Shadows dance

Shadows dance with pure delight
A little girl
With damaged sight
Her vision blurred
Her kisses stolen
A whisper of a dream on her lips
These shadows parade
 around her frame
Clicking heels
For she is game
For every tear
This sullen child weeps
A nightshade shadow
Arises from sleep
For there was fear
when she was happy
Elixir when she smiled
The potency of her courage
Would paint the world
A while
Now into the purple
She's taken a step
Yet a stubborn heart
Fights with so much
Contempt
Shh! mama says
Dont let them hear
Dont let them see
For they steal pieces of what
You yearn to be
A bitter witch
A malevolent shadow
Beseeches in the darkness
Desperate to claim your song

Elasticity

He said he loved you
So he took you
There,
A dance with Gypsies
A summoning
of Gods
War Gods
Sea Gods
Sky and Sun
He exploded into
A million fireworks
All over your bosom
Tainting you
With his cells
He said
He loved you
So he took you
There
Beyond The moist
Past Elasticity

Inbetween Selves

Caught within the inbetween

A message in a bottle

with words stitched to seams

Unlocking me 

Unpacking me

Which destination 

Will i be 

Global compass

A self from Home 

Find a girl 

Wandering 

In the wonders of Rome

Coveting people

Scents and streets

A fragmented self 

Beyond belief 

Charcoal fear

I see each fear, charcoal, dust, ash in the wind, i blew it away from my universe. My breath is speckled with skittles, my tongue is oppulent with power. There is a buoyancy to my stride, as i move closer as the shadow disintegrates its mask fading. Fear you have watched me for so long, hawk eye in a night with no moons, twirling in your song of glory, now the angels stampede at my side, a samba as your eyes become poignant with tears.

Countdown to one million idea 4 to help boost your bank account

Ever heard of slicing the nugget open? Well here at Redebony the hotspot team are determined to help you do just that. Wether you've quit your job and are being given the heave ho in the benefit line, put down by office politics and looking for an alternative to maintain a bit of self belief, eager to cash in those blank cheques and bring in a wallet of smiling royals. I have just the ticket. Your mental ATM, wether your tired of circling unemployed in the job advertisement ads, fed up with buying everything on a budget, here's to sunning yourself on the beach.

Profile of idea one. Your advertising platform. Many of us have heard about the million dollar homepage by Alex Tewy, yet here's the Million dollar home page with a kick. It consistently generates revenue with people advertising £2.50 per pixel for each square on the platform, there are a million pixels, a blog for discussions and a community forum for trade. It will also have a job board. The aim of this product is to build an e community of entrepreneurs, who market and promote their brand, whilst paying a fee. If one wants they can add video, this will be a premium charge, and each individual will have their own contacts within a network to trade in. All other features they want to add will come with the premium upgrade. As you build up the blog, and you attend networking events and marketing or enterprise events, you create a very interactive service.This....is idea number 4.

A self to discover

Who lost you, and made you find yourself. Stuff. We deal with other people's stuff everyday. The world assumes it is emotionally hygienic, that 'we' are cleansed and it's the other individual with the problems. Yet here is a reality cheque to cash in daily, a problem comes with a solution. Those of us who identify others as flawed and simply watch them crumble, are really the ones with a storm coming our way. Growing up and dealing with my disability, especially the epileptic fits there was a woman who lived near me, that used to warn the neighbours about me cruelly announcing that ' she has problems steer clear." I became isolated and alone, until I discovered she had some challenges of her own. Yet not to bare all. Every individual you face has been challenged by this school called life, we are in education, we are finding out about our highest selves and our greatest power. You come to know your strengths when you are probed with a weakness.

To the victor goes the spoils?

It makes sense to want to dwell, we live in a world where people don't always play fair. They cheat. They use certain tactics to gain access to the information you have, to empower themselves and yet so they win? Not really. victory is a mindset. You are a Victor when you learn the art of happiness, some people will never be happy in this lifetime. It is a choice they make consistently with the actions they take. Greed, cruelty, envy , and when the light grows dim, they crawl their way back to you hoping you'll welcome them into your bosom. We are a product of the choices we make, we are a fragmented self, distorted self, damaged self, at times a broken self, yet in this lifetime, be an honest self. Be true to the reflection you see, do not be supported by other people's fears and other people's failures. It makes sense to dwell, yet we live in a world where dwelling is not the key to the answers you seek.

Fifty shades of digitisation

I read somewhere that first drafts are like scooping sand into a bucket, so later on you can build sand castles. Thank-you Instagram. That helped so much. Many of you know I have been working on my series of novels for #deliciousDecember which I am extremely excited about. It's my opportunity to challenge that creative part of myself which sees the blank page and is absolutely horrified. There's nothing more frustrating than a barren page, or for me a pen which bears no fruit. This morning I endured another dose of #fiftyshadesofgrey, wow that film is sinfully hot. Would have liked to watch it with some butterscotch popcorn and some Bailey's😇,but enjoyed it none the less. I love the sexual tension and the chemistry between the two characters. What I love more though is the marketing behind fifty shades, how it was publicised and the fact that it was vanity publishing. I believe in this new age of evolving digital technology and independent authors there is much to learn.

