Sometimes, you have to sit with a reality that doesn’t make sense.

Sometimes, all you can do is sit because your legs cannot carry the weight of the moment.

But then, it passes, and you pick yourself back up and keep going.

Until another reality that doesn’t make sense comes along, hopefully, after a long while.

– Osasu Oviawe

Before you envy my highs, walk through my lows.

Before you seek my wings, carry my crosses.

Before you fight for my crown, check its weight.

Before you embrace my highlights, go behind the curtain.

Before you desire, inquire.

– Osasu Oviawe

The most important things in life do not require comparison.

They are complete and perfect in and of themselves.

Anything that does not require comparison does not feed competition.

The most important things in life do not require competition as a measure of progress.

Feed those things, and competition becomes irrelevant.

– Osasu Oviawe

There are two things that bring out the best in people: observation and acknowledgment.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in children.

They are not able to mask their need for both. They check if you’re watching and check for validation when they make progress.

If you’re locked in, the excitement you will find in them will bring you the sweetest nectar of joy.

If you’re distracted, they get stuck, and in many instances, act out.

That behavioral pattern compounds as we grow.

The job to be done for those in your care is to continually observe and acknowledge. Then watch them blossom.

– Osasu Oviawe

In reversible decisions, the most sophisticated form of procrastination is waiting for more data before deciding.

Data are numbers, and numbers have no end.

So, seeking more data is a masked form of indecisiveness.

If indecisiveness is the decision you need in the moment, by all means, ask for more data.

But if momentum is what you need in the moment, all the data you need are already available.

If you cannot name the data you need to arrive at a decision, then either decide immediately or decide to not decide. No more procrastination.

– Osasu Oviawe

Having trees around your house is desirable until their roots start piercing through your foundation in search of locked nutrient treasures, or their trunk breaks under the weight of a storm and smashes your roof in ways that make replacement the only possibility.

By all means, have desires, but understand where the roots go and what happens when a storm comes along.

– Osasu Oviawe

Until you commit, you are wise.

After you commit, you become wiser.

Until you commit, you are a fool.

After you commit, you become a bigger fool.

Commitment amplifies what pre-exists.

But you would never know what pre-exists until you commit.

– Osasu Oviawe

Willpower, like all forns of power, weakens as it is exercised.

– Osasu Oviawe

Until you’re loved right, you will never find your purpose.

And that love can also come from you.

– Osasu Oviawe

My investment risk appetite has no correlation to my age.

It is more correlated to my liquidity.

– Osasu Oviawe