5 months of learning and exploring on readcash (part 2)
In my last article, I wrote about how well I've spent my 5 months of stay here on readcash and how I have improved drastically. I also discussed some things that had helped my improvement in writing with you guys which are reading books, getting information and mentorship and I will be continuing from there today.
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Things that helped me grow
Consistency
This is one thing that can't be overemphasized, I mean without consistency, nothing tangible can be achieved. Being consistent in writing really helps improve your writing skill because you keep learning new things as you keep writing everyday and from there, growth is inevitable. Though I lacked somehow in this aspect especially for some few days now, I haven't been so consistent and I can see the effect already so you have to be consistent in all you do to see maximum growth.
Taking challenges
Getting involved in writing competitions or challenges, even if it looks as though it's hard, go for it! You might not be the best then but the fact that you took the challenge means you are trying, you are definitely improving even if you don't see it yet. Going for harder challenges makes you grow more than what you can even comprehend.
Surrounding yourself with friends of like vision and passion
When you have a circle of friends who their vision and that of yours aligns, then you are on your journey of growth. Reason being that you start to share ideas together and then you will start to improve. I think this point is connected to also having a community of like minded people ie. This readcash community, because everyone here has same vision which is to write, read and earn, growth is inevitable for the passionate members who knows what they are doing. If you are consistent in reading of other people's post, you will start growing in your own writing skills because you will begin to master different writing skill from different people which will help you improve in your own writing skill. This is one of the ways I've been able to improve in my writing skill.
I will like to appreciate @Kacy01 for the sponsorship renewal, thank you so much bro for considering this even at this time. God bless you bro 🙌
With all being said above, one thing I realised as a common factor between everything is the intentionality. If you are intentional about growing, then trust me, you will grow. Being intentional will make you go any means just to get a thing done so start being intentional about writing from now hence forth then you will see the difference so clearly.
Once again, I wish myself "HAPPY 5 MONTHS ANNIVERSARY"
Thank you for reading up till here, I love you and I will see you in my next post. Thank you 🥰
5 months of learning and exploring on readcash
It's approximately 5 months well spent here on readcash guys, when I look back at how I started, all I can say is thank you God and thank you readcash! Trust me when I tell you that I've really grown here on readcash, well I don't know about you? But for me, It's been 5 months of learning, relearning and unlearning.
How I started my writing career...
It all started in the year 2020 during the pandemic, I wrote some piece online and also captions for my pictures and then, I receive comments like "Nice piece", "great caption" etcetera. This was how I started realizing how much I can do with this writing skill of mine and started writing some stuffs on starting from the year 2021, then a friend introduced me to this platform after seeing how much I'm trying to improve in my skill and the length I'm willing to go. I joined this year June and since then, I've been improving really great.
How I have been improving myself...
Studying
Reading motivational books has been my major push, I don't just read, I make sure to study well. There's this quote in front of the open heavens devotional I study every morning that "when you read, you skim the surface but when you study, you discover the treasure". So all I do basically is to make sure that I'm done with all my daily activities at the appropriate time and then I pick a book from my library to study. I can cover 2 chapters in 30 mins depending on how large or small the chapter is and I don't read too many chapters at a time, I make sure I understand the chapter I've read to a point before I pick up another chapter. I also put a pen and book beside me so I could jot important stuffs down.
Getting information
This is also one way I've been improving, I follow trends, gather information about recent happenings so as to get ideas on what to write about. There are times writers face what we call the "writer's block" at times like this, information about recent happenings might be the only way out so getting informations or staying informed is a good way of developing your writing skill.
Mentorship
Having a mentor who as well writes and who is doing better than I do is one way I've been able to improve as well. The purpose of having a mentor is not only for you to be able to improve your skill, it's also for you to have someone that motivates you daily, someone who gives you the push you need that even when you are feeling so unmotivated, just by looking at the person or their works, your interest becomes rekindled.
*To be continued...*
There are so many more ways I've been able to improve drastically in my writing skill which I haven't mentioned but I promise to continue the next time I post.
Thanks for always stopping by, I hope to see you in my next post and I also promise to see you in your own posts. Till next time, bye! 🙌
Private universities VS Government Universities
Yo guys! How have you all been and how was your day? Mine was pretty much okay but was as stressful asf! I had numbers of clothes to sow today and it was so tiring but I've rested for quite some minutes now. Care to share how your day went in the comment section?
Today being one of my girlfriend's birthday made me remembered where we first met and how we met. Her name is Mary, we met at the University and that was what led me to write about this topic *"private universities versus government universities" .*
Meeting Mary was not so dramatic, I enrolled into a private University for a JUPEB program (JUPEB is a form of direct entry program meaning after the program, you can cross directly into the 2nd level). I enrolled late for the program so majority of the students were already there 3 months before I joined so as I walked into the lecture room my first day at school, everyone stared vigorously at me, I was slightly shy at first but later got better because majority of the students were welcoming.
Mary was the girl I sat beside when I entered the room, as lecture was going on, she whispered to me that she's so bored in her room because the university is yet to allocate a roommate for her and fortunately for me, when I checked the room tag I was given, I discovered that I was given the same room as her, I was so happy. I moved in with her and she became like a sister to me, we study together, play together, do series of videos together, eat together and do almost everything together.
Everyone, this is Mary and today is her birthday, please help me wish her a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Meeting her has been awesome and I'm glad I did.
*Moving on...*
**My experience in a private university** was awesome but I felt like a prisoner who was deprived of freedom because I was restricted from doing a lot of things. ie. Going out of the school gate, walking around the school compound after 8pm, preparing my meals myself, attending the church of my choice, exploring the whole city and lots more... All we do as students is waking up in the morning, eating general meal, going for lectures and returning to the hostel.
I wasn't so happy about this and so, I decided to further my university education in a government university. When I finished the 1 year JUPEB course I was studying, instead of crossing directly into the level 200 in the university, I sat for JAMB again and waited till the next year before I got admitted into a government university.
Talking about a government university, there were lot more students like almost 3 times more than that of a private university, there were lot more faculties and facilities, there was so much freedom, school fee was lesser, I can cook and eat anything I want at anytime I want it, there is also more extra curricular activities to get involve in, I could visit different places inside and outside the school and lots more...
This is my view on what differenciate a private university from a government university. For someone like me who likes to explore, I can't stand being restricted and maybe that's why the private university is not just for me. I think for some other people who doesn't like too much exposure, they would prefer the private university so I'm not in anyway discrediting and university, I'm just sharing my own personal view, you can as well share your own view too in the comment section. Thank you☺️
`Thank you guys for stopping by and for reading up till here, thank you so much, I will see you in my next post and in yours. I love you. Yes You!🤩`
What is motivating me to keep pushing?
Hello my beautiful friends, how has been your day? for those in my side of the world and for those in the other side, how was your night? I hope all is well? As for me, my day was quite stressful but splendid, I achieved some goals today which I'm proud of and I look forward to doing more before the end of this year, what of you my darling friends?
Before I go into today's article proper, if you have been following my write-ups, you would have noticed that I've recently been posting at two days intervals. So this is to inform you all that, for now I will be posting every 2 days because of my other jobs and also my health condition cause I've vouched to make my health my priority, so help me God 🙏 😁. I anticipate everyone's love and support in order to help me grow and I also promise to stay glued to your page too. Thank you.
What motivates me?
I think this is a question everyone (especially the content creators and writers as we have here) should have asked themselves at a particular time in their lives.
***What brought up this thought?***
I attended an entrepreneurial seminar recently, we were taught a whole lot of things but in all, what picked my interest the most was the section where we discussed about "why choose entrepreneur?" It's just a another way of saying "what motivated you into becoming an entrepreneur?" In one of the segments, we were told "Making money shouldn't be your motivation for wanting to start up a business or become an entrepreneur".
***Now the point is, if it's not for money, what should it be for?***
Why should you be doing a particular thing if it's not for you to make money? (I know you might want to ask me that), let me educate you.😁
What should motivate you into doing something is ***your passion for it, how far you can go for it and how well you can do it.*** Not that how much money you can make from it isn't important too but then, that should come after these first steps are put in place. If those steps are lacking, trust me when I tell you that, the business will not thrive.
We know it's almost impossible for a business to boom at the very start, there are so many businesses that made it after about one year or even more, have you ever thought of it that, what kept them going all those months or years? The answer is "PASSION" it's basically because they love what they were doing and that is why they were able to continue their businesses even when there was no reward whatsoever to show for it and on the long run, rewards came. I mean, rewards will surely come!
***Talking about rewards...***
Making money is always your reward for following your passion. Having passion for a thing will allow you go any length just for the success of that thing and that is why making money is inevitable because as your passion begins to become reality and successful, you'll begin to make cool money. That is when money becomes your biggest motivation.
***What do I mean?***
Now it's no longer "*making money"* it is "*money*" itself. What now motivates you to keep giving your best to that thing is the money you are already making from it. If you look deeply into the life of all these social media influencers, you'll notice that, they were doing well from the start of their career but they started doing better when money got involved.
***So I will conclude by saying...***
*"Money is the biggest motivation"* but in as much as money motivates, this shouldn't be your reason for building up a career, this is because when challenges arises, you will still wax strong even without money as long as your interest is in it. I hope you got my point? You can as well share your view in the comment section.☺️
`Thank you for stopping by and for reading up to this point, I will see you in my next post and in yours by God's grace. I love you compulsorily! 😍`
Beware of household enemies
Who are your household enemies?
Someone who depends on you for food and shelter, yet goes around creating negative impressions in the mind of people about you!
Someone you helped and rescued in time of need, whether lack, health or loss and rather than be thankful, tells others that "what have you done that someone else hasn't done"
**Those are household enemies!**
I heard about the story of a girl and her friends and I feel like sharing it
This is the story of a university student who lives with her two friends (or should I say who houses her two friends), according to the story, she's the one who rented the house and then allowed her friends to stay there with her because they don't have anywhere else to stay. At some point, the friends started murmuring that they don't like the fact it is only the girl that brings money home and also carries all the household expenses, they said they also want to make money like her and that she should show them the way.
She later started taking her friends out with her and started teaching them how to do the kind of business she does and how to make money from it (don't know the kind of business though). They soon started making money on their own and the three friends were doing so great together but the two friends never stopped getting jealous of their friend because even after she has shown then the way, they still feel she's doing much more better than them and that was cracking them up.
These two friends were always saying it to her face that she didn't show them the way deeply and that's the reason she's doing better than them but anytime they say that, she just laughs it out and tells them that there's nothing more to show them, she was so lenient. The two friends later device means to take out of the picture so they can take her position in the business in which they succeeded. They mixed poison with her meal and she ate it and then she died. The police later found out that it was those friends that killed her and they were also sentenced.
