Hi everyone out there and the followers of this Blog. My
name is Mr. Adebiyi Joseph, a staff member of Christ City Model School. I am
your host this week, 6th week of June, 2016 on the motivational talk
I title “Battles are fought in our mind every day”.
What is battle? Battle means a fight between armies
especially during the war. It is an argument, competition or struggle between
people or group of people trying to win power or control.
Battle can also be defined as determined effort that
somebody makes to solve a difficult problem or succeed in a difficult
situation. More so, it means try very hard to achieve something difficult or to
deal with something unpleasant or dangerous.
In our way of life, we all encounter one difficulty or the
other because life not meant to be funfair but warfare. Until you pay a greater
price you cannot generate a greater value. Every human being is faced with
different challenges and there are solutions to all these challenges .In the
olden days, people would have to travel from one place to another for message
to be delivered but now, with the advent of technology a man sat down and think
how he can solve people’s problem by introducing computer which is very fast
for sending messages now without a risk of life, transport fee and time waste.
There is no perfect creature on the
universe, we are meant to tackle problem which will catapult us to the next
level. For every problem is always an opportunity. Some people’s problem might
be marriage, finance, education, power or business e.t.c.. I will like to share
with you some people who had fought battles in their mind that have result to
success. The first person which is very amazing is called Michael Faraday.
Michael Faraday was a British chemist and
physicist who contributed significantly to the study of electromagnetism and
electrochemistry. He was born without a silver spoon on 22 September, 1791 in
Scottish London. Faraday received only a basic formal education because of his
family poor background. At 14, Faraday apprenticed to a local bookbinder and
during the next seven years, he educated himself by reading books on a wide
range of scientific subjects. In 1812, Faraday attended four lectures given by
the chemist Humphrey Davy at the Royal Institution. He subsequently wrote to
Davy asking for a job as his assistant. Davy turned him down but in 1813, he
appointed him to the job of chemical assistant at the Royal Institution. A year
later, Faraday was invited to accompany Davy and his wife to an 18month
European tour, take in France, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium and meeting
influential scientists. On their return in 1851, Faraday continued to work at
the Royal Institution helping with Davy and other scientists. In 1821, he published
his work on electromagnetic induction, the principle behind the electric
transformer and generator. He was appointed as Scientific Adviser to Trinity
House (1836-1865). He became a professor of chemistry at the Royal Military
Academy in Woolwich (1830-1851). He died in August 1867. Because of his contribution
to science, He gave his name to the ‘farad’ originally describing a unit of
electrical charge but later a unit of electrical capacitance.
Another man whose story is amusing is James
Watt. James Watt was born on 19 January 1736 at Greenock Renfrewshire Scotland.
He was a Scottish inventor mechanical engineer and chemist whose Watt steam
engine, an improvement of the Newcomer steam engine was fundamentally the
changes brought by the industrial Revolution in the world. While working as
instrument maker at the University of Glasgow, Watt became interested in the
technology of steam engines. He realized that the contemporary engine designed
wasted a great deal of energy by repeatedly cooling and reheating the cylinder.
He introduced a design enhancement, the separate condenser which avoid this
waste of energy and radically improved the power, efficiency and cost
effectiveness of steam engines. Eventually, he adapted his engine to produce
rotary motion greatly broadening its use beyond pumping water. He developed the
concept of horse power and S.I unit of power, the Watt was named after him. He
died on August 25, 1819.
What you need to stop to achieve your success.
1. Pleasing
people to unpleased yourself.
2. Don’t
give up,
3. Self
doubt
4. Negative thinking
5. Fear
of failure
6. Saying
“Yes” when you want to say “No”
7. Procrastination
I strongly believe that if you put all
these measures into consideration you will sure have a change in your life and
come successful in your entire life endeavor.
This is where I will be drawing the window of
this week. Stays bless.
ADEBIYI JOSEPH
