Crossroad: Walk Away or Try Harder

This is not an uncommon crossroad for many people. Of course relationships are filled with ups and downs; not to mention many are times you need to persevere through some tough times. Whenever you are at the point of making tough decisions, remember they are not meant to make you feel good immediately but on the long run. This is the first confirmation that your decision is right. If it so convenient and easy to pick that option out of the choices you have, then it is likely that isn't the right one.

Joy surely awaits every painstaking decision you make. Of a truth, there are times you need to swallow your pride (when you are wrong), or give chances for a adjustments because no one is perfect. It is equally important to remember you are better off without some people in your life. Some relationships have to fall off for better ones to come out.

 

Cheers..  

Things You Have to Forget to Get Ahead 4

The big expectations clouding your mind.

Whatever you're waiting for – peace of mind, contentment, grace, an inner awareness of abundance – it will surely come to you, but only when you're ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.  So be as grateful as possible, for small things, not just for big things – for the simple act of breathing, the time together, the conversations, etc.  Every moment counts.  Every second matters.  Whatever is given is a gift.  Make the most of it.

Chances are Limited

You "might" have second, third, forth or fifth chances to rewrite your wrong; but remember, correcting chances are limited! 

Therefore:

¤ Do not make intentional errors. (Intentional errors are different from mistakes).  

¤ Some mistakes give no room to corrections even though you never made them before. 

¤ Opportunity to correct a mistake may not come again after you wasted your chances on other errors. 

¤ Avoid waiting to correct your mistakes. Some "correcting chances" are time sensitive. 

¤ Learn from your mistakes. 

Mandela's Societal Responsibility

We all have our roles to play as entities in this vessel - mother Earth. Due importance should be accorded to the fact that our individual actions have massive effect to our families, neighbours, and country! 

RIP Nelson Mandela

No man is without responsibilities; some just cowardly close their eyes to their mandate... BUT NO MANDELA!

Where is Your Persistence?

Be lucky, gifted, resourceful and opportune; you still need persistence to reach your heights in life.
Persistence comes to play when circumstances don't seem positive but you still keep the feeling of quitting aside and persevere just for one purpose - achieving the desired goal.
Persistence take work before it becomes a habit. Persistence comes in like a personal driving force to achievement.
Persistence is however different from stubbornness. You have to weigh your plan, goal and actions; they must still be in line before you throw in Persistence.

What is life?

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. You learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning and start learning.

Life has enough problems; therefore, share the road with friends.

We're born alone,we live alone,we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for d moment that we're not alone.

Different degree of inclination towards Fashion, work - career, family life

To live is to suffer to survive; to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering; to survive is to live a life.

Quotes from Africa's Billionaires

One stop on the road to attaining a billion-dollar fortune is to seek advice at the feet of those who have already attained it. And while it might be difficult to get face time with some of Africa’s richest people, you can learn a lot from their words of wisdom.

In the spirit of self-motivation, here are 20 inspirational quotes from a few members of Forbes’ list of 50 Richest Africans.

1. If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive. – Aliko Dangote
2. Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home. – Aliko Dangote
3. As you start out in life, it is important that you know at least something about everything, but as you get older it is important that you know everything about something. – Johann Rupert
4. The harder you work, the luckier you get. – Mike Adenuga
5. In Life, you don’t get anywhere or do anything you hope to without some sort of sacrifice. – Stephen Saad
6. I think there are a lot of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you are hardworking and determined, you will make it and that’s the bottom line. I don’t believe in an easy way through. – Isabel Dos Santos
7. One has to set high standards… I can never be happy with mediocre performance. – Patrice Motsepe
8. Money is not my objective. – Desmond Sacco
9. I own quite a lot and I have worked very hard for it. – Sudhir Ruparelia
10. In today’s world, paradoxically, it is the boldest action that is often the safest. Remaining where you are in a world that is changing so rapidly is in fact the most dangerous of all places to be in. – Hakeem Belo- Osagie
11. Failure is a good thing. – Hakeem Belo-Osagie
12. It’s essential to draw up a “things to do” list on a daily basis and set priorities in executing them, making sure that any unfinished task get posted to the next day’s list. – Folorunsho Alakija
13. I grew up in poverty, but I always saw it as a challenge. The good thing is that you can surmount a challenge if you are willing to pay the price. The price is hard work. – Reginald Mengi
14. People in Tanzania look at my wealth and think I must be sunbathing and playing golf all day. But I work really hard. I put in a hundred hours a week. It’s a never stopped game. You can never say I’ve worked hard enough now. – Mohammed Dewji
15. A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work & dedication is required to make that vision a reality – Strive Masiyiwa
16. Today is the beginning of the Rest of your Life! You are the Pilot of your life! Lock in your destination; take off to it, from where you are! – Vimal Shah
17. In business you have to know when to retire, before someone knocks you out.” – Lauritz (Laurie) Dippenaar
18. In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it – Aliko Dangote
19. Whether you’re a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation – Strive Masiyiwa
20. Entrepreneurship without skills limits your growth potential – Strive Masiyiwa

10 Basic Things Men Want 'in' Ladies

Ever considered the good virtues men that want a lasting relationship would be looking for in a woman? It is true men are different and there is no standard checklist; however, there are preliminaries. They include:

1. A woman with her own life: No lady should be a blank sheet that is waiting for a man to come and write on. Every human should have goals, interest and aspirations; this makes up “your own life” even before bonding with any man.

2. Traditional formality: Customarily the man leads; ladies more often than not do not ask men out. When and how he wants to do it is his responsibility to figure out. It’s a known fact that some men don’t make it easy by “wasting time”, therefore, if you want to stir him that part, do it calmly and minimum. 

3. Feeling of love: When reflex actions and body sensations consistently reveal the presence of love in a woman, that’s the type of lady men would love and want. This makes for a good foundation to generate anticipation for a healthy long relationship.

4. Demonstration of care: It is typical of females to show care; more like a ‘prototype setting’. By seeing to the little stuffs shows you care and this would definitely make his heart turner warmer.

5. Sexy yes, slutty no: Most men do not condone public display – not from someone they intend preserving. Decency is much more esteemed at the beginning of meeting a man so you don’t scare him off.

6. Delay intimacy a good while: No matter how much you crave intimacy, it’s a wrong foot to start off on. I see it needless to say but would still state the fact it would be unthinkable to expect woman to think sex would make a man choose her. 

7. Respectful: Men’s ego isn’t a secret and most men that watch out for how much a lady respects them intend spending quality long time with her. It is noteworthy to say if a man disrespects and abuses you at the onset, thank you luck he displayed it early enough and safe yourself the “dark future” it holds because abusive men are not just worth it.

8. Good friend: How well can you be his friend through the good and nasty? Would you laugh at him or cover his blunders when in the open. How well can you blend with his friends? All these and more do count.

9. Give him time: Men prefer ladies that give them quality ‘time alone’ to hang out and chilling. Dozens of call per hour on a normal day is scary and irritating.

10. Decent entices decent: Only if you are decent can and would you attract and well nurtured and good willed man. Confirm you both share similar values and moral and he’s reliable and honest.

 

Of course, faithfulness in as many areas as possible is a perquisite.

**Due to the difference in "make up" of men, the amount of concentration for each of these primary requirement would differ from person to person.

Did You Smile Today?

Life has many good and not so nice incidents in the same jar. It is rather very easy to get fixed on the "not so nice" occurrences in a day and miss the beauties. Sometimes it's hard to find a reason to smile, but we've got always got one or can't look for! From laughing babies to jokes of the old men, you can smile.
Please smile when you can.