Have you ever embarked on a life-changing journey or begun the process of a life-changing venture? This could be a new relationship, marriage, starting a new...
The dictionary defines ‘happy’ as “Feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy”; and defines ‘joy’ as “Feelings of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated...
And I hope that when you do find yourself insulated inside your car, online on social media, or rocking your RayBan Sunglasses out on the streets,...
“Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.” That’s a famous line from the 1951 movie, African Queen, making a...
Like many of you, over the weekend, I was a little thrown off by the sudden change in the BellaNaija website layout. I saw a lot...
Couple just finished building their house and making it into a very lovely home. It had taken many years of blood, sweat and tears, but here...
Just as it is important to recognize when you are living in fear, like we examined last week, it is equally important to deal with that...
There’s ‘healthy fear’ that keeps us from doing extremely dangerous things. You could argue that it also keeps society sane – where people don’t drive crazy...
If you read last week’s article, Think More, Feel Less, you would wonder why this week’s has this title. We talked about how you want to...
You cannot have a long and deep conversation with your friends about the taste of egusi soup. You describe how it tastes to you; they verify...
One cold evening in Toronto, I was visiting the city and decided to use the public bathroom at the train station. In the men’s room, right...
Just like the year before it, 2018 was definitely another year in which I learnt from my readers. Sometimes you come across those comments that teach...
2018 has brought a lot of lessons our way. Whether we actually seek to learn from them, and take away life nuggets, is totally up to...
Dr. Christian Barnard, of Cape Town South Africa, performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant surgery. It was a very big deal then, although now we...
Last week, we spent some time trying to understand what the scarcity mentality is. The belief that there will never be enough – whether it’s money,...
In my article last week, I alluded to the scarcity mentality and how it is promoted by concepts, such as Black Friday sales, which encourage people...
Roger Bannister was the first human being to run a four-minute mile. Before then, no one thought it was possible to do so. In fact, even...
We live in a world of symmetry. For every left there’s a right, every right a wrong, every up a down. And that’s what makes it...
Growing up, I heard lots of stories from friends about how they would steal a piece of meat from their mother’s pot, thinking she wouldn’t notice...
I mentioned in a recent article that I was reading John C. Maxwell’s book, The 5 Levels of Leadership. I recently came across a section where...
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