Nwamaka Johnson

The ninth letter of the English alphabet can successfully form a word without any help from other letters of the English alphabet. It is the only alphabet that can stand alone literally without any other letters and still able to convey a message. The letter “I” while a perfect and good stand-alone alphabet may not […]

The duty to uphold your belief and what you stand for rests solely on you. You will be confronted each day with circumstances that may make you choose a lesser side. That is why you must guard your mind jealously to avoid letting in the negatives thoughts or the bad ideas struggling to have a

The best time to resolve a conflict is at the time of that conflict or shortly afterwards. Do not carry it over to the next day, next week, or next season. Such prolonged procrastination causes bigger frictions to exist in our relationship with people. We cannot be friends with everyone that comes across our path,

Have you ever been so discouraged over a disappointing event in your life that you just felt like calling it quits? I think many people have at one point in time in life had such experience. I understand that terrible feeling, it even becomes more unbearable when you remember all the efforts you put in

The good thing about being yourself is that you do not need extra classes or extra efforts to be yourself. It is what shows when you are in your most unguarded moments, it is what people really see when you are not looking. The best person to be is yourself, do not fall into the

A lot of injustices in the world go unpunished. Sometimes people are led to believe that there is no point to fight back at injustice. The result is that the perpetrators continues their acts unchecked and without dire consequences for their actions. There is a need to stand firm in what we believe in, not chickening

The dangerous thing about not investigating any set of fact given to you is that by the time a mistake is discovered it may be too late to correct the effect of that error. When tasked to do something, put on that extra investigative sleeve, ask questions, when you get answers, verify those answers before

Dealing with life uncertainties can be quite tasking. However, dealing with it with some form of support from your loved ones makes it more bearable. Losing a loved one or going through some emotionally draining experience is not what many people plan for. Most people plan for holidays, parties, work related seminars etc, no one

Sometimes, we take decisions at the spur of the moment without really considering the implications of our actions. In the long run we may eventually find out that if we had calmed down a bit and really thought about what we sought to do, we may have taken a different route. It is not in

Being alert is all about paying attention to your environment; being deliberate to take notice of things around you and knowing when to take a particular action based on your observance of those happenings. It pays to be extra-sensitive in life. Sometimes it helps you prepare ahead of others to make use of opportunities that