U ARE INVITED FOR THE BEST

WHO you are will determine What you are...You can become all that you want to be in your creative works!

You need not be told but the truth is not far-fetched here. We are bringing to you another ONE; A Seminar that will give your creativity the juice it needs to become a success; and if you are already a success in that area of music, poetry, writing, performance and business of creativity.

We are bringing to you seasoned players in the industry to help you become all that your dreams, talents, aspirations are, with God's help and the understanding of the basic tenets of creative talent; we believe success is yours in every-way.

So join us as we PRESENT:

A ONE DAY EVENT / SEMINAR ONLY

THEME: OVERCOMING CREATIVE BURDENS
The focus of this seminar is to help you become all that you want and can be with your creativity so that you can become who you were made to be. This is the key to changing our creative world and a way out of the clogs of talents, where things/people are automatically drawn to you for the benefit of your life's assignment.

Why This Big Idea?
Inspired by the Nigerian and African youths as a whole who are fast growing with talents in different fields of arts and creativity namely: musicians, writers, poets, singers, dancers, etc. trying to make it in hope of becoming something and moving forward to help others out in the industry. The longing of our organization in creating this seminar/forum is to be a part of those who will help in bringing a smile to the faces of these young creative talents with/by any means possible, but through hard work, integrity & working to fulfill dreams and aspirations.

One session can change your life and creative business career forever. REGISTER NOW!

Date:
Satuday22th May 2010

Duration:
10am to 2pm (with a break)

Registration:
N500 per participant or N1, 000 (with info packs) payable at the venue or
by invoice to the organization (TreasuredOne Creative Ideas).

Venue: Achievers Court (RCCG Youth Church. 19, Shasha Road Ishiwo B/Stop Shasha, Egbeda, Akowonjo, Lagos.

How to Register:
Pre-registration required not later than Monday 17th of May. Text or email the word "CREATIVITY" with your name to the number or email address bellow you will then receive your reservation number and seminar details.

T: 07064670816, 08029195634 E: treasured1creativeideas@yahoo.com

You Will Learn:
1. Identifying and Nurturing Your Talents
2. The Art of Poetry for success Sen Ihenyen
3. Five traits to develop to be a success
4. Follow One Course Until Successful
5. Financing Your Creativity

Performances:
1. Poetry Recital
2. Musical Performance
3. Just Jokes & Networking
Gains
1. Discount on all books sold for everyone registering at the venue
2. 10% for the first 30 registration and Save the Poet Cause members on Facebook
3. Free Consultancy
4. Questions & Answers
5. And Lots More…
Host:
Salau O John
Poet, Author, Speaker & Publisher
Speakers: Expert Authors, Poets, Ministers, Speakers & Creative Business Professionals

Let The Holiday Ring With A New Sound!

For the holiday we are in, learn something new to help you out there!

The holidays can cause us to lose sight of the spirit of joy and peace of the season while rushing around with Easter preparation. We get stressed and sometimes angry while getting our homes ready to make the most important people in our lives happy on that special day.

Somehow that doesn't make too much sense. It's counterproductive to plan a successful holiday event or plan to attend one if you have to be angry or stressed before the "Big Day." My thought is to use Easter holiday preparation as a time to practice being at peace no matter what goes wrong or how much you have to do.

Besides the obvious tips such as prioritizing and not taking on too many activities or responsibilities, I thought I'd go a step further. I suggest we all use this Easter to become more patient, kind and loving to all – even to those who we find most irritating, such as a grumpy neighbor or the "know-it-all relative we try to avoid.

Taking on this challenge will develop in us a deeper character to not just get through difficult times but to think of them as challenges for improving how we appreciate the good in our lives and the joy of spreading kindness. Patience takes practice, so it won't do to say, "I've never had patience," or "I'm not a patient person," and then expect everyone to work around your determination to be quick to anger or to get frustrated. Be the one to smile and let things go.

