365+1 Creative Conversations

By Gesiere Brisibe-Dorgu

365+1 Creative Conversations is a refreshing departure from the regular conversations you would ordinarily get into. Being inspirational and action inducing, the conversations will activate your creative power of deep thought.

It is absolutely impossible to remain the same after reading 365+1 Creative Conversations.

With a new topic every single day of the year, you cannot help but help yourself to be the very best that your creator designed you to be.

May you be enveloped by the light as you joyfully embrace the new and greater you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781546237204

Gesiere Brisibe-Dorgu

Educated in the United States of America, Gesiere Brisibe-Dorgu holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minnesota and a Master of arts degree in Public Administration from Mankato State University, Minnesota. She is the founder and president of KEMSESE, Center for Young People in Need, a non-pro¬ t organization. Gesiere Brisibe-Dorgu is a self-taught visual artist.

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© 2018 Gesiere Brisibe-Dorgu. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

Published by AuthorHouse 04/25/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-3722-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-3721-1 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-3720-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018904289

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introductory Comments

Introduction

A Helping Hand

A New Age?

About Age

Accepting Corrections

Affirmations

Alibis

Appreciation

Arts

Attention

Attractiveness

Avoidable Breaches

Awareness of shame

A Good Name

A New Dawn

A Small World

A Way Out

Abstinence

Abuse

Accountability

Achievements

Acquiring Knowledge

Addictions

Anger

Animals

As You Like It

Aspirations

Assertiveness

Assurance

Attachments

Award

Awareness

Be Responsible

Beauty

Being Sensible

Being Sensitive

Blessings

Boldness

Brainstorming

Brevity

Be Objective

Be Prepared

Be the Best

Being Carried Away

Being Gentle

Be Principled

Being Trustworthy

Being Wayward

Belief

Bloom

Bragging

Broken

Bullying

Caution

Chain Reaction

Changes

Changing Times

Charisma

Clean Hands

Colors

Combativeness

Common Sense

Communication

Compatibility

Competence

Competition

Conquering Urges

Conscience

Cool-Headedness

Co-operation

Corruption

Cowardice

Creating Comfort

Culture

Cutting the Cord, Not the Heart

Calmness

Celebrate Yourself

Chainlink

Chaos

Children

Choosing Mentors

Clouds and Sunshine

Complexity

Confidence

Conflict

Conflicting Emotions

Consideration

Covetousness

Crying

Damning the Outcome

Dedication

Defensiveness

Delusion

Desire

Destiny

Development

Dignifying your Person

Dilemma

Disappointments

Dissipation

Divinity

Do Not Be Put Down

Dutifulness

Danger Within

Decision Time

Dedication

Destiny

Diet

Different not Deviant

Dignity of Labour

Discover Yourself

Dreams

Dress Sensibly

Drifter

Drug Abuse

Due Respect

Education

Enough Time?

Enthusiasm

Elegance

Emotional Control

Encouragement

End of Year

Enthusiasm

Esteem

Excel

Faith

Forgiveness

Family Bond

Fertilize your Mind

First Among Equals

Flowers

Folktales

Food

Forget the Past

Fortune

Friendships

Frivolities

Gains

Genius

Gluttony

Gates to Your Mind

Gifts

Glory Within

Graciousness

Grandparents

Growing Up

Half Measures

Happiness

Hard Work

Harmony

Haste

Haven

Heavenly

Hidden Treasures

Highs

Hobbies

Honor

Humility

Humor

Habit

Hardship

Heartbreak

Holy Book

Home

Honor

Hope

Household Chores

Hypocrisy

Impunity

Indebtedness

Industriousness

Information

Innocence

Instincts

Instruction

Intelligence

Interest in the World

Invincibility

Irresistible?

