My family was all good until I had a surgery in 2007 where my father had to pay out of pocket for it. Many families never recover from health emergencies for a long time.
The person might recover from the illness, but your pocket might not.
No one is praying to fall ill, but if you do, you need to be sure that you're not going to be pushed into poverty by that illness.
You might think ah! It's just a small admission, before you know what's happening, millions gone.
I remember this man whose wife fell ill, he had to use everything they had, after that, they had to move back to the village.
She's still ill. He was one of the big men in Alaba market before this happened. You might say village people, I say a lack of proper health insurance
What's worse?
Sometimes, people still end up paying bills long after the person they sold everything for did not make it.
I know you didn't want to hear this Sunday morning. You wanted to hear some "You'll succeed" which you will. But get insurance. Protect yourself
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If you can, take your shawarma without sausages at all, it's healthier. Sausages, hot dogs, corned beef, are classified as Group 1 carcinogens. Processed meat generally.
What does this mean? There is STRONG evidence that they can cause cancer. In the same group as tobacco
People want to live healthy and decide one day to abandon all the unhealthy things they've been doing. (Drinking soda, processed meat, no exercise)
2 weeks later, they're back to square 1, telling themselves, "one thing must kill a man"
Why?
They're using the wrong method
When it comes to habits, we have to be deliberate about creating them.
All the bad habits you created up until this moment were not created in one day, how then do you think you can delete all of them in one day? That's why you fail.
We're creatures of habit, everything you do now unconsciously is a habit you built most times without knowing. You wake and reach for your phone. That's a habit.
Change them one step at a time. Don't try to do everything at the same time. It won't last.
Get a job where you can work from anywhere in the world. Don't be tied down here
A couple of my friends are earning in dollars and spending in Naira, get the skills, work for a while... Japa.
These days, it's skills over degrees, especially undergraduate degrees here in Nigeria
We have people stuck in jobs with no clear career path, some because they can't afford to upgrade their skill set, others don't know what clear path to take.
One job in high demand today is data analysis. The world now makes decisions based on data except "coughs"
Data analysis spans every sector, yes including football, It was a data analyst that recommended Mo Salah to Liverpool based on data.
We already do it at some level, especially the people comparing Ronaldo and Messi. Why not earn from it instead.
I was on the streets of Lagos recently asking people, "who decides how many children a couple has?" Most men said: The man of course
Most women said: Both of us
I asked the men a second question, "How many times have you followed your female partner to a gynaecology visit?
Went ahead to ask, why though? Why haven't you been readily available for family planning visits for a decision that impacts both of you? One answered: “my own is to provide the money, her own is to go for the visit.” This mindset is prevalent in a lot of African homes
For a long time, most men especially in this world see family planning as a women's affair. Men have been rarely involved when it comes to sexuality, birth spacing, reproductive health etc. When you place that against what we have here where traditionally, men lead many homes