Saturday 23 September 2023

Strengthening The Cultural Heritage- Leveraging The Power of Retrospect

Strengthening The Cultural Heritage- Leveraging The Power of Retrospect

The prefix retro- means “back," and spect is a component of the words inspect, spectator, spectacles, and perspective, among others, which all have to do with looking or seeing. So it makes sense that retrospect means to look back in time or to remember.

Retrospect - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com

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Retrospect is a powerful tool for drawing ene²s22²²222bb2b2b2b2bbb2b22r2b22222r222r²r2²22222²²2222222222222222222222222222222222222222bbbbbbɓb2be11111111111111111111b111r1111111b11bbbbb1b111bbbb1b1111b11reb11r11111111¹11¹¹11eee1¹1ffg1f1¹¹1zzz1¹¹gg1g1¹¹11¹g1¹ĝgggggggggggggggggggggggrgy from some past experiences or from stories or from the news or from history or mentors, to fuel transformation or work for a better future.

However, this powerful tool is fast becoming unpopular and no thanks to the invasion of social media.

It's becoming more and more convincing that social media has its ultimate agenda; to de-emphasize African Culture and push Western ideologies.

We have also helped the agenda by buying into the pay-tv culture and our children have been drawn away from everything African to embrace everything Western and to be exact, everything American.

Ask your wards if they know a program called "Tales By Moonlight" or Shows like “Speak Out” and “Storyline,” which aired on Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), taught essential life skills to children via stories.

These programs drew from retrospect and built subconsciously and shaped our love for traditional values of family ties, family loyalty, respect for seniors and elders, and collaborative efforts in family members’ economic development.

We have almost completely lost our collectivist ideologies and fast embracing the American individualistic ways of life, which is responsible for their high level of victims of loneliness and depression.

I am also guilty or shall I say, I am a victim of embracing the American ways to the point, I do not think any more in my local dialect.

I am a victim because, even though i grew up in the village, I had embraced the American ways as far back as 1978, with so much access to the TV when i was seven, watching King Kong Cartoon, Big Foot & Wise Boy, Charlie’s Angel, Hawaii 5'o, The Invisible man and many others. And in music, the likes of Michael Jackson were my favorites; everything local TV contents were secondary or watched because other viewers in the family prevailed on the choice of what to watch. But i still had the floor from 10 pm till when all the stations signed off at midnight, switching from one movie to another; all American or European. I had clearly preferred their ways to the ways of the village to the point, i could not proficiently speak my dialect then and even now.

I grew up having more American (individualistic culture) than that of a typical traditional Yoruba man and still having difficulty selling my Yoruba values to my children.

I am very sure that if i had my ways in the 90s, i would have relocated and found more alignment in the American environment and chances are that i may never return, which is true of many that fell victim to my era.

The American cultural invasion agents; subtly and powerfully altogether, sold their history and values to my generation so well that our parents did not see them coming.


We need to salvage what is left of our children being sold the Western ways and make a deliberate effort to teach them our traditional values of family ties and loyalty.

Deliberately, go on a retrospective journey with the children or find people who can; tell our own stories. Catch fun speaking your dialect with them and pay less attention to the flaws, knowing proficiency comes with continual practice.

Find on YouTube, documentaries of our rich culture and get them to watch with you.

Many of our children, may never return to their root countries, not because of economic issues but because there is no traditional tie.

Family Ties strengthen Cultural Legacy; once we lose the tie, we lose the hold of culture. We must strengthen our resolve to build family ties, take measures that focus on cultural awareness, and use the power of retrospect to forge ahead.

Government must see this as a nationwide crisis; cultural erosion across the nation through the media and create policies that will strengthen cultural awareness.

To be continued...Hiworks

The Dynamics of Winning War in Every Battle

Every War is ideological, a cause to an end and every battle is a mission and a struggle to prosecute the war, to defend the ideology, that may be perceived reasonable or senseless by the majority of people or nations.

War is not a show of physical strength but ideological strength. Battle is one of those means to achieving the war and does not have to be some combat or physical escapades.Battles may also find expression through authoritarianism.

