THE FINAL BREAK
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Ok, I decided to take a one-week break from all my business activities only to resume today to a hacked site. Wow! Humans can decide to be frigging wicked whenever they have the power to. Well, no need to dwell on the negative; I would just have to rebuild my site again. My week off was spent watching all kinds of serial program from The Complete Apprentice Season 8 to the Complete 7th Season of 24 down to the complete Season 4 of Prison Break with the final «not-yet released» Final Break (to be released July 21st) which happens to be the last chapter of the Prison Break except they bring Michael Scofield back from the dead.
There are many life lessons I picked up from this final episode tagged «Final Break» that I would love to share with you. These lessons are very instructive to my cause on financial freedom: You may listen to my previous podcast on Prison Break by clicking HERE
1. Sarah Tancredi was thrown to jail; it's amusing the way they contrasted the difference between prison and jail; jail is a temporary restrain until you are convicted while prison is where you go when you are convicted. Challenges would never go away. I realized that all challenges have similar pattern despite different circumstances and level of exposure. The more challenges you solve, you would be able to draw the same pattern after a while. If you can solve the relationship challenges between you and your wife; it would be easier to solve the challenges between you and your boss though they may pose differently, they have the same underlying challenge – relationship. So stop running away from challenges, you need to face it head on so you can easily solve challenges. If you do not solve the challenges you face now, they would come back and haunt you in a different form.
2. Michael was reputed for breaking out of prison –this was a plus rather than a minus because they believe he can do it, he actually did it. This is very vital in your path towards financial freedom. You build authority by solving challenges along the way. This authority would let you have it easy as you try to solve other issues. Due to the authority that Michael had of breaking prison, the prison wardens and the FBI were very apprehensive and hence paranoid about Michael breaking his wife out of prison. This apprehension was actually what made it easy for Michael to break the prison. Whatever you do in life, build momentum towards your goal; try to have as little success as you can which would give you more confidence to pursue your goal.
3. Mahone had the choice of getting his career back by betraying his friends but chose freedom. Freedom from the hatred, anger and betrayal of a friend. When Cane killed Abel, it was not just because he was jealous because he wanted to be the first at the detriment of his brother. Never undermine your friends for success because that success would never last. The principle of getting ahead by undermining your fellow brother is a common practice in our lives. I realize that it is sweeter when all your friends are financially free than to have only you financially free in the midst of them. When public funds are stolen by politicians, it the people that suffer. When corruption is permitted by weak judicial systems, it comes to haunt us in the form of armed robbery and other vices which hinders foreign direct investment that may alleviate poverty in our nation.
4. T-bag was very instrumental to the escape plan: He thought he was «ratting» them out of the escape plan but he did not know that his action was the very route to their escape. If Satan had known, he would not have killed Jesus Christ. It's very useless to quarrel with people no matter what they have done to you because you would eventually need them even when they seem to be hurting you. Whenever, I request a favor and I am turned down, I am always very happy (well, I don't show it to the person) because every «NO» means there is a potential «YES» somewhere else even better than the one I seek for. What you need is to see the big picture and you would see how the person characteristics fit to your overall plan.
5. Eventually, Michael had to sacrifice his life to save his wife and unborn baby. Now this is one of the most crucial lessons of them all. There is really nothing in this world that you cannot achieve or get, it just involves sacrifice. What do you want? What are you willing to sacrifice to get it? This is the bottom line of every true achievement. Okay, so many people want freedom but not so many people want to pay for it. Stop crying or worrying you need to do what is necessary to get it. It may involve working for FREE, paying for that training, working and allowing your boss get the glory, training 10 hours every day, etc. There is really nothing you cannot get in this world if you believe; that believe is solidified in your actions.
As we all seek to break out of our proverbial prisons, I hope these 5 life lessons I learnt from the Final Break would be useful to you. Have a fun filled week!
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9 months and 2 days ago
Hello Dipo,
It's sad to hear that you site was hacked. Well am glad that you're still in control of your site and that it's still functioning.
