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Birthday Blog: A review of my 30 and Beyond list

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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

Quiet times

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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