YOUNG BALOGUN COMMITTED SUICIDE FOR NOT WANTING TO COME BACK TO NIGERIA

NIGERIAN youngster Rilwanu Balogun committed suicide at the Glen Parva Young Offenders Institute in Leicester in 2011 to avoid being deported an inquest was told yesterday.

Rilwanu, who came to the UK when he was seven years old, hanged himself at the institute just a day after his 21st birthday in Leicester. The inquest heard that Mr Balogun who had spent much of his childhood in institutions had told staff he had nothing more to live for.

3 THINGS TO LEARN FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ON GOAL SETTING

Time management is about setting your sights on what you want, and following through until either you achieve what you set out to achieve or decide it’s no longer worthwhile.

Though his name rarely enters into discussions on the art of time management, Martin Luther King, Jr. was like Pablo Picasso to the craft.
We often forget that the ultimate aim of time management is to improve one’s capacity to accomplish what one aims to accomplish. It’s not about meticulously maintaining lists. It’s not about perfectly organizing documents. It’s not about efficiently plugging away at important tasks every second of the day.

Time management is about setting your sights on what you want, and following through until either you achieve what you set out to achieve or decide it’s no longer worthwhile. At this, Dr. King was unmatched.

Explore Your Options

This is one attitude that kills creativity in almost every field. For various reasons, people fail to check other options they’ve got in solving problems in a situation or achieving success in a task. Most, out of fear, anxiety, over- loyalty or share laziness do assignments ‘how they normally do it’ and this has ended up making them less creative and make their environment more boring.

I remember liking mathematics simply because almost all of its principles have various ways of solving and if one can think deep enough, one can come up with a unique way of going around mathematical problems.

Am not a great fan of Rhythm and Poetry (RAP) music but I have listened to them enough to know that at one point in the history of this great art, Jayz and Nas who are artist of RAP music were at par. They were at the same level in fame, wealth and talent but now the same cannot be said of these two personalities in the world of RAP music not because one was more talented than the other but because when Jayz was busy testing RAP with all kinds of genre of music (Rock, Afro, Jazz etc) and exploring several options of singing RAP music while NAS stuck with the normal form of ‘gangstarism’ that the art has always been known with.

Finding and exploring options has become imperative in the modern world because of the vast changes that naturally take place every now and then.

Importance of exploring options

1.       There is always an easier way to achieving a task and that way can only be reached through exploring every available options

2.       Coming up with a new approach will literary mean one is being creative and creativity can earn one a higher post or make one an inventor of a new idea or product.

3.        Exploring options automatically makes one a deep thinker which is all it takes to achieve  independence.

Ways to explore options

1.       Always remember to ask of other options you’ve got in a task from your boss, teacher or the person you’re reporting to in a given assignment.

2.        Create an ample time for thinking of other options you’ve got in a task or in a situation whenever a task is given or when situations arises.

3.       Discuss possible options with friends or colleagues in situations or in a task even if there are already a laid down ways to achieving such task.