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You’ve been considering it for quite some time now.

It’s a feeling you just can’t shake off. And it keeps nudging at you: should I start a blog or not? The craving is present, the feeling all too overwhelming but you shut it out. I don’t want (or need) a blog, you force yourself to believe; it’s just not your kind of thing.

Long before you know it, you begin to entertain these “I don’t need a blog” thoughts. Well, that’s fine if it’s your genuine decision. But, you see, the problem is most times it’s easy to see that, under these circumstances, you’re only making excuses from pursuing that which you truly desire to do.

You’re not alone in this experience. For months, I did the same thing.

I read articles on blogs and wished I could start my own. Since I had flare for writing, I thought that would be a cool thing to do. Only that I never did. I felt comfortable cooking up excuses that kept me pinned down; and oh! How I wanted to rise!

I never got about starting a blog until I realized certain truths. You know what truths do, yeah? They set you free! Like the jet fuel that pushes the rocket way up into the galaxy. Truth kicked me in the ass and finally I rose up.

Guess what I did?

I started this blog you’re now reading. Happily, I can tell you it’s been one of the best choices I’ve made. We never know how awesome we are at something until we give it a shot.

As an emerging writer, blogging is a sure way to write better, publish a book, establish profitable connections, land speaking engagements, create value and impact lives. But heck, maybe you already know this but still hide behind the shadow of your excuses.

Not anymore. It’s time to shine the torch of truth on these killer excuses and proclaim you free!

Don’t Know What to Blog About

Before I started my blog, I had this dilemma.

There were several things I wanted to put up on my blog. But since writing is as broad as the Atlantic Ocean, I didn’t know where to start swimming from. If I dived too deep, I would drown (and that set the alarms off in my head, like Shaggy in Scooby doo). I could write about drama, short stories, poetry, essays, book publishing, inspiration, personal development and all whatnot.

Then, I didn’t understand what choosing a niche meant. Nonetheless, I started blogging, writing on all without really settling on any. After a while, I came to full grasps of what a niche meant and why I needed to be in one.

It’s pertinent to know that settling on what to blog about is only a process that helps you identify what’s relevant. It shouldn’t be what keeps you from starting at all.

The moment I realised this, I cancelled this excuse off my list of excuses.

Another thing that gave me insight into how to tackle this excuse was the principle I learnt growing up: start small, start better. Other aspects of my life have experienced my application of this principle. I figured blogging was no different. Once I was able to sort out what niche would truly offer the best value to my ideal readers, I had to even go narrower by sieving out other things from the niche, just to make sure I wasn’t handling to many things all at once.

Here’s the value I wanted to offer: teach and get people inspired to write, and once they’re inspired, provide competitions they could use as testing ground. Then get them online to inspire others.

When I was clear on this value, I settled for writing contests, creative writing and blogging tips. It’s been awesome offering this value to many readers of my blog. I bet you have some value hidden up your sleeves that you can also share. Take your time (but not too long, like I did), figure out what it is and start sharing it through your blog.

People Won’t Read My Blog

I believe that destinies are interlinked. The progress we make in our lives more often than not serves as the foundation for some other people to stand and pursue their dreams. This as well applies to us – we benefit from the success recorded by others.

An example of this is evident in the life of Chimamanda Adichie. She’s quoted to have said her writings have had huge impacts and influence from the works of Chinua Achebe.

So, honestly, you never know who would draw inspiration from what you write about on your blog (no matter how insignificant you may think it is). Occasionally, I get feedbacks from readers who attest that my work inspires them to get going and achieve their goals. I tell you, there’s no greater feeling!

What will make people commit to reading your blog?

Starting a “me too” blog wouldn’t achieve this. A “me too” blog is when you run off to start a blog on politics, entertainment and gossips. You think, everyone’s doing it, perhaps I should too.

Wrong!

This is all but a misconception – that blogging is all about reporting the latest trend or news. Blogging goes beyond this notion. It is the offering of value in form of written content. A platform to leverage to inform, educate, share and be rewarded.

Remember the blog that helped you solve that nagging problem you had? Maybe a problem in literature, science, a math assignment or even a movie review. You just loved the content and how your uncertainties were clarified. Even though days, weeks or even months have passed, you still remember the blog (and even go as far as recommending it to your friends); possibly too, you’ve bookmarked it.

That’s what valuable content does. It stays in the mind of people.

So, rather than paint it as an excuse, determine what problem you can solve through your blog and develop valuable content in it. People will most certainly stop over to read your blog, and at best become devoted readers.

The world is attracted to people who are living purposeful lives. When you commit yourself to problem solving, people will invariably be attracted to you. It’s a fundamental principle.


Don’t want to follow the crowd

Yes, you shouldn’t follow the crowd.

