WATCH IT….

Here’s a thought to start your week with: Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes…your destiny. ‘Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle’. Nice week!

PRODUCTS OF INFLUENCE

Influence is powerful, it could be so strong on an individual that he could find himself doing the things he swore he would never be caught dead doing or doing the things he never thought was possible for him to do. At the moulding stage of a child, he/she copies what he sees. After going through peer pressure in the adolescence stage, he later develops individuality/independence where he begins to assert himself until he...

TAKE TIME TO LIVE….

Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument; and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.” They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire...

MARKET REVIEW

It is now clear that the bull has come to stay as the market recorded another appreciation for the forth day consecutively. Investors’ confidence seems to have returned fully as seen in the increased volume of transaction as well as the uptrend in the market capitalization and NSE all share index. Lately, activities in the stock market have been dominated by the Banking sector with UBA, Oceanic Bank, Sterling Bank, and...

THE PAST REVISITED….

I was at a women’s meeting last week, it was actually a mix of the single, married and divorced. It was meant to be interactive in nature, people wrote out their questions and sent them over to the facilitators to do justice to them. One of the questions asked and particularly the way it was answered shocked me. A woman expressed a lot of worry and wanted to know how to handle a particular challenge she was having with...