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 Have you ever thought of carrying out a particular project or task, and everything seems muddled up? Or you don't even know which point to start. There will always be a better way to start and time to commence any task ahead of you. Work Breakdown Structure is the tool used to sort project milestones and tasks in the other they need to be completed (emphasis on the 'order')  Creating a work Breakdown structure involves  - Creating a tree diagram of Project tasks - Assigning task between two or more team member For example:- Project; Structure for Project Plant pals website launch.  A.- Secure design approval             -Mocking up design  -collecting feedback  B. Develop website  C. Implement user feedback  You can create a sample yourself of a particular project you have in mind. #ProjectManagement #ProjectManagementTips #WorkBreakdownStructure #Day4 #TGP

 Kamsi; my sister registered for that exam just the same time her friend did. Most of her friends were scheduled to write the exams before her. I've always told Kamsi not to get herself worried about the whole exam stuff but she should just try her best and keep studying hard.  A day to her exams, she checked up on her friends that wrote the exam a day before, and the report they gave her was sounding so scary.  One of her friend said, the questions were too hard, I couldn't even finish the exam, the other said; 'reading is just a scam, this exam is just a trap'. Kamsi on the other end became very anxious and so worried if all she read will ever come out as part of the exam questions. Now, the D-Day is here, she mustered up courage, she entered into the exam hall, prayed and started. The first five questions she couldn't solve them, she got overwhelmed and suppressed by the fear of failing, as she remembered what her friend's report was. She was in that state fo...

 Speaking of serious girls in my school during my Senior secondary school education, I was definitely top on the list.  Of course, I was that girl who didn't take shit, I had one business which was 'minding my business like no man's business'😂. If it wasn't  about Academics, it's certainly about Jesus; to be precise, I'm a big fan of being in the classroom and four walls of the Fellowship. You should know how these mixed school roll now, the whole  gists about girlfriend and boyfriend were always flying around in the College, especially schools with Boarding Houses. However, I simply chose to turn deaf ears to anything about any subject matter that didn't add value to me. Not until a certain moment in my life I realized the thoughts of exploring had been lurking in the corner of my heart. Fast-forward, after secondary school, I felt I was overly ready to find love, at least someone to call 'mine'. I know it's so much funny right , but don...

 They succeed because they think they can ~ Virgil On today's enlightenment session, I will give a practical and relatable explanation about Project Milestone. It's an important part within the project schedule that indicates the progress and signifies the completion of  deliverables or phase of a project. In simpler terms, Project Milestone is the step-by-step action taken to achieve a set goal. For example; As a Program intern planning a particular event. Some of my milestone will be  -Project approval -Planning -Funding/Budgeting  This milestone keeps me in check in knowing what I have worked on and what I need to work upon. Milestone serves as a great check in point to highlight your progress to stakeholders. Your project will come out excellently well and it's definitely going to be a success! So, I want you to think of a Project you have ahead of you, then think through of what your milestones will be, drop that in the comment session for me to know you've gott...

 It's possible to do great things from a small place ~ anonymous  If you will agree with me, most of the great things we've set our heart to do is greatly lurked in doing small things bit by bit. Yes, my LinkedIn family, this is me trying to stay accountable here and this is surely a transformative process of learning, unlearning and relearning and of course a relatable one at that. It's a step at a time. So, let's dive into some knowledge about Project Management.  From the definition of a project; A project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result! Talking about Overcoming Planning fallacy in project management!  Planning fallacy is simply the tendency to underestimate the amount of time it will take to complete a task, as well as the costs and risks associated with that task due to optimism bias.  Optimism Bias is when a person/project manager/team believes that they are likely to experience a negative event. As a proj...

 The Power of Name  _(...a clean slate to work upon)_ Have you ever imagined a world without names attributed to everything in it? A confused place it would be. Naming a thing, you need to be confident in yourself, that you have been given the capacity to name it. Once the confidence is gone, you can never be confident in presenting the name to others. When a baby is born, the parent are in the utmost capacity to name the baby, One of the point I am driving at is the fact that, you need to man your position to Call things as God has placed them in your mind. Back to dream, purpose and vision. God has given you the capacity to see beyond. You are in the best position to tell your dream to the world, while we follow closely and see how we can contribute to making your dream come to reality. You must name it first, You must see it first, You must work on it first, You must believe in it first, You must take the action first, Then we all follow. It is possible to do great things f...

