Being Zino

Hello guys, welcome back to my blog. I received a lot of love on my last blog post and I am truly grateful. I posted the picture above on my Instagram yesterday promising to put the post up today. By the way, if you're not following me on Instagram, you should do so now, I am on Instagram as @ zinogold1 . thank you very much. Back to the business of the day. In the world today, it is very easy to be swept around by the cacophony of voices all around you. There's people constantly advising you on what you should or should not be doing. Family members, friends and of course social media (whether we admit it or not) all have huge roles in our perception of life and the choices we make everyday. The problem is there's so much information, advice, tips, ideas, self-help guides and so on out there that you sometimes end up even more confused. Of course, there's also the negative voices, the naysayers and the people who will try to shoot down every idea you come up...

Hey guys. How have you all been? I am inspired to put up the second part of my last blog post today. In my last post, I discussed what it meant to "bring something to the table" in our careers and jobs. Like I promised, in today's post, we will be shifting from a professional focus to a more personal level and discuss bringing something to the table in relationships. I once followed a thread on twitter where there was a debate on the roles of both genders in a relationship and i think the discussion was sparked by a guy who tweeted that women are always canvassing for equal gender roles yet they always want men to take care of the bills for them. Several arguments then ensued in favour and against the guys standpoint and many of the arguments raised were actually very valid and this made me think about gender roles, dynamics of a relationship and gender equality (For the record, gender roles and gender equality do not mean the same thing but that is a differen...