15 amazing books you should add to your shelf

20 September 2021

I recently stumbled into these books and I think it will be really nice to share them with you guys. You should add them to your book shelf because I have already done that. Reading books is a habit everyone needs to cultivate and really hold on to. Without further ado, let me share with you the 15 amazing books you should add to your shelf now.

Firstly I will start with the Books by Austin Kleon:

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1. Steal like an artist

In this New York times bestseller, Austin Kleon presented 10 informative and very transformative principles that can help anyone discover their artistic nature and also help to make the person more creative. The book further shows how one can unlock creativity by stealing from those who are already into the same work or line of creativity. Don’t worry the book is not voluminous it can be read in a jiffy. I will advice you first read it once, then start reading it one chapter per day. So you will be able to digest all the information in it.

You can get this book from Amazon, Just Click Here to purchase this lovely book.

2. Show your work

This is another amazing book by Austin Kleon. It shows you how you can let people into your process. It goes further to show you how you can get discovered by just doing what you are passionate about.

I will advice you watch this short YouTube video clip by Ali Abdaal; which was where I got to learn about this lovely book and author.

I want you to focus more on the aspect of the book “SHOW YOUR WORK”. Listen to his own testimony of how the book changed his life.

3. Keep Going: 10 ways to stay creative in good times and bad

This is a book that provides 10 ways on how you can keep going after stealing from the community of those who have already started and also letting people into your process. It shows you how to stay creative, focused and true to yourself and true to life. You can check up the author’s website to get more insights and more information just click here .

The next author’s books I will be sharing with you is a Nigerian female author whose books are just so lovely they are:

4. The smart money woman

The cover of this book is lovely ( it was actually the first thing that attracted me to the book). This book presented it’s lessons with the aid of love and romance story; which made the book very interesting to read. Zuri and her friends were used to give us lessons on how to climb a financial ladder as a young African woman. It doesn’t mean that men cannot read it as well, but it focused more on how an African woman can gain financial freedom. With each chapter comes a smart money lesson to help tackle personal finance.

The book has also been made as movie series which is now showing on Netflix. Click Here to start watching.

5. The smart money tribe

This is the continuation of the love story and the lives of the five friends with more lessons on how to attain financial freedom. The book also portrayed how effective the collaborative power of women can be in building wealth. It shows how you can get paid in your workplace, how you can overcome adversities and how you can assess investment opportunities and build a business in Africa. The book throwed more light on friendship cycle, how friendship cycle plays a major role in the way we earn, spend and invest. Which made the author leave us with a question that I also want you to really think about ” Is your friendship cycle your money cycle”? .

This also, is on Amazon click here to purchase and start enjoying this lovely book.

6. Atomic Habits

Atomic Habit is the book for you if you want to change your old habits or if you want to create a new habit. This book gave the strategies one needs to transform his or her habit. You can always achieve this when, while reading the book you will be putting every step or process into practice. James Clear’s book, has also been confirmed by some renowned people. So, trust me when I say it’s part of the books you should add to your shelf. Click here to explore the author’s website.

7. No excuses: the power of self-discipline

After reading this book, I stopped giving excuses for my mistakes, laziness and procrastination. I started taking responsibility for my own mistake even when it was caused by someone else. This book made me understand that “there is an atom of my own fault in every mistake I make”. So instead of complaining and laying blames, I learnt to take responsibility.

The above video clip has said it all. ” Only the disciplined ones are free”. Do you want to be free? take that bold step today by buying this book, reading it and also practicing all the steps in it. Click here to purchase it on Amazon.

8. The prophet

This is a 26 prose poetry fable book by Kahlil Gibran. It discussed about every aspects of life. I first watched a short video of this book on Netflix and later went on to buy and read it. You can watch it on IMDb.

Even if you don’t like reading poem, I assure you will like this one. But trust when I say ‘it’s worth adding to your shelf’.

9. The alchemist

This book by Paulo Coelho is also a book that talked about life. There are two quotes I love from the book.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

There is only one way to learn…. it’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

I love this book a lot with all the lessons in it. It told a story of a young shepherd boy who was on a self-discovery journey, he was being taught so many lessons from the beginning to the end of his journey. You can’t afford to miss adding this book to your shelf.