Don't point out trivial behaviors in others that may not be acceptable to you, but are not really going to bring anyone harm. A smile and a kind look can dissipate trouble rather than a challenging remark that is guaranteed to begin trouble. Shifting to kindness after a heated moment of anger will set the tone for peace to be restored. I believe that small defining moments create who we really are.

If we care about others enough to think beyond our personal feelings, we'll not only be in control of our environment no matter where we are, but we'll always grow in the direction of successful patterns that will create what we desire to achieve. Practicing self-control is to have control! It makes us leaders, and tells others we're not small-minded, but large hearted and at the same time intelligent and wise. This amounts to respect and honor.

People will give you great blessings because you will be revered as a peace maker and a man or women who is fair and just. Let this Ester develop in you an attitude of looking at the negative sides of others from the point of view of a parent and true friend. They see the faults of their children, friends, yet they love them all the same. We can do this very thing with others. Instead of complaining that someone treated you mean, look at their actions as if they were a child and you are the adult.

Think about how that feels. Doesn't it give you a feeling of empowerment? Don't you feel very adult and in charge of the situation? Those feelings will not only bring successful results in the present, but they will create in you a feeling of confidence that you can make what you want to happen. Let your love so shine this Easter so that there will be no need to think about your daily resolutions. You'll already be in control to accomplish whatever it is that you want. Let it always be kindness first!

Till next time
Salau O John
Poet, Author, Coach & Publisher

MISSED THE DANCE

Going, going, always going; one day gone

When we’re missing the melodies of life

The process that is daily followed

One day the music will stand lit

Ambition, focus, the music of life neglected

The regrets of all undone in parts

The words unsaid and broken promises

Life caught in the oceans of art

The music stops, the rhythm of life dies

That of love makes the heart broken

Questions probes the world to fights

And no answer portrays to the living

Caging the heart breaking the mission

Dance to the rhythm of passion

And let the ambition flow with purpose

Just reverberate the lost days

Salau O John©

HARD TO COMPREHEND

The issues of the human minds

The throes of life in thinking

The thoughts propelled by different kinds

How on earth can man comprehend?

The thoughts of business and relationships

The bugs of heartbreaks and poverty

The back-turned human burning lordship

Who can comprehend these burning tides?

As the journey goes on differently here

The pangs of different connotations bout

Faces differ, only the best must care

Life only in sphere does exist

Our thoughts probes us daily

What we know is half boiled

Only learning keeps us here daily

As understanding birth peaceful progress

Salau O John©2010

Knowing Those Around You

Today,

Just some thought on friends and the thoughts propelled.

It's so amazing thinking about the knowledge we share and the people we think we know or don't really know.

Many times I hear people say if they only knew what those around them were thinking or who they are.

 Not as hard as most people think to tell what kind of people they are associating with. No, not hard at all for anyone that is even a little bit aware and alert to those around them. We all have the ability to know those around us, the challenge is most are too lazy to wake up and pay attention.

How many times have I heard the words from others and yes from my self "if I had only known?" Most of us do know subconsciously we just do not want to acknowledge it on a conscious level. People tell us all of the time who they are and what they are about we just are not listening to them.

When someone tells me that others are not listening to them I know the one not listening is them. When one tells me no one cares the uncaring one is this one. When someone is always talking about someone's lies they are most often involved in lies. When someone is always talking about the corruption of others it is sure they are the corrupt one.

Words, the power everyone is seeking is in words. The words we speak, the words we think as well as the words we receive.

Listening and its art thereof are among the most useful skills a person can learn. Allow me a few minutes with most anyone and I will tell you who they are. People tell me all of the time who they are and never even know it. The negative ones tell me how negative everyone they know is and how negative the world is.

The good ones are telling how nice and good everyone is and how well they are treated. What someone calls me or those around them is exactly what they are themselves.

It is amazing how transparent most people are with the words they use to describe others and the world they live in.

