Indelible Marks

A Basket filled with Excuses….

I stumbled on this quote a few years ago and it stuck….”person wey no want do something go get one excuse or another why him no want do am” (or sumn like that). Anyways this is the pidgin version, if it doesn’t werk for you, you fit translate am to English. In fact am doing this post in pidgin English, so read on or get a translator. lol

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Time Flies II

This is meant to be a follow-up to the article …Time flies  http://www.abiolaalabi.com/2008/03/09/time-flies so please read it up first. We rounded off by asking what difference knowing how much time one has left will make to living a better life. I got a friend asking for the definition of Time (this has got me thinking to always remember to include definitions in my articles abi?). Anyhoo, I ran the word “Time” thru all reference books as I typed on MS Word and these two jumped at me,   Continue reading Time Flies II…

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Time flies

I was exchanging mails with an ex-school mate recently and one of the mails had a picture of her baby boy taken about a year ago. She exclaimed, “how time flies!” obviously referring to the remarkable growth in the boy since the time the picture was taken. In my reply, i suddenly found myself waxing lyrical and that’s the inspiration for this post.

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The Psychology of a Bad Salesman

When you wake up in the morning,

You have two choices

Go back to sleep and dream your dreams or

Wake up and chase those dreams

The choice is yours.

Have you ever wondered what correlation, if any, exists between getting ideas and the bathroom…..? Well, I have.

I know someone else (a great motivational speaker) other than myself who also gets ideas in the bathroom.

The bathroom is a place where no distractions exist… Learn to shut out distractions and connect with your inner self. I do this a lot.  Are you scared that you might die of boredom if you are alone for a length of time? (No TV, No phone calls, No internet, no radio etc) Anyways, lest i digress as i am wont to do. I was going to say i got the idea for this article while in the bath. This isn’t TMI, is it?

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