With so many high tech entertainment choices, reading is a dying hobby, not only because it’s time consuming but it requires significant mental focus to be rewarding.
Category: Wellbeing
Why You Should Read More
Honestly, I’m surprised by this statistic. Our reading culture in Nigeria ends after Comprehension in English Language and the compulsory Secondary School Literature books, or effectively after we “pass exam”. Afterwards, its Facebook Feed, Twitter Timeline or just the monthly pay-slip.
Life Lessons from Ellen!
Sequel to my last post, here are a few of the funniest things I learnt. It’s a lot but I promise it’s all worth your time, especially for the ladies. Enjoy! Ignore vain comparisons particularly on things you cannot change So be who you really are, accept who you are. Unless you are a serial…
Leading with Heart #ObamaAndKids
Pictures of President Obama with different children are trending on Twitter on the hashtag #ObamaAndKids in celebration of Black History Month. Micheal Skolnik, film producer and civil rights activist started this hashtag when he asked his followers to post their favourite pictures of the president with children. Going through these pictures, it struck me how regular…
TRANSFORMATIVE THINKING DAY ONE (MORNING)
First Morning In aiming at the life of blessedness, one of the simplest beginnings to be considered, and rightly made, is that which we all make every day—namely, the beginning of each day’s life. There is a sense in which every day may be regarded as the beginning of a new life, in which one…
31 Days of Transformative Thinking
After reading and enjoying James Allen’s “As A Man Thinketh”, I’ve decided to spend the next 31 Days taking his challenge and being completely positive about everything in my life. James proposes that your mind is a garden and it will blossom if you fill it with positive seeds and rid it regularly of…
Making Us Better (with MOOCs)
With our numerous responsibilities and the current economic dispensation, learning and personal development come next to last on our daily task /priority list, after food, Work, bills, bills, and some more bills. However, with the advent of this new political administration and in our anticipation for change, or more appropriately; Improvement, I think the…
The Red Confidential 