Just BE! International Newsletter - Issue 27 - "METHUSELAH'S Health Plan"

Dear Friend,

This is one letter I am sure will revolutionize yourthinking, once again. This month, our focus is"METHUSELAH's Health Plan".

Did Methuselah actually have a health plan? Friends, Istrongly believe so. Although Methuselah has had somuch negative publicity, (consider the adage "As oldas Methuselah"), we seem to miss one vital point:Methuselah is the longest living human beingdocumented by any earthly literature piece. Methuselahlived for 969 years. There were things he knew which Ifeel must be reiterated again today.

Many people bother about their health. Truly, healthis wealth. We need to care for our bodies simplybecause we really have no spares for it i.e. our body.A study by the United States Census InternationalPrograms Centre for 2005 states that the LifeExpectancy At Birth of humanity has generally improvedover the past decade (see www.census.gov/ipc).Developed nations show that women outlive men by 6-8years on the average age while in developing nations,it is about 2-3 years in favour of the women.

Your health is important. God wants you to livehealthy. To BE healthy covers so many areas becauseone cannot be said to be healthy unless there iscomplete well-being in body and mind. I believeMethuselah did the following to stay healthy (withliving long and strong as a consequence):
- Eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables - theycontain most of the vitamins the body needs for properfunctioning (Genesis 1:28-30).
- Drink lots of water - Water is the major constituentof living matter. The blood, respiratory processes,and many other bodily functions require water.
- Eat energy providing foods e.g. carbohydrates andstarchy foods.- Reduce saturated fats and refined sugars.
- Have moderate salt intake - Most cardiac diseasesand especially high blood pressure has been connectedto high salt intake.
- Eat less of red meats e.g. beef, mutton and pork.Eat more white meats e.g. poultry.
- Take fish that possess scales especially oily fish.Also, take lots of sea food e.g. shrimps, lobster,crayfish etc.
- Get active and build a healthy weight, throughappropriate exercise for your body type, keeping inline with your Body Mass Index (BMI) i.e. BMI = Weight(kg)/ Height (m2). The range is 18.5-24.9 as normal,25-30 is overweight, >30 is obese, and <18.5 isundernourished.- Rest and sleep as appropriate.
- Have love for humanity -Some of the worst type ofdiseases are those that arise from emotional disorderse.g. worry, anxiety, fear, anger, hate etc.
- Eat foods boiled rather than fried - Oils could leadto increase of cholesterol in the body blocking bloodvessels causing heart attacks ultimately.
- Eat at the appropriate time of the day.
- Learn to enjoy God's presence especially throughworship.

This list is not conclusive, but it will once againhelp you to BE better at who you are meant to BE. Onething I'm positive about is this: God wants you tolive long and strong (Genesis 6:3 - "Then GOD said,'I'm not going to breathe life into men and womenendlessly. Eventually they're going to die; from nowon they can expect a life span of 120 years";Deuteronomy 34:7 "Moses was 120 years old when hedied. His eyesight was sharp; he still walked with aspring in his step", The Message Bible Translation.).

Have a health plan. The world needs you. BE healthy!Take charge, maximize life, Just BE!

PS:Other web links that would be of benefit to you healthwise:
www.who.ch
www.tqjunior.thinkquest.org/41
www.allrecipes.com
www.bbc.co.uk/health
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/t

Just BE! International Newsletter – Issue 26 – “Re-INVENT Yourself part 2”

Dear Esteemed Friend,

I am sure you have been expecting this concluding part for a while now. Enjoy this month’s edition as we bring to a close our study on “Re-INVENT Yourself”.

Now, last month we saw the first five (5) re-invention strategies in the path of Jesus’ transition to the Holy Spirit (John 14-16; Acts 2). They are:
1. Speak About It
2. Take A Break
3. Travel Inward And Ahead
4. Buffer Up
5. Alter Positively

Let us now go on to the remaining part of our treatise:
6. Timing Is Important: You will need to arrive on the other side at the right time. Pentecost was the time for Christ’s
re-introduction (Acts 2). At Pentecost, the audience was right, and large too (Acts 2:5). Don’t arrive post-mature or
pre-mature. Don’t abort also. Introduce yourself, your brand, your institution etc at the right time.

