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As I type this post, I have a playlist of Christmas hymns and carols playing in the background. A reminder that it is the 'most wonderful time of the year'. A period when families in almost all parts of the world come together to eat, laugh, eat some more and rest. I personally don't enjoy Christmas day because I find it rather dry and boring. So to entertain myself with some healthy conversation, I'll be hosting a Facebook and Instagram Live. It's going to be a drop-in and let's talk kind of live so you won't have to listen to me all the time. You can join the live, send me a wave and I'll invite you unto the live 😃 I'll be hosting the same on Instagram on Sunday, Boxing Day so do join me if you are not a Facebook user or have some availability on that day instead. So ... This is going to be the final blog of 2021. I will be making a simple post for Intraordinary Life's YouTube channel to accompany this. Anyway, let's get this blog post s

You may have already read my blog post on  making careful decisions . This post is another in our series related to career and goal setting, and I hope you are able to relate to some of my reflections. Please do well to share with your younger siblings and loved ones. I believe it could save some a lot of time, effort and hopefully from regretful decisions. I am sure a number of people regret some of the decisions they have made regarding their career choice(s). But personally speaking, I definitely  regret my earlier decisions. I founded a whole project set out to encourage people in their career and life journeys because of this. Check it out on  YouTube So here are 7 pieces of advice I have picked up along the journey. If I had the chance to turn back time, I would be following this advice. 1) You have more than 1 interest To be truthful, despite the fact that we will often pinpoint one job role that we prefer when asked the question, what would you want to be? or what type of job/r

I have been trying to figure out the real meaning of these two terms without using a dictionary.  For me, 'Stagnancy' means being stuck and 'Growth' means seeing development in something or in some area of life. Both terms seem to be complete polar opposites but I am wondering if they can actually co-exist. Can one be in a stagnant situation and yet grow? And can one grow being stuck in one place? The possibility of co-existence of these two words is playing tricks on my mind but I really wish that it could be possible for the negative situation to not be dominant. Just like the common phrase 'Make lemonade out of lemons 🍋'  I wish that growth could come into place despite stagnation being at the forefront. I am [quite] a positive person and I truly wish stagnation did not exist. But sometimes life gives us the Impression that we are stuck. Situations like these might resonate with you: - when you can't progress past a certain job title  - you can't mov

This blog post is a review of the content discussed in the linked post. I would encourage you to read this post first for better context. **** This month of August is my birth month and this blog's anniversary. So I wanted to set aside some time to write my reflections of what I have encountered in the past year and what I intend to do with the lessons learned. I will refer to the 10 things I wrote about in this post and I will RAG rate how I feel I have done in the different areas. I have decided to add extra intentions to the list because it's a list to be accomplished beyond age 30 and so I will keep working on them. PS. RAG stands for Red, Amber and Green. Red for not accomplishing, amber for partially accomplishing and GREEN for accomplishing (#onpoint, #aceingit, #doingthedamnthing, #go-me!) Let's go! 1. Read - Red .  Even though I have always wanted to read to expand my knowledge and also to use my time wisely. This is still proving to be a challenge. I joined 2 boo

What to do with your quiet times? So I was sitting here shortly after logging out from work and I suddenly realised how quiet it was around me. TV off, windows virtually closed because the flies keep coming in to disturb my peace with their buzzing sound. The idea that came to me to break the silence was to turn on the TV or listen to some music. But I had the edge to do more than that. To do something useful with my time rather than drown out the quietness with some background noise or calling your friend to gossip. I remembered that I could visit the French lessons I had started 4 months ago, or practice some songs on my guitar so that I could do another lockdown jam session. You'll like that wouldn't you 😃?? ( surprise below ) Or read any of those books I started all the way from last year, two months ago and the book I ought to start reading for the Rich Dad Poor Dad book club (Sign up here ). Better still, it would be great to spend time with God and enjoy moments of devo

Hello reader, I hope this finds you safe and well wherever you are reading this from. Today I decided to write something different and also quite difficult. Difficult because it is the kind of subject that you are likely to read a whole book about, so compressing those tons of information into a 3 minute blog post is a challenge. Here it goes. Have you ever sat down and thought about your life and certain decisions you have taken? I know you have. We all have. Whether decisions end up leading to a good or bad outcome, it affects our lives one way or another.  In a recent post about Facing my regrets I spoke about the decisions and choices I made over the years which I am not proud of because I veered off my dream. In most of those cases, the decision I made was essentially to give up and try something else. My life has worked out alright but that's because between then and now, I have been able to make some careful decisions and steps. Here are a few things to consider in making c

 Disclaimer: In this post, I get very personal. You might find that you'll need a pack of tissues. *** In writing this blog post, I have had to steal away this period of time to do something I did not plan to do. Out of the 10 things on my to-do list for today (yes, truthfully) writing a blog post is not on there. But I am feeling inspired and inspiration has not passed my way for a very long time. Many of you do not know but I am currently out of employment due to reasons I may share in the near future. But the past 3 weeks or so have been tough. I have been applying for jobs with no response. 95% of the time, no confirmation email comes through to show they have received my application. I have been worrying and panicking wondering if I would get a job before my finances run dry. Before you begin to ask questions on why I hadn't waited till I had a job before leaving my previous job...I did. But I resigned from that job only a few days into it because I realised I was overqual

I need to stop feeling guilty for taking the time out to write this blog post, after all I told myself yesterday that I would spend some time on my blog today! So here it is... Today I want to talk about being neighbourly...not to the people you live in close proximity to, but to everyone you might have encountered in your life, or at least those alive and present in your life at the moment. At the start of the pandemic, I quite remember a segment of the news which showed neighbours sitting outside their homes in their front yards having a conversation with a mug of tea/coffee in their hands. The news reporter said something like .... ' During these difficult times, neighbours have realised they need each other to get through these difficult times' . Today, I would argue that scene will look very different across various parts of the UK, at least in the major cities like London. I worry that people will go back to meeting up with friends, going shopping and will forget about th

Before I continue typing and I loose my train of thought, HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2020 we worried through is now just a (short) distant memory. We begin a new 2021 with some expectations and hopes of a good year. To be honest, I was not going to write a post about goal-setting since I don't really have any hard goals. I.e the ones written on paper. But I had a thought which I thought is worth sharing so here it goes. I ended the last year in silence, a lot going on but nothing much to say to the world. My silence lead to me deleting Whatsapp and staying off social media. To be honest, I am doing fine without and with little of it but that's just me.  But hey, let's talk about goal-setting.  As the quote above says, no it's not about the goals, it's about being consistent with them. Life after all is a journey as they say. So why stop trying. Let me illustrate with an example, one of the goals I literally just thought about working on is Consistency. My lack of consisten