Every Morning I wake up like most people, I find my running shoes and I am off, come back home I do some reading and I prepare myself mentally for the day. At a glance I have not got anything wrong with me, I am author and speaker and I know a few people who think I am lucky and talented and some people talk about how they would love to be in my shoes. However what a lot of people don’t know is that I have my daily struggles and sometimes doing the simplest of things in life can be a struggle. I have an eye condition called Nystagmus ( an Involuntary movement of the eye) which makes it difficult for to do the simplest, line cutting piece of paper in straight line, going a new place because I am not able to read the signs until I am…read more >

It was a very cold Sunday morning and that afternoon I was to compete in the Area 11 Toastmaster International speech contest. This was going to be the first time I was going to be speaking outside our local club and I did not know what to expect. I had not been to any speech contests before so I did not what it was going to happen and I was a little bit anxious because I was speaking in a place that I was not familiar with. My friend Michael picked me up at 1pm that afternoon and I was glad I had great company because we spoke about a lot of other things other than what I was going to be talking about. When I turned up I realised that I was up against some very good and accomplished speakers, I thought I will just have to make sure…read more >

In 2014 I started a new job and I was really looking forward to it because I had previously worked in that organisation in another department and I had great time. I posted on Facebook on how great I felt to be back working in the organisation because the previous time was very short and successful. However the second spell was not a happy one to start off with, I was paired with an experienced employee who did not show me the work that was been done. After a month in the job, I became very disillusioned with the job, every day was a struggle and I started looking for other jobs. A few months later she made a decision to leave, it wasn’t until three months later that it dawned on me that she did not like because I made feel less important that she was before I joined.…read more >

It was not me! it was my wife he said, it was not me it was my husband! She said. For 20 years these two people told everyone in their life that the other person was responsible for the breakup of their marriage. These two people spent a lot of their lives telling everyone that the other person was responsible for what went wrong in their marriage and no one was willing to take responsibility for the state of their marriage so in the end the marriage broke up. Fast forward 20 years later, the couple are now order and wiser and this time they are not arguing about who was right and who was wrong but they are both acknowledging that they had a part to play in the breakup of their marriage. After 20 years these two people are back together and enjoying a great life only because…read more >

My book Arise and Shine chronicles my six years journey from a high school failure to a university, the journey which began on the day that I failed my high school exams. I think I struggled in school because I did not have a destination that required me to do more than I was, From time to time I was able to come up with some will power to do more but this always disappeared as quickly as it came to me, even though I failed my exams you could not fault me for effort, I tried the best I could to turn things around but I did not have a direction at all. However the day I set a goal to go to university everything seemed a lot easier, if I needed to spend nine hours that day to understand something, I found the motivation to spend nine hour…read more >

It was 2002 and I was at Buteko Basic School, this was one of my good years in primary school but it still had its bad days. A group of boys had decided to make my life difficult, they always managed to do or say something that made me feel very small. When I was in school parents who could afford would bake or buy a cake for their child to take to school n their birthday, I remember an occasion when one of our class mates brought in some cake on her birthday to share with everyone and I was not able to have a proper piece because of the people who were always laughing at me. I remember one of the boys saying “Look at him, he will probably have the biggest piece” I heard this and I decided I was only going to have the crumbs to…read more >

A couple years ago I meant a young man who had fallen on hard times and had no hope for the future. I sat with him and spoke to him about how lucky he was to have been born in the UK, I spoke to him about how young people in a lot of African countries would love to live in the UK and have the opportunities that he has. This young man went on to tell me what his school life was like, how badly he was treated by some of his teachers. The more I tried to show him the opportunities that were available the more he argued about his limitations. I told him that his school life sounded a lot like mine and if I managed to turn my life around so could he, however this just made him even more determined to tell me how bad…read more >

A few weeks ago I was doing my own radio show on Gloucester Community Radio and as I played the first song, I remembered the days when the only thing that kept me going was the belief that the next day was going to be better. Every time I left school defeated I held on to the belief that the next day was going to be better. I remember a two month period when things were extremely difficult for me, I remember going to bed in tears but then I would tell myself that the next day would be a better day. I really believe that if I did not have hope for a better tomorrow I would have not graduated university six years after failing my high school exams; I would not have been a published author today if I did not believe in the power of tomorrow. The…read more >

I have spent the majority of today watching sports because it has been finals day. As I am writing this blog the UEFA champions’ league final between Real Madrid and Liverpool has just reached half time. I was watching the final of the rugby earlier and after the game had finished I told my wife that half the fans of the losing team are going to be at their club’s ticket office to buy season tickets in readiness for next season by Tuesday. The fans would have been disappointed with the result today but they know they can’t change today’s results but they just have to look forward to next season. By the time the day ends today I would have watched three finals involving six teams with only three winners. The teams that will not do well this year have got a chance to be in the final and…read more >

I am very sure we have all at one point in our life made a new year’s resolution and broke it the very next day. A few years ago I saw a group of four women running past my house on the 1st January and I thought to myself New Year’s resolutions! A few days later the number was three and the next week the number was two and a month later the number was one and it has been one since then. Talking to the one person who has continued running, the aim of the run was to lose weight. She is the only one in the group who has managed to achieve what everyone in the group wanted to achieve. What was interesting to me was that the woman who managed to achieve the goals that the group set was a woman who never did in sports in…read more >