7. Find Your Company: Jesus Christ first re-appeared as the Holy Spirit upon his disciples (Acts 2:1-4). Stay with the right people, the right association, etc in your building up stage. They are important in every stage of your re-invention process. Know your company.

8. Reveal Yourself: At the end, the Holy Spirit arrived just like Jesus Christ predicted it. You have gone through the process. You have worked on yourself thoroughly. You have enlarged your capacity. You have dreamt of the future. Now, BEcome that future! Reveal the re-invented you! Your audience awaits!

But then, I must let you know that the “old” self, the process and the “Re-INVENTED” self are all hidden in God’s person (John 15:5). All through your process stay with God. Keep in touch with him. He will do for you more than you can imagine! (Ephesians 3:20,21). Stay with God.

I want you to take what you have learnt from this Re-INVENTION strategy and apply it to your life, your business, and every other area that you perceive needs a re-introduction. If it worked for Jesus Christ, it will most definitely work for you.You will succeed! Re-INVENT yourself! BE!

PS:
1. Need an in-depth session on “‘Re-INVENT Yourself” for personal or organizational development? Then contact Amenze on 08053258223 today!

2. Want to support Just BE! International as a partner in progress? Send an email with the message “Support JBI? How?” only to justbeintl@yahoo.com.

3. Next month, “METHUSELAH’S Health Plan”.

Just BE! International Newsletter – Issue 25 – “Re-INVENT Yourself part 1”

Dear Esteemed Friend,

I am sure you enjoyed last month’s letter. All thanks to the Ever-Wise God.
This month, we are looking at ‘Re-INVENT Yourself’. In the market place, every brand undergoes re-invention once a while. This is done to keep products fresh in the minds of the consumers. Do you want to be constantly significant to the world either as an individual or an organisation? Then, learn these Re-Invention strategies I saw from Jesus’ transition to the Holy Spirit (John 14-16; Acts 2):

1. Speak About It: In John 14, Jesus Christ spoke severally about his re-invention as the Holy Ghost. Do you want to change at the end of the day? Want to become a new person or a new entity? Speak about it continuously! You will become who you say you are.
2. Take A Break: Jesus ‘took a break’. He died, was buried and then resurrected. If you want o arrive fresh and different on the other side, take a break form the usual. Go on a retreat. Take a holiday. Isolate to regenerate.
3. Travel Inward And Ahead: Look within you and see where you have been. Take a mental trip. Travel forward and see where you want to arrive at the end of your re-invention. If you can conceive it, then you can become it.
4. Buffer Up: Enlarge or build up your intellectual capital. Improve your educational qualifications, your skills, relationships, knowledge base, capacity etc. Do a Vision Re- appraisal. Become as large as your next envisaged phase. Jesus built up from a limited physical body (the Man Jesus Christ) to an unlimited dimensionless spiritual one (the Holy Spirit).
5. Alter Positively: Jesus Christ, in moving from flesh to spirit knew he had to alter his operations as he was going to be reaching an even larger audience. Let your new brand identity, your style, company slogan, attitudes etc, reflect your new visualized status.

The concluding part of this will continue in next month’s edition.Until then, take charge, maximise life, just BE!

PS:
1. Need an in-depth session on “‘Re-INVENT Yourself” for personal or organizational development? Then contact Amenze on 08053258223 today!
2. Want to support Just BE! International as a partner in progress? Send an email with the message “Support JBI? How?” only to justbeintl@yahoo.com.
3. This month is Just BE! International’s second (2nd) year of providing personal development and self-improvement solutions to a large amount of persons. It is nothing but the grace of God. Please let me know how you have benefited from Just BE! International. Stay tops! BE!

Just BE! International Newsletter – Issue 24 – “Move Forward!”

