About this time last year, I was relocating back to Nigeria, having been offered a job. The next phase of the recruitment process was negotiating my salary. It was during this process that I realised that being successful at an… Read More ›
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Do You Have the Impostor Syndrome? 10 Signs to Watch Out For
I was recently selected into a fellowship programme and the first thing that crossed my mind after reading my acceptance email was this: ‘Lola, how did you manage to fool these people into accepting your application?’ Then I tried to… Read More ›
Lessons From Pain And Disappointment
Exactly 1 year ago, I got a not-so-pleasant news at work. The news was not about me being fired or laid-off. I actually felt being fired or laid-off at the time would have been a more pleasant news. But instead,… Read More ›
Life Is Not A Lottery: How To Avoid The Freebie Trap
We live in a fast paced world where everyone wants to be successful. We want to live the dream, post beautiful pictures of our lives – family, home, designer shoes, bags, clothes wristwatches, vacation in resorts, first class travels e.t.c…. Read More ›
Human Scanners: Defiers Of A Single Passion?
I recently stumbled on a Ted talk given by Barbara Sher, a career/lifestyle coach and bestselling author. While her speech is totally unrelated to the title of this post, the optimism in her delivery got more of my attention than… Read More ›
Joan Rivers: 5 Lessons gleaned from her
On the 4th of September 2014, the world learnt that popular comedienne, actress, writer, producer and TV host, Joan Rivers, had passed on at the age of 81. Since I have this habit of reading up things I can find on a… Read More ›
Blind dating for working girls
I stumbled on this piece recently and I thought I’ll share it to commemorate this year’s valentines day. So it was written some … years ago (wink…you think I was going to blurt out the year did you?) and it’s… Read More ›
What wakes you up, alarm or passion?
In a recent discussion with someone I consider my mentor (even though he is oblivious of this), he asked me a question that I have been pondering over for days now. He asked, “What wakes you up, alarm or passion?”… Read More ›
My Chatty Mind 