Being Zino

So, everyone is excited to have entered into a new year, after all 2016 was a rather dramatic and eventful year and we can’t wait to see how 2017 pans out. In all honesty, I can’t wait either. While the year had its drastic downs; there were also the fabulous ups. And trust me, 2016 was actually the best year ever for some people. I can’t exactly say it was the same for me but it wasn’t a bad year either. I had a lot of good experiences and I simply count the others as lessons not necessarily bad experiences. So, moving forward into 2017 I have been able to curate some of these experiences and have used them in drawing up my recipes for success in 2017. So, if you’re interested in getting my recipes; please grab your popcorn as this might be quite a read. 1.     There is no such thing as a wasted experience: Every single moment or experience in life is useful, believe it or not. An experience only becomes wasted when you fail to see it for what it is;...

Hello guys. Hope you're doing great? So, obviously; today's post is inspired by something that has been trending on social media this week, at least, here in Nigeria. So, popular and somewhat controversial on-air personality Toke Makinwa just announced that she had written a book to be launched this month. The book happens to be kinda a story of her life, and how she rose from the ashes to the throne. The announcement obviously brought a lot of speculation especially since she said the idea was divinely inspired. However, analyzing all of that is not the purpose of this post. Typically, I try to be as objective as possible in analyzing things; so I believe there's always lessons to be learned in every situation. When I saw Toke's post on Instagram announcing her book, I was a bit surprised, to be honest. But, the second thing to strike me was the fact that her friend Arese Ugwu had just published a book of her own which was also making waves. I am writin...

img source: http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/ Hey guys, how are you doing? See, I kept my promise even though it's almost end of day. I said I will post twice a week henceforth and I will try my very best to ensure this. However, there's a slight challenge this week and that's the fact that I don't have anything to post today! Can you believe that? I didn't plan well and I had a crazy weekend so I really didn't think about what I was going to post. But, I was tired of giving excuses for not posting on the blog and since I have resolved to post twice a week, twice a week I will even if it's just random ramblings. I apologise for this little glitch and I promise to be up and running in no time people. I'm working on a schedule of posts for the blog that I'm sure you'll be excited about. How many yay's for me? I hear so many. Thanks for the support people. There are some loyalists who read all of  my posts. However, we have a small  ...

Hey guys, as usual it's been a while I posted. In my last post, I explained that I had gotten a new job and my time was very limited, making it difficult to post. However, I have realised that I always have one seemingly good excuse or the other as to why I've not been consistent. School, bad laptop, work or even mood swings. This week, however, I came across something that inspired me so much that I have resolved to stop making excuses for myself.  There's this blogger I follow on Instagram, but have never really visited her blog, her blog is FashionablyIdu. I stumbled across her Facebook page and I was scrolling through it to see her blog updates and i saw a particular post where she talked about beating cancer and celebrating two years blog anniversary. I was interested so i clicked to read it. Going through the story, I was challenged. Do you know that during this previous year, Idu fought cancer, kept her day job as a Kindergarten teacher, was raisin...

Hello beautiful people, how are you all doing? We're slowly winding down to the weekend? This is one of my most appreciated weekends in a long time. Like, I'm so happy it's the weekend and I'll tell you why in a short while. I would like to address a very important issue in this post. This blog is here to express my thoughts on all things i feel like discussing and if I don't talk about this, then I don't know what else I will do. If you are a student or you just graduated, you would fully understand what I am talking about. As a student, we can't wait to graduate, we all dream of that day when we finally write our last paper, drop our pen and scream our heads off in excitement. Yeah, I did all of that too. However, the novelty soon wears off and reality begins to sink in. We realise that graduation might not be all we imagined it to be. For the first one week after the final exam or probably after your project defense, we might sleep like bab...

Hey guys, welcome back! Hope you've all been fabulous. I missed you! As it is, I have no excuse why I haven't put up a post since, cos I've been doing almost nothing recently, na just laziness, lol. I do have a lot of post ideas and I would get to each of them. (eventually) Anyway guys, today I want to share with you the reason I started blogging. I'm writing this post because of a conversation I had with a secondary school mate of mine recently. I just shared a new blog post on my Facebook page and he sent me a message. He asked if blogging was a lucrative business. I told him yes if used well. He went on to ask a couple of other questions on how money could be made through blogging which I answered. He then told me that he was thinking of starting a blog and he needed me to put him through. I agreed to help in any way I could but I asked him what he wanted to blog about. His response was "anything, as long as it's legal and godly". I'm like wh...

Hey guys, welcome back to my blog! Lol, its been a small long time, (Dunno what that means 😃). I've been AWOL for a while, this is because I was making arrangements to move back to Lagos and I finally came back on Sunday; so I've been in Lagos for two days. But I'd be talking about that in another post. Today; however, I would be reflecting on my time in the University and the life lessons I learnt during those years. As you may or may not know, I attended University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and studied Linguistics and Communication studies. Typically, that's a four year course, but oh well; this is Nigeria and you know how it goes. So; I'm just gonna delve into the topic of the day. Lesson 1: BE RESOLUTE! Listen, when you are in the University,  ain't no mummy, daddy or uncle gon' be chasing you around telling you what you ought and ought not to do. You need to make decisions on your own based on whatever training you might have been given back ...