Dear friend,

Does life seem to be losing its zest? Do you seem to be going round in
circles? Then, you have got to read this!

I am positive that in the past few months in 2006, you have made
enormous progress! But still, are you satisfied? Between, your present
and your dream future, how far do you perceive you are from it? Well,
if you are pretty close, I congratulate you! If not, then you have to
MOVE FORWARD! Advance! No military formation has ever been known to
overrun new territories by staying at home! You need to move on!

But then, where exactly is forward? As we differ in our life
assignments, so does forward differ to us all. Forward is that place
which is closer to your dream destination in life! Forward is where and
what God is directing you to go and to do to enter into the next
dimension of relevance with respect to your purpose in life! Why? From
Him (i.e. God) comes direction, uplifting and promotion! (Isaiah 48:17;
Psalms 48:2; Psalms 75:6,7).

Now, as you move forward, do not complain! Do not contend with other
people’s places! (Deuteronomy 2:2-23). You have a place! Does not every
star shine in the night sky without obscuring the other? How can a man,
institution or system be a threat to your progress? You are more than
that! (Romans 8:27). That you were born means you have a place in life!
(Deuteronomy 2:24-37). You shall succeed! You shall BE!
Friend, move forward! Advance! Press on! Take your place! I choose to
meet you at the top! Take charge! Maximise life! Just BE!

For significance,
Amenze.

PS:
1. Advancing involves a whole lot of things. Examples include
taking a new job, getting an extra academic qualification, making that
phone call, starting that business, creating that relationship etc.
Leave the familiar! Step out! You shall make it!

2. Just BE! International will be taking some advancing steps in
the next few days! We’ll keep you posted.

3. Have you benefited from Just BE! International’s Newsletters in
any way whatsoever? Write, call, send an sms or an email now! I want to
hear from you today!

4. Have some personal development issues or questions relating to
you becoming your dreams and you want to discuss with me? Reach me
immediately! I’ll be more than willing to help!

Just BE! International Newsletter – Issue 23 – "The Addiction to Purpose!"

Dear friend,

I never cease to be amazed at the die-hard commitment many men and women have had towards their BEcoming their dreams in life. Such passion is definitely worth emulating.

People like Martin Luther, Joan of Arc, Galileo Galilei, Aristotle, John D. Rockefeller, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Paul the Apostle, Simon Peter the Apostle, Ken Saro-Wiwa, just to mention a few of them, are people who lived for their purposes, so much so, they had to die living it! Today, their names provoke global attention and celebration. In this Easter season, one person that readily comes to mind is none other than the Man, Jesus Christ.

The passion of the life of Jesus Christ in the execution of His assignment (John 9: 4; John 4:34), and the fact that He knew death awaited Him at Jerusalem at the tail end of His walk on earth, but He still went there (Matthew 20: 17 – 19; Mark 10: 32 – 34), are issues worth studying. Jesus knew that for one to BE, then you must live to die. In His words, “Anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go…you’ll have it forever, real and eternal” (John 14: 25 – The Message translation). He went to Jerusalem, He was killed, but He resurrected! (Hebrews 12:1, 2).

What is holding you back from BEcoming all you were designed by God to BE? What is keeping you from fulfilling your assignment? Is it sleep? Blatant laziness? Lack of focus? Prayerlessness? Nonchalance towards your dreams? Procrastination? The fallacy that you need to know somebody to help you? Friend, just BE! Live your dreams! Get addicted to your purpose! Your purpose is your assignment on earth! Your purpose is the discovery of the specifics of why God created you! Really, time is not on your side! Get addicted to your dreams and BE! You shall succeed!
Take charge! Maximise life! Just BE!

In Him,
Amenze.

Just BE! International Newsletter – Issue 23 – The Largest Nation

Dear friend,

One of the greatest truths I have discovered in life is that of ‘The Largest Nation on Earth’. Now, the largest nation is not China, neither is it the United States of America. It is not Canada or Russia either. The largest nation on earth is not geographical. The largest nation on earth is the Nation of Images. Yes, the ‘Imag(e)-I-Nation’ or rather, Imagination.

