The Plain Pen's Blog ✒️

Hey there! Welcome to the maiden edition of The   Penterview , a lovely session with resourceful people who are doing a lot to impact their community. Today, we would be interviewing an excellent mind, who is passionate about social impact. Take a seat (I guess you probably have 😉) you're gonna enjoy this read.  T.P : Hello, can you introduce yourself briefly? My name is Abdulrasaq Omowunmi Wasilat , the convener of Caregivers. I'm an undergraduate of Sociology in Lagos State University Ojo, also a volunteer at Seap Foundation. I am a giver, a makeup artist, I'm friendly. My hobbies are reading, meeting new people and talking. Yeah, I talk a lot 😁 The Convener, Caregivers T.P : What made you think of starting a charity organization? Nothing really, I just felt it's not a bad idea if I give back to the community, so I started helping people in my own little way. While awaiting admission into the university last year, I just decided to create someth...

Eat that frog: 21 great ways to  stop procrastinating  and get more done in less time CHAPTER SIXTEEN: MOTIVATE YOURSELF INTO ACTION Welcome to the grand finale of this interesting book summary. I'm so happy and honoured to have hosted you all this while. Did anyone miss me? Let me know in the comments section. Learn to become your own personal cheerleader to perform at your best. Encourage yourself to play at the top of your game because the way you interpret things that are happening to you largely determines how you feel. To keep yourself motivated, you must resolve to become a complete optimist, refusing to let the unavoidable difficulties and setbacks of daily life affect your word or emotions. To keep yourself motivated, you must resolve to become a complete optimist, refusing to let the unavoidable difficulties and setbacks of daily life affect your word or emotions. Optimism is the most important quality that you can develop for personal and professi...

Eat that frog: 21 great ways to  stop procrastinating  and get more done in less time CHAPTER ELEVEN: UPGRADE YOUR SKILLS Welcome again! I do hope you're doing fine. We've learned quite a lot and I guess we've been applying them to our lives and in our day to day activities. Did you know that a major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of the ask? Hence, the need to upgrade your skills in your key result areas. The better you eat a particular type of frog, the more you're versatile in getting things done. Don't allow any weakness or lack of ability to hold you back because everything is learnable. Be ready to learn whatever skills you need to be more productive and more effective. Don't allow any weakness or lack of ability to hold you back because everything is learnable.  There are three steps to mastery; First, read in your field for at least one hour every day any...

Eat that frog: 21 great ways to  stop procrastinating  and get more done in less time CHAPTER SIX: USE THE ABCDE METHOD CONTINUALLY Yo! It's another series of Midweek Special and I greet you, welcome! ABCDE 🤔...we're throwing it all the way back to the creche 😂. However, the ABCDE method is a very powerful priority setting technique that you can use every single day. The power of this technique lies in its simplicity and here's how it works: Write a list of everything you have to do for the coming day, then place an A, B, C, D, or E next to each item on your list. "A" item is defined as something that is very important , something that you must do. This is a task that has serious positive or negative consequences if you do or fail to do it. "B" item is a task you should do. It has only mild consequences. "C" item is something that would be nice to do but for which there are no consequences at all, whether you do it or n...

CHAPTER THREE: APPLY THE 80/20 RULE TO EVERYTHING Aww...welcome back!!! So, here is the popular 80/20 rule also called the Pareto Principle . It is one of the most helpful of all the concepts of life and time management. The principle says that 20 percent of your activities/customers/products or services will account for 80 percent of your results/sales/profits respectively. Keep your focus on tasks that are more important. The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and complex. Once you actually begin to work it, you will be naturally motivated to continue. The rewards are however tremendous. Resist the temptation to clear up small things first! Effective and productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task; they force themselves to eat that frog Start to think about starting and finishing an important thing or task because it motivates you and helps you to overcome procrastination. Effective and productive peo...

