First, stay inspired with this marvellous resource called The Seeds 4 Life. The site serves inspirational articles grown from quotes. According to the editor, “this site was created around the idea that your mind functions like a garden, with your thoughts acting like the Seeds. The more inspirational or positive thoughts you Seed within your mind, … Read more
To write, to read, to run, to code, to trade, to pray, to sleep, to eat. To do more, or to do less. There’s no best day to start something new. Don’t wait until the first of the month or beginning of the year. Start. Never mind it’s the 13th or the 31st of May or … Read more
Banners announcing new betting shops or franchises are the fastest appearing in Lagos, second only to those of new churches and the latest church programmes. Young men (and some women) hold on to their printed bet receipts awaiting a turn of fortune. I have tried to understand this revived, reinvented phenomenon and here articulate my first … Read more
Today, I begin the Web Gems series where I highlight content I find interesting. Nigeria’s military might: An interesting analysis based on other insightful indices such as available manpower, resources, finance, and geography. You can also read about other countries or even compare countries. Encouragement for bloggers: Here are five reasons you should keep blogging … Read more
Some people appear and fill the room. No noise, just quiet, tangible presence. They become the centre, the definition of the collective mood, the room listens when they speak. The gravitas-person is mature, possesses a soul with depths of resources and control; is confident, authentic, exhibits wholeness of personality. At work, gravitas is a core competence, … Read more
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt Stretch. Move into the unknown or the less known. Have some faith. Take courage. Step forward. Raise your hand. Raise a point. Make your … Read more
If you never played the videogame, look for it and play it. If you were a teen in the ’90s, see how you react when the images light up your screen again as you get ready to fight! Today, I travelled back to ’93 when I first held the gamepad staring at the Streetfighter II … Read more
Your life goes in the direction of your thoughts but you are what you think. I thought those two sayings were the same. It matters not if you justify or excuse the thought you allow to dwell in your heart, you become it. Physically. A man is good because he thinks good thoughts, peaceful because he … Read more
Readers are leaders. Readers are not leaders if they fail to communicate their insights to the world. This they can do through writing and speaking. The pages preserve and propagate what is written but the masses find it easier to heed the audible voice than the pen. Why? Speaking has the power of immediacy, the … Read more
“The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.” – Tara Ploughman