What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friends, This past weekend I did something I have not done in a long time. I stayed home, switched my phone off, and let myself rest. No plans or noise. Just groceries, cooking, basic chores and a whole lot of doing absolutely nothing and it felt right. I had been exhausted without even knowing how exhausted I was. That reset helped me realign my systems and remember what I am really trying to do with my life. As the year is wrapping up, I have been...
10 days ago • 3 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, I have been carrying this big work project in my mind for weeks now, it’s been of those things that follows you everywhere. You are praying for it, thinking about it, stressing over it, and still feeling grateful that you get to do work that stretches you. It drains you, but it also reminds you that you are getting better through the struggle. That was the background noise of my whole week. But this past weekend surprised me. Not in a dramatic way....
17 days ago • 3 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, have been thinking a lot about being done. Not done in the dramatic sense, but that small feeling of closing a tab, finishing a task, wiping down a counter, or finally sitting down after you clean your room. Because if we are honest, you can clean your room until kingdom come. There is always something. One more drawer. One more corner. One more area that could be rearranged or improved. And I started to realise that that same mindset has been...
24 days ago • 2 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, Someone messaged me recently asking how I managed to make university feel like a "home away from home" because every time they returned to campus, they missed home even more. I wanted to give them practical tips at first, things like decorating your room or playing familiar music or spending time with people who remind you of home. But when I thought about it properly, the real answer for me was much more personal. I only started to feel settled...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, These past few weeks I’ve been coasting. Not because I wanted to quit, but because I needed a pause from the gym, from running, from taking content as seriously as I did before. I’ve been here before, but this time felt different. Before, I used to fear failure. Now, I think I’ve started to glorify it. I convinced myself that if I could just fail faster, I’d learn faster. That falling was the same thing as growing. But there’s a missing piece in...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, When the clocks turned back last week, I caught myself thinking about my first winter in the UK, the one that really humbled me. I still remember how strange it felt, watching daylight disappear before dinner and feeling my energy dip for no reason. Wondering why I suddenly felt so low. That’s when I learnt what seasonal depression really meant. And trust me, it’s real. Back home, sunlight was a given. Here, it became something I had to pray for....
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, It makes me wonder sometimes, when is the right age to start taking things seriously? And could that age be… too late? Growing up, the only thing I was told to take seriously was my grades. That was it. Stay in your lane. Stay respectful. Be kind. Get good marks. Keep it moving. I think a lot of people who grew up in similar African households will relate to that. You’re raised to do well, but not necessarily to think deeply about what doing well...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, I’ve been thinking a lot about wisdom lately — when we seek it, when it finds us, and why it almost always hurts. Timothy Keller writes that wisdom is pain processed through reflection. That line stayed with me. Because the older I get, the more I see that wisdom isn’t just knowledge — it’s knowledge that’s been through something. It’s the mix of pain, reflection, and experience that eventually becomes perspective. When I look back on the last few...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
What I’ve Learned In One Minute… Hi friend, In high school, studying used to feel… manageable. You’d open the textbook, highlight a few lines, and somehow, it worked. Back then, I could brute-force my way through anything. I’d stay up late, rewrite my notes, and repeat until it stuck. And for a while, it did. Nine A*s and one A at GCSE. Three A*s and an A at A-levels — one of them self-taught. At the time, I thought that was what studying was: working until you couldn’t anymore. But...
2 months ago • 5 min read