Listen, listen, listen this is the key to life. This is the reason we have two ears and one mouth. Yes my friends take the time to really listen and you too will know the world around you.

It is a big, beautiful world that wants only for you what you want for yourselves. Begin to program the world, the Universe and yourself by the words you are using for by your words will you receive.

Tell the world that money is not important to you and money will go to one that it is important to. Tell the world that you only want enough to get by and pay your bills with and that is exactly what is sent to you. Exactly what you ask for.

Begin to see the beauty in your world and let that world know that you expect only the best in everything as well as having an abundant life.

Were you aware that atonement is actually at-one-ment. That is right at-one-ment or in other words being at one with your world and those around us. If only our leaders could learn of at-one-ment. For that matter if only the churches would learn what atonement is all about. In all my years in the church I do not believe I ever heard a single minister explain atonement in this manner. For that matter most churches aren't at one with themselves much less others. If they were it would be a one world church, a one world government, a one world people.

We are all one and the sooner we find that out and begin to live it the sooner the hatred will stop. WE must become one with ourselves first, then with Spirit and then with those around us and finally with ALL people.

Now as I am one with all of you know that I Love and Believe in you.

Blessings,

COME HOME NOW

Here and there we go

Men in different shades flow

But there’s a call neglected

There’s a word sent out before

Come home now to live more

But the heart its course doth take

At the end, down we all break

How often will ego control humans?

How often will running bait men?

A faction is asking way home

Where are those not alone?

Come home come home today!

Even withered leaves mourning flay

For in dissipation loneliness comes depriving

Coming home lays men’s only approving

Salau O John© 

LONELY JOYOUS DAY

Caught in the euphoria of acceptance

Another day another month brewed

The heart thought of days of reliance

When love was always in the mind

My days are joyful in god today

Looking back He forgive no matter

As I become foolish wisdom He trays

I may be lonely but I’m not

I see love on every side but mine

For the earthly says goodbye not heavenly

One man says faith without believing line

And I’ll always be there is a fiction

The burden of a moment kills words

And the test of time impair judgment

It’s a lonely joyous day I sword

For my heart lays all above bare

Salau O John©

GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU...

Another day to ask you something here,

Got a question for you ...

How do you speak positively about EVERYTHING when things just aren't going so well at the moment?

 (And you DEFINITELY want to do that ... or keep getting more "not so good!")

Naturally, that's a question that comes up over and over in the minds of all creative people whom I have met, those who want to be positive AND truthful.

Here's a recent Q&A between two people I overheard

Question
"My understanding is that we should only talk and think about a situation in terms of ... how we want it to be, not about how it is.

"This means we should avoid complaining about what we don't like about a situation and focus on our CMI ["clear mental image" of what's desired].

   "Thing is, if we are currently experiencing a situation which is difficult, how can we say and think it is easy or positive without lying?


"I tend to catch myself thinking about how bad a situation is (analyzing it). Then I correct myself and refocus on the end result goal. The current reality is however pretty bad, so it's hard to ignore it. This is especially hard when interacting with the other people involved.

I remember being specifically instructs to only talk in the most positive terms about the situation.

"So if I'm stuck and someone asks, what should I say? That I am stuck or that it's ok?

"If I am talking to someone about a problem, should I say it is a problem or say it's all going to be all right?

"Because I feel like a bad salesman when I smile and am positive about something that is going badly wrong. And I feel that if people knew the truth from my perspective they would see me as a liar."

Answer
"Here's something that has helped me:

If someone asks you about a situation that is not going particularly well, instead of saying, "Things aren't so good," you can say...

'Things are going well! I'm currently working on (state your challenge/problem), and as a matter of fact, I could use your help!

"Human nature being what it is, people are more inclined to support people/things that are succeeding rather than things that are not. By using the above method, not only do you put your situation in a positive light, you also get buy-in and support from others! Hope this helps!"

