Jubilant June: A New Lease of Life on the Blog!

You will notice that it has been quiet from my end on the blog especially in the last four weeks. This is primarily because I have been looking at more ways to provide value to my customers, clients and fans. As such from this month, there is going to be a slight change to the focus of the Wumi Oyewole Inspired blog.

Having been in the business arena for almost six years now by way of self-employment, I have learnt a thing or two. As such, I have decided to take some of the knowledge and experiences gained as a small business owner and entrepreneur and fuse it with my love of beauty and personal development.

Wumi Oyewole Inspired is set to be a place where beauty now meets with business and brilliance. I am here to help you have a radiant self, glowing skin, a glowing life and indeed a business that stands out in the sea of sameness. I'm hoping you will enjoy the change. Change is inevitable in life. As Socrates rightly said, " The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

Watch this space for the new development and please like comment or share our post.

Thank you for supporting what I do.

Radiance and Love,

Wumi Oyewole

Will You Stay The Course or Will You Not?

Happy New 2016!

Many people at this time make the commonly known, New Year Resolution, listing and deciding on things they would or would not not. Some of the common favourites include: getting fit or losing weight, eating healthily, quit smoking, saving money or cutting back on alcohol. Whatever resolutions you may have made, it is a common fact that a much smaller percentage of people actually stick to their resolutions beyond 4 to 8 weeks.

Why is this so? Is it just plain human behaviour? I really don't have the answer and to be honest, I'll let the experts in Psychology and Neurology answer this question. However, it’s been said that one of the reasons why some people do not stick to their new year resolution is because they haven't set a SMART one; i.e. a Specific, Achievable and Realistic Resolution! SMART - stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timebound. (It's one of the tools, I learnt whilst working and doing my certificate in management, a few years ago!)

Are You Going to Give it More Than a Try?

I read a lot of blogs and I totally love personal development. This blog itself is fused with and inspired by elements of personal development which I consider a key ingredient for personal brilliance and success. So, if I may ask:

What resolutions have you set for yourself in 2016 and have you made them SMART? Are you going to make every effort to keep working on your resolutions beyond the next 4 to 8 weeks or are you going to let your resolutions just become something that drops by the sideline with an excuse of,  “I can't be bothered". 

Come March this year, will you be on tract for keeping to your resolutions and achieving the desired outcomes you want from them? As Robert H Schuller rightly said, “If it’s going to be, it’s up to me".  Simply stated, it’s a matter of choice. A sure way to remain true to your goals is to find a personal development program that works for you or an accountability partner, coach or mentor, if you need one.

What does Wumi do?

Truth be told, I’ve stopped setting new year resolutions as I was part of the statistics who just never seem to keep them. What I do now is completely different. 

Last year, I finally found my mojo – becoming a positive habit developer!

In my quest to improve my life, I came across Leo Babauta’s Sea Change Program in August 2015 and I signed up to it. One positive habit I was able to develop late last year (and I’m still working on it), was waking up early. From waking up early, I was able to start work at my home computer early which meant that I could produce this blog and write regularly.  I didn’t achieve this result through wishful thinking or new year resolution setting. I found something that truly worked for me: 

making small incremental changes and finding the will power to stick to them. 

As Leo Babauta said, “One small change at a time, and you’ll change your entire life." Yeah! 

For 2016, I have decided to develop an evening routine, especially one of going to bed early as this is something I really struggle with being an owl. Also, I want to sustain my habit of walking up early, so if I can get into bed by 11.00pm, at least four times a week, I'll be eternally grateful to my creator. I’m still on the Sea Change Program but my days on it are numbered because I gave myself a deadline.  

I pray 2016 be a truly beautiful, breathtaking year for you and that you'll find that inner strength to stay on course with your resolutions, dreams and goals.

Here’s to a brilliant 2016!

Radiance and Love,

Wumi

My Musings On The Word Blueprint

Not so long ago, while doing some work at my desk, the word ‘blueprint’ sprang to my mind.

Vocabulary.com defines blueprint as a guide for making something. It’s a design or pattern that can be followed; something intended as a guide for making something else. The literal meaning is a paper, which is blue with plans for a building printed on it.

As I lingered at my desk, thinking about the word, I came up with this quote:

‘Give me the blueprint and I’ll give you my life’.

When you have so much going on inside of you, isn’t it true that when you write it down or capture it on a piece of paper, it can end up becoming a reality.

So do you see the blueprint of something in your mind? May be, now is the time to write it down. When you capture your ideas on paper, you have the power and the tools to construct amazing, extraordinary innovations.

Poetry! Oh So Poetry

Sketch out the blueprint because it may lead you on a totally new adventure.

Sketch out the blueprint and unfold the creativity inside of you.

Life’s little blessings can be captured immensely when we allow ourselves to write out the blueprint.

Let your eyes and the eyes of your mind imagine the blueprint. Journey far into wonderland, then come back and sketch it down, to turn that imaginary moment into something that can come to life!

Just a thought

What will come of some of the brilliant ideas you have today, if you don’t write them down and make a blueprint out of them? You can only go as far as your eyes can see and as far as your hands let you! You can begin to capture your thoughts with this Believe in Yourself journal.

Dear Blueprint,

I totally understand and get you. 

Now that I truly know who you really are, I’ll know how to better use you.

Thank you for blowing my mind and giving me hope.

Yours sincerely,

Wumi Oyewole