Live Your Own Life

Live Your Own Life

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. -Steve Jobs It’s much easier to be ourselves than to be anyone else. We are all best at being ourselves. We are at our best when we can bring our whole selves to work, not having to...
Money Follows Skills

Money Follows Skills

Somebody will say I have come again but please just hear me out. I am trying to make a point I keep hacking on, about how skills are responsible for your employment and your earnings. It may seem a long read, but for those looking for extraordinary leaps in their...
Why We Must Save Small Businesses

Why We Must Save Small Businesses

So I woke up to a warning from Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), that the rate of unemployment in Nigeria may rise to 33.5% next year from the current rate pegged at 23.1%. According to the body, lack of employment opportunities and the...
Why We Don’t Talk

Why We Don’t Talk

I remember a few years ago, someone, not sure whether to call her a friend, said to me that I was too pessimistic or negative I can’t even remember the exact words. What was being perceived at the time was my state of mind. Actually that state had lingered a...
advise to self.

advise to self.

At the end of the day, people will advise you and be on their way. You are left with executing.  Do not take advise from people then execute. Remember that no one understands your circumstances more than you do. Take extra time to analyse the consequences of...
Leaders, Why Being Yourself is Bad Advice

Leaders, Why Being Yourself is Bad Advice

I seldom write on leadership because I am a still a struggling student in that area. So at best, I share my lessons from the school of hard knocks; my personal experience running a business. Need I say, although I have never missed a class, the lessons have been...