Idle Gossip

Illusion

Immorality

Influence

Inner Beauty

Inner Strength

Inspiration

Integrity

Lawlessness

Leadership

Lessons

Liabilities

Life

Look to the Light

Looking Up and Forwards

Loyalty

Luck

Laughter

Learning Tools

Liberty

Limitations

Little Beginings

Living

Love

Make A difference

Materialism

Maturation

Mediocrity

Memory

Mind

Modesty

Mundane

Music

Marriage

Meddling

Merciful

Money

Money Consciousness

Motherhood

Nature

Nostalgia

Negative Reactions

Nemesis

New Needs

No Goodbyes

Obedience

Obsession

Open-mindedness

Opportunities

Oppression

Optimism

Organization

Our Business

Pains

Patience

Piety

Pitfalls

Positivity

Possessions

Posterity

Potential

Priorities

Privileges

Professions

Part of the Crowd

Peace

Peer Pressure

Personal Hygiene

Pictures

Please

Politics

Power

Praise

Pride

Procrastination

Prosperity

Prudence

Purity

Purity

Pushing Help Away

Radicalism

Rationalizing

Reach Out

Repentance

Respect

Right To Excel

Rule your Life

Reality

Reconciliation

Reflect

Resentment

Reward

Rivalry

Role Models

Roots

Sciences

Seasons

Secrecy

Self-denial

Seduction

Self -assessment

Self-Blocking

Sentimental

Setting Limits

Sharing

Shocks

Socializing

Something Noble

Star Qualities in You

Staying Focused

Stress

Suffocation

Sagacity

School Blues

Second Chance

Self-Control

Selfishness

Service

Sexuality

Simplicity

Spirituality

Sportsmanship

Stand Tall

Standards

Step by Step

Stop and Think

Submissiveness

Sychophancy

Taken for Granted

Talents

Tantrums

Teachers

Teachings to Emulate

Tenacity

That Subtle Voice

The Best

The Butterfly Image

The Extra Inch

The Fool’s Tool

The Future

The Real You

The Tongue Factor

Time

Tolerance

Toothless Laughs

Total not Partial Respect

Truth

Take a Stand

Technology

Tell Yourself

Temple of Justice

That Little Act

The Mind

The Religious Angle

The Unknown

Thinking

Thirst for Winning

True Freedom

Trust

Upbringing

Upliftment

Vices

Victim Mentality

Voice of Reason

Victorious

Vindictiveness

Virtue

Vision

What is Fun?

When to Wait

Why You Are You

Will Power

Work as Investment

Worries

Worthiness

War

Water

Weakness

Wholesome

You and God

Youth

Why Fight

Wisdom

Wisdom

Your Happiness

Youth

Dedication

Creative Conversations is joyfully dedicated to all creative thinkers, whose thinking is making the world a better place.

Acknowledgements

At last, ‘365+1 CREATIVE CONVERSATIONS’ is out!

There are many people who assisted me with words of encouragement, ideas and other forms of inputs and I am very grateful.

I am especially indebted to the words of wisdom offered by great individuals like Dr. Gabriel Okara, Dr. M. T. Akobo, Prince Patrick Gomero, Capt. James Femowei, Mr. Emenekeowei (Amadu) Amaduobogha, Ms Victoria Inah Esemomoh, Alhaji Yusuf Musa, Dr. Zaynab Alkali, Mr. Ebideseabofa Randy Brisibe, Alhaji Sanusi Abubakar, late Dr. Ernest Eyedeware Kpede, Mr. Charles Igoh, Mr. Lindsay Barret, Mr. Chuks Eze and Ms Anietie-nte Abasi Asuquo, for for typing the initial manuscript.

Introductory Comments

I have written this book with a desire to understand the holistic nature of life. I believe a holistic view of life is the only way balance can be achieved in life. In enjoining you to meditate and persistently work for your life’s goals, I’m only emphasizing what you already know.

Success and prosperity come to those who make the extra effort needed. The result of laxity and failure to work conscientiously is of course, mediocrity. Mediocre effort must surely earn you mediocre results, simple!

Dear friend, every day will be a new dawn in the true sense of the word as you methodically read and meditation on the daily topics. Three hundred and sixty-five (365) subjects are dealt with. I have also taken care to include one (1) additional topic, bringing the grand total to three hundred and sixty-six (366) in deference to the leap year. One must not cheat nature you know!

I sincerely hope that the creative conversations we are going to have will impact powerfully and positively on your life, propelling you to heights hitherto unimagined.

Beloved, I wish you happy and thoughtful reading.

In creatively conversing with you on a different subject every day, all year round, I am deliberately exciting your imagination. I do not fail to implore you to THINK every day, really THINK! Think about giving someone A HELPING HAND. Think about LOYALITY to friends, family and even yourself!

Think about your RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE WHO TEACH YOU to become a better human being.

Think about STAYING FOCUSED, so that your Dreams can be realized.

Think about the so-called NEW-AGE. What is it really?

Think about how you can SET LIMITS in your affairs for optimal productivity.

What about YOU AND YOUR GOD? Have you thought deeply about the reason you are here?

It is very important to be a competent person and COMPETENCE will surely do that for you.

So, you think GENIUSES are special people you only read about? You too are a genius! Yes? Believe it.

Is there anything that is too IRRESISTABLE? Think about how you can overcome the irresistible, when this will surely cause problems for you in future.

You read about STARS and watch them in movies, fantasizing furiously but I tell you that you too are, a star and I enjoin you to think seriously about this.

