A while back, I put up a WhatsApp status posing a question to my contacts: "If you were to advice the younger you, what would it be?" This was not to dig up regrets or anything of sorts. It came from a place of love. Such conscious revaluation can help ...
LIVING THE SCENES THAT MAKE FOR A GREAT STORY.
“Live the blueprints for your biography today so that it doesn’t matter how many people write of you tomorrow, the backdrop remains same.” - Chisom Osuigwe. I once read someone who said he wrote even when he didn’t feel like it. He would pick u ...
AT WHAT AGE SHOULD ONE BE INDEPENDENT?
I was in a room in the company of some friends when during the course of the conversation I dropped a ticking bomb! I told them that at my age, I feel as if I’ve failed in that, I’ve not become independent of my parents. I referred to my counterpart ...
WANT TO BE REAL GOOD AND STILL DO YOU??
If you are one a bit conversant with motivational talks or familiar with life-coaches, you must have received a lecture or two on purpose. The discovery and all... this piece goes ahead to say how purpose discovery doesn’t solve it all. That’s no ...
WHAT DO I DO; I DO NOT HAVE ANY TALENT
There is this pithy phrase I started to use of late and that is: “if you think you don’t have a talent, learn a craft.” I remember as a young girl growing up, I was frequently asked to identify what my talent was. I always came up with nothing. I mean, ...
REACHING FOR THE SKY
Settling for less was one thing I did very well. Selling myself short; it wasn’t difficult to slip into character. I was the auctioneer, giving herself to the lowest bidder. Ironic error. Why I did what I did, wasn’t hard to und ...
IS PURPOSE DISCOVERY, THE MAGICAL FIX-IT-ALL??
Most times, it’s not satisfying enough to just discover purpose. I know we hit so much on that. We encourage ourselves to discover why we’re born, to know what it is we are out here to achieve. Beautiful idea I must say or of what use is a life without ...