Nwamaka Johnson

It’s three weeks to Christmas. It’s that time of the year with a lot of both planned and unplanned activities. It’s also a spending season. A lot of travelling, shopping, sight seeing is currently ongoing. I can tell you for real that if you do not consciously plan this season, you may end up with […]

People generally prefer to remain in their comfort zones than go out of it to do something different. I  have my several comfort zones, for instance, I prefer having a particular breakfast every other day. Beyond this, I have other habits that I have found difficult to stop. The funny thing about enjoying life in

I don’t usually start my day with a lot of thoughts/plans on how the day should go.  Subsequently, I realized that this was counterproductive. I eventually learnt how to write a to-do list, I noticed it helped me achieve more during the day. There were days where something cropped up and I had to change

The differences between our generation and that of our parents or the senior citizens around us make us prone to misunderstanding each other. Some are of the ‘mistaken’ opinion that they know better simply because they were born in a faster paced generation, while the older the generation on the other hand believe they know

Have you ever taken an action in which you wish that given a second chance you would do something totally different? Asides the regret for that act, sometimes we realise that we can’t really control some of their effects. We can only regret and wish we could turn back the hands of time to act

The act of being altruistic comes naturally to some people, for others it takes a special and conscious effort to imbibe this character. Some of these actions have to be learned. The same reason we take up courses in the higher institutions and end up being professionals in that regard is the same way we

A child is generally oblivious to the happenings around it, usually it takes several years for a child to develop an understanding of its environment and once this happens that innocence of childhood gradually drifts away. Part of our duty as adults is not to shield our loved ones from the society, but to help

There is something called endurance, otherwise called patience, fortitude, self–restraint e.t.c. Simply put, it is the ability to tolerate delays, problems without becoming annoyed or anxious. You may at a certain point in your life experience certain uncertainties, punches you wish were never thrown or circumstances you didn’t plan for happening around you. You may

Write, Go for an outdoor activity, have a conversation with someone, just do something different this week. It’s usual for our life to take a particular pattern, -wake up every morning, go to work, come back evening hours, have dinner, do some before-sleep activities, go to bed, go out Friday nights to hang out with

The theory of evolution of man has it that man evolved from lower animals, until we got to the current state of man. Scientifically, this theory has been explained and is scientifically correct. I am not one to agree totally with a theory because a scientist said so, I don’t believe my forefathers were some