My point out of this story is that;
Her friends were already showing it to her right from the very start that they would never be contented with the way they've always been complaining. One thing about jealousy and discontentment is that it can kill, one should never turn a blind eye to it, she should have looked for a way to set boundaries between her and those friends of hers but she was too lenient thinking that everyone has a free spirit as her. Beware of household enemies, they are killers and destroyers!
What must you do if you have been dealt such hand?
Forgive, knowing that ingratitude and forgetfulness is of men, but love is of God and you are born of God...
Keep no offense at heart, release the hurt, bless them, pray for them...
What must you not do?
Accepting them into your privacy again without proving that they've outgrown such attitudes.
*Thank you so much for reading up to this point, I will see you in my next post and in yours by God's grace. I love you compulsorily 😍*
What should truly determine how you dress?
We all know that different countries have their own way and style of dressing and that's because there is different determinant factor in different countries. For instance; people in the American or European countries tends to dress all covered up during the winter period because it's always freezing while people in some part of the African or Asian countries can decide to dress exposing some part of their body during the winter period because it's less freezing.
So in today's article, I will be addressing this popular question, "must I dress in a particular way?" as earlier stated above, there are lots of factors that could determine how an individual dresses which are:
Weather
Trends
Religion
Family
Culture/Tribe
Personal preference
Weather
The kind of weather condition at a particular period of time can determine how an individual dresses, ie. A person that likes to wear revealing dresses can decide to wear an overall jacket with a glove, a scarf, a sock and even an head warmer all in the name of weather change.
Trends
In my own side of the world, I see a whole lot of people who their dress style is based on what is currently trending, I mean to the extent that if a particular cloth is trending, their former clothes suddenly becomes useless. They go all out to make sure they get the latest trends which isn't that bad. Following trends isn't a bad thing on its own but what some people do just so they can follow trends is what seem bad. Making people who does not follow trends seem classless is also what makes trends bad.
Religion
This is also very cogent determinant factor for dressing in my country. We have three main religion in my country which are; *Christianity, Islamic and Traditional religion* and each religion has their own special ways of dressing. ie. The Muslims which is the Islamic religion believes that ladies should be covering their heads with hijab at all times while the other religions have alternative believes.
Family
The kind of family you belong to also determines how you dress. For instance, if you hail from a family of a pastor, the society expects you to dress in a certain way while some family strongly believes in moderacy without any alterior motive which is why ones family can also be a strong determinant factor in the way you dress.
Tribe/Culture
Tribe and Culture goes hand in hand and that's the reason I merge the two together. Different tribes have their different cultures which is the way they dress, the language they speak, the food they eat and so on.. but in this case, we would be focusing on the way they dress. We have three major tribes amidst numerous tribes in Nigeria which are the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo tribe. The different tribes have their different ways of dressing which could affect the individual choice of dressing.
Personal preference
Ones personal choice can also determine how a person dresses. Some certain people (like me) neglects every other determinant factor for dressing and focuses on how they themselves want to dress, they does not let the society decide for them what they want to wear, they go for what fits them better and don't always follow trends. One thing I know is that even if you don't wear the latest Versace or Gucci, as long as you know how to dress well and you can combine clothes perfectly, you can never go out of trend!
My resolution is this...
Going for what you truly want to wear by evaluating what fits your body shape, what impact it's making in the society and what value it's adding to people lives should be the standard for choosing a dress. Do not copy what a friend is wearing or what is trending because what fits some other people might not fit you, be wise in choosing. However, *Moderation should be your watchword.* As they say, "***You will be addressed the way you are dressed"***
`My name is "honey_bch" I am an inspirational and motivational writer, I also love telling stories about myself to backup my writings. Let me also meet with you in the comment section.`
Thank you for stopping by and for reading up until here, I will see you in my next post and also in yours. See yah!🤩
Your health should be your topmost priority
I feel the need to write about this to enlighten you the more about your health so that you guys won't make the same mistake I made.
Placing your health affair on top of every other thing should be your number one priority (only if I had knew earlier), you shouldn't pursue life treasures at the expense of your health. So many people neglect their well being all in the name of their pursuit for money, power and fame which shouldn't be so.
I will like to share a little story of myself in order to encourage you!
While starting out my life afresh as a teenager who just graduated from high school, I had high expectations for myself, I mean I've always thought to become a social media content creator and influencer, also a well known blogger. I started working towards achieving my goals, I would wake up early in the morning, open my camera and then I will start trying out different content I can create, I might not eat anything until 1pm sometimes and it went on and on like that.
Even at times, I will feel sick or see some strange symptoms in my body but instead of me to go to the hospital in order to check myself, I will neglect it and continue with my daily activities or just assume it was malaria and just do self medication and this lingered on for so long.
A particular day, I started feeling a sharp pain on the side of my stomach, I didn't know what it was cause it was so terrible so I left for the hospital and it was confirmed that I already developed ulcer. I couldn't believe it but I know I had to face reality then which was, I had to start treating ulcer everyday. I was prescribed some medication to help relieve the pain but no matter what, being completely free of illness is nothing compared to having a medical condition.
I had to stop taking some of my favourite meal and drinks, I now have to start eating early in the morning compulsorily even if I don't feel like it. Now I know this is a burden I have to carry until God intervenes which I know very soon, he will definitely intervene.
I would like for you to know that you can achieve whatsoever you want to achieve in life and still have your health in a proper condition, all you need do is to put your health above every other thing because the moment your health becomes jeopardized just a little bit, achieving your dream in life as well becomes dented. They say *"health is wealth".*
Having a goal at heart is not the mistake I made, the mistake I made is putting my goal before my health. Striking a balance in whatsoever you do in life is very key, you can prioritize your health and still prioritize your goal, it's very possible!
To prioritize your health, all you need do is...
Eat healthy meals at appropriate times
Exercise regularly
Go for medical check-ups regularly
Rest when need be
Do not ever take self medication
Do everything in moderation
`Well I know you've learnt one thing or the other from my story and I hope that you won't repeat the same mistake I've made in the past.`
Thank you so much for reading my post up until here and I hope to see you in my next post. I love you compulsorily!🤩
I'm fully back on readcash
Hello my wonderful and beautiful friends, it's been a very long time since I've last written here on readcash (approximately 2 months ago) and it was because of my health, I've been battling seriously with a medical condition which wouldn't allow me sit so long on a particular spot which is what writing requires the most but not to worry, I'm better now and I'm glad I can put up a writing piece up here.
Before I proceed...
I will like to know the well being of my long time friends here, how have you all been? What have you been up to since I left here? and did you miss me?☺️ (Please I would love for you all to reply this questions in the comment section below).
I noticed all my sponsors are all gone and I guess it because of my absence in here so I will like to plead with you that if you had been my sponsor before now or you would like to sponsor me afresh, please click on the sponsor button below. I will be consistent from now on. Thank you!
Let me reintroduce myself...
For all my first time readers, I will like to introduce myself again so you can get to know me and you can as well introduce yourself in the comment section below so we can get to know each other.
My name Priscillia, I'm a Nigerian, a Yoruba tribe girl and my native name is Oyindamola. I'm a student of the federal University of agriculture, abeokuta (funaab) studying nutrition and dietetics. I'm a fashion designer by profession, I'm also a social media content creator and one of my favorite hobbies is writing. I love to express myself and bring out my heart through writing which was what brought me all the way to readcash.
Writing has helped me in lots of way, asides from the fact that it gives me a source of side income, it also helps build my IQ and it's also a great healing method for me whenever I'm down and unmotivated. Incase you don't know, **writing is a great therapy for the mind**.
`I would also like to add that...`
I'm an introverted phlegm (if there's a phrase like that😂) I love to stay indoors cause I cherish my privacy a whole lot, I'm an easy going person and I don't easily get mad at people but when I do, that's the end!😁. I love making new friends, I mean only friends that our vision align (I guess that's more reason why I don't have battalion of friends) and above all, I'm a child of God!
***If I seem like a person you would love to have as a friend, then do not forget to subscribe so we can connect together as much as possible, see you in my next post and in yours too. I love you compulsorily!😍***
`Please introduce yourself too in the comment section, I will like to meet you 🤩`
Growth and Death
Just as food is important to the body, the same way growth is important in every humans life and it's even ironic because without food, growth cannot be possible, the food can either be in terms of what we eat or what we feed ourselves with. When you see a child who does not eat well, that child will likely to have malnutrition and the same thing goes for every humans, when we don't feed well on the basic things we need to feed on, we tend to appear malnourished in different aspects of life.
**What are the things we need have in other to grow?**
**Knowledge:** There's this popular saying that "Ignorance kills", this doesn't necessarily means that you die when you are ignorant of certain things, it's just to back up the saying that "you begin to die the day you stop learning" which can also mean that **when you stop growing, you start dieing.** Imagine a child who did not eat anything for ten days, now tell me won't the child starts dieing? Reasons why we must invest in getting knowledge and in other words, **we stop growing when we stop learning and we start dieing whenever we stop growing.📌** We can as well refer to getting knowledge as MENTAL GROWTH.
**Good Food:** We grow physically when we eat so eating good food is what we need for our PHYSICAL GROWTH. Food is a major aspect of growth because without food, we cannot survive and **we also need good food in other to aid the other aspects of growth.** For example, we need enough vitamin B, D & E in our body in order to aid our mental growth. Eating the right proportion of food at the right time helps us stay fit for our daily activities and it also fights against sicknesses and diseases which can stop us from functioning properly in our daily activities and in other aspects of growth.
**Relationship with God:** This simply means SPIRITUAL GROWTH. In our quest for growth, we must not do without growing spiritually cause spiritual growth helps make the other aspects of growth easy. When we get closer to God in place of praying, studying the word of God, fasting, etcetera... in whatever religion we find ourselves, every other thing we do in life tend to start looking easy and we would start seeing things in different direction. **This is how my God works!**
**Good money:** Being financially independent is also a very important aspect of growth, this is refered to as FINANCIAL GROWTH. We must grow to a point in life where we will become financially capable to handle things that involves money by ourselves, when we depend too much on people for financial help, it only means we are lacking in the aspect of financial growth. I also feel that **when we grow mentally, we also tend to grow financially** because mental growth is the starting point for financial growth so therefore, I came to a resolution that mental growth works hand in hand with financial growth.
