NAIJA YOUTHS ARENA

A Lot of people find discovering purpose a hard thing to do. It shouldn't be. It has been with you all your life. Here is this formula. When you are passionate about something, it drives you towards knowledge in that thing. Knowledge drives you towards competence.  In due  time you become an expert. One way to know your passion is to examine your current interests. What catches your fancy? What would you rather be doing in perfect conditions? What do you desperately want to learn about? If you say you love singing, and after several years you still can't sing well. Forget it, you are not passionate enough.  Your love for singing would have driven you to know a lot about it, join choirs, bands, sing a lot, get a role model-mentor, join singing competitions, seize every opportunity to sing in church, to the extent you start singing really well. What are the things you have a lot of knowledge in already?  Watch out, that could be passion drivi...

Certificates are becoming less and less important. In the days of our fathers, if you as much as had standard 6, you are an elite. White collar jobs na dem go dey rush you. Then the standard was raise to bachelors degree, then to Masters. Today having a Ph.D does not guarantee you Nathing. Graduates are becoming more and more unemployed.  When i see those highly certified unemployed, broke graduates i feel they have been deceived. Not in the way that "school is scam". Abeg oo. But they where trained for an economy that is no more existent. They have been prepared and deployed for a battle that has long shifted to another level Not that their Training is essentially useless, but it is no longer the Main Arsenal for survival. In this war, certificates are no more the main instrument of offense, i will tell you what are the first line of defense against Hunger and poverty. >>>Skills It is no longer what you studied, it is not even what you k...

It is said  show me your friends and I will tell you who you are; This is not mere cliche. Friends have so much impact in our lives that we are unconsciously Influenced by them.  We begin to behave like them even without thinking about it. If we understand the influence the people we call friends have on our lives we will all be careful in being being quick to call someone our friend.     You are an average of the sum total of the 5 closest persons in your life, when you look at your friends there are usually many things that are similar among you. Before any friendship will develop, there are one or two things that bring you together.  Your similarities may be good thongs but watch it. The bad characters in your friend that you do not like, by being close to the person gradually become permissible and as time goes on enjoyable.    Watch your friends have been a time tested advice, many have had their live destroyed and their destinies ...