I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou  ALFRED NOBEL: Can you imagine reading your own obituary in the newspaper? What would people say about you? Alfred Nobel got the chance to read his own death notice, and he didn’t like what he saw. Alfred Nobel was a very wealthy and successful man. He had become an expert in chemistry and

A farmer discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him. After searching high and low among the hay for a long while, he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the barn. He promised them that the person who found it would be rewarded. Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could

A construction supervisor from the 16th floor of a building was calling a worker on the ground floor. But because of the noise, the worker did not hear his Call. To draw the attention of the worker, the supervisor threw a $50 note in front of the worker. The worker picked up the note, kept it in his pocket and continued to work. Again to draw the attention of the worker, the supervisor threw $100 note and the worker this time quickly picked it and

A rich man looked through his window and saw a poor man picking something from his dustbin. He said, Thank GOD I'm not poor. The poor man looked around and saw a naked man misbehaving on the street ... He said, Thank GOD I'm not mad. The mad man looked ahead and saw an ambulance carrying a patient ... He said, Thank GOD am not sick. Then a sick person in hospital saw a trolley taking a dead body to the mortuary ... He said, Thank GOD I'm not dead.

At the interview to fill the vacancy of a Field Engineer in a multinational oil company, two competent and qualified Engineers were shortlisted and the company was to decide on who to retain and who to show the red card. They asked them if they could drive and they both answered in the affirmative even though only one of them could drive. The Head of the Human Resources spearheading the interview cum pruning session then handed his car keys to them

In 2005, a company hired me to be part of their consultants to the company of one of richest men in Nigeria. I hardly wear suits but I took time out and visited a boutique to buy a very expensive suit, shirt, necktie and shoe to match for the visit. On the D-day we all appeared expensive and angelic. We waited for over 4 hours for the meeting to start and finally the rich man walked in casually dressed. He was wearing a cheap kaftan, simple pattern

A guy met one of his school mates several years after school and he could not believe his eyes; his friend was driving one of the latest sleek Mercedes Benz cars. He went home feeling awful and very disappointed in himself. He thought he was a failure. What he didn't know was that his friend was a driver and had been sent on an errand with his boss's car! Rosemary nagged her husband always for not being romantic. She accused him of not getting down

No matter how long a log stays in water, it will never become a crocodile. Meaning: If you're black, no matter how long you bleach your skin, you will never become white. If you are white, no matter how long you tan your skin, you will never become black. Whatever you are, whether black, white or something else, that is what you will remain forever. We must have the guts and gratitude to accept what we cannot change. In the words of Douglas Malloch,

I was jogging this morning and I noticed a person about 1/2 a kilometer ahead. I could tell he was running a little slower than me and I thought, good, I shall try to catch him. I had about a kilometer before I needed to turn off. So I started running faster and faster. Every block, I was gaining on him just a little bit. After just a few minutes I was only about 100 meters behind him, so I really picked up the pace and pushed myself. You would have

STOP WEARING A MASK BUT INSTEAD DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM A FAKE GENERATION: We are a generation that has mastered the art of masking and faking. Instead of fixing the root cause of our emptiness, insecurities and character flaws, we waste our time masking ourselves and covering up. We eat sumptuously to mask our spiritual hunger. We look successful on the outside, but internally drowning in the cesspool of spiritual failure. We look happy externally,