What is depression and how to overcome it?

Depression is a mental health condition that causes sadness and loss of interest. It can affect your thinking and also the way you feel. it can affect the quality of your daily life.

You can find yourself keeping to yourself all day long without communicating with people around you. You lock yourself up in the room and keep thinking. This is a symptom of depression.

Other common symptoms of depression include:

  • Feeling sad or having a depressed mood
  • Changes in appetite
  • Weight loss or gain unrelated to dieting
  • Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
  • Loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed
  • Thoughts of death or suicide
  • Loss of energy or increased fatigue
  • Difficulty concentrating or making decisions
  • Feelings of worthlessness or guilt

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How to Be More Productive with Your Time

This post is written for those who want to be more productive with their time. That implies that if you have not been productive with your time in the past, you can change and make your time productive.

In case you are someone who has been managing your time properly and you’ve been productive with your time, that is good but there is room for improvement.

Being productive with your time simply means making your time count, and using your time for something productive.

Productivity means getting desired results in tasks and activities that you do with minimal effort and resources.

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Is Breaking a Promise a Sin? (Find Out!)

I have heard a lot of people debate on this issue and I feel like sharing my opinion. So, is breaking a promise a sin?

Before I share my thoughts, I want to state that you can make a promise to God, you can make a promise to man and you can also make a promise to yourself.

Promise is also referred to as a vow in the Bible. A promise means making a statement of intent, indicating that you will do something.

A promise is a commitment to do something or to behave in a certain way. It is a statement of intent that is made to another person or to oneself. Promises can be made verbally, in writing, or through actions.

A promise could also be as deep as making a covenant. A covenant is an agreement that is usually legal or binding for example a contract between two people. Another good example of a covenant is a marriage between a man and a woman.

I will be discussing these three scenarios differently so that we don’t mix things up.

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10 Activities You Should Avoid as a Youth

In this post, I will be discussing about 10 activities you should avoid as a youth. One of the first questions that might come to your mind when reading this post is are you a youth?

You can refer yourself to be a youth if you are a young person. You can say you are a youth if you are at your peak in terms of energy and health.

This post is for everyone active and old enough to make decisions on their own.

As we grow up in life, we partake in a lot of activities that will shape our future. If you partake in the wrong activities, they will impact your future negatively. If you partake in the right activities, they will impact your future positively.

Consciously or unconsciously we partake in different activities in our daily life. People with wisdom always try to control the activities they partake in.

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How to Set and Achieve Goals at Work

Success in your workplace depends on certain factors. One of those factors includes your ability to set and achieve goals at work.

Have you wondered why some workers in an organization have the same time and resources to work, yet a portion of them get better results at the end of the day?

This happens sometimes because the ones who get better results are used to setting and achieving their goals.

Well, you might be wondering what is the essence of setting and achieving your goals at work when you can follow your instinct and still get good results.

When you set goals and achieve them, you will become a more productive staff at work.

You will also notice that it will help you manage the stress and pressure you face at work. One of the causes of stress at work is the inability to set and achieve goals.

When you don’t set goals, you will waste your time on unnecessary activities such as watching movies, chatting, and viewing social media platforms.

The consequence of wasting time on unnecessary activities is that you will be rushing to meet deadlines which will put you under undue pressure.

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How to Improve Your Communication Skills in the Workplace

We need to communicate in our daily lives which is why you need to develop your communication skills. I will be discussing how to improve communication skills I the workplace in this post.

Some people have the misconception that all there is to communication is speaking convincingly and clearly so that you can persuade others.

Well, that may be part of the communication skills you need to learn but there is more to communicate than speaking convincingly and clearly.

The most important aspect of communication is understanding. You need to understand your team members, they also need to understand you when you communicate with each other.

Communication can be verbal and written, both can be used for communication in the workplace. For example, you can communicate with your colleagues through phone calls, direct chat, text messages or emails.

Both verbal and written communication are effective but they have their benefits as well. At times it is best you communicate verbally while some other times is is best you communicate through writing.

I will be showing you some tips to help you improve your communication skills in your workplace. These tips will help you improve both verbal and written communication skills

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How to Be Successful in Your Career: A Step-by-Step Guide

In this post, I will be showing you how to be successful in your career. Achieving success in your career is possible and that is what I will be showing you in this post.

Being successful in your career means achieving goals you have set for yourself in any work you find yourself doing. It is the process of balancing income and satisfaction gained while working.

We must succeed in every area of our lives. Don’t focus on some areas of your life and suffer in other areas of your life.

All areas of your life are important and you must strive to succeed. If you abandon one aspect of your life in the bid to chase success in other areas, you might fail in that one aspect you have abandoned and that is not true success.

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5 Tips for Handling Sudden Challenges with Confidence

Every human being will be faced with challenges in life because facing challenges is part of our life.

The challenge is something bigger than your capacity or it could be something that is hindering your plans

For instance, let’s say you want to travel via air today and the weather gets bad all of a sudden, that could be a challenge for you.

Don’t let anyone deceive you that they don’t face challenges we all face challenges in life.

Some people have come to accept that facing challenges is part of life. So even if it happens suddenly, they are prepared to face it.

If you think that life should be free of challenges then you won’t be able to handle challenges when they come your way.

The reason I’m writing this post is so that you can change your mind and prepare yourself for the challenges of life.

I will be sharing with you 5 tips that can help you handle sudden challenges that come your way with confidence.

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What Does It Mean to Be Transformed by God?

To transform something means to change that thing into something else. So in simple terms, we can say transform means change.

God can call anyone unto Himself because he loves us but God does not want us to remain the same. God wants us to change He wants us to be a better version of ourselves.

I understand that some people believe that you can come to God the way you are, that is true. But you cannot remain in God the way you are.

God wants you to grow to become a better person. God doesn’t want you to be stagnant.

In the book of Act 13:9, God used Saul but Saul had to change to Paul which is a better version of home Saul.

If you want to be called by God and remain useful in His kingdom, you need to understand some things.

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Marketing: The Heartbeat of Every Business

The heart is one of the most important organs in the body, if the heart isn’t functioning, that person will die. This goes to show that the heart is important to the body.

Every business also has a heart and that heart is the marketing aspect of the business. You need to make the marketing aspect of your business functional, or else your business will die.

The best businessmen are not the ones with the best products. The best businessmen are the ones who can promote their products to the right audience thereby adding value to them.

If you have not taken your business’s marketing aspect seriously before now, it is time to start doing so.

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