September 26th 2013

Dear Diary,
Is procrastination really the steal of time? Lol! I know what is going through your minds right now, 'is she ok', 'is she drunk', 'didn't she read what she just wrote'? Lol, don't worry your reactions are all normal.

I can still see my face, mentally that is, when my kid sisters came home from school on a holiday. A reverend sister in their school had made that mistake while addressing the school. I laughed my head off when I heard it, and we still use it to get some laughs up till this day. Hilarious right, lol, I knew it would catch your attention.

Anyway, back to the issue at hand, is procrastination really the thief of time?
I have been away from both my blogs for a few weeks now and the reason is not too far from procrastination and lack of who to interview. For my Abj loving, Abuja Living blog it has more to do with lack of young people to interview and lack of inspiration to write. Thats sad, considering the fact that the blog would be a year in two days. As for this blog, it has more to do with procrastination. *covers face*.

I have a lot of ideas just sitting there waiting to be developed but for some reason, I keep putting them of. I keep saying oh, when I get home, when I get home I say 'oh let me rest', when I am rested I say 'oh let me eat'. When I eat, my next excuse is to watch a little tv while resting. Before I know it, its time for bed and I wake up the next morning and the circle repeats itself. And just like that, I have lost the whole of September to procrastination, the last time I posted anything on any of the blogs was on the second of this month.

I think I can pinpoint where exactly my problem lies; whenever I have things to do I tend to plan my life and everything has a certain time when it gets to be done. But after I stopped going to work during the court vacation in August, I just went into a 'downward spiral', I just wanted to say that, LOL. I noticed that when I was busy with school and work, I was more productive on my blogs, but the moment I found myself with extra time, it just kept getting easier to keep pushing whatever I had to do now to another time.

I now know what to do, I plan my day. I take pen to paper, or fingers to my iPad and map out my entire day. And whenever I have an idea, no matter where I am, I write it down, whether its on a piece of paper, my iPad, my phones, my laptop, whatever I find, I use.

So is procrastination really the thief of time? Yes it is.

Picture from 8 Ways to Get Rid Of Procrastination in Your Daily Business Tasks

Love always,
Iphie
XoXo

2nd September

Dear Diary,
Its the second day of the new month, happy new month peoples. The -ember months are finally here, yay! That means my birthday is a month away, an even bigger yayyyyy o_o!
Now to my question of the day, why do we Nigerians have such a poor maintenance culture, be it our cars, our bodies, our houses, our offices or even the smallest machinery that we own? Do we really have to wait till its broken before we fix it?

I get asked in the gym often why I bother with the gym since I am not fat. Well technically that last bit is not true, yeah yeah, I am not obese but I have a tummy that I would like to see flat and a body that I want to see a little more firmer, thats my answer to them all the time. Do I really have to wait till I become obese before I start looking for ways to burn the fat? What is wrong with working at it when I am still a long way from obesity in order not to get to obesity? That is what exercise is meant for, maintaing our body at the weight we want it. I remember back in my university days when I was a lot slimmer than this, sigh, if only I knew that there would be a day when I would look at pictures from back then and wish I still had that slim body, I would have made the gym my best friend.

This lack of maintenance culture in Nigeria is the cause of most of the problems we face in Nigeria. God rest the souls of all those we lost in the Dana crash last year, it is evident that the lack of a proper maintenance culture that lead to the crash. Its the same lack of maintenance that has led to the rot in PHCN. Same lack of maintenance is the reason why you walk into a government office and find buckets lining the hallways as you walk by, waiting to catch the water dropping from a leaking roof.  Well that and also the evil that we have come to know as corruption. I could go on and on about the effects of the lack of a maintenance culture but then again we already know them.

Do we really have to wait for it to be broken before we fix it?

Omojuwa

Love always,
Iphie
XoXo