Author: albert
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Life Lessons: 47 – Fiscal Fitness is Useless without Physical Fitness
The word “fiscal” basically refers to money. The pursuit of money is a race every one of us is involved in, whether we are poor, middle class, or rich. Whether you believe that money is the source of happiness or that it is the source of all evils – none of us can do without…
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Life Lessons: 46 – Which Side of the Screen Are You?
The television is one of man’s greatest inventions; it is the biggest source of entertainment in most countries worldwide. With many T.V stations available in many countries coupled with cable and satellite channels, viewers are spoilt for choice and are spending an increasingly greater number of hours behind the silver screen. When I was in…
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Life Lessons: 45 – Life is Too Short to Be Sad
“In themselves the days of our years are seventy years; and if because of special mightiness they are eighty years”. That is a line from the Book of Psalms. Current statistics show that not many people are even reaching this age. The life expectancy in Ghana is 56, for the USA it is 77.9, the…
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Life Lessons: 44 – Read the Signs for When a Lady Loves You
The “normal” expectation is for a man who loves a woman to express his feelings for her by proposing love to her. The lady will either say yes or no, or most of the time she will tell him that she wants time to think about it. Yet there are times when a woman is…
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Life Lessons: 43 – Learn how to swim
The honest truth is that I still do not know how to swim. This is one of the things I should have learnt a long time ago but did not, and as such I have an ever present fear of drowning; especially when I am on a plane flying over the sea. I keep wondering…
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Life Lessons: 42 – Save as Soon as Money Trickles Into Your Pocket
Who wants to be a Millionaire? Ever seen that show on TV? If you have not, go Google it. The truth is that every one of us can become a millionaire if we really want to; I guess you don’t believe it. After all, how many millionaire buddies do you have? However, here are the…
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Life Lessons: 41 – Tell the Girl You Love How Much You Love Her
Love accounts for over eighty percent of songs ever written. For a man, one of the greatest grievances to live with is not to have told the lady you really loved how much you loved her. Do you remember that girl you first fell in love with, yet you never had the courage to tell…
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Life Lessons: 40 – Say “I love you” to Your Mother
7th August 2009 was one of the saddest days of my life; it was the day my mother died. My mum was the pillar of our family, the backbone, the foundation, and the glue that held our family together. She was a magnificent woman who had sacrificed her all to ensure we lacked none of…
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Life Lessons: 39 – Edison Tried a Thousand Times
Edison is one man I admire greatly. He was a man of many discoveries and one of the people whose inventions then have defined our everyday lives today. His invention of the electric bulb alone is enough to call him one of the greatest scientists to have changed our lives. I first read of Edison…
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Life Lessons: 38 – There Will Always Be Someone Better Than You
I love the Olympics for several reasons, but what interests me the most about the games is the athletes. Many of them dream of breaking the existing Olympic record. At every Olympic Game, records are broken and new ones are set. In the 2012 London Olympic Games for instance, as many as 66 Olympic records…