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 HANDLING LIFE
CHALLENGES AND
CRISIS

The secret and power to stand firm and be

victorious in our daily lives

DANIEL PATRICK
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 Copyright
Handling Life Challenges and Crisis:
The power and secret to stand firm and be victorious in our daily
lives.

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 CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: Definition Of Challenges and Crisis
Chapter Two: Challenges and Crisis [Globally and Individually]
Chapter Three: Ways to Manage Challenges and Crisis
Chapter Four: The Principle of Management
Chapter Five: The Core Value Principle
Chapter Six: Rising Above Crisis
* Final Note
* Books by the author
* About the author
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 Preface
What would you do when everything you so much trusted collapses
before your very eyes? How do you know and prepare for a sudden change
in everything around you and your life? After a long time of much labor,
dedication, commitment, loyalty to your dreams and suddenly you are been
pushed to change the course of your life, how do you go about it? What
will you do when all your effort in life is taken away from you suddenly
when actually it is not the fault of your own. What will be your next step
when those you trusted and also the society or organization you trusted
suddenly turn their back on you without a reason, how would you cope
with that?

All the above questions and many more are actual situations I have
encountered in life and likewise when I counsel individuals who fell into
difficult situations just like me in their lives. One thing I want you to note
here is that each of the situations varies as individuals varies, but one
common factor is what linked them all and that is what I called or
everyone calls challenges and crisis.

Everyone of us has and will face different types of challenges and

crisis. These challenges and crisis are situations that we don’t expect or
actually planned for and we sincerely do not have a personal control.
Broken marriages, children out of wedlock, poverty, disappointment,
rejected by loved ones and so many that if we should put them down in
this book, it will take years to write them down, and that is to tell you that
they are numerous in number. So whatever your situation that you are
passing through now, they are all called challenges and crisis.

Living in this planet requires us to always expect the unexpected, and

also to prepare for them. Sincerely that is the nature of life. This book is
positively handcrafted through personal experiences and studies, to help
you possess the necessary emotional, mental, physical, psychological and
spiritual tools or materials to successfully and effectively move through the
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seasons of challenges and crisis and remain strong and victorious.

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Introduction
 People and the world are in crisis and it is now a norm to everyone
since they could not provide a solution or a way of overcoming, and again
in time past there was nothing as called global crisis but today it is what
we hear and read about day by day. Crisis that we see today resulted from
or began with the advent of the invention of radio, television, telephone,
computer and cyber space technology and so many others. All these
invention has affected the movement of people, the international
commerce and trade, migration and the immigration system, culture,
politics, religion and personal lives.

The reality that we see today is a clear fact that the circumstances,
events, changes in the social, economic, political and cultural environment
of a nation affects the well-being of its citizens and also others nations and
their citizens. The economy of different countries is by the day collapsing
and the citizens are losing their jobs, great depression falls on them, no
good performance in different homes and family and likewise the society.
Wars and recession has taken over nations, crime and terrorism has
become the news of the day on our television and people feel no more safe.
We see natural forces also threaten human welfare, humans are always in
some kind of challenge or crisis.

The purpose of this book is never to frighten you, nor to give you
details of a breaking news of what is happening in the world, nor to
bemoan the wretched state of the world. The purpose of thus handcrafted
book is to give you some practical principles and tools to overcome.
Overcoming challenges and crisis is not what you do on your own, you
need the overcomer who has overcome and has all the solutions to give
details on how to overcome and that is the reason for this book.

This book is also to make you walk according to the divine

principles of the kingdom of Heaven, and also become an overcomer in
any challenge or crisis. One thing you should know is that no one is free of
challenges and crisis but this book is promising you of a way to overcome
and become victorious in times of challenges or crisis. Now my question
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before we dive into the book properly, what are your challenges and crisis
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at this moment? Just take a deep breath, because you will be transformed
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through the pages of this book by turning your challenges or crisis into
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opportunities for growth and victory. With this mind lets’ get into the
book.

Much Love

Daniel Patrick

CHAPTER ONE
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DEFINITION OF CHALLENGES AND CRISIS

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 Many people have different definition of what challenges and crisis
is, but here we are going to see some definitions and explanations of the
word challenge s and crisis.

Challenges are matters relating to your feelings, relationship and

health. We sometimes get the meaning of the word wrongly and I will use
different examples to explain what challenge is all about. Let’s take an
example of a person having stomach ache that makes him/her to be unease
but it doesn’t stop you from doing anything but actually you are feeling the
uneasiness, it is called a challenge. A challenge has no power to stop you
from any activity, it only dares you and gives you concern but not to break
or stop you from anything.

Challenges are actually to the advantage of a person, you might ask

how can a challenge be an advantage to a person, for example the stomach
ache issue might be a sign of the person not eating properly, wrong time of
eating, indigestion and so on, so it helps to make you understand that there
is something that is wrong which needs to be corrected. Challenges are
meant for personal growth and self-development, it is an opportunity really
but many do not understand.

The main goal of challenges is that you us e what you have learnt to
become a better person and I would say that challenges are good and must
be expected. Experience comes from challenges, it makes you wiser and
stronger, it molds you as you grow. I know that we as humans always want
a life without challenge but in so doing we always miss the track and take
challenges in a wrong way. I have discovered in life that challenge makes
you to do something that ordinarily you will not do, or you might do them
but without proper attention and they are namely;

 Taking care of Yourself: We are so occupied with making live

favorable for us and we easily forget about good care of ourselves,
and that is why challenges concerning your health comes in for us
to remember that you need to take good care of yourself. Some
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 health challenges. Challenges helps to bring our senses back and
practice proper taking care of ourselves.
 How to Act: Challenges makes you to choose how to act in certain
things in life. We all say that we are free but the truth is that we are
not free to misbehave, learn to behave yourself or challenges will
teach you on how to behave yourself.
 Calmness: Calmness is been peaceful, quiet and free from anger
and anxiety. Majority of us humans are in this category, there is no
peace and quietness in us, we are always angry at every little thing,
anxious about things. I can tell you from experience that challenges
can help you out, it breaks you and remold you. For example, a
very angry person can easily loose his/her job as a result of anger,
challenges will teach him/her a lesson that he/she needs to learn. It
also applies to every area of life.
 Step by Step: Success is not in a hurry and living a prosperous life
is step by step. We live in the era called the Jet age and if you jet
age your life, challenges has a way of returning you to the
beginning so that you can move step by step, when you don’t obey
it, it will result to crisis and finally if not properly managed it ends
in death. Please in everything you do, go step by step, even God did
not create the heavens and earth and everything in it in just one
day, it took Him six days. Don’t be in a hurry to an early grave,
please ignore those that tell that you are lacking behind or too slow,
please go step by step.
 Perseverance: This word simply means, for you to continue in a
course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or
previous failure. When you want to end up been successful in life,
you must persevere and not be tired. For example, you want to own
your personal building and somehow things are not moving as you
expected them to be or planned, it is only perseverance that can
brings about a solution, but when you shy away from the
responsibility, you will end up not having that building and will
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  Creativity: I simply define creativity as doing, or thinking of
something in a way that has not been done before. When things are
in order and moving smoothly, creativity is never born but when
challenges set in, it pushes us from our comfort zone and at this
point, we look for a way out of that challenge or crisis. In the
process of looking for a solution, creativity is born. In our society
today, we see that as a result of lack of money, many became
creative on their own, I have discovered that creativity is usually
activated under the atmosphere of challenges which also brings in
determination.
 Humility: Challenges makes you to be humble, it forces men and
women to learn what is called humility. Naturally, humans are
always proud but challenges helps to humble them. A question for
you, is challenges or crisis good or bad?
 Draw Strength from Others: Many people feel that they are ok for
themselves and need nobody. But challenges makes them to depend
on others and also draw strength, that is encouragement from
others. I said in one of my books that we humans are created for
connection and so we need each other.
 Focus: Challenges helps you to be focused and how does that
happen, it makes you to dig deep into the particular situation and
help you to concentrate on one direction. Many people are actually
not focused in anything and you see them not been successful in
life. Focus is an essential criteria for success.
 Amplify your Achievement: Challenges helps to add more content
or particulars to your achievement in life. It gives you more
experience and also when properly used helps in bringing you to a
greater level of success.