**Good people:** Having good people around us is also a very important aspect of growth and we can connect this to EMOTIONAL GROWTH. I called it emotional growth because positive people around us helps us grow emotionally while negative people will only worsen our emotional balance. **We don't have to force friendships,** whenever we see that a particular person isn't helping us growth in anyway, we should quit such type of friendship. **Do away with negative associations now!**
I hope that with all the aspect of growth listed above, we've been able to realize how important growth is to every humans life, I mean... Putting together all the aspects of growth above which are mental growth, physical growth, spiritual growth, financial growth and emotional growth, we can derive that growing well can't be possible without these five and we can also come to the conclusion that without these five attributes in a person's life, the person can be regarded as being dead!
***Copyright 2022.*** `Honey_bch`***. All rights reserved.***
I will like to appreciate @Kacy01 for the sponsorship renewal, thank you so much, you are the best!❤️
Thanks for stopping by, I will see you in my next post. Bye 🙌
My two month stay on readcash was worth it!
Joining the read cash community was one of the best decision I've made and I'm really glad I made such a decision. It's so amazing how time flies, I mean... it's already two months just like yesterday, I didn't even realize that not until I mistakenly sighted the "user for two months" at the top of my profile. TIME!
Talking about time...
I think this was one of the major thing I learnt since my stay here, I got to learn that time waits for no one and you have to do whatever you want to do at the right time. I also got to realize that readcash only wants people who are serious with their time and because of that I've taken my time seriously and I've learn to distribute my time properly to every of my daily activities and that has really made me consistent here.
Talking about consistency...
Who could have thought that I would be this consistent in writing considering the way I started here on readcash 😂, I remember how I first started, sometimes I publish two articles in a week while other times I publish three articles in a week but as time goes on, I start to get consistent since I discovered that you have to be very consistent before you can earn much in here and that was why I reached a decision of publishing one article per day which I achieved. Though for sometimes now, I've been publishing one article per every two days because if some personal reasons though but I will soon get back on track.
Developed aspects of my life due to readcash...
**Creative and strategic thinking**
I've always been a creative thinker since childhood but these few days on readcash, I've improved drastically in how deep and wide I think. I've been able to think strategically and I'm so elated with the depth of how I can get intellectually.
**Being more of a reader and a researcher**
Reading has not really been my thing right from time even though I still get to read sometimes not because I want to but because of some important reasons, it amuses me now how well I read and how much I enjoy doing so. It all started from trying to gather as much knowledge as possible so I can have something to write about and not hit the writer's block. I tend to do my research in any way possible, through books, Google, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and across multiple social medias... Being a researcher is a very good advantage for me because it has widen my knowledge about life the more.
**Improvement in my writing skill**
My writing skills wasn't that good when I started here😁 but now, all thanks to the amazing writers we have here, I've been able to learn so much about writing which has really improved my writing skill drastically. Some of the things I learnt about writing is that,
Writing should be beyond the physical, it should come from the place of the heart that is, you should be able to pour out your mind through writing.
Writing could be gift/talent but even if it's a gift, developing it is key. Improving your writing skills by researching how to improve daily is very important.
**Relating with people better**
I was so poor at relating with people but since I've joined readcash I've learnt to relate with people better because if you don't relate with people here well enough, you will not be able to grow as you should and I've made series of friends here on readcash because of that.
My achievements!
I'm doing well enough since I've joined readcash even if my growth might not be good enough compared to some people here, I'm still quite grateful for the little I've achieved and I hope for better achievements as time goes on.
**In the past two months...**
I've had the total number of 33 subscribers
I've had 5 sponsors
More than $25 earned
15 people joined my community (original writings)
Published more than 35 posts
Thank you sponsors @Ellawrites @Talecharm @MichaelBCH @Aimure @Kacy01
I will like like to appreciate everyone I met here and their show of love and support, I really don't take it for granted.
Thank you for stopping by, please subscribe if you haven't and I will see you in my next post and in yours. Love you❤️
***Copyright 2022.*** `Honey_bch`***. All rights reserved.***
Pure intention is the soul of creativity
We all know that before a business can thrive and become successful, it needs creative minds behind it. Also we need to know that in order to be creative, we need to have pure intentions towards our competitors, carrying a mind of competition in business will only result into wanting to be better than others which will inturn lead to not being the best generally.
**Wanting to be better than others will only limit the best we can give** because we will only be after how we can prove to them that we can do better than them and not focus on the virtues inside of us which can even superceed everything.
I saw a relating movie yesterday
The movie was about three ladies who were fashion designers, they were all fashion Lords I mean... they've all received different awards relating to fashion but one of them was the best, she has always been the one receiving the "best fashion designer of the year" award. The three of them were mortal enemies that they can't even stand seeing each other or being in same place with one another, they became really big rivals all in the name of business.
The lady who has always been the best was the calmest of them all while the lady who is the lowest of the three is the most troublesome of them, she was always causing trouble and always looking for means to be the best, she even went through some crooked means just to be the best ie. stealing the other lady's design and including it in her own collection... but in all she wasn't still considered as the best.
The third lady who was always ranked the second position suddenly bang first position that year and it was to the surprise of everyone that she could beat the first lady considering how creative the first lady was. The first lady began investigation and later discovered that it was her male assistant that was always giving the other lady her designs and the other lady uses her own level of creativity to recreate the designs in order to look better than the original designs. The assistant later confessed to the public and she regained her first position back.
What I learnt from the movie
I discovered that the lady who has always been ranked second position from the start had some sort of creativity in her but the only problem she had was that she was too busy focusing on how to beat the lady who is the first position instead of focusing on how to get more out of her own creativity and be the best version of herself. She was creative in her own way and that was why she could at least rank the second position while using her own ability and it even take creativity to recreate a design in order for the design to look better than the former one, all she could have just done was to go outside of that circle in order to get ideas to use for her own designs but because of her mentality to just superceed the first in that locality, the reason why she didn't even think of being the best even beyond that circle and locality.
Creativity is mostly born out of talents but we can also become creative by researching, you don't have to have a particular person in mind, all you just wanna do is to get ideas from the best of others and try putting out your mind to it, you will discover that new ideas will start spewing out and then you can be the very best in your own way.
Life is not a competition and so therefore if we see life this way, our intentions towards one another will be pure and there will be more creativist in the world.
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Becoming a veteran
Good day to you friends and happy belated Father's day to my readcash friends who are already fathers or who are intending fathers, I wish you all eternal bliss. Yesterday been the father's day, we had a service for father's which we call brothers affair Sunday because my church is a youth church and we really don't have fathers, we only have brothers who will soon be fathers and few fathers. Being that it was father's day, we discussed about a particular topic which is *"becoming a veteran".*
**Firstly, who is a veteran?**
A veteran is someone who is skilled or who have acquired skills in something for a long period of time.
Normally, the term "veteran" is often used in an army so in review of this, I would say a veteran is a soldier who has acquired skills in the army overtime.
**Now, how does being a veteran relates with fathers?**
We actually used the term veteran for fathers because fathers are supposed to be as veteran, they are supposed to have acquired enough skills relating to marriage, parenting and the likes... They are supposed to be able to endure everything a veteran can endure and most importantly, they are supposed to be soldiers for Christ.
**How can you become a veteran?**
The first step into becoming a veteran is to first join the army and become a bonafide soldier. This means as fathers, if you must be a successful father, then you have to first join the army of Christ that is giving your life to Christ.
The second step of becoming a veteran is by following all the rules of the army. You would agree with me that as a soldier, you cannot do but follow all the rules of the army because if you don't, there will be serious penalty and that is the same thing with becoming a good father, you have to follow all the rules of fathering.
**The rules of fathering involves;**
Obedience
Faithfulness
Setting priorities
Acquiring knowledge
Having strategies
Boldness
**Some of the other things to note about being a veteran /good father**
One person cannot make an army. This simply means that in order to be a good father, you will need the cooperation of your family.
A relaxed soldier is a dead soldier. Soldiers are always at war and that means being a father, you must always be at alert in order to quickly detect if there's any problem.
If you are in army, you must carry yourself as a soldier. This simply means that as a father, you must carry yourself as a father, you mustn't allow anybody ride you anyhow.
Becoming a veteran is not a day job. In order to become a good father, it takes time because you have to keep learning and acquiring skills.
Becoming a veteran entails knowing your own fight. As a good father, you have to know the type of battle you should fight and also know the ones you should not fight because if you do, it might put your whole family in trouble.
A soldier who dies in battle is better than a soldier who is running away from battle then dies on the way. There's honour in dieing as soldier than dieing as a commoner, you have to be a soldier till death as a father.
As a soldier, you cannot be a deserter. This means as a good father, you cannot desert your family, your family must be your topmost priority.
`In conclusion, I will want you fathers or intending fathers to know that the best war that is win is the one that is not fought at all so learn to leave all your battles for God to fight it on your behalf, you will be glad you did.`
Thank you @Talecharm for the sponsorship renewal, I'm really grateful sis.🙏
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Social media can be deceiving, beware!
I was going through an IG post earlier when I came across someone who was said to have done a birthday cake for $50000, she is one of these popular Instagram influencer and brand ambassador. She posted her huge cake online and people were asking her how much she did it and she said she did it for approximately $50000, there were different forms of critics as to how someone will waste such an amount of money on just cake. It was later said by one of her fans who knew her very well that all she said were just lies and that she was only doing that for cruise and just to gain more followers.
Before that time, a whole lot of people have been saying this popular phrase "God when", this is a phrase so many youths in my country use anytime they see someone who has achieved something big, some where saying "God, am I your potato" or "I know I'm definitely a spoon", some will even go ahead to say "e con dey look like say nah only me wey no dey serious with my life" (this is a pidgin English which is interpreted as "it's now looking like I'm the only one who isn't serious with her life"). It's so disappointing when I hear people saying all this things to themselves all because of an online post?
Frankly speaking, how does people even reason? How can you even believe such a blatant lie in the first place? It's not as if you don't know what she does for a living, how on earth could she have gotten so much money that she will use such an amount for ordinary cake? There are so many things we see on social media these days which could be do misleading. There are some of these things we see online that could be true and there are some of it that could be false but either ways, we should always remember that "Rome wasn't built in a day".
We are always quick to envy people who are successful and we wish to be like them or that we start to see what we are doing as not being enough, we tend to not look at their journey to success and the rough roads they have passed through. People don't get noticed when they are still struggling, they only get recognized when they have made it in life and that is why social media only shows the rosy part if people's life. We should also realize that we can only know the part of people's life in which they want us to know, they can't possibly post all their sleepless nights, depressed period, crying times and even when they feel tired of life...
Behind the smiling faces you see on social media pages their are a whole lot more things that it's only their family members or close pals that can relate to. We have to learn to stop believing everything on social media, there are some of these posts that damages our mental health the more we see them and dwell on them, while some people truly want to pour out their mind on social media, all some people want to do is just to pull crowd and catch cruise, they don't mind if they lie or what their lie is capable of doing to people's mind.
