Archive for November, 2009

Sharing the burden of parenting.

“It takes a whole village to raise a man” is an African old saying. What you are today is a function of different factors – coming from teachers, friends, uncles, aunties, parents, siblings etc. if the foregoing holds, why then are you trying to take up the whole burden of parenting upon yourself alone.
Burden of [...]

TEN STEPS TO REDUCE STRESS

 Owing to the fact that stress can be caused by; Environmental, Social, Physical, Political and Psychological factors, steps to be taken to reduce it will be tailored having in mind that one measure alone cannot adequately take care of every kinds of stress. Hence, tips will be provided based on the category of stress in [...]

Motivation- the almighty formulae for personal development.

 
You can only force the Horse to the river but can do nothing to force the horse drink. Thirst proceeds actualization of any worthwhile achievement. Statistics has shown that there are billions of materials out there on personal development but, only a fraction of those materials are actually read.
Even from the fraction that were read, [...]

Motivation For the Down Times in Our Marriages Part Two

It is the nature of every system to fail at one point or the other (resiliency only exist in theory). Marriage is one of such systems that can fail at anytime. While systems Engineers take care of systems downtime, Motivation is all that is needed to take care of marriage downtime.
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Motivation For the Down Times in Our Marriage – Part One

My grandmother always tell me that marriage is an Institution that no one can ever graduate from. You have to motivate yourself to keep with all the down-times of marriage.
We make a lot of vows (both implicit and explicit) during the time of marriage (traditional and white) to respect and love our partner but, to [...]

Posterity is watching you

 
“Na wa o! Which one be posterity is watching you, him get eyes?” Was the question someone asked me not quite long when he heard me say this-posterity is watching you. (Sorry if you don’t understand the first sentence of this article, is just the Nigerian way of saying- how do you mean by posterity [...]

Science of goal setting – why learn it?

 “Clarity is power”. More clarity is more powerful. The science of goal setting implies clarity. Tell me how you can successfully walking through dark alleys full of thorns without being hurt if you do not have light to illuminate your path. Goals are the light that illuminates our paths in this exciting and challenging world [...]