If you practice these 9 habits you are inches away from a poverty stricken and unpleasant life. If you practice any of the 10 make conscious effort to make a change. Never take responsibility for their actions but blame others for all their woes including their forebears. They never learn to see failure as a…

That the birds of worry and fear fly over your head; this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent – Chinese Proverb Worry gives a small thing a big shadow – Swedish Proverb If worrying were an Olympic sport, many individuals will get the gold. You probably…

BabT I used 16 cubes of sugar to prepare my cornflakes said Kola. Really… BabT enthused, you are improving. The last time I prepared cornflakes, I used 23 sugar cubes –  7 cubes more than your highest record.  I was a boarding house student during my secondary school days. In the boarding house we had…

You must have heard, all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. How about all play and no work? What does it make Jack…? Each time you sit to watch a movie, a football match and dance to a popular song; does it ever cross your mind that the actors, actresses, footballers and…

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco. “Mom and Dad, I’m coming home, but I’ve got a favor to ask. I have a friend I’d like to bring with me.” “Sure,” they replied, “we’d love to meet him.”…

A churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me I can’t remember a single one…

At some point in our lives we all fall into the trap of believing that the grass is greener on the other side. Whenever you think so, you may want to check it out. Once you get there, you will probably realize that the grass on the other side is pretty much like the grass on your side….

A sobbing little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it ‘was too crowded’. “I can’t go to Sunday School,” she sobbed to the pastor as he walked by. Seeing her shabby, unkempt appearance, the pastor guessed the reason and, taking her by the hand, took her inside…

During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz.. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?“ Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning…

English teacher and Internet entrepreneur founded Alibaba 15 years ago in his tiny apartment in Hanzhou, China. On Friday, Ma became the richest man in China on the heels of the biggest IPO in U.S. and possibly world history. With a market cap of $231 billion, the online retailer is nearly as valuable as Wal-Mart and…