Share I’m going to be 30 in a few months time. I’m big on birthdays. My new year begins every November on my birthday, rather than on January 1st so I am very reflective in the lead up to it. This birthday feels big. It feels like the beginning of adulthood. One thing I’ve realized [...]
Share You may have asked yourself the question above at some point. You know, you are at work and the guy who is the Managing Partner of your firm doesn’t seem to be anything special to you. Yet, he’s the Managing Partner, making wayyy more money than you, with way more power and influence. Or [...]
Share “When somebody asks you to be realistic, they’re asking you to compromise your ideals, your dreams. Never compromise your dreams. Never.” – Robert Mack
Share There should be a law that prohibits people from not being fully themselves. If you are not being your total wonderful magnificent self, you receive a fine. Well, actually you already receive a natural type of fine when you’re not being who you really are. You know how you feel inside when you shrink [...]
Share Wow. Hmmm… This is probably the most self-revelatory blog post I have ever written. And it’s hard. I’m scared. And I’m doing it anyway. In 5 months time, I’ll be 30. I’m big on birthdays. For some it’s just a number. To me, another year is another milestone, a time to create something new [...]
Share The BP oil spill has everyone focussed on the environment again. There’s lot of anger, hopelessness and upset about yet another issue that seems to be leading to global environmental death and destruction. The other day someone asked me what I thought about what’s happening in the world from an environmental perspective (BP oil [...]
Share On a post I wrote some time ago about stereotypes of Africa in the media, one of my readers made a comment that I thought was spot on. He wrote: Lola, the big part of the problem is with us Africans, lies within our own perceptions of our own selves as Africans….If we can [...]
Share Africa has been on my mind a lot today. One reason is that one of my closest friends is getting married in Kenya and I’m not there. The second is that another good friend is currently on a plane on the way to Johannesburg for the World Cup in South Africa. I said last [...]
Share One of my dilemmas in life has been that I am multi-talented and multi-dimensional. A strange dilemma perhaps, but a dilemma nonetheless. It’s one that I have struggled with and suffered over…until now. My ‘issue’ has been that I’m entrepreneurial, creative, a thinker, analytical, I can speak well, write well, think well, I play [...]
Share The Hunger Project is an organization which empowers people to end their own hunger and poverty. Yes, you heard that right – they work with people to end their own hunger and poverty. I met with them last week, and am massively inspired by what they do and their commitment to people and the [...]