Now from all these points that we have seen, can we say that challenges
are good or bad? Is a question that needs an answer. Remember that
challenges are matters relating to your feelings, relationship and health.
Challenges are not there to kill you but to make you. What is then crisis?
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We have been talking about challenges and why this book is talking about
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 Crisis is an unexpected event or series of events in a person’s life or in a
society that prevents or stops a person or the society from participating in
any activity. Crisis causes a shift, a different direction, lost, trauma, and it
is always unexpected. Crisis are what you don’t expect, they come at their
own time but the truth is that you can manage and avoid them, that is the
major reason for this book.

Today we have climate change as a crisis in the world, recession and

many others and is affecting the wellbeing of every human on this planet.
Quickly I want to open our eyes to something that probably is taken for
granted. Crisis bring about two things and I will briefly explain each.

 Resilience: The word resilience means focusing on opportunities.

Crisis makes about opportunities. The Japanese call crisis or the
word crisis in Japanese is “WEIJI”, this word has two meaning and
that is danger and opportunity. Crisis is danger that brings about
opportunities, when you actually focus on opportunities during
crisis, it brings you to my next point.
 Resolve: This actually means solution or freedom. Crisis ends in
freedom, if the opportunities in that danger is seen and used
properly.

There are stages within crisis that we ought to know, and it will help us to
actually rise above any crisis that wants to affect our lives and the society.
One of the problems of humans and the society in general is ignorance and
even when they know, they ignore it until they are face with challenges
and crisis. So now lets’ see the stages within crisis;

 Warning: Before any crisis, there is always a warning that occurs it

shows to you a sign of an upcoming crisis and mostly it starts with
a challenge and when not properly managed it results to a crisis, so
we should always look out for signs and be careful to understand
them.
 Risk Management: After warning, there is or there would be an
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overall identification of the risk that the crisis will cause and the
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  Response: This is the time of acting, reacting to that sign. These
points am giving to you are also ways of rising above crisis. Act on
time to avoid disaster.
 Management: We are going to discuss on management as a chapter
and so there will be more insights right in that chapter.
Management is how you should organize things to avoid more
disaster if the crisis has occurred, but in the single chapter I talked
about, we are going to see the meaning of the word management,
here we just saw the meaning based on what we are discussing here.
 Resolution: This is the time of resolving or settling the crisis, I said
before that crisis brings us to resilience and resolve. This is the
solution time after following the previous steps.
 Recovery: Recovery is not a time to relax and say it is over, it is a
time to grow up and learn from the crisis likewise putting what you
have learnt into practice.

Apparently, we have gone through what is a challenge and crisis and I

believe you have gotten a glimpse or insight of what this book is all about.
Continue reading because you will never be disappointed. D
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 CHAPTER TWO
CHALLENGES AND CRISIS (GLOBALLY
AND INDIVIDUALLY)
We have talked about challenges and crisis (definition) in the previous
chapter. In this chapter, we are going to see how challenges and crisis
affects the individual and the society (globally), you might not get all the
points here but surely some reasonable and confirmed areas that affects the
individual and the society. Likewise, in this chapter, solutions to each of
the challenges and crisis affecting an individual and the society will be
outline.
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found out from these two categories of persons is that the matured one will
have peace in the face of crisis and challenges while the other will be with
fear.

Crisis and challenges always give you a review lesson just as I said in
the previous chapter. Really, money cannot remove challenges and crisis,
when you rely on money it will not save you from it, but it will disappoint
you. I have said that challenges and crisis helps you to grow and become
stronger, so align yourself with your creator. Challenges and crisis actually
forces you to become humble and learn things sometimes in a hard way if
you are stubborn. The sweeping off from the floor of many people when
they face challenges and crisis is a result of fear and not learning. Simply
for these reasons I will open your eyes to how challenges and crisis affects
individual and the society, also exploring each one in a little more details

A. PERSONAL CHALLENGES AND CRISIS

When there are situations that affects your feelings, relationship,

health, finance and so on and likewise bring you to an end (that is stopping
you from participating in any activity) as an individual, is personal
challenges and crisis. One of the greatest problems of humans is, trying to
ignore what is real or true and by so doing, they believe they can overcome
challenges and crisis that comes or will come into their lives.

To overcome or become victorious and strong during personal

challenges and crisis, there are some few points that we are going to
consider and they are:

