Hello @LCFC
I’m Olaogun, a winger also played as a striker from Nigeria. I’ve spent the last 3 years training daily to get one shot at professional football.
I’m not asking for a contract. I’m asking for 7 days on trial to show you what I can do. If I’m not good enough, I’ll walk away with no hard feelings.
I’m fast, direct, and I work harder than anyone on the pitch.
My highlights are here: https://t.co/nD68FCLsMn
Thanks,
Olaogun
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I’ve been quiet… not absent.
I was building, protecting, and embracing the greatest blessing of my life.
God gave me more than I prayed for
a woman who became a mother of three, and three kings to call my own 👑👑👑
My world. My responsibility. My legacy.
Alhamdulilah! ✨
I asked three colleagues if they had any resolutions for the new year, and one of them said, “My resolution this year is to have no resolution.” Though funny, it is not devoid of depth.
Every new year, millions of people make resolutions: I will register at a gym and exercise three times a week; I will save 30% of my annual income; I will finish the Bible this year and pray for one hour a day; no more sports gambling; zero fizzy drinks; no more alcohol this year, no, I will limit it to one glass of wine a week. Yet, within weeks or months, many of these goals quietly collapse. The default explanation is often personal failure: “I wasn’t consistent” or “I lacked discipline.”
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) principle, however, teaches a different lesson: failure is rarely individual; it is usually systemic.
One of the most enduring CQI tools is the 5 Whys, developed in the 1930s by Sakichi Toyoda, founder of Toyota Industries, and later embedded into the Toyota Production System. It is a simple but powerful approach for identifying the root cause of problems. This principle can also be applied to one's personal life as you launch into the new year. I applied this same principle to myself, and it revealed why I did not follow through with some resolutions last year. It is probably not the first time you are making the same resolution, so ask yourself “why?” repeatedly until the true root cause is identified. This is the basis of the 5 Whys.
A classic example: you resolved to stop smoking last year. You stopped successfully for six weeks, then the habit returned. This year, you made the same resolution again without addressing the root cause of why you relapsed. A typical root cause analysis would look like this using the 5 whys.
I failed to quit smoking last year.
1st Why
Why?
Because I relapsed during stressful days.
2nd Why
Why did stress trigger me to smoke?
Because smoking had become my coping mechanism.
3rd Why
Why was smoking my coping mechanism?
Because I never developed an alternative stress-management habit.
4th Why
Why didn’t I develop healthier coping options?
Because my plan to quit focused only on stopping cigarettes, not on replacing the behavior.
5th Why
Why was the plan incomplete?
Because the real problem was never nicotine alone; it was stress, routine, and environment (such as spending time with friends who smoke).
This is a systemic view to smoking cessation, in addition to encouraging people to seek professional support.
Blaming willpower is like replacing a blown fuse over and over. Unless the system changes-stress response, daily routine, social cues-you are likely to return to your pre-resolution phase. Applying this CQI tool helps you develop a systems approach to improving your life and achieving the goals you set for yourself.
As we set goals, especially at the start of a new year, the most useful question may not be “What new resolution should I make?” but rather:
“Why didn’t the last one work, and what system must change?”
Because whether in factories, health systems, or personal life, lasting improvement never comes from fixing symptoms, it comes from fixing systems.
Wishing you the grace to go through your resolutions in 2026.