10 QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO ASK YOURSELF ABOUT YOUR FRIEND.

“A friend in need is a friend indeed”. You would agree with me that this quote has been relevant for ages. But as it is, not everyone has been opportune to enjoy its significance.

Below are ten questions you need to ask yourself about your friend.

•  Is my friend committed to me?

• Is my friend willing to sacrifice/ share his or her most important asset such as time with me?

• Is my friend willing to go an extra mile to make sure I achieve my goals?

• Is my friend willing to share in my pain?

• Has my friend impacted my life positively in any way?

• Does my friend show up anytime I need his/ her assistance?

• Does my friend neglect important issues affecting my life for less important ones?

• Can my friend put up a strong defense for me in trouble times?

• Can I confide in my friend?

• Am I worthy to be seen with him/her?

Your answers to these questions would reveal to you how unfriendly your friend is or better still, tells you how close you should hold on to your friend.

THE CLINICAL INSTRUMENT.

Achieving success in life is determined by so many factors and as it is, motivation is one of the key factors to realizing a successful life.

    

   Motivation is a driving force that makes you to do something positive disregarding physical factors that might want to deprive you from achieving a set goal. Even the oxford dictionary defined motivation as ‘making somebody wants to do something especially something that involves hard work and effort’.

    

   The driving force attached to motivation could be gotten in so many different ways:

• 1.       It could come through your submission to God’s authority i.e. trusting in Him and putting Him first in all your doings.

• 2.       It could come through associating yourself with people of great values who have achieved lots of great things in life. You could even adopt them as your role models or mentors.

• 3.       It could also come through self confidence i.e. having the belief that you can do it, you can achieve it.

• 4.       It could also come by reading mind lifting motivational writings from prolific writers.

• 5.       It could also come by getting close to texts from the Holy book. Reason being that the daily confession of these inspirational texts from either the Bible or Quran could help towards guiding you to fulfilling your heart desires.

   The essence of motivation is that it gets you focused to accomplishing the set goals you have highlighted and to achieving things of utmost priority in life. It also assists to guide you along the road to achieving success in those set goals of yours and also shapes your life aspirations to its full realization.

   The detriments of lack of motivation in a life could bring about mediocrity in that person’s dealings. For instance, a person who is good at writing fiction stories and lacks motivation in this aspect might produce not well enough result with his ability.

WAYS TO GET SOMEONE MOTIVATED.   

1.       Show love and attention to the individual.

2.       Use kind and encouraging words.

3.       Enhance close monitoring and supervision.

   These would go a long way to getting an individual motivated because it makes the individual feel a sense of value.  Through this, hidden treasures, virtues, ideas, talents could begin to show up in the individual and your ability to back up the individual with these three (3) ways would not only save him, the nation but change the lives of the people around for the better.

  

   Lastly, motivation yields success. Your ability to get it through the Most High God, self, family, friends, or mentors who are positive minded is a clinical instrument to accomplishing great ideas, dreams and most importantly, living a successful life.    

LIVING HEALTHY.

Medically, health is a state of soundness of mind or state of feeling good. Today, there are many ways to achieving a sustainable health one of the most popular being through the use and production of organic food production.

WAYS TO EATING AND SUSTAINING A HEALTHY LIVING.
1. The addition of staple food such as fruits, plantain, banana, maize or corn, rice, bread to each meal would be best.

2. Concentrate on the consumption of high fibred foods and low in fruits, vegetables and complex carbohydrate.

3. Drink plenty of water. Avoid drinking coffee or tea until 1-2hrs after meal that is, when the food ingested must have digested or left the stomach to ensure maximum amount of absorption of iron by the body supplied by the food ingested.

4. Youths should include food options that are rich in iron (especially females) such as dark green leaves, fish, red meat, liver and sorghum.

5. Youths should guard against diets that are high in saturated and low in fruits, vegetables and complex carbohydrates.

6. Try to get at least 3 meals per day and 3-6 snacks per day to create a healthy balance of all dietary needs.

7. Avoid sugar-rich, salty, sticky or processed food and ingredients that are difficult to digest because they cause premature ageing and inhibit healthy growth.

8. Exercise your body regularly for 15mins at a time.

9. Covering the mouth when coughing and washing of the hands regularly would go a long way in sustaining a healthy life.

10. 6-8hrs of sleep at least should be observed daily and siestas throughout the day. 20-30MINS of siesta is alright during the day.

11. Grow, buy and eat food locally to improve body health. SHUN OR AVOID CANNED OR PROCESSED FOODS.

Today, the unsettling realities of unhealthy eating practices have increased risk of diseases such as heart failure, diabetes, malnutrition, obesity and so on.