Every day, we constantly struggle with various problems, these are things you need to keep reminding yourself on a daily basis to help deal (cope) with these problems.
1. Past mistakes don’t determine who you are. Don’t let yesterday’s shortcomings prevent you from doing something great today. Learn from your mistakes and grow from them.
2. You are not your father, mother, brother, or sister. You came to this world as separate beings (even the Siamese twins). Define your own path and stop trying to follow someone else’s.
3. There are times in your life when you have difficult choices to make. Guess what? You’re going to make the wrong choice sometimes. Learn from the wrong choices but do not let them hold you back.
4. Everybody fails. It’s not just you and you’re not the first one to be in this situation. Take comfort in knowing that somebody else out there understands what you’re going through.
5. Believe in yourself. It doesn’t matter what labels have been put on you or what limitations you’ve been told you have. There is no one that can determine your value, you are what you tell yourself you are.
6. You’re better than being someone’s second choice. Don’t waste all of your time and energy trying to win the love or approval of someone that doesn’t want you to have it.
7. Its okay to ask for help or advice. It does not make you a beggar, it makes you better.
8. If you ask someone for advice, listen to it. Don’t just look for someone to agree with you.
9. Rome was not built in a day. Understand that small achievements matter and you are simply paving your way to even greater ones.
10. Don’t overestimate your dreams. Sitting around and doing nothing only makes the dream seem bigger, get up and start trying to make that dream come true.
11. Your friends will make or mar you. The people you surround yourself with will always contribute to your success and/or your destruction. Keep only people that will help you grow and not bring you down.
-Thought Catalog
Friday, 30 May 2014
Monday, 12 May 2014
Still on abducted Chibok schoolgirls
WE, Nigerian bloggers, view with grave concern the continued detention of the innocent school girls who were abducted from Chibok, Borno State on April 15, 2014.
We are of the strong view that no amount of social grievance either against the government and or the people of Nigeria can justify such an act of violence against school children. We therefore condemn the abduction in very strong terms.
Nonetheless, we are appalled that despite the increasing global attention on the missing girls, there seems to be a relative silence on it in the local press.
In addition, we have also noticed gaps in the narrative on this incident both on the social media platforms and in the international press.
It is understandable that given the strong emotions that this abduction have evoked, accurate and fact-based narratives are difficult to come by on this sad incident of violence.
We wish to point out that the abduction and continued detention of these innocent schoolgirls violate the provisions of a number of international conventions, optional protocols of convention and international legal instruments to which Nigeria is a signatory and whose provisions bind all Nigerians.
We particularly call attention to those international conventions that enjoin parties in conflict to take special action to protect women and children in times of war and conflict and note that the abduction is an affront to their provisions and to every decent conduct.
We call on those detaining these girls to release them. We appeal to you in the name of God and in the names of all you hold dear.
We deplore the violence and loss of lives that have preceded this ugly event and urge you in the name of God who is a God of peace, reconciliation and forgiveness to embrace the path of dialogue as the only sure way of resolving the grievances that underlie this conflict.
We also call on the government of Nigeria to do everything in its power, even if it includes an international security agency, to bring the girls back from the hands of those who currently hold them, and restore a sense of security to the country as soon as possible.
Elections are coming up next year. Citizens want to be able to feel safe wherever they are.
Democracy thrives best when citizens feel empowered to pursue their daily chores without fear or threat to their lives and property.
Nwachukwu Egbunike, for Nigerian bloggers.
We are of the strong view that no amount of social grievance either against the government and or the people of Nigeria can justify such an act of violence against school children. We therefore condemn the abduction in very strong terms.
Nonetheless, we are appalled that despite the increasing global attention on the missing girls, there seems to be a relative silence on it in the local press.
In addition, we have also noticed gaps in the narrative on this incident both on the social media platforms and in the international press.
It is understandable that given the strong emotions that this abduction have evoked, accurate and fact-based narratives are difficult to come by on this sad incident of violence.
We wish to point out that the abduction and continued detention of these innocent schoolgirls violate the provisions of a number of international conventions, optional protocols of convention and international legal instruments to which Nigeria is a signatory and whose provisions bind all Nigerians.
We particularly call attention to those international conventions that enjoin parties in conflict to take special action to protect women and children in times of war and conflict and note that the abduction is an affront to their provisions and to every decent conduct.
We call on those detaining these girls to release them. We appeal to you in the name of God and in the names of all you hold dear.
We deplore the violence and loss of lives that have preceded this ugly event and urge you in the name of God who is a God of peace, reconciliation and forgiveness to embrace the path of dialogue as the only sure way of resolving the grievances that underlie this conflict.
We also call on the government of Nigeria to do everything in its power, even if it includes an international security agency, to bring the girls back from the hands of those who currently hold them, and restore a sense of security to the country as soon as possible.
Elections are coming up next year. Citizens want to be able to feel safe wherever they are.
Democracy thrives best when citizens feel empowered to pursue their daily chores without fear or threat to their lives and property.
Nwachukwu Egbunike, for Nigerian bloggers.
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