Just Thinking

In about 11 hours 30 minutes, I will be a year older. Each year around my birthday I typically think of a gift to give myself and so I decided to finally publish this article which I have been mulling over for weeks as a birthday gift to myself. If you think that's strange, you need to get to know me better 😀 Here goes! Up until just recently, my entire career has been spent in the Nigerian Banking Industry, with the latter part of my banking experience spent catering to the Retail Banking segment across a couple of banks. In that time I began to crave a new banking experience for the Nigerian Financial Industry because I could see, touch and smell all the possibilities we have available, its like dying of thirst while taking a swim in clear, fresh water.  Over the years, this craving has crystallized into a dream for the future of banking in Nigeria. I am not Martin Luther King but I have a dream! I have a dream for banks in Nigeria!!  I...

Recently, network marketing has become quite popular with people using phrases such as do you have a "Plan B" and very passionately reminding us white-collar workers about how elusive "job security" is and how we all need to have a back up plan just in case our jobs/industry decides to go belly up. I totally agree with the concept and the global economic situation makes it more pertinent but am not personally a fan of network marketing for a host of personal reasons I do not particular wish to debate on the world wide web at this moment or on this post. That said, I usually come away from conversations like this asking myself some hard questions about the future and serious thinking of all the possible "What ifs....". In mathematics, X is usually a letter used as a placeholder for an unknown variable. So, my Plan X is to find out and catalog all of my possible plans from B to W and perform selection by elimination until I find that one thing asides f...