Phew! It’s the last Monday of the year already! Merry Christmas! I began this column on the 9th of January 2017 to share pearls I’ve picked up...
“Life happens,” that’s one of the most popular phrases you hear from people trying to comfort another person who has experienced pain or loss. They are...
Inasmuch as we do not like complaining as an act, we know that we all do it. You can’t escape it, really. With the way life...
“Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent,” says King Solomon. Although silence does not define wisdom (just...
Our minds are our greatest assets albeit neutral – it can do for you, what you permit it (whether knowingly or unknowingly) to do for you....
Many of us create to-do lists (written or imagined) and truly, sometimes it’s very difficult to follow through. Especially when we didn’t write them, or we...
It’s 48 days to the end of 2017 and while I don’t really bother about the year or month or week ending, I had to calculate...
We do not need to undergo a course on volleyball to understand that the only goal of the game is to take the ball out...
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, values and beliefs so. Education leads to learning, but learning however, is not the acquisition of information alone, but...
“The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence”; “Not all that glitters is gold” are usual phrases deployed to teach that things...
First of all… two things to note: Not everyone will like you or what you do, even if you have devoted your entire life to pleasing...
If you grew up in a “compound” (read face me I face you), you’ll understand that statement which says it takes a community to raise a...
I believe we all know that no one is living the perfect life; the problem however, is that we are not yet living with that understanding,...
“How come it’s still 9.25?” Femi quipped after looking at his wristwatch the 8th time in one minute. Ola’s wedding was in one hour, thirty-five minutes...
There is a currency that isn’t tangible, but is able to generate the kind of (financial) wealth most people desire, and that is trust. Firstly, people...
“You can’t tell me that, Michael,” his mother said. “How can you say this will be the only child you’ll bear after waiting 12 years to...
I once read a story about a little village which had a sage that tells people if their ideas/plans will succeed or if it has been...
One of the biggest fights in the history of boxing took place Saturday night at T-Mobile arena and it was between boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr....
“Spend time with people/doing things that make you happy so that you can be happy” (paraphrase) is a popular line that many of us might have, at...
“It’s easier said than done” is one of the truest lines ever said and this is because most people know what to do to be successful,...
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