Blame Not Your Situation
Most of the time when we feel stuck in life, our only means of seeking comfort is blaming every single situation around us. We blame the government, the weather and every single thing we can blame. This gives the responsibility of improving our lives to another person and another thing. We say things like “Only if I was not born in this country, I would have succeeded”. You are passing your function of becoming successful to a function of a location.

The power to become whatever you want lies within you. Everything that happens to you happens for a reason. All you have to do is never be a reactant to your situations and challenges. Be an actor, not a reactor. It is easy to react and wait for instructions from your environment before you take action. However, all you need to do is act on your situation. Never wait to be acted upon before you act.

The situations around you are not what determines who you would become. Your situation is not a factor of who you should become. It is really difficult to act as if our environment does not affect us but we need to be conscious of our environment and never be made to react because of what our environment passes on to us.

You should lead your life in the best way that you want. Not in the way another person or your current situation is. You alone is the person to make your life decisions.

So make a decision today to be an actor rather than a reactor. Be the person who gives command about how your life would go rather than receiving instructions from your environment about how your life should go.

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Why Are You Doing It?
I sat down at my desk trying to do something and then the question popped up in my head. The question was “Why are you doing this?”. I simply stopped what I was doing and took some few minutes to ask myself exactly why I was doing what I was doing. But the answer came back really fast and it was because it was what someone else wanted and I did not thing it was the right thing to do. Do not get me wrong, you can do something because that is how it is done or you could choose to do it the right way. It is your choice.
Whatever it is you choose to do today is mostly your choice. There is no I cannot. There is always I would not. Try asking yourself the next time you want to start a task if the task is really important or simply because someone else wants it done that way. You only have one life to live and you want to be proud of every single moment. Doing the right it at all time is all that matters at the end. On your death bed, all you wish you did were all the right things and not have done something because someone else thought it was the right thing.

Do not get me wrong and start going against your boss at work over what is right or wrong. You have to execute tasks at work and you need to follow orders if you need that paycheck. But even if what you want to do is not right, you should have civil ways at discussing it. 
Taking time to really discuss what your tasks are is really important. Do not be confused between being busy and being useful. Do very important things and not very busy stuffs. At the end, all that matters is that you did the important tasks. 

Please do take some few minutes to analyse whatever task it is you are taking today and determine whether you are doing the right thing or not. Most importantly, are you being busy or useful. Most people convince themselves that what they are doing is really important. But try stay away from work for a day and see if work does not go just as fine as if you were never absent. The flavor of being busy has made you so blind to the very important tasks at hand.

Kindly check it out today and determine if you are busy or useful. Its your choice

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Pause For A Moment
Sometimes we simply flow and go along with the norms. We want to buy that car because that is what is in town. You want to go out and party because that is what everyone is doing. For how long would you continue doing what others do. If you do what others do, you become what they become. You choose some certain situations you want to be in rather than simply follow along with what everyone does.

Do be different, you have to act differently. You need different results, be different. A lot of people today spend a lot of money organizing events because that is what everyone around them is doing. You spend so much organizing a wedding party, a house-warming-party.

Pause for a moment and ask yourself what would happen if you never did what others were doing. Would it make you any less of a human being? The answer is clear. NO. Then why do you still continue in the shadows of what everyone is doing?
Take some time today and analyze how your current life is moving. Would it matter if you stopped what you are doing? What benefit are you creating from what you currently do? Ask yourself some very important questions. We act every day as if our lives go on forever. But no, it stops at some point. So why do we act differently?

Read through all you do every day and ponder if it really makes sense. See to it that you modify your daily activities in such a way that your life is impacted positively and the people around you. It is not always about you. It takes more to life than just getting things done alone. Try to make sure you impact the people around you?

In the end, all that matters is not that you alone is happy. It matters that everyone around you benefits from the goodness you share around. We came into this world with nothing and we would never leave with nothing.

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COMMENTS IN YOUR CODE – PART 1
So why do we comment our code? To give a better explanation about a code we have written. But why do we have to explain a code we have written as code are meant to be self-explanatory. So if you are adding comments to your code, does it mean that your code was not self-explanatory? If your code was not self-explanatory, do not bother adding comments to the code, kindly refactor your code. What is the essence of commenting a bad code?

A lot of programmers want to give better clarification about what they are doing and as such, employ every means possible to achieve that. However, following some basic naming principles, we would not have to comment our code. But be careful, I do not say you do not need to comment at all. There are cases in which comments are a must, but where they are not necessary, they are a source of nuisance and space misappropriation.

