Contributed by Francesca Onomarie Uriri. *** Recently my brother had a health challenge that was frightening, debilitating, and, quite frankly, difficult to describe. As I kept...
The past few days a strange cloud has hovered my spirit. I struggled to report to work, and when I did, tardily, even my attire conveyed...
When I came out of secondary (high) school in 2000, I was 15. That meant that, though I had excellent grades, I couldn’t get into university...
With every day that you wake up, every circumstance that you face, every person you have an interaction with, you have the choice of two spirals....
You want to be normal, right? And normal means have a job people understand, have a body as flawless as in science textbooks, have a wife...
Don’t lie to yourself, about what the opportunities that exist in your industry are, because someday ahead you will have to confront that lie and the illusions...
Everyone wants to be, for instance, Barack Obama, the star who made history and changed the world and will never be forgotten. But do they want...
I was walking up the stairs of my house the other day, normally, sprightly, when suddenly I remembered something that wasn’t working as well as it...
Knowing who you are and how you best function doesn’t mean you should close your mind and actions to other possibilities, or even just to the...
Acknowledge your humanity, check in with yourself fully and honestly, and recommit to getting better every day - through the actions you choose and take.
Stop looking for signs of your own progress in other people’s eyes or actions. You know where you are coming from, you know where you are...
I like to make a small difference between holding myself responsible for something or holding myself accountable. The former means I am to be blamed for...
chude jideoWhen people come to meet me for advice, they often want me to look into my life’s situations and tell them exactly what to do....
I always laugh when younger people tell me in an urgent voice, the voice you use when you have something deeply important to discuss with someone...
I used to make this mistake a lot, and today I continue to be surprised when people make that elementary mistake. People get unhappy, and they...
Therapy helps. But when it comes to emotions, therapy is about management more than anything else. And what you want is a shift in consciousness. I...
You know when you break up with someone you shouldn’t have been with, end a business partnership you shouldn’t have entered, quit a job you shouldn’t...
Two years or so ago, I was selected for a Stanford programme for entrepreneurs. It was, of course, a prestigious programme, and it had taken a...
When I posted on social media in December about feeling sad and barely avoiding the pit of depression, I was struck by how many people reached...
You are counting all the people who didn’t say yes to you, didn’t stay with you, didn’t love you the way you deserved, who broke your...
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