Jealousy is often defined as being envious or resentful of the good fortune or achievements of another. It has commandeered a many soul into sabotaging the progress, success, and health of families, business, and nations. It alone has destroyed more relationships than can be counted. It arises from the depths of selfishness and insecurity. It … Continue reading Oil and Water – Leadership and Jealousy
Decisions
Leadership Know the Destination but Create the future by their Decisions
Destiny is your experience created by your decisions. Right now was your future a year ago… 10 years ago… 30 years ago. My decisions created my present which was my future - my destiny. I can talk about my future and my hopes and aspirations, but it will remain a pipe-dream if I don’t make … Continue reading Leadership Know the Destination but Create the future by their Decisions
Destroying Superstitions and Employing the Education of Value
Instruction must happen before construction. Buildings do not appear without a blueprint. Before a desired culture is formed, education must be the forerunner. A nation in disarray or infected with warring factions is the product of a culture that has been educated in superstitions falsely creating enemies out of superficial issues. In several countries there … Continue reading Destroying Superstitions and Employing the Education of Value
Culture is an Environment
A culture is literally an environment. An environment is a place where certain things thrive and other things die. Ideas, innovation, and increase or decrease in human ingenuity is governed by the parameters of culture. Freedoms are determined by the environment one lives in. Let’s imagine the two environments of water and land. In water … Continue reading Culture is an Environment
Peace and Development
Nations of the world are inseparably linked economically and other factors. The instability of one can lead to the instability of another. For example, if you have an economic meltdown in one country then other nations will be affected. The same is true when you have a civil war in one, the surrounding neighbors are … Continue reading Peace and Development
When a Nation Loses People it Loses Possibilities
The following are four news headlines recently on a well-known site. Migrants locked in stadium on Greek island... Police use sound bombs as clashes break out... 'Jungle' camps in France... Violent Backlash in Germany as Asylum-Seekers Pour In... The necessity is clear that developing countries need to become concerned with creating environments conducive for economic … Continue reading When a Nation Loses People it Loses Possibilities
Reevaluation of Educational Models
It has been said “If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing it is stupid.” Herein lies a problem with judging others by our own personal standards, abilities, and gifting. In doing so, it is an attempt at cloning people after our image making … Continue reading Reevaluation of Educational Models
Education is the Key to a Better World
It is incumbent upon all of us to create an environment in our homes conducive to fortifying the lens in our children to see others as valuable and as equals. Teach them to realize that when a crime is perpetrated on humanity that it is the result of the person's character and not the color of skin or ethnicity.
Maintaining Peace in a Volatile Environment – Charleston Tragedy
We have a choice to make in America. Permit these situations to be exploited by self-interest groups and activists looking to pimp the circumstance into a financial windfall and fame, thus creating division and deepening racial divides? Or, are we going to come together and overcome evil with good?
Location Never Determines the Value of Gold!
Whether gold is found in Ghana, Sierra Leone, or the United States, its value remains the same. It's location does not determine its value. Humanity has inestimable worth regardless of geographical location and/or national existence. All of the human race is made up of particles of gold equal in value and deserving of honor and … Continue reading Location Never Determines the Value of Gold!
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