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I AM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT! LET'S TALK OVER BREAKFAST

One of the boxes I would never have checked before now was having breakfast. I would ask, "Wait a minute, What's breakfast?" I had terrible eating habits.  Two years prior to now I would leave home without breakfast and eventually settle for brunch. My mind was always filled with tasks to achieve for the day while the thought of breakfast was well swept under the carpet. My family and friends would hold tonnes of advisory sessions on the importance of having breakfast. The worst part being that I was a black sheep in the field of Public Health which I studied. So how do I advise someone to do something yet go contrary? The guilt began to settle in gradually.  Let long stories be for the 'Leonard's.' I broke that habit after bouts of health challenges due to my poor dietary regime. My evaluation of that period was that I was depriving myself of self-love. If you love yourself, you will eat right.  Incase you are yet to notice, the most grumpy pe...

New vitamin alert: Vitamin H

If you were undergoing mental stress and your doctor prescribed 'Vitamin H' as a drug, would you think he was crazy? Vitamin H is the new vitamin on the block. Helping means making it easier or possible for someone to do something by offering them one's services or resources. This is the place of Altruism. Its not some mumbo-jumbo from the oxford dictionary. It is when we put other people’s needs before our own. Some folks will put up arguments like if I had more, I will give more. You can actually give through: Volunteering Mentoring Doing something for a good cause Random acts of kindness There is a constant and unending war of either crashing down or rising up. We are strong people however there are people who are not so strong, this is how they are wired but have refused to deactivate their default setting. Everbody needs somebody. From the guy behind the counter at the bank, to the poor girl hawking grocery on the street, to the hundred billio...