TAIWO ISOLA'S BLOG

When I studied Biostatistics in Medical College, one of the topics I was taught was; Standard error of a laboratory analysis. Standard error means the degree to which you can make mistakes; the degree to which your mistake is safe. At some points, your mistakes do not only assume a laboratory value, it has a colossal effect on the lives of your patients. In life, there are errors and there are errors. There are some errors you make in life and you can survive it. There are some errors you can't survive. There are some errors that are so colossal in wastage that their effect will show up later in life.  T. D Jakes said in his best seller book, 'Before you do', "One wrong decision can sentence you to a life of frustrations and regrets. You don't have to make many wrong decisions; you only need to make one wrong decision and your life on earth will be a mini hell" At a point in my life, I wanted to make a critical decision and God spoke to me and said, ...

Can carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burnt? This is what we desire to do every day. We want to carry fire in our bosom: the fire of sexual passion and the little flame of lusts. We are heating up our destiny, spreading it out on the furnace of strange affection. We dare the messengers of fire and subjects of flames. We fan the little fire that destroys great destinies. Joseph had the opportunity for romance and sexual relationship with Mrs Potiphar but he fled. He could have been thinking “As long as I did not have sex with her, I am okay.” He could have done all the prelude to sexual intercourse and still be feeling like a saint. He could have survived the touches, he could have survived the urges, he could have survived the romance but he would not have survived the raging fire that would have engulfed his destiny. He would have kindled a seemingly innocent fire that would have burn silently under his bosom and the little innocent fire would have engulfed hi...

For the first twenty years of my life, I built my future around people and motivational books. I was a people's person. Then, I could tell you the top 10 motivational books on New York Times best-setter at any season. I was a reader, a writer and a public speaker. I read books and my head was full of ‘stuff’. It was a fairly good life sprinkled with few successes. Until July 2009. I gazed helplessly into a distant future to see my hope of greatness being dashed to pieces. Life came so tough and rough against me. The disaster was hot and came for where I least expected. It was so overwhelming that I literally drowned. I'd been basking in the illusion of friendship and books for 20 years. All for nothing! The defeat was so public and the despair so mighty that without a personal invitation from God, I would have been lost forever. I turned to God. Somehow He has sabotaged my plans. It was my own 'Damascus Road' experience. God 'double-crossed' me on ...

“Some people are in your life for a season and some are in your life for a lifetime. Your greatest challenge and regret will be when you try to make seasonal people lifetime participant”             It can b e quite amazing how we run this rat-race called “life”. Consider the preview: most of our parents gave birth to us without knowing the ‘why’ of our existence. We grew up and went to school without knowing ‘why’ we did. Then at a point we pursued a career which we proudly called “Destiny”. After graduation, we ask: What's next? And then, the search for ‘Green Pastures” begins. At the same time, we are shopping for a potential spouse, casting our vote for the most impressive applicant. Things get in place and we give birth to children.                Sadly, the very master plan which our parents used in constructing their life is the same plan we cling to and sub-consciously used in constructing our own f...