Patience

W For Wait

W For Wait A few months ago I introduced a friend to someone who was looking for a good personal assistance. She went for the interview and was sure she had nailed the job, but two months later, she still hadn’t gotten any response from that interview. One evening I got a text message from…

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GRIT: The Power Of Passion And Perserverance - Angela Duckworth

Why do naturally talented people frequently fail to reach their potential while other far less gifted individuals go on to achieve amazing things? This is a question I have asked myself severally, as I have watched people less talented than I am in certain areas do things I could easily have…

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What is The Value of Your Life?

What is the value of your life? I believe this is a question few people can answer, and even fewer have ever bothered to think about it. Today I’d like to share the experience of a young boy who sought to find out the answer to this question from his grandmother. Here goes... Once a little boy went…

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The Attitude Difference

Two weeks ago right here on this column, I wrote an article that my editor titled “Why you should move on despite various negative incidents”. On 11th of August, exactly one week after the article appeared here, the same article appeared elsewhere in a different local newspaper but…

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Tough Times Expose Tough People

Animals never cease to amaze me, and when I say animals I don’t just mean dogs because they are my favorite animals but I mean animals of all kinds, except creepy crawlies like snakes and crabs which creep the living daylights out of me. I don’t know why but this past week I received a lot of…

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When You Pray For Rain, Be Ready To Deal With The Mud

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Tiny Moment

There’s nothing as bad as getting lost on the way to some place you’ve never been to before, yet the GPS on your system tells you that you’ve reached your destination, but when you look around there is no way your destination can be anywhere near where you are. Why? Because the entire place is just…

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Defy Your Circumstances, Redefine Your story.

Happy new month, the twelfth and last month of the year. Today I’d like to start by sharing a trivia question. As you read the transcript below which I got from the Goal Cast YouTube channel, see whether you can try and guess who the story is describing before you actually get to see his name. Here…

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Life's Unwinding Road

Indeed life is like a long unwinding road heading somewhere upcountry; those are always several kilometers long and never really seem to come to an end. Some parts are straight while some have bends. Some are uphill and some go downhill. Some parts have bumps while…

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Grow through your valleys

When climbing a series of hills, to move from one hill to the next you have to climb down the current hill, pass through the connecting valley and climb up the next hill. Unless you are super(wo)man, bat(wo)man or one of those superheroes, the only way to the next plateau is by going down, then…

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Success is like a Meal

For a chef to make a buffet meal and have it ready for his guests to indulge, a lot goes into the preparation of the food. First, he has to know who his guests are and whether they are vegetarian or non-veggie. This information helps him prepare the menu items. Once he has the menu items, the…

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Follow your purpose

Going after your dream, or walking your designated path may not necessarily be easy. Today I want to share a story about someone whose dream was almost snuffed out by a teacher. Yes, a TEACHER. When his teacher asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, he wrote down on his paper that he…

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