Unlike codes, comments are rarely refactored. Most of the time, it is rather difficult to refactor comments after they have been written. Be careful, because a bad comment is far worse than no comment at all. It misleads, it lies, it causes a very great level of inaccuracy when reading the code. Try as much as possible to explain yourself in your code and far away from comments.

Beyond stating the bad sides of comments, listed below are some of the places where comments can serve good purposes, but even in those places its use should be limited

Legal Rules: This is where the copyright law for the code and the organization and the authors of the code are written. Since this type of comment can be found in almost every file, it would rather be important if it can be written in a separate file for the project

Informative Comments: No matter how descriptive our namings are, we sometimes need some helper comments to shed more light on certain names. In these cases, use comments. but be careful as these cases are really rare. Always explain yourself in code

Intent: Some implementations need to be followed by the intent why the programmer chose to use some certain concepts to solve the problem. In this case, comments can be used to explain intent.

Warning: Some implementations can use more resources than needed at some certain time or do something we do not want all the time. A certain method execution might drop all the data in the database. For these rare cases, comments can be added to warn anyone before they try using a certain method

Todo: Not all tasks can be completed at once. Comments can be added to explain that certain code is still in progress or another programmer looking at the code should complete some other items in progress.

Emphasis: To lay more emphasis on a certain piece of code. Comments can be added to give the developer a heads-up.
There could be more reasons why you want to add comments to your code but the reasons stated above are some that scaled through the acceptable comments bar.
Beyond acceptable comments, what comments are bad? Check it out in Part 2 of this article

Begin With The End In Mind
Imagine that today was your last day on Earth, you have done all you could have accomplished and have left this world. How would you like others to remember you? What would you like people to say about you? What would you like to have achieved in life?

If today was your last day on Earth, what would your spouse, your best friend, colleague or neighbor say about you? Do you really think they would say what you really wished they would have said. No matter who you are, you would want people to say good things about you when you are no longer here. Well, you cannot be here forever so you have to face the reality of the end.

Whatever you do today is what people would talk about about when you leave. You do not have to die before people talk about you. You simply have to live for people to talk about you. As you currently live your life, what do you think you would achieve in the end if you continue like this?
You would most likely say I am trying my best. I am always very busy at work doing one thing or the other. But if you were not here, would what you are doing be really important. Would you be missed for that task or would the task even be important. People seem to mistake busyness for productivity. You might be working very hard to cut a tree and later discover you were cutting the wrong tree from the beginning. Have you achieved your goal? The answer is obvious.

So is what you are currently doing now. At the workplace, whatever it is that you are doing, is it the right thing? Are you doing things or acting only because you want to be praised and appreciated in the short run. When you are no longer here, it would become clear if you were doing the right thing or not.

Always think about the end on whatever activity you want to do whether personal or for your organization. A lot of people want to make a lot of money, but very few people when dead really wish they were really rich. Well, who needs money when they are dead. Seeking to be rich is not a bad thing, but chasing it at whatever cost is something I know you would not wish you did when you are on your death bed.
Life is sweet if lived well. Live everyday to the fullest, love with all your heart. Give your best because at the end, that is what you would have wished you did.

Please as you get to work today, always remember to begin with the end with every activity you want to work on. Do the right things right and abandon the wrong things. Because even the wrong things perfectly does not make it right. 

Do exactly the right thing and never do things because of what people around you would feel. Ensure it is the right thing and go for it.
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It Takes Time
So I have been programming for the past 2 years. I seem to be progressing at a slow pace. I really wish I could do more. I try all I can but it all seems to be going slow. Look at my boss, he has already achieved it all. Why am I still at this point?

These are some thoughts that comes to my mind times without number. I wish I would simply wake up and every issue I have has been fixed or does not even exist at all. I wish everything was perfect. I know a lot of people out there also want to have a life like this. But after speaking to one of my bosses at work, he explained things to me from a different perspective.

He said listen, it takes time. You cannot wake up and simply have everything you want. To be a successful person in your profession, you need to have a lot of challenges. You need to give it time. The most important things you need to work on are your habits. Your habits are the most important things that would determine how your life would be. This is because your life is a summation of what you do everyday. To become better, you need to do incremental good things everyday.

Also know that the result does not immediately come up. Sometimes, you see no result at all. You need to try and try again. Be sure to give yourself time when you are trying to become a better you.

