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Continue reading →: How and why we think and reason? How do mentors help us think better?Dear Sister: The reason why people learn is because they want to reason. This is all because thinking when compared to reasoning appears to be the oldest form of generating thoughts and rarely logic. A thought is a fragment of the thinking process. It is a dot making a line.…
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Continue reading →: Believing in yourself and in your vision is willingness.I believe that what the heart believes, the mind thinks and the body acts. One who believes in himself and that he is one to achieve is one willing to do all it takes. That willingness gets you to do wonders even on those things you cannot build passion on.…
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Continue reading →: How to stay committed? What is commitment?
Focus is the force that drives you into a prolonged study session, undistracted and undeterred. Commitment is the act of sustaining this intense concentration consistently. It’s a blend of focus, tenacity, and passion. Commitment means embracing your duties beyond the ordinary, taking charge of tasks that others might have neglected…
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Continue reading →: What makes you laugh?I have a rich diary that I have been maintaining for five years now. To understand what makes me laugh I need to consult its services. Wait for it, I am going to search ‘laugh’ and learn from it what has been claiming a huge chunk of my laugh economy.…
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Continue reading →: Perception, understanding infection and inception: How to understand and to be understood?Seeing with your eyes is only a fraction of seeing. Your mind does the greater seeing. It interprets. It is usually forced to interpret quickly. The processing of what’s seen is the second seeing that feeds on beliefs, knowledge, intentions and mood of the time. I would wish to call…
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Continue reading →: Delays are worth it: Exprience and magnification of successHave you ever looked into your past and realised that had success come early you would have been stuck somewhere along Average Success Street, satisfied? The delays do not just stand as obstacles. They redefine and renovate what should be a success for you. The failure took away a superpower…
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Continue reading →: Teaching kids about soft figures, not capitalists who started poorly is bad?When I was a primary school student, my syllabi taught about heroic figures like Mother Theresa. Mother Theresa is foreign and the beauty of ‘figure learning is you don’t need to only learn from figures within the boundaries of your country. You can learn from past heroes from countries yours…
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Continue reading →: Asking kids what they’d want to do when grown up is bad!There is a point in our lives when we don’t learn in volumes but in bit sizes, like a simple question and the answer it demands. This is the point when we learn not only fast but learn things that will define our way of thinking entirely. This is the…
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Continue reading →: Inadequacy: Why do they cheat in relationships, how to prevent it?Inadequacy is a state whereby a partner or spouse lacks qualities and attributes that a so desired by the would-be cheating partner. In one article, I “defended” the cheater’s behaviour using inadequacy as one of my lines of defence. Another pointed out that people should understand the concept of inadequacy…
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Continue reading →: We do not understand what’s behind cheatingThis opinionated article explains why people cheat in relationships.
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Continue reading →: Scared of failure? How to end fears of failure?In one article I wrote: “People who feel that they are losing and so detest to lose are people who lose a lot.” The fear of failure gave me these: The fear of failure is natural; whenever you start a new thing it must be there. Instead of running from…
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Continue reading →: What is patience? How patience matters?Patience is waiting for a certain result and outcome without loss of enthusiasm on the laying out and pursuit of goals that you intend to get to success through. Uncertainty, pain, suffering and failure are what you go patience walks you through. It is hard to be patient and stay…
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Continue reading →: Changes from failure-philia babies to failure-phobic adults and failure-philia old agedIn 2020, my grandmother’s legs became swollen. Despite the best medical care her son, a trained doctor and an entrepreneur could afford, there was no reverse in the decline trend that was taking a toll on her walking. In 2024, I had a month to spend with her, sharing the…
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Continue reading →: Obstacles: Success from a poor start is possible.The failures multiply and if you give them room to teach you, they become your winning ticket. Some methods of getting to your target are not as far away as you think. It is those minor obstacles you might not have the power to erase that may stop you from…
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Continue reading →: How do I recover from a writer’s block problem as a creative writer?The term writer’s block is used to refer to a situation whereby a writer loses his writing streak and goes for days or months without writing anything. Some writer’s blocks turned once promising creative writers into bankrupt. If you were looking for the answer in the first paragraph, well, here…
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Continue reading →: Listen than be heard: How to listen, get advice and understand?Listening involves silencing the pride that puts you higher in rank and forbids you from listening to individuals you may regard to be lower in rank. You have to improve other people through your advice. But when you let their advice improve you, yours can have a higher chance of…
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Continue reading →: How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?Very often. I would say it depends on who is interfering with my goals. There are three types of “nos” I have lined up for different occasions, people and things interfering with my goals. The first “no” is on the extreme right, because it is silent “no” and it plays…
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Continue reading →: “Day mapping•” My method of reducing screen time on mobile.Day mapping is a another method I use to manage screen time on mobile. In this post, I explain why consciousness is important in our lives
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Continue reading →: How do I manage screen time for myself on mobile?Taking less time on customising, and keeping the file manager free from uneducating visuals I may urge myself to keep watching, going offline and more, are my first line of defence. But before I explain much, I need to explain the intimacy between myself and the heading above. It is…
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Continue reading →: Addiction and solving it in layman’s terms: Book of addictionsAn addiction is a habituated practice of substance intake, of acting and of a way of thinking and the consequences such practice produces. In terms of its consequences, the damage of an addiction outweighs by a million times its benefits. Watch out for the things you are into in life…
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Continue reading →: Raising capital from scratch, becoming a capitalist and the flawed education systemAll the people I consulted in my seven years of failure, hoping they could help me with the capital I lacked offered me a pass to get an extra degree certificate. Tuition fees for a single semester were higher than all the l capital I ever needed. It turned out…
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Continue reading →: Patience, an undefeated thirst to conquer.
