Category: Lessons of life
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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…
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Life Lessons: 37 – The (Im)possible Can Be Done
I once saw a Nike advert on a t-shirt with these words: “You are faster than you think.” It reminded me of a quote I had read years earlier, which went like this: “You are only limited by your imagination”. I have come to know that just as people do in high jump, there is…
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Life Lessons: 36 – Retire before forty five
You’re most likely saying to yourself, “Is this guy serious?” Well yes I am serious; I know it sounds outrageous, but not only is it possible, it is important that our generation aim for forty five as the self-imposed retirement age. When my parents’ generation was my age, the normal life was to start kindergarten…
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Life Lessons: 35 – Get Married By Thirty
I know this is a controversial one because age is definitely not the most important determinant of a person’s readiness to take on the responsibilities that come with marriage. Before saying the marital vows, a man should be able to provide for his family physically, emotionally, and spiritually. These are the fundamental requirements to establishing…
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Life Lessons: 34 – Everyone You Meet Knows Something You Do Not Know
I have heard a countless number of times that humility is a virtue and haughtiness is a vice. My mum always counselled my siblings and I on the need to be humble, and she knew there was the tendency for us to be haughty because of the material things we had. These would have made…
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Life Lessons: 33 – It is Better to Listen Than to Talk
I am told that anyone who loves to read or write loves to talk as well. With this in mind, you must have guessed by now; I am a talkative person. For far too long I was always the one with the most to say when having conversations with others, but the more I read…