Just can’t believe that I’ve been that long using this amazing tool. WordPress has been a life saver for me, especially when WYSIWYG feature that blogger.com offers almost made me not to try something new.
Or is it the fear of messing with code or actually messing with codes?
Or those days that you’ll shutdown your site for days unknowingly…all in the name of testing one new Plugins features.
Or those days of no caching Plugins…that it would take a while for your site to load?
Or the Anthony Weiner’s scandal and controversy which brought me the most of my website traffic?
Or I should mention those late night hours I’d be editing article via my Blackberry Curve, Bold and et al?
Those days were….in fact, I’m short of not just words, but ideas too!
Or should I mention my first car purchase through the proceeds from my engagement with Matt Mullenweng’s content management system, WordPress?
I have a lot of amazing memories with WordPress that time would not permit, enable and even, accord me to share with the world.
But above all, I’m super excited and grateful for those past ten years of usage and impacting my world through WordPress.
In fact, writing this is as a result of my zeal towards using the tool.
This picture can attest to that…
I give God all the glory for all that I’ve been able to do with WordPress and those other amazing things that are in the pipeline.
I can’t wait, to celebrate my 20th years of working experiences as a blogger. Even though, I’ve been blogging for years before I switched to WordPress, but this achievement further makes me remember how far I’ve gone.
2006 was like yesterday, but looking back, it is really a long time ago.
Thanks WordPress for making the world a better place.
A month ago, I was invited to an award ceremony at MVB lounge, one of the household name in the lounge and bar business in the city of Ibadan. The event went well, there I was flattered with an award which I don’t really think was meant for me. lol
But in the lieu of the event, I was introduced to a young lady who I was told had some craziness in her vein – you know what I refer to as crazy, huh? Creativity!
She was to launch a youth focused magazine. The idea was to showcase young people doing great things in their own little ways against all odds and permutations. I like the idea within the first few minutes of the pitch, but I’d rather have a review of the prototype to say, I am sold to the idea.
We exchanged contact and agreed to have a look as soon as the first draft is out.
To cut the short story long, mind my words. They are intentional!
The copy was delivered to me last two weeks, but I wasn’t that free to jump on it.
I was just getting chance to read the materials.
Olawale Daniel, also known as Doctor Residual took his time out to review and share his thoughts on Adeniji Lois Oluwaseun’s new project titled: SPUR NATION MAGAZINE. You can read his findings below.
And I must confess, it was spot on; there are words of elders spewing out of nowhere from all the pages of that little piece called spur nation magazine. To say I am proud of Adeniji Lois Oluwaseun’s effort so far would definitely be an understatement.
The story connects, the motivation on the second page about alter ego makes much more sense to the reader; it humbles the soul, and inspires a comeback of out someone who has once lost all hopes just like Tyson Fury did last month in his fight against Deontae Wilder. Though, he had been knocked out, if the rules of the games were to be followed, had it been he had failed to rise up.
What else? Is it the story of Amole Adunola (Dundelle) whose tenacity had opened doors of opportunities for her up to states levels, or the desire to even go a little bit further to establishing what would later be recalled as the largest gathering by a female artist in the city of Ibadan? That was inspiring especially for young ladies out there who had found it difficult to accept who they are and profit from it.
Or should I talk about those unfriendly-friendly aspects of many looming businesses you see out there on day to day basis. Amoizin’s story reminds me of Seun Bamiro of YNorth Wears’s story at last month’s Ibadan Design Conference in which myself, Tolani Alli (the official photographer to the current Oyo State Governor) and host of others were present at. Our desire to solve problems will leads to actualization of all our greatest desires and dreams.
Just like John F Kennedy puts it, we shouldn’t ask what the community can do for us, but we should ask what we can do to help our community. It didn’t end there, he stresses further saying “for service to many leads to prosperity”. If we want to make money, want fulfillment, we should think of ways to solve more problems around us. In doing that, we attract people who would be willing to help solve our individual and greatest of all problems – be it money, fame or whatever. Ajeigbe Richard of Amoizin decided to solve the problem of not having different varieties of local food to select in the neighborhood – that’s a big problem indeed. In fact, I’d love to patronize his ewa agoyin business anytime soon. Lol
Oh, I must not forget to say something on the special effect on page 9 and page 10 of the magazine featuring Nigeria’s own local and international Afropello brand! She had said it all. There are many hidden words of wisdom embedded in every line of those texts. It would take an extra careful and endowed mind to read between the lines to really get to the root of some of the things she couldn’t share on those pages. The body language from the photo-shoot to the challenging aspect of the business – you will surely find something to unravel except you are not so keen to decrypt them.
Anyway, I picked something from there – and that is, water must be my friend to live well. There are many ways drinking clean water often helps in cell regeneration which could later on influence hair growth. And in the context of her writing, she was inspiring us to share some H20 with our hair if we desire to have one worth boasting of. The rest of the advices are for the ladies anyway – lol!
Going forward, when you talk about the South Africa’s madiba we all know as Nelson Mandela, we see a man who went against all odds to fight for freedom that many South Africans are enjoying today.
He once said “when a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace” and I truly agree with that. Maybe that was why he left so soon after he had done his best for his country and the black race! But there comes a time we need to look back at the great works these people had done and compare them to what we are having in this new era. Do we have any resemblance?
