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What you see or how you see it, informs the mind. Some see problems, challenges, difficult situations as steps and say to themselves that it is a stepping stone to success. While some see problems, etc., like an ocean, envision themselves drown and before you know it, they’re drowning in it. It is therefore important, how we see. What do you see?
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Have you ever encountered a problem that seems greater than you and greater than life? You feel lost, utterly helpless, you don’t know what to do? The problem seems weighty and insurmountable and there seems to be no way out. Here is what I do? I have come to see every chaotic or problematic situation as a wall made of glass. So, what happens when you keep throwing stones at a glass? Again, how fast…
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After seeing the frontier between work and family daily get blurred, blurry, and blurriest, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, one cannot help but wonder: Is the WLB a facade as WLB may no longer be what it was first conceptualized to be or mean? What does WLB mean, historically? As an illustration, the Work Foundation (2003b), states that WLB is all ‘about employees achieving a satisfactory equilibrium between work and non-work activities (i.e.,…
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While the shocking but not so shocking revelations from recent interviews conducted by a Nigerian Media Merit award winning, Best TV station of the year for the thirteenth time running has been labelled ‘anti-government’ by the country’s government, one cannot but wonder. Really? Since when have questions and discussions about abductions, destruction of properties and livelihoods, the ruin of certain sub-national entities that have made many homeless, become “anti-government”? Since when have discussions aimed at…
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Would there ever be a change to and in the way we treat or relate with ourselves? I have read and heard of how persons or a relative in power favour family members or people from his/her tribe. For example, the ethnic composition of the armed forces in the case of The Zaghawas is not reflective of the country’s power configuration as a whole. President Idriss Déby’s ethnic group, has dominated the army and key military posts ever…