Development of a kid does not happen in a day. So would your own current growth and development take time. Take some minutes and reflect on when you wanted what you currently have. You wanted to get married so badly but now you are married. It takes time for great things to manifest. Ensure you are always taking small steps everyday towards achieving that which you want.

Please do not be discouraged on your path to greatness. If you are discouraged, it is a good symptom that you are going for something great and different. Try the possible best you can everyday and keep trying your best. That is all that you need.

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How Hard Do You Want It?
So you really want to become that person you have been wishing to be like? You think all day about that job you wish you had and you would probably continue wishing if you do not take the step. Most of us want something so bad but are we really working so hard.

Success comes easy after a comprehensive hard work. It does not come easy. So you have been working on a project for a few months and you think you have already worked hard enough. No, it is not enough. You need to try harder. Keep trying if and only if it is what you truly love.
If what you are working hard on is not what you love, then I am sorry. You have no future in it. What are you reasons for doing what you do? Those are the basic principles that push you forward. If you really love what you do, you would find a way. However, always know the boundary between love and obsession. Always read the writing on the wall. Do not compare yourself with others. It might not be what you like.

Comparing yourself with others is one quick way of overworking yourself and thinking you are not achieving any goal. We all have different time zones. The time of Obama becoming President is different for Trump but both have now held the post. Do not compare yourself with others and base your hard work on that.

You need to do more for what you love. What you really love is what is going to take you to where you want to go. Keep going and keep doing more.
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What Is Your Goal?
Well, this is more like a personal message for me. A message to my future self before I become 30. By the way, who says I would be 30. I wish I would be and I pray to be. Beyond that, there are a lot of goals I would love to achieve before I am 30. Well, how old am I now? Well, just know that I would be clocking 30 by 2024. That is not really far.

So what I would really love to have achieved are not much. Just some few normal stuffs and some few hopeful wishes. 
I want to have a PhD in Computer Science 
I want to be married and have kids
I want to be better at my religion, helping others and better at my job

Well, I really love to complete my education. Beyond having a degree in Computer Science, I would really love to further my studies. But finance is hard to come by and scholarships are becoming harder to get. So, I keep pushing and keep trying.

Oh, abut getting married. I really wish to find and be with my better half as life is good but better with your truly beloved partner. And well, kids just make you want to be young again. A great inspiration for parents.

Better in every aspect. My religion of Islam is what I need to improve the most. Becoming a better Muslim, treating people with care and respect. And loving all with all my heart. My job as a Software Developer is something I would really love to get better at as I seem to have a lot of holes to fill.

And well, just a little inclusion. To become a world-renowned speaker. Well, more like a programmer speaker.
Well, my Creator, I seek your mercy and favor towards achieving my goal.

What is your goal? Share it, we can all help each other become better

Find Happiness Within You
Sometimes, we badly want someone by our side. We want someone who would love and cherish us, be by our side at every moment. But we realize that the more we try, the more we drive people away. You seek to find a relationship but is broken even before it started. You are willing to give all you have but you seem not to find anyone to give it to.

Life does not always give us what we want but it sure gives us what we need. You might say you need a person to love you, but do you really love yourself. How much do you know about yourself? What are the things that make you happy? People will not necessarily make you happy if you cannot make yourself happy. It takes more to be happy than having someone to make you happy. Be happy with yourself and please do know about yourself before you seek happiness from others.

Life is great when we share with others. However, you need to be as happy as you can be. Partners make what is good better. So be sure to be good in yourself before you seek happiness in the eye of others.

I have since tried to seek happiness from others but lately I have discovered that it takes only me to find what really makes me happy and be happy. Your partners would not be perfect. They are humans. So when they make mistakes, we can find happiness from ourselves that can help push the relationship forward.

Do not look to someone else for happiness, find it within yourself. Stay Moral

What’s Your Story? Share It
We all have different stories at different point in time. Why not tell your story today. It might help someone. I remember being an undergraduate and wishing and praying to get a nice job after graduation. Now I am a graduate and I have a nice job, are the feelings and expectations the same. Well, not really bad for my expectations and feelings.

But I do know that someone is at that same point in life right now thinking of how life after graduation would be. Take time to tell your story because it could help someone else. You might not immediately see the effect and value of what you are doing, but as far as you are doing it to help another, then it would definitely be of value to someone out there. It might take a while but it would definitely help.

