Impact Impression Blog

I read something online recently and I was impressed. The writer wrote, "you can't express while trying to impress" . Now this is super. He (the writer) was expressing, but I, the reader, was impressed. Express and impress, what's the difference? When I communicate candidly, I'm expressing. I try to stay close to the facts and choose my words objectively. Here, I try not to add emotional or subjective feelings to the message to which I want to communicate. But when I want to impress, this is another case entirely. Impressive words dwells largely on flattery and less on factual words.

Ever wondered why the words ' Listen ' and ' Silent ' are made up by the same letters? I have too and the reason is simple: to listen , you have to be silent . It's important to keep learning everyday, in fact, it's an attribute of life. The day you stop learning, you start dying. Now, one way to learn is to listen - pay attention; and you cannot do this by always having something to say! Sometimes, there's always the urge to air our opinion and thus we end up interrupting a what would have been a productive conversation.

Harvest is only possible when seed has been planted. You can only expect to get returns when you have traded something or made investments. So in essence, it can be said that action begets results - fruit.This is clear. But do you also know that inaction, not planting a seed also begets result? Oh yes. Either action or inaction is seed planting. The former yields fruits while the later yield weed. This is how serious life has become! You are free to do whatever your heart so desire, but you must also be ready for the consequence of your action and (or) inaction.

Do you have a great urge to do something great, but feel your qualification (learning and experience) is not good enough? Do you feel overwhelmed by what you want to deliver to your world but have the feeling that you are not ready to be of service? I have these advises for you: 1. You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. 2. Nobody knows it all and perfection (if there is actually anything like that) comes from trying something, consistently.

"In all thy getting, get understanding." Knowledge is light. Information is like the power switch of knowledge and when this switch is turned on, light floods the space. What does light do, or what is the significance of light? Light terminates darkness. Wherever light shows up, darkness gives way. Ignorance is an opposite of knowledge, so if knowledge is light, then ignorance is darkness. Anyone who operates in ignorance gropes in darkness. Anyone who gropes never gets to destination (Now this is sounding too church-y right? Okay let's put it this way, anyone who gropes in darkness does note achieve his goals - that is, if he's got a set goal in the first place!).

I hear some self acclaimed writers say that writing is like a second nature to them and when they start, they never wanna stop! Naturally, I scoff at these brutes, but within me I feel like I'll never be as good as them.  Has this ever happened to you? A few minutes after you start writing, you pause to reread what you've written. You adjust something here, polish something there, delete a sentence. Suddenly, you find it hard to start writing again. You've lost the flow.

"The tyranny of the Urgent" Just this morning, a friend asked me a sensitive question which went thus: Between earning and saving, which is easier to do? It looks like an easy question but think again. Which is easier to you? Me? I find it easier to make money than to save. Unfortunately, many youngsters are in this category. We think that it's better to work and earn money; saving can wait. Who needs to save anyway when you earn regularly from your labour? Seriously? If you have ever asked this rhetoric, you need your psyche checked!