We all need determination if we really want to go far in life. We need it in every aspect of our life’s endeavors. You need determination as a sportsperson. You need determination as a politician, as a business person, as a student, even as a parent. What then is determination? And how is it applied? …
Fear has different faces. The effects of the fear of failures wear different faces too. Fear is like a bully, it’s a tormentor. It can paralyze, and lock up a person if not challenged. I know this because I was once a victim of fear for many years. There is another kind of fear that …
Dealing with our past is not something to trivialize. It was James Baldwin, who realized this perhaps, by stating that “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” No matter how unreliable our memories may seem oftentimes, we can all agree that not many people had …
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I know that these questions still linger in many people’s minds; they want to know how one can live a life of satisfaction in today’s world. I will approach my answer to the question of how do we find satisfaction in life, in an uncommon or from a different approach. This is because living a …
Being satisfied demands that you’re contented with what you have, who you are and where you are in life. It is a state of fulfillment, and satisfaction based on the result or outcome of your goal. It indicates that whatever goal you set to achieve in your life has been achieved or that the requirements …
In my 2 previous posts, we have established the attributes of patience. As we learned that patience is a virtue which so many people don’t have. Generally speaking, we can say that a patient person attracts respect and honor from people around him. If you are a patient person, people who know you can trust …
Patience provides us stamina. It gives us stability, power, over the circumstances of life. But the question is how patient are you? You don’t need to raise your hands up to answer this question. But you can think about it, and weigh it with what goes on in your life daily. If you are a …
Sometimes, being patient, I’m tempted to ask these questions to people who can’t just slow down. I’m tempted to ask, “Where are you hurrying to? Life is not about speed and being under intense pressure to perform, achieve, and succeed. I believe that there’s much to life, which we are missing when we lack the …
I believe that if you are a regular reader of my posts, you must have heard me express my fascination for quotations in my previous posts. However, I don’t grade every quote as relevant. The fact is that good quotes can engage your brain and stimulate or deposit some ideas into your life. Some quotes …
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up.” VINCE LOMBARDI Resilience is very crucial in the journey of life. It is so important because as adults, we all face challenges. Why resilience matters is because sometimes we let our failures consume or overwhelm our minds, to the point of absolute …