The Secret of Life Rhapsody

SHARED ECONOMY A wise man once told me that the world is made up of the haves and have not. I pondered on that statement for many years because the impression I had was that everyone has gifts and abilities in their own measure. So why did that old sage say that some people have and others don’t have. The answer is what this article is about. For Example, When you don’t have money to start a business (have not), you go to a bank that has money to lend you. In this context, the bank has money, but you don’t have money. One thing is certain in Economics, “Human beings are insatiable.” That insatiability in humans has made crave to own the best things in life ranging from cars, gadgets, houses, furniture and even computers. What these means is that we will still be left with people who have these gadgets and those who don’t have. What could possibly be the way out for the have not. Welcome to the world of the Shared Economy. A shared economy is an e...

THE CHOICES WE MAKE I think that the only gift that God gave to man is the power to make choices. I say this authoritatively because I look at the transformation that man has gone through from the Stone Age to this rapidly evolving technology world and all I can confidently say is that all those who have contributed to global development (ranging from Albert Einstein, Alfred Nobel, Bill Gates, Mother Theresa, Bill Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg had a choice to do something or do nothing. In my opinion, I believe that they chose to do something because of the following reasons: 1.  The books they read 2.  The friends they keep 3.   Their behavior and 4.   Their view of the world I feel so convinced that the books that the books that Albert Einstein, Alfred Nobel, Bill Gates, Mother Theresa, Bill Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg read helped to influence their behavior in the past, present and future. I am of the opinion that the more...

                                    TIME=MONEY As a child, I used to listen to a song titled Time is Money. One of the lines of the song says use your time well, stop gossiping and hovering around aimlessly. I’d like to use this line to share this story which everyone probably has heard about but pay little attention to. Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for yo...