I wish to call an undefeated desire to conquer. But I do not see so much desire but un-defeatism in it. It is not for me to say that with patience one is undefeated. But he who is patient has the guts to stay in the chase no matter how…
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Continue reading →: If you can’t beat them, join them against your will?If you can’t beat them, join them. Have you ever been trapped in this principle (or whatever they call it)? By trapped I mean you suddenly find no other way but to adhere and join a camp you should have otherwise avoided. But trapped I am referring to the incidence…
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Continue reading →: The most ambitious DIY project I’ve ever taken onTeaching myself to sing and write songs remains the most ambitious of my DIY projects. I am yet to publish a song but I promise I will try to deliver something the earliest possible. First, the story behind this DIY project. I fell in love for the first time when…
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Continue reading →: A Grown-up dependent and visionary; challenges, escape routes.There is nothing stressful like being a grown-up who watches TV, eats, sleeps, repeats and stays at some people’s houses. I will remember a phase in my life when I calculated how to ask for money from the house owner appropriately. I never asked for it. But during my time…
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Continue reading →: Opportunity is the word I would ban. Here’s why?I will ban opportunity! Or any of it’s synonyms. According to WordNet (you can download WordWeb to access this dictionary) an opportunity is a possibility due to a favourable combination of circumstances. Chance is a synonym. The reason I would want it banned is not because it’s bad after all.…
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Continue reading →: Sabotage help: When help is its major undoing.I struggled for years before my breakthrough. I relied on various helpers to spring up. But I have also noticed that help, even when it is from a willing well-wisher, tends to be its major undoing. “Sabotage help” is the phrase used in this blog to refer to any form…
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Continue reading →: What is the biggest challenge I will face in the next six months?I have a target of writing 50 articles in March. Yet, it took me a period stretching between July 2023 and 24 February 2024 to write my first 50 articles. This is barely an insane challenge. I have noticed that in February 2024, I managed to write articles more than…
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Continue reading →: What advice would I give to my teenage self?So much year’s have passed between me and you, my teenage self. I have no means to to get to you but I hope my advice will reach you. I advise you to date a girl. Be confident. Girls really want you to talk to them. I see you lack…
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Continue reading →: Types of fear: Fears of inferiority, unknown and being wrong (part 1)It is said that fortune favours the brave. You want to be brave. Conquer your fears. To successfully conquer them know what these fears are. When you are fear you are not happy per say but you are satisfied with staying the same, no condition improving, as long as you…
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Continue reading →: Focus: How to stay focused?You may have the right vision. But without focus, you are not going to reach your full potential. Focus is giving attention to what matters in your life, ignoring what prevents you from ever getting to reach your full potential. It is giving attention to what brings you happiness and…
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Continue reading →: Giving up on giving up. How to not give up?When I faced the question “How to fail to give up?” I am chiefly inspired by the tenacity of men who faced a battlefield situation in which surrendering or not refusing to surrender had the same consequences—death or punishment. They were either put into that situation by the opponent or…
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Continue reading →: What bores you? Getting stuck!It certainly never appeared to me that there was and there is anything that bores me the most. Well! I have it. It is boring to stay the same without success as I envision a greater me in the future, a future that never comes. Waking up with the same…
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Continue reading →: The marriage of two opposites: Compatibility and love.We fall and stay in love not because we deserve each other. It is never about having much in common. We want in love because we learn to flatten our differences and embrace our togetherness. This is what I (28) was telling my girlfriend (25) as we passed by the…
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Continue reading →: What is my favourite drink and why?What is your favorite drink? Tell me what experts found out about it. I don’t care. Coke is my favourite drink. I even add coffee to it. Boom! Cold coffee is served. If you read carefully the paragraph above you will notice the bloat in us all. We are all…
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Continue reading →: Who are my favourite folks to be around.Who are your favorite people to be around? It never occurred to me that I even have favourite people I need to be around through thick and thin. For the past seven years, I have been avoiding people. I offloaded former friends and locked myself in loneliness. By the way,…
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Continue reading →: Strategy and resilience: Wild dogs, jackals, patience and successStrategy is the execution of a well-thought-out and processed way of doing. I believe there is nothing like a strategy that was never implemented. In this post, I have rounded up a few things about predatorial mammals that have remained my favourites in the jungle so that we can learn…
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Continue reading →: Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.
I don’t like prompts but I have this one by its horns. Since I am not going to spill litres of ink on this on this one… You know the story. Unlike all of you who fell to this bait of a prompt, I just want you to know that…
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Continue reading →: Prompt system: How to get it done?There is always something you would want to do and keep doing daily. But you can’t. As for me, I wish to have written just a single article by the end of the day for my WordPress blog. I just couldn’t. In a desperate quest for solutions, I established what…
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Continue reading →: The bigger the fight the bigger the win: Fire fighter/fighter identity.What is to be the one who beats a boxer who is unbeaten for several years? It doesn’t only make you a winner of a fight but the legend of the fight. Such a win speak volumes of what you have done behind the scenes that spectators can’t see. For…
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Continue reading →: Badgie, the cute Parrot (A short story)“Will you be telling the kid hatchling that she will be spending all her life in that cage?” The Pigeon from the wild had briefly stopped to have a chat with a parrot couple that was in the cage, a window glass separating him from his audience. The next message…
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