Oh I’m just tired! Oh I don’t just feel like! I’m not just motivated! When you feel this way, it is just the right time to switch to being a robot. You function disregarding feelings. You Just Start! The important things don't get done by wishing it. So, people who have been successful at having…
Growth
As a girl growing up in rural Kenya, Kakenya Ntaiya learned from an early age that her future had already been decided for her. By age 5, according to local Maasai custom, she would be engaged to be married. By 13, she would go through female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and leave school to become a wife and…
Growing up in a rural community with high rates of HIV and TB, Nonhlanhla Yende could have been just another statistic. Instead, she became a world-class statistician, one who’s using her expertise to save lives around the globe. The name Nonhlanhla means “one with good luck” in Zulu, the most common first language in her…
Ndubuisi Ekekwe of Tekedia captures my thoughts beautifully in this post. Young people, start building. The finest business in Nigeria has not been started. We’re just entering the cambrian moment of entrepreneurial capitalism in the nation. Yes, things are still at infancy and opportunities abound. Nigeria’s GDP is about $500 billion for 220 million people;…
From kindergarten all the way to my third year in secondary school; odo ni rai, meaning, it was zero in mathematics all the way . As bad as 8%. Yea, that bad. It was in my 3rd year that God sent an angel in the form of a patient and gentle Deeper Life, Youth Corper…
A song by Tope Alabi I listened to many years ago that came flashing back to me today, inspired this. And so the old man boarded the the bus knowing fully well he hasn’t got what the bus conductor conditioned. Of course he defaulted and an argument ensued quickly. Someone on the bus offered to…
Children are always asking questions. Be like a child. Get comfortable with experiencing optimism & doubts simultaneously in all you do. Studying the lives of Albert Einstein, Mozart and especially, John William Coltrane, the legendary American Saxophonist, I had to ask - who killed our childlike curiosity? Have holy curiosity that makes you always ask…