THE BLANK SLATE

Stretching Minds

Just Do It

This month's blogpost is a piece written by Blaine Lee and it delivers to us the immense power of the mind in an inspiring storyline.

Read it, digest it and apply the lessons therein.

It is a life...

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Do You Have Friends?

"Don't you be ashamed of how you feel when someone

Lends you a helping hand

Because the bottomline is bein' for real in

Every way that you can"

- Shalamar (1982)

 

Do I have friends?

I...

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New Year Resolutions or Real Solutions?

One of the hit songs of 80’s Rock Band - Queen, titled "Another One Bites the Dust", comes to mind.

Although they speak of mortal beings, I dare to attempt an analogy with abstracts, to be...

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Who is a Student?

Uncategorized Nov 04, 2017

 

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." - Lord Henry Brougham 1778 - 1868

 

Who is a student? What is a school?...

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Exploit Relationships

Uncategorized Oct 03, 2017
 "Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."
- ...
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I Hate School

Uncategorized Sep 03, 2017

I hate school.

Actually, I have always hated school.

I hated the early mornings - baths, breakfasts and being bundled to school.

I hated the homework, tests, examinations and stern faces of...

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The Invisible Selfie

Uncategorized Aug 02, 2017

I am wearing designer sunglasses - snap SELFIE

See me in Abuja - snap
SELFIE

Just arrived Dubai - snap SELFIE

I am 'chopping' Shawarma - snap SELFIE

 

Welcome to the Selfie Generation

Selfies...

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Every Little Step

Uncategorized Jul 02, 2017

Before an action, there is almost always thought that precedes it. Just how much thought would most often determine the quality and impact of that action.

Before you conquer physically, you must...

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Goal Setting: To Be or Not To Be?

Uncategorized Jun 02, 2017

Setting goals and striving to achieve them has long been the talk of personal development experts in attaining success.  

As a matter of fact, a much touted study by an American Ivy League...

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Words of my Father

Uncategorized May 03, 2017

The past year has been the most difficult I have ever experienced due to the fact that, for the first time ever, I was faced with life without my father.

His wise counsel, patient demeanor while...

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