Thanks for the 'One Minute Millionaire' ebook, it's a wonderful book. Reading through it reminds me of 'Cracking The Millionaires Code' written by the same authors of the 'One Minute Millionaire'. Both books is a must read by all Christian Entrepreneurs.
Talking about movies, I've heard of Prison Break and 24. I will make out time to watch both movies. I don't watch movies a lot but there are some categories of movies i love watching. One of them is 'Smallville'.
Each time i watch it, it always done on me that we all are on earth for a special purpose. The main actors are: Clark Kent, Lana Lang, Chloe, Pete and the Luthors...The billionaire biz mogul in the town of 'Smallville', The Luthors are always business minded, and i love it.
I guess you or some of your commentators would have watched the complete season.
I wish you speed while trying to beef up
your blog Admin Password in order for hackers not to have a field day with your blog.
Have a splendid weekend.
Christian
9 months and 4 days ago
Although you have raised my expectation about the Final Break, i still wont mind watching it. The lessons are vital without doubt, i pray god will help us to pt into action all that we learn.
Two friends of mine are interested in the Electromate, i would appreciate if i could tell me how to get 2 more units.
Have a great week and God bless you.
9 months and 4 days ago
Welcome back. When I switched on my computer in the morning of June 9 as a tradition, I quickly went to your site and behold the message that this site has been hacked; I did not understand. I immediately switched off and rebooted. The heart of man is indeed desperately wicked, evil and devilish. If not how do one explain the fact that while people are busy building the wheel of progress and bettering the lives of others, humans somewhere will be fighting passionately to break the wheel. Why will someone destroy another in his quest to move to another level. The sky is such a large place that it can accommodate everyone. I always wonder if the length of time put in planning and executing evil could be geared towards doing good, the world would be better for it. No wonder Helen Keller said «Science may have found a cure for most evil; but it has found no cure for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings». God forbid that the devil and his cohorts would triumph and reap the labour of love of the sons of God. No way.
Your words of wisdom from The Final Break, are well noted. David Ambrose said «If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure». I must however congratulate your ingenuity and skill in blending the word of God from the Holy Bible in almost all your writings. It goes a long way in enhancing your relationship with God and the extent to which you are involved in the word and work of God. As you move on, consider the words of Apostle Paul in Phil. 3:13-14 – « Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those which are ahead. … I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus».
I will conclude with the following words as we wrestle out of the rat race:
Conrad Hilton said «I encourage boldness because the danger of seniority and pension plans tempt a young man to settle in rut named security rather than find his own rainbow».
George Bernard Shaw said «When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. So I did ten more work».
9 months and 4 days ago
Waoh!
Dipo your sites was burgled?
This is really bad, sorry about that...
Been a while since I breezed in anyway... hoping to see a better one.
cheers
xxx
9 months and 5 days ago
...the more the challenges solved,the stronger, of course,the better an authority you are ! Its just about seeking every minutest opportunity to untie every dredging knotty knots...simply the principle of needs satisfaction; i just realised that people respect us not because of how well dressed we are but by how much measure of needs we fufill..
Thanks bro! This is indeed worthwhile...
I missed the one-minute millionaire download deadline.How he go bi nw bros?
9 months and 5 days ago
aww!ur site was hacked?sorry!well said...learn the lessons...freedom is doing what u love to do because it is what you were made for but not every one is willing to pay the price.its expensive,very!
spot on dips.
9 months and 6 days ago
though i ve nt watch d concluding part but i love ur conclusion... i believe mysef dat one dont ve to cheat or rub ur fellow to get where u r destined to be in life....
we shld always bear at d back of mind dat wateva we want to achieved we will.... we only nid patience, perseverance and above all hardwrk
9 months and 6 days ago
Mine too was hacked. I guess Mr. Deolu Akinyemi's blog was also hacked. I guess it was a deliberate act from some people.
I have seen this too. I share some perspective with you.
Nice One...
9 months and 6 days ago
grateful dipo for the lessons. we learn every day even from very little things, life is a progressive journey where you solve riddles to move ahead.
thanks again.
balogun
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