Imagination is so large and powerful that everything thrives in it! Anything you put into the imagination, if you constantly brood/meditate upon it, will come to BEing, whether positive or negative. In the nation of images, anything is possible! God formed man from His imagination! (Genesis 1:26,27); Man began creating the tower of Babel from his imagination! (Genesis 11:1-6); Job’s life became what it was because he imagined it before hand! (Job 3:25); In short, all of a man’s life is a product of his imagination (Proverbs 23:7).

Hence, it becomes imperative that imagination is used constructively and not destructively. This law is too powerful to be toyed with! Why? God has designed the law of life in such a manner that not only will a person become his or her most predominant mental brooding (or imagination), everything around that person, living or inanimate, will help you to become that thought! Situations and circumstances will naturally bend to fit our most dominant thought patterns, whether good or evil. Positive imaginations breed faith hope, and inspiration while negative imaginations breed fear, despair and worry (Galatians 6:7,8). Interestingly, there is a prescription of what we are to think about: whatever is noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8). Let these be what guides your imaginations, and you will succeed!

You shall BE! Use your imaginations to think positive, right, pure and productive thoughts always and it is just a matter of time, you shall BEcome what you see in your mind! (Ephesians 3:20, 21 – keyword – ‘Think’).

Take charge! Maximise life! Just BE!

PS: Recommended reading: 1. “As A Man Thinketh” – James Allen2. “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success” – Brian Tracy

Just BE! International Newsletter – Issue 21 – “Follow Your Dreams!”

Dear friend,

A dream is a Heaven-ordained picture, held in a person’s mind, of a preferred future state. A dream can also be said to be a vision, a hope or an aspiration. A dream does not deny the obvious; it however constantly affirms that which shall BE in the not too distant
future. A dream is not a selfish adventure; it has the profit (and not the destruction) of mankind embedded within it. A dream requires a dreamer who nurtures the dream to reality. The dream is often by far bigger than the dreamer usually extending beyond the lifetime of the dreamer for its’ complete realization.

The world as it is today is run by dreamers. The world is basically an agglomeration of dreams. Lee Kuan Yew (who transformed Singapore from a Third world to First world), Walt Disney (who virtually built the Disney empire from scratch), Bill Gates (who heads Microsoft which is an organization driven by the dream of seeing every home on earth have a computer run by a user-friendly operating system), Martin Luther King, Jr. (who dreamt of racial equality in the United States of America and fought for it) etc, are examples of some dreamers. Indeed, it is a dreamer’s world!

What is/are your dream(s)? Is it to become a multibillionaire that you may dwarf the philanthropic achievements of John D. Rockefeller? Is it to set up a fashion outfit with a global market? Is it to become one of the best in your skill/craft/business? Whatever it is, follow your dreams! How? Write it down! (Habakkuk 2:1-4); Speak about it always! (Hebrews 11:3); Get consumed about it mentally! (Genesis 11:1-6); Get the right kind of relationships to make it happen! (Mark 3:13-19); Believe in yourself and the dream! (Philippians 4:13); Get the right kind of information to make it happen! (Ecclesiastes 1:13a); You may need to take positive risks to live your dream; but do it! Act now! (Ecclesiastes 11:4); Look, there may be setbacks! But understand, it is just a drawback for a come back! Keep pressing on! (Philippians 3:13); Make sure God is involved in the realization of your dream all the way! (Proverbs 16:3; John 15:5; Romans 8:28); Above all, wake up and live your dream(s)! (Proverbs 6:6-11).

Welcome to your world! The world of your dreams! You will make it! Your dream(s) shall BE! You shall BE! Take charge! Maximise life! Just BE!

PS: For Personal Development Solutions especially in line with Bringing Your Dreams To Pass, please, contact Amenze on 08053258223. Or better still, contact Just BE! International via justbeintl@yahoo.com. You really need to BE!