The four billion hit challenge: Tune in

Four billion hits this is my goal for redebony this month,so those of you who are fans of the site, tune in, I plan to fail my way to success.  As a creative we need that daily dose of motivation,inspiration,and drive,i was flicking through my collage of manuscripts and looking at ways to channel creativity. Ideas are delicious things but we falter at the wake of them, terrified to implement action to those goals we put in place. Procrastination creeps in like a seductive odour charming us away with delicious fear. What is ailing you about your latest project? What is creating the block? Are you a perfectionist? A lot of people announce this as though it is something to be proud of, they tell you to announce it in interviews so you can get the job, we often think it makes us sound smarter,more organised, yet the reality is....some of the most stagnant people in our society,and the most successful are perfectionist. There are two sides of a very shiny coin. Perfectionism is also about anxiety, clack of confidence and procrastination. Believe in what you can do and take bold steps towards it.Redebony

Inviting a dream

I thought to myself this morning it must be a very frustrating thing to be a dream, to have such a future awaiting you, traveller, yet your means of transport lacks the fuel to give you the rebirth you require. It is a season for dreams to usher us in and whisper the deliciousness of their adventures. For them to be able to pitch themselves and auction their beauty for sale. For your mind, I will give you your dreams , for your vision I will give you your dreams, for your habits and your discipline, I will give you your dreams. Yet do not fear to be a unique signature on a stamped envelope, the universe demands. Do not fear to hold your colours boldly to the mass stand at the top of the lighthouse and wave for a tired dream to stumble it's way to your golden shores.

Focusing the mind

Life is full of distractions, at no time do you allow it when you've rolled the dice and have figured out the game, to get inside your head. It is a keeper of souls. It claims victims, and those with baggage become casualties of life in this torrid chess game. Your next move should not be to be selfish but to focus on s higher self, on a more intuitive self, that self will guide you, that self will heal you, and remove the clutter of yesterdays pain. It is maddening to believe life claims so many casualties without goals without tasks without plans. Be a keen observer and a lit match when it is time for action. The opportunities that came to you last year may not arrive this year, the story you sold yourself last year may be dysfunctional for this year. This year the conversations may have added up, demanding that you challenge the doubt within, so challenge it. Face it off. It is one of the opponent's blocking your path to a realised dream, doubt procrastination and the inability to focus. Channel the genius and simplicity of those who came before you, buckle down and focus.

Obsession and work

I was listening to a motivational video this morning as I often do to spur me on from writers block, or any negative chi blocks in the morning. The topic was being obsessed. The argument was that as an omnipotent figure in the design of your work, you have to become obsessed with it, consumed by it, go beyond the basic hard work skeleton. You see, a story is formulating already. We are the stories we tell ourselves, the beliefs we have in our potential. If we believe we can produce 2000 more words in the night , this night, we will. The mind is as water it is a free thing, mind and brain are separate. The brain has a structure, a format an organ, the mind is an infinitive. It will take you to where eagles soar, a phoenix laid it's first egg, man mated with sea beast to form the first mermaid, it is wizardry. To not tap into its Pandora, and allow yourself a little of the Jekyll in you, should be identified as self treason. Your life is your mind, the internal dialogue you have within yourself , a rhetoric we hold unto. Yet with the Mozart's, and the Einstein's, and the Marx I recommend we change a little of the conversation, tilt that gate open and let some of that river shimmer out.

Idealisms of love

Yesterday I thought about something so frustrating it baffled me. The ideal of love versus it's realities. Someone I know used to tell me that love itself is chemicals in the brain, signals the body sends, and yet even in my most jaded and awake moments I'd like to believe it's more than that. For me as an author a writer, someone very passionate, id like to believe it is more compelling than this. It is it's own animal, with its own story,and less of the scientific and the biology please. Love is expression, of the highest order of the truest self. We unleash a secret part of ourselves, gated and protected, letting the world creep in. We are both with and without form, a noun and nameless, a print, and an invisible stencil upon someone's heart. When you go through loneliness the ache is so bad, like a starving child in a third world country, you need that human interaction , that depth of conversation, those moments to admire someone separate from you, those moments to let the heat suffocate your sanity. Here's to love and all its madness.

Love as escapism?