Some of these people you look up to and beat yourself up all because of them are wishing they are in your position right now. Some of these celebrities are in serious financial crises because of their social media show off and because of the level they've placed themselves, they can't even ask their colleagues for help. So you see now that your own situation might even be better so start learning not to believe everything you see on social media anymore, if you feel like someone is truly doing well, let it be a form of motivation for you and don't give yourself unnecessary depression.
The bottom line is that instead of condemning yourself because of the achievements of others, why not be grateful for where you are and work towards achieving more. **Social media life is different from real life!**
`PS; I've renewed all my sponsorships and I've seen one of my sponsors renewed my sponsorship too, thank you` @Ellawrites `I'm grateful 🙏`
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Update: my BCH wallet
Hello readcash family, I've been lagging in writing this days and it's because I've not really been feeling too well and even if one should write, the earnings isn't really encouraging because of the current situation of BCH but anyways, I'm better now and I've decided to keep writing hoping for everything to get better.
Does anybody understand what is happening to BCH because I don't seem to understand, BCH has really been reducing and I don't even understand why, as at today's morning, 1 BCH is approximately equals to $114 and this is really alarming considering the fact that just in the space of one month, BCH has reduced drastically with more than $100, it's really bad.😡
I think this is the reason rusty has been visiting pages and tipping with lesser dollars, my earnings for over two weeks now has been so little and that's because majority of my posts has no or little earnings coupled with the fact that BCH is reducing drastically. When I checked my earnings yesterday, I was so shocked because more than half of my earnings is gone and it's really devastating, I don't know if it's everybody that is experiencing this though.
I've now been feeling insecure about my remaining amount because BCH keeps falling everyday and I don't know if it's going to rise soon or it will keep falling, I feel like I should withdraw my remaining earnings so it does not reduce any further but another part of me wants to keep it there maybe in case a miracle happens and BCH increases again, then my earnings can increase too but I don't know how feasible this is.😔
Taking a good look at what happened between March 2018 and April 2018, the price of BCH increased pretty much from something around $704 to around $1358 with the difference of approximately $654. I'm hoping for this kind of miracle soon even though it doesn't look feasible now because I'm not sure BCH has ever reduced this much before.
I've been really wondering, is BCH is going down permanently or there's still hope for BCH? Please share your thoughts on this in the comment section. Do you think BCH will increase soon? Or do you think this is the end of BCH? Or if at all it will increase, will it take so long before it can increase?
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Gain knowledge so you can cure ignorance
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Hello my amazing friends, how have you all been? It's been quite a while I posted here on readcash, I'm so sorry I couldn't really keep up with posts here, the earnings have been quite discouraging and can I even blame rusty, BCH has been reducing drastically and it's even taking its toll on me. Well, I'm here today and I'm glad I will be writing today.
I came across a post by Apostle Joshua Selman which was speaking about gaining knowledge, he quoted, "Keep gaining knowledge, buy books not shoes so you won't look great but empty". This is the case of so many people, they have fine faces, they look so gorgeous probably because of the way they dresses but they don't have anything upstairs. You will see so many cases of people falling victims to some circumstances, when you later hear the reason behind it, you will discover that it was because of their ignorance.
Gaining knowledge is the cure for ignorance, if you did not strife to gain knowledge, you will never be free of ignorance. We also have to know that no knowledge is lost, we can learn from anybody ranging from little kids to adult, we should never feel too big to learn, we can as well learn from circumstances and situations around us, don't let your eyes and reasoning be shut from the things that are happening around us, for every things that happen, there's always a lesson to learn either we like it or not, their are something we can learn and will as well be of good help to us if by any means we find ourselves in such situation.
Ways in which we can gain knowledge
Through books
Through videos
Through life experiences
Through people
Through education
You must find which way works better for you but for me, I can tell you that reading books is the best way to gain knowledge, u know some people find it really hard to read books especially the big ones and that is why I can't tell you to beat yourself up while trying to read books just do whatever works for you.
Gaining knowledge through people is also one thing that works well for me, whenever I get somewhere, I make sure I pick a lesson from the person I met there. People usually feel too big to learn from other people especially when they are below their level either in age or in life achievements which isn't supposed to be so, you can learn from anybody as long as you are willing to learn and you are open minded, you will surely see one lesson or the other to pick from people.
Let me sight an example;
Being a fashion designer, we all know it takes a whole lot of daily learning so you can keep on being in vogue and following the trend. Now, if you want to keep learning, you can either do that through videos or people, you can also agree with me that learning through videos alone will not do all the magic, their are times you would also need to learn from people who are more experienced and sometimes people who are less experienced. I said less experienced because even some local tailors might have some ideas but because of lack of resources, they weren't able to implement the idea so if you have such person as your friend and also considering the fact that you are well established and you have enough resources, all you have to do is to calm down and be willing to learn from the person, don't feel to big that the person is not as established as you are, of you are calm enough, you will surely learn more than you can imagine.
`In conclusion; knowledge can be found anywhere as long as we are willing to learn and we are open minded, knowledge is also a great cure for ignorance. Thank you for stopping by, I will see you in my next post. Till then, bye😍`
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You are perfect just the way you are
I once heard of a story of a young girl who took Poison and killed herself because people were abusing the way she looked. That memory suddenly struck me and led me into writing this article.
We have to be cautious of the things we say to our fellow humans, it is so funny when you see a person abusing another person of the same gender of the way he/she look, it's particularly common to we ladies. Everyone is wonderfully and beautifully created, the word of God said we were all made in God's image and so that is to tell us that no one is better than the other. Making people feel less of themselves can lead to depression for them and for people with very flexible heart, it can lead to series of problem for them ranging from health issues to death.
You might look very beautiful and sassy but that doesn't guarantee you a better future, I've seen cases of beautiful girls who ended up selling pepper on the street, I'm not saying this to discredit anyone (ofcourse, I'm also a beautiful girl 😁) all I just wanted you to know is that, at the end of the day what matters is how well you are living your life and not how good you look because how good you look will never become anything for you if you don't add value to other people's life.
It's so unfortunate how some people think especially ladies, infact body shaming is mainly ladies thing because they are the one that does it the most. Ladies always feel as if they re better than other ladies immediately they look good than them, it's so common to girls that look so good not wanting to associate with girls that isn't up to their standard in looks. In some cases, another girl might even look more beautiful than the girl but because she has a nice stature compared to the other girl, she feels she's way better than her. For instance, something like this happened in my school and I will share below;
*There was this particular time we had orientation for fresh students when I just gained admission so I and some of my friends went and after the orientation, we started taking pictures and there was this girl who was in the same department with me, she gave me her phone so I could snap her, I started snapping her and some of the other friends joined her to snap as well but when a particular very tall girl wanted to her, she just took her phone from me and said that she's no more interested in taking pictures anymore and because she doesn't want ugly girls in her picture. Everybody burst into laughter and the girl felt so bad, I couldn't take it so I said to her that, "she might be too tall but she's way beautiful than you" and everyone started concurring, some said she's truly very beautiful and it's just that she's tall and slim while some said the other girl isn't even beautiful at all, it's just that she's just a bit shorter and fatter than her. She felt so bad and she angrily left, I was so happy at the turn of the event.*
We have to learn to appreciate people for who they are, stop body shaming people, it's not nice at all, I know God is not happy with it either because it's God that created everyone and if you are mocking the way people look, that definitely means you are saying God does not know how to create. We have seen so many cases of slim people holding high offices while we've also seen cases of fat people doing great things, the same way we've seen cases of medium sized people adding value to the world.
I had a friend when u was in high school, she was very fat and that got to her alot because people won't stop body shaming her telling her how shapeless she looks, she was always so shy to mingle with friends because she doesn't know what they will say to her. I will always encourage her then not to worry cause as time goes on, so many of these people will look up to her only if she tries adding value to herself. We had a teacher then too who was like a mother to us, we would always go to her and she would give us advice, my friend took to all her advice and she started gaining confidence in herself. As at now, she's a registered nurse and she's doing so well more than many of them who was always body shaming her then.
I will also like to address people who are always body shamed either because of a disability or because of how they look, you shouldn't let what people say get to you, know that people will always talk, yes I understand how sad body shaming can make us feel but we shouldn't let depression set in, we should always have in mind that it's God that created us and he created us fearfully and wonderfully. If we always have that at the back of our mind, things like this wouldn't get to us.
We should also learn to add value to ourselves and strive towards achieving the best, when people see how good we are doing even if they don't want to associate with us, they would be forced to because of what they stand to gain. DON'T LET WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING STOP US FROM BEING WHO ARE MEANT TO BE!
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How else can a fresh graduate get a job?
As I was going through LinkedIn today, I saw a post about a lady who is a fresh graduate and who was looking for a job desperately, she wrote so many applications based on entry level and the companies response would always be "sorry, you do not qualify for this post because if your inexperience". She's frustrated because she knows her ability and what she can do if she gets employed into the company even some of the companies tell her so but what's stopping her now is because she has no work experience.
Now tell me, how on earth will a fresh graduate have a working experience of 5 years especially in this country knowing fully well that we can't work in an organization and learn at the same time compared to that of the developed countries. It's just so unfair to newly graduated students. I understand that experience is key in the development of anything and that's why they say, "experience is the best teacher" but on a lighter note, someone who has no experience but have a very good IQ can be more productive to someone who has experience with no brain.
At least we should give the fresh graduates trial too, some of them are very intelligent and they can bring ideas to the development of the company, all they just need are **trials**. They cannot gain working experience without working at all, they have to work somewhere before they can have working experience. Imagine gaining admission into the university at 20 years old after you must have seek admission for more than 4 years and then graduate at 26 years instead of 24 years because of ASUU strike only for you to submit an application to a company and then they tell you;
*You have a very good educational status and all your grades shows how intelligent you are, you could have been the best candidate for this job but sorry, we only need someone who is not more than 25 years of age and have at least 4 years working experience.*
Please tell me how feasible is the above sentence in this country of ours😁. How on earth do you expect a 25 years old to have a working experience of at least 4 years? Some people will even graduate at a very late age of around 28 - 30 years because of how fucked up the educational sector is, and then, majority of the organizations will be rejecting them because of their age, is it their fault that they are born this part of the world?
I once had a neighbor who had no one to fend for him, he was such a determined young guy, he lost his parent as a teenager and since then he has been hustling all by himself. He would do some many hard jobs like serving bricklayers, and clearing farmlands just to save up money for his schooling, he eventually got his university fee. It wasn't easy throughout his university days, he had so many distractions, some of his friends will tell him to join them in doing internet fraudster but he would always decline, he stood his ground throughout his university days and later graduated as the best student in public administration. He started seeking for jobs but he always got declined because he is way too old for the job position and he has no level of experience. He got so frustrated that he almost wanted to take his own life until he met with a friend that introduced him to an illegal business with minimum of 10000$ per month.
