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It was all love and games, till it wasn’t.

If you don’t really understand what’s going on, ask Gerald. by @md.adetayo

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a month ago

Beat your kids guys.

I listen and reminisce on stories of my chef and I’s childhoods, and I tell you, if we weren’t disciplined (beaten), we may not be what we are today.

The man he is, that a lot of you look up to, used to skip school to go to a games center. Imagine if after every time he did this, he was given lecture, reasoned with, the virtues that consequence births would be far from him.

There were morning devotions that I refused to sing and clap because “I didn’t feel like” and one of them my sister decided enough was enough. Taught me of the Lord that morning with one of those slaps that made everywhere go silent. Slap so loud my mother came out of her room, saw the recipient, decided it was well deserved, and shut the door. Guess who started leading devotion after this?

All I’m saying is, we’re experiencing a heavy decline in restrain and shame because we’ve stopped disciplining kids. We can complain all we want but they were raised by someone.

A child is wilding out as a toddler and you say he’ll out grow it, how? If he is not taught restrain? You can’t “reason” with a human whose frontal lobe is far from being properly developed. A lot of the lessons we were taught as kids only begin to make sense in retrospect. But if you’ve never put them through the hard lessons of punishment they won’t even have the follow through for it to manifest.

Spare the ROD not text-to-speech or whatever “gentle”parents are doing, “gentle” in quotes, because we’ve devised another label and overdone it. Again.

Beat. Yo. Kids.

Selah. by @md.adetayo

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2 months ago

“Follow who know road”

Started playing this game Gecko Out to destress until it started stressing me out (still on it by the way). Got to a level I just couldn’t get past so went to YouTube to find a cheat video. First video I found had an even more difficult solution than the path I was on. Stayed stuck for almost 3 days.

After almost deleting the game, I realized there would be more than one person that had solved it and so I checked for another video. It was wayyy easier!

This is the entire purpose of the project I recently became the Creative Director of, Thrive Not Survive with EO podcast @tnswitheo

Every guest is a version of who you’d like to be and/or the path you’re trying find. They’ve worked out the solutions and TNSWithEO has documented it so you can watch and pass through the stages a little faster.

The person I’m following (he knows road like mad!) is the most recent guest on the podcast and if you’re experiencing the tough hand this economy has dealt us, you should watch it.

It’s not a sweet inspire to perspire episode, but it will make you introspect. Link in @tnswitheo’s bio

📷 @solomon.isang by @md.adetayo

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3 months ago

The hardest thing.
Full read on the blog. #linkinbio

It’s a hard thing to give yourself to failure. To go head first in to what your whole being is telling you is bad decision and do it anyway? Strong move.

But it’s a muscle you have to strengthen and you must if you want to see a difference in your life. Because “you can’t put new wine in old wine skin, the skin will burst and its resources will be lost”.

Try the new. Bag the better.
#ThornedSheets by @md.adetayo

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4 months ago

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5 months ago

We’ve been told over and over again “don’t stop” “keep going” “push through”, and it seems to get harder everyday. But one thing that’s even harder is staying the same (cue Titilope’s 10 things)

And as you evolve, don’t allow pressure, softness of heart, people pleasing, to sway you from what you should be known for. What you are building. Don’t put your hands on just anything.

Because you want it to be that as you keep showing up, you do so well. And one day, it will all start to make sense.

A person came that comes to mind thinking of this is @12th_thecreator, he’s doing awesome work, really awesome work. by @md.adetayo

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5 months ago

Making it out of the archives
Dec ‘25 - Apr ‘26 by @md.adetayo

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6 months ago

Deciding to write for pleasure again, and I think you should read them too… or not. Whatever.

There’s a link in our bio.
#ThornedSheets by @md.adetayo

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7 months ago

Laugh guys, laugh out loud!

Fun fact: there are very few things that make me laugh and get me to show genuine excitement.

Excitement was something I learned because people need the reaction.

Then came my babies. And anytime I need joy, I go to their caretakers houses. The littlest things make them laugh, and they do it with such reckless abandon.

Last December, I made it my mission to be like that. Find joy in every and any thing. And it’s been life changing. I don’t get as many mood swings and my relationships seem a whole lighter.

There’s no pressure to perform.

These days, there’s just laughter… by @md.adetayo

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8 months ago

8-5 comrades, how are you doing?
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Becoming is a hard thing to do
It may seem an easy, natural occurrence that the caterpillar crawls in to become a pupa
But do you understand what it means to have lived crawling about in freedom and then be tied up because that’s the only way to get to the next stage?
Do you think he sits and embraces the “bondage”?
But it happens anyway
It is necessary that it happens

But if that pupa is broken before time
And if he then gets comfortable in the cocoon
And doesn’t fight to break free at the right time

The butterfly never becomes…

We said this prayer when I was in high school and everyday its meaning becomes clearer, “May I be in the right place at the right time and for the right purpose”. by @md.adetayo

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9 months ago

Somebody’s baby…

I forgot I’m no longer hoarding pictures. So here you go guys!
📷 Somebody 🌚 by @md.adetayo

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10 months ago

by @md.adetayo

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10 months ago