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I LEAD- Are you a leader?

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iLEAD is an exciting series on Leadership. This series will help unpack different perceptions on leadership and help unlock the leader within. Topics to look out for are Qualities of a leader, Leadership models, Leadership philosophies, Personal mastery, Emotional intelligence, Networking strategies, and many more. To get the most out of this series, be sure to tune into the OTS with Juliana podcast . Subscribe to get latest updates on this series. Enjoy! Are you a leader? I am not quite sure when l became an actual leader. It is only now that l identify myself as a global leader because someone told me that it suits me(chuckle). Over the years l have noticed that people start behaving as leaders when they are given a certain task or role by someone. It is more like being handed a jacket. The jacket becomes the leadership role you are taking up. You put it on with so much pride and happiness knowing that you have been honoured by being handed the jacket of leadership. But ...
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DO MORE!

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Kindness. It’s like walking with a plastic bag filled with water. A sharp thorn pricks the bag and small droplets of water drip from it forming a trail right behind you. 7.7+ billion people in the world. 7.7+ billion human hearts beating each second and over 8.7 million species on Earth, each carrying a gallon of affection, tenderness and concern for one another. Each day brings to us chances and opportunities to prick our gallons of kindness and make an impact in people’s lives, leaving them smiling. Thorns (people’s call for aid, assistance and support) prick us every moment of our lives but our response is determined by the thickness of our ‘plastic bags’- our ability and willingness to respond to nature’s call for help. 86 400 seconds in a day and we give ‘lack of time’ as a reason to not lend a helping hand to the disabled lady singing her lungs out, begging for food in the streets or the young teenager who has lost his bus fare to a robber. We give ‘lack of resources’ as j...
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Why I would travel back in Time-SDG 3

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It’s still as small as a grain of sand, yet has a great impact on mankind. It was meant to be sweet yet it has suddenly turned sour. It was once the best thing that was discovered by Asians but has become the source of illness for over 425 million people in the world. Everyone seems to like it, but l can no longer stand the taste of it. We have all consumed gallons of it, but it is only a matter of time till we face the consequences. I would travel back in time to stop the Refinement of sugar. I used to blame the Asians for discovering sugarcane. I mean, who would have thought that tall, fibrous grass, the world’s largest crop by production quantity that produces the sugar, would have caused diabetes (one of the lead causes of death in the world). However, after devoting seven years of my life towards studying sugar, l realised that the discovery of it wasn’t a problem but those who started it’s refinement about the year 1500 laid the foundation of suffering for most sugar consumer...
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