Does Your Routine Work For You?

 

 

 

Life is messy. Every day we meet series of activities that compete ruthlessly for our time. We spend a huge chunk of our day struggling, often unsuccessfully, to squeeze in all our responsibilities at home and at work into the time available to us. Not to forget the time we spend on our most common obsession, the social media.

Do Not Be Satisfied

A new-born starts life being carried around; soon he becomes unsatisfied with being carried around, and begins trying to sit on his own. When he has mastered sitting, still unsatisfied with his level of achievement, he starts learning to crawl, then stand, walk, run and in some cases fly. Not being satisfied with a status quo has been the starting point of all advancements. Every worthwhile achievement and invention has always started with “not being satisfied”; it is a force that pushes us to be better and do better. It impresses in us a strong desire to make better use of the resources available to us to create a better environment for ourselves. If you are not “not satisfied”, you will not have any desire to invest any time or effort in improving any aspect of your life or achieving any objective, actually, you will not have any objective. You will simply not care; you would be satisfied.

The Timekeeper

He doesn’t know it yet but on January 4th, at 79 years of age, Ifeanyi will be laid to eternal rest at his wife’s side. On March 4th at 29 years, he and his wife will have their first child on February 4th, when he is 26, they will be married. Today, December 4th at 24, he will meet his wife.

Chioma (excerpt from a WIP)

The moon dotted generously and flattered the New Ritzy spot, the marble columns seemed to glisten as the moon poured down graciously on them—it was a beautiful place. The fact that it was an open space with the evening zephyr coming at intervals made it all the more sensual. To Chioma’s eye this place was much too grand for her and the waiter who obviously had more flamboyance than she did appeared to have agreed with her.

ONE NIGERIA

"Relax Ikemba, this is a personal story only few people have heard.” he said after he paused to look at my face. “And I’m sure you’ll find it interesting.”

Jerry Obiagbor, a renowned professor of History, was heading to Abuja for the Independence Day celebration when his car broke down on his way to the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu. It was my wife, Adekemi, who first spotted him leaning against his car along the Emene express.

I had insisted on a souvenir; especially since I was going to turn back towards old Abakaliki road. After some light-hearted haggling, my wife suggested he give us a significant, personal story, only very few people had heard. He thought for a while before he found a story; the story of the Nigerian Civil War.

Day of Revelations

Udochukwu’s awed eyes stared on, following the singer’s every move. Ngozi, a sister from evangelism stood by her side with both hands raised in worship, “his voice is angelic, right?” she said when the worship ceased, bringing Udo back to the real world. Udo sat back down without responding; she wasn’t sure what Ngozi meant.

Udochukwu was such a woman who had not much to regret in her short beautiful, yet experience

The Italian Wife

Title: The Italian Wife

Author: Kate Furnivall

Genre: Historical fiction

Setting: Italy 1932

The Italian Wife is set in 1932 in the midst of Mussolini’s hunger for a new Fascist Italy. In a fictional town named Bellina, an addition to the five cities Il Deuce built after draining Italy’s Pontine Marshes in the 1930s. It was an engineering feat that actually employed 124,000 men in 1933. In this intriguing tale, a woman Isabella Berotti is one of the famed architects, the only female. She focuses all her attention on her work relishing the transformation of the town built on the once mosquito infested marshland. She was married to one of Mussolini’s infamous soldiers, the Blackshirts.