If it were to be you, what will you do? Will you accept the offer of continue in your search for job?
`Note: this is just a fictional story`
We have to change our mentality, this issue of no employment has really led to so many atrocities in the country, it's not easy to graduate from the university and starts selling recharge cards on the streets. I know our government have so many things to do in this case but even the hiring managers as well need to be called to order!
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Broke up with somebody's son
As I woke up today and picked up my phone to write, i had no idea if what to write, I guessed I also reached the writer's block😁, well my mind hasn't been stable since the incident that happened on Sunday, I've been feeling so insecure about it maybe that's the reason I couldn't even think of what to write. Thank God for this prompt I saw on @Aimure page some days back which I took permission from him to also answer it, according to him, it was first answered by @Kushyzee so I will be jumping on it today since I have no idea of what to write about.
`Let's get started 💃`
Ever been in love?
Yes I have been in love and I can tell you that it was such an amazing feeling to love someone and get loved back just the same way. The only problem I had then was controlling my emotions because I let my emotions get the better part of me but I thank God I quickly realize myself and since then I've promised myself that I will never love with my heart alone but also with my head.
Ever felt lonely?
Yes, a couple of times. Mostly it's not because there's no one around me but because their presence is just as the same as their absence or maybe they are not doing anything to help me at that time. Sometimes too, I feel lonely because there's no one beside me and it looks as if I'm the only one left in this world. I remember when I lost my dad, I felt so alone and everyone else around me look like nobody, I didn't care if they were there or not, all I wanted was for my dad to be there.
Trip to overseas?
No no no 😁 I've always stayed in my country, it's not like I don't want to leave to another country, it's just that I'm not yet capable. Sometimes I just wish to travel out if not to live there forever, just for vacation at least but no, it's not so easy to do that not with the way everything is costly but I'm working towards it and I know one day, my dream will come to realization.
Talk to a stranger?
Yes I have talked to a stranger countless times, if you didn't want to talk to a stranger, how will a student make friends or how will you get acquainted with your church members the first time you attended the church, at least your friends were once strangers to you before they became your friend. Talking to strangers is quite inevitable in life infact your spouses were once strangers before you became a couple.
Ate a lot of ice cream?
Well not really, while growing up as a child or teenager, I fancy ice cream then and I take a whole lot of it then but while growing up, whenever I take too much ice creams, it always worry my tummy and that was the reason I had reduce my intake because I discovered that too much sugar isn't good for the body. Instead of ice cream, I prefer yoghurt because it contains less sugar and it's healthy for the body.
Siblings fighting?
I and my siblings quarrel sometimes especially my immediate elder sister, she can be so annoying and awesome at the same time 😁, I think it's impossible for siblings not to quarrel at least once in their lifetime because that's how humans are created. There's this popular saying that *"even the tongue and mouth fight"* and that's why close friends quarrel and even twin siblings, it's nature but resolving it quickly us what shows that you truly love each other.
Been dumped?
I know dump is another word for break up in my country, hahaha, the way some people use the word ehn, you will pity the person dumped but can I blame them? Some guys feel like they've dumped their girlfriends because she has already been explored, used the valuable thing in them and now they've already become like a piece of trash. As for me, I haven't been dumped before.
Dumped someone?
I have broken up with someone's son before, lol. I've only been in one relationship before and I was the one to end things between us because I couldn't keep up with the change in his behavior anymore. I wouldn't say I dumped him because we both reached an agreement before I left the relationship do it was a mutual understanding.
Make a joke?
As much as I'm not a sanguine, I still do make jokes sometimes but a very few times because I'm the always serious type, I just sometimes apply the quote *"all works and no play makes jack a full boy".*
Unplanned stuff?
Do you mean if something unplanned happened or maybe I didn't plan something before doing it? If it's the first option, well their are quite a number of things that happened to me but I didn't plan for it to happen. For the second option, I usually plan my stuffs well before doing them but still, there are some that I failed to plan and I later regret it.
Watched a movie alone?
This is literally me, most of the times I watch movies alone because I'm majority of the movie I watch is always on my phone, the fact that I love kdramas and Filipino series but majority of my family does not especially my male siblings, I knew I had no option but to just watch it on my phone or buy the disc and watch on laptop. Sometimes I also watch movie with someone but on few occasions.
Felt confused with life?
There were number of times that I've felt confused with life probably because of the situations happening around me or whenever things are not going the way I wanted, even now in this kind of situation my country is in, there's every reason to be confused about life.
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How wicked can the heart of humans be?
Lovely day to you friends, I'm so sorry I couldn't write anything yesterday, I've been really down from shock since yesterday, I just got better today and that's when I could think about writing. I previously had another topic in my heart to write but I can't write about that anymore because I just need to clear my head of the incident that happened yesterday and gave me a great shocker of my life and I think the only way to do that is by writing about it so here it is.
What's the cause of the shock that happened to me yesterday?
Yesterday being Sunday and not just that, it's the first Sunday of the month making it a thanksgiving Sunday for every Christian. I'm sure majority of people would have been dressed in their favorite native attire to thank God for all he has done for them concerning the previous month but the Sunday became a bloody Sunday as lots of people were killed in cold blood.😭
A very big church which was located in my locality was raided by a troop of gunmen and they started firing their bullets at the members of the church that was just worshipping God on their own. The church is a big Catholic church with lots of members (women and children majorly), as at now, the numbers of recorded dead people is around 50 while the ones that are not yet dead but are severely injured is uncertain.
The reason behind the attack is yet unknown but one thing I'm certain about is that no matter what cause they are fighting for, those innocent people does not deserve to die! And up until this moment, the perpetrators have not yet been caught, all the government has being saying is that they will find justice for the people that were killed and bring the criminals to justice. What a country!😭 Well I hope for justice to be served as soon as possible.
Since yesterday, I haven't been myself, I've been so traumatised by the incident. Now tell me, how can people be that heartless to just kill crowd of innocent people who are just worshipping their God? How come the fear of God is no more in humans that they could even go as far as going to the sanctuary of God to perpetrate evil without any fear whatsoever? What is the world turning into? ~~A dungeon or a grave yard?~~
People have become so fearful nowadays, there's no longer a safe place, in the old days, whenever there's evil roaming around, people run to the house of God to find refuge and shelter but nowadays, even the house of God isn't save anymore. The daily killings, kidnappings here and there, ritual practices, and even more criminal cases are becoming rampant these days, there's no longer peace of mind in the place we are supposed to call a home, what a pity!
Taking a good look at majority of these cases, they are born out of religion rivalry and greed for money and power. I'm sorry to say that if these things are not stopped soon, the situation of the country might not improve. All religions are supposed to live in unity but the reverse is the case, they have become enemies of each other, they now fight for position and power, they quarrel at any given time and chance. ~~Can these ever stop?~~😢
The bible has said that "the love of money is the root of all evil" and it also said in another chapter that "the heart of men are desperately wicked and no one can know it" so I guess we all should have been prepared for the worst because there are truly desperately wicked people who cares about no one. Let's try as much as possible to be careful and let's put all our hope in God to help us and save us from this evil time. May God help us!
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Beware, meeting old time friends again
Getting to meet again a friend you have long seen is not a bad thing but you must be careful of how you relate with them because a person you knew 5 years back might not be the same person you meet this year. So many people make this mistake even me, when you've known someone for quite sometimes and they were good people, you have the tendency of trusting them for life even if you haven't met them for years, when you do meet them again, you will want your friendship to continue as usual which it isn't bad, what is bad is now completely trusting them without trying to find out if they have change or not.
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***I will be sharing a real life story of my dad below, how this kind of issue affected him, I hope you learn from it.***
It all happened few years ago, I was about 8 years of age and my other siblings were somehow young too. My dad was this kind of person that trust people easily but then, when he loses trust in you, he wouldn't trust you again forever even of you've changed. He used to have this good friend while he was in high school, they were very close that they do so many things together. My dad would always tell us about him and how much he misses him even before he got to meet him again, he would tell us about how they eat garri and pepper together 😂 whenever they have nothing to eat and how they study together for exams and also how they pray together even up the point that they were both referred to as pastors and bookworms when they were in school.
One day, they finally got to meet each other at one of their old school mate father's burial and they both exchange contact hoping to rekindle the fire of their friendship. They got really close and they start relating as siblings just like the way they were before though they live in different states far apart from each other but they take out time to visit each other at each other's location. My dad would tell us how rich he has become and that he has so many houses in different states that he use for rent purpose across the country and also the number of cars he has but whenever we try asking him what the nature of his job was, he would always say that he's into import and export business. I could vividly remember my mum always telling to be careful of him because it has been long since they both saw each other and he might have changed, my dad would say that he trust him so much because he has always been a good man of principles and that he is not doing anything illegal.
Something happened and I lost my grandma, we started preparation towards her burial ceremony, we bought some of the stuffs we would be needing for the burial and we were also counting on friends and family that might also want to help in any way they can. We started having support from lots of people even beyond our budget, it was massive but in all of this, my dad's friend never even volunteered to help but we were fine by it because everyone has their own challenges so everything was set as we started looking forward to that splendid day.
The day finally came and all guest started arriving including my dad's good friend and they all partied till dawn. After the party was over, my dad escorted him and some of his other friends to the hotel they would be staying till the next day because they could no longer go to their place since it was late already. By the time they got there, my dad showed them their various rooms but his friend said that he shouldn't go yet and that they should enter his own room together and discuss for a while before he starts to go which my dad agreed to and they entered the room. After a few discussion, he excused my dad to use the bathroom so my dad waited for him in the bedroom till be would be done.
Meanwhile, he forgot to lock his phone and he dropped it on the bed as he was so much in a haste, a notification dropped on it reminding him of the ritual sacrifice he wanted to do and how the deadline was supposed to be that same day, my dad became curious and picked up the phone and go through his messages only to see that he was planning to use him as his sacrifice for that night and that there was something in that room that he will use to touch him so he would become imbecile. He also learnt that he couldn't give out money to help others because of the money ritual he did because that's the rule. On learning this, my dad took to his heels before his friend could even come out of the bathroom and that was how God saved my dad then. I guess when he discovered that my dad has learn about his secret, he wanted to run away and that was how he had an accident and died.
`I hope from this story, you have been able to learn that it is not good to trust people too much especially our old time friends that we have been separated from for quite a while. Thank you for reading up until this point. I love you.❤️`
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Understanding the quote "health is wealth" better
Hello dearest friends, how is your day going? I hope all is well? I've been wanting to write an article since morning but my battery was flat, the way electricity issue is going in my country is really so alarming, since few days ago, there hasn't been electricity and I've been using my power bank to charge my phone, thank God I got an opportunity to charge somewhere this morning.
