's a chicken."

"Hmmm .." the doctor replied, "that does sound sort of strange.

"Why don't you bring him in."

"I can't," said the man.

"Well, why not," asked the doctor.

"Because, I need the eggs." the man said.

I guess we are intertwined a little more than we like to think. And, we always see the other's strangeness even though we have just as much of our own strangeness, and often we have
"complimentary" strangeness.
(Attributed to Woody Allen)