Learning to ask for what you want is the purpose of all learning.

On one end of the scale, some people skip all learning and jump right into asking for what they want. They are called geniuses.

On the other end of the scale, some people seek all learning before asking for what they want. They are called rut dwellers.

Most people sit somewhere in between, moving in either direction depending on life’s feedback. They are called learners.

Most people feel they need to first be sure of what they want before they ask, even as life continually teaches that there is no sure thing.

Move toward the end with the geniuses. Never second-guess yourself before asking for what you want.

— Osasu Oviawe

Mastery is the art of creating beauty through asymmetry.

– Osasu Oviawe

Whatever you want to do, if you really want to do it, start now.

Whatever you do not want to do, if you do not really want to do it, postpone it to a future date.

The biggest regrets in life come when you muddle up the sequence, postponing what you really want to do to a later date and starting what you do not really want to do now.

– Osasu Oviawe

Our tongues are designed for a wider range of tastes than we ever get to explore.

These days, when I travel, I try to explore a meal I would not normally have in my day-to-day life.

I have been more pleasantly surprised than displeased, and even in the moments of displeasure, the memories created are priceless.

In the same vein, our lives are designed for a wider range of experiences than we ever get to explore.

As you journey through life, explore parts of your world that are not in your normal day-to-day routine.

Whatever the experience is, the memories created will be priceless.

– Osasu Oviawe

My role as a leader is to ensure those in my care and those who come after me are able to take risks.

The role involves taking risks of my own with documented learning and building a buffer for failure to ensure it is less likely to be fatal.

But my role also involves making sure it is more comfortable to take risks than it is to avoid them. This is the harder bit.

– Osasu Oviawe

There are two variables being managed in customer service: the human connection and the perceived quality on offer.

If you have a good human connection but a  perceived poor quality on offer, people will courteously leave what you offer.

If you have a poor human connection but a  perceived good quality on offer, people will grudgingly take what you offer.

If you have a poor human connection and a  perceived poor quality on offer, people will violently attack what you offer.

If you have a good human connection and a  perceived good quality on offer, people will expand the market for what you offer.

Whatever you do, never compromise on the perceived quality on offer.

– Osasu Oviawe

When your time comes, show out.

Don’t hesitate, don’t shrink, don’t hide.

Shine so bright, the spotlight becomes a shadow.

– Osasu Oviawe

Joy is self-offered.

Suffering is self-desired.

– Osasu Oviawe

All storms pass.

The calm inherits its ruins.

All storms pass.

The trick is to hold on until tomorrow.

All storms pass.

The test is what you can rebuild from its spoils.

All storms pass.

You don’t have to.

– Osasu Oviawe

I am currently healing from a bruise I got recently.

When wounds heal, they itch, and every itch calls for a scratch. But scratching a healing wound reopens it, delaying healing.

The purpose of the itch is to turn the pain of the wound into a tickle; when you feel the itch, smile and carry on.

One day, you might not even remember you once felt sore there.

You can draw parallels to the wounds of the heart: as they heal, there is an itch to connect again, but if you connect, you reopen the wound.

Treat the itch like a tickle; smile and carry on.

– Osasu Oviawe