i. Preparation: Every athlete that wants to win in sports must have time
to prepare or get ready. A soldier never goes into a battle and start learning
how to shoot or the dynamics of war. Humans naturally always refused to
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prepare and some look at it as a burden to them, likewise others will say
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unsuccessful person is that one is prepare to face the storm that will come
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along while the other is never prepared but hoping. Scriptures says that a
man built his house on the sand and when the storm comes, it destroys the
house and another built his house on a solid rock that when the storm
comes, it cannot destroy the house, so likewise it is for those who prepare
and those who do not prepare. When you prepare for the unseen, you
would have stamina to overcome but when you don’t prepare, you will be
sweep off the ground. Before any storm of life, there are always signs that
surfaces but we usually ignore those signs and eventually they later bounce
on us. These signs are not only in your business but even in your
relationship, marriage, attitude and little areas of our lives that we don’t
take to heart. How can I prepare or get myself prepared for challenges and
crisis and again why must I prepare? Are challenges and crisis bound to
be? Lets’ answer the questions, but first the last two before the first. The
reason you should prepare for challenges and crisis to overcome and
become victorious over the storms of life. Challenges and crisis are bound
to be because it is certain and it is written that the days of man is full of
trouble, but it takes someone walking with the creator of the heaven and
earth and also obeying these divine principles to overcome. It is written
that woe to the earth and the very day I read that from the scriptures, it
changed my thinking. So how do we prepare ourselves for challenges and
crisis?
* Acquire Knowledge: My people perish for lack of knowledge, Daniel
understood by books. These are notable verses that can change your life if
you will. Ignorance is as result of lack of knowledge and many are
perishing for this lack. For you to be prepared for any challenge or crisis
that will come your way you must acquire knowledge, go to past events,
research on records. Nothing is new, everything is reoccurring and it takes
someone with knowledge to make an impact. Get books, study yourself,
study the environment and you will notice that the challenges that just hit
you is part of the life we are living. It is for you to choose your way of
escape and that is the reason for this book.
* Practice Self-Care: I have discovered that though because of lack of
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overcome health challenges and crisis, though we always ignore it or look
down on it, proper dieting is also part of it. Building healthy relationships
is a backbone that can save you in times of crisis, there are nations that has
passed through terrible crisis and went through to the end not been harmed
due to healthy relationship with other nations. Note this that nobody is an
island and no one person can make great impact, likewise no one person
can handle challenges and crisis alone and be victorious. You need God
and fellow humans to be there for you, so it is very important to build good
relationships.
* Have Savings: Today generation has a very negative attitude and that is
spending lasciviously and forgetting their tomorrow. Challenges and crisis
can be manage through the principles of management, which we are going
to talk about later in this book. You must learn to save for the future,
savings helps you to have a strong foundation and takes away challenges
easily.
* Be Focus: I talked about been focused in chapter one of this book, and
how it helps us to concentrate and dig deep about a particular situation.
Focus can help you in your personal challenges and crisis through
examining yourself, strengthening of areas that are lacking, looking at
responses or feedbacks from others concerning a thing been done. When
you are focused in these areas mentioned, you will be able to identify any
challenges or crisis and also know how to overcome thoroughly.
ii. Adjustment: This is one of the areas that many found so difficult to go
through just because they are tied down to a particular norm and it is hard
for them to adjust to changes. It is said that the only constant thing is
change and I will say that the only constant thing is a continuous change.
You must make necessary adjustments when challenges or crisis is been
experienced by you or those around you. In making necessary adjustment,
there are points that you need to consider and that is, you must be
reasonable, acknowledge other’s weakness, stop actively searching for
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faults.
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* Been Reasonable: As a person, you must learn to be fair and not rigid or
going beyond what could be expected or asked for. Don’t contradict things
but quietly and logically look into things and provide a solution to them.
* Acknowledge Others Weakness: You must be considerate, don’t be that
person that is a perfectionist and feel everybody must think like you in
everything. Respect others opinion and weaknesses, when you are
opportune to help, help in love.
* Stop Searching For Faults: When making adjustments, don’t point a
finger at anybody but seek solutions. Those that look for faults never and
have never succeeded in life, they keep running round a circle.
Now what are those things we must do to be able to make necessary
adjustment in any situation in life. Remember I said at the beginning of
this book that I am promising you a way out or ways to overcome and
become victorious in your daily lives. These are the necessary adjustments
that is needed:
 Maturity in Thinking: You must be mature in mind, this is where
reasoning, wisdom is brought into play. Apply the knowledge you
have gotten and let it sail you through the process of adjustment.
 Emotional Balance: This is simply a state of being aware of our
emotions enough to manage them in a way that is gentle, honest and
wise. When your mind is properly trained just like I mentioned
earlier and emotional intelligence is added, then you will have an
emotional balance. This helps you to be calm and stable in front of
challenges and crisis. Do you know that challenges and crisis get
weaker when you are bold to face them.
 Warm Understanding towards Others: You must be warm and have
a good understanding towards others. This helps to destroy negative
thinking easily.
 Free from Tension Due To Routine Events: Learn to free yourself
from tension due to any daily routine events. If you cannot do them,
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  Independent in Decision-Making: Make decisions personally on
your own and don’t depend on others to make or decide for you on
some valuable or sensitive issues.
With all these few points, it is clear that you are to make adjustment
whenever you are face with challenges and crisis.
iii. Learning: The word learning is not as many will take it to be as going
to a classroom or lecture hall to receive teachings but it is the
understanding and knowing of the lessons that you are to get from any
challenge or crisis that you are involved in. A quote by Napoleon Hills
says “Every challenge comes clothed with seeds of equal or greater
benefits”. Every challenge that we see or face today has some benefits, just
like what I said previously in this book that crisis from the Japanese
meaning is WEIJI which means danger and opportunity. So challenges and
crisis creates an avenue for opportunity and that is what Napoleon meant
by his definition. You must understand that for you to be able to learn from
any challenge or crisis, you must have a teachable spirit and be submissive
or humble.

Don’t be that person who feels he/she knows all and also learn to be
calm within yourself to know the lessons you need to learn in any
challenge or crisis. There are things you can do to be able to learn fast and
manage your situation.

 Read Books: It is said that if you want to hide anything from a

person, put it in a book. Reading of books helps you to gather
knowledge.
 Go For Seminar: People are always afraid of going for seminars
just because of the finance involved, thereby loosing a lot of
information that are to be of a benefit to them. During seminars,
you meet people of like mind, those that have overcome and you
are very much opportune to ask questions. Seminar broadens your
mentality and gives you the courage to face any challenge or crisis.
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 your backbone to help you and you will also get reasonable
direction from those relationships. I will say that when you want to
build a relationship, build it with those that can mentor you not
those that can melt you.
 Be Original or Authentic: Many live a fake life and it destroys them
later. Fake life is only temporary and with time make people not to
trust in you, it also make the person who is living that fake life to
resist learning.
 Take Things Serious: Don’t play with what matters in your life.
You must take note of everything and it will help you to learn
faster.

Learning does not stop, even when you are old you keep learning. My
people perish for lack of knowledge means my people are not ready to
learn. A scripture says that “The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the
learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is
weary: he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned”. This is a clear
summary of what learning can do, you must always learn because it helps
in life.

iv. Planning: I know that this point will look strange and confusing, but
planning is the only way to overcome reoccurring challenges and crisis.
After preparation, making adjustment and learning all the lessons that you
need to learn, then you have to plan. A person who wants to be successful
in life must plan to be, likewise if you want to fail you will also plan to do
so. Planning is in two ways, either you fail to plan which is refusing to set
out things or you plan to succeed by determination and doing that which is
needed to success.

