PORCATINATION 


A big easy word which simply means the action of delaying or postponing something...


Causes of porcastination from my research has pointed out a FEAR of failure as well as Carelessness or laziness....

Interestingly it can also be related to a phycological disorder, the amygdala is the section of the brain associated with our automatic emotional reaction to a solution.

The brain is protecting us against possible negative feelings, the norepinephrine chemical takes over, causing increase level of fear and anxiety, adrenalin gets pumped in.

There are quite different kinds of procatinations, I'll mention just 4


Anxious procatinations

Fun procatinations

Plenty of time procatinations

Perfectionist procatinations

It doesn't really matter the kind of procatination here is 4ways to help solve it 

1. Forgive yourself for procatinating in the past

2. Commit to the task

3. Promise yourself a reward

4. Ask someone to check up on you,

5. Ask as you go rephrase your inner dialogue

6. Minimize distractions,


To further stretch, narrow your focus, procatinators often spend more time looking at the big picture, so a project can seem overwhelming..

Reward yourself for meeting your goals.

Connect activities you dislike with the ones you love let those incentive help you stay on task.

Hold yourself publicly accountable.

Do not loose momentum

The picture below can help in our goal setting..

Procatination is a very serious problem, though it might seem harmless but it takes away our ability to get things done as well as decide.. .. N0 it won't happen like magic.. . YES it can be achieved by complete consciousness to the problem and deciding to solve it. 

Watching from a distance.....

Waking up early in the morning from 5 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. to sit outside my compound has been a common occurrence to me

Each time I have had the road sweepers as my companions until proper daylight.

Recently my attention has been drawn to a very young boy, possibly around the age of 10 to 15 years old, a few times I've had the opportunity of speaking to him, though I haven't asked him any personal questions so I don't make him uncomfortable but today we had a little chat.. .. the picture below is a picture from where he was sweeping.

He actually initiated the conversation when an army van was passing by, he pointed them out to me and said ( see them oh go inside) asking me to go inside,(because of a lockdown in my area due to the covid-19) I smiled back at him and told him it was okay since I was in front of my house,, truthfully he saw them pass without looking my way..

Knowing there was a lockdown and restriction of public transport I asked him how they (him and his mom whom he was obviously helping out) got to work he said (we use leg trekk come) meaning they worked, from where he said he lived to where he was sweeping right now is approximately a 5 minutes drive.

He pointed something out to me about the difficult part of the job, packing the sand.

Looking at him something hit me.. Road sweepers and the challenges they face.

Doing my research I found out that nearly 69% of the city sweepers suffer from 

multiple health problems

It includes disorders related to bones, joints and muscles, lungs, eyes and skin. 

These health issues were due to prolonged exposure to dust, lack of periodic health screening and customised cleaning equipment like broom sticks and poor awareness and negligence in using safety gear.

Improper working posture, usage of short and damage brooms and inadequate supply of brooms.

The biological materials in the dust are capable of causing allergic diseases in humans, such as running nose watery eyes and sneezing by large size particles as well as swelling of lung tissue and asthma by fine particles.

Note: many of the sweepers do not survive more than two to three years post their retirement due to the prolonged exposure to pollution.

Aside all this they are not provided with health insurance.

People give them little or no respect,
daily they face life-threatening situations like accidents, and some especially the females get molested sexually. .. 

What is my aim??? To draw the reader's mind to the challenges road sweepers face.... When next you walk on the street and is tempted to litter the environment. 

What killed Mr Ben?? 

Mr Ben goes to a road side shop owned by a woman called Sandra, he buys food stuffs from her worth two thousand five hundred Naira, (2500) 


After buying he tells the woman he doesn't have money to pay the bills but will definitely come see her when he does.


The economy is hard especially with the Corona virus,

Sandra tells the man she can't accept it, she needs money to immediately buy and sell. .

Ben keeps what he has bought, and sits just by the side of the shop with his hand on his jaw

 

Another man comes to buy something and sees Mr Ben, he asked Sandra the shop owner why the man was sitted that way.

Sandra explains, out of pity, he says to the woman give him what he has bought I will pay.

Sandra goes to the man and calls out Mr someone had paid for your food stuffs here take it ..

Mr Ben didn't respond, moving forward to touch him, he still wasn't responding, 

Mr Ben was dead, sitting at that same position but dead....... 

True story.....what's your thoughts on this??

Personalities that make things happen in their own little way, one of kind is this wonderful young man, I had the opportunity of speaking with him, he is an Artist who loves what he does, and earns a living doing what he loves, I have personally seen his works and I know he is doing a wonderful job, i'll also be sharing some of work here

MR Jazpa David he is an Artist by profession..






What's your name?
Jazpa David

Where and when were you born?
I was born in Porthacourt and raised up in Onitsha, later came back to Porthacourt in 2007.

How would you describe yourself as a child?
At my tender age I was fascinated by so many things that surrounded me and I really wish to replicate what was in my surrounding, but then my inner dialogue was self defeating.

