The African Architects’ (TAFA)

“If a man can control lust,
his finances become easier to stabilise.

Not only sexual lust.
Material lust.

The need to impress.
The habit of chasing validation.
The pressure to look like you’re ahead.

Imagine o,
Someone wins ₦10m, then starts spending to impress strangers.

“When I hold the mouse the lord’s holds my hands”

I see some breakthrough this year, I see someone break family limitations this month, I see someone becoming a millionaire this month.

And that’s you.

Fear is your problem,

Just look at you, you who many of us are intimidated by your potentials yet you still doubt yourself.

Your self-doubt is a disrespect to us all. To us all who believed in you.

Sighs.

Sometimes,

When God want to use a man;

- First, he sits you down to break you to humble you,

- Next, he isolates you to build you,

- Then he gives you everything back far beyond what you lost.

“God always isolates the chosen.”

Do not force yourself to FIT-IN, rather FIT https://t.co/zwDhI1MV4s

And my prayer for you this new week is that all your struggles and efforts in life do not go in vain.

That in the end, your hard work, your grind, your full throttle pays off—that you will not be found wanting when it’s time to reap all the good you’ve sown.

Most of all, may https://t.co/6qoDTHDMtA

Football Match; Island Architects vs Mainland Architects.
It was a very interesting match today, bringing together Young Architects from different region all across Lagos state together.

We had real fun together, amazing time together with one another, one of the highlights was https://t.co/kMwNyQusRc

May Congratulations not end in your life this year. I hope you continue to feel this level of joy, over and over again.

There’s still so much time to do great things. https://t.co/qGrXif34kt

To be in the best university in Nigeria,
To be in the word-class renowned university,
To be in Covenant-University.

I hope you all can feel this level of joy. I truly hope you can experience this level of joy over and over again.

From the streets of Lagos to where I am today, I https://t.co/s1RMCLYznM

For how long will you keep postponing it—just do it scared regardless.

Don’t worry,

Focus on the present, don’t compare yourself with another, your competition should be with your past, and if you’re to be really honest with yourself, you were better than 5 years ago.

Good things takes time—you take time, you’re good.

At you own time everything https://t.co/tqMwiE7MC9

If only you know;

- Lawyers seeks charms,
- Artisans Seeks charms,
- Your other Colleagues are seeking charms to win that project and contracts.

But you slumber a lot,

You don’t even understand how evil many are, you even say—“What will be will be.”

You better Hold on to https://t.co/CubZaadFb6

Please pity your client as well, imagine someone charging your own mother 20million and still not responsible.

Your clients are someone’s parents too.

Why You as an Architect Need Exposure

A true story from the past.

A client arranged to meet me at a top lounge in XXX to discuss a project. I arrived early, saw the upscale setting, and didn’t go in—it looked far too expensive. I waited outside until he arrived.

We went in. He

This.

Spalling is a form of material deterioration in which the outer surface of concrete, brick, stone, or similar building materials breaks off, flakes, or peels away.

It commonly affects structures exposed to harsh environmental conditions and is a visible sign that the material https://t.co/plw7r6vMSL

God isolates the chosen ones.

My Heart Is Afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.

A week that starts well always ends well, this new week I pray for you;

- Every power on assignment to kill your light & Shine let them die.

- if you’re wrongfully positioned, the lord will re-position you to right place,

- You will not become food for life on your way to https://t.co/y0JxuLFO3M

Client: So how much are your charges?
Architect: XYZ.

Client: I will get back to you.

In most cases, they don’t return.

Don’t feel bad or sad—you’ve filtered out the wrong clients. Remember: if you’re the BEST, you won’t be CHEAP, and if you’re CHEAP, you’re not the