(Ep.1) FIRST THINGS FIRST

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I wish to congratulate you for being a student. It's not an easy feat. I'm sure that for you, it's a dream come true

Here, I am committed to giving you very simple tips that will help you become the best student that you can be.


Now, let's move


As someone who has recorded outstanding academic performances throughout my academic journey; winning awards on academic excellence (including a multimillion naira scholarship that took me abroad for years), a good number of persons have approached me to find out what my secret is

I've noticed that many people often attribute my success to so many factors.They however usually forget my most important secret...😃


What's it?


I put my God first in everything I do. Yes! You read that correctly. God must be first. He just has to be first.


Here is how it all began.


I gave my life to Jesus in secondary school. I saw, first hand, how God can change a life that was sinking in sin into a life that wants to live for God and right. 

I saw God transform the life of a boy like me who had been corrupted from within and around me as a Lagos ghetto boy. I've heard people talk about the fact that Jesus is still saving and transforming sinners, but then I experienced it first hand on this particular day


Friendship with Excellence 


From then, I started intentionally developing a relationship with Jesus. You can't be a friend of the excellent Jesus and not have excellence rob off on you.

I learnt from Jesus how that I must embrace key excellence principles like hard work and diligence, shun procrastination, laziness and all sorts of exam malpractices. These made me more studious.


Re-focused


Following Jesus reduced my distractions and re-focused my life. He gave my life a meaning and some direction.  This made academic excellence easier.


I owe all my successes to putting God first in all I do.


Put God first.


 Give your life a meaning and some direction. Start by giving your life to Jesus. It's very simple to give your life to Jesus. Just follow these simple steps


1. Realise and agree that you have been a sinner all the while

2. Pray to Jesus, confessing your sins to him and asking him to forgive you. Believe that Jesus died for you.

3. Decide not to go back into those sins. Promise him this in prayer.

4. Then invite him to come into your heart and help you.

5. Believe that he has heard the prayer you just made.


Doing this with all your heart brings you into a relationship with the excellent Jesus. Seek to grow it. You can write me to help you.

Now that you are a student, PUT GOD FIRST.


✌️ 💕 


Tochukwu Onu

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