Starting out as a Computer Science student, I wish I could write a simple program. I would go online seeking how to do that. But now, I wish someone had shared their stories and experiences earlier maybe I would not have done the same exact thing another person did.

Whatever it is today that you think you have passed through and you think it might likely happen to another person. Kindly write about it. You do not need to be a great writer to write that, people that need it would connect to it no matter how bad it is. People with some health issues would relate to the issue if someone who has once had the issue reports how he/she went through it. Same as you.

Do not forget to leave a little part of you in writing. It makes it easier to get past some stages earlier rather than starting from the beginning.
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Show Appreciation
Every day I open my tap to fetch water, water gushes out until I have to put it off. With this cycle, I have come to see having water as something easy and less appreciative. But yesterday, the main pipe that supplied by area water had a problem, so right now, there is no water to use and we have to seek other places to get water. With this scarcity of water, I have come to appreciate water.

In our lives, it might not be water that we have in abundance that we do not show appreciation. It might be a gift of life, the gift of love. Whatever it is that we have everyday that has so become easy that we do not show any appreciation. We need to take some time out and really be appreciative of what we have.

It might be a wonderful spouse, a nice job and a lot more. We need to show more appreciation to the people we see around. To the air we breathe, to everything, let us show more appreciation

We seem to forget how to appreciate some things when we have them in abundance. We seem to think it is normal to have those things and no need to show appreciation. Whatever we think that we have and is normal to be, someone is somewhere wishing he/she has what we currently have. So for what we have, let’s show more appreciation.

Take a few minutes today to look at those things, people and other stuffs around you and show appreciation. We do not need to loose anything before we seek to ponder and reflect. In abundance and scarcity, reflect.

CMS Africa 2017 Was Awesome
The CMS Africa 2017 event was held at Chelsea Hotel, Abuja and was indeed a great event to have attended. All the mighty forces in the CMS industry were all there. Talking about WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and many more. The event also geared at improving Open Source Community Collaboration in Africa.

Events like this are where you come to see what other technologies you could use to help solve your most pressing issues and get to network and meet people face-to-face. There is always a different feeling when you get to meet a person physically rather than communicating online. It helps improve collaboration and also introduces one to cutting-edge technologies you did not believe was ready for use.

Creating events and conferences should be something encouraging not only because of the fun part but also because it helps improve on what you already know. Various speakers speaking from their various angles and people sharing ideas. One is never always the same after these kinds of events.

I would also like to use this opportunity to appreciate the effort of the organizers of the event and all the speakers who have spoken. Because I am personally touched and changed by some of the things I have heard at the event. The idea of writing a book to promote a business is something I am looking forward to. Creating a developer evangelist profile to help improve community relations and development is also something I would also like to look into.

These are things I would never have known right now if not for being at the event. Many more ideas I might not be able to state are all in my mind. The idea of writing documented code is also something I would be more careful about.
Once again, a great shout out to the organizers of CMS Africa 2017. Thank you

The Idea of Finishing Touches
Have you ever looked at a product and seems to think that is something missing about this product or service. You look up and down but you cannot seem to find out exactly what that is. I would like to advise that to have a final product that you really like, the foundation must be strong and solid.

You need to pay close attention to details from the beginning of your design. You pay attention right from when you conceive the idea to the moment when the idea becomes a value. To pay close attention from the beginning to the end is all that you need to have a complete product you would like.

For example, you want to build a shoe. You do not look to see if the shoe is fine at the end stage, you have to pay complete attention to every fine detail from the beginning. The leather to be used, the sole of the shoe and every single thing about the shoe needs to be in place at every single step. However, never be too dramatic with the details. It simply pays to be very observant about what it is you want to do. 

Always at every point be careful with whatever it is you are doing. Be it programming, going out on a date. Anything you can think of, always ensure that the details is followed but never feel trapped in finding the best. Ensure that you apply your best to every detail that you have. It is really the best you can offer at that point.

So on your next project, simply look up every detail that needs to be updated and put your best at it.
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Oh, Forgive Me
This message is to you, yes You. It is my little way of apologizing for all the things I have done to hurt you. To seek your forgiveness is all that I ask for. The world would never be a perfect place if we do not make mistakes and learn from them. I have made my mistakes and as such learning from it right now, kindly forgive me

There is definitely someone out there who you need to say this to today. We are not perfect, we make mistakes and as time goes on, we look back and wish some things are not the way they currently are. It could be with your parents, your relatives, colleagues at work or any other place. You feel out of place to be the one apologizing, but if that is what your real you wants, you have to give in to it because that is exactly who you are.