Every great person that have overcome challenges and crisis that I
know has in one way or the other plan their success. Planning is the act of
putting together set of intended actions through which one is expected to
achieve a goal. A goal in this case is to become an overcomer in every area
of life and there are four areas that we are to consider for a person to plan
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  Build Financial Stand: Always plan your finances, some of us do
not have a financial stand. We eat everything and don’t even have a
saving or investment that can be a backbone for us whenever we are
faced with financial issues. Financial stand could be a business,
which can stand as a source of income to you and a great help
during any challenge or crisis.
 Have Reserves: Learn to save for the future because it helps a lot,
don’t eat everything and eat your future. I taught on a topic which is
titled money and I said that money always run from those that
refuses to invest it or make good use of it. Your reserve can be an
investment, which is not to be touched but for future use.
 Social Stand: A social stand can be your neighbors, colleagues
around your community. You have to be a friendly person, don’t
gossip or condemning people, be sociable and associate with others,
so whenever you have a challenge or crisis people can be of a help
to you.
 Relationship Stand: Build healthy relationship that will last long not
unhealthy or gossiping group.

B. SOCIO-ECONOMICAL CHALLENGES AND CRISIS.

What is the meaning of the word socio-economical challenges and

crisis? These are factors that have negative influence on an economic or
society, which includes: lack of education, cultural and religious
discrimination, overpopulation, unemployment, corruption and poverty.

In our society today, many things are affecting individuals living in it.
There are three things that are constant and cannot be changed and
whenever they are changed or tampered with, crisis occurs. They are
humans- in our society today, humans wants to change their physical
appearance, genital organs which is causing confusion everywhere, the
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way you and I were created should not be changed whether color, genitals,
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shape and so on. The second one is nature- do you know that humans
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always change nature from its original state, so we always encounter series
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of disasters, for example when someone tries to block the passage of water
flowing from a source just like a river flowing from its source through a
particular place to a different location and you put up your building in that
position that the water flows through, you will end up loosing that building
after sometime. Nature is nature and should be maintained not changed or
destroyed. The third one is God and the spiritual realm- if am to write on
this point, it will result to another book but a glimpse of it is that today we
see different religion that are looking for a perfect way to reach the
spiritual realm and communicate with God, that is what is bringing the
confusion and discrimination everywhere in religion.

With these three points, we are going to see areas that are socio-
economic challenges and crisis and the solutions. Remember solution will
not come from the east or west but the solution is you reading this book.

i. Lack of Education: The word education might have different meaning to

you and different people and scholar has their different definition.
Education to me is drawing out that which is inside of a person, and that
which is inside of a person is the inbuilt purpose, talents, dreams. I don’t
see education as the classroom or lecture hall because we can get whatever
that is done in those lecture hall outside there, am going to change your
thinking pattern now about what education is all about. Every human being
right on this earth is a seed and you might ask why a seed, it is because we
are meant to be fruitful, then multiply, replenish, subdue and have
dominion over the earth and that is the attribute of a seed.

Education is a way of drawing out that seed and give it a right

environment to be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue and dominate.
Education is not school but an environment where culture, values, morals,
principles, beliefs, authority and conviction is been transmitted. When this
is not done, then there is what we call lack of education. The society needs
culture, values, morals, principles, beliefs, authority and conviction
because it brings to the society a good atmosphere of socialization,
civilization, identification, accommodation, preservation, accountability,
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principles are been transmitted before it comes to the lecture halls that is so
thought that is the place of education. What those lecture halls does is just
to build on what the family has done, so if the family has not done their
work well then the lecturers or teachers will not be able to do anything
than to pass out a finishing touch on what is supposed to be done by the
family. When we talk about lack of education, it is not the infrastructure,
awareness and others, which are also important but primarily you should
back to the training from the family.

The government cannot and will not train your children for you, please
we should take note of that. The family is to do the work and the
government or society is to build on what you have done just like the
school and when the family fails, the society suffers. The only solution to
lack of education is the family and I have explained that for your
understanding, when the family have their part then the government can
actualize their projects of infrastructures, awareness, support for poor
families and moral tolerance.

ii. Cultural and Religious Discrimination: This is one of the hidden but
dangerous area that affects a society and even the individual.

It destroys a nation and even causes war, though many have not seen it
in this form. Diversity of culture in a society or nation without proper
understanding can cause war and enemies. Religious discrimination is a
secret killer , this is where you see those that call themselves leaders
criticizing another leader, I wonder sometimes if it was the same God that
call them or a different God which I know nothing about. These two areas
creates enemies, wars, and different disaster in a society, we have talked
about the family been the bedrock to the progress and success of the
society. Here we are going to look at the solution to this challenge and
crisis in our society, I did a teaching on been religious or kingdom minded
and explained some few things there.
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lack of restriction, been accessible, accommodating as in respect
to ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences
and so on. The Greek word for openness is been translated as
quality of character, when you want to know the quality of
character of a person, you have to check how open is the person.
The Hebrew word for openness is been translated as stability,
when you are open, you are stable. I decided to show us the
Greek and Hebrew translated word for openness. Every culture
and religious organization that wants growth must learn to be
open and not to be strict and rigid. Remember openness is not to
allow what is not supposed to be to come in but to accommodate
any idea, belief, people, behavior, experience. In been open, you
will learn a lot of things that can really change your ideas and life
in general. Don’t be that person that is tagged or called I know
all, humility is openness and when you are open, you are saying I
can’t be limited to my own mentality.

 Vitalize: This word means to give life to something. To

overcome cultural and religious discrimination, you must be
ready to be open and stretch out yourself to give life to the
society. This means exhibiting your talent without restriction and
not in a competitive, way but to help each other. Two persons
with like mind can create an influence in the society that will
transform the society, two or more ministers of the gospel not
minding their background or church doctrine can team up
together and create an everlasting impact on the society.
Vitalizing is a good way to help a society.

When these two points which I have given are put in place, then cultural
and religious discrimination will be solved and we will have a wonderful
society, likewise it will help to overcome any challenge or crisis.

iii. Overpopulation and Unemployment: Overpopulation and

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solution that I have found as an everlasting solution to this challenges or
crisis of overpopulation and unemployment. Have you heard of the word
paradox, it is an apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be
true if it is false and vice versa. A paradox is a statement that turns out to
become true at the end. When the society knows that, it is a true statement
that there must be overpopulation and unemployment no matter what the
society does. There can be a solution to overpopulation and unemployment
and it will drive the society to what is called Management.

Management is one of the areas that I have seen that has been
underestimated and it is one of the bedrock of great success. What is
management? Management is the judicious use of means to accomplish an
end. In our society, funds, resources are been mismanaged and when the
society is faced with challenges or crisis of overpopulation and
unemployment they found it difficult to tackle the issues and it leads the
society to disaster. In my book “An Entrusted Leadership” I took time to
explain management, it is the only solution that I have discovered to
overcome overpopulation and unemployment.

iv. Corruption: The attitude of selfishness is the bedrock of corruption.