 My Treasure!  I never knew, It never occured to me, I am so much entangled with it, It's thought alone give me Joy, If only I could wrap my hands around it, Imaginations overflow Heart flooded with fantasies, But yet, I will never admit my heart is so much cling to it, On a fateful day, Trying to play the game, Game that makes way for my pain, I never knew I couldn't survive a minute without my It, My heart cringed, Just like a fringe  Couldn't move an inch, What a great relieve, Until I found it again, My heart experienced Peace! Determined to stay connected, Not giving a damn to being divided, Structured to be elevated, With only it's help, My Treasure can be God, Family, Value, Spouse, Career, Worth, Treating them with utmost importance makes you rise, I owe it all to where it is, Now convinced,  Where my Treasure is,  My Heart lives there. (Luke 12:34)🌹🌹 © TheGracedPen'24

 There is no point in Starting now I won't apologize for saying that, I am boldly telling you, "there's no point in Starting now"  After all, you feel there's no point in Starting now since You don't have all resources needed,  You don't have it all figured out,  You don't have people to applaud the bold steps you have been taking for a while now,  You don't have any sponsors,  You don't have anyone to call your family,  You don't have whom to call your own,  You don't have the drive,  You don't have the ........ (fill in this yourself). I am here to negate that same fact, by telling you, there are more reasons to start out now.  The best time to ever start is now, because starting is just the best.  You can never finish a thing without starting it in the first instance. I know there are lot of limiting factor like written earlier, but start from where you are,  Start with what you have,  Start with whom you have,  St...

  As She lay there, gazing painfully at her helpless body, struggling to make her voice heard, surrounded by a deafening silence with no one in sight to offer assistance, uncertainty swirled around her like a thick fog. It was a truly harrowing sight for her. And that lady was me. The year 2023 stretched endlessly before me, filled with challenges and uncertainties. I can only imagine your experiences unless, of course, you'd care to share them with me by replying to this email. Even though it was a whirlwind of a year, marked by milestones such as completing my college education, and embarking on my national service journey. Amidst it all, numerous moments of growth and introspection unfolded. Family, friends, and acquaintances gazed upon me with outstretched arms, offering assistance and support. Yet, I found myself caught in a web of indecision, uncertain of whether I could reclaim my life and sanity once consciousness returned. It was a struggle against the notion of being ...

  "Don't ever become your prisoner of a preconceived plan" It's all about writing well. All writing is ultimately a question of solving problem. Unity is the anchor of good writing. Unity satisfies the readers subconscious need for order and reassures them that all is well at the helm. Before writing, you plan by asking yourself questions;  how do you want to address the reader? As a reporter, Provider of information.. What style do you want to use? Personal but formal, personal and casual... There must be; Unity of pronoun Unity of tense. (present/past tense; pick a tense that will be uniform throughout the writing Unity of mood (casual or formal) Writing is no respecter of blueprints. If you feel your writing isn't flowing with the thoughts you have envisioned earlier before starting, you can always make repairs. Go back to the beginning and rewrite, so that your style and mood will be consistent from start to finish. Book Title: On writing well Ch...

  "The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead."  It's all about writing well.  Language is a fabric that changes from one week to another, adding new strands and dropping old ones. The usage of words are so important because Incorrect usage will lose you the readers you would most like to win. There's a difference between good and technical English. Good English means Good usage and Good usage means good words.  Book Title: On writing well Chapter: Seven (Usage ) Author: Williams Zinsser Connectivity in writing matters! I'm sure you got value for your time. See you in the next chapter. Review: TheGracedPen'23

  "You will never make a mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words or curiousity"  It's all about writing well.  Learn to use them with originality and care. Avoid mixture of cheap words, made up words and cliches. If you don't, you will sound like every hack. Care deeply about your words. The race in writing isn't to the swift but to the original.  writing is learnt by Imitation, reading other people work. The kind of writing that might be called Journalese ; "the death of freshness in anybody's style". If you words/sentences are moving in same boring tune and sounding like dead (this happens when you aren't just feeling your lines); you can have variety of words by reversing the order of a sentence and substituting a word that has freshness. As thesaurus is to writer, rhyming dictionary is to songwriters.  Book Title: On writing well Chapter: Six (Words ) Author: Williams Zinsser The use of words makes up a good writing! I'm s...

  "Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Re-examine each sentence you put on paper". It's all about writing well. Fighting clutters is like fighting weeds. Beware of (those) long words, that's no better than the short words. Beware of long words, that's no better than the short words. (Rephrased - 'those' removed). Up there is a simple example of a clutter. Clutter is a laborious phrase that has pushed out the short word that means same thing. Use: 'free' instead of 'free up'          'because' instead of 'due to the fact that'          'now' instead of 'at this point in time. Keep decluttering your sentences, till it comes out excellent. Book Title: On writing well Chapter: Three (Clutter) Author: Williams Zinsser What's your style of writing; if I may ask? I'm sure you got value for your time. See you in the next chapter. Review: TheGracedPen'23 #writingcommunity #writers ...