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Considering everything that I went through since a month back, I've understood what the phrase "health is wealth" means better. Trust me when you have a good health, you have everything but if you don't, you have lost everything and no amount of money in this life can buy you good health. That's why we should always pray for good health because even if you spend money visiting the hospital, if you won't still be healed, you wouldn't. If you have so much money but no good health, you will get tried of the money on the long run.
I suffered from the health condition I've never had before and it took a toll on me, all the places I had plan on visiting, every outing I had prepared to go, I couldn't go anymore. A the meals I love eating, when the meal was given to me, it looked like trash to me. I was even supposed to go on to a camp, it was so painful that I couldn't go cause my bones were so weak. Infact, when an uncle came visiting and he gave me some cash, I couldn't even see it as money, all I just wanted was to get better.
***Below are some pointers you need in order to stay healthy***
**Regularly do medical check up**
You have to always check yourself in the hospital, some illness would not give you any symptoms up until it becomes worse in your body and by then you it would already be too late to cure it. Illness like low blood calcium does not easily give symptoms until it has risen up into what is incurable. More reason why regular check up is needed.
**Be on the lookout as regards your health**
Be watchful and look out for any slight change in your health, I know we humans don't always want to be truthful to ourselves especially in my own part of the world, whenever we feel down, we don't want people to see how weak we could get so we pretend as if nothing is wrong when knowing fully well that something is actually wrong. If we notice any symptoms we haven't being seeing before in our body, let's try as much as possible to visit a doctor.
**Always take enough water**
There is so much advantage in taking enough water everyday, drink as much as possible water you can drink. Drinking water always makes you stay hydrated and being hydrated allows your body to fight against illness. Water also helps you digest the food you eat, it carries nutrients to your cells and flushes toxins from your organs. According to research, a minimum of 8 glasses of water should be taken everyday.
**Eat well and balanced meals**
Always eat food in their correct proportion, eat the amount of food that your body needs to function properly. Don't eat based on the type of food your friend or siblings eat, we have different type of body and so our body function differently. Some might eat a number of junks and still be very much healthy while some will eat just a little and it damages their health and that's why you must watch closely the kind of food your body truly needs. If you are overweight, you need to cut down on your calorie intake while if you are underweight, you might as well need to eat more calories than you have been eating. Just make sure that you give your body the kind if meal it truly needs.
**Take fruits and veggies always**
Fruits and vegetables are the ultimate source of vitamins and when the body lacks vitamin, illness becomes inevitable so we should always take fruits and vegetables. Our body really needs it.
**Make exercise part of your daily routine**
We should also make exercise part of our daily routine, our day should not be complete without at least one round of exercise. Exercise does not only include lifting heavy weight or using exercise instruments/machines, walking a mile, swimming or even skipping. Just find out the exercise that works for you and stick with it.
**Always have enough sleep and rest**
There's this popular saying that "work's lifespan is longer than that of humans" that is if we because of work kill ourselves, work will still continue. We should always learn to give ourselves rest when need be and even at night, we should make sure we sleep well at least 6 hours per day, that way, out body will relax and all our organs will function properly the way it should.
`Note: I'm not a medical practitioner and all what I've said above is just purely from experience and research, it's not a professional advice. If you feel you have any health issue, do make sure you see a medical personnel. Thank you.`
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Hypocalcemia; how I overcame it
Hello good day to y'all, my darling friends, the weather today seems quite ok, there's no much sun and there's no rain as well, it looks beautiful. For some weeks now, I've been battling with sickness and it has been bad, though I still get to write here sometimes in pain but I just have to pretend like nothing is happening and go on with my online activities, well I feel better now, I can't say I'm totally fine but I feel quite ok and I will be sharing with you all the nature of my sickness and how I maintained it.
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Hypocalcemia
***This is caused by the deficiency of calcium in the blood***. According to what we might have learnt in school, calcium is the substance that is found in plants and animals and that is important for strong and healthy bones. So deficiency in calcium means lack of strong bones in the body.
How it started with me
Some weeks ago, I started noticing that I was feeling very weak, it looks like fatigue to me, I tried doing some exercise maybe it's gonna help me but no, it only got worse, I started loosing my appetite and I get tried easily anytime I get involve in somethings. So my mum being a nurse, I complained to her and she said that I shouldn't worry about it, that I should make sure I eat well, so she got me malaria drugs thinking it was malaria in which I took and I felt a little bit better, I guess I was truly having malaria then. Then just about some days later, I started feeling a sharp pain in my chest bone so I complained to her again, she did some minor checkup on me and so she discover that it was a weak bone symptom that I have and that made her resolved that I have calcium deficiency.
Causes of hypocalcemia
**According to the definition above, the most common cause of this health condition is;**
*Deficiency of calcium in the blood*
**While other causes might include;**
*Not getting enough exercise daily*
*Not taking enough food rich in calcium*
*Being underweight*
*Taking of some medication which decreases the hormone levels in the body*.
What I did to overcome it
I did series of things right from taking of medications to changing my diet and doing enough exercises.
The medications I took
Calcitonin and vitamin D was prescribed for me. Calcitonin is a drug that is rich in calcium and therefore strengthens the health of the bones and teeth.
Vitamin D medications helps in increasing the level of vitamin D in the body and also helps in absorbing the calcium well into the body.
You can get Vitamin D into the body by either taking the oral medications or by exposing yourself into the sunlight for some minutes everyday. I did these both practices and it really helped me.
I didn't capture the image of the vitamin D I took because there several types of vitamin D so it won't looks as though one is better than the other.
Changing my diet
Changing of diet is also a very good way to build up the calcium level in the blood. Consumption of foods rich in calcium is very important. Below are some of the foods I started eating which are rich in calcium;
Salmon
Broccoli
Milk
Cheese
Yoghurt
Sardines
Fish and bones
Beans
Other legumes
Eggs etcetera.
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My exercise routine
Making sure I get enough exercise everyday is also one of the things that helped me. Not all exercise are good for the bones but some of the exercises that are good for the bones include;
Walking
Dancing
Lifting weights
Running
Jugging
And some other weight lifting exercise.
**The bottom line is;** Never tamper with your health, take alot of healthy meals, add exercise to your daily routine, do not take any medication without your doctor's prescription, take in enough fluids everyday, be happy and live your best life.
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Setting boundaries in a platonic relationship (part 2)
It's another new month of the year, I will like to welcome each and everyone of us into the new month. Happy new month friends, I pray the Lord bless and keep us, we would witness many more months by the grace of God. Amen!
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In continuation of my yesterday's article, I will like to categorize the different type of relationships we have and the limit of boundaries we should set for each of them. https://read.cash/@Honey_bch/setting-boundaries-in-a-platonic-relationship-65b62a58
**Friendship between two single people of same gender.**
There are two properties in the above sentence which is ***"same gender"*** and ***"single"***, I will be focusing on these two points. When you are friends with someone who is of same gender with you and who is also single ie. does not have a boyfriend or girlfriend, the limit of boundary you are supposed to set in such a relationship shouldn't be too much. You should be able to do things together, communicate much more together, share things together, go out together, attend events together, even become each other's bestie, trust me no one will question you. The only reason you might need to set boundaries in this kind of situation is when the other party is taking advantage of space you have given them.
**Friendship between two people of same gender which either/both of them is/are in a relationship.**
In this kind of friendship, there is a need for setting boundaries because you one or both of the party is in a relationship. You will need to set boundaries just because of the respect you have for your own spouse and the other party has to respect your boundaries. The boundaries you will be setting must be in terms of time and space because the time or space you have to spend with your spouse shouldn't be given to your friends. You should realize that the space for your spouse is different from the space of your friend.
**Friendship between two single people of different gender.**
In this case, the both persons are of different gender and they are not in any form of relationship. As much as they are both not in any relationship with other people, there still have to be boundaries set between the two because they are not of the same gender. Yes, they might be close friends, they might visit each other's places or even go out together but they must also learn to set boundaries and the kind of boundaries they need to set in this kind of friendship is in the terms of what they discuss together when they are alone, how they touch each other, what they watch together and what they wear in front of each other. Sometimes, it's so difficult to believe that some certain people aren't in a relationship because of the way they behave with each other. One pointer for you to know that you have not being setting boundaries in an opposite gender friendship is when people begin to ask if you both are in a relationship, then you should know that the relationship between you both has no boundary. This kind of friendship is quite common.
**Friendship between two people of different gender in which either/both of them is/are in a relationship.**
I made an example of this kind of friendship yesterday and I discussed about how it destroyed a person's relationship. In this case where both the party involved are of the opposite gender and are in a relationship, there should be a strict boundary between the both of them. You have to set boundaries in terms of time, space, what you both do together, how you touch each other, when and how long you both communicates and so on... You have to give your spouse reasons they should trust you with the other gender by giving them all the time and space they need and not by giving it to the opposite gender friend, this normally piss alot of people off. For instance;
Williams is in a relationship with Princess and also has a female bestie named Sarah, anytime he sees Sarah even if he's right beside his girlfriend, he jumps at her and gives her a sweet hug and kiss while holding her so tightly, *Princess kept on tolerating him because she just wants to respect her boyfriend's decisions. Some other times when they were both together, Williams will always abandon Princess to be on phone calls with Sarah claiming they are having work related conversations. One particular day, Williams was supposed to meet up with Princess for a dinner date but all of a sudden, Sarah calls him to inform him about a business meeting she needs to attend and she it's compulsory for her to attend with a friend, Williams in turn abandoned his girlfriend at the venue for the dinner date in which she has been waiting and decides to go accompany his friend, Sarah for her business meeting. After Princess has been waiting for quite more than 2 hours, Williams arrived at the venue apologizing to her that he had to accompany Sarah for her business meeting. If it were to be you, what will you say or do? You can drop your answer in the comment section below.*
The bottom line is that when in any form of friendship, we should always have the interest of our spouses at heart, we should give them their space and time because those things are very important in a relationship.
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Setting boundaries in a platonic relationship
Setting boundaries in a friendship means putting in place unofficial rules to guide your friendship or setting limits to an extent in which a friendship can get.
