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Self-first is not selfish

“If you are traveling with a child or someone who requires assistance, secure your mask first, and then help the other person.” The first time I heard ...

“If you are traveling with a child or someone who requires assistance, secure your mask first, and then help the other person.” The first time I heard this instruction on a plane, I thought it was extremely counterintuitive. As a pre-teen, the idea of prioritizing your own safety over helping a child made no sense to me.
But as I grew older, I began ...

Kindness over judgement

“Maybe she was just having a really bad day,” Jude said as I grumbled about the unfriendly cashier at the supermarket. We’d run into her frosty attitude ...

“Maybe she was just having a really bad day,” Jude said as I grumbled about the unfriendly cashier at the supermarket. We’d run into her frosty attitude more than once, but on every occasion, Jude assumed she was ‘having a bad day’ and encouraged me to do the same.
Instead of getting stuck on my expectations of the cashier, I started to think about ...

That’s (not) just the way it is

“Go home, Ni**a!” some guy yelled as he drove by us one afternoon. Jude and I were taking our daily fine-weather walks to finally explore the area ...

“Go home, Ni**a!” some guy yelled as he drove by us one afternoon. Jude and I were taking our daily fine-weather walks to finally explore the area we lived, almost two years after moving there. We were often couch potatoes, enjoying the comfort of our four white walls and the environment barely motivated us to adjust our lifestyle. That summer ...

The one thing you should procrastinate

I used to be a serial overthinker. And in my bid to try to find solutions to as many problems as I could, I turned to Google. I spent hours digging into ...

I used to be a serial overthinker. And in my bid to try to find solutions to as many problems as I could, I turned to Google. I spent hours digging into symptoms that didn‘t exist and more often than not, Mr Google rushed me straight to the emergency room. When I started doing this for other members of my family as well, one of my doctors recommended ...

Just do it… for you

“Didn’t you say you’d skip the next edition?” Nkechi asked. With my bloodshot eyes and grumbling stomach, I was racing to edit and publish an edition of ...

“Didn’t you say you’d skip the next edition?” Nkechi asked. With my bloodshot eyes and grumbling stomach, I was racing to edit and publish an edition of the 'Thinking Out Loud' newsletter on LinkedIn before the end of the month. “I have a few minutes to spare,” I answered. “I might as well just publish something.”
It’s been almost a year since I started ...

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