10. Take the risk

Have you heard of the neurosurgeon’s breakthrough that brought hope where no hope existed? Well! meet Dr. Benjamin Carson, who gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head, an extremely complex and delicate operation that was five months of planning and twenty-two hours of actual surgery, involving a surgical plan that Carson helped initiate in 1987. This book talked about the risks Dr. Carson took in his career path and how you too can start taking risk.

Taking risk is a dreaded topic that no one likes talking about, even when some do, they don’t put it into action. One big question is “How many life do you have”? What’s the worst thing that can happen if you don’t take that risk? According to Carson there are four B/WA you should always consider when planning on taking a risk.

What’s keeping you from taking that risk that can lead to your breakthrough? I would love to hear it, if you are willing to share with me on the comment section below or in my email.

11. The 5 love languages

In this book, Gary Chapman listed and explained the 5 love languages that people speak. Do you want to know which love language you speak? Go and read this book to be more enlightened.

12. Act like a lady, Think like a man

Steve Harvey is a well known Tv presenter and a comedian and now an author. This book shows you how to act like a lady while thinking like a man. In it has the 90 days rules stated out to win your prince charming and how you will be able to identify a staying man from a one night man. There are questions that are stated in the book, that can help you identify them quickly even on your first date. Are you searching for love? Try and read this book if you haven’t already.

13. Surrounded by idiots

Thomas Erikson’s book showed the methods of understanding people around you, that will change how you interact with everyone from your coworkers to your spouse. When you read this book, you will learn how to relate with people around you and your environment.

14. Gut

This is a health book. Whenever you are reading other books from motivational books to novel make sure you read a health book as well so you will know how to stay healthy. Our ‘Gut’ is as important as our brain but we give more concern and care to the brain than the gut. When you read this book, you will learn a lot about how your gut works from the first process to the final stage of the process. A good book by Giulia Enders.

15. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus

John Gary believes that Men and Women are not from the same planet but came to settle in one planet that is why some of us don’t understand each other. But if we understand that we aren’t from same planet and therefore we need to study and learn each others ways of thinking, it will make things much easier. This book offers the secrets of communicating without conflicts , allowing couples to give intimacy every chance to grow.

It’s a book worth reading and adding to your shelf to aid your communication with the opposite sex and to make you have a long lasting relationship. For once you understand people’s ways of reasoning, it will make your relationship with them more easy going.

CONCLUSION

You won’t regret reading these 15 amazing books and it will be more beneficial to you, when you read and practice them. Which book will you start reading first from the list of 15 books I shared with you guys? I would love to hear which one you will start with and if you have read any, let me know what you think about the book as well in the comment section below.

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Ijeoma: Safe journey Part 2

Johellaa

23 August 2021

At school, I tried to be friendly with her and I sometimes studied with her after school. Sometimes after studies, she would invite me over to her place to spend some time before going home but I will decline. I kept on declining until our final exam.

After the exams, everyone was happy. We were all jubilant. It was our final exam as a high school student. While I was talking and dancing with joy like one who had just won a lottery, Ijeoma came to me and asked that I do her the last favor of visiting her house, because she was afraid I wouldn’t come again and we wouldn’t be spending much time again after that day.

I decided to let my guard down and went with her to her house. When we arrived her place, it was very calm. I asked after her parents and she told me they went to work but will be back shortly. She opted to offer me a drink but I declined. She persisted for few minutes and I succumbed and asked for a soft drink or juice.

She asked me to relax and feel at home, she switched on the television and gave me the remote and asked me to change it to any channel of my choice. When I changed to ‘the Johnson’ TV program on my favorite channel, she dashed into the kitchen.

Few minutes later, she came out with two glass cups and a bottle of juice. She poured some into my glass cup and then poured into hers too. I secretly waited for her to sip hers first before drinking mine. She suggested we should have a toast to success and to being a high school graduate, we clinked our glasses.

I sipped mine and it tasted so well and I continued drinking till I started feeling dizzy. I stopped and tried concentrating on the TV show but I dozed off.

