FLEX THOSE MUSCLES!

Sitting for too long is not good for your muscles and your body generally. Be it in your office, home or during long flights, sitting for long hours can have negative effect on your body.

At first, sitting brings relief, comfort and rest. Sit for too long and the initial benefit quickly becomes a detriment.

If you have been sitting down for a long time, it's important that you get up, exercise your body, stretch and flex your muscles!

Many have been 'sitting for so long' that it’s already telling negatively on their mindsets, performance at work, at home and even in relationships- It the same old routine, day in, day out. You may need to stand, exercise and stretch a little.

I am not referring to physical standing, exercising and stretching alone. I am talking of re-evaluating, readjusting, re-strategizing, re-positioning your mind for better opportunities, achievements and performance.

Are you reading this and you know you have been 'sitting’ for too long, and have not challenged your mind lately? Have you been secretly despising those around you for ‘doing too much’? Perhaps you are the one functioning way below your capacity.

I challenge you to get up, exercise, stretch and flex those muscles!

Written by:

© Bisola Mogaji.

WHAT'S YOUR FLAVOUR?

Here’s something I have discovered over the years through cooking. All classes of fish and meat have their own peculiar taste and flavour they add to the soup or whatever you add them to. For example, the taste of goat meat in any soup is different from the taste of cow meat. The taste of catfish is not the same with that of Tuna fish. Each of them comes with their own unique taste.

This is exactly how we are to bring our unique taste into any 'mix' we are added, releasing our unique essence.

I have not seen where goat meat struggle or compete to taste like pork neither have I heard of the cow meat struggling to taste like egg. Each of them is unique in their tastes, and this to a large extent informs our choices of which one to use for what dish.

Friends, stop losing your flavour because you want to taste like someone else. You cannot be good at everything and for everything. Accept that some people will be different from you and maybe better preferred. It doesn’t diminish your uniqueness. You’re unique in the flavour you bring to the table. That, my friend is what makes you, you.

Not embracing your difference blinds you from your uniqueness and lands you in identity crisis.

Don't hide your flavour! Don't swap your taste.

Written by:

© Bisola Mogaji

LADIES, DON'T STEP OUT WITHOUT YOUR UNDERWEAR.

It is not uncommon for ladies to 'go commando' these days that is, without wearing any underwear. Yes, you read that right. How ladies can move freely in short flared dresses with nothing underneath still beats my imagination. Well, I guess that's a matter of choice.

Underwear protects our private areas, they make us feel comfortable, good underwear gives shape and fitting to our outer clothes thereby improving our self-confidence.

In the same way there are things that serve as 'undies’ as you dress up to step into your assignment in life.

They might not be seen just as your undies are not expected to be seen, but just as you feel good, knowing that you have your undies on and just as it gives you a sense of confidence, so also, when you wear these "under wears of life' they boost your confidence in life. They protect you from 'germs' and 'infections' just as your under wears protect your private parts.

The following things are some of the "Underwear of Life"

1. Good self-esteem: No matter how expensive your physical dresses are, if you are not 'wearing' good self-esteem, you’ll feel naked and exposed at the slightest wind gust.

2. Knowledge: Another 'underwear' you must wear is Knowledge. Ignorance is nakedness! Knowledge covers your 'nakedness'. Seek to improve your knowledge. “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it’s the illusion of knowledge” –Daniel J. Boorstin.

3. Power: This world is not for the weakling! If you don't carry power, you will be blown away like powder. You cannot afford to be on the ‘fence of life’. Carry the power of God inside you. No matter how expensive your dresses are, if you don't have power inside of you, you are exposed and life situations can mess you up.

4. Character: Good character gives you confidence. It draws favor in your direction. You exude high level of confidence when you 'wear ' good character. It completes your 'dressing'.

No matter how beautiful you look on the outside or facially, without good character, you are not attractive.

See why you can’t afford to step out without your ‘undies’?

Written by:

Bisola Mogaji.