Also know that you can MAKE a DIFFERENCE for the better, in our world. How about thinking about what you can do, not TO BE PUT DOWN.

SENSITIVE people are empathetic people. I am therefore encouraging you to let your sensitive side bloom.

Have we all not felt NOSTALGIC at one time or another? Embrace the positive things that nostalgia can introduce into your life.

Who has not found herself in a DILEMA at some point? Contemplate the lessons of your own dilemma.

How about the life changing experiences ‘HUMAN BOLDNESS’ and not ‘ANIMAL BOLDNESS’ can expose you to?

Have you thought about what ACTING WITH IMPUNITY can do to you? I am saying that you should be restrained about this.

Take a few minutes to think about the VICE infestation in the world and how a positive turnaround is possible.

If you are in the dance of DELUSION, I am confidently telling you to think about doing another dance.

Please know that you can consistently APPRECIATE your world and the people in it.

I also encourage you to solemnly consider the numerous PITFALLS we encounter in life.

My discussions with you place a high premium on ACCEPTING CORRECTIONS and I have said you should think this through.

What about the issue of HOBBIES? You know how important they are to a person’s wellbeing.

Think about what COWARDICE does to the human psyche and you will be better educated.

Bringing BREVITY to bear on conversations makes the company more pleasurable and I am sure you will agree.

I have not left out SENTIMENTALITY in the course of our conservations because one cannot help thinking about this interesting subject.

As you think about FORGIVENESS, I am hoping you will become transformed. CHANGING TIMES is included for you to think about as well. After all, has anyone in history succeeded in stopping change?

I have also included CHAIN REACTIONS and you are urged to think about this issue.

In asking you to think about DIVINITY, I am not concerned about religion but universality.

You are pressed to breathlessly think about CHARISMA for the life changing thoughts it can inspire.

Think about TALENTS and how loaded you are with them.

HUMILITY is presented for you to think soberly about. You are urged not to be modest in thinking about MODESTY!

I am assuring you that you will not be shocked to think about the SHOCKS that you may encounter in the normal course of living.

Your heart will be uplifted as you think about HEAVENLY considerations.

GLUTTONY deserves deep thought and a lot of insight will be gleaned as you think about this subject. What is a HAVEN? Find out more as you think through this subject.

Our conversation on RADICALISM is designed for you to think positively, radically! Your treasures will be exposed as you think about the issue of HIDDEN TREASURES.

Be open to new ideas as you think about OPEN-MINDEDNESS.

Thinking about EDUCATION is in itself going to be an education for you. I also discuss INSTRUCTION with you and expect you to think hard as you read.

Keep your mind free as you think about the very important topic, VICTIM MENTALITY.

MATERIALISM presents itself for consideration and it is hoped you will seriously think about it.

Do not forget WORTHINESS, which is a worthy subject for consideration. Please think about it.

I hope you will not be defensive as you are nudged to think about DEFENSIVENESS.

You do not need alibis as you think about ALIBIS and there’s no doubt your spirit will be tuned into the MUSIC wavelength.

I know you will be led to think about LEADERSHIP as I point out the huge individual potentials we all possess.

Reflect on your role in life as you are compelled to think about RESPONSIBILITIES.

There will be no legal encumbrances as you think about RESPONSIBILITIES.

No legal impediments should be pleaded as you think about LIABILITIES.

A world of possibilities will unfold for you as you think about OPPORTUNITIES.

Realize the importance of personal responsibilities as you think about LUCK.

The joy you will experience as you think about PRIVIGES can best be imagined.

Claim what is yours as you think about the RIGHT TO EXCEL.

There will be stability in your life as you think about CHANGES.

What flights of fancy you will contend with as you think about COLOURS!

Excite your adrenal glands as you think about POWER.

What forgotten ideas you are likely to generate as you think about LESSONS!

I can assure you of mental stability as you think about BRAINSTORMING.

Calm is bound to envelop you as you think about WORRIES.

Your strength will increase as you think about WILL-POWER.

A fine sense of patriotism will envelop you as you think about LAWLESSNESS.

Your creative instincts will come to the fore as you think about INDUSTRIOUSNESS.

A generous flow of love will assail you as you think about TOLERANCE.

The desire to be noble will be made plain to you as DEDICATION is presented.

You will feel quite courageous as you think about what may be termed DISAPPOINTMENTS.

Be a beacon of hope as you think about BLESSINGS known and unknown.

Have your feet firmly planted on earth as you think about NATURE.

Let loose your bank of ideas as you think about ARTS.

You won’t help but give thanks as you think about SCIENCES.

Pretense must surely fly out the door as you think about CONSCIENCE.