That's all for today, my friend, but I've got a special little Friendly Update to send you in a day or two with a fantastic offer I've been working on telling you about. Just waiting for the right time because I want you to have time to read the post.

See you next time!

KEEP THAT PEACE

Happiness will wage the heart in success

The mouth will travel to broad subject

While the enemy stands idle in wickedness

Many do not understand failed future

Success calls on all to understanding

What should have been should have been

But open throat was that unrelenting

And not all that’s seen wants future

All are made in secret to tray

Half done is better before open trench

Life is but secretive to no delay

And only wisdom helps in fruition

Hold your peace till you succeed

Men waylays the plan they see

Stand aside the enemy will plead

But let not the mouth open undone

Salau O John©2010

 

NOT ME

My heart cries out for time

But the world calls me lazy

I tray that I know from prime

Yet they say I’m truly crazy

I know what I want but none

Yet I’m said to be blind

Why do men hate uncommon men?

I was created to be in line

I know I am not crazy

For like men I work too

I know I am not lazy

Better than you I’m tooled

The world stands afraid of me

Prayers they lay their panting

I understand but I’m free

Who can but please men?

Salau O John©2010

 

SOMETHING FROM THE PAST (LIFE CAN BE HARD - DON'T GIVE UP!

Just a quick note from the past.

It's hard to contend with life when all things seems as though you are alone in the world and you have so much gifts entrusted within. You hope and pray daily for help and change but nothing seems to work.

Today I was looking into one of my old diaries when I saw this letter I had written a long while ago, during the times when the ups were up and the downs were truly down.

I told myself, "there's a lesson or two here for someone, don't just throw it away, share it".

I just hope I am right out here.

So friends enjoy!

And don't give up, the storms can't take you far, it's for your greatness; life is merely just a lesson!

 LIFE CAN BE HARD - DON'T GIVE UP!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Hello to the world,

I feel my world is in a zest, I just could not understand what is wrong with me. Maybe I miss love, maybe my isolation. I pondered and wandered in my heart, mind for the fact of what is wrong with me. I have lost some part of me. Where is love; where is understanding; where do I stand? I can’t cry because I know I don’t belong here, I truly don’t belong where I stand for now. I have helped, hoped and seen many things, read many too; but this; it’s like dying to live. I love to sing, teach, write and help others out, but none of these moves me anymore, even the presence of my creator – my most cherished place in time! My heart is fretting, my life is dying – no friends no love to cope me out. I live in my own world, (being born and lived with many brothers and sisters) praying for someone who understands my plight.

Knowledge is lost within me, understanding fights each other, and wisdom prays to be birthed. I am not myself and the world feels to me like it as come to an idle state. I know my dreams, my goals, what I can do, but the whether it’s not favorable at all. Who believes in me, who understands me, but myself?  Life is so cruel and funny even when you lay your joys and hopes with believes in God!

I lace around in my mind, sitting, asking myself, truly, what is life all about? The answer probes me to cry out and bile.

I know what I want, what I want to do. I have walked in it before and was beyond happiness. Is this how it feels for those who have hanged or killed themselves in the past before they do? No love, no joy, no family, no friends, no dreams being fulfilled. They lose hope, lose their minds for living and gave up on the grievousness of man’s toils and lost dreams with love; it’s dangerous to be like this!

Man, life is not easy when you sit, watching the hands of the clock moving against you and your dreams.

I have loved making research, sharing my heart through writings, teaching, poetry and song lyrics, with speaking. I have burn out in many ways for others and I’ve been sidetracked in many ways, yet I am a forgiving furlong person. I don’t count hurts and I’ve been used, abused for becoming what God made me to be. What can I do? I feel like my life is in obscure darkness awaiting liberation through love from the world. The worse of all; I can’t feed my pocket aright, home and outside bade me let go. Where to go, I know; but are these things really possible in life? I have seen it possible, believed in it, accepted it, walked in it, but now I don’t know anymore.

