Like a sweet fruit with a seed within, great blessing comes with a vulnerability.

What you do with the vulnerability changes everything about the blessing.

If you chew it and swallow, the blessing ends with it.

If you spit it out without a care in the world, the blessing looks bad on you.

If you plant it and nurture it, it grows to produce more blessings than you can imagine.

A fruit that has a seed needs the seed for it to be of the plant. A blessing that has a vulnerability needs the vulnerability for it to be of humanity.

– Osasu Oviawe

Good advice is not in short supply.

Good judgment is.

– Osasu Oviawe

The main advantage you have with anything in life revolves around your principal.

At the start of life, your parents are your principals. The healthier they are and the longer they stay around, the better your overall quality of life.

As you start school, your teachers become your principals. The healthier they are and the longer they spend with you, the better your overall quality of education.

When you start work, your line managers become your principals. The healthier they are and the more they invest in you, the better your career.

When you start investing, your capital becomes your principal. The healthier it is and the longer you can keep it, the better your chance of compounding working for you.

Understand your principal in any phase you’re in, prioritize improving them, and watch how life gets easier.

– Osasu Oviawe

My diet reinforces my mood, and my mood dictates my diet in a vicious or virtuous cycle.

I prefer virtuous cycles, but I have had more vicious cycles.

Time to ramp up the virtuous cycles.

– Osasu Oviawe

You only lose once.

Every other time is a choice.

– Osasu Oviawe

It is through the process of asking, listening, and sharing that you will find what is in the depths of people’s hearts.

It is through the process of disagreeing, arguing, and not reaching common ground that you will find what is in the shadows of people’s hearts.

And when you find what is in the depths and shadows, decide if you can accommodate both the angels and demons.

If you can’t, waste no time waiting for change, for life always brings circumstances that return nature to its norm.

You can choose the angels and demons in your life.

– Osasu Oviawe

Contentment is the art of ignoring what you do not yet have and maximizing the joy of what you do.

It is not a lack of ambition but an alignment with a higher purpose, one that is not limited by desire but liberated by discipline.

Contentment sees the fruit in a seed and is in no hurry to skip the growth process that gets it there. 

It is not a tradeoff for success but an understanding of fulfillment, one that does not measure against others but draws meaning from within.

– Osasu Oviawe

Nothing in the world can remove love from where it resides.

Nothing.

That’s the beauty and the curse of love.

– Osasu Oviawe

Words reveal knowledge.

Actions reveal understanding.

Knowledge is an external metric that can be manipulated.

Understanding is an internal metric that always reveals the truth.

Listen to words, believe actions.

– Osasu Oviawe

A consistent gift of time is a deeper appreciation of my family.

– Osasu Oviawe