When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours. Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. She had managed to finish that swim in a record time, 16 hours and 22 minutes on August 8, 1950. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina I... »
Folorunsho Alakija, the richest black woman in the world (no, it’s not Oprah) who covered the second edition (December 2013/January 2014) of Forbes Africa Woman has an amazing story. Before the magazine declared her the richest black woman in the world, many knew Mrs Folorunsho Alakija as a creative designer with the Supreme Stitches label, which she later named Rose of Sharon Creations. She’s al... »
Habits are very powerful things in our lives. Management expert Stephen Covey wrote a very popular book on the habits of successful people. In other words, he invariably made the case that success and failure are both simply a product of HABITS. What is a habit? A habit is an automatic pattern of behaviour in reaction to a specific situation, gotten through frequent repetition. In other words, whe... »
David Green’s story reads like something out of a fictional story. From a loan of $600, he has built up a business currently worth about $3 billion. Not only that, he is the LARGEST recorded individual benefactor to charismatic and Word of Faith (evangelical) churches worldwide. This article is culled from the October 8, 2012 issue of Forbes. Its original title was ‘David Green: The Bi... »
Strive Masiyiwa, a committed Christian businessman, is currently one of the richest men in Africa. Here is what happened after he first tried to obtain a loan from a bank and was turned down. … the Bank Manager had turned me down for my first loan application. What was I to do next? In the Bible, a great king, told his son, “With all thy getting, get understanding.” One day I had... »
How well we manage our time determines how our future would be. Michael LeBoeuf said ‘Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.’ Even the Bible says ‘Act like people with good sense and not like fools. These are evil times, so make every minute count.’ (Eph 5:15-16, CEV). Time is the most important re... »
Therefore, brothers, rather be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall. – 2 Peter 1:10 You shall never fall. When you think about it, that’s a startling statement, isn’t it? Most of us have been tripped up by the devil so many times we don’t like to think about it. But the Word of God says it doesn’t have to be... »
Ironically, the biggest obstacle to effective time management is something that many people believe is what makes them more productive. Multitask (verb): to perform more than one task at the same time. Mark Twain was credited with saying there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Perhaps you’ve heard that before. Well, I say there are lies, damned lies, and multitasking 🙂 Multitasking is w... »
There is no doubt that time is the most important resource that we have as human beings. Whatever we do in life needs time. All accomplishments in life are based on a wise use of time, and failure in life itself is based on the waste of time, mostly unconsciously, on unwise activities. One who has mastered time would no doubt conquer life, for life is a journey based on the framework of time itsel... »
What seems to make the Jews tick? The fact that Jews are disproportionally successful in many fields of endeavor is undeniable. The statistics simply speak for themselves. Jews make up less than half of one percent of the world’s population but they consistently have made up more than twenty percent of the Forbes 400 list of the world richest people. But it is not just making money that a dispropo... »