The world (it’s hard to contend with), God, Jesus, Holy Spirit; I need help!

I can remember the year this was written, it's been a while truly but I thank God that this written piece helped me in a lot of ways as it was my best friend those days when nothing seems possible and I could not confide in anyone but prayers and God with my writings; Now I read them and laugh.

With this I believe and know, 'if I can make it out of everything I have passed and gone through, then it's easy for anyone and everyone to overcome their shadows (unseen, unknown future) in life.

All you need to do is be focused and understand that, " after the night comes the morning, after the storms of life comes the coolness of days, time, peace and love.

Peace to you my friends,

Salau O John (O.O.J)

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MY TIME TODAY

A life of preparation

A life of anticipation

Man must do it alright

Even when darkness is bright

Let the sun shine

Let the light shine

Soon everything will come

If only unrelenting you burn

Let the world break you

Let the enemies laugh you

All is but a season and time

If by standing you align

Troubles may brew and stare

Trials may come and bar

All is made growing to stand

If for now you are sound

Salau O John©2010

LET IT GO

Test the waters, test the roads

Let it go, leave it alone

That which belongs will hold

That which is not will be blown

Love is love if it stays

Though the heart may linger staying

Life must go on nothing swayed

Even when in heart life is praying

Let it move throw it away

Many days will roll but wait

Let men hurt you, be slayed

Many will party end your bait

Years will come to yours alive

Casting bread on the waters pay

Losing is gaining better in brief

Let go let God, nothing dismay

Salau O John©2010

Who U Gonna Call? God!

Hey,

I guess sometimes we all just need to find answers to our lives and the most grueling of life's troubles is solving problems and moving along with its solutions.

When we have a problem the first person we turn to is ourselves. We face up to the issues and try to find a solution. For the most, this is normally sufficient and we create independence by sorting out our own problems. It also helps in building self confidence and self esteem.

If a solution doesn't come forth through our own efforts then we normally turn to friends, family or a professional; an expert in the field in which our problem lies. Two heads are better than one so the saying goes, and particular with regards to the expert, their wealth of experience will usually guide us in the direction we need to go.

There are times though when despite our best efforts, despite the efforts of others, an answer to our problem doesn't seem to be readily available. For every problem there is a solution but when it just doesn't seem obvious "who are we gonna call?"

God.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. But when we have a deep rooted faith, God becomes our strength. We can face up to any challenge if we believe and trust that God will see us through.

So in the event of a crisis we have three levels at which we operate.

1. We look for the answers ourselves. We do a bit of research and apply the grey matter a little bit harder and if that fails we revert to plan 2.
2. We ask somebody. Hopefully there is an answer out there amongst the people we know.
3. Plan 3 is to ask God. By having faith, asking God for his help and being patient, the answer will come.

So what happens to those non-believers? What do they do when they get to level 3. Emotions normally take over. Panic and quite often depression, and when anybody gets to this state it can be a downward spiral. When negative emotions cloud thinking the problem becomes the sole focus of attention, blanketing any thoughts of a solution.

I once had a boss who would say to me "don't bring me problems, bring me solutions". Easier to do when God walks by our side and we can think positive thoughts. Nowhere near so easy when negative thoughts run through the mind.

When we have the joy of knowing Gods love, when we have absolute faith in God helping us to find the answers, we think positively and the solutions surely emerge.

Perhaps I should have added another level between 2 and 3. "If all else fails read the instructions". The bible.

How fantastic is that?

NO BAD SEED

Nothing is ever lost to givers

The world may derail the mind

Back to back we are learners

But the heart men must find

The whether is not favorable

Looking only derail the possible

And starting the seed breaks heart

Yet only those in, have the parts

You were made a seed but sow

Heart broken the light may blow

You are a seed giving made high

And dying comes first that light

A gift came to earth alive

But in resurrection death calls first

Dead or alive men must live

You are high and on that list

Salau O John©