To some people, they may say we can’t find someone who could rise up tall against slavery, injustice and all manner of things that are bad in our society as Mandela again. Some believed it is possible.
But I am proud to tell you I belong to the possibility family where I think Daramola Iyanuloluwa also hails from. Reading her piece in the SPUR Words section of the magazine reminds me of nobody else but Madiba. I believe we all don’t really need shooting skills; neither do we need to be a great swordsman before we could win the war against slavery because slavery has actually advanced from what the madiba of then fought against.
Now we have mental slavery which a 400L student of Psychology at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife is trying to fight with her proficiency in the act of wordsmithing.
From the first page to the last page, I read content, saw potentials and spot the need for much more improvements in the next edition. I am very sure next edition would be so filled with more than this. In fact, more is an understatement because this is the first prototype of what would end up becoming an household name in the city of Ibadan and the rest of the country as an a magazine that encourages younger one to follow and pursue their dreams with all seriousness.
I was blessed with it and pray and hope she could garner more enthusiasm to move the Spur Nation magazine project up the ladder. I know she can and she will.
If you want a copy of Spur Nation Magazine, drop me a message below. I will try to get one across to you.
I woke up stronger than expected today at about 4AM or thereabout. All I could do was to pray and while I was about tackling today’s activities on my file, I realized I’m kind of feeling a little bit dizzy. Immediately I heard a voice in my ear.
You know what I hear?
If you sleep now, what would your future self say about your action of today when tomorrow comes?
I was awakened in my spirit right after the moment and I felt I should jot down some notable thoughts for those who’d care to listen.
So, I’m throwing back the question to you in form of an interactive discussion.
IF YOU…
– decide to sleep now
– decide to rest now
– decide to procrastinate now
– decide not to submit that proposal
– decide not to take that risk yet until you’re buoyant or comfortable.
Would Your Future Self Be Happy About Your Decision?
Your choice and decision makes you. What would your future self think of the choice you are making today? Think about this before you choose your path! RIGHT OR LEFT?
What would your future self say/think of you?
I have been able to ask myself “What would my future self be thinking if I decide to sleep instead of being awake to tackle today’s activities” and the answer I got from my inner man couldn’t just let me consider dizziness as the way forward but alertness.
A preacher says awhile ago in His wildly popular quote that if you want to be successful, you have got to give up sleep. You have got to do the undo-able, think the unthinkable, challenge the untouchable (at your place of work, school, and anywhere bigger authority may be used over you), thread the untread-able and walk the unwalk-able pathway to success.
Just do the UN and you’ll be successful.
He said as much as you love sleep; love to be in your comfort zones, you can only smell success when you are around those achieving it but you’d not dare TRY IT YOURSELF. And when you don’t try, what it implies is, you’d always call the successful people ritualist, scammers, money launderers, thieves…the truth is, you may be right. But, in most of the cases, you’re wrong. Not all rich people are what you thought they are.
The reality there is, what differentiate you from them is;
You never take action on your dreams and ambitions but they are.
You never take things seriously while they do.
You’re a professional procrastionationist with highest of degree but they are action takers.
They just think and do while you think, think, and think.
They believe in themselves but you downplayed your self-being thinking the world would care to pity you and help. The fact is, nobody helps people of no resource…money is not everything, your talent at times is enough to propagate you to success but when you decide to bury it and go the manual way, people tend to stay away so they won’t be infected by your negativity.
You desired to be a Pro but hates exercise, but they go out there to train day in day out.
They are self motivated to unlock their own potentials while you’re waiting for an external source to motivate you to take action. And the fact,
you ain’t go’on see no one to motivate you to succeed except you start from within you.
But you fail to realize that;
Your inner motivation is the best source of protein to your muscles. Use it.
You have got to show the world that you exist through your inventions.
It is inside you! Look deeper and identify your why, then go all out to make your future self happy about your today’s actions. That’s all that is needed for you to get going. Your future self needs to be happy about the decisions you are making today.
ALWAYS ask yourself this, what would my future self think of my today’s action?
If you are convinced that where you are is not where you supposed to be, then get your asses together and get things doing.
You are bigger than the kinda treatment you are getting from the world. Common, you deserve some accolades. Only you can claim those accolades because no one would claim them for you.
To rap up my today’s rambling, I’d say, you’re better off to try today than to wait for tomorrow. Don’t wait for perfect moment, make this moment perfect by your action. Let your future self thank you, bless you and be proud of who you were ten, twenty, thirty or more years from now.
Go make yourself proud today. You CAN and YOU WILL. – Olawale Daniel™
Traveling for me has always been a thing of joy – I’m an adventurous type of being. My kind of business model has given me the privilege of traveling places all over the world – even though, I’m yet to launch into the deep by maximizing this special, and yet attractive feature of my work model, I’m always on the lookout for an opportunity to go places far beyond my tribe.
Breaking forth into five states of the Federation
Part of my new year resolutions when we started 2014 is to cover 5 different states of the federation before the year climaxed. And according to my calculation, today marks the fifth states in my jot pad; Osun, Ondo, Edo, Kogi, and FCT (Abuja).
I was privileged to have been delegated to participate in a conference at Abuja yesterday. I took up the opportunity, unknown to me I was about to break the record which I set until I was reflecting on the journey.
Thank God for the nice trip.
I’m back in Ibadan looking forward to breaking forth into the New Year.
