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If you have not yet read Part 1 of this article please kindly go through my previous posts to do so. This is vital because it provides the foundation for the second tip I am about to share with you. Okay, let’s jump right into it. The second tip for Overcoming Writer’s Block Permanently is: ‘Be more deliberate about capturing your creative ideas or inspired thoughts.’    Do you have times when inspired thoughts or ideas come to your mind but because you don’t have any device to write it down or capture it, you lose the inspired thought or idea? Maybe it came to you at a time or place where it was not convenient for you to capture it. It happens to almost everybody and so many inspired thoughts and creative ideas are lost because of this. If you can be very deliberate about capturing your inspired thoughts, you will have so much inspired thoughts to work on that even when it seems like you do not have a lot of inspiration or flow, from the inspired thoughts you have captured yo...

Writer's Block is a temporary situation that writers and creative people sometimes find themselves in, where their minds just seem to go blank and there is no flow of their thoughts, inspiration and creative ideas.  It can be very frustrating when you as a creative person finds yourself in this situation. But like I mentioned earlier, it is a temporal experience and sometimes after taking a break or refreshing yourself the flow can be restored again as if there was never a block.  Some people feel that experiencing writer's block is something that is inevitable but this is not true. In my 9 years plus of writing professionally, I have experienced the frustration of writer's block a lot of times and by the grace of God for a few years now, I have also been privileged to discover and experience how to overcome writer's block.  Please note that the tips I am going to share with you here are not things that you will do just once or overnight and bam! ....you will never expe...

In April 2021, I had the privilege to share with the Youths during our Family Week at CGMI The Historic Miracle Centre, Benin City. My topic was: 'Purposeful Living.' The first thing I said was "purpose is better than life & wife." Living a long life and having a good spouse will all be meaningless without knowing and fulfilling God's purpose for our lives. Our lives & everything God gives us is so we can fulfil His purpose for our lives. Purposeful Living is about living your life in a way that will help you discover and fulfil God's purpose for your life. Four keys to living a purposeful life are: 1. Pressing into Christ - God's utmost purpose for our lives is that our lives be conformed to Christ, (Rom.8:29, Eph.4:15). The more like Christ we become, the more like Him we will perform and the more rewards we will get in Heaven. 2. Serving in the Body of Christ, (Eph.4:16) - as members of the Body of Christ we all have our roles & functions. A...