Author: Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD
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Keep praising your staff!
They say when you praise a farmer, his/her cutlass becomes sharper. So to your staff. When you celebrate them and acknowledge them for all they do, they will do well. Today, my staff went above and beyond to answer yet another timely request needed to get our funds for our research. The outcomes are unknown…
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Keep the bridge between us!
I am intentionally busy this year. Intentionally cutting myself of things that do not serve me. If I am quiet, if I am so quiet that a pin drops, know it’s not you but me. I’m learning that how we see ourselves, you and me and whatever bridge that is between us depends on us…
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Keep watching!
For those of us who dream…pay attention to what sits inside yourself and watches you and is you…It may take time, but sit, smile, and watch.
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Keep life!
With butterflies, we see dignity, see the idea to of transcendence, with life extending beyond its limits. With water we experience eternity, experience what life can be when lived endlessly. With forest we see dreams, see things aspire to their greatest potential all with beauty. I am learning these days that everything, every experience is…
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Keep the common dreams of a dreamer!
In moments of stress, or moments of strife, through periods of chaos, or periods of change, when life becomes unpredictable, days and nights too, unpredictable, when the voices and the places that once nurtured you, turn on you, whether storms erupt or your strong purpose erodes, no matter whether your candle burns it self out…
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Keep what is deep for you!
Some of us love deep. Some of us hate deep too. Some keep their circles deep, some their words too. I’m thinking too deep, hence the head but this life will force you to realign what matters the most and sometimes it will require deep thinking that scatters your brain. Where you are going, so…
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Keep what you fear!
Fear is a child after one’s heart. It will pile stones, pile bones, and leave you in ruins, if you don’t undo what you fear. I saw this book when my team and I visited J Randel Museum in Lagos last month. I took a mental note and promised I would get a copy as…
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Keep looking at fear!
Since it’s good to be afraid, but not to paralyzed by your fear, I say fear even while you dream, fear when you begin any journey, fear even if the journey takes you through sloppy paths or shabby hills, fear when things seem under control, fear when things seem out of control, still fear through…
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Keep this state of emptiness!
I have been in a state of emptiness. Scott Peck in his book a Different Drum described emptiness as making room for the other, whatever the other may mean to you. It maybe something different, unexpected, new and maybe even better. Most importantly, it maybe for the community. We cannot let the other into ourselves…
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Keep words that echo louder!
If words echo, if they do so without losing their beat, rhythm, pulse, or wind, our eyes will close. This last day of summer, before kids return to school, I closed my eyes, and words echoed in my soul
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Keep all your failures!
Failure, don’t talk to me about failure or what I am capable of. When I wanted jewels for health, I wanted jewels for health. I trained girls, one school at a time, and took jewels to them to end the HIV epidemic and we failed without warning, without wining and without any wind blowing our…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 