I wrote yesterday about why some ladies still remain single and I talked about them not being able to maintain friendships, so I just felt like I need to talk about setting boundaries too. In the process of you being friendly and also trying to maintain a friendship by communicating always, we should also learn to know the extent we go with them, the things we do together, where we go together, things we discuss together and so on.... https://read.cash/@Honey_bch/possible-reasons-why-some-ladies-still-remains-single-52e84c51
I once heard of a story of a girl who her husband to be dumped few days to their wedding and according to him, his excuse for doing so was because she does not know how to set boundaries and that she was always too friendly with her male friends that she does not even know the length to go with them even in his presence. He said he truly knows that there's nothing going on between her those other guys but it's just that she does not even know how to set boundaries whatsoever between them and that he had tried taking to her about it but she's just not seeing anything bad in it and she's not willing to change. He had to break up with her when he could no longer bear her.
While setting boundaries can look absurd or not possible to some people because of the threat is poses on their friendship, you have to know that it is very possible and it doesn't make you a bad friend. If your friend is a positive thinker just like you, they will understand the need for setting boundaries between you both. Also, it is ok to know your limit and make your friend know too and still be a good friend.
Knowing and respecting boundaries should not be a one sided thing in a friendship, the both parties should know each other's boundaries and respects it. The importance of setting boundaries in a platonic relationship varies from one person to another but I will be touching on some of main importance of setting boundaries in a platonic relationship below;
**Setting boundaries allows both friends to respect each other the more.**
You tend to respect each other's decisions, time, space, likes and dislikes etcetera. For instance, when you ask a friend to meet up for a dinner and he didn't show up without a prompt excuse, it only shows that he has no regard whatsoever for you, he does not respect your time and decision. Even if something came up per time, he could still have find a way to let you know because you are also going to be wasting your time whole sitting there waiting for him. That's what not setting boundaries from the very start causes but if there were boundaries in place then the other friend will already have respect for the friend's time and he wouldn't want to alter that at all.
*I once had a friend, we met in high school and she was quite awesome, she's this fun to be with type of girl, I do love her so much but one thing she's bad at is that she does not know her boundaries. Sometimes, she just barges into my room, pick up something (clothes, shoes or accessories) and takes it to her to wear it without even returning it. At first, I didn't see anything wrong with what she was doing but later I discovered that she can't recognize boundaries so I had to put her in her place. There was this particular day that I wasn't around but my sister was around, she came into my room and picked a new shoes I just bought for my grandma's burial, she took it to her house to wear to a party, well I guess she didn't know I bought it for my grandma's burial because the burial was just in 3 days time.*
*When I got home that day, I didn't even check my shoe rack not until the day of the burial, as I got dressed finished to wear my shoe but I couldn't find it, I searched and searched but still couldn't find it. It was then my sister remembered and told me that Joyce came visiting and maybe she was the one that picked it, I had to call her to confirm of truly she was the one and she said yes and she would return it fast. By the time she brought the shoe back, it was already rough so I couldn't wear it, I just gave it to her back and I wore the one I had home before. It was that day that I realized that I have to set boundaries for her which I did the next day.*
One way for you to let your friends know that you want to set boundaries is by talking to them about it. Tell them with a very plain language the need for you to set boundaries between the both of you and tell them the areas in which you will be setting the boundaries. If you don't want to talk about it because you felt they might feel bad about it, then your reaction towards the issues should do the talking for you but trust me, while some friends might understand words without them being told, some might not understand and you might need to come out clean and straight with them.
***To be continued...***
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Possible reasons why some ladies still remains single
Hello friends, Happy Sunday to everyone, I hope you spent your Sunday in church? Well glory be to God if you did and if you did not please repent.😁 In church today we had a conversation Sunday about "The Ship" as in "friendship and courtship" and will talking about being single, we discussed about some reasons why some ladies still remain single and I will like to be sharing a few of these things here. Reasons are;
**Not approachable**
Some ladies are just so fond of this, you want to get into a relationship but yet you are always carrying a frowny face all around. Guys that are supposed to approach you will be so scared to do so because they don't know what to expect from you when they get to, some will even be scared that maybe you won't slap them because of the way you are always looking like a bouncer 😂. Always put a good smile on even if you have the entire world's problem in your life, not everybody should always sense that you are going through a tough time. Some sisters will not even wait one minute after the service on Sunday, they will be rushing home as if the church is biting them or they have children they want to go and feed at home, you have to learn to be approachable and be lovable.
**Has a bad dress sense**
Not knowing how to dress is a cogent point we need to focus on because the world is revolving and as the world is revolving, we should also learn how to revolve with it. I'm not saying here that we should dress nakedly like the worldly people but even at that, we shouldn't let religion close our eye to reality. Sometimes it's not even about how fiting the dress is or not, it might be about our colour combination cause how can you wear a white top with Jean jacket on it and wine skirt with black shoe and a green beret (trust me, I saw this kind of dressing today😂) we need to start learning these basic skills, as little as dressing is, it destroys some relationships. ***Things we should look out for while trying to improve our dress sense are; how to combine colours, the type of colour that matches our skin and the type of dresses and styles that fits our body shape.***
**Has a bad communicating/relating skill**
Some people whenever a guy approaches them, they won't even bother about what the guy has to say, they will just start shouting at them and talking anyhow they like, we must learn to properly relate with people because it hinders alot of blessings from us and also, responding badly with just one person can cause a hundred of people to not want to communicate with you. *For instance, brother A came to meet sister A today to ask about some important stuff, then she just replies him so badly, tomorrow when brother B wants to go approach sister A on another important matter, brother A will discourage brother B not to go because she lacks good communication skill and it goes on and on.* We should also know that people value their self dignity very much, they don't want just anybody to talk down at them and that's why whenever they hear negative comment about someone's communicating skill, they just agree to it.
**Lacks friendship maintaining skills**
It's important to know how to keep or maintain a friendship or relationship, some people lost their relationship just because of these. Ordinary online chatting is difficult for some people, I also think laziness is one of the things that causes this because maintaining a friendship requires alot of effort from the too parties, if the other party is putting in the effort and the other party is not showing any form of commitment, then the friendship will definitely break.
**Too spiritual**
This point needs a lot of buttressing because with the way some people are always looking like assistant holy spirit, it is so alarming. You want to leave single forum but all you ever do is to dress like masquerade, my sister, it doesn't work that way. Some of the sister will never attend functions with you because they thinks it's not biblical but they want to get married like as if their husbands will fly and meet them inside their room. Being spiritual is absolutely the best but too much of everything is not good, excessive spirituality is nothing but hypocrisy.
**Possesses I don't care attitude**
Caring about little things about ourselves usually has a long way to go. Some ladies don't even want to care about how they look, what they wear, how they talk and so on... You will some ladies carrying their tattered looking hair all about for days, weeks and even months without caring to make it look better. Some ladies will even wear the same dress for 3 days or more and it will now look so dirty and smelly. Some other ladies, when you get to their house, you would almost throw off. We have to start caring about these little things, it speaks volume about us.
`With all these been said and done, let's also not forget to put God first in whatsoever we do, have a good relationship with the father so that he can guide you through in the journey of your life and the journey to leaving singleness. He loves you and he can't wait to have you as his own.❤️`
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Investor policies
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I have tried to avoid Ponzi from the days of MMM down to the recent racksterli or whatever it is out there, it is not because I don't need money then but the richest people in the world today didn't get there with Ponzi. I believe in proven system, I hate to see when people around me loses money to those funny schemes in a bid to double their money quickly. **Any Ponzi no matter it's approach can be spotted far away.**
**THINKING OF STARTING YOUR INVESTMENT JOURNEY, NOTE THIS;**
Everybody can make money but not everybody can keep money and that's what differenciate an investor.
The first rule of investing is "Don't loose money".
Some of the greatest opportunities for gain and loss come when other people forget Rule No. 1 above.
Buy when an asset is cheap, and sell when an asset gets expensive.
An investor must know the right kind of ventures.
The speculator's deadly enemies are: ignorance, greed, fear and hope.
Not every opportunity is for you.
Know that taking risk is inevitable but be focused on risk management.
Great investors focus on "risk management" because "risk" is not a function of how much money you will make, but how much you will lose when you are wrong.
Sometimes, a company can look so good on the outside but end up becoming a useless investment. As important as picking a good company for growth potential is, it is only a piece of the puzzle. Equally important is buying the company at an attractive price. If you buy the world's best company at a wrong price, it's as good as useless.
This chapter focuses on how to properly value a company in order to buy it at the best price.
Low priced stocks are cheap and high priced stocks are expensive. Always remember that stock price are just numbers.
Investing in low price to earn stocks is called value investing. No matter how good the numbers look, if a business is low quality, then it is a bad investment. It is the future growth potential that really counts.
***To be continued...***
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Things to note while going for an interview
We all in one time or the other in our lives have gone / will go for an interview either for work, career or academic purpose. Are we going for the next interview just the same way we have being going before? What are we planning on doing differently this time around? Well, I will be pointing out the areas we should focus on and things we should do before going for our next interview.
GOING FOR AN INTERVIEW? MAKE SURE TO DO THE FOLLOWING;
**Make your research about the organisation**
There are organizations that are not for everybody, don't be too desperate to get a job and therefore jump into whatever organization you see. Some doors are not really open doors, they are just traps in disguise.
*First reason why you should make your research about the organization is;*
For you to be sure it is exactly what you are really looking for and not a den of lion with the entrance of a sheep's house. Some years back, I heard of a story of one lady, she was a very fresh graduate who was searching for a good job when she met an old time friend of hers who told her there was vacancy at own workplace and she can apply. She was very happy and she didn't care to ask the nature of their job, she went for their interview and she passed, she was told to resume work the next week as a secretary with a pay of $500 monthly which she concurred. It was after starting work there she was told to take an oath that whatsoever happens in the organization will be kept a secret and no one should ever find out about it, as at that time, it was too late to opt out so she had to take the oath. She later realized that people are been killed for ritual purposes for the growth of the organization. A very good reason we should make a deep research about the organizations we are applying to so that we will not become victims of unforseen circumstances.
*Second reason why you should make your research about the organization is;*
For you to know how you should present yourself when you get there. Searching through the records of people working with the organization, how their interview normally look like, the organization policies, the company's interviewer (their strengths and weaknesses), the founder of the organization (their likes and dislikes) and other things you need to know about the organization. This will give you an edge of how the interview will look like and how you would be able tackle questions.
**Research the role**
Make your research about the role you are applying for. Yes I know you have experience in your field and you know exactly what you are going into but don't be too relaxed cause you never can tell where questions can come from. It's very likely for you not to know everything about the role you are applying for, ofcourse you may think you know but it's impossible to know everything even after your research. There's a popular saying that *"no knowledge us lost",* all you just have to do is to make more research about the role, try finding out about people who have functioned or who is still functioning in that particular role, what they did best and also their mistakes and pick important lessons from it.