Corruption is a deadly disease that can kill instantly I mean it is now. It

crumbles a nation and put it into crisis that cannot be easily overcome, so
how do we then stop this corruption? Corruption starts from the home and
that is where we should go first for solution. I see corruption as perversion
and the word perversion is simply twisting the sense of values or morals. If
you can remember, I said that the family is to transmit values and
education is a place of transmitting values. So how does corruption starts,
it starts with selfishness and selfishness simply means been centralized.
When only one person wants to own all, selfishness is the persons’ name.

Selfishness does not allow for openness or vitalization. Corruption can

diminished with the family doing their job, so that when the young ones
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you will feel the pain or suffering of the people. Emotions and
feelings are transmitted through an open heart that is ready to
listen. When you listen, respect others and their opinions.

 Open Hand for Control: There must be an open hand for control.
What I mean here is that, you must be ready to give opportunity
to others to exhibit their talents or office. And whenever you are
no more in position, don’t try to control those in position but be a
good servant-leader, that your respect and dignity will be
sustained.

 Learn to Share: Giving is a good virtue that helps to disarm

corruption. As a leader in position, learn to share with others, not
your immediate cabinet alone but everybody, give opportunities,
loans, and share labor too.

iv. Poverty: Poverty is define as the state or condition in which a

person or people lack the means to satisfy their needs.

Poverty is said to be the lack of finance and possessions, not meeting

your basic needs. The short rate of economic development causes poverty
in a nation. I am not saying that all these definitions are wrong but I have a
simple definition of what poverty is. Poverty to me is the absence of value.
Value is the purpose of an individual or society, and value is what brings
about economy development, when a society begins to a solution to its
citizens and the other nations in the world, it value brings about money
which take away the poverty standard of the people to the standard of
abundance and sustainance.

When the society lacks value or purpose, it results to low or no rate of

economy development. Value is the worth of a person or society, value is
the vision that distinguishes a person from another person, so it is with the
society or nation. An example is this, if a country is focused on medicine
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we have a problem, which has eaten up the society and that is corruption
with corrupt leaders.

Money is attracted to value and vice versa, when you know your
value, wealth will be attracted to you. After knowing your value as a
nation or society then you have to apply the principles of management and
we are going to see a clearer explain in subsequent chapter ahead.

C. MARITAL CHALLENGES AND CRISIS

Marital here is referring to marriage or matrimony. Through the years we

have seen increase and we are still seeing the increase in marital challenges
and crisis. Many marriages are breaking off, divorce is on the high side, I
wrote a book titled “Marriage and Purpose” and I said in that book that
marriage must draw its strength from the source of marriage and I know
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marriage is God and not anything else, please is a book you need to get as
it will help you to overcome some challenges and crisis that we see today
in marriages.

When you the understanding of a particular thing, it is hard for you to

make progress and you always found yourself moving in one circle, though
you might be seeing changes but actually they are what I call dreams.
Today it is said that love is the primary criteria for marriage but I don’t
agree with that because you can love a particular person and don’t marry
that person, example is a mother and a child, a mother that loves the child
so much cannot use because of how much she loves the child to marry
him, so love is not primary criteria for marriage. Love is what completes
marriage and marital challenges and crisis can only be solved if we return
back to the owner or source of marriage. There are four points that am
going to share with you in this section on how to overcome marital
challenges and crisis, I really found them so wonderful and I encourage
you to go through them.

 Purpose: Purpose is what you are created for. In my book “The

Original Plan For Marriage”, I said clearly there that marriage is
like two parallel lines that have the same destination and they
meet together to form a great circle that can move faster to that
destination. When both parties know the reason why they were
created, it reduces or wipe away challenges and crisis. Purpose is
the first solution to marital challenges and crisis and you might
ask how can this solve marital challenges and crisis, it is only
when they are focused and determined to work together to
achieve their goals.
Where there is no purpose, there is always confusion and that
brings marital challenges and crisis. There is a saying that an idle
man is the devils workshop. Every idle person is always a
confused and angry man, sexual immorality, divorce, beating,
fighting, quarrelling, usually is as a result of where there is no
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all about, they have no idea of how to live with a man or with a
woman, they don’t take time to know about dislikes and likes and
at the end they end in a total mess. Knowledge helps you to know
your next move and diminishes unnecessary arguments.
 Understanding: This is the comprehending or process of getting
to finalize what information or facts that you have gathered. This
is where many have problem and keep having problems. After
gathering information or facts about what you are about to enter,
you will have to understand or comprehend and that is, you have
to analyze what you have gotten, take in what is right and put
away that which is wrong and see to the details of each for
clarity.
Many couples having marital challenges and crisis today, got
to this level and stop because they were not patient enough to see
to the details for clarity and take the right from the wrong,
likewise this also affect those going into marriage newly, they
always find it difficult to understand and you will always this
particular statements from them- I love him so much but I don’t
what happened, you were in love.
 Wisdom: Wisdom is the application of what you have
comprehended. Wisdom is the final result and that is when
people begin to see your actions. So when you see the actions of
people concerning a particular matter, know clearly that it is the
result of the information they gathered, and how they took to the
details for clarity. Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom are
the first essential to a successful marriage. Wisdom builds a
house or home but foolishness destroys it down and it is seen
mostly in the tongue.

With these points you can overcome marital challenges and crisis, it also
helps in choosing your life partner.
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Growth is what everyone needs and it is something that is mostly

desired by humans after power. Remember I said that Napoleon Hills said;
“Every challenge comes clothed with seed of equal or greater benefits”.
Growth is a seed and it needs to germinate, experiencing growth takes a
process that everyone needs to follow. The challenges or crisis associated
with growth comes with increase of a particular thing. Always remember
that growth is a seed, a seed carries lot of things inside of it. What is inside
a seed is value, vision, mission and goals. Growth is simply an explanation
of the increase in your life, society, family, business etc. like in business,
there comes a time when you have to respond to emails and customers,
poor services and is as a result of growth either positively or negatively.
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family must have a value which makes them to know where they are going
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will fulfill the mission (goals). These four areas are what bring about
growth in anything whether a family, business or even a church
organization, so growth is very essential in our daily lives. Now for you to
overcome growth challenges and crisis, there are two areas to consider;

 Management: Just like the definition, that management is the

judicious use of means to accomplish an end. Growth can be
disastrous or be a blessing which can only be actualized when
there is proper management and when there is no management
then it becomes a problem. If you want to experience growth,
you must make good use of what you have now which brings
about expansion. I have seen that organization (be it religious or
not) that practice good management ends up expanding and
experiencing continuous growth. When we get to the subject on
management, we will see great insights about it.
 Learning and Studying: For growth to be effective there must be
constant learning and studying. Learning of new skills, methods
and so on is very essential to growth. The problem that we have
today that I have discovered with majority of organization is that
they have refuse to be open for learning and studying, they are
glue to a particular system even when that system is no more
functioning, they remain static and not flexible. Most of them
fold up at the end and start blaming their workers or
management. God himself changes his processes just to achieve a
goal that He want, but so many Christian who claim to be
following God (Christ) try to do things in one pattern and
wanting to condition God to their own ways which has been
known to them. I see that most people are afraid of what is called
change. Be flexible, have the right thought, be calm, study and
learn always, great people are built in this manner.

