No strenuous deadlines, unreachable expectations, or being extra hard on myself when I fall short. In the spirit of living my best life, I am determined to live in a constant of space of self improvement.
As a control freak, my life has been planned. It is not a cliche when they say if you want to make God laugh tell Him your plans. Life checked me with no remorse for my enthusiastic naivety.
It would be irresponsible of me to approach September the same way I approached August. So, I have been meditating on what went wrong, what can be better, and what I learned from my August failure.
One of the greatest gifts I have ever given myself was a solo trip. I had been working for some...
I was on the receiving end of unwarranted aggression and chaos designed to minimize me while simultaneously push false narratives about who I am in a high stakes environment. It became glaring in real time that when people assert the control they perceive they have over your life to exert their agenda, it is done with enormous disregard for the life they trample on.
I’m writing this in the midst of not having a break for some days, with none in the forseable future....
In preparation for the day, I kept on asking myself, what is important? In the 3-5 minutes I was given, how could I say something that mattered, capturing the true spirit of my journey and those who I had crossed paths with?
I have never wanted to be someone else. However, I have not always been comfortable being myself. I cannot pinpoint...
This decade is dedicated to my teenage self. She is the one who believed in me the most. Her dreams about what I could do were limitless. She never considered that fear, intimidation, and procrastination would be my blockers. So, I want to make her proud, honor her.
I ask myself as I sit in yet another family living room in Nigeria. Not bold enough to ask if...
