How you can stay safely out of life’s unending rat-race. — The saturation is total. There is no place to hide. Come to my (not so) remote corner of the globe. There is no immunity. None anywhere. Consumers are constantly being assaulted by more and more shining candy bars. You already know that. That was the thrust of my discussion with…

6 ways your phone is changing you and 5 moves to strike a balance — They are everywhere. Hardly a moment ever passes without you having to acknowledge their omnipresence. So, what was life like in the days before the advent of our shining gadgets? So much is our techno-gadget-dependence total that some of us will get into panic-mood attacks whenever we get untethered from…

A handful of lessons from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Yale University’s 2019 Class Day Speech. — It was late Sunday night. Both of us have been busy from late the previous night. The early hours of the new day of a new week were rapidly counting up. The FM radio station on the phone was on. I joined her to listen to a lively ministration from…

Will you rather choose scarcity when there is so much to go round? — As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. (2 Corinthians 6:10) ~ Apostle Paul Merriam Webster dictionary on my phone defined abundance as, an ample quantity of, relative degree of plentifulness, profusion, and wealth. From the same source, mentality…

I’m back on Substack. Here are my first impressions. — Another bird? No, not now. The first one is not yet within my firm grasps. This is no time for spreading out — thin. Let me go deep first. Those were my musings shortly after I started writing on Medium two years ago. Following my debut on Medium, other platforms…

#3 — The world is flatter than you think — The eye which sees everything fails to see itself. ~ (Unknown) Except, of course, its reflection in a mirror. … for the eyes see not itself, but by reflection, by some other things. ~William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar So it is with emotional intelligence. Many of those who are deficient in…

10 Lessons from Ben Hardy — The Gap and The Gain — Are you one of those passing through life without actually living? Yes. Nay. No matter your answer to that question in The Gap and The Gain, Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan have shown a paradigm-shifting worldview. Armed with this new outlook, you no longer need to forfeit real living…

20 lessons from Rob Moore — Playing for the long-run — In this life, things don't just happen. You work to make them happen. Sure, you already know that. We well captured this one of life’s often inconvenient truths in nursery class — "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." Indeed, if merely wishing could make things happen, then even the…

An impossible country (where anything is possible) is on the march again — On August 26, 2022, a mammoth crowd of Nigerian trouped out onto the main road through the oil city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State Nigeria. Like the midrib of an open leaf, this road divides Port Harcourt popularly called the Garden City into two. Like excited termites on their…