I heard someone say that 80 percent of life is merely showing up. I thought about it for a while and I couldn’t agree less with him. You have an awesome idea that can change the outcome; you have a question to ask that no one has thought of, but the first step is being… Continue reading Showing Up is the First Step to Success
Tag: Opportunity
It’s Not Bad to Be an Outsider, After All.
Having an outsider’s perception of the world helps you see change and the desire to succeed so it’s not always an advantage to be an insider. Sometimes it’s great to be an outsider.
How to be Lucky in Life
I fell in love with this anonymous quote that says “you are not a write-off yet until opportunities cease to exist” the very day I stumbled on it. Ever since, I have made it my guiding philosophy in life. Opportunities beckon daily, but whether we are able to recognise them or not is a different… Continue reading How to be Lucky in Life
Freedom, Opportunity and Tolerance
Sitting at less than five metres from the former President of Ghana, John Kufuor, I listened to what turned out to be one of my favourite public lectures in my adult life. The venue was the Rhodes House in Oxford. President Kufuor was still in power then. Three words summarised his incisive paper: freedom, opportunity… Continue reading Freedom, Opportunity and Tolerance