Productivity versus Busyness
The skeletons in my cupboard: During my engineering, my thesis compared the tensile strength of chicken feathers to steel, and recommended that steel helmets are better than helmets made from glued chicken feathers (obviously). You may think I am joking. I am not. I worked on this project for 9-12 months. Here's proof: Looking back, I wonder how I agreed to that ridiculous research project. Sure, I got a degree. I was very busy collecting chicken feathers from the poultry (I
Decisiveness and resolutions
It's the beginning of a new year! It is the time a lot of us make resolutions. Of late, there is a lot of fun that is made about people who make new year resolutions, for we end up being unable to stick to them. Unfortunately, this has caused some of us to stop making new year resolutions altogether. Sigh! In the last five years, I was able to succeed in achieving 70-80% of resolutions I made. I have been able to meet all my health goals, educational goals, reading goals and