A Nice and forgiving human. Very few human beings has ever made it through life without hurting one person or the other. We hurt others and other people hurt us. It is in our capacity as humans to ensure that we clear whatever differences we have between ourselves and move on to greater things in life. By the way, would that issue matter 10 years from today?

When we forgive, people sometimes sabotage our efforts and rub it over our face about being weak. Never let people determine how you would behave. Keep your calm and always try to reason things out first when people push you to your limits. You are human you know, so no matter how much you wish to calm down, you break up at some point. So always try in your own possible best to be good and forgive as much as you can.
The world needs a lot more of forgiveness and love. Contribute your quota today.

Call To Action
Make a decision today to forgive that person. Place a call and try resolve issues. Thank me later

Just Try Again
Sometimes, we want something so bad but the fear of being rejected makes us stop. We convince ourselves that we are not good enough and that it might be better for us if we do not try it out. We say things just to make us feel okay but in the end, we do not really feel okay, all you feel is guilt and unhappiness

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris — Brainy Quotes

I saw an opening for a speaker at the CMS AFRICA SUMMIT but I was not sure if I could be invited to speak due to the level of international speakers speaking at the event. But anyways, I tried and I have being officially invited as a speaker at the event. I am really I did apply and would never know what would have happened if I never applied.

A lot of things like this pass us by everyday and we are too afraid to even try. We give up even before trying. To fail does not mean you are a failure, it might simply mean you have discovered your mistake and would be willing to do better next time.

Please whatever it is you want to do and have been afraid of trying, kindly try again today and see what happens. By trying today, it does not mean you will surely get it, but it means you are no longer at the same place you were yesterday and that means you are progressing. Keep going everyday until you have achieved what it is you really want. Never let fear hold you back

The Art of Being Confident
At times, we see people who behave confidently as if they knew exactly what was going to happen and we stand looking surprised and amazed as to how easy those kind of people are able to appear confident. One little secret you have to know is that it is either there first time and they are very afraid that it would not work out or they have practiced over a long period of time and it has now become second nature to them.

Most people in life do not have all the things they have just as it was planned. Some get it more easily and others have to do extra great work to achieve the success they currently have. Being confident is an art to be built over time and not something that simply falls to our laps without working for it.

Being confident is the belief that what you are planning would go exactly the way you have planned and if it doesn’t, you would do everything you have to do to make it right. Simply thinking and not acting would not make you confident, and one more secret is that things appear to be more difficult than they really are.

Remember something you once told yourself was too difficult to achieve then you later achieved it and you keep asking yourself what exactly was difficult about the whole task. Same as confidence. You need to try as much as you can before you finally know whether it was hard or not.
Remember, things appear to be more difficult than they really are. So is being confident. Various questions flow through your mind, what if it does not work out, what if I am not the right person. A lot of what ifs would definitely blow your mind, but the most important what if to work with is what if I win?

Let that if be the only if that would keep pushing you forward and never look back at any other form of ifs. Keeping going and keep moving forward, confidence is a daily practice.
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Say No Clearly: Promise Wisely
So we do not want to disappoint our friends when they ask for a favor so we do not decline directly. We kind of promise to do something but at the end, we do not. It is rather important that we carefully look at the things we say Yes or No to.
Some of us are truly willing to do what is asked, but we have already too much on our plates. When such situation happen, it is rather better that we do not decline but do not speak in a way that makes the person have high hopes about what they have asked for.

Sometimes, the person asking expects a No, simply check out within yourself and decide whether you would be able to fulfill the promise or not. Also, when you are not too sure, rather postpone making the decision and inform the person to check back on you later to complete the discussion rather than answering at the spot.
When we make promises, we make people fix some things in their lives that would be hard to change if we do not go on with our promise. I believe we need to start with the very small things that we do think do not matter. We should say things only when we mean it. We should be a person with a very good reputation of meaning what we say.

A person who says NO to a lot of things and YES to very few things is far better than saying YES to a lot of things and not keeping up with the promise. A lot of us are guilty of this, but if we start trying now, the world would definitely be a better place for me and you

Correcting Others
Making mistakes is something every single one of us has done in one point or the other of our lives and would most likely make more in the future. However, making mistakes makes us look incompetent, ashamed and makes us lose confidence in ourselves.
However, when we make mistakes, what we need to do is to learn from the mistake and ensure it never happens again. But when you observe a person making a mistake, it is necessary to explain to the person what exactly the mistake is, why it is a mistake and point to the solution. In organizations where a lot of people work together and a lot of mistakes are made, it is rather necessary to find a really good way to correct others so as to prevent malice and jealousy among staffs when corrected. Below are some few points I think we can adhere to when trying to correct others.

