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Why is it easier to give others advice?
It’s another Sunday! I have kept my weekly commitment to posting for about four weeks in a row now and that’s great! Looking back, I realise that if I didn’t start then, 4 weeks would have gone by and I still wouldn’t have gotten around to writing. I am finding that picking a topic to write about has been one of the most daunting things so far. There’s the picking a topic to write about, and then choosing what title the post should have. Honestly, sometimes I really just want to publish without a title, but I am not sure how that would go. Thankfully, I am not optimising these…
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Stories, Choices and the Randomness of Life
Have you ever thought about the fact that we are all writing a story with our lives? Well, in the real sense of it we can say we are living our lives and trying to make sense of it by piecing all the different parts to make a story. But is it really a story if, as Steve Jobs said, the dots only connect when looking back? In the past week, I have been thinking a bit more about life stories. At the beginning of the week, a friend started a new job at a company he has always wanted to work at. And even though he tries to downplay…
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A trial at being consistent.
Happy New Month!! So this is my second week of ‘writing and publishing blog posts weekly’ on the blog. And it’s not going as easily as I thought. Lol. This past week was really busy for me and the weekend, busier. I had to juggle so much but thankfully I bodied most of my tasks. I am also learning to make my to-do lists daily and prioritise better. On some days, this will mean less sleep and I am trying to come to terms with that. Among the many things I had to do this week was signing up at a gym. It’s something I have wanted to do for…
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On moving ahead with uncertainty
‘The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.’ – Robert Greene Sometime last week, I saw the above statement in a tweet posted by Ryan Holiday on my Twitter TL. PS: I saw the tweet while laying on the beachside of Miami, not from anywhere within Nigeria. There is still a Twitter ban in the country, even though FG says they didn’t stop Nigerians from accessing Twitter. Back to today’s post. The tweet, for some reason, resonated with me and I took a screenshot of it to view at a later time. I took another look at it just before I started writing this. Personally, I love…
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What one word stands out from your year so far?
Humility. That’s the one word that stands out from my 2021 so far. The word has been on my mind for the past few weeks. I am not completely sure where it came from, probably from one of my many introspections but when it came it just made perfect sense. Humility. So this year hasn’t gone the way I planned in any way and sometime in March, I subconsciously cancelled the whole year (I know this is not a great outlook to have, but…). Since then, I can say I have just been coasting. I want to say I have been on auto-pilot but that’s not entirely true. I have…