Any best memories from childhood?
Deep Childhood Memories hmmmm... I love drawing and painting since my childhood and I would shamelessly flaunt my skills to everyone.
 Different stages as an artist:
(1)junior: sometimes I used to place a transparent white paper over my drawing book and draw the sharp lines over the figures. ones the drawing figure is imprint on transparent paper, i draw over it and fill the colors.
(2)secondary: I started free-hand drawing. Love to capture the cartoon characters on my sketch books. It was fun

Are you in a relationship or married? 
Am not married neither in a serious relationship because it's dynamic let just skip the line lol

What do you do for a living?
Art.


In your own words define Art?
My broad definition of art: Art can be define as Airplane  for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means of exploring and appreciating formal elements for their own sake as mimesis or presentation.


How did you get into your line of work?
I guess you have seen artist sacrifice both of this in the name of Craft, but you need your body on the most basic of levels to create, mine started with motivation, inspiration, and emotions.

What lessons has your work life taught you?
Well all I can say is that the future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in a creative way, But in life you are the character and you need to find your own pattern that helps you grow and Excel, the trick is that there aren't identical shape available in the same familiar places, every time the view is different, in my opinion if one has no beliefs about a particular matter one cannot have knowledge about it.
If you could do anything differently what would you do?

Music and importation of art materials

What is your religion?
I am a Christain, born and brought up in Roman Catholic, but migrated to Dominion City worldwide. 

Do you believe in after life? 
Hmmm lol, Do you have any experience that made you believe in a higher power or life after death? I can't just believe that....

What drives you to be you as an Artist? 
Passion

Any advice you want to give to others a artistsstruggling to be better?
 Sometimes, success is less about knowing when to say "yes" to opportunities and more about saying "no" to things that are holding you,,.. Sitting around and stewing about isn't going to help you, so my advice to the person is he or she should engage in any art school based on practical or internet, most of us hold a browsing phone without knowing the value, I can recommend (Kevin okafor) and (Arinze Stanley) fix yourself on YouTube to watch how practical goes...    


I'm thankful I was able to ask mr JazpaDavid these questions, I commend his humility when I approached him, it was indeed a pleasure especially since I'm a struggling Artists myself, his works inspire me to strive I hope it will do the same for others.... To reach Mr Jasper this is his Instagram account iam_Jazpadavid as well as his Facebook Jazpadavid

TRUTH BE TOLD

What would the world look like without a man??? 

In the absence of a man who would sing the praises of women? 

Who would recognize her worth and pride? 

Who in the absence of a man will provide and protect?

Who in the absence of a man will seeds grow?

Without a man there is no people, no nation..

Who In the absence of a man will sacrifice? 

The importance of a man is sometimes not acknowledge if not overlooked.... 

When a woman dances as she shakes her waist it is for enjoyment, but truth be told when there is a man there is a sparkle, she is proud, she is beautiful and knows this because the men cannot take their eyes off her.

When a woman has a man she glows differently, his words oh!! his touch, his touch follows her everywhere.

Who in the absence of a man would give pleasure unexplainable in mortality?

Oh!! without a man how would there be Queens and Princesses..

Without a man! Without a man! There is no life truth be told! 

An analysis on globalization and African cultural values.....

Globalization: globalization is a medium and phenomenon that has brought a lot of changes in the entire world which has to do with political, cultural, religious social-integration, it has turned the entire world into a global village.

Globalization is not a single concept that can be defined and encompassed within a set time from, nor is it a process that can be defined clearly with a beginning and an end. 

Globalization involves economic integration, the transfer of policies across borders the transmission of knowledge, cultural stability, the power, it is a global process, a concept, a revolution, and an establishment of global market free from socio- political control. Globalization encompasses all

of these things. It is a concept that has been defined variously over the years, with some connotations referring to progress, development and stability, integration and cooperation, and

others referring to regression, colonialism, and destabilization. Despite these challenges, this term brings with it a multitude of hidden agendas. An Individuals political ideology, geographic location, social status, cultural background, and ethnic and religious affiliation provide the background that  determines how globalization is interpreted. Thomas Larsson stated that: “globalization is the process of wind shrinkage, of distances getting shorter, things moving closer. It pertains to the increasing ease with which somebody on one side of the world can

interact, to mutual benefit, with somebody on other side of the world.” 2

The world as a historical interaction of people and societies is undergoing dynamic transformation of modern colonization called globalization before this modern colonization. Before this modern colonization, it is evident that colonial expansion of the west to the so- called ‘third world’ was from outside a global process that was ethnocentric authoritarian, patriarchal and destructive of nature. Alvin observed that: “The dawn of this new civilization is the single most explosive fact of our time. Humanity faces the deepest social faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. A global revolution is underway. Humanity face the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all the time. A global revolution is uderway

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Furthermore, globalization has many implications for the world as biophysical planet. It is a complicated transformation based on the concept of total market, a transformation that seeks to incorporate the entire globe in a new international order by exalting the economic factor as the only source of meaning and value and teaches a new- liberal doctrine of economic self- interest

in which the free market is wrongly assumed to be objective and fair. 