  "Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without each other". It's all about writing well. Writing is hardwork and a clear sentence is no accident. Clutter is a disease in American writing. As a writer you learn to keep eliminating those element in a sentence/your writing that is doing no useful work. What weakens the strength of a sentence are words with no function or a passive construction of words. The Reader who is an Elusive creature is a person assailed by many forces (TV, Radio, mails, social media in general) competing for attention. As a writer, for you to be on track and not be lost in weaving your words together without any connectivity, keep asking yourself "what am I trying to say?, have I said it? Simplify till you can simplify no more (smiles). Book Title: On writing well Chapter: Two  (Simplicity) Author: Williams Zinsser This is just the starting point darling, get your jotter and pen, Get the full sweetness of the bo...

  "Good writing has an aliveness that keeps the reader reading from one paragraph to the next" It's all about writing well. Ayodeji Awosika in his usual newsletter he sends daily just to making sure all writers thrive in their various niche; mentioned how this particular book has blessed him. Thanks to Him, he didn't hoard the author's name and book title. It's a book with 24 Chapters. This review isn't a planned one, its meant to keep my self on track, those willing to improve their writing craft and to help those who are jumping on the pages of this book anytime  soon, giving them insights as to what they will definitely come across. Each chapter will be as brief as possible. Writing is putting ones thought on paper at the same time communicating with others. Writing is a craft, because you need to keep working on it, till you become perfect. A man that runs away from his craft because he lacks inspiration is fooling himself. If your job is writin...

 Before Serving my fathe💚r's Land Hi, LinkedIn families, trust you all are doing great? Just a brief update about the things that helped me between the period of being done in University and waiting for Service towards my father Land. I am sure it will help someone out there. Finishing the journey of four years course is actually a big deal for me, it wasn't a bread and butter thing. Sometimes you just feel discouraged to continue, but then you keep reminding yourself the reason why you started in the first place . Today isn't for my undergraduate Journey. I was thinking Life after school, hope there wont be too much pressure? Hope everything will just go on as planned? At a point, I felt let me just be done and start planning. I planned the plan I can plan, but I felt the plan wasn't planning at all, lol, because Some plans didn't work out, while some did. I wasn't discouraged, I always pick my self up after any challenges, of course, if I don't who will? ...

  ✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️ Lessons Learnt here * Stay away from toxic or abusive relationship. * Open up to someone. * Be spiritual. * Never let any challenges take you away from God. * Anyone can make mistakes, just make amend before it's too late. * God can come for anyone at anytime, transformation can happen in a jiffy. * Forgive yourself and move on from the past pains. * Forgive each other while you can still do that on earth. * Love genuinely. * Have good people around that can stand with you in your trying times. * Learn the act of journaling what God is telling you. Kindly drop your lessons learnt too. 💌🥂 © Movie Review: The_gracedpen'23 (https://graced-pen.blogspot.com) Movie title: Still Falling 

 She heard a knock. Opening the door, she thought it was her mom. Alas, it was her boyfriend. She was shocked to see him and happy at the same time. They both sat down and spoke up that He was so sorry, he didn't mean to hurt her in the past. She said She has forgiven Him that she loves Him so much. She said they can continue from where they stopped. He said he is happy to hear that He has been forgiven that he can now rest well. She seemed not to understand his statement. He said he is thirsty, she went into the kitchen to bring him water. Before she came back to the living room. He disappeared already. It was his spirit obviously. He left a pendant of a gold aeroplane on the chair. She was confused looking for Him in the room. She couldn't find anyone. She heard a knock at her door. It was her friend who forgot her keys and came to pick it up. She asked her friend of her boyfriend missing. Her friend reminded her, that he is dead. She screamed and passed out. His burial was d...

 Still falling 5 🤱🤱🤱🤱🤱 Her mother found her diary of where she wrote all about her past. She was pained for not being sensitive enough as a mother. She approached her to tell her God still loves her. She told her the mind of God in Joel 2: 23,24,25, 26. She read it to her hearing. Tears started rolling down her cheeks it was as if something struck her heart. She rushed in to carry her diary. She opened that page, when God gave her a message 7years ago, when her boyfriend was maltreating her and left her with no goodbyes. She was given the same scriptures by God! [23]Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. [24]And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil. [25]And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller...

 Still falling 4 👩‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓The Ordination day. One of the pastor came in to see His father. He was in a hurry to show his father some pictures. Seeing the pictures, his father was taken aback with his heart broken. He felt how could his son be in that immoral picture. His pictures was captured in a bad state frolicking in between two ladies dressed indecently. In no time, the journalists came around to the church, requesting that his father comes out to answer their questions. The pictures and videos got leaked and went viral on the internet. The ordination was cancelled. Headlines in the next day newspaper as the son of the world wide known church caught fornicating with prostitutes. He was defeated. She summoned a meeting to his face at the restaurant. She blasted and made mockery of Him. She said, so you can be defeated?  She said she wanted him to have a piece of flesh of the damages he caused to her life 7years ago. She said does he thinks he can go Scot free an...