I saw myself having sex in my dream and enjoying the way the girl was soft handling my penis. The way she put my penis in her mouth and start sucking it from the cap to the middle was fantastic. I enjoyed the way she put her two soft breast in my mouth for me to suck at the same time. The way I was fondling her breast gave me ecstatic pleasure. My penis slowly entered her vagina and started penetrating, firstly it was slow but steady and then roughly. In the dream it was as if I was the one doing the job. Then I started feeling pains in my penis and my head gradually started banging with pains.

When the pains were becoming unbearable, I slowly opened my eyes to see Ijeoma on top of my body with her legs widely spread in a sitting position; because I dozed off sitting down on their couch and my penis was halfway into her vagina.

That sight disgusted me and I pushed her away so hard that she hit her head on the book shelf in their sitting room. She had just deflowered me without my consent. When she regained her balance she quickly rushed to my side and knelt down, begging me to forgive her. I could see pangs of regret like sweat dripping down her body.

“She had just increased my hate for that name or word Ijeoma” I said to her and left immediately.

That word ‘Ijeoma’ has never been good to me and Ijeoma my classmate was the last person I ever gave a chance. I didn’t tell anyone about that incident but I made sure to stay very far away from her, her family and their house.

I hate that word ‘Ijeoma’ and will hate it till I die. We all have something we hate so much and that word is mine. Because there is nothing “Safe” about that word.

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Ijeoma: Safe Journey Part 1

Johellaa

22 August 2021

Growing up, I had never heard anyone bearing such name but I had already hated the name ‘Ijeoma’ before meeting anyone with that name.

When I was five years old, we traveled to the village to see our grandparents. Two days after we arrived, my dad had an emergency meeting he needed to attend to back in Ilorin. I watched my mother prepare and arrange everything for his departure the next day. I suddenly fell ill the night before he traveled. My grandma had tried persuading him not to travel but instead he should cancel the appointment and relax. She had warned him that my sudden illness might be a sign for him not to travel. ‘When any of my three siblings and I got sick before a journey is about to be made, grandma said it was a sign from God not to embark on such journey’.

Dad had ignored her and sternly insisted that he was going to attend the meeting. “It was his only chance of becoming a partner with the dog-eat-dog firm he worked with at Ilorin” he told grandma.

The next day I watched my mum wave at my dad together with my siblings and my grandparents with some of our cousins who had also returned for the Christmas holiday. My mother and grandmother kept shouting “Ijeoma” and waving at my father until he was out of sight. Ijeoma in my tribe means ‘safe journey’ but nothing was safe about my dad’s journey. The morning he left the village was the last time he returned alive. Few hours after he left the village, a call came in and my mother fainted. It was said that “Dad was involved in a ghastly accident”.

Was there something safe about his journey? Of course No!

I didn’t know I had grown with the trauma until my final year in high school when a new exchange student was brought to our class and was introduced as ‘Miss Ijeoma’. Immediately I heard her name I became very restless and I developed a strong hatred for her, even without knowing her.

Ijeoma was a beautiful, tall girl with a nice shape that every guy in my class loved. Everyone was so interested in making her their friend except me. From the moment she came into the class, she’s been staring at me and when the teacher asked her to choose any seat to sit down on, she chose the desk next to mine.

My classmates were all disappointed. I wasn’t the most handsome guy in my class but I was the most popular and the loquacious guy in my class. I would use my talks and jokes to confuse my classmates and sweet talk any of them into doing things for me. In my mind, ‘I was the strongest’.

Ijeoma was trying her best to be my friend but each time I was talking and cracking jokes and I sight her, I would quickly stop. We attended the same church; I never noticed her until she changed to my school. In one of the Sunday services, she brought her mother close to our car and introduced herself as my friend from school. My mother and her mother bonded from there and they quickly exchanged contacts and address.

They were the first to visit us the next Sunday and she tried her best to make me like her but I still hated her.

The hate was too much that my mother noticed it and asked me to be nice to her. That was when I started opening up and tried accepting her as a friend. Even though I opened my heart, I still tried not to get too close to her but to always keep my distance. But I was no longer bitter the way I used to, towards her.

The first time we went to their house, she told me lot of fun stories. I actually enjoyed all of them but didn’t really show her that I did.

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WHY YOU SHOULD VISIT THE ORPHANAGE NOW

Johellaa

20 August 2021

There are lots of benefits and reasons why you should visit the orphanage but the most important reason for doing that is to be human.