However, not minding the positive aspect of globalization, its ethnocentric, patriarchal authoritarian character is obvious and evident everywhere .Evidently, globalization destroys cultural practices and values in this

contemporary dispensation, the younger generation look up to European ways of doing things as the ideal because of accompanying ramification of globalization

 Communication has become so easy and fast that you can speak to any in the human race on less than one second through communication Media like GSM Twitter, Facebook, advanced computers.

• Culture: 
• Culture derives its semantic origin from the Latin word ‘’Cultura’’ which means cultivation of the soil, and by extension, to the cultivation of mind and spirit.              
• Different scholars define culture in various ways. Taylor defines culture as” the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a members of society, Others see culture as people’s way of life. 

• Culture is passed on from one generation to another, through learning, transmitted in people writing, religion, music, clothes, cooking, and in what they do. Culture is more than just material goods, that is, things the culture uses and produces. 

• Culture is also the beliefs and values of the people, Culture also includes the way people think about and understand the world and their own lives. Thus, ‘’culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another, it is mankind primary adaptive mechanism, From a common ground culture is that which characterize a particular group of people and their very ways of life which differentiates them from other people. It is observed in the writings of African scholars that the distinctiveness and uniqueness of communalism is enshrined in its characteristics, principles and norms. 
  

• African society is an embodiment of cultures, culture that regulate principles and norms. It is noted in the writing of Africans and non- Africans scholars that the features and characteristics of communalism is one that takes the welfare and the well being of its members serious. This sense of harmony it gives is what defines Africans.
  

• However, cultural values can be defined as the worth, usefulness important by the amount of other things for which it can be exchanged. Although individual or group of individuals may choose what they call their values,                                                                              
• Cultural values go deeper than values because, cultural values are transmitted and acquired not freely chosen. It is also inscribed deeply in the spirit of the people and also in their history.                                       
• Using the igbos who are originally called Ndi-igbo as a case study the Igbo people  as a nation has the family and its name, sacredness of human life, chastity, respect for elders and parents, marriage and hospitality etc.                                               
•  What this portraysis that cultural values are intrinsically positive and potentially constructive Therefore, acknowledging African cultural values. Pope John11, admonished African thus,” Preserve carefully your African roots. Safeguard the values of your culture, know them and are proud of them 

• Respect for life, family solidarity and support for relatives, respect for the old the sense of hospitality judicious preservation of traditions the taste for feasts and symbols, These culturalv values are currently been threatened by negatives influence or globalization as well as western unbounded excesses.

• PRINCIPLEOF BROTHERHOOD

The true spirit of African Socialism is grounded on brotherhood, egalitarian and cooperation. African socialism as attitudes of the mind where everybody
cares for one another.

If Mondays were alive





Monday is the first day of the working week, an extraordinary day, filled with promises and hope for the rest of the week but as a kid growing up Monday's were the worst day of my life...

Becausee I had to go to school, growing up into an adult funny enough it's still the worst day of my life....

It's been six months since the deadly Corona virus came to existence, and fewer months since, in other countries like mine, Nigeria. ..

Because of the covid-19 case, almost all countries around the world has placed their citizens on lockdown, closing public places for studying, relaxation and working,  placed bands on flights. ...

Stay at home has become the music in all radio stations and televisions, people are advised to avoid social gatherings, bottom line everyone is at home...

One of the very few things I have come to notice is, everyday seems like a holiday, people wake up and go back to bed.

Monday seems unreal, has lost its value and is dead, weeks go by and nobody cares about Monday, no alarms, no headaches no struggles to wake up, no motivational plans ahead, kids don't cry anymore, the roads seems more relaxed than the hustle and bustle of every Monday...

Sitting outside my home today I remembered and thought to myself if Monday's were alive they would probably be depressed right now....

Do you have any thoughts about Monday? Leave a comment...

Power supply against Covid-19

It is no news about the disturbing time the world is experiencing, due to the virus COVID-19

We have heard so much and have been thought of the precautionary measures of reducing or stopping the spread of the virus which has brought the world to a state of lockdown, which includes staying indoors.

Power against lockdown, I was talking to a few of my friends who like me has been asked to either reduce the level of movement or has been asked not to leave their homes, and after talking I realized that we all had one thing in common, power supply, it is no news that power supply is very poor in some if not all part of the country Nigeria, and then I decided to outline the difficulties of the situation 'Stayathome' 'no power supply' below is the few outlined disadvantages of no power supply from the government.

1. It increases noise pollution as well as air pollution from generator owners

2. It reduces security and the feeling of safety

3. It will increase the rate of unhealthy food intake, as people will use more heat to preserve their food, thereby reducing the nutritional values.

4. It will make people less updated on the news as there will be no means of power to use either electronics or phone devices.

In general, there are lots disadvantages attached to no power, it is never pleasing to be in the dark, it's uncomfortable and could increase anger, anxiety, and unhappiness, this I'm sure is what we don't want especially not in this time when people are forced to stay at home.