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Q For Quarantine

Q For Quarantine.   This word has been used so much over the last three months it is almost a household name now. As a matter of fact, I won’t be surprised if nine months from now we have some kids with first name Quarantine.     According to my usual online dictionary, the word…
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Which Dog Is Fed?

There’s this story that goes something like this.... There was this man in a far away land. In this land, they used to enjoy dog fights, just like in some parts of east Africa people enjoy bull-fights. Whenever there was a fight, the man would go in early and bet on one of the two dogs in the fight…
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Listening To The Unspoken Message

Let’s talk about “Listening”. This week I had the opportunity to speak to a group of over 150 youths about Using The Power Of Networking To Grow Your Business.  As I was preparing my presentation, the one thing that stood out so clearly is that networking is all about “listening to…
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Resist And It Will Desist

Last week I introduced the issue of self-esteem and self-confidence right here on this column, something I continued talking about for the rest of the week on my Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. The truth is, there is no easy way of confronting self-esteem issues…
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Sheer Determination

Last week I had an encounter I had not expected or even imagined happening. It was an encounter that left me incapacitated for the whole week and actually, even as I write this article, I’m still feeling the effects of that encounter. Wait, I think the encounter must have happened a few weeks…
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Your flaws are an opportunity waiting to happen

We all know that women are very good at multi-tasking, something men are not very gifted in unless it involves the remote control and food – no offense men. A woman could be in the sitting room breastfeeding the baby, at the same time sewing a button on her child’s shirt, while watching her…
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It's July but Happy New Year all the same!

Happy New Year! Yes, I know what you are thinking; that I probably had too much to drink this weekend and had all the dates in my mind messed up. No ladies and gentlemen. It’s true I did drink a lot this weekend, just like any other day anyway, but the strongest drink I indulge in is coffee, and my…
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Mental Chains

It’s funny how some things never make sense when you first read them until something happens that triggers a memory and alas, suddenly what didn’t make sense before now does. Joyce Meyer, one of my favorite televangelists, in her book “Battlefield of the mind” said this, “Our past may explain why…
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Identity Crisis

The internet is full of funny stuff, things that can cause one to laugh till your ribs hurt like someone gave you a kick. With the emergence of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc., sharing of such stuff has become very easy especially now that almost every other person…
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Cracked Pot

Let’s face it, no matter who you are, all what you do, every so often you will have some days in your life when thoughts of self-doubt and insecurity attack you like a swarm of bees. This could be due to certain things happening in your life at that particular moment such as multiple failures in…
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My thought for this week - R.I.P. Fear

Like Lucas Jonkman said, fight your fears and you’ll be in battle forever but face your fears and you’ll be free forever. In other words, if you resist your fears, they will keep persisting, until the day you choose to face them and overcome them. For instance, if you are aquaphobic, the only way…
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  The last few weeks have been… a lot.  I’ve been on the road and in the sky—between cities, between countries—juggling assignments, battling changing weather conditions that swung between 11°C and 25°C, and trying to keep up with it all.… more

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Book No. 25: Figuring It Out by Mustapha Seifdine
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Book No. 24: Tuesdays With Morrie, by Mitch Albom
  📚 #SaturdayShelfie: Book 24 – Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom I first stumbled upon this gem while reading Who Will Cry When You Die? by Robin Sharma. In one of the chapters, he referenced a man who met with his dying mentor every Tuesday…
Book No. 23: The Messy Middle, by Scott Belsky
  📚 #SaturdayShelfie: Book 23 – The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky I first heard about this book while listening to a podcast, and I have to admit—it couldn’t have come at a better time. We’re smack in the middle of the year—according to the…
Book No. 22 – The Diary of a CEO by Steven Bartlett
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Book No. 21: The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
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Book No. 20: Let Go of Whatever Holds you back by John Mason
📚 #SaturdayShelfie: Book 20 – 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑮𝒐 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌 by John Mason There are moments in life where fear creeps in, and sometimes this fear is baseless… sometimes it’s just fear of the unknown. Then come the whispers of self-doubt, and the…

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