Ocolc's Lair

Hallo People, Chanced on the following tips via a whatsaap post recently and felt I should share. While most of the tips therein are ready and known truth; a revision will hurt no one and may probably aid application. As is sublty obvious, application, rather than lack of knowledge remains the bane of putting known truths into practice. See the following mostly unconscious money mistakes below and push to avoiding them henceforth. Who knows, it may just get you on your way to singing '30 billion in ma account o....' like Davido. Let's go there:                                                       MONEY MISTAKES #Money Mistake 1 :  Never borrow money that accrues interest to start a business (except if you are pay...

Never ask a question whose answer you don’t need to make the next decision. (FD) As I seat here before my word processing device thinking of what to put together. Pushing for the sentiments and sense to express; what someone said to me recently came to mind ‘until you marry, you remain a boy’ I looked at her and was on the verge of asking what word or definition she accords to the Papal, misogynists and other avowed celibates. My mind answered back; that those are extreme cases that do not fit the bill. And of course I was pushing for a more resolute and far reaching reason to excuse them from the selection but I had to just rest it at the fact that they can never be described or given as a typical man or representation of the male gender and expression, and I most definitely do not want it pursued now for our sakes and time limited space accorded me here. Sincerely folks: Who is the man? Is he the one that drives the flashiest cars? That parades or shows off the trendiest...

I just so had to share this. Enjoy: Inversion: The Crucial Thinking Skill Nobody Ever Taught You by James Clear   The ancient Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus regularly conducted an exercise known as a  premeditatio malorum , which translates to a “premeditation of evils.” The goal of this exercise was to envision the negative things that could happen in life. For example, the Stoics would imagine what it would be like to lose their job and become homeless or to suffer an injury and become paralyzed or to have their reputation ruined and lose their status in society. The Stoics believed that by imagining the worst case scenario ahead of time, they could overcome their fears of negative experiences and make better plans to prevent them. While most people were focused on how they could achieve success, the Stoics also considered how they would manage failure. What would things look like if everything went wrong tomorrow? And what ...