Category: Lessons of life

Let us get started with two facts on this point: 1) not everyone wants to be an author and 2) many who wish to write a book never get to write one. Many avid readers fall within the second group and most – probably including yourself – have at one point actually started writing a…

I wrote this chapter on a plane from South Africa to Ghana. I had just looked into the in-flight shopping catalogue and one of the items for sale was a $40 five set cuff links. Beside the picture of the cuff links were these words: “First impression counts, so it’s important to look your suave,…

In both high school and the university I studied accounting. I actually majored in accounting at the University, so the words asset and liabilities and their business definitions have been no strangers to me. I am very sure I am not the first person from whom you have heard these two words. In pure accounting…

At age eighteen you still have the “teen” at the end of your age, but you actually start to see yourself as an adult. In addition to this, you expect others, especially your parents to treat you as one. Well you are right; you are no longer a kid and the law recognises that. That…

Have you seen the Nike slogan? I just love it! It says – Just do it. It is one reason why I love my Nike t-shirt; the slogan does give inspiration, and it makes you feel empowered. On a number of occasions when I want to boost my confidence to achieve a goal, I put…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…