"...At this junction permit me to do a reintroduction...
My name is George Oboh.
I am a Programme and Communications specialist working at the intersection of agriculture, environment and sustainability...
And I am a Governor for the Future."
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One of the best gifts you can give your manager is to be able to do things with very minimal supervision.
Like of course with their direction, input and feedback, but they can trust that if you say you’re working on it, then you’re working on it—and that you’re giving it your best.
It’s a great gift to turn in a finished work to your manager, and they only have very minimal corrections, if any. If every single time, they have to make corrections heavily, then you’re a headache to them. 😭 Keyword: every time.
The next best gift is the ability to trust your deadlines—that it’ll be ready when you said it would.
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Thousands of people have been displaced from December to February as Lagos authorities destroy homes, evict families in Africa’s largest floating village.
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This life is like a sky. It’s too big or wide for everybody to succeed together. So when it’s someone’s time to shine and succeed, if you cannot be happy for them, just look away. Their happiness and shine will never take yours. If you have been shining, another person’s shine will never deem yours. If you haven’t shined, a new shining can never stop yours from happening.
If you can work with this, you will live a happy and more fulfilling life.
And finally, "Elevating My Game" means that I need to become a Better Executor when it comes to tackling the aforementioned problems.
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Experience is the best teacher, but you don’t have to learn from your own experience.
No matter how brilliant you think you are, your knowledge is limited. Besides the known unknowns (assuming you have intellectual humility), there are many more unknown unknowns.
It is in your interest to find people who have travelled the same road and learn how they did it. I know the world is a 'global village' and these days, you can use AI to convince yourself that you have all the answers, but there are nuances and contexts you will miss. The cost is usually very high when you learn from your own experience.
More often than not, your case will not be different. This is not a curse. The effort required to get the outlier result is not trivial, and you’re most likely underestimating variables you’re measuring for the first time.
You’ve got to stretch. You are elastic, stretchable, teachable, reinventable and remouldable. You need to create goals that will require your rewiring and your remaking. You need goals that will make your brain sweat, that will make you divorce this version of you that you don’t like.
Get up!
One thing I've been reflecting on about habits is the choice of the moment — that with every action or inaction, we contribute to the building or dismantling of a habit.
As simple as it is, I'm amazed by how powerful it has proven every time I've remembered to apply it.
Every time we feel like doing something or not doing it, we just need to know it for what it is: we are not only about to do, or not do something. Rather we are about to add one block, or remove one block from something we are building or dismantling.
Every time we do the thing we've decided we ought to do, we increase our chances of doing it next time. We increase the chances of it becoming a habit.
And when we fail too, we simply need to know that the next opportunity presents a chance to pick that block back up and continue laying. The more blocks we stack up, the better. If we drop one block one day, we simply pick it back up the next day.
That way, stumbling does not send us down a hole of depression. It's simply a stumble, and we can't wait to continue building. It becomes a contest of how often we pile up vs how often we strike one down.
But no, the building never crashes because of one block.
Today I'm grateful for:
- good sleep and early rising
- my new plants, especially the huge one
- trust earned
- creative input and feedback from team
- remembering to drink more water
- realizing I had always underrated the 'ogbono' soup
As we continue to work towards #foodsecurity & #sustainableagricultural transformation in Africa, integrating water management with climate-smart crop selection, improved irrigation systems, and sustainable farming practices will be essential.
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6 sentences that will change how you think:
1. Your mind is your home. Declutter it. Be kind to it. Invest in it.
2. How can we judge people for their choices when we know nothing about their options.
3. Sometimes the wait is longer because the blessing is bigger.
4. Do it scared, do it broke, do it alone, do it unsure, but do it anyways.
5. Nothing kills you faster than your own mind. Don’t stress over things that are out of your control.
6. Wake up early, do whatever it takes to fix your wallet, body, and mind.
The great things you want for your life are on the other side of the work you have refused to do, the habits you have refused to develop, the standards you have refused to raise, the relationships you have refused to build and the systems you have refused to create.