Eat that frog: 21 great ways to stop procrastinating and get more done in less time

A poem in praise of menstruation Two ovaries once told 'emselves, Let's make a self, Soon they were set, A messenger was sent, To be joined in legal union, With a visitor. The ballroom was set, The visitor expected, For a supposed set out, To start right away, In the hallway. The visitor anticipated in a while, Never arrived, But the messenger took to the way, Hoping for the best. Alas! The visitor never was present, For a matrimony, He was the be-all and end-all. The ovaries waxed wode, A great fury it was, The aftermath of which, Was the annihilation, Of the precious ballroom. The ball room, The feminine uterus. The ovaries' messenger, The matured ovum. The truant visitor, The expected sperm. The annihilation, The FLOW! ThePlainPen

"Be what you are, not what you think you are" - ThePlainPen

(Rhythm And Poetry) I can'ever do, I can'ever breathe, I can'ever stand without you Lord, You're my life, you're my heart, You're my start, you're my end, You're my crown, you're my gain, You're my all Lord, I was doomed to hell But you saved me, With your blood I was cleansed, You redeemed me, From the snares of my foe, You freed me, In the shadows of death, God...you guard me, What will I do? What will I say? What will I plan? What will I gain? What will I pray? What will I claim? 'Cos without you I'm nothin'   The Plain Stylus,  © KAYODE AYOMIDE TIMILEHIN

     Grrrng! a noise echoed through the room as a snoozed alarm rang for the umpteenth time. Bode jerked up suddenly from his bed as if stung by a bee. The time read 8:25 am, testifying to his serious lateness. Today, he commences his first MBBS exam (a professional exam which qualifies medical students to proceed to the clinical aspect of their studies). He rushed down to bathe which he finished in no later than ten minutes. He then set to prepare for the exam which has been scheduled for 9 am in the morning taking his time to dress up neatly and smartly. He nonchalantly strapped on his wristwatch and discovered that he has about twenty minutes left to the exam time. 'There's still more time', he consoled himself before setting out into the streets.       As he hit the asphalt, he discovered the neighborhood being silent as the grave yard with no signs of a bike coming any sooner. Reality dawned on him that he would unavoidably be late for the exam wh...

      Being a medical student is faced with diverse academic challenges and responsibilities, most of which are tackled with the level of stuff in the cerebrum; the Intelligence Quotient and the company of friends, the crux of which are the superomedials .       According to the anatomical terms of relationship and comparison, superomedial is a combined term which defines a structure which is nearer to the vertex and to the median plane. Its relation to the medical lifestyle is hilarious yet sensible. Being a rookie in medical school, a lecturer once said in an introductory class that 'If by the time you check the score board and you discover that your pals are far below you, leave them during study time and find friends who are superior and can help you'. A fellow class mate however shocked me with the fact that its actually 'superomedial' friends.       Who are the superomedials?       Medicine and Surgery, as noble and ...

      I wandered far away,   Nonetheless a reprobate,   The Trinity all at bay,   Typified an hypocrite,   I had gone AWOL,   Enslaved an incarnate.   HE found me then displaced,   Restored me all in place,   The life I once lived,   In reckless abandon,   HE offered to me,   A great asunder,   Paid a price of none,   But released it all to me.   HE was slapped, bruised,   Pierced and killed,   All because of me,   And HE died, rose,   Gone to Heaven,   All to gain for me. The Plain Stylus,   © KAYODE AYOMIDE 'TIMILEHIN

Through the pin drop silence, Incessant beeps were being heard from bedside monitor machines, The operating lamp above strongly illuminating the room with its powerful beams, Air conditioners working tirelessly to ventilate the windowless room. A couple of surgeons seen round a bed, An IV drip on a frame dangling above their heads, Tactically severing and suturing, With cold steel in their hands, Their acute vision invariably alert, And perfectly honed manus in action. On the patient they worked, Doing their best to restore the dignity of man, To the initial constitution and psyche, In the bowels of the Homo sapien... The Plain Stylus,  © KAYODE AYOMIDE TIMILEHIN

Petite and tiny, Cute yet small, Lovely and glossy, Is the light little pen. Tiny as it is, Small but mighty is the perfect definition,  For in it, It holds the power, To life and death, To riches and poverty, To command and obedience. The absolute delight of a poet it is, To freely express volumes, Of experiences and imaginations, To regents and the masses.                 The Plain Stylus, KAT.