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WAYS TO MANAGE CRISIS AND
CHALENGES
One thing we should know today is that crisis and challenges never
make our character, it exhibits it and probably shapes it, but it is not what
builds our character. Today we found ourselves in different way and most
of us, after falling into crisis we then remember to see if we are actually
ready or not. Whether you are ready or not, as far as you are passing
through crisis or challenges, they will teach you some new things and ways
of thinking.

Someone who has or is overcoming crisis or challenges in his/her life

has actually use the management principles of the kingdom to overcome
and it has or will make that person a growing and maturing citizen of the
kingdom of God. These set of people has been experiencing peace and
calmness in them. In this chapter, we are going to see how crisis and
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Crisis and challenges unveils ourselves to whether we are walking with the
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humans, you don’t actually know if they are genuine in their nature and
service but when things go wrong, you see their true nature.

Crisis and challenges will force you to learn new things in a hard way.
Some of you would have it that you know the ways to manage crisis and
challenges, because most people are with anger or fear as they face crisis
or a challenge. In this chapter, I want to give out three ways with deep
insight on how to manage crisis in any area of life. Each point i am going
to explore a little deeper for you to get more details. Before we go into
that, I want you to sit down, calm yourself and evaluate your life.

 Needs: In life you must determine your needs, people today

always make a long shopping list before going to the store but
they don’t actually make an actual need shopping list. The area
that I have seen that there is a problem is that many don’t
understand the difference between a need and a want.

Needs are what we call necessity or things of importance while

wants are what you wish or crave that might not be of importance
or necessary at that period of time. When so many of us face
crisis or challenges we actually don’t determine what we really
need, all we do is to just get everything that comes our way just
to save ourselves. Crisis is never like a drowning man, so don’t
go for everything and anything that you see, but determine your
actual needs and acquire exactly what you have determine as
your actual needs. Many suffer from this and they feel when they
go to get everything they are on-top of the world and people will
notice them. Sometimes when people are looking at you and it is
not that you are adding value to their lives, they are just looking
at your downfall. Anything that is good and beautiful might not
or is not good at the time of crisis, so don’t go for them, go only
for your actual needs. When you decide to get everything not
your actual needs, you break the law of management, and invite
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it. People who live above their means or ability can never come
out of crisis or challenges but will constantly have a recurring
situation. It also shows pride and defeat, people with this
attributes are just trying to outshine themselves due to personal
defeat (they feel everyone has gone ahead of them, so they
always want to do everything possible to meet up with standard
that they feel is on-going), and today in the society, they produce
more flashy things and higher grade of what you need and place
it on a high price and knowing is above your means of income,
then they will advise you to do a bit by bit payment that will
eventually put you on panic and lack of finance, you become a
regular debtor. My best advice to you reading this book is for
you to simply buy what you can afford without debt. Work
smartly and increase your income before getting higher grade of
any product. One thing I know very well and with proper
understanding is that when you manage your resources and
money very well, it opens avenue for more to be given to you to
you to manage. The wealthy ones manage resources, time,
money and everything but the poor ones always spend without
reasoning. It is not going to be put in record that you beat
someone when you purchase a product above your means, funny
enough you are the only person that is going to suffer the pain of
payment and is nobody’s business, so be wise.

 Principles: Laws are the dominating principles in this universe

whether you like it or not. You must learn to be principled,
remove what is unnecessary, stand with justice, be calm and
don’t rush into things and have self-control. All the points that I
have listed above are topics on their own that if explore, it will
take another book to write. Like I said that common sense is not
common is very rare and it takes only few to discover and enjoy
the fruit of it. Humans naturally are not principled and they
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anything in life. They quickly rush into anything and even at that
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sail through in life. Justice is never in their dictionary and justice
is the soul and substance of life. Principles builds up character
and character is your nature, so learn to be principled and you
will overcome crisis and challenges.

 Values: What is value? Value is the degree of importance given

to something, is also what is highly esteemed such as one’s
morals or belief system. You must learn to value your possession
even if your possessions are few, always take stock of them with
a fresh and thoughtful mind. Value everything that you have,
always thank God for everything you own whether big or small,
appreciate everything you have whether it is a key-holder or a
flower vase in your possession. This simple act of gratitude can
and will keep you from the strong disease of dissatisfaction,
which is a dangerous disease that makes people to always want
more and brings sorrow to them.

Another point is that you must learn to better use things you appreciate.
Some of like gathering a lot of possessions or things to ourselves which are
not useful, someone I know gather so much possessions buying a product
in pair or threes and eventually as time went by, those things started
hunting him and you might why, it is because they were all not useful, you
can’t use five mattresses in one room. Note this that, when you have all the
possession on earth, you are simply inviting crisis, give out some and
manage the ones you can manage. Making better use of your possession is
good management and it totally implies that you are giving value to
something. This also helps in the time of financial crisis. Again learn to
save, conserve and protect your resources, it helps to pattern your spending
habit, many nations of the world have difficulty in saving, conserving and
protecting their resources and they eventually falls into strong crisis. Learn
new habits of taking care of what you already have.

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have everything and been sufficient but I see prosperity as an impact that
you make positively. It is written; seek ye first the kingdom of God and it
righteousness and every other thing will be added unto you. Seeking the
kingdom is part of management that helps you to save, conserve and
protect the other things that will be added unto you (I know it is hard to
understand but is simply follow the right path and you are very sure of
getting undeniable results). I want to pay close attention to all I have given
out in this chapter, it will surely help you to manage and overcome
challenges and crisis, remember that there is no crisis too big for God,
surely He has solution to them all.

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Money is not our problem but management is our problem and many of us
think that God will feel sorry for us, or that He looks at our emotions. God
is a God of principles and one of them is management. Like I said in
previous chapters, management is the judicious use of means to
accomplish an end. To explain deeper the meaning of this definition, we
can say t5hat management is the effective, efficient, correct and timely
way to use another person’s property and resources for the purpose it is
meant for and to bring the expected value back to the rightful owner.
Management means you are not the rightful owner of the property or
resources and you might ask why is it like that, does that mean that what
we have is not ours? Yes, it is for the creator of the heavens and earth
(God) and we are supposed to manage it for Him.

