Adulting Like a Boss!

 The book of Proverbs chapter 27 verse 9 says; "Just as lotions and fragrance give sensual delight, a sweet friendship refreshes the soul." MSG. Don't you just love it when one of your good friends comes by and the two of you have a laughter festival all day long? I live for those moments. Healthy relationships are a good breeding ground for your mental wellbeing. One of the things that you can do in order to manage stress is to become very intentional about your relationships. I encourage you to take inventory of your interpersonal relationships. Are they healthy and wholesome or do they harbor any traces of toxicity that need to be dealt with and/or gotten rid of? How is your relationship with the people closest you? Your spouse or significant? Your family? Your friends? How do you relate with your co-workers? Your schoolmates? Have you set healthy boundaries within these relationships? Are you and the people you're involved with being of benefit to each other or ar...

*sings in ABBA: Money! Money! Money! Must be funny! In a rich man's world! Lol... Hello! And welcome to this fifth episode of the 'Adulting Like A Boss' blog series. Today's post features my girl, Namoonga Hamapande! Namoonga is our resident financial literacy guru/business tycoon/medical student boss babe! And today, she's here to share the knowledge that has been acquiring on her journey to financial independence. So let's give a round of applause to my girl, Namoonga Hamapande!    *Ms Hamapande writes:  Hello from a Zambian university student, giving a quarter fraction of her experience with money.  Firstly, i'd like to begin by discussing the state that majority of Zambian youths are currently in, when it comes to their finances. I view our country as one with many resources and highly intelligent citizens and yet, the majority are in debt. Around the ages 18 to 24, most of us would have accumulated about K100 000 debt, owing to student loan acquisition....

At one point or another, life is going to get hard. We live in a fallen world so there is no way that life can be rosie all the time.  When the tough times hit, you and I are bound to turn to something to help us cope. The question is; What will we turn to?  Developing healthy coping mechanisms is essential for managing difficult emotions and stressful situations. Adopting maladaptive coping strategies, such as alcohol and drug abuse, is of no benefit to you as it only adds to your already existing problems. Therefore, developing sound strategies to handle the pressures of life is imperative. That being said, here are some tips to help you develop healthy coping mechanisms: Identify your triggers: Take some time to think about what situations or emotions cause you to become overwhelmed. Once you understand your triggers, you can start to plan ahead and create strategies to help you cope.  Practice deep breathing:  Deep breathing can be a great way to calm your mind a...

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Everybody has "those days". The days when almost everything seems to be going wrong. The days when you don't quite understand what the problem is.  Fear and anxiety creep up on you and choke every bit of faith you had left over.  Adversity can ravage your life and leave you broken. In those trying times, it's easy for you to begin doubting the goodness of God. 'I mean, if there is a good God out there somewhere, why would he allow something as tragic as this to happen?' - you may think.  In other instances, you could even begin to think that God has changed His mind about you. Like His good plan for your life has ceased or has been thwarted. But all of these doubts are far from the truth.  Just because unpleasant circumstances have taken place in your life doesn't mean God has changed. The adversities we exeperience in life do not render God a bad God. They don't render Him mean or unkind or even unloving. He is still good. His plan for your life is st...

And He will be the stability of  your times, abundance of salvation,  wisdom and knowledge; the  fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.                                              ISAIAH 33:6 ESV I wish someone told me that transitioning into adulthood would be a huge milestone in my life. Twevle plus years of studying in school but not a single lesson about the shift that takes place when one transitions from being a kid to being a bonafide adult. I suppose that some lessons are best learnt in the school of life. Like I stated in my introduction to this series, the reality that I am now an adult only dawned on me recently. And as you'd imagine, I was not prepared for this thing called 'Adulting' at all. Sure, I had fantasies about what my life as a young adult would be like. More specifically, what my life as a university student would be like. I envisioned...