Be More Relaxed in Your Thoughts

After all is said and done, how do you know for sure that you are not on another wild goose chase, that what you now think is the right thinking process is nothing but the next available option or a need to venture into another compulsive thought flight?

How do you know that you were right when you labelled a premise "the wrong premise"? How are you sure it is not a case of misdirection and you are looking at the wrong cause?

The answer to these is that you need to be more relaxed in hitching a thought ride. Premise leads to greatness and success if well chosen. It also leads to disaster and destruction, if chosen wrongly. How you know you have the right premise is by what you see ahead and, more importantly, how you feel down inside about what you see.

Slow Down and Think Backwards

If you find that you have hitched a wrong plane in your thought cruise or have nurtured thoughts that, although they seemed cool and sharp at the time, did not lead you to the right destination, then you need to slow down and think backwards to identify where you have missed it or what wrong premise you had latched onto.

When You Have Many Things To Do

When you have a dozen different things to do, pick the most important one and stick with it until it’s complete. Then pick the second most important and do the same thing, until you’ve completed the list.

- Word for Today

When A Rookie Attains Fortune

To a rookie in fortune, remonstrations by concerned friends to curtail his/her excesses can be interpreted as envy or jealousy until the reality sets in, usually after the chickens have come home to roost.

- Babatunde Oladele

Life is Tougher Without Thinking

 Generally, life can be tough. But it is tougher on those who do not apply much thinking to their ways and doings, and toughest on people who live or work with them because they are usually the first at the receiving end of the consequences of thoughtlessness.

Sympathy and Support

We all need sympathy and support because we all stumble and need help getting back up. So we need to offer them to others and be willing to receive them in return.

- Word for Today

The Essence of Good Leadership

The essence of good leadership is not about trying to do everything yourself, but getting it done through others. Instead of trying to do the work of ten people, get ten people to do the work.

- Word for Today

Of Self Concept

Many people live their lives believing they’re intellectually inferior — born that way, and will always be that way. The problem with believing this is that you begin to live accordingly. Not because it’s true — but because you believe it’s true! God created us so that whatever we really believe, we act on. So our self concept becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Word for Today

Smart Parenting

A smart parent helps the children to prioritise what they ought to do over what they want to do.

- Babatunde Oladele

The Bias of Commerce

The world of commerce generally has little patience for excuses and “reasons.” It usually favours the fastest, the most efficient and the most utilitarian.

- Babatunde Oladele

What Do You Want?

Inasmuch as it is good to know how to get what you want, it is more important to be able to keep it, because keeping it is superior to getting it.

- Babatunde Oladele

How to Avoid Giving Terrible Advice

When you advise someone with your own gain in mind, you will most likely give them terrible advice. The best advisers are those who offer counsel beneficial mainly, if not only, to their advisee.

-- Babatunde Oladele