War may be lost even when a battle is won and war may be won when the battle is lost.

The war must be at the centre of focus for strategic planning, and the battle must be evaluated as a measure of the success of the ideology.

This is why in war, negotiation doors are open for all the parties to seek redress away from the confrontations or combats and in many cases, wars are won on those tables irrespective of who is better equipped for the battle. 

Divorce is the outcome of failure of war fought for marital success, and it is widely prosecuted on unreconcilable differences.Most times, those are the differences we vowed to continually reconcile and the couple must be willing to win and also loose many battles to win the marital war. Winning and losing must be anticipated by Husbands and wives for the marriage to work. I know this is scratching the surface of that discussion. 

Unruly children are most times the result of failure of war fought for parental success, but n some exceptional cases, there was no war at all, as children were allowed to grow their prodigality uncharted and unregulated.

When we allow or raise children from infant to teenagers to have everything they want because we want to pressure them and not hurt them, it is prodigals and rebels that will evolve. 

Uncharted and unregulated children will become rebels, except God decides to handle the matter
, especially in very rare cases. Such children will never be grateful to such regrettable parenting.

Parenting is the process of charting and regulating the course children must follow because, as a parent with the blessing of hindsight, you are expected to know how to lead your wards through the journey to adulthood

The WAR is to help the children become responsible adults, and the battle is to enforce the stringent rules along the charted part with all the associated pains of leadership. Hiworks


Sunday 10 September 2023

WHAT SUCCESS IS NOT PART 1

WHAT SUCCESS IS NOT 1

 Success is not ......when you see or live to see your goal  succeed. Success is not a destination but a Spirited Victorious attitude.

 Success is winning ways finding expression.

 It is a never giving up attitude on a course one has found to be worth living for, irrespective of numerous failures and oppositions within and without. 

Success  makes heroes of them who never lived to see their dream, having failed many times or retired by aging and health realities or silenced by opposition  but such lit unquenchable fire of desire for the course such believed on for others to run with until THE DREAM IS THE REALITY. 

Every American that died for the liberation of the blacks before and after Martin Luther King Jn are as much heroes  as Martin Luther King Jn even though never lived to see Barrack Obama as the first Black African American  President.

 Nelson Mandela is as much a hero as every South Africans that died during the struggle. When corporate bodies are starting out they put up a mission statement and a vision statement....to be a successful....... and everyday engagement is an investment into that call upon everyone in such corporation.

 It is very possible that the founder may never live to see the mission statement realized but as long as every day input is in that course, philosophically,  the founder is a success.

 Eventually, when the goal is realized, sustainability is also on the winning ways. 

What defines a successful person is not how many times he succeeded, but his Endless Disposition to continue to Risk the Possibility of Failure, in his Quest to Succeed. 

Success believes all things are possible. 

Success is a state of the mind that inspires one to go on and try again and again no matter how many times one has failed. 

Success is not a destination but a Spirited Victorious attitude. 
Success  not a chance Opportunity. 
Success is not luck.
 Success is not money. Money is a derivative of success. 
Success is not genetic 
Success is not a given 
Success is not evil 
Success is not to be feared 
Success is not fate 
Success is not synonimous with estate or acquisition 
Success is not Accidental 
Success is not Abusive 
Success is not a destination
 Success is not proud 
Auccess is not envious 
Success is not over bearing 
Success is not oppressive 
Success is not a position 
Success is not education 
Success is not knowledge
 Success is not wisdom
 Success is not understanding 
Success is not selfish 
Success is not political power
 Success is not in competition 
Success is not afraid of failure 
Success is not favourable to gender or marital status 
Success is not externally influenced by weather, economic prevalence, government policies etc 
Success is not favorable to family history Success is not stagnant
 Success is not disorderly 

Again, this is Success

Success believes all things are possible. 

Success is a state of the mind that inspires one to go on and try again and again no matter how many times one has failed. 

Success is a Spirited Victorious attitude. 

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