It was late Sunday night. Both of us have been busy from late the previous night. The early hours of the new day of a new week were rapidly counting up. The FM radio station on the phone was on. I joined her to listen to a lively ministration from a Christian pastor. After the pastor’s message, without a break, a recorded speech from a female speaker came on.

Neither her name nor the title of the speech were introduced, but we were all ears as her clear and articulate voice relentlessly broke through the stillness of the night. Who…

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. (2 Corinthians 6:10)

~ Apostle Paul

Merriam Webster dictionary on my phone defined abundance as, an ample quantity of, relative degree of plentifulness, profusion, and wealth. From the same source, mentality is defined as; mode or way of thought, mental power or capacity.

In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen Covey described abundance mentality as the character of a person enthused with “the paradigm that there is plenty out there for everybody.”

A person with an abundance mental…

It was two days before Christmas and the day has already ran late into the night. Willy has been engrossed mending an old big map. It was one of those fold-in maps from an old edition of the National Geographic magazine. An average adult can make a decent T-shirt from cloth size measures of two of these maps. Come any day, several old copies of the magazine are scattered all over the house.

Frequent folding and unfolding has resulted in some slashes along its edges, but the map was still in good shape. That night, Willy insisted on mending the…

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Yes, I know it. You’ve already had more than your fair share of those seemingly unending tips and hacks for keeping your head above the waters in these turbulent times.

Right from our mothers’ wombs to our infant days and all through our early teens, we were all dependent on our parents and other loved loved ones for our existence.

Today, many young adults are still tied to their parents umbilical chords. Severing these chords of dependency early in life are vital towards healthy growth and self reliance.

How do you pull this off?

1. Get out of the mire of learned self helplessness.

People who have experienced stressful conditions…

I travelled out of my country for the first time in 1997. Destination: Montrose, Scotland. Those were the days before the internet and mobile communications as we know them today. GPS and satellite communications were stratospherically far beyond the reach of the average person. Google was born one year later. Google launched Maps in 2005. Apple released the first iPhone in 2007.

On a weekend after the completion of our course in Montrose, my co-worker from Holland invited me to join him for a tour of our Scottish countryside. All we had for our navigation tool was a wide city…

To call her brilliant will be an understatement. Her writings were set in another age and time, but the insights and lessons from this towering writer’s work areas pertinent as when they were first published. It is on record that at the height of her career; she was as famous as the reigning queen of the Victoria England in which she lived.

Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), in order to escape the prejudices against her gender in early 19th century England wrote under the male pseudonym, George Eliot. I stumbled upon and purchased an old copy in 1984. On the back…

For me, reading Medium stories is like the experience of a little child wandering on the seashore. Over and again, one more interesting seashell captivates him. At his last picking, the child thought he has seen the most intricately designed seashell. Just a few steps later, he finds out in ever-increasing amazement that even more, beautiful shells are yet on his way. With his pockets getting fuller with each step, the child ends up discarding most of his earlier picks.

That about sums up the experience of many Medium readers (and writers) especially new writers like me. What do you…

Often excluded from the main body of some vital documents, the “fine print” refers to important information that is placed in footnotes or supplemental documents.

This fine print often contains important information that the issuer does not want to call to the recipient’s attention but that is essential for the recipient to know. You must pay attention to the fine print in contractually binding agreements. Also, reading and understanding the implications of the fine print can prove invaluable and lifesaving in some situations.

History is replete with instances where just a few sentences or even words have had far-reaching consequences…