“In response to Coffee Challenge: Why I want to be a better me in 2022” — If at this time of the year, you are looking at your resolutions, life and experiences and thinking about how it didn’t go as you wished, don’t beat yourself up because here are a practices, mindset and beliefs that helped me in 2021 and they might help you reflect or…

Who Needs Bios, I Can Make This About Me Post As Long As I Want! — I wrote earlier about most social media bios being too limiting to describe what you do and your accomplishments but with this About Me post, I can write a bio as long as I want. Thank you About Me I really can’t remember the first time I started writing, I…

What I learned from online business coaches — Indeed, when you experience writer’s block or any form of creative block, it is because you are in your way. You are self-criticizing, thinking what you have to say is not good enough, afraid to suck, and generally not wanting to be lame and I have been all that in…

It can be a very painful experience — Friendships have been a very integral part of my life. I can’t even remember a time when I didn’t have friends. The kids we lived together in the same building with, my classmates at school and children I attended the same Islamiyya with were all part of my peer community…

I got an author’s autograph on a book before I was born. My earliest memories of reading were reading books my father gave me, I don’t know how long he had bought and kept those books but I know when I was old enough to read, he would give me…

You can’t afford the self-deprecation — I can’t remember the exact moment I decided to become a broadcaster but I remember that something called to me whenever I watched broadcasters on Television. I remember that my dad then a newspaper editor traveled all around the world. I remember I asked my mum what I had to…

It’s time to reassess! — I see prayer differently now. We are taught that to pray, you need to perform some rituals, you have to be in a particular physical form, you have to be in a particular mental state. But you say a prayer from the moment you wake up till you go to…

I have decided to follow my mum’s advice — My mum was very particular about telling me this story. It is a story about a mother hen who asked another hen to get food for her chicks and the hen would not do it. She finally learned that she had to do it herself to get it done. She…

Think what you like, you are not a procrastinator. In 2008, writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk came up with the idea of a feature-length film titled Squid Game, but at the time, he was unable to get the script greenlit. He had to put it aside to work on other projects. Ten…