Yes! To be human.

Albert Schweitzer said “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others”.

And the bible said in James 1:27 “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.” As a religious person from any religion be it: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism it is written somewhere in there various scriptures on how visiting the orphans is a religious thing to do.

Visiting the orphanage can help change your perspective towards life, it can inspire you to become a better person

This feeling for me comes naturally when you visit the orphanage, you will see the other way of life. You will understand how lucky you are, how blessed you are to have found a place you call home and have people who you associate with and who are always there for you. It will make you understand that life is indeed deep.

An evidence of this was during my first year in higher institution I hosted a show, during the show I talked about how important it is for people to visit the orphanage. My classmates and I decided to make a group tour to the orphanage near our institution. After the visitation that day, some of my classmates turned a new leaf and some thanked me because it was actually their first time visiting the orphanage. They were so grateful and in their word “the orphanage has changed my perspective about life”. From that time onwards, some of them made it their task to visit the children there at least once in two months while some once in a month.

When we visited, we didn’t just go, gave them things and left but rather, we spent quality time with them: washed their clothes, swept the place and played with the children.

Visiting the orphanage will make you realize that materialistic things doesn’t give happiness

When you visit the children you will realize that some of them has so many things in their possession but yet they are not happy. Their happiness comes from the love you show them, the quality time you spend with them, the morals and values you impact in them while teaching them and how often you visit them.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwen

Visiting the orphanage reminds you how much blessing you have in your possession

Do you know that parents are blessing from God? Well! Some people don’t know how blessed they are to have people they call parent, to have a place they call home and people they call family. When you visit the children and see how they stay, how they feel when you are leaving them, the way they talk and wish they had parents, I promise you, if you don’t value your parents before, you must turn a new leaf.

Visiting the orphanage will show you the value of love

Some of us don’t believe there is something called love, love has been in existence long before we were born or even created. When you visit the children and see the love in their eyes, how they value and cherish your presence, you will no longer doubt the existence of love. That is if you don’t believe the scripture when it said “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son John 3:16” . You will learn the importance and value of love when you visit these children.

Visiting the orphanage will attract more blessings to you

God has a special likeness for the orphans, he fights for them and answers their prayers. When you visit these children, there are blessings that are attached to it and you will see those blessings in your life. I have been blessed by God and I assure you that you must be blessed like me when you go and visit the orphanage with an open mind.

Visit to an orphanage, increased the worth of life how bright is our life yet we are deprived. How dark are their nights yet they are satisfied. Prachi Dubey

Conclusion

My mother once told me that there are three ways one can help the orphans:

Telling people about the orphans and encouraging them to go and visit them
Going to visit them yourself
Making donations and helping them out.

With the above points of mine, I hope you will consider going to visit them soonest and if you have already started “THANK YOU” and please do not stop and please keep telling people about them.

If you don’t mind I would love to hear your own views about visiting the orphanage if you have visited them before and if you haven’t visited them yet, I would love to know when you intend visiting them in the comment section.

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Loving him part 2

Johellaa

25 July 2021

I wasn’t expecting my boyfriend that day. His coming back was supposed to be in two days’ time. With this in mind, I invited the new guy over to have dinner and maybe eat some of my cookie. I wanted to enjoy myself well before I give in to the master whom I am now a sex slave to.

He had just arrived and we were eating the delicious spaghetti with enough sardine that I had prepared, with orange juice just the way he liked it. We hadn’t even spent ten minutes eating, when we heard a knock on the door and I went to open it. Lo and behold, my boyfriend was standing there with his small backpack that he used for traveling. I was already sweating, thinking he will be seething with anger when he sees the new guy. But to my greatest surprise, when he entered and saw the new guy, they shook hands together and hugged each other the way that guys usually do with their close friends. I was confused. I was surprised. I couldn’t bring myself to ask if they knew each other. I just stood near the door looking at them. The next question made me lose my step and fell very hard to the floor. My boyfriend asked “How far? Have you eaten your own cookie?” By his own cookie he meant ‘if he has had sex with me’. I couldn’t believe my eyes and I couldn’t believe what I just heard.