Terry and Tommy, funny names for characters in love, but that's where my journey as a writer began...in dreams. When I couldn't get to sleep I used to tell myself bed time stories with these two characters that always fell in love after a series of very complicated events. One of them would hate each other from the start, and then over time they would begin to fall for the strengths and the beauty of one another. I was a hopeless romantic as a child, you couldn't keep me away from the Jude deverauxs, Judith Mcnaught  and my addiction Millsand Boons novels. The characters always met in the middle, the characters always fell in love, and their love consumed the busy pages of my notebooks scattered all around my room. Love has its trials and for me it's trials are the complications of the characters. When I was older I took to inventing my own nuances of love. A 5 ft something fair skinned guy that used to live two streets away from me in the sixth form. I used to scribble love letters to him at the early dawn and directly post them to his letter box, poor guy, beautiful smile. I remember the way his eyes twinkled and the butterflies I felt each time I captured that feeling on the page, then in time, I realised, it was my feeling. It didn't belong to him because he didn't feel such a way, I remember the way he walked commandeering the wind, his jacket slicing through air like a blade. He was a beautiful man, but I think I like Shakespeare have always been in love with the idea of being in love. Maybe if you love someone else for a minute you can escape yourself, after all , your attention is elsewhere. Yet in reality we should develop rather than try to escape.

The complex of inner truths

We tremble at the mercy of a pen, pinched words lost sentences in translation. A brain that is mercilessly stoic at times, we find ourselves engulfed in ideas and questions that keep us circulating hungrily for answers. Where do I see this work going? What is its progression? Who would it appeal to? I have half written up to a thousand books in my head, scribbled them out daintily signed and sealed the manuscripts posting them to some eager editor who awaited with baited breath. In reality I am still challenged by the quirks of constructing a novel, be it fiction or non,manuscripts are masterpieces of the mind, they are gateways into the soul , confiscating curtains which seal and barricade the mind from the truth. What you write may be fiction, but there is a part of it that awakens a sleeping Goliath, truth. Why is truth a Goliath, because in the mind as a writer it is so easily bent and folded, then after being worked and reworked , stands David, a shining reckless parable of complex components, yet a deeper truth. The truth is never hollow. It is founded upon stories that the eye whispers to it, and the ears gossip.

Leap to faith

It's with faith we do things, we take risks that there is no guarantee will pay off. No guarantee you will land on solid ground once you leap into the air blind, yet thrust yourself you must. Trust yourself you must. It is madness when we leap blind not to trust the self. I was thinking today about all the time i had to take a risk on myself, seeing the dream that others could not see, touching it, feeling it, enveloping myself in it. There were days when I felt like backing down, when the put downs of others kept me alienated from my highest self, wishing that I could be, or think like everybody else. It lasted but aminute, and I returned to seeing what I saw with my vision untainted. Channeling the wisdom and the faith that had planted itself deep within, like a stubborn seed, angry to be removed. My dreams gave me a voice, they fueled my hunger, they held my hand as I leapt ungracefully a stumbling gazelle in the mist of my own imagination. I tell you now, as I said to myself in journals, letters, on dictaphones, at least try and fail, then learn and grow. At least develop, at least challenge yourself and at least believe in your potential.

Method to your madness

It never stops does it. I was thinking about the anxiety we experience when it comes to our work, the fear of not being good enough, worthy enough, or sharp enough to execute. Everybody goes through it.It is a ear of two selves. The hardest thing to do is believe in something you cannot see yet, whilst the rest of the world, thrash at you with their commentary, and looks of disappointment. You must have tunnel vision at all times, this is not their vision, it's yours. This is not their passion it's yours, it's your promise to yourself. Have a schedule and execute daily, believe in your potential, even if your talking to yourself on the street challenging your mind, you must be able to talk yourself into success. You must be able to facilitate new habits that will get you to where you need to get to. There is a difference between wishing upon a star, a dream and having a method.

The basic ingredient is belief

My name is Otatade Okojie and I would like to tell you and the nation my story , to inspire,motivate and engage. I suffer with a disability called Epilepsy and tonic chlonic seizures, panic attack and the side effects of my Epilepsy medications which cause depression. Although I have suffered with these things I am a mentor with the Princes trust, supposed to be at the Oxford academy, I am a freelance journalist and was once a photographer who photographed prince Charles, the Fa Cup ,The McDonald's Corporation, and run my own independent blog and brand titled redebonyhotspot. I am the author of a book series called Lunchbox millionaire and releasing a new series to teach young people and adults alike to become more entrepreneurial on social media. As a journalist I have been a digital advisor for the financial times, have my own slot on East London radio called push button entrepreneurs, Through my marketing and the doors opened to me by my book and blog I have been asked to interview respectability an international company linked to the Oscars, be part of the

INDO-UK THOUGHT LEADERSHIP AWARDS PROMOTE INDIA AND UK'S 70 YEAR BUSINESS & CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP

Global Icon Award - Rajesh Agrawal - Deputy Mayor of London for Business

Future Herald Award - Jay Varkey, Group Executive Director GEMS Education

World's largest K-12 chain of schools



Outstanding Contribution to Education Empowerment - Kate Robinson

Co-founder and Director of Nevergrey, a social purpose organization that operates internationally with those who are driven to make the world a better place. Through Nevergrey, Kate acts as Head of Strategic Operations for HundrED.org<http://hundred.org/>, an official part of Finland's 100 year celebrations.



