Shoutout to everyone currently surviving a season of life they didn't plan for, didn't want and have absolutely no idea how to navigate. You are doing better than you think.
Confidence doesn't come from believing in yourself. It comes from having done the uncomfortable thing enough times that your nervous system stops flagging it as an emergency. Because nothing is actually hard, it's just unfamiliar.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
Every year in CCI, we’re instructed to do excellent work, not just for our sake but because it is a form of worship.
Four years in CCI now, this is the fourth time I’m hearing these words live. You cannot be in this church and be mediocre.
When Ejikem dated Aunty Ada
When Sansa was dating Tife
Danny was selling sneakers
Segalink was bailing out boys from police
When one bank used graphics to Diss every bank
Sco pa tu mana, o jewa ka eng
When Shola was Jaythedope and got detained
Rema would often rant once once
Peruzzi slapped pamilerin
Pamilerin shared pads
Crackhead girl that screamed out music lyrics out in public places
Shank was making Twitter memes
Chemical brother was called Aba Goliath by Dreylo
Sub delivery man days later post sub man
That meins you will sleep here
Once this my sunscreen finish bayi, it's to be reciting Psalm 121:6 "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night" anytime I'm about to step out of my house.
Start your day as early as 5am. Pray, journal, read a chapter from a book, do at least 50 push ups and squats, shower and start your day. It may sound like a small habit, but over time it gives you advantage over most people and you build discipline in other facets of your life.
The ability to quickly reset and recover. From a bad interaction. From a bad day. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it.
STUDY HARD. No matter if it seems impossible. No matter if it takes time. Wake up early and start studying for your future. Just remember that the feeling of success is the best feeling in the world.
I just watched A Flicker of Us and I’m sorry, there are some acts of wickedness you just can’t excuse. They were young but not that young. Lala writing to the board and taking Tiwa’s scholarship was borderline evil. She wasn’t even apologetic about it years down the line, never reached out until her mum died. Heck, she didn’t even think to meet Tiwa when she went back home. Such a cold character. 👎