However, even though everyone is running off to start a blog, it shouldn’t prevent you from starting yours. You’re unique and that’s why your contribution will also be unique (unless you are only out to copy others). That there are many car owners doesn’t negate the idea of being a car owner yourself, right? You can always have a different approach to how you deploy your blogging.

If there are people already doing what you intend doing, focus on the positive side which is to study them, figure out what it is that’s still lacking in what they do and capitalise on it. Maximise it. It’s often easier to start off anything when there’s a prototype already existing. It’s a great place to start learning. Such people can even become mentors to you, if you’d reach out to them.

What if no one is doing it yet?

If no one is blogging in your preferred niche already (which is most unlikely), it’s an opportunity to become a pioneer in that niche. With considerable effort and creativity you’ll establish yourself as an authority in that niche. This of course, will draw attention both to you and the niche. And as success has many siblings, soon enough, people will come rushing to join your niche. By then you’d be far ahead for any of them to catch up with your success. An instance of this is Linda Ikeji – she started off when no one considered blogging as worthwhile (some even called it work for the jobless), but now, her story is very much different and thousands aspire to get to the level she now enjoys.

Not wishing to follow the crowd should not be an excuse, rather it should be an opportunity to know what works and what’s new.

Won’t Make Money Blogging

This is tricky. The truth is not everyone rakes in income from blogging. But then again, it’s obvious that people live off the money they make from blogging.

While this is a vast issue that can’t be exhausted in this article, it’s also not an excuse that should hinder you from taking the steps towards being a blog owner.

As a writer, blogging exposes you to publishing your own books which of course you can sell. There are possibilities of also landing speaking engagements, when what you blog about resonates with a particular group. If you’re a techy, having a blog can also help you land blog building jobs.

See? Money comes in through different ways. And of course, there’s Google Adsense.

[b]Can’t Write Wel[/b]l

This sounds familiar to me. Reason being that, I too, used it as an excuse to stay off starting a blog.

But really, this shouldn’t be an excuse. If there’s anything I’ve observed in life, it’s that we get better at whatever we do through practice and consistency. Even when talent is not on our side, the possibilities of improvement cannot be shoved aside. Whenever I’m explaining this, I readily point to Cristiano Ronaldo. As much as you may say he’s not the best, he has constantly defied his critics and risen to the top through practice and consistency.

Your writing sucks?

Keep writing. Write when you don’t feel like it, write when your writing doesn’t make sense to you. Just write. If you’ll stay intentional about it and see it as a learning process, then soon enough, you’ll become aware of the little improvements you’ve made that will sure enough add up to become giant leaps.

What better place to practice writing than to do it on your own blog?!

When I started blogging, I didn’t think my writing was superb enough (even though I’d won some essay contests), I just felt I needed to learn more. This was because I wanted to measure up to those I looked up to as blogging mentors. I didn’t let my ineptitude then scare me from launching into the deep.

So to you, here’s my advice: Launch!

Don’t have time and money


This is a two pronged excuse that’s always lurking at the corners of our mind.

Heck, who has time? Who has money?

Truth is, no one does. We live in a fast paced world. Everything zooms and people rarely have time to raise their heads off their smartphones and PCs. It’s also a world where people would prefer to spend money seeing all the latest movies (have you seen Justice League?), stake bets on bet9ja, watch weekly EPL matches and all whatnot but wouldn’t have any money left to make meaningful investments.

Not that they don’t matter, it’s just life.

However, if you must realise your goal and vision to start a blog, you must be ready to commit. This means, drawing up a schedule that will ensure you have free time to show up and write and also set aside some cash to help you take the first steps of buying a domain name and a hosting service.

When you’re able to sacrifice these two things, you’ll put in considerable effort towards making your blog a success that it deserves to be.


Time to take Action

One quote says, when we really want to do something, we’ll find a way to do it, but when we don’t we’ll find excuses.

Don’t let excuses keep you away from touching lives that depend on your progress and success in blogging. Take action, and take action now.

source: http://www.inspirecrib.com/killer-excuses-why-people-who-should-start-a-blog-never-do/

“Madam check this thing well na” I said with reddening eyes and hands-in-mouth like some baby watching his toy car about to fall into a pit.

“Oga! oya see am, this game cut you” the attendant whispered obviously irritated.

“Wait ooo! You wan tell me sey out of 20 games wey I bet just because of one game u dey tell me sey my 5k don go?” I blurted out, not even minding her displeasure.

“Oga na your first time be this?” she asked not out of curiosity but definitely annoyance.

“How ein take concern you?” I snapped back looking for an opportunity to vent my anger on her with injurious words.

“Okay oga no vex oo, but your money don go ooo” she giggled, obviously infuriating me the more.

“Tifs! Na tif all of una be… una no go see me here again!” I left in annoyance.

“Oga!, oga!” she called back . “you leave your phone oo” I went back in a hurry took the phone while muttering an inaudible thank you!