Establish that the problem was indeed a mistake. Sometimes, some things might look like the person made a mistake, but was trying to get something else done. After establishing that it was indeed a mistake, then move to step 2

Seek to have a moment with the person privately. Most people do not like to be corrected in public. Explain what you believe is the right answer and how the person can get to make it right

Rather than only talking, try as much as possible to put the person through to avoid a future recurrence. Also try have the issue documented so that other colleagues who have the same issue would simply read up rather than you having to repeat the same thing.

Try to never correct a person over a general communication medium. Where everyone can see the mistake. Rather do so using personal communication medium

Be calm and composed when making corrections, rather than by being in a very loud and rude manner simply because you feel you need to correct a person

Always refer to mistakes by the event rather than by the person who made the mistake. This rather seems like the person who made the mistake is always tagged with his/her mistake

Know that making mistakes is something that should not be looked at as a very bad thing but rather as a tool for learning and ensuring not to make the same mistake twice

These few points are some of the ways I believe we can go around correcting ourselves.

Call To Action
Simply try to follow at least one of these points when correcting a friend today

Be Ethically Conscious
Sometimes, we do things without considering whether it is good or bad. We sometimes go along with the flow. Since others are doing it, that means I can also do it, no problem. But do you sometimes take a few minutes out to look at what you are trying to do and really understand that what you are doing is really right or wrong.

Consider the next task you are going to do and really look at the ethical aspect of it. Whatever task it is, it is time we start asking the fundamental questions of ethics. While studying ethics back in school, I thought it was something easy to do, but now I have come to realize that it is really important and something we must take time to understand. This is because we keep doing a lot of very small unethical things but when all combined together is something big.

Kindly keep in mind that the best way to work is to follow the ethical way without which we would make the world around us rather unbalanced. Take a few minutes today to understand the ethics surrounding your job and business and ensure that you try as much as possible to be ethically upright.

Nothing pays as much as being ethical

So Small To Matter
Sometimes, we want to do something but stop because we think it is not worth it or its too small. Doing something good is never too small. The concept of good is not measured by size but by the sincere intention.

Do good not because its small, do it because a lot of people out there need a little bit of goodness to become better. To the beggar on the street, a simple smile might be all they need to be reassured that they can become better and would indeed be better.

To your spouse, that small kiss, that small reassurance talk, that small gift might be all they need to be reassured that the love you have for them is real. A lot of great things always start on a small scale and finally escalates to a big level.

Take a few minutes today to do something good no matter how small, but never stop doing just that small bit and see how much it would help the community. To help does not have to be financial, we can smile at someone, teach what we know, listen to people when they are down.
These very small things would definitely make the world a better place. Go get started

Thanks very much for understanding the ethics of Software Development. You have made the right decision. You will definitely make it as far as good conduct and ethics is your way of life.
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Making Mistakes
One of the most hated thing we do not want to do is make mistakes. Mistakes can make us look so incompetent, fearful and would like to just do nothing. Making mistakes makes us really afraid of trying to do any other thing.

But one thing I have learnt about making mistakes is that if we learn from it, we definitely become better than we were before making the mistake. Our level of fear reduces and we get better at what we made the mistake at.

It is really difficult to see people talk about the mistake that you made, laugh about it and you would wish the ground would simply swallow you. But note that your friends would definitely laugh and make jest of you, but the resolution to learn from your mistake is left to you and you alone.
We all make mistakes, its not the mistake that shapes us. Rather it is what we do after making the mistake that makes all the difference. So at work, I am afraid of making mistakes, but the more I make them, the more I become better and better and also learn how not to make the mistake again.

Learning to learn from our mistakes is one of the greatest gift we can ever have. Because we cannot really run away from making mistakes, so the best we can do is to learn from it and make sure it never happens again and learn as much as possible from our previous mistake.

Life is too short to waste it on a mistake. Learn to see mistakes as ways of validating what you think you know, rather than invalidating what you already know. By getting up every day and making mistakes and learning from them, we are definitely reducing the total number of mistakes we can ever make.