You must listen to your inner voice as you think about OBEDIENCE.

Relaxation will creep up on you as you think about POSTERITY.

Truth to the self will herald your thinking as you read about SELF-ASSESSMENT.

Nobility of heritage will be the dominant feeling as you think about CULTURE.

Filial feelings must predominate as you meditate on UP-BRINGING.

Clear thinking cannot be helped as you calmly consider the issue of MEMORY.

Respect for labour must enter your thoughts as you think about HARD WORK.

There will be no rush about what you are doing when you think about REPENTANCE.

Nationalism will be the natural emotion as CORRUPTION is tackled.

Great regard for the natural order of creation will be your mood as COOPERATION is highlighted.

Corporate responsibility must come to your mind as we concern ourselves with GAINS.

There will be no stress involved when we intently challenge ourselves to view PAIN, neither will there be pain in our hearts as we think about STRESS.

No dizzy sensation will come over you as we confront OBSESSION.

Your need to understand your world and be an active player will be heightened as we encounter INFORMATION. This will logically enkindle your zeal to become a better person as we dive deep to expose DEVELOPMENT.

You will feel light-headed in a good way as we face OPPRESSION squarely.

Timidity will be far from you as you think about INSTINCTS. This will lead the way for divine thoughts as PIETY is welcomed into the conversation.

A follow-up from this will be the need to concretize things as PROFESSIONS take their rightful place.

The wisdom in the adage, a time for everything, will make perfect sense as the SEASONS come on board.

You will be quite collected when you think about POSSESSIONS. This understandably culminates in excitement when you think about POSITIVITY.

Can you help imagining how coordinated your future actions will be when ORGANIZATION is present?

Compare this to your ruminations when you see SEDUCTION. Ha, the silent tears you will shed when embraced by TRUTH.

Your determination to improve your behavior will be taken for granted when RESPECT rears its pretty head.

Standing to be counted will be an understatement when GOING THE EXTRA INCH comes into the contest!

Hidden sighs will be a thing of the past when OPTIMISM is the game.

A sudden awakening will describe your feelings best when you think about AFFIRMATIONS.

Childishness will evaporate when we discuss MATURATION.

Definitive action will be the watchword when you think about DISSIPATION.

ATTENTION that COUNTS will cause a formation of consciousness in your heart.

HALF MEASUERES will bring about guided action.

Deletion of Luke-warmness from your lexicon will be speedily put in place when we discuss THE PLACE of ENTHUSIASM.

Mediocrity and its ilk must take flight when AIMING FOR THE BEST approaches.

Self-control will race back to you when we start CONQUERING URGES.

By the same token, self-pity will be completely erased by WHY YOU ARE YOU.

Watch your impatience evaporate when you hear THAT SUBTLE VOICE.

Banish despondency from your life as you LOOK TO THE LIGHT.

Imagine the surge of energy as you STAND FOR SOMETHING NOBLE.

The supernaturalness of being will hit you hard as we look UP AND FORWARDS.

Expediency of action as a virtue will come home to you with WHEN TO WAIT.

Beauty of unanimity will be comprehended as you think about COMPARTIBILITY.

Interpersonal relationships that are respected will be nurtured in COMPETITIVENESS.

Tolerant acceptance of views will no longer be alien as you think about COMBATITIVENESS.

Saying no to victim mentality will be proper with RULING YOUR LIFE.

The re-introduction of absolute self-control into your day-to-day activities will be the only conclusion when THE TONGUE FACTOR is realized. Let your heart flutter a little with the BUTTERFLY IMAGE.

Pettiness must bow and flee from you in the presence of HONOUR.

To allow the get-rich-quick syndrome to exist forever will be a pleasure with WORK AS INVESTMENT.

Breathe the air of freedom as you think about THE LEVELS OF SUFFOCATION.

There will be no place for sadness in your life as we converse about HUMOUR ON BOARD.

You wonder why you have not fully utilized your innate abilities when SELF-BLOCKING is called to question.

The only thing worthy of consideration will be probity as our CLEAN HANDS come into focus.

Reclaim your sanity as we ponder VOICE OF REASON.

Qualitative applications cannot escape your searchlight as we reflect on TIME.

The futility of hiding from the cosmos will stare you in the face as you think about SECRETIVENESS.

Taking charge of your life will be the dominant sentiment when we invite HAPPINESS into the conversation.

Drawing out confidence from its hiding place will be your priority as we face FAITH.

Sober reflection will instantly climb on board as soon as it senses SENSIBLENESS.

Flippancy will surely become an endangered luxury as we reflect on COMMON SENSE.

The culture of failure to plan will become extinct in your life as we identify