Inspiration

Is Your Mind a Creator or a Destroyer?
Have you ever paused to reflect on the incredible power that resides within the confines of your skull? The human mind, a universe unto itself, possesses a remarkable ability to shape the world around us.
By Jassila 2 years ago in Writers
Prefects Board Mentorship and Career Chat project underway in Juba and Kajokeji
Author: Emmanuel Bida | [email protected] Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) commenced a prefectural board mentorship program and career chat sessions on Monday last week in four Juba-based schools and one Kajokeji county-based school in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State.
By Excellence Foundation for South Sudan2 years ago in Writers
Inspired by art
In need of ideas to boost your next short story, poem or novel? Why not go take a look at some art? Visit an art gallery, look at some online images, or generate your own using an AI tool. Here, I suggest some ways of seeking inspiration in art works and provide some example paintings and sculpture to help.
By Raymond G. Taylor2 years ago in Writers
WWF, EFSS discuss introducing essay category in the Juba Schools Mini Competition
Author: Emmanuel Bida | [email protected] In a meeting held on Friday, 26th July 2024, the Writers Writing Fellowship (WWF) Executive Director, Alith Cyer Mayar and Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) Program Manager, Emmanuel Bida explored how best the two organisations can incorporate an essay writing segment in the Juba Schools Mini Competition that already has a Spelling Bee, Speed Challenge Quiz, Speech and Academic Debate – starting with primary schools in September this year.
By Excellence Foundation for South Sudan2 years ago in Writers
Toxic Environment At Work
“Kick me, kike me; Don’t you black or white me; All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us” — Michael Jackson Positive work culture? Or compensational pre-conditioning to support the intricate facade of pre-set heavily role-modelled organizational tones and behaviors? So much so that a company I once worked for blindly modelled a healthy growing business ideology of self to the very end. The end in this case was defined as involuntary administration with millions of dollars of investor money wiped out.
By Narghiza Ergashova2 years ago in Writers
Chatter vs. Silence
Ever find yourself caught in the crossfire between the incessant chatter and the profound silence that surround us? Well, you're not alone.
By Jassila 2 years ago in Writers
Chevening Scholarship mentorship program breeds success with nine awardees
Author: Emmanuel Bida | [email protected] In collaboration with the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS), five past recipients of the prestigious Chevening Scholarship initiated a mentorship program in 2023 to assist interested applicants in navigating the highly competitive scholarship application and interview process.
By Excellence Foundation for South Sudan2 years ago in Writers
Addicted to Nonets
I got addicted to nonets, people! They bring out so much creativity, and there is so much flexibility in those rigid rules. I know, a paradox in itself, but still cathartic. I never thought I would dream of writing them and then wake up in the morning, make my coffee, unbothered that my youngest woke up again at 8:00 on a Sunday (that's better than 5am, so I am grateful for it).
By Gabriela Trofin-Tatár2 years ago in Writers
Ready To Get Better At Writing?
1, 2, 3… START writing. The first step in getting better at anything is to start. This advice is true no matter the career or discipline. This is especially true when you want to become a writer.
By Andriika Clark-Lewis2 years ago in Writers
EFSS provides adjudication support to inter-university debates in Juba
Author: Emmanuel Bida | [email protected] A team of three adjudicators and a time manager sourced by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) have concluded support to Advance South Sudan and UNDP in an inter-university debate as part of a transitional justice awareness project pushing for Chapter V of the Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (ARCISS) in Juba this week.
By Excellence Foundation for South Sudan2 years ago in Writers
A reminder to me on my recent achievement
Life has its ways of teaching you important lessons. Everything that happens in our existence strides its convoluted intersectionality with a purpose, a purpose that in its divinity has an impactful metamorphosis in our reality. How little do we know about what is about to come when we so confoundingly announce that I know this is how my life would turn out to be. In its own magnanimous and unexpected ways, you would get to what you deserve rather than what you want in most anomalies that our choices create. Whether we get what we want or face a delay or rejection, every event is a rendered outcome of the myriad of choices we chose and how divine intervention in its beauty shielded us from the things that could have destroyed us.
By Hridya Sharma2 years ago in Writers
Picking Up Trash
It's funny, the simple signs that reveal the state of our mental health. For me, it's picking up trash on my walks. It took me a long time to notice this particular pattern, but with the incessant amounts of trash on the road, I had plenty of time to unfurl its significance. I think the meditative act of walking helped me to slow down (metaphorically) and tune into this inner voice.
By Cassie G2 years ago in Writers