I was still on the floor, so ashamed of myself. That I couldn’t stand up on my feet. I didn’t even have the courage to ask them why. When I managed to stand on my feet, I sat down on the nearest cushion in the living room. My boyfriend came to me and said “we had a bet, anyone that would be able to have sex with you, will win one million naira”. “I already won mine, so, he wanted to win his too, that was why he started coming close to you too and now he just received his own money last night”. Today was supposed to be the last time he would have sex with you but I spoilt his show for him.

Was this really happening to me or was it some kind of a movie? I couldn’t believe what I heard. My heart was so heavy and my eyes filled with tears but none was dropping. The tears were all stuck inside my eyes, making me blind for some minutes. I had to force myself to blink, so as to allow the tears to drop. And so, I could look them straight in the eyes and see if there was any emotion or feeling of regret. Their faces were normal. They looked happy. They looked like people who just succeeded in winning themselves a contract. The new guy somehow looked at me with pity. I could see through him that he was regretting what he did to me. He only showed me that pity when my boyfriend wasn’t looking his way. They continued laughing and took the glasses of wine and poured themselves the orange juice on the table, after toasting to their success, they gulped all the juice in the glasses at the same time. I was still seating down, looking at them with the hot tears that were dropping from my eyes. Right in front of me they called some girls and asked them to come to the apartment.

When they finished making their calls, they asked me to remove my clothes so they will have their final rounds. My boyfriend looked me in the eyes and said “he wants to have a threesome with me before I take my stinking self out of his house”. I was still in shock, when he roughly pulled me up, removed my clothes and pushed me down on the cushion that was close to me. I couldn’t remember what happened after the push but I found myself in the hospital the next day when I opened my eyes.

The doctor was the one that told me that, I had been raped and the gentleman that brought me there said he found me by the road side. I would later know that it was the new guy that brought me to the hospital after they had had their threesome. I had fainted when my boyfriend pushed me to the cushion. And he lied to the doctor that I was found by the road side. It was after two months later that I recovered from the bruises they inflicted on me.

After the first month, the doctor discovered I was pregnant and asked if I would want to keep it. My belief doesn’t support abortion but I know that I couldn’t live with such stigma. I was so sure I wouldn’t love that baby. So, I went against my belief and had an abortion. Two months after staying in the hospital, I was discharged and I left to my apartment, packed some important things and left.

Because I didn’t tell anyone what happened, so no one knew where I was not even my friends or family members. Because they destroyed my phone and everything in it. After I was discharged, I left that city to my home town. From where I travelled and relocated to another country. I didn’t press any charges against my boyfriend and the new guy. Neither did I tell anyone about my ordeal. I didn’t know the reason why but I just left everything to die down that way.

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Love, really taught me a big lesson. A lesson I will live to remember and will never forget. I am 40 years old now and still single, and haven’t had any relationship since then. I plan staying single till death takes me away. My family members and friends have grown tired of talking to me about marriage. I am very successful now, more than all the men in my company.

Few years later, I checked up on my boyfriend and the new guy to see how their lives had turned out. I discovered they had become very successful and was doing very well with their lives. I don’t know if they ever regretted their actions towards me but I never saw them since I relocated to another country till date.

Even though I tried so hard to be strong, I still remember that agonizing moment. I think it will live with me till I die. I cry heavily each time the memory comes rushing down. I guess that is the prize I have to pay to have been foolish.

I hate the sight of any man that wants to be sweet and romantic towards me. The only men I keep are those I do business with. I wouldn’t let myself be fooled and go through such pain again. Even though I know that all men are not the same. But I know they will forgive and understand my reasons of not wanting to open my heart again to any man; when I tell them my story.

People have been asking who will inherit all my wealth when I die since I don’t want to get married. “I will give all I have to my cousins, nieces and nephews and also to the orphanage foundation I am currently operating now”. This is my usual reply to their question about ‘inheritance’.

Sometimes I wished I didn’t experience that hard side of life. I wished I met someone who truly loved me and we ended up getting married and living happily ever after just like in the movies. But since it didn’t turn out that way. I will live my life the way I have planned it. I am still finding it difficult to forgive my boyfriend and the new guy but I hope that someday I will forgive them and finally move on.

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