Ensure to always learn from your mistakes. Although no one is perfect, but we can always learn from our mistakes and become better
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The Law of Spending — Part 2
So after writing about the law of spending Part 1, a friend made a comment and I thought it was necessary to add the second part. So I was able to save a certain amount of money over a period of time, then I just spent it on a not-budgeted item and the money was gone. So what is the essence of saving in the first place. This made me think about something while saving, what is the purpose or essence for which we are saving.

If you have no specific goal of saving, something you want to purchase, something you want to have, then saving the money would be of no need. So what I am trying to say is if at any point, you decide to start saving, ensure that you have a seasoned reason for which you are saving. A reason that is so hard to break. Ensure that the reason is not much, just a single reason and hold onto it.

It is easy for other reasons to take up the space as the most important issue and that you need to spend your savings on them, always have a convincing reason before you start saving that would ensure that the reason why you are saving would start on top of your list until you have achieved it. A lot of reasons would come, but endure and endeavor to finish what you have started.

Kindly try out this method but do not beat yourself up if it does not work the first or second time, you cannot get it right always. Give gap for human errors. Endeavor to keep in mind that sometimes, our plan would not go 100% as planned and that is fine. But that we would get back up and save again anytime we have problems saving
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The Law Of Spending
I recently read about a law that states that our task seems to fill up all the time we allocate for it. If we allocate small time, we finally really spend less time and if we allocate more time, we indeed use up more time for the same task. This law has happened to some of us at some point in time, while you were in school, at work or somewhere else. A task that can be completed in a day is spread over two weeks and simply started and completed on the last night of the two weeks.

This is similar to how we spend money. The law of spending I am proposing is that our spending fills up all the amount of money we allocate for spending. Or simply put, we spend the amount of money we have access to. If you have access to more money, you spend more, you have access to less, you spend less. If you have access to less, you definitely cannot spend beyond what you have, I believe.

So it is important that as we try to save up more, we need to spend less, to spend less, we need to not grant ourselves access to more than what is basically needed. When you earn a certain salary, you live by that amount. The day you get a raise, you begin to live my another standard because you simply have access to more money.

So today, make a decision. Open another bank account where you cannot withdraw the money deposited for a fixed amount of time and begin by saving at least one-third of your salary in that account. You would become uncomfortable in the beginning, but with time, you would learn to live within your means and saving would no longer seem like a big deal to you.

Call To Action
Make a decision today to open that bank account. No Credit card, nothing for withdrawal from the account. Choose a bank very far from your home and ensure that you have a policy that really discourages you from withdrawing any amount from the account.

Finish It
So you know about the concept of whatever you do everyday becomes a part of you right? So you want to move on to a new idea or project and leave the last one uncompleted. Yes right? But NO, wait a minute. You have to finish that first. Whatever new idea you have in mind, kindly write it down somewhere and keep working on your current idea. Kindly finish that first before moving on to the next idea.

Why is that? This is because we become good at what we do everyday. Not completing your tasks, you become good at that. Keeping a string of uncompleted projects and ideas. Stick with it and finish it before moving out to the next big idea.

You know something about completing a task, it is that it gives you the strength to move on to the next task. The feeling you have when you complete a task is so contagious that it moves onto the next task and allows you time to focus and move to the next time.
Take a few minutes today to look at the tasks you have not completed and make a commitment to have your tasks finished and completed before moving out onto another task. 

Whatever you want to start or continue today, make a commitment to finish it. Whatever it is you are doing, finish it.
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Being Time Conscious
To be successful means that you are better at something. To be good or even better at something means you spend a good amount of your time trying to understand what needs to be understood. From what I have just said, one of the most important item is TIME. How you spend your time determines how well you would be in life.

When you talk about managing time, it does not mean you have to be active or productive all day of the week. You would definitely have time to relax and do other things not really productive. But what matters is that your time is accountable. It really matters that you know how your day goes.

Most of the time we just observe that the week has ended and we cannot really point at something we achieved. Being able to know precisely how we spent our time gives us the ability to be able to amend the way our time was previously spent and how we can indeed make it better.
By being time conscious, we can discover how to make better use of our time. With that, you can discover when you are most active and when you are not and that can allow you to place your most pressing activities in your most active periods and let you put the not so important activities in your less active moments.

The effect of our age and time on earth is not how long, but how effective it is spent. Seeking for more years on earth is not the solution, but spending every single minute of everyday consciously.

Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.

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