What the happiest and most successful people do on the weekend

... and make the most of it with these tips. Source: ThinkStock

BETWEEN cleaning that new fungus off your shower floor and having marathon binges of your favourite TV show, the weekend seems to fly by, right?

But if you want to live more like the happiest and most successful people, you should stop squandering those brilliant two days at the end of the week.
Time management expert Laura Vanderkam explains how to make the most of this sacred time off from your harried work week in her book What the Most Successful People Do on the Weekend.
Here are some of her tips, from Business Insider .
1. Make appointments with yourself (even if it's only to read a book)

Bungling smugglers accidentally send cocaine worth £5m to Aldi

The drugs were found in banana boxes (Picture; EPA)

Police have found 140kg of cocaine hidden in banana boxes which were accidentally sent to Aldi supermarkets by smugglers.
The drugs, said to be worth around 6million euros (£5million), were sent to five branches of the supermarket in Berlin.
A police spokesman said the mix-up was probably a ‘logistical error’ by the smugglers

'It was hilarious' Fresh food store workers find potato shaped like a pair of breasts

THE people who stumbled across this hilarious shaped potato described it as the "breast vegetable" they have seen in a long time.

Food store workers were left in hysterics after finding this potato shaped like a pair of breasts [RAYMONDS PRESS]

Workers at a fresh food store were left in hysterics after finding this potato shaped like a pair of breasts.

The buxom vegetable was found by workers at Farndon Fields Farm Shop in Leicster who burst into laughter upon seeing the comedy spud.

The store said they are keeping the comical potato in a dark drawer as they do not know what to do with it.

 

Man has absolutely no idea how bottle got stuck up his bottom

X-ray showing the bottle and piece of wire inside the man (Picture: Rex)

A Chinese man told doctors he had no idea how a bottle got stuck up his bottom after he went to hospital complaining of stomach pains.
The man, who did not want to be identified, was forced to seek medical help after failing to extract the bottle with a curved piece of wire.
When medical staff quizzed him on the pain, he claimed he did not know what was causing his discomfort.
But he suddenly remembered what had happened when staff presented him with clear X-rays showing the bottle and wire inside of him.
He admitted inserting the bottle at home before it became stuck and said he used a steel wire in an attempt to get it back out in a moment of panic.
Doctors performed an operation to remove the objects which had pierced the man’s bowel

Thousands of dead bats fall from the sky in ‘catastrophic’ Australia heatwave

Rotting bat carcasses have been falling from the sky as a ‘catastrophic’ heatwave sweeps eastern Australia.
Up to 100,000 creatures could have died from heat exhaustion as southern Queensland swelters under record temperatures, the RSPCA said.
The number of bats that have succumbed to the heatwave is so great it has significantly damaged the population across the state.
Michael Beatty, spokesman for Queensland’s RSPCA, said: ‘The heatwave was basically a catastrophe for all the bat colonies in south-east Queensland.
‘That’s obviously going to have a pretty disturbing impact on those colonies and those colonies are vital to our ecosystem.’

‘Catastrophic’: The heatwave has seriously damaged bat populations (Picture: YouTube)

‘TB Joshua proposed to me 45 minutes after we met’ – wife opens up

Prophet TB Joshua’s wife of 23 years, Evelyn Joshua, granted a rare interview to The Spectator and talked about how she met and married TB Joshua at the age of 17 in 1990 and her role in his ministry. See excerpts below…

I visited a sister somewhere at Ikotun-Egbe and they were all talking about a particular man, a prophet. Half of the people in the room had all met him and they were saying a lot of good things about him. After everything, I asked my sister if she could take me to him. I needed a spiritual guide at the time. A counselor. So we went there but unfortunately didn’t meet him at home. Some months later I visited him again alone, that was in 1990.

South African pastor makes members eat grass, steps on them (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

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Pastor Daniel Lesego of Rabboni Centre Ministries situated at zone 2 Ga-Rankuwa, north of Pretoria, made his members eat grass and stepped on them while making illustration that the spirit of God can lead people to eat anything.
Scroll down for pictures and video..

Develop Long Time Perspective

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Develop Long Time Perspective

In my many years of research, Banfield called this attitude "long time perspective." He said that men and women who were the most successful in life and the most likely to move up economically were those who took the future into consideration with every decision they made in the present. He found that the longer the period of time a person took into consideration while planning and acting, the more likely it was that he would achieve greatly during his career. For example, one of the reasons your family doctor is among the most respected people in the community is because he or she has invested many years of hard work and study to finally earn the right to practice medicine. After university courses, internship, residency and practical training, a doctor may be more than 30 years old before he or she is capable of earning a good living. But from that point onward, these men and women are some of the most respected and most successful professional people in any society. They had long time perspectives.

Update on Blasts in Rivers: Minister of Education Wike Fingered

The government of Rivers State has accused members of the Grassroot Development Initiative, founded by the acting Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike of masterminding the bombings in some parts of the state since last December to achieve the selfish agenda of his sponsors in Abuja.

SEE How Girlfriend Disfigured This Fine Babe With Acid

The facts have started coming out as the acid attack victim, Naomi Oni’s alleged attacker has been identified by the authorities and it's no other person but her friend, Mary Konye, who was said to be jealous of her.

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Health of pregnant woman assaulted by Lebanese boss deteriorates

According to a report by Premium Times, the health of the factory worker assaulted by her Lebanese boss causing her to lose her 7 months pregnancy, has drastically deteriorated & requires urgent blood transfusion.

"I just finished talking with the surgeon that did the emergency surgery and he said her condition

Awolowo was greater than Mandela, writer/poet Odia Ofeimun says

In an interview with Sahara TV, the writer, poet & social critique said late premier of the old Western region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, was a greater man than South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, Dr. Nelson Mandela.

Photos: P-Square attends May D's birthday party

P-Square, Phyno, Kayswitch, YQ, and DJ Jimmy Jatt were among the celebs who attended May D's birthday on December 28th at Doll House in Lagos. See more photos after the cut...

5th winner emerges in the BIG Games Toyota Corolla give away

It's been five exciting weeks filled with tears of joy, celebration and brand new Toyota Corollas courtesy BIG Games! Congratulations to Mrs. Charity Steve-Onyewuchi, a 35-year-old, mother of four, working at Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO). She is the5^th winner of a brand new Toyota Corolla in the BIG Games Toyota Corolla Giveaway! This is her first car ever! Continue.

Nigeria in 2014: Fact Versus Fiction - Written by Reno Omokri

Reno Omokri is Special Assistant (New Media) to President Jonathan. His piece below...

I was about to write this piece detailing the positive effects of the Transformation Agenda when I was confronted with a hypocrisy which could possibly pass for the mother of all hypocrisies. 

Photos of two of Nigeria's richest pastors back in the day

One of them is currently the richest & arguably the most powerful pastor in Nigeria, with investment running into billions of naira, while the other is in the list of the top 5 richest pastors in Nigeria with investments in media and publishing. This is definitely an easy guess....:-)