A few years back, two former colleagues we worked together in the same organization were affected by the right sizing of employees which the organization did as a measure of staying in business and continuously sustaining value in line with organizational culture...

Ray Dalio stated in his best-selling book, “Principles”, that he isn't one who liked to take instructions: “I’ve always had a bad rote memory and didn’t like following other people’s instructions, but I loved figuring out how things work for myself.” This is quite admirable, if you ask me.

While this may sound odd to the average or less mind, it is the beauty of a truly innovative and self-inclined mind that is inspired from within to mine the mine that is their mind. Anyone who is driven to succeed on their own terms does one thing: find their way themselves even at the cost of many mistakes and through rising and falling. They walk the path of the authentic.

If we realise always that our words and even actions all proceed from our thoughts, we would learn to put a rein on our thoughts before they become something that we cannot manage. To filter my thoughts means to manage my thoughts.

To grow physically or naturally can be said to happen by default, given that all other things are being equal. That is normal growth. This, in other words, is bearing in mind that there are no mutations or defects or illnesses that may impair growth in anyway. Even those can be prevented if there is the right information and application of same information at the right time.

You may have been too busy to entertain this question if it crossed your mind or to address your mind to it. Obviously you may not have imagined that while you are seeking purpose and doing everything to be that purpose, that you are actually writing yourself a legacy prior to your exit from this space.

Self-awareness is a fundamental key to success and the attainment of human accomplishments in every area of life. This understanding should be as easy as breeze if we apply our abilities to thinking as right as we should. The reason is simple: If you do not know what you have been given by the Maker who made you, then how do you apply what you do not know? It is absolutely essential for you to know. Without it, you cannot be the purpose for which you are made. This is non-negotiable.

Parenting is a great art that many supposed parents lack. That you have a child does not automatically qualify you to be a parent. How can we ever be justified when we fail deliberately in this God-given and ordained role? It is a hard fact that once we begin to have children, we must so focus on building them that we may not have much time for ourselves. Does this mean that we must put a halt to our own continuous learning and development? The answer is no.

I have shared this thought consistently for the past five or more years. The creativity in our students is stifled in many schools and in many homes. Society does not truly appreciate the creative quotient, whether in young children or otherwise because it seems often against the norm or status quo.

One thing is quite worrisome about us, humans: how we react to issues of spirituality. We are more often driven to the physical, especially the carnal, forgetting that everything that our eyes can see, and hands can touch came from the unseen. Man was first made a spirit before he was given flesh. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” Perhaps you want to tinker with that thought a while?

What is anger? Anger is that strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong done against you. Anger is that emotion that produces wrath and ire. Anger is the spiritual or mental energy that is synonymous with animosity and acrimony. Anger is a destructive energy that ends up destroying the person who is possessed by it if the person does not get rid of it or mortify it.