Harnessing Strength: The Importance of Direction

Whatever you are so good in, the direction is important. You must pull in the right direction and with the rest. You could be radiating the most solemn basso profundo with stable resonance and captivating timbre, but when you don’t harmonize with the rest, you can be so annoying and boring. A Skilled athlete who does not follow the pattern of the team is wasteful and will attract the wrath of the fans. There is beauty in being orderly and manageable.

AT A COST

Cost considerations are inevitable concerns when people are confronted with the need to make a decision concerning a decision or a tangible asset. A cost constraint is what throws some people out of a deal and keeps others on, especially if scarcity is added on top. Costs can sometimes be quite inconveniencing. Costs will force us to assume our hunger, and redefine our tastes and preferences. Costs have made people fit in spaces they would never think about.

On the Path to the Palace

Have you ever met an opportunity that you longed for? A privilege that you have been praying about and which seems to be coming real-time just when you need it? A few of us get such privileges.

An Open Letter to Everyone who Made their New Year’s Resolutions

It is a deadly deal to feel called to emotional quit a habit at the beginning of the year. Remember we live in hours, days, weeks, and months. All these turn into years.

Your Best is Good Enough

There is always room for improvement,As we see in the appraisal letters,As well you can be promised better,If you put more effort next time,And it seems it is almost taking another shape,Being a vicious circle of an upward look,With a margin of improvement yet again,Being dangled unto us soliciting our reach,And to many we are […]

Four Choices That Can Only be Sustained by Ignorance

Truth is the essence of life, growth, and decision-making. Seek always to be on the side of the informed. Life is good on that side. It is not necessarily easier, but her inhabitants are kept going by the assertion: “Hurt me with truth rather than false comfort hinged on error”.

Is Time Wasting a Sin?

To waste time is to spend time doing an activity other than the one allotted. The activity may be right, healthy, and acceptable to society, but because it is not done in its time, it amounts to time-wasting. On the positive side, reading a good book when the time should find you in bed is time-wasting. Adding twenty minutes to your lunch break is time-wasting. Watching a movie, when you are supposed to be on the pitch playing some sport, is time-wasting. Attending a Bible study, when you are supposed to be in the choir or vice versa, is time-wasting. Snoozing the alarm, and earning five more minutes on the bed is a serious time-wasting that many of us are guilty of. Once again, time-wasting refers to employing time in an activity that it was not allocated for. How often do you waste time?

A Leave You Shouldn’t Take

The paradox of time and money is what makes leaves and sabbaticals quite attractive. Some even skewes their leaves to one side of the year to make it meaningful and satisfactory. Instead of having it piecemeal in terms of a few days, some will gather them and go on a one month leave. Holidays are good times to spend with family and friends, and generally to unwind and find yourself again.

The “Mali Safi” Problem

There is some degree of beauty that is bold and flamboyant. It calls for no debate; everyone agrees that ‘there goes the real stuff’. A host of pulchritude and accuracy of all proportions. Every honest man looks at her and leaves an unsolicited review, “what a dime piece!”

A Principle That Hangs Between Success and Failure

Between where you are and where you want to be or where you don’t want to be, lies the power of Choice. You can’t avoid exercising this power; the only thing that will make a difference is the outcome. At some point, you must choose your career path, spouse, diet, lifestyle, etc. The difference in outcomes will depend on what you choose.