Personal Excellence

I've been on every side of business you can think of.  I've been up, I've been down, I've experienced great success and also failure. But there is NOTHING that has frustrated me more in the last 30 years of business, than hearing the complaint, "This just isn't working for me." I've heard it from small business owners, entrepreneurs, AND veterans who still can't make money with all of the "shiny objects" they've bought into. They get bitter because they think that having the latest, greatest tool will suddenly make them money.

Naturally we are compelled by nature to move through life. We could not remain stationary however much we wished. Every right-thinking person wants not merely to move through life like a sound- producing, perambulating plant, but to develop – to improve – to make money and be very rich and to continue the development mentally till we pass away.

This development can occur only through the improvement of the quality of individual thought and

the ideals, actions and conditions that arise as a consequence. Hence a study of the creative processes of thought and how to apply them is of supreme importance to each one of us. This knowledge is the means whereby the evolution of human life on earth may be hastened and uplifted in the process.

Personal excellence is perhaps the most important of all invisible and intangible assets that you can acquire. Achieving personal excellence in your business or industry requires lifelong dedication. But once you get into the top 10 percent of your field, you will be one of the highest paid people in the country. You will enjoy the respect and esteem of the people around you. You will be able to live your life the way you want to live it. You will enjoy high levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride.

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.