Outstanding Contribution to Indo - UK Academic Relations - Dame Asha Khemka

Principal and chief executive of West Nottinghamshire College Group; board member for the new Institute for Apprenticeships<https://www.tes.com/news/further-education/breaking-news/peter-lauener-appointed-interim-chief-executive-institute> (IfA)



Outstanding Contribution: India-UK Relation - Virendra Sharma, MP

Currently leading the post Brexit discussions in the UK and what this means for India-UK relations



Excellence in Business - Mihir Kapadia, CEO, Sun Global Investments

Spearheaded a number of investment initiatives including the launch of the first Indian fixed income ETC to encourage investment into India



Centre of Excellence Award - UK - Oxford Centre For Hindu Studies, Shaunaka Rishi Das

An academy for the study of Hindu cultures, societies, philosophies, religions, and languages, in all periods and in all parts of the world. The OCHS is dedicated to preserving India's cultural heritage and promoting a better understanding of it through a comprehensive programme of education, publishing, and research.



Youth Icon Award - Sanam Arora

Launched National Indian Students Union & Alumni in the UK to represent the interests of Indian students studying in the UK





INDIA Awardees:



Edupreneur of the Year - Jesus Lall, CEO Universal Education Group

Consists of 15 Schools & Colleges



Education Evangelist of the year - Grace Pinto (Ryan International School)
One of India's most reputed chains of schools across India, Middle East



Outstanding Contribution in Indian Education & Industry - Sushma Paul Berlia, Chairperson & President: Apeejay Svran Group & Apeejay Education Society
One of India's most respected schools



Centre of Excellence Award - India - Case Research Center, ICFAI Group, Sudhakar Rao

Leading management research centres such as The Case Research Centre at ICFAI established to support ICFAI's case teaching initiatives. They are the only business school from Pan Asia to win all case study competitions globally; they are No. 3 after Harvard, INSEAD whose cases are bought by every business school around the world.


People are hungry for new and dynamic stories, they want to believe there is hope, potential, I believe if I can accomplish this,many other people with disabilities, experiencing unemployment, dealing with self esteem issues, people undermining them, underestimating themselves. Dealing with issues like doubt, rejection, discrimination , prejudice, bullying. They can make money from their own stories, they can empower people, they can change their perspectives and change their lives.
 They don't have to take on the labels and stereotypes of other people, they don't have to
They can believe in their potential and believe in themselves. I use my blog as a platform to empower people, create growth and stimulate audiences. I believe there is power when creative minds come together, assert themselves and develop their stories. My other books include sugar castle, secrets of the billionaire mind, coming out in December, and lunchbox Millionaire. I self published my book, my message is, with the right mindset, you can do anything.

Reasons why failure is not an option

We all have them, faces that thrive upon seeing us fail. People who have polluted their lives and their own options with their own self contempt, that there is no option for them,in their minds, simply to grit their teeth and his at what were becoming. I'll say it once and I'll say it twice, it is not your job to fix all the broken souls in the world. People who mentally crucify themselves with their own poor choices and judgement, then unleash hell unto you. You are nobodys punching bag. Your journey is different , your soul needs healing. In life as writers and facilitators of our own script,as we tap into a greater more infinite self,there will be trials. There will be obstacles. Those obstacles leave you with your own sense of trauma, each time, you need to call collect to the spirit, and the guardian for a top up just to survive the frey. Yet we are warriors still, triumphant in our stance,magnificent in our journey, never let anyone still your armour.That armour is your self esteem, the ability to infuse mind with ideas that leap out at us, and provide the source for our pens. Use your mind, it is part of your shield and the pulse of your armour. As a creative it is your gem.

The puppeteer

They do not see what you see, they do not know where your Ind travels too, when it claws to its escape from the confines of normal. Yet as a creative escape it must, to dizzying heights, where the eagles soar, and you can see jungles like little dots of vast greenery. This is your time. This is your life. If I were to be reincarnated I'd come back as a more self assured self, the girl who knew that the words on the page weren't mocking her, but were asking her for collaboration. The reality is so many of us, have potential that we tuck away, so we can confirm to the demands of being normal. So others won't alienate us, so others won't define us as weird , indifferent, bizarre, so we don't look at our creativity as something to be a cast off. See what you see, hear what you hear, feel what you feel, you are the magician, you must also be the puppeteer , pull some strings and bring it to life.