Life is a series of plans which have been created and then executed. Whether we, our parents, employers and even total strangers have made plans for us, we are living out that blueprint and dealing with the associated consequences. The idea of planning is to prepare ourselves for a life that we wish to create.…
Life is hectic. The older I get, the more I’ve come to expect life to be busy and to get even busier. Both my work and personal responsibilities increase the kinds of activities I am engaged in, add to that any goals and ambitions that I am pursuing, sprinkle it with unexpected challenges and suddenly the 13-15 hours of my…
I actually don’t believe in common sense. I don’t believe that the ability to make judgements are simply innate. I do believe we are trained and taught how to think and perceive and that in turn forms our judgement. So although I say ‘common sense,’ I am really emphasising the need to teach ourselves these…
At the age of 20 I made up in my mind to become a millionaire by the time I turned 30. I made this decision shortly after I had watched a documentary with 5 millionaires from the UK explaining how they had accumulated their fortunes. I wanted to be one of them and gave myself…
No. I don’t mean literally eating a frog, although it’s a nutritious delicacy in some parts of the world. And neither is it a code name for some type of hallucinogen. The term ‘eating a frog’ refers to the act of completing the most undesirable and difficult task of the day, first thing in the…
Diana Quartey 