Toks Aruoture | Entrepreneur, Speaker & Business Strategist

Acid Test: Analyse your thoughts and change the direction of your life

A couple of weeks ago I was having a discussion with someone, and I could feel a sense of irritation welling up within me. There was no need for the irritation- how did I know? Because I have a habit of zooming out to watch myself without emotion- I believe that’s the only way you can truly see what you’re up to.

Be Unapologetic: A short guide to living from your inside out

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My buzz word this season is ‘Unapologetic.’ Being a recovered people-pleaser, the last few years have been about peeling back the layers of other people’s expectation of me and discarding them. The process of removing wrong beliefs and expectations has been a long and occasionally painful one, you don’t get to peel off old stuff […]

Control your mind to control your life

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Did you know that your thoughts lead to action? And if we want to decide the direction that our lives take, we must first take control of our mind? The actual order is thoughts >> feelings >> action>> result. We take action (or inaction) based on what we feel. A friend sent me a flyer […]

Every Little Step

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Can you even believe we are in November?? In recent times I have become mindful of the passage of time. It’s not that I feel I don’t have enough time, you know, that feeling we collectively share of being left behind. That’s not it. Instead, I keep running into reminders of the finite quality of […]

Gaining Wisdom From Life’s Experiences

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Do you collect nuggets of wisdom as you journey on your path? My friend was going through a complicated domestic issue and she boiled down her options to two. She asked me to give her what I’d assumed was my opinion. It turned out that she wanted more than my opinion. She wanted me to […]

Other People’s Opinion: Who is writing your life’s script?

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If there is one topic I am sensitive to, it is dealing with other people’s opinion. Perhaps because I offered myself up as a victim for years. I would ask a view from a friend on something I wanted to do, and their response only sought to confuse or paralyse me.  Lisa Price sold her […]