Category: Articles
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FORGIVENESS – Prisoners within
At the age of five, Julian’s parents divorced. His father was the legendary John Lennon, the Beatles star who left his first wife Cynthia Powell for Yoko Ono. As Julian grew up he strongly felt abandoned by his dad and it took years to overcome his resentment towards him. But God has his ways and…
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FATHERHOOD -The Father`s role
Scientific studies from among the vast body of research on fatherhood has shown that there is a strong correlation between broken marriages, dysfunctional or fatherless families and social and moral decay, education and career progression failures, alcoholism and drugs. Indeed, strong families contribute towards social stability. In turn, social stability provides the means for the…
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EMOTIONS -The emotional intelligent accountant
As an accountant, I am fully convinced that our profession is held in high esteem not only within the business community, but also amongst the general public and even amongst regulators. It has, thanks to the hard work put in by the our Institute of Accountants, gained sufficient recognition ranking the accountancy and other related…
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EMOTIONS – Emotional intelligence in business
The business environment is evolving at such a fast rate that even experienced entrepreneurs are finding it tough to go with the flow. We are in a time of constant change where there is no room for procrastination or hanging on to traditional business models. As Peter Drucker, one of the most influential thinkers on…
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EASTER – Christ has risen
Easter Sunday is a celebration of Jesus’ victory over death after his crucifixion and burial. It is a celebration because it resonates our own forthcoming victory over earthly trials and sufferings, as we journey into eternal life in the heavenly realm. This is our faith. This is the foundation of Christianity. This is what St Paul proclaimed…
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DICERNMENT – The choices we make
Jerry Yang’s wealth is estimated to top $ 2 billion and is claimed to be one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley history. He chose to venture out in the business world by building an early directory of Web sites. Little did he know that his business would eventually sprawl into an Internet…
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DECENCY -Dress Divine
Fashion is not just the way we dress. As the famous French Fashion Designer Coco Chanel used to say “We take fashion to exist in dresses only, well it is not so; fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening” The way we dress…
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COPING – The Art of Coping
Vera Nazarian, an American professional writer of Armenian- Russian origin had no easy life. At the tender age of eight, at the height of the Cold War, she fled from the former Soviet Union as a refugee with her parents with nothing else but a couple of suitcases. In one of her writings from ‘The…
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CHURCH – Lay Ministers
As a layperson voluntary involved in the life and mission of the Church, allow me to express my opinion on this issue. I ask the first question. In our present avant-garde culture which often tends to compromise on solid Christian values, in a scenario of social and moral decay, is the existing ecclesiastical set-up in right…
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ANXIETY – The Pounding Heart
Kim was withdrawn as a child. Her worst fear was reading aloud in class, to the point that teachers believed she was having a nervous breakdown. Even years later, when Kim took the podium to accept her Oscar for ‘LA Confidential’ she couldn’t find words to speak, even though she had practiced for days. We…