What even made me play this game sef? Upon all the warning and stories I’ve heard from people. I pinched myself hard as I imagined wonderful things I would have done with my innocent five thousand naira.

I lost my money but surely did not miss the lesson. The betting game is really an interesting one. It’s a gamble and as such highly probable. The game has odds and the odds value increases or decreases based on its possibility of occurrence, that is, the higher the possibility of occurrence, the lower the odds. This arrangement therefore makes the game more interesting; the more risk you take the more you would earn. That was my first lesson.

Life indeed is a game of risk but we always want to play safe with life and therefore we are left with little odds and consequently just little returns. Every day we indulge in activities in which we are sure of the outcome, like go to a safe work, watch movie, we just do random stuffs we think are not risky and what do we gain from life? Just little satisfaction. In this big game of life we should take big risks and be willing to pay the ultimate price, just like me. Even if we lose, we would definitely not miss a lesson.

The Idea of taking big risk isn’t about doing crazy things like jumping off the cliff to prove our love to our girl friend or shouting back at our boss in order to show you are the “man”. It’s the concept of doing those little things that tend to push us out of our comfort zone, like waking up daily by 3:30 am and running down the street or conveying your opinion to your boss about his dishonesty and pilfering habit maturely or writing ten pages of your book daily or maybe taking up a course to improve your culinary skills. A risk by this sense implies activities with high odds and the probability of we doing them is relatively slim.

Last week I met Tom, he is a chronic gambler and though he makes a lot of money in the game, he as well easily loses it back in the game. He had this philosophy that whatsoever money he has been losing in the game, he would definitely regain in one BIG WIN. The gamblers all believe in the big win theory and hitherto spend lot of money which they believe they will one day recover in this big win.

Though, this might sound bizarre, I urge you to see things from my point of view. I am not in any way encouraging betting or in any way asking you to indulge in it, I’m simply sharing a lesson I learnt. Life could actually pose us problems and we would want to go with the low-odd-options, maybe, lie one more hour in bed, keep away from exercising or just give up on that book you are writing or worst still just don’t do anything meaningful in life. We might take this road but definitely earn just little returns. To earn more we have to plan big, step in with faith and totally take the big risk, for only with big risks come bigger earnings.

“Ah ah! Oga you still come back?” she said with a smirk.

“Yes ooo! Madam ooo, abeg cash my 15k give me” I said grinning from ear to ear.

“Wuru wuru man, make I check am first” she said with a scorn on her face.

“Do shap shap abeg I no get time.” I echoed back while passing the little white slip to her for her verification.

“Big boy, you don chop us today ba,” she said slyly after confirming my payment, with the hope of getting some tips from me.

“Na una right to dey chop me every day abi?” I countered back not giving any room for jovialities. “Abeg madam count my money give me bifo market close I wan go buy foodstuffs for mumsi” I told her with a proud tone.

Oh yes! I played again and this time I won. Lesson number two, never give up. This is what keeps the tough gambler going! They never give up, they keep doing it, and they keep hitting the stone hard believing the next stroke will crack it up. We should never, never give up! Your winning moment might just be after that little try you have been postponing. Just hit it!

Honestly life is no place to play safe, down here you take big risk to win it big. Keep taking big risk your next step will lead to your BIG WIN.

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The Essay Competition is to engage the Nigerian students intellectually and in the end produce enlightening essays on the expected strategic focus of ICAN in the next 50 years within the global professional Accountancy Practice. To achieve this, ICAN has engaged KPMG Professional Services to perform certain agreed-upon procedures in order to strengthen ICAN’s process of collation and evaluation of the scripts.
In commemoration of its 50th Anniversary and in line with its Corporate Social Responsibility, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has launched an Essay Competition for students in any field of study in ICAN accredited tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The 50th Anniversary celebration has been scheduled to take place simultaneously with the 45th Annual Accountants’ Conference holding in Abuja from 31 August to 4 September 2015. The theme of the Conference is: “ICAN: Building on A Legacy of Service”.
The essay competition was initiated not only to expand the scope of ICAN’s commitment to the development of Accountancy Profession but also as a modest way of demonstrating its genuine desire to continuously support and develop the intellectual capacity of Nigerian students. The Institute had in the last 50 years demonstrated its deep commitment to educational development in Nigeria through Scholarship schemes, endowment of Professorial Chairs, donation of books and computers to higher institutions and recently the building of ICAN Lecture Theatres in five Universities across the country and still counting.