Crisis and challenge evolves when we don’t have good management

skills. That is why we are going to discuss on the principles of
management in this chapter. Resources that are in your care are supposed
to be better than the way they were when you first got them. Management
is what makes an economy to be alright and standing out strong, likewise
individuals, family, schools and so on, it cut across all areas of life. I want
to say this that, the truth is that we don’t understand the meaning of the
word “economize” and to economize is simply to add value to something.
It also means to get the maximum out of the minimum. Crisis can only hit
and overcome those that are bad mangers in life. Quickly we are going to
see the principles of management and please they are not to go against
other principles by other authors but these are my opinions and I believe
they will change your life if you understand and follow them carefully.

 Resources: I started with resources because management is all

about resources. Resources are properties or should i say raw
materials given to you to achieve a purpose or an end. If we go
through the scriptures (Gen 1:28a) where it is written: “And God
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remember that management is only complete when first there are
resources and the ability to.

 Prioritize: I use the word prioritize instead of fruitful reading

from the scripture that I gave, anyway these are just my own
words to use in explaining what I want to share with you and am
not in any way uttering or changing the scriptures. Prioritize
means to put priority on something and the word priority is the
goal of a person, an item’s relative importance. Remember the
scriptures says be fruitful and to be fruitful is to be on a
particular thing not everything, a mango tree can never be fruitful
by bearing oranges, pears and so on. You can do everything at
the same time, you must learn to look forward to those things
that are of more important and make good use of them. Today in
our society we see people buying what they don’t actually need
and it later becomes a disaster to them, just for example someone
who has ten cars and they are all parked in his/her garage, he/she
actual is not been fruitful and did not prioritize his/her actual
need and that is bad management, you see such kind of person
spending huge amount of money on maintenance of those cars
when he would have actual sold some of them and use one or
two. People will always complain that they don’t have money but
check carefully on how he/she spends the little he has and you
will be surprise to know that they spend money anyhow without
purpose. Learn to stay on one goal or a thing and use it properly,
not gathering everything and making no good use of one.

 Expand: I told that am using my own words but not to go against

what is in the scriptures. Multiply also means to expand, some of
us get stuck on priority and don’t mind to even expand, anyone
who wants to overcome crisis and challenges must stretch out
their mind, be ready to go out of their comfort zone. Now I know
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and it says: “The fear you move through when you go to the edge
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people don’t progress in life is because they are afraid to expand
and so how can expansion help in management or why is it a
principle of management. It is simply you getting to more about
the use of what you have prioritize, know more about its
usefulness, a simple example is our cellphone, many just bought
for calls and texting or playing of games but there are hundred
ways that the cellphone can be useful to you but you might only
five if not two or three. When you expand your knowledge about
a particular thing, you will make proper use of it and likewise it
will serve you also well and create an atmosphere for more
products because anything you manage well will expand and
attract others to come and is call the law of attraction. The
parable of the virgins in the scriptures will give a clear
understanding of what I am talking about. Prioritize and expand
whatever you have in your hands, which might be a talent, a job
and so on.

 Maintenance: Management is a very wonderful though neglected

by so many today and it has affected their progress in life. It is a
subject that should be a major in every organization whatsoever.
Maintenance is the attitude of taking care of a particular item or
thing, we have to buy in this attitude of maintenance and you
might think that how can a singer maintain his/her talent. A
singer can do that by constantly rehearsing and avoiding those
things like food that will destroy his vocal cord, also the kind of
microphone he uses to sing because he/she can contact cancer
from there or heart issues. Learn to fix broken things and reuse
those that were no longer for their original purpose. Don’t leave
things anyhow, arrange, make them clean and get this clearly
what you don’t maintain and is in your possession get quickly
destroys and block you from receiving more and what you
prioritize, expand and maintain will surely open opportunities for
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  Perseverance: This is just the continuation of a particular course
of action or thing without regard to discouragement, opposition
or previous failure. The property that you are already given must
be continually managed by you even though there is a high rate
of discouragement or pass failure. Continue in the course of
action and that makes you to subdue your challenges and crisis,
likewise your environment. Perseverance brings about taking
over the society and filling it up with your talent or gift.

 Dominion: When is said and done as it has been outlined above

then you will become a master of your situations in life, you will
surely become an overcomer and to your own amazement, you
will be in charge of other things which not in your original plan.
Remember the master that gave talents or money to his servants
to invest, the one with five talents did work with his and made
more profit of five making it ten, also the one with two, but the
one with one did not make use of his (he is a bad manager) and
he was cast into outer darkness (failure, frustration, untimely
death and so on) but the first two were given more opportunities
and put into a place of abundance, so when you follow the
principles of management, you will climb into abundance and
live a free and successful life.

These few principles can help you to become a good manager and
overcome crisis and challenges of life that might come your way. Don’t
forget these principles are universal and can be used in any organization.
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THE CORE VALUE PRINCIPLE
Core values are the basic elements of how someone goes about their
day. These are practices that are used in our everyday living, they help to
guide the individual in achieving mutual goals in a manner that is based on
an ethical and ideological framework.

There is a quote that says, “The little practices done daily and
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them into daily basis, crisis will not be able to overcome you so easily,
some might take core values to be strict principles but I don’t see it as
strict principles but guiding principles for better living.

Laws are dominating principles in this universe. When you are guided
by set down laws, it makes you to dominate, be in-charge of things and
attain success in every area of your life. God himself is been guided by
laws and He inserted laws into the heart of man but we humans refuse to
follow the laws. Refusal to abide these laws has caused us so much pains,
challenges and crisis has swallow most people because of refusing to
follow these laws. Laws are powerful and perfect, they make you wise,
give you joy and light. I have an acronym to share with you that will help
you to stand by a core value for your life and it will help you to overcome
challenges and crisis. The word is R.I.G.I.D- the letter R stands for been
REAL, one of the areas that I have problem with humans is that we find it
difficult to be real, we all try to imitate someone, speak like someone and
forget our real genuine nature. And when crisis arises we find it difficult to
overcome, be truthful to yourself and to be sincere with you, when you are
truthful to yourself, the negative side of you will be seen by you and you
can reach out for solution because it will begin to make you feel bad about
yourself. Fake identity deprive you from great mastery and makes you to
lack respect, it is dangerous to even your health. The letter I stands for
INNOVATION, it simply means implementation of ideas that results to
production of new products. As an individual, be ready to learn and study,
try new ideas and don’t be tied to a particular idea alone or an old idea
which actually keeps you in one place. As the earth is revolving daily, so
things are changing and you have learn new ideas about life, concerning
your craft, parenting and so on, because crisis and challenges will never
tell you that they are coming so be ready, or they are coming through your
craft or through parenting, funny enough it comes from wherever it is
available to come through, so always be prepared. Study to show yourself
approved, one of the principle you should have in life should be to learn
and study to improve yourself. G stands for GUTS, guts does not mean
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boldly. What helps your core value to be firm and effective is when you
have guts and you are not tossed front and back. I stands for INTEGRITY
and ETHICS, another area that many have neglected seriously is this very
area that I just mentioned. This is simply been honest, fair and living in a
responsible way, the foundation of honesty and integrity goes a long way
in building strong relationship with yourself and others. D stands for
DRIVE, this is not talking about how you should move a car but is simply
talking of what motivates to do what you are doing now, what is that
things that makes you to rise up early when others are sleeping, what
makes you to be so much sure of yourself. Something must motivate and
when you discover it hold on to it. Crisis and challenges are powerless in
the present of those that have a drive in life because they are easily
deceived, they are very determined to the core, very focused and believing.
I believe this acronym will help you to attain what you need to attain anjd
become an overcomer.