**Let your dressing speak sense**
Don't just dress anyhow, make your research about the type of dress sense people in the organization have, you don't necessarily have to copy them, just don't dress off the style. Dress decently and not too exposed, let your dressing be moderate and classic, choose your colour combination carefully and be creative with it.
**Be confident and be positive**
Have enough confidence in yourself, even if the former interviews have not been going so well, have faith that this one will come out positively. If you are already negative about it from the start, there's every possibility that it would not later come out well because you would not have given it your very best. So be positive and be confident, let the interviewer sense positivity in you and let them also see how confident you are, this will convince them about how active and confident you can be while handling issues.
**Be relaxed, composed and put on a radiating smile**
Smile always' they say. Put on a very enticing smile, relax your mind and body, be composed. Don't look agitated or perturbed, it will only make the interviewer feel you don't know what you are doing. So calm down as much as you can and be as composed and relaxed as you can be.
**Sell yourself excellenty but don't be deceitful**
It's ok to speak well of yourself but in the process of doing that, do not include lies because even if your life isn't detected now, it will surely affect you on the long run. Try as much as possible not to downgrade yourself, speak beautiful things about yourself, talk about what you can do and how you can help the organization, what they will lose if they lose you but make sure that in whatever you are saying, you do not add lies and deceit.
**Communicate with experience**
I think this is self explanatory, as you are giving your answers, back them up with examples, communicate as if you have experience, don't just talk like a novice, be explanatory enough and understandable. Let them be wowed with your level of experience.
With everything mentioned above, I can't overemphasize the role of modesty, we should make sure that in all things, modesty should be our culture.
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Technology as a means of survival
Technology in today's world has become a great means of survival for people, without technology so many people will not survive because almost every sector uses technology. Asides from the real tech sectors, even other sectors like educational, medical, religious, agricultural, microfinance, entrepreneurial sectors make use of technology. Let's take a good look at the importance of technology in each of this sector.
**The importance of technology in every sector**
**The educational sector**
Technology is quite important in this sector mainly because of research making. Both the tutors and the students needs technology in order to efficiently improve their teachings and learnings. For example, when a student is given an assignment that he has never been taught, he will want to make research using his phone or laptop. Now let's imagine a world without phones or laptops, it would become so difficult to learn and relearn. Technology is as well needed for other important things in the educational sector like storing of data, communication, printing and so on.
**The medical sector**
I'm not sure if this sector can function at all without technology because almost everything done in this sector is done with technology. The varieties of instruments used for medical examinations like scanning machine, blood pressure machine, stethoscope, dialysis machine etcetera are products of technology and are very important instruments needed for medical treatments.
**The religious sector**
Even the religious sector uses technology, the microphone, speaker, projector, musical instruments etcetera are products of technology. We all don't usually like the outcome of services when all these things are missing, it normally look boring so to say.
**The agricultural sector**
The agricultural sector needs technology for a more easier and faster work. It's not that the agricultural sector cannot thrive without technology but the work will be slow and therefore make produce limited. Imagine using tractors, planters and harvesters to work on a farmland compared to someone using hoe and Cutlass, the produce of the mechanized farmer will be more than that of the other farmer.
**The entrepreneurial sector**
Entrepreneurial sector like the fashion and clothing industry, hair styling industry, welding, vulcanizing etcetera make use of technology for their business. The clothing industry cannot function at all without technology ie. sewing machine, the same goes for the welding and vulcanizing industry while some other industries can still function partially without technology ie. the hair styling industry but it will not function effectively without technology.
`Some other sectors I didn't here mention also needs technology in order to function. While some needs it full time, some only needs it partially.`
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I came across a video today which lead me into the writing of today. It's a video of a young disabled man (he has no hands), this man is a researcher who is a millionaire. A robotic hand was built specially for him, anytime he wants to do something that requires using a hand, he uses the robot and then removes it back whenever he's done. I was so amazed at how technology is rapidly developing and I got to understand the saying that;
***For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier while For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible.***
Let's take a good look at the two points and what make them different.
**For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier**
Being logical, we know that majority of things done now using technology like communication has been in existence a long time even before technology came into space. For instance, the use of phone to make calls was formerly done using letters, letters were used to reach out to people in far distances but would take a very long time before the letter can reach the person it was sent to compared to nowadays, all you have to do is just make a phone call and within the space of minutes, you've passed across the information you have. That's the beauty of technology for people without disabilities, it makes things easier, instead of trekking a mile just to deliver a letter, all you have to do is just make a phone call.
**For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible**
From the instance I gave above about phones making communication easier, let's take for instance a lame man that needed to put a call through to someone but his phone was in a far distance from him and just all he needed was for him to reach the place and pick it so it will become easy for him to communicate with whosoever he wants to communicate with. The problem now is that he can't walk there so without technology it's impossible to reach where his phone is but with technology, all he has to do is to make use of a wheelchair and in no time he will get to his phone and make his phone call. That's what technology does for people with disabilities, it makes impossible things possible. I'm glad to see robotics making a difference in people's lives.
My today's article is just to point out the importance of technology in our day to day activities and erase the mentality of technology being the bad guy' that some of us have. Couple of weeks back, I overheard a woman saying "technology is what has destroyed the world like this" she was complaining about how her kids are always sitting with their phones and that they would never do something productive with their time. She was also saying that technology is the reason why internet fraud has become so rampant. She was just so negative about technology like there is no positive effect to technology. To buttress this point, I would want us to use technology in a very right way that would help us and also help the world at large not in the bad way that will hurt people.
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Yes or No
Hello friends, how is the weather in your side? Well, the weather here for the past three days has been so lovely that it would just want to make you sleep all day, some people call it weather for two but I guess single person like me can't relate.😂 Anyways do not let the weather get to you, do what you have to do on time and never procrastinate. All is well!
To the article for today, I will like to answer some YES/NO questions about myself and also widen your knowledge about me. I hope you get to know me better.😁
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Let's get started!
Am I a better person today than I was yesterday?
Of course yes I am, I might not be where I'm supposed to be now but one thing I'm sure of is that I'm better than who I used to be.
Am I a good example for those around me?
Yes I am a very good example to people around me
Is the life that I am living the life I want to be living?
No. I'm not so much in love with the life I'm living now but I know very soon, I will.
Do the people I surround myself with add any value to my life?
Yes they do, as much as some of my friends don't really add value to me, I make sure my real circle are people of value.
Do I treat myself with the love and respect I truly deserve?
Well, I'm not so sure about this because sometimes, I treat myself so well while some other times, I just treat myself so unfairly.
Am I a happy person?
Not really but I'm striving towards being the happiest person on earth and also meeting the the best person that will make me very happy.
Am I a source of inspiration for my friends and family?
Yes I'm sure I am.
Am I holding onto something I need to let go of?
No, at least none that I can remember.
Is there someone who has hurt or angered me that I need to forgive?
Yes and I pray God helps me. It's not easy!😢
Does my presence add value to those around me?
Yes it does. I make sure of that always. I've made it my aim that anywhere I am, lives should change for a better.
Am I a pleasant person to be around?
Yes I'm such a likable person and you will always like to be around me, I bet you that.
Am I on the right path?
Yes, I'm so sure I'm on the right path
Am I comfortable with being uncomfortable?
Well, No. One thing I dislike the most is being uncomfortable in whatever situation I find myself, being uncomfortable in an environment and especially with people.
Do I enjoy my own company?
Yes I do. I so much enjoy my own company because I always feel like I am my greatest adviser.
Can I be alone without feeling lonely?
Yes. I stay alone very well and I don't feel lonely, the only time I feel lonely is when I'm missing someone so much.
Do I take things personally?
Hmmm.. Yes I do. I sometimes take things personally especially if it's something related to me or that isn't true about me.
Do I love myself as much as I expect others to love me?
Well, No I don't. I'm really working on this because I've come to realize that you will only be treated the same way you treat yourself so I want to learn to love myself better than I do now.
`This are the YES or NO fact about me, I hope you find it interesting. You can as well answer this questions if you wish to but make sure you tag me. Thanks for stopping by and please don't forget to subscribe. I will see you in my next post and in yours by God's grace. I love you.❤️`
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One month journey and achievements on readcash
It's one month already on readcash.. yayyy! 💃💃💃 I can't keep calm cause it has been awesome in here, I wouldn't have believed there would be a platform that will be paying writers for writing if not that I tried it out myself and I'm so glad I gave it a trial.🤗 I registered on this platform one month ago, made my first post a day after and rusty visited the post with almost $3 , the same went for the second day, It was quite encouraging, I felt this is more real than I thought.
**Introduction to this platform**
When a sister @Oyinwrites introduced me to the platform, I said I'm not sure how that was possible, I asked lots of questions like where do they get money from? Who are their sponsors? What if their sponsors gets tired? Are they also generating income from Google? .. she said I should not worry, all I have to do is to give it a trial which I reluctantly did and it has been a beautiful journey since then. Thank you babes for opening my eyes to this platform.
**My achievements on this platform**
Before I proceed with my achievements, I know I could have done better by achieving more if only I didn't slack with my writings but I'm grateful that I'm doing better now and I know my next time achievements will be more than these. Proceeding, I have a total of 21 subscribers, 2 sponsors and made over $12 in the space of my one month. I'm so grateful for this and I pray to start achieving better now.🙏
**What I slacked in doing but I'm doing well now**
I know I slacked a bit during my beginning days on this site, I would literally post once in 3 days sometimes and I would post consistently sometimes, it wasn't really my fault, those times were quite difficult for me because of the things I was passing through then but I guess I'm fine now and I've been consistent with my post lately. I've promised myself that I would make sure I create a post in a day, no more no less.😁
**My vote of thanks**
I would like to appreciate every of the wonderful persons that welcomed me well into the platform, I really appreciate the family bond that is shared here, it's so wonderful being in the midst of fellow writers, I'm so privileged. The love you guys showed me in my first post encouraged me to do more. I'm so grateful fam🙏.
I would also like to appreciate my sponsors for their support, thank you both for believing in me, you guys are my greatest push. Thank you both so much🙏 @Talecharm and @Ellawrites
I also can't do without appreciating all my likers, commenters, upvoters and tippers, I really truly appreciate all your efforts. Thank you for always viewing my posts, thank you for always taking out time to read my post, thank you all for every of your positive reviews and comments (those are my greatest motivation) and thank you so much for all the awesome upvotes, I'm so glad to have met each and everyone of you. Thank you all🙏.
I would also like to appreciate rusty, thank you so much for your unending support🙏.
A wonderful appreciation also goes to all my subscribers, it gives me so much joy seeing all your subscription, it makes me feel ontop of the world. Thank you so much for subscribing, I didn't take it for granted. **You can as well subscribe now if you haven't, I will see you in my next post and in yours. I love you all.❤️**
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