Eligibility
The competition is open to:
All students in any field of study in ICAN accredited tertiary institutions in Nigeria
Age limit: 26 years by 31st 0f August 2015

Sponsor
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN)

Topic
The Next 50 Years of Professional Accountancy Practice: Making ICAN Globally Relevant

Reward Proposed
Best 10 essays to receive plaques, one laptop each, letters of commendation and sponsorship to the conference where they will be publicly acknowledged and presented with their prizes.
In addition, top 7 from the rear (position 4 – 10) to get a cash prize of N10,000 each
3rd position gets a cash prize of N25,000 only;
2nd position gets N50,000 only; and
1st position gets N100,000 only.
Each of the top three will also get full ICAN Scholarship for the Institute’s Professional examinations worth N340,450 covering tuition, study text and examination fees.

Deadline
All entries must be received on or before 23:59hours Sunday 9th of August 2015

Rules for Application
Essay length to be between 2000 and 3000 words, 12 font points and double spaced in MS Word document
Clear articulation of the history, current realities/relevance (socio-economic/ethics etc.) of the professional accountant in a global context (past 50 years to the present).
Critical articulation and evaluation of the role/success of ICAN in the development and evolution of the Nigerian trained/ICAN certified professional accountants – 50 years to the present (global relevance, reputation, recognition, real and perceived competence, local, regional and international employability and mobility, contribution to national (and international) professional and socio-economic/ethical development.
Realistic/evidence-based and logical projection of the drivers and evolution, global relevance and expected competencies/skills set of the professional accountant in a global context over the next 50 years
Articulation of the role that ICAN will need to play now and in the future (in light of 2-4 above), to remain globally relevant as a professional accountancy body over the next 50 years; Including institutional and curriculum reforms and strategic alliances, research contribution and thought leadership etc.
Essays must have abstract, introduction, main body, conclusion and references
All entries must be accompanied with a letter of attestation from the HoD of each participant’s institution
Participants must submit copy of their birth certificate/sworn affidavit and brief profile
Only the first 500 entries will be considered.
Winning essays will be selected based on content, grammar and style
The winning essays will be announced on Friday 21st of August 2015
All entries must be received on or before 23:59hours Sunday 9th of August 2015
All entries should be sent to Icanessay2015@kpmg.com
Participants should write their names on the cover page of the essay only. The information on the cover page is not considered part of the essay and does not count towards the number of words stipulated above.
Wards of Council members, Annual Accountants’ Conference Committee members and staff of ICAN and KPMG are not eligible for this competition.

Further Enquiries
Send your questions to Icanessay2015@kpmg.com

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There are indicators that you can use to gauge yourself and actually know if you measure up as a confident woman. Here are 8 things confident Nigerian women say NO to:

1. They say NO to being a people-pleaser
In as much as they try to make life better for others and themselves, confident Nigerian women are not swayed by varied opinions. They aim at self awareness and this helps them to pick out what’s best for themselves and society without minding what others may say about their actions. They understand the futility in trying to please everyone and as such focus on what works best for them.

2. They say NO to overlooking their instincts
Against all odds, they are conscious of the dictates of their instincts. Their instincts serve as invaluable guide in the face of overcrowded voices and prompts. It is what keeps them walking against the tide towards their dreams and aspirations. Instinct works for them and they stick to it.

3. They say NO to compromising their principles
When they’ve set out to achieve their goal, then you know some principles are guiding them. Anything that drags them away from adhering to their principles is not worth given an ear to. This is irrespective of the pressure you might subject them to.

4.They say NO to gossip

continue here http://inspirecrib..com/2015/06/8-things-confident-nigerian-women-say-no.html#more

Watching Naruto really made me understand that friendship is a bond to be cherished.

Imaging Naruto going all the way to save Sasuke from his revenge malady - even risking his life many times.

Also, words have power and can truly express the hurts and desires of the heart.

Share what your lessons from Naruto.

You might find this worth the read:

http://inspirecrib..com/2015/05/what-you-can-learn-from-naruto.html#more

I hope so too.

It's one thing to secure admission and another to successfully graduate.

But I think he can tame the wind...

Standing up for one beliefs and principles could pose a lot of difficulty to many – especially in the present secularized society.

How about a society like America?

It even proves more difficult. Anyone holding on to basic moral teachings is best considered archaic and out-of-touch with ‘culture’.

Here is a man who faced all of these challenges and still...

http://inspirecrib..com/2015/04/a-seed-of-faith-in-midst-of-unbelief.html

Recently, Harold Ekeh, a Nigerian applied to 13 universities including Harvard, Yale and other Ivy schools.

To his greatest surprise, He received letters of admission from all the 13 universities.

Of more importance is that all 8 Ivy schools also offered him admission. This is a rare feat in America.

He now has a basket of choices!

Read story: http://inspirecrib..com/2015/04/meet-nigerian-boy-who-got-admission.html

GEJ is our hero.

He is the featured as personality of the week:

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The action of Oba Akiolu falls short of inspiring future leaders.

Read more here:

http://inspirecrib..com/2015/04/when-leaders-fail-to-inspire.html