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RISING ABOVE CRISIS
Rising above crisis is never to say that there will be no more crisis, but
it is like an eagle that is soaring in the midst of the storm, the eagle uses
the storm to move higher and not knocked down by it. As individual, we
can rise above challenges and crisis and use them as a stepping-stone
higher in life. It takes guts to face challenges and crisis and learn to rise
above them, am not saying that you must be an expert to do this, everyone
can do this if you know what to do, the problem is why many people are
having challenges without ending today is because of what they don’t
know and those that know how to go about things always come out
victorious. You will surely fail in trying to follow all the principles that am
going to give to you, but the ability to keep on trying until you get the
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above any crisis if we are really ready.

One of the things that I also discovered among humans is the nature of
their mind, their way of thinking affects them so much, we really don’t
know that our mind is powerful and it build our actions that we take which
directs our life. Someone might say it is not true but without your consent,
unconsciously you start acting according to what you have in your mind.
We humans never act in a way that is contrary to the we see ourselves and
think about ourselves, dreams are the seedlings of realities and always
remember this that right thoughts is mastery, the way you think shapes
your life with time. And so let’s see the principles that can be used to rise
above crisis.

 Focus on what is important: This area is most difficult in the life

of 95% of the population of humans on earth. We are so busy
been busy and end up having nothing. Focus is the power for
dominating. We are good at everything and master of none, for
you to be able to rise above any challenge or crisis, you must
focus on what is important. The eagle is always focused when is
in the midst of the storm, not everything is ok for my friend, yes
they are good and admirable but all that glitter is gold, they
might not be important to you so get to know what is important
for you. Even in the scriptures it is written that “All things are
lawful foe me, but all things are not expedient: all things are
lawful foe me, but all things edifies not”. Not everything is
important even when everything is good and ok, focus on what is
important, when you are not focused, you easily fall and captured
by challenges and crisis.

 Process your feelings: Remember I said that dreams are the

seedlings of realities and that right thought is mastery. Visualize
the eagle in the midst of a storm, what do you think is the feeling
of the eagle, they feel superb and that is why they enjoy it. Learn
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 actually accomplish masterfully at the end. As individuals put on
this attitude in you to think strongly, attempt fearlessly and at the
end accomplish masterfully, take note that bad feelings makes
crisis to swallow you up easily and that is why you see that other
birds cannot stand the storm when it comes, but right feelings
molds you and gives you the force to attempt fearlessly and
finally accomplishes your goals masterfully.

 Take care of yourself: Health is wealth and many think that when
they gather a lot of money, they have good health. Please go to
the hospitals today and see those that even have all the money
crying and begging to be healthy even if is for them to lose their
wealth. When you eat good diet, it determines your mood, it lifts
everything else in your life when you are in good health. Health
is a crown on a healthy person that unhealthy sees, what your
health does is to make better your self-image. Take proper care
of yourself and it will improve your life and help you to rise
above crisis, when an eagle get to a certain stage of it life, the
eagle goes for renewal. Learn to take proper care of yourself,
there are good health books out there, get them for yourself.

 Be patient; Patience is a wonderful virtue that can sustain life but

many don’t know about it. I would like to say that patience is not
just to be calm with things but also with yourself, patience is
what can help you to give an effective response to any
challenging situation, it also strengthens our ability to control our
reactions and retain our peace of mind. When you don’t have
peace of mind, challenges and crisis will overtake and swallow
you up, patience is also what can help you to be become flexible
and full with strength and not be a victim of challenges and
crisis. It is what I have experienced and am speaking from
experience, patience also makes you to think clearly and right, an
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 FINAL NOTE
Now that you’ve finished reading this book Handling Life Challenges
and Crisis, you are now been faced with a mission-critical choice: you
have to make handling life challenges and crisis principles that will help
you to overcome a deep part of your way of living or better still do nothing
and experience challenges and crisis and be overtaken by them. To help
you see real and lasting results, i sincerely and strongly encourage you to
go through this book again and again and also you can contact the author
for advice and coaching through his linktree address
https://lintr.ee/Danpat16 and get to all my social media platforms and
email, etc.
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 Books by the Author
Reading is one of the habits of successful people in every area of life.
To fuel your rise here are the author’s books, which are accepted
internationally and read by many, you know I want you to be successful in
every area of your life and make history. It is what will bring joy to me
when I see or hear of your rising to success and greatness. A list of some
of the author books are;

 The Original Plan For Marriage

 The Lesson I Learnt From The Elder
 Discovering Your Lost Personality
 Common Truth My Teacher Never Taught Me
 The How: Discovering Your Destiny
 Making Impact
 Extraordinary Youth
 Dating, Love and Sex
 Divorce Why?
 An Entrusted Leadership
 Handling Life Challenges and Crisis
 Purpose Reconceived
 Marriage Redefined
 Relationship Matters
 The Kingdom Way of Living
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 Solution to Confusion on gender identity and roles

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  And many more soon to be out, again all books has been translated
to different languages – Spanish, Portuguese, French, Hebrew,
Italian and so many others.

About the Author

Daniel Patrick is an international motivational/inspirational speaker, an
author, leadership mentor, relationship/marriage coach, educator, a
consultant for both businesses and the government. He has travelled
extensively, thereby addressing critical issues affecting the full range of
human social and spiritual development.

The central theme of his message is on discovering and maximizing of

potentials in individuals, which also includes transforming of lives by
producing efficient and significant leaders in all areas of life.

Daniel Patrick is founder and president of IN HIS PRESENCE

MINISTRY [IHPM], a multidimensional organization headquartered in
Asaba Delta State, Nigeria.

Daniel Patrick has changed lives around the world and is still changing
lives with his valued biblical kingdom teachings that inspires, motivates,
challenges, reform, transform, impact and empowers people to discover
their personal purpose, develop true potentials and recognize with
impacting their leadership abilities hereby helping them to live a life of
distinction and power.
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His appeal and message transcends age, race, culture, creed, and
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economic background. He is also CEO of MAKING IMPACT

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INTERNATIONAL and also a podcast site called- MAKING IMPACT: A
Podcast from Daniel Patrick

Daniel Patrick is an ambassador for peace under the Universe Peace

Federation, which is a body under the United Nations. Daniel Patrick is a
leader with a sensitive heart and an international vision. Get in touch with
him on: inhispresenceministries8@gmail.com.

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