FOOTPRINTS... where does yours lead?   G rowing up as a village boy, I only got to see beaches in text books and mostly in the few movies I was privileged to have seen. Two things always fascinate me about the beach: first is the shore that avail people space to sit and relax. Second is the footprints of people walking around the beach, some are being washed away immediately after the waters surge over it and some stay a bit longer before they get erased in one way or the other. As we journey through life, for the entire brief time allocated to us to live, we are constantly leaving behind us footprints, trails and traces of where we have been, and where we eventually ended in life. Worthy of note here is the truth that regardless of how great or otherwise your footprints were or are, others are planting their feet in them. This is one reality in life that if most people integrate as they daily live, it will largely determine the manner with which they live

    A lmost a month ago I shared on “Things for Life and not Life for things”. The focus of that piece hinged on life coming first before things. It buttressed the fact that technological gadgets are made by us and for us and not us for them. Hence we should not let them be the parameters with which we define and measure life. Rather, we are to make them serve us and not the other way round. This piece will build on “ Things for Life and not Life for things” and take it a bit further, make it a bit specific and more practical. Some of the issues I will raise here may not sit down well with you because they are purely my sentiments and for that, I apologize. I have two very inquisitive and curious cousins, both of them are teenagers. Whenever I am come around, I am sure of Q & As sessions on barrage of issues. Well, sometimes in the first quarter of this year, the youngest had his Facebook account and oh, it became an achievement of the century for him. He

  Put Yourself Out There – You’ve got nothing to lose   I t was December 31 st , 2015, cross-over night into the year 2016. Prior to that, I had been thinking of writing something a bit different from the conventional Happy New Year message to my friends . Hence, I created a broadcast list on my WhatsApp, wrote some few lines that had nothing to do with the Yuletides but will sure help on the journey of the year. Well, that was how it all began for me. True, I have always loved inspiring and motivating people to be their best since I was a teenager, I desire to see that people live life to the fullest, this is why I resolved into writing. What was meant to be just a New Year message, turned out to be a daily broadcast that run for eight months. It was hard, tasking on my writing ability but a worthwhile exercise. 2017 was a decisive year for me, the year